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Caloroga Shark Media. He me there, I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. So I did watch Ronnie Ching special and it’s really good. Now let me tell you what I liked it. Ronnie is a great storyteller and top of mine.
So right before I recorded this, I just recorded my end of the year rankings. So let me double sidebar here. First of all, I’ve been having a lot of voice problems lately. As you’ve been listening today, my voice seems strong. This is the fourth straight episode of Daily comed News I’m recording and the voice is holding up thanks to the help of a large iced coffee with caramel and milk.
And you get support the show and buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Well, that’s not why I bring it up. I’m just happy that I have the voice to record all these things. So I have Ronnie up on my list.
I have him way up on the list. But I don’t agree with Jason’s In a Minute is not the number one special of the year. That said, I don’t think Jason and is crazy. So tune in on December twenty seventh for my complete list. But as I recorded those lists, I was talking about specifically al name names, Adrian Applelucci Special, and my problem with Adrian Special is I don’t believe any of the underlying premises at all.
They’re funny stories, but I need a little bit of reality. Like she’s telling these stories, and I don’t believe anything she said actually happened. I could be wrong, but personally I didn’t believe it. Now, as I’m watching Ronnie and he does that big opening chunk about freezing his wife’s eggs, and it’s a long chunk, I believe the underlying story actually happened or the details exaggerated for comedic effect. Sure, but I don’t feel like he sat at a desk and said, Okay, let me just totally make up a half hour story and tell it.
Well, perhaps he did, but I believe the underlying story. So he’s a great storyteller. And as he tells the stories, he will drop in tags. So that’s like, you know, after a joke, you just say, like one more short thing. And I never saw his tags coming, and they’re all really funny.
I’ve talked about on this podcast how I have Emperor of Rome syndrome, and I’ll be like, oh yeah, that’s really funny, but I don’t actually laugh. I laughed at Ronny Chieng special, so I like that one a lot. I recommend, but I won’t tell you how far up the list. You’ll have to listen on the twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth for the breakdowns of those. Do you like Nate Burgetzi, because if you don’t, you might as well check out today.
Nate’s PR team should play Nikki Glaser’s PR team in the PR Team super Bowl this weekend because they are both absolutely flooring it. I don’t recall seeing a push to this effect. On Tuesday, Nate got a New York Times article, a Washington Post article, and a Hollywood Reporter article, all this to promote his Netflix special on Christmas Eve, and also tonight is Nate Burghetzi’s Nashville Christmas on CBS nine o’clock. So one thing we know about the special is, you know the George Washington bit he’s done on the two episodes of SNL. He’s doing a version of that, but he’s dressed as an angel.
One of the jokes we see in the trailers he says, let this be called Christmas, and let it be celebrated each year by gathering with family, by doing goodwill in his name, and by putting a big pine tree in your house. God commands the pine tree shall be decorated with glittering glass ornaments of incredible beauty, also with garbage that your children make at school. Now, before you feel bad for the SNL people being ripped off, Lorne Michaels is producing this special even though it’s on CBS, which is interesting that it’s on CBS right. SNL cast members Ashley Padia and mikey Day appear in the sketches Mary and Joseph, so it’s not like Nate’s thieving from SNL. Naperghetzi’s Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy, pre taped comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances.
CBS says the special spots lights the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season and highlighting family fun and feel good moments. In a statement, Nate said, and I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together. And I couldn’t be in better hands with this team. Some of his press, he said he met his wife Laura, while waiting tables at Applebee’s in Nashville, to her sense of humor and laugh. We married in two thousand and six on Friday the thirteenth.
His favorite spot at home, I have a golf simulator room that I added onto the house. His goal for stand up is to be funny on stage without saying things that will embarrass or upset his parents. In his pre stage mantra, I remind myself that the knight’s not about me, It’s about the audience. Then I go out to determine and make them have fun. All right.
Like I said, I got a lot of ate today. So if you’re not in anate, you should just bail. Let’s start with the Washington Post. On the headline, Nate Brighetzi wants to be the Walmart of comedy. They write, Nate loves fast food.
He loves big box stores and the suburbs and TNT marathons of Diehard. He finds felicity in the familiar, comfort in the caloric originality. Any ordinary somebody worked hard on that opener. The first quote we get from Nate is I had McDonald’s last night. They caught up with Nate playing golf, when we learned that he loves the pit stop around the Troubadour’s fifth hole.
A cottage filled with every temptation you can imagine, jars of candy, topshelf liquor, and a drawer of fried chicken sandwiches with pimento cheese. He points to the soft serve board and seems disappointed when no one makes a homemade version of a blizzard. He really loves blizzards, he tells the post. No one wants to be Walmart. I want to be Walmart.
When George Carland was around, you needed George Carlin, you needed Lenny Bruce. Now he thinks we need something else, so he doesn’t to push the envelope. He pulls it in. He loved comedy ever since childhood. When he heard Sinbad do a bit about McDonald’s and people not knowing what to order, Sinbad’s punch line was that they got the same menu.
The article then talks about Nate going and up to Chicago, and we’ve talked about that in the past. Then he hits New York City, where he loaded FedEx trucks from five to ten am after being on stage every night. Boy, that’s rough. Pete Holmes said the landscape of comedy was that nine out of ten comedians were going to be kind of rough. The styles you shock them and then you kick them in the place you kick people.
Pete Holmes supposed to wear clean, Pete Holmes. Pete said Canadians and college kids always loved me and Nate. Home says the audience grew weary about jokes about finding the g spot and thatvent he and Nate were a breath of fresh air at a gearshift. Mikey Day talked about how the George Washington sketch has accelerated Nate’s career and said, I truly only think that would have worked so well with Nate. The dead eyes stare that he did is just so perfect a for George Washington b just stating these dumb facts.
It was just kismet. Nate says the sketch shot his career into another world. I actually enjoy politics. I don’t talk about them, but I enjoy them. I don’t think it’s what people are coming to me for the battle isn’t with other people but myself.
I’ve got to fight myself. It’s easy to feel self important. I don’t have a crazy take ever, so I don’t get the quick hits, a lot of comic sketch. He’s got his company, Nate Land, and the guideposts for Nateland content. We’re starting at PG, but you can talk to me into PG thirteen.
That’s a good rule. That’s kind of what I try to do here. His production company has ambitions beyond comedy. Why not apply clean and different movie genres? For example, horror, let’s not show someone’s bones, says Nate.
Romantic comedy. He says, we’ve had a lot of sex scenes in movies. There’s not much left on the table. He has some taglines good clean, scary, good clean, dramatic, good clean. Bill Burth said, there’s people who work clean.
There are absolute cornballs that sound like they’re doing comedy for forty years ago. Then this guy’s like Nate, whose jokes are so good you don’t even realize he’s working clean. Nate says of his own comedy, it’s just going to be me being dumb, and you can laugh with me or laugh at me. My specials are rated PG. One of them was rated G.
I’ll be honest with you, it’s a little embarrassing. The New York Times had an article that was just one of the articles, and check your watch. We are deep into this podcast already today. Right the second one, Nate Bergetzi wants your family to stop fighting for an hour maybe two. They cover the same beats, including the George Washington sketch.
Nate says, I don’t want your family fighting. There’s plenty of times you’re gonna be fighting. So if I can be your one hour you don’t fight, we get the sindbad story again, then we get I remember when my dad brought Brian Reagan’s CD at a truck stop. He said, I’ll pull over because he was laughing so hard. My Dad’s just driving in the middle of the night on the interstate and he’s like, I can’t even drive because I have to get this out of my system.
Then I listened to it and it was that funny. To this day in my head, I want someone to laugh so hard, to just have that experience. When I was younger, someone said he always wrote me a Bob Newhart That meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums.
In a sitcoms, I like that I was gonna be more of that person. I was way more deadpan at the beginning, and I did move around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel like I’m getting more in my voice now.
I auditioned for the Daily Show. It was down to me and Jordan Klepper. Jordan was better. I did so bad. It was a quick no.
I was gonna meet my buddy for lunch. I didn’t make it to the restaurant before they called and said, you’re fine, don’t worry about it. I mean, look, I wanted it, but if you look back, it’s like, man, it’s really good that I didn’t get that, because I clearly wasn’t ready for it, and I could have really shot my career in another direction. Ah, this is interesting. I didn’t know the scene.
There’s always connections in Hollywood. And this doesn’t mean Nate is bad, but just you gotta understand how show business works, and it’s who you know. Nate tells the Times. My management company does a lot with SNL. They have Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, David Spade.
I knew my name had been thrown around, think it was anything too serious. They were just letting its sit there. Then they came to one of my shows in Vegas, and they came when I was in Radio City. The actor strike was going on and comedians weren’t our own void. We didn’t have anything all that, and then it was like, you know what, we have a hosting spot in two weeks.
And I went from I didn’t really know what was going to happen, now this is happening. My career felt like a steady climb s and I was a big leap. I’m glad my career before it was a slow build. So you’re a bit of a hand a little better. You know, it’s all slow until it’s as fast as it can be.
Some philosophy from Nate Television is chasing social media, and I don’t think it should. My company’s done very well on social media, but I don’t make it for that. You need to make your thing in the full way.
And then I hope that the clips go wherever they go.
There’s not a lot because they’re on to watch as a family That’s why Friends in Seinfeld and Ray are still some of the most watched shows. It’s not because people don’t want it. They do want it, they’re just not being given it. The goal with the variety shows to be able to have people come together and sit in their house and watch something dumb and silly. If you ever see a donkey perform a high diving act, put it in your set.
All right, I got another one. I told you. It was any Burghazzy Day, the Hollywood Porternybergatzi conquered Comedy. Hollywood is Next. We learned that in twenty fourteen, Nate was making a Jimmy Fallon Produce sitcom pilot.
Nate said, when it was happening, I remember my buddy was like, this is your shot, So if it doesn’t work, that’s it. I was kind of annoyed by that at the time, but I think it helped me. It’d put a little chip on my shoulder. I thought for sure it would go. When I look back, I’m very glad it didn’t because I have a lot more of control of where I want to go now, and I don’t think I would have had that then.
I would have been too young and not a good enough comedian or performer. Yet I look back on a lot of stuff like that, had I gotten it, my career could have gone in a different direction. And he tells the Daily Show anecdote, OLLI reporter, he almost had sitcoms at NBC, Fox, ABC, Netflix. Was there any kind of threw line other feedback? No, but I don’t think there was a lot of entertainment made for people not on the coast during that period.
They’d tell you they wanted multicams and stuff that’s designed for co viewing. Then you’d pitch one of people who aren’t watching multicams. They want them because it looks good in their budget, but then they’re like, well, this show’s not fun, yeah, because the show’s not made for you. So it was like there’s a lot of that for a long time, but now shifting and everybody seems to want broader again. We have a comic Derek Strup, who was on my Christmas special that he comes on the road with me a lot, and he’s someone I was telling CBS like, this is Kevin James.
Make that show again. Just have it be something fun that everybody can watch for thirty minutes and then you can go back to your murder show. He says, the Christmas Show is the most exciting thing I’ve done. If it does well, that’s the one thing I could see doing for an extended period of time that would be fun. Right if this became an annual tradition, Olli reporter, you worry about alienating an audience a lot.
What drives that? Nate’s I don’t want anybody to feel better or uncomfortable. Would break my heart if somebody thought that I thought I’m better than them. I don’t want to be for everybody. I mean, that’s the goal.
I grew up eating a chain restaurant and I’m going to Walmart. I’m on board with selling everything to everybody. A lot of times people be like, my comedy isn’t for everybody, and there’s a pride in that, but never click for me. I was always like, why would you not want everybody to come to your show? A little more about the Daily Show port Nate says, I was not good.
I auditioned with John Stewart and I’d heard that they’d like my audition, at least that’s what Hassan told me. Then I go to the Daily Show and I’m with John at the desk. That was good, and then I had to read to John Oliver part John Oliver uses a lot of words that I don’t really know what they mean or how to say them. It was bad and I had the suit on didn’t fit. I look like I was going to divorce court to get my daughter back or something.
They called me before I even was back in my hotel. Right, I’ve heard that part already and there’s like six more paragraphs, but I am nate it out and I have to take a commercial break. So behind the scenes, if I don’t take a commercial break before the twenty minute mark, the automation will force one. So let me put one by design and then we’ll come back and maybe we’ll do three sections today. You got an your money’s worth today, be right back.
Rose Matta Fayo has a special out on Max Today. The La Times caught up with Rosen. We learned that she started doing comedy workshops at age fifteen. She’s now thirty two, which means she’s been doing stand up for more than half her life, a fact she says makes her feel a panic slightly rising in my chest. She talks on stage about relatability and the need for female comics to be self deprecating, but she says she does not come from a place of imposter syndrome.
That’s the one thing I don’t think I have. I have everything else, low self esteem, terrible relationship with myself, all those things you’re supposed to have in your thirties. In On and on and on, we check in with Rose after a real life breakup where everybody from her grandmother to her housekeepers like Garol, move on. You weren’t together long enough to be this upset. She talks about chronicling her feelings in the notes app and this real experience of suddenly understanding her parents better.
But she’s now the age they were when she was a kid. She cut some jokes from her live performances. They were jokes about Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson. Tho was cut for time. One of the jokes is who has the time to get docks online by superfans, But a joke about the attractiveness of Wallougi from Mario Kart was obviously written and recorded before their real world arrest of Luigi, the guy accused of shooting the United Healthcare CEO.
That one stayed in Ro says, in your twenties you almost think you kind of got it together and now I’m staring at this next bit where you’re like, yeah, but you don’t know anything. You kind of have to accept the randomness of life, where friends marrying, of kids and the generation above you get sick and dies. She says she’s always had an interest in death. The first show she performed at Edinburgh Fringe was about her own funeral and involved her jumping out of a coffin in a jeweled tuxedo. Two Stories Out of the UK Today, One Happy One Sad, The Happy One Strictly Come Dancing in a Dancing with Star for the Brits they finish up their twentieth anniversary year.
The winner blind comedian Chris McCausland. Chris paid tribute to the efforts of his professional partner Diane Buswell and using unconventional methods and teaching Chris how to dance. That’s pretty cool. The Sad Story. Police have found the body of a missing Britain Got Talent star after he went missing.
Earlier in the week, comedian Martin Crofts had made it to the semi finals. His act involved him placing a pan on his head, becoming known as the pan Man and singing a song while impersonating a Dalek from doctor who Police have found what they believed to be his body in the Winnie Gill Reservoir in North Yorkshire. Felippe Esparza announced a new special coming in Netflix in February, Raging Fool. In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, cultural divides, infidelity and more. And if you’re in China, I gotta do this one today because of the way time zones work.
But on Friday in China, the Beijinger tells us the comedy the Citadel was bringing the festive spirit to life with a hilarious live version of family Feud to celebrate the Dongji Festival, also known as the Winter Solstice. The don g Festival marks the longest night of the year, enough time for family gatherings, feasting and fun. So if you’re listening in Beijing, hey, that’s pretty cool. Head on over to the Comedy Citadel. Their version will feature four teams or families and they will battle it out to answer survey questions, just like the TV show.
However, there’s a twist you the audience, Beijing listener, You’ll be the one providing the answers. It means every response could turn into a hilarious surprise. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just want to get in front of something. So Holidays coming up, I will have an episode for you every single day, just like always.
I’m not going anywhere, but I just want to be fair to myself and fair to you. Some of the episodes are pre tapes. For example, December twenty seventh, eighth and ninth pre tapes Top Comedy Specials of the Year. January first, I will air the interview I did on The Letterman Podcast. I’m the guest on The Letterman Podcast tomorrow if you want to hear it then, but I’m using that as the January first episode.
Christmas Day, I already pretaped it, so as part of that, I just want to get in front of it. So if you’re like, hey, how come he’s not talking about Nate Bergazzi special. Did he not watch it? I’m just on tape a little bit more than usual. You know.
Through the end of the year. That’s all that’s going on here. I just wanted to deal you straight. I’m about to record Friday’s episode, Johnny Max take it in some days off. I appreciate you, Thank you for listening.
See you tomorrow.