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Caloroga Shark Media. A quick reminder of this program takes no days off. I will have an episode for you tomorrow and every day seventies a week. Daily Comedy News. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with the aforementioned daily Come News.
Nate Burgetzi has his new special at on Netflix Today. Nate discusses wanting a second dog, how much pizza to order for Guys Night, and how his wife is the responsible one. There is a trailer, let’s listen. My wife, she runs everything, but I do do my own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and it popped in my head and I was like, all right, I’m bringing that up.
Can I bring it up? That day? I was like, I’m sure there will be a time where we’re be in some fight. I’ll be losing this fight, and then I may not just come. I’m like, I do my own laundry.
I went to career day for my daughter’s school, so I was hoping to sit at a table alone. They put me at a table with a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose, almost to show the kids here’s the difference between reading. They asked him, how long did you go to school to be a surgeon. You know, he’s like fifty four years or whatever. It’s like them, and they asked me, They’re like, how long to be a comedian.
I was like, you’re good now, so look finish elementary school and make their parents happy. But then I’d get out and get after it. Nate recently wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal wrote it himself under the title Nate Forgets He isn’t here to hurt your feelings. Nate writes, in class I was funny, but I wasn’t loud of crazy. My side comments were always hushed so teachers wouldn’t hear them.
I didn’t want to be disruptive or hurt their feelings. All of this was my way of fitting in and standing out. By my senior year, I managed to win the award for her most school Spirit. I didn’t win class clown. I came in second.
I wonder who won. Growing up, I watched my dad do his magic tricks. He practiced them on me, so I knew how they were done. I thought he was cool. My father was sensitive, like Robin Williams in Patch Adams.
My mom is very funny, more like me in terms of setting up jokes. Dad is more slapstick in his delivery. But what I always admired is how we made fun of himself. He taught there’s nothing funnier than making yourself part of the punchline. I started performing when I was around eleven, and skits that my dad and his friend wrote at church.
They created these simple rural characters, Ned and Jed I joined, dressed nerdy with suspenders and say something dumb. What I love most was the audience’s laughter. In high school, I didn’t do well, but I love being there. I was homecoming king for a year book. We listened to where we thought me ten years and I joked playing in the NBA, But that actually happened.
I played for my church in the Nashville Baptist Association, so technically it was the NBA. He then writes about his career. I’ll skip to the comedy part. One day I told a guy at work, another guy we worked with, want to do some ipprofits someplace called Second City in Chicago, and talk to the other guy and we went ipent eight weeks there, and I learned that improv wasn’t a good fit. Instead, I took a stand up class at Jim Rouse’s Comedy College in Chicago for graduation in two thousand and three.
The teacher took us to a bar where we all had our first stand up experience. We did well since the audience knew we were just starting out. My turning point was two thousand and eight when I was booked on Comedy Central Live at Gotham on Conan, and at the Montreal Comedy Festival. My first Netflix special was in twenty seventeen. Today I lived with my wife Laura and our daughter Harper and Nashville.
We moved into our home in twenty fifteen. I loved that it was in a cul de sac with no through traffic. We have a big backyard and lost of space. Inside. We have an open living room, dining areaan kitchen where we all hang out.
You could see everyone at once, so you don’t have to go searching for any family members. Boston Magazine spoke to Dane Cook and asked Dane hay he missed doing film. It’s been a while since you were in a movie. Dane said, I’m gearing up to do one now. It’s first movie I’ve done in probably ten twelve years.
I love comedy. I’m always going to do that, but I love the collaborative process of film. But for the most part, the stuff I was being sent was either really derivative of what I’d already done or just really watered down. I was like, Okay, I could make a million bucks and do the movie, but then my fan’s gonna be like, dude, what the F is this? Dane was asked if voiceover work is the easiest pay day ever.
Dane said, it’s the most convenient payday. I wouldn’t say it’s easy. I was working on planes, and it was especially tricky because I was replacing an actor who had been fired. John Lassiter thought my voice had the boyish whimsy he wanted. The amount of work that went into doing and right and giving those animators what they needed was a lot more work than I thought.
So, yeah, you’re rolling into your pajamas and there’s no hair and makeup. But after that first take, you very quickly start to realize this isn’t just about putting on a cute voice. You gotta land it, and it’s a really really intricate work. Dane Cook, what’s your biggest personal extravagance. Dane said, I turned into a bit of a sneaker head.
Over the past couple of years, podcasting became so in vogue that I realized you can’t go on a podcast with the same sneakers every time. So I started buying a new pair every time, and I think I probably have about two hundred pairs now in my closet. Leanne Morgan told Movie Guide what it’s like to tour with her. She said, I’m always dragging a big suitcase they’re an airport, and then getting in a rental car and going to a theater, going a hotel, putting on a girdle, go to a theater. Do all that just hard on your body and hard on your mind.
Then you got to get there and you want it to be the best for your audience, you know. Then you got to get up so you can be the best and give it everything you got.
And then you try to go to bed and sitting in a hotel room staring at a space.
I don’t want to sound like I’m not grateful, because I’m so grateful, but I think two things can be true at the same time time out. I’ve been using that phrase a lot this past year. Many things can be true at once. People just too often discuss things in absolutes. Yes, Leanne says, you can have this wonderful thing happen, which is everything I’ve ever dreamed of and bigger than I ever dreamed of to be, but it’s so hard.
A partner in Turla sounds like me. When she travels, she says she’s really sensitive to noise, and sometimes at airports and airplanes there’s so much unpredictable noise that sometimes she won’t to have anything playing in her noise canceling headphones. I’ll just put them on to create another layer between me and the world. I do that all the time, she says. I used to have a pair of Bow’s headphones, and those were on their last legs.
I got a new brand going down one of those internet wormholes where it’s just looking for some more eco friendly headphones, and I ended up on some back alley website. The ones I have now don’t even have a logo on them. The Cut asked Caleb Hero, Hey, what’s your favorite holiday movie? Caleb said, a Christmas movie that a lot of people don’t think as of being a Christmas movie. He said, step Mom, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarana and you know it, You’ll sob for three days straight.
It’s one of the saddest movies ever made. It’s so effed up. Julia is Pete nineties Julia. She’s wearing leather jackets like it’s her job, and in many ways it is. She’s wearing a little beret sunglasses, She’s looking Sheikh as hell, and she’s the step mom and Susan Saranda is the real mom.
There’s a Christmas element to it. It makes me sob. It’s one of my mom’s favorite movies. The cut asked him, all right, you’re hopping in an uber. You can bring five celebrities dead or alive.
Who’s coming. That’s a fascinating question. I might have to ponder that question myself, but not right now. He says, I’m gonna go with Natalie Mains, the lead singer of the Chicks. That’s my girl.
I love that band. John Goodman, I love him and everything. And he went to my college, Missouri State shout out go Beers. Back in the day on Roseanne o g fat. John Goodman was so hot and so funny.
Whatsn’t I’m gonna put in there? Frank Ocean, I need to understand what’s going on with him. I love his music. He’s sort of in a where he’s refusing to put any out. I want to be his friend or more if he’s open to it.
Frank, hit me up. All right, I’ve kind of as I was reading that, thought about my list. I should go with the guys from the Macpack. Now, if you’re a new listener, what’s the Macpack? These are my celebrity friends.
When I become a big time celebrity, this is who I’m gonna roll with. It’s a bunch of people. So the original macpacker is Michael Chicklist. John, do you have a man crush on Michael Chicklist? I might, It’s okay.
I met him a couple times in real life. He’s cool. I like the guy. He’s in the Macpack, so he’s in my uber. I think Andy Samberg also in the Macpack, seems like a good time, so we’ll bring him.
That’s two. Now it’s dead or alive? Do I invite like Jim Morrison just to make the trip interesting Carlin, so we can talk comedy and I can be like, hey, George, what do you think of YouTubers? And that’s four? Can I time travel.
Can I bring Peak and White PD Blue? Kim Delaney just, you know, so we could talk about the show. Maybe she’s wearing a turtleneck. I don’t know how this works. It’s Christmas Eve.
Why don’t you shut up? Okay, all right, very Christmas. I’ll be back in the morning on tape. Well, you’re always on tape on it’s a podcast, yes, but definitely on tape tomorrow. See then,