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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. In case you haven’t noticed, everything in the world has to be a controversy. Well, they’re putting the Seinfeld Show out on four K blu ray. Seems like a harmless thing.
What could go wrong? Fans are hoping that the four K release doesn’t ruin the show like Netflix did. Crack dot com looked into this. First of all, the box set will cost two hundred and fifty dollars. What are you insane?
My DVD set is perfectly fine. Fans are worried about which aspect ratio the four K disc version of Seinfeld will be in. You see, the Netflix version, not unlike the HD ramaster that aired on TBS, reframed and cropped the original four x three box image to accommodate modern widescreen TVs, but in doing so they’ve ruined certain jokes. For example, in the episode The Couch where Jerry discovers that Poppy has pete on the sofa. In the Netflix widescreen version, they edited in a blatantly manufactured close up shot of the pea stain because it wasn’t clearly visible in the cropped wide shot, which completely throws off the subtle timing of the reveal.
Good news we are hearing. The new four K Blu ray of Seinfeld will feature the original one point three to three by one aspect ratio, but that version will only be released as a limited edition. The standard Blu ray will be one point seven eight by one. Another concern, Netflix’s four K scan employed color correction that looks different from the original show. For example, in the Netflix version, Jerry’s apartment looks way greener.
By the way, if you want to deep dive in this feed, somewhere down there, I went into a rabbit hole one day about Jerry’s bookcase. Now that the stuff is in high depth. In one of the early episodes, you can see Jerry’s bookshelf where he’s got VHS movies. They’re clearly porn movie if you read the title. Somewhere there’s an episode about that, but we don’t have time for that today.
I have to tell you about Paul Sheer in the ketchup controversy. Paul Sheer was on the Subway Takes web series and said restaurants need to stop with the artisanal ketchup. Heines has perfected it. We don’t need your mango chutney ketchup. I just want the sugar.
I want the taste of Heines. Sheer went on further, Instead of restaurants are going to be serving burgers, fries should not be extra host Kareem Rama agreed, said, if I go to place and the burger doesn’t say burger and fries, you have to buy the burger for eight dollars actually eighteen dollars in New York City, plus another seven dollars for fries, and then they bring out the artisanal ketchup. Paul Sheer said, in you’re recking the experience. I don’t even enjoy the fries, and the fries are the best port You can give me a little thing of fries like this. Don’t treat me like an animal.
They then express sympathy for the restaurant employees who were in the kitchen crushing tomatoes to make the from scratch ketchup. She said, I don’t know how you make it, but I don’t think anyone knows. That’s why it’s so bad. The Heinz factory has figured out something that no one else could duplicate. By the way I’m doing this like borderline, half assed, angry Jerry Seinfeld and like Paul Shear was pretty soft spoken.
Hey, Sarah Silverman, who do you feel like is killing it right now? Sarah? It’s told the Columbus Dispatch. Taking a torrow, she goes at a joke from every angle. When you think she’s exhausted at every possible angle, she finds a new one.
There’s nobody like Robbie Hoffman, Moe Welch and Naomi Expergan, Tim Robinson. He has a show on Netflix. Sketches are about fifteen to sixteen minutes each, just hilarious. You have to watch it, Sarah. How does it feel to have a multi generational audience now?
Sarah said, I love it. I’ve always loved that. I do a bunch of odd jobs. Sometimes it’s good whether you know me from Monk or stand up or wreck at Ralph. I have r rated stuff and g rated stuff.
It’s cool, Sarah Silverman, What if you weren’t a comedian? What we’d be doing? Sarah said, I can think of three things. I’d work with animals, elephants or chimps. Those are two things.
Or I’d be a teacher. That’s the third thing. Part of me likes the idea of high school kids. This is ego talking. I feel like I can really shape them kindergarten for the same reason I really like kids talking to kids.
Their lives are so different. Hour is feeling like you have grown to be someone who would protect you as a child. That’s huge, Or I’d work with mentally challenged adults. I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty this year, and we’re going to talk about it every day.
Ago Nuotam says, we literally work in an office building, which he spoke to The Wall Street Journal. I’m talking to people coming in for their nine to five scanning their badges as I’m doing the same thing to go make hahas and put on a costume. How does the week go? Monday, the staff meets the week’s host and floats ideas. Tuesday group dinner with the host, followed by night time writing sessions.
Wednesday a readthrough followed by an initial selection of sketches, which triggers production on everything from props to costumes. Thursday and Friday a rehearsals and filming of pre tape promos and sketches. A Saturday night and eight pm dress rehearsal that determines what makes the live show. At eleven thirty, mikey Day explained how the roommate thing works. He says, we just get paired there randomly, like college roommates.
Heidi Girdner said, my first year was really hard for me to knock on doors and think anybody would want to write with me. Not because people weren’t welcoming, because I thought I was following the rules of senior junior, sophomore freshman Keenan Thompson’s Where’s by the rule of making himself available. He says, I remind people, hey, I’m always down to be the hot dog vendor. Will Ferrell has a new project. It’s called Street Justice.
Will will play dirty Harry type who goes about taking justice into his own hands. I don’t know, I could say that working. I also think the days of Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell’s style comedy have passed. I could be wrong. Jimmy Fallon talked about his new comedy album Holiday Seasoning features some big names like the Jonas Brothers and Megan Fee Stallion and Dolly Parton.
There’s also some non music people from comedy like Will Ferrell and Chelsea Handler and then checking both boxes weird out. Fallon said, I’m so excited about this. I’m proud it’s a good one. It’s a fun project to have. I can’t believe I have my own Christmas album.
It kind of makes no sense, but here we are. Somebody had put the thought in a Jimmy’s head to do an album. He said. I recorded one song and it wasn’t good. It was corny.
I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t me. I was like, I’m not good at this. Michael Boubla is much better at doing this, Kelly Lark’s and Mariah Carey, the real singers. That’s not what I can offer.
So I go, I have a comedy song. I was working on my iPhone. I had a song called Chipmunks and Chestnuts, which is a Roy Orbison inspired Slim Whitman Monty Python type of song where a guy hits a giant high note that’s almost annoying. It makes me laughs. I recorded that and I started adding tracks to it, and then I go, maybe I won’t do any covers.
I’ll do all original songs. I thought that was more of a challenge if you can write a comedy holiday album. I don’t know when the last one was, but we’re overdue for one, so might as well just do it now and have some fun. You get this opportunity to create new stuff and just put it out there and see what sticks. You know, there’s a Bob Dylan influenced one.
There’s a couple college radio type of keyboarding jams where I go, yeah, I don’t know if anyone’s going to get this one, but I think it’s funny. The couple pop jams on there that hopefully can get radio play. I like those. It’s a roller disco type of song called Holiday that I think everybody can get behind. He talked about the evolution the lyrics being it’s a holiday time to celebrate, we’ll stay out all night.
Then you had bass, and you make it more Jackson’s more chic. Then it turns to that and I go woul. The Jonas brothers do this. We sent it over their people and they were like, love it, let’s do it. They recorded their version.
They turned it into a real song. Jimmy says, don’t overthig it, released it, put it out. I have Ladys come on the show and sometimes they go, yeah, we cut this down. I wrote a hundred three songs. We cut it down to ten.
I go, you wrote on a hundred and three songs. If I ever wrote a hundred three songs, my alum would have one hundred three songs on it. Are you kidding me? I’d be so proud. So don’t overthig it.
Don’t go. Someone’s gonna make fun of me for this one. Put it out. It’s something else to listen to. You go, this one’s weird, but I kind of like it.
That is my vibe too, Like this podcast. Apparently you like it because you’re listening. Thank you. Other people might get stupid. I don’t care.
You’ll learn that as you get older. Just do your thing. As we’re working with weird, al found said he’s my idol. He got famous for his parodies first, but then when you buy the album you get into the deeper cuts and dear to be stupid and his poke stuff. I was writing all these songs for the album, and I was trying to hit every holiday I could think of.
I was thinking about New Year’s Eve and there’s no real happy New Yar’s Eve songs. They’re all sad. They’re all depressing. That’s covered. There’s no missing sad New Year’s songs.
We have a lot of them, whether it’s all Ang Xi or Dan Folberberg or whatever. I wanted a good song. You just put on a New Year’s Eve party and everyone go, this is so silly. I have to dance around and picturing mosh pits and picturing people screaming at the top of their lungs. It’s track number one side too me weird Al Yankovic and the Roots.
I said to him, what do you think of this? He immediately got back and said, I’m in. I love it. Do you mind if I rewrite a couple of things? I said, yeah, let’s go.
We started going back and forth. In two days, he had a full, unrecorded version of it, full sheet music of every note and every harmony, advanced stuff. He took it next level and he goes, you’re gonna get a ban on this. I go, I can. I didn’t think about that before I get a quest love.
I go, I have a song with weird Al. He’s like, I’m in. Weird ELL’s a legend. He’s the only one. I’m so honored to work with him.
He’s my idol. I Wanted to Be Weird Al Yankovic. It’s a Friday night in the Big City. It’s the New York Comedy Festival. Six o’clock Near Comedy Club, Joke Sista’s Comedy Show eight pm, Chelsea Music Hall, Bodega Chat Live, Beacon Theater at seven.
Jeff A. Currie, Miss Pat Town Hall seven o’clock Some More the Venue at Hard Rock Hotel. Seven o’clock. Paul Ollinger and Friends at Rodney’s Comedy Club. Seven o’clock.
Askats the UCB. It’s seven o’clock we Go Horses Out in Brooklyn at the Comedy Collective, also at seven. Maria Dakotis at the Green Room forty two at seven Steve Fury’s Comedy Confidential seven o’clock Near Comedy Club, Fibbs and Friends hosted by Connor Wood Gramercy Theater seven o’clock, Tiny Idea and Little Boy Evil Brooklyn Arthouse. Seven o’clock, Vocabaret at caveat seven o’clock. Unchaper Owned Second City seven o’clock.
Mecky Leaper at the Bellhouse at seven point thirty. Good Luck with Maggie Winters in Parker Callahan seven thirty Union Hall, Drunk Black History at Little Field at eight. Chris Barnes and Nate Meeker co headlined The Gutter. Surprisingly, that One’s at the Gutter eight o’clock. Out in Williamsburg at eight, The Old Man Hustle presents Funny People Comedy Showcase.
The Standard eight has Oneika McLean Onto some more famous people. Eight o’clock. Hank Azaria and the Easy Street Band at Brooklyn Bowl. That’s Hank Azaria pretending he’s Springsteen. I’ve played the impression in the past.
It’s not bad. It’s weird, but it’s not bad. Jack and Michael Whitehall Live at Carnegie Hall at eight o’clock. New York Kings Live at two seventy five Park at eight. My Grandmother’s Ipatch eight thirty, Brooklyn Art House, Paully’s Diner, a night of comedy and music at eight thirty.
Stand Up, New York Matt kauff Ear It’s Funnier, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. Are You Garbage and Friends at Chelsea eight thirty, Ucb’s Sorry for Your Loss at nine and improvised Broadway Musical with a Naughty title at Asylum at nine thirty. Laugh Masters caveat nine thirty, Fibbs and Friends hosted by Connor Wood nine thirty, Grammercy Kate Owens Cooking with Catherine nine thirty, Strong Force, Second City nine thirty, Dan Soder, Town Hall nine forty five, Second Show by some More, Second show by Jeffer Curry, Tina Frimmel Live ten o’clock at Bellhouse Byron Bauers, Union Hall ten Aaron Berg, The Stand at ten Laugh So Hard you Don’t Cry, and Jenny Hogan and Laura Murley ten fifteen, Tiny Cupboard, Pino Noir UCB ten thirty, and the Trash King at UCB at eleven fifty nine. You know, that was a lot of show. And I don’t know who’s the biggest name, I said, Hank Azaria doing Springsteen, Dan Soder.
I got a comment here, that’s a notch down from what a Friday Night at the New York Comedy Festival has been in the past, Like a notchdown by a lot. But I guess this thing goes another week, and if we look ahead to next Friday, you know we started seeing people like Gabe Iglesias and maybe some bigger names as we get more into this. The other thing about the festival, and the festival was never anything but great to me. New York City is so big, as big as this thing is, as many shows as I’ve just read to you, it’s still invisible in New York City. New York City is too big for such a festival, if that makes any sense.
There’s a Joan Rivers show. Larry Ameros first met Joan in two thousand and eight to write material for the Mark Twain Prize. He asked Joan if anything was off limits, like which you make fun of about the suicide of her late husband and manager, Edgar. Joan said, I had ten new minutes before they closed the casket. That is also the Joan Rivers I know.
The play is called Joan and it’s at the South Coast Repertoire runs through November twenty fourth from short Oal Radio four announce some new comedy programs. They include What Seriously, a new podcast which combines comedy with quirky history. Dan Does Dating is a new sitcom from Michael Beck, following a man as he searches for love from one terrible day to another. Comedy trio cry Babies presents some audio adventures that are a homage to Steven Siegal’ hype action flicks. Ikkelwick FM is set at a dysfunctional northern community radio station, and Stuart Mitchell follows up his series Cost of Living with the new Cost of Dying, which takes a look at the size of the bill that happens when you pass away.
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