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Caloroga Shark Media. Sit there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I imagine this week and next will be very slow for comedy news here, but I will have a normal schedule to have episodes for you each day. I’ll mix in some of my end of the year countdown specials.
I can pre tape a little bit here and give myself a couple of days off. But if you’re looking for an episode on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, ne Year’s Day, You’ve got an episode for you every day. Thank you for listening. I really enjoyed Jay Leno and Adam Carolla speaking to the Rap. The Rap asks a good question.
Is there a common thread that you guys started off with that would still translate to today? Leno said, yeah. The most common is a girlfriend or boyfriend going why do you have to work every night? If you’re the spouse of a comic, I’m sorry, you might be close to equal or second in importance, but you’re not first, especially if you’re starting out in that relationship. No comic, male or female, is going to be happy in a relationship unless they’re happy with their act.
Unless you’re happy with what you’re doing on stage, then I am worth to give my love to this person. But if you’re dating one of these people, they have to do it every night because it’s the repetition. It’s the only way they sit around that other twenty three and a half hours waiting for their little set to come out. And there’s nothing better than killing an audience. There really Isn’t People say sex is great?
Oh yeah so, and not really as good as a good comedy set. You know this joke? Right? A comic’s in Vegas the first time. He’s all excited.
It’s like one o’clock in the morning, goes back to his room after playing a set. The phone rings, Hi. My name is Felicity. I’m the leader nancer across the street, and I saw the show tonight and I thought you were really funny and sexy, and I thought maybe I could come over and we could fool around. I mean, i’d leave before morning.
I’d just like to spend some time with you. The comic goes, did you see the first show or the second show? Corolla laughs at that and says that is such a universal comedian thought, because you do two shows and there’s always one you like more.
And then at some point you run into someone they go, I see you back at the wh…
When they say the bad show, which isn’t even bad, it’s not as good as the good show, there’s a God Hates Me kind of moment. Corolla and Leno were doing that fantasy camp coming up in January. The rap is curious, can you take anyone and give them some beating spark? Carol says, I, I don’t think you can make a non comedian into a comedian. I think you take somebody who’s got a little acorn of comedy and maybe turned it into a mighty oak tree.
But I need some acorn in there. But being good on your feet and being relaxed and being sort of conversational in front of people as a universal application, if you’re an attorney certainly or socially, whatever it is, maybe you’re not gonna end up being on the marquee playing the theaters that these guys play. It’s still like I would always tell people, take a groundlings class, take an improv class. Why because you’re gonna join the cast of SNL NO, so you can be funny at a party, give and take and have good conversations. It could pay off on a first date.
Leno says, I always find people’s comedic ability is inversely proportional to their intelligence. You want to try and take as much from your life as you can. If you’re like adult person, a dullart, if you come across a sort of boring, then be really boring on stage. That’s where your humor is. Corolla with his zing, that’s what Jay does.
He draws them decisive life show a fans. How many people have had their Dusenberg breakdown on the four h five, Leno says, See be a comic. Have you ever seen a group of animals and one of the animals is injured and all the other animals try to come and eat it. That’s kind of like being a comic. That’s what happens.
Just now. ESPN wrote about Adam Sandler’s basketball capabilities. ESPN rights. It’s March twenty twenty three and an LA based photographer who goes by the moniker Xavier Luggage, is in the middle of his first pick up basketball game at the Point Set, a recreation center. The park typically fills around six pm with people arriving to get their games in, but it’s an hour so earlier.
When the intention of the player snaps towards the side of the court, they all see him warming up seemingly out of nowhere. Luggage told ESPN, it was like, damn, that looks like Adam Sandler. Sandler shows up without an durage, donning his signature brightly colored, oversized polos and baggy shorts. He looks to make the extra pass. He dishes out as many compliments as assists, regardless of whether he’s on your team, and competition reigns supreme.
Luggage said, he’s like the random older dude that pulls up to the court and you’re kind of like, all right, whatever, and then you pick them up and he’s making the craziest passes, not moving too much, not doing the most, but he’s just got the og game like he’s been playing forever. He came up to me and was like, oh, man, I hope you’re not fast. And I looked at him and I’m like, oh, you’re fed up. He was meaning to play, not just to mess around, you know, like you wanted to win for sure. It was honestly pretty magical.
Bro Patrick Quinn is a comedian who played Sandler in twenty nineteen, they were in a park in La Sandlor comes by, he goes, you, guys, mind if I play with you. Quinn played against Sandler in one game, then they teamed up for the next. Quinn said, he’s essentially an influential person in other aspects that you’re like. I wouldn’t expect him to be doing these plays. It seemed like he had to be playing a lot to do something like that, and he was nailing them.
Sandler once again was wearing bright colors and a large T shirt. Quinn said, Sandler’s outfit is disarming. His theory is Sandler does it on purpose, so you don’t think he’s going to absolutely dominate on the court. He was playing point, calling out the plays. He was calling shots out, he was doing no look passes, he was creating shots, and he was going up and down the court.
He was back and forth, sweating, putting in some work. I was very impressed. Shashua Jackson said Sandler had to be wearing something from a decade ago, like three XL pants, wrinkled big and tall shirt. He definitely had clothes on that could fit a six foot eight linebacker. He executed a simple, beckcut and squared his body with the rim.
Jackson turned around and said it was a perfect pocket pass. I had to go with it. He doesn’t wow. Sandler executed the past but described it as super quick and soft. He says it’s still the best past that I’ve ever received in my life.
And I’m not saying that because it’s Adam Sandler. Luggage said, to be honest, I don’t even remember him really leaving. I just remember that he just wasn’t there. The only time spoke to Tom Popa about his podcast, Breaking Bread. They were curious, are there any similarities or parallels between the world of comedy and food.
Papa said, yes, there are. I name my podcast Breaking Bread because I’m huge into baking bread and I love to host dinners and get together as I’ve always enjoyed it, I thought it’d be perfect to talk about the food we all love. We all have drinks before enjoying a meal and a baked bread. For every guest to open up the conversation and literally break bread over conversations is one of the things that I live for. It’s passion, mind you all the time.
The podcast is growing. We just said Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman and more. Jerry people are realizing this is a safe, comforting place to talk and enjoy bread, food, drinks, and conversations. As for food and comedy, the end result is both similar and that you’re hosting people you’re entertaining with, either with your food or your jokes, and you just want them to escape their lives and smile and enjoy themselves.
Also, the process of cooking and baking is just as humbling as comedy.
I’ve been doing both for a long time, and it’s always a new experience. Anything can happen at a show, we’re breaking bread at home. Really, Tom, you always have to be humble about your craft. It’s not just a thing you can pin down. You get better at it, but it’ll never be one hundred percent perfect.
No one ever nails one hundred percent of every joke on their act all the time. Baking and cooking is very similar in this regard. Leanne Morgan wrote in her book that she felt unseen in the comedy industry for decades and had some advice. Leanne said, I was coming up in comedy clubs when Comedy Central was big, and back then they didn’t want to see a mama talking about three little children and how she couldn’t fit in her pants. I didn’t fit the bill.
Nobody cared, but anyone in my heart there were women out there who’d relate to me. I didn’t go and live in New York or LA because my husband had a good job and we needed health insurance. But that ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. It was one of those silver linings and blessings because I was able to have a real life with my family, and my real life led to this wonderful material. I could mind that people could relate to what I had to do.
I would tell others to do is just keep believing in yourself. I just kept going. I’d pray about it, and God never shut the door. When I would get discouraged, I’d get some kind of sign to keep me going. Now, at fifty nine, I feel like I’ve really become my authentic self.
I was recently asked to speak at my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and I tell those kids, don’t change who you are. Don’t be ashamed of where you’re from. That’s what made you who you are. Be authentic. That’s what people are attracted to.
That is great advice. Roz Hernandez is one of Vulture’s comedians You should and will know. Roz says, sometimes when my family would eat spaghetti, I would secretly take one of the noodles out and slurp off all the sauce like a plain noodle. And a time one end in a nod he stood with me. When no one was looking, I’d put the noodle in one of my nostrils and then fake snees really dramatically.
When I’d remove my hands from my nose. My family would see a long noodle dangling from my nose, and then I would gaslight them and be like, what is something on my face? She says, I’m gonna dust that one off next time I go on an Olive Garden date wors show. Ever, I used to present as a drag queen with a big wig and the whole shebang. I hosted a month show in the smaller room of a venue with two stages.
I couldn’t even sell those tickets. For for a while, Joe Rogan would sell out the big room or the people who couldn’t get tickets to see Rogan would come to my show instead. I learned that the people who want to see Joe Rogan but didn’t get their tickets in time or not mine’s demographic. All right, what’s your writing process? You have to sit down at a computer and write crappy jokes every day.
I feel like I heard older comedians say do that, and I’d get frustrated because my mind doesn’t work like that. Now. I just try to live life and take notes of funny things and experiences, and then I usually think about how to make them funnier as I drive around town. Biggest financial hurdle as a comedian not having rich parents. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice.
Best get good in a smaller market before moving to a big city. I ignored this when I started in LA and I’ve regretted it because it’s really hard to undo first impressions. Worst try to appeal to everyone. Cracked writes that Jerry the character on Seinfeld. The character Jerry Seinfeld is far from a need freak according to actual need Freaks.
Someone in the subreddit wrote, how come Jerry’s supposed to be a need freak, yet him and his friends rarely put shoes on the couch. Along with that was a screenshot of Jerry enjoying a diet coke with a sneaker firmly planted on the cushion of his teal couch. Gabriel Phileppe works for the Environmental Resilience Institute and said, we can track in all sorts of bacteria, but certainly some of the ones we’re most concerned about are e coli because that causes severe dominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. There’s been studies that swab the bottom of shoes and something like ninety nine percent of the shoes test positive for fecal material. TV watchers point out Jerry gets rid of a shoelace for touching the men’s room floor, but steps on the coffee table with that same shoe when user said, he’s quite insane, a little confused.
I guess that’s your comedy news for today. Christmas is coming. I will have normal episodes all through I don’t take a day off. Sometimes I pre tape. If you listen on December twenty sixth, then you’re like wow.
John spent his Christmas recording to the December twenty sixth podcast. No, that was a pre tape, but I’m around, see you tomorrow.