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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow on this program, one of two things is going to happen. Either I’m gonna tell you my guest today is Matthew Bissard, or I’m gonna tell you how Matthew Bisard canceled. And I have no reason I think he’s going to cancel.
Well, that’s a plan for tomorrow because I’m taping him in about an hour. Matt Riife’s book came out this week kind of quietly. It took two days for anything on Google to show up. I had kind of forgotten. I don’t know what to make of that, but now he seems to be doing some press.
The book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me, and he talked about his change in looks. Did Matt Rife have plastic surgery. He claims it was simply puberty that led to an accelerated appearance change. He writes puberty, after its sweet time for more than twenty years, finally decided to hit me square in the face. He claims he went from looking like a thirteen year old to an actual Grownish man.
He says his wider and more prominent features were all from a bizarrely stunted journey through puberty. People who have accused him of getting classic surgery have a frightening lack of common sense, and claims that his attractiveness has negatively affected his career. In the book, he says, is a comic, you’re supposed to make the audience like you, right, Well, who the f likes attractive people? No one? Okay.
He did an interview with US Weekly. He says he has no regrets about anything. It’s comedy. Sometimes you don’t hit the mark. Plenty of people think I did.
He was referring to the controversial joke in his November twenty three special Natural Selection. He says, to me, the joke was just that, a joke. I wasn’t trying to make some kind of profound statement about the state of society. I was trying to set the tone for the rest of the show via personal spin on a classic joke. He wrote that practically overnight, and he went from a TikTok sensation to basically canceled.
Maybe it wasn’t dear taste. That’s fine. That happens, not to me very often, but it happens. But that doesn’t make me a support of domestic violence. I mean I grew up with an abusive stepdad.
Verbal abuse, psychological abuse, fiscal abuse I experienced at all. He says. The only negative thing about the special is that people were upset. He says it’s inevitable with almost any comedian. We’re in the business of making people happy.
But I gotta be me. The immense positivity I received at the very beginning of my career can’t last forever. It sought me to respectfully not give a hoot. I know my intentions, I know where my heart lies. Matt turns thirty in September of twenty five and said this was the perfect time to release a memoir and show fans the real hymn.
Not only did I feel it necessary to explain more about my life and everything it took to get here, but it also feels like I’ve already lived a lot. So much of your life when you’re in the public eye is open interpretation. Gave me a chance to tell my story on my terms. Matt Riife went on the view Whoopy Goldberg said the book is wonderful and asked if he recorded the audiobook version. Raife said he did the audiobook a little lazy, but I respect it.
Joy Behar said the comedians are runner attack now. Raife pointed out that his close friend Nate Berghetzi, I didn’t know those two were friends. That’s fascinating. He says. Nate doesn’t come under the same fire for his jokes, which are less raunchy.
That’s where you’d have to decide how much you want to be yourself and how much you want to pander to a community that might not even care about you in the first place. Whoope, Goldberg greed, telling Rife on the panel that comics are always under fire. Inlander spoke to David Cross and I asked him about the people he surrounds himself with. Is that important to his own creativity? Cross said, well, it’s less about importance and just what I prefer.
It’s a great thing that I’m able to do. I mean, I know plenty of people who aren’t creative, but creative people are more fun to hang out with. He talked about his podcasts and said for years I didn’t do one. I had no desire. I don’t listen to podcasts myself.
I have nothing against them. I just don’t occupy my time that way. Then I started doing it. I loved it. It’s really fun.
It is really fun, and they’re just conversations. I would have the why I approach it is what I tell people. It’s just like, imagine we’re strangers and we’re sitting next to each other at a pub that kind of conversation. Wow, it sounds like he went to podcast programming executive school. One oh one.
The amount of meetings I’ve been in. Oh, you know, it’s just a conversation. Cross, Do you get annoyed by people who come up and recite arrested development lines? Cross said, Oh, that’s annoying. I’ve experienced pretty much everything, and by far most people are cool and respectful, but yeah, there are plenty of folks that aren’t.
Good question here, what’s it been like seeing a decent chunk of the commit landscape shift from alt comedy to alt rights comedy. I don’t know if I agree with the premise. It’s a good question, but there’s It’s not like alt comedy went away. Joe Rogan opened a club and Tony Hinchcliff’s podcast took off. That’s it, Relax everybody, Cross it Well, I mean it’s depressing because I’ve never really enjoyed or take import in comedy that punches down and makes fun of the disenfranchised or vulnerable out there.
That’s never been my thing. So it’s a bummer that it’s so celebrated, you know, financially rewarded. I mean, I don’t make one one hundred thirty amount of money that some of those guys are. But I’m going to do my stuff and always be me. I’ve always had a kind of stew of different stuff.
I have very silly jokes. I have some that are kind of a little offensive. I have stuff that’s anecdotal. I’d say easily a third of the set is just about anecdotal stuff. This thing happened to me, or this thing I observed, And then obviously I dip into the current state of affairs.
And there’s always going to be a little religious stuff in there for people who know my body of work, which there are literally decades worth of specials and alms and stuff. It’s that MOA. Mayer’s show is getting a season two. The show is called mo. You may remember this one, the Netflix comedy about a Palestinian immigrant attempting to secure Silomon Houston I either didn’t know or forgot they renewed it.
I like that show a lot. It was very good. The next batch of episodes spoilers, we’ll see Moe stranded across the border and desperate to get back to Houston before his family’s asylum, hearing he’s going to need all the hustle and charm he can muster. Little does he know that the journey home is just the start of his troubles, and there’s a new guy in town ready to steal both his longtime love Maria and his Falafel Tago recipe. Mo back on Netflix January thirtieth, Moa Mara says, I’m thankful to continue to tell a universal story of struggle that relates to so many refugees and millions of underrepresented humans trying to be seen around the globe.
Sarah Silverman was politically active this fall, supporting the losing candidate. After the electoral College numbers came in, Silverman said, I thought, oh God, what am I doing? Why am I on the road right now? I want to go home, But being on the road has made her feel better about the future. Sarah says, it’s been really for whatever it’s worth, a bit of a solve.
I don’t know what fresh air we’re in for, but to be together in a big group of people at night, it’s been nice. Having that kind of feeling connect on a local level has been oddly comforting. The optimist in me feels like community is going to be our savior. Being on tour feels like the beginnings of that for me. Bill Maher, who’s totally not going to quit his HBO show, Stop dude, listen to yesterday’s podcast, mar is taping his next special tonight and tomorrow at the CIBC Theater in Chicago.
Defector wrote an article that caught my attention. The headline crowd work isn’t a substitute for comedy? Right there. I love the article because they’ve already nailed the premise. Defector writes, I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Heckler’s Welcome, comes from a hackle.
I made it seven minutes into that special, or was it eight? I can’t remember. I think I made it seven into Jesly Neck and eight into a caster. Either way, a total of fifty minutes between the two. Didn’t enjoy either one Defector writes fast forward about thirty minutes into the latest special on the punch line to another a Caster joke as a guy yelling to a bunch of bullies that their parents don’t love them, to which one audience member pipes up, my parents are dead.
A Caster is so impressed by the callback that he says, lovely to have a Heckler in here who appreciates stretcher to be fair to the audience. Heckler’s welcome is in a Caster’s best work. From the title on the setup, you’d expected to be quite a bit of intervention, and maybe that’s what he was expecting, but there isn’t a ton Yeah that was I can’t even get out of sentence. I’m so perplexed by the special. Yeah, I was watching it.
I’m like, where are the Hecklers, what’s going on? Where’s the comedy? And I bailed that life is too short. I got too much to watch. If you can’t get to it in the first seven eight minutes, I gotta move on, Defector, right.
So I wonder if ay Caster thought it’d have more to work with by opening the floor to the Hecklers, But he was a little thrown off by the relational change to his audience. I’m not sure, but I know he’s usually a lot better than this, and they recommend that you check out his previous special Coldasignia Hate Myself nineteen ninety nine for an example. Matt Rife, that browie comedian who sells out arenas and looks like he was manufactured by a chad machine. Hey, look, Matt Rife did not have plastic surgery. He’s made that clear.
Okay, defector. He became TikTok famous about six years ago off his crowd work. I mean, fine, he’s quick, but the recurring Nazi punch lines also seem a little overly available to him, and explains that these clips allowed you to promote your gig gun Law without ruining it for anybody who actually pays to come. It’s kipping ahead. Despite CrowdWork being leveraged in the past by older comics like Todd Barry, who in twenty fourteen released the crowd Work Tour, newer comedians say they’re expected to produce content incessantly, and releasing audience interactions allows them to do that without burning material or SNL Writer and comic Vanessa Jackson sold the new York Times.
The younger crowds, I think enjoy authentic content more than something that’s crafted. Wow, I’m just gonna build a cabin up here on Old Man Mountain then and listen to Old Kamedy. Colin Jos is out there promoting what is it pop culture Jeopardy? I keep wanting to say celebrit Jeopardy. It’s pop culture Jeopardy.
I actually misspoke that in the Wednesday episode. Now to use the AI to replace my own words, you’ll hear someone say pop culture jeopard if you want to go back and hear that at it. Joe said, I found pop Culture Jeopardy harder than regular Jeopardy. I was really impressed. You have to know different erarors really well.
You know, I got a trivia on Wednesday night, and part of it is, you know, my crew and I were reasonably smart and reasonably educated. It depends what the trivia guys pick. Like some nights they hand in I just called them arian and gro questions and I’m like, we have no chance tonight because whatever they’re into, like twenty ten’s music and I’m like, we don’t know any of this.
And then other weeks they ask a lot of eighties questions and we crush and we…
Joe said, I was fascinated when no one would know something from the nineties, or no one would know something from the early two thousands. Maybe that’s just generational because there were a lot of younger groups competing. Pop Culture is so different for everyone in what sticks with them, and especially in modern things can get very divided because in almost in an algorithmic way, your experience with culture is so fragmented. Joe says, I promise, in no way am I trying to steal Ken Jennings’s job. He’s very good at his job.
I also have a job. He and I texted during the Pop Culture Jeopardy tapings. Actually he was supportive. What he was saying is true. There’s almost no one that knows what it’s like to host the game.
You know, all those crazy specific things you have to do in every game and we keep track of. In addition of just what seems like normal hosting stuff, the gameplay of it is so specific and fast and precise that it’s just an experience that almost no one gets to have. It’s like talking to someone who used to host Weekend Update. It has its own vocabulary and its own experience. That’s very specific.
He used to host Weekend Update. Well, he has released a deluxe edition of his Holiday Seasoning Christmas album. He added nine tracks. Now, Jimmy, dude, what if I bought this thing three weeks ago? Say, I spent fifteen bucks and now you’re like, here’s nine more tracks.
I mean, I have Apple Plus, so I don’t care. It’s all unlimited streaming for me, except for that pesky monthly payment. But you know, if I had actually bought a CD or a cassette or an a track and now you drop nine more songs, come on, that’s not cool. Who did this? The new tracks are called Christmas Alone.
The Elves are unionizing Broadway. Do you remember today at Christmas time? Remember Christmas with Lang Lang, Elvis on the Shelvis Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night, and Holiday with the Jonas brothers in el Cooljay. And that’s your comedy news for today. All right, tomorrow Matthew Brissard or not, so come back and find out what happens now.
I have no reason to think that he’s going to cancel. Sometimes with these tape things, the comedians forget and it’s all good. I understand. It’s a dude in the basement recording podcasts, and they forget. I feel like I’m throwing Basarda under the bus.
He’s done nothing wrong. I don’t know. It’s one o two pm and I’m recording with him at three point thirty. Anyway, come back tomorrow and we’ll find out what happened. See you then,