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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Shonny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ope you had a good Christmas. Crack dot com did a really fantastic interview with Anthony Jessenick, and they are curious about the character he portrays on stage and asked him does the character have a backstory. Jess Nic said, I have no backstory villain.
I love. We don’t know what’s happening here, We don’t know what their problem is. My character was like the Devil’s Son, where there’s no motivation other than just being evil. I don’t want to get into here’s my upbringing. If I had a better babysitter, and maybe I wouldn’t be like this.
I wanted none of that because that stuff always sucks. You don’t know why I’m like this. You don’t have to know, and I love that. I’m very interested in villains and what makes someone a good villain. A lack of an origin story is always preferable to me.
Yeah. Remember, I was a Trevor Batman movie, Dark Knight. Is it just called the Dark Knight? The second one where the Joker tells a different origin story every time? Fascinating jess Nick said, every New Hour, I can resurrect everyone.
The mom dies in the last bushl she’s back alive. Now I’ve got five brothers and sisters, and now I’ve got one. Now I’m an only child. The audience doesn’t care. They recognize me, but they’re just in it for the story.
It doesn’t really matter what’s true and what’s not. And I don’t write a whole New Hour until the special hits because I don’t want any of that old stuff in my head. I don’t want to think about the grandma killed or the grandma who’s still alive. Let’s just go from scratch and do it that way. Cracked again doing a great job, asked him, are there any parts of you that are actually hidden in the jokes?
Or are we hearing about your personal life? J just nug said not at all. Really. Maybe in terms of my morality, I think you can probably get a sense of what I think about the trans issue. I think you get a sense of what I think about pro choice or pro life.
I think you can get a sense of what I think about cancel culture. But otherwise, now it’s not like I feel like I need to hide something. If you listen to my podcast, you get all that stuff. So there are fans at different levels. Oh I want to know him.
I have people come up after the show and they’re like, can I meet Anthony, And my tour manager will say, sorry, he doesn’t meet people, and they’re like, oh, yeah, I know he hates people, and they’ll walk off. And I kind of got in the reputation of my fans that if they’re a good fan, they want to leave me alone. They’ll come by and say, hey, that was really funny. I don’t want to bother you. If you want my personal life, you can find that through the podcast.
But I think personal stories on stage and stand up for boring. Unless you have some amazing story, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t think a lot of it becomes the same, and my stories would be the same. I’m not special. I’d rather have something more creative on stage.
Follow up from Cracked, You’re never tempted to get more personal as you get older. Oh, I’m tempted because it’s so much easier. I try it, and I get sick of the story. I’m just like, you know what, it is easier. I’m meeting up ten minutes, But why I didn’t only not tell stories in the beginning because I didn’t have much to talk about.
It is because I was bored telling the same story. Another good follow up, Will you’d toured this material for two years, What are these jokes never get boring? I gotta think it’s because they’re short. The jokes are very short, and the payoff, it’s not just the payoff for the audience, it’s to pay off for me. I like those laughs.
I like those bursts of energy. If I’m telling a story. It’s not like I’m bombing, but it’s just that there’s five minutes without a laugh, I start to feel anxious, and I don’t like feeling anxious. I don’t want that. I want to have those hits, which is why the stories that I do have are just joke joke, joke, joke joke, because I don’t want to have that explanation period.
And even if the audience is locked in on a long story, we love this and we’re just focused on you, I’m not comfortable. I’d rather have the laughs. Maybe at some point I come up with a story that I enjoy enough that I’ll be like that, but I’ve tried it. I understand why people want it from me, but I also understand why it’s better that I don’t do it. There’s plenty of people who do.
Texas Standards spoke to shang Wang, one of my faves. He said, as a toddler, I had a reputation for slamming my head into the ground when things didn’t go my way. I think that explains everything up until now. I’m originally from Texas. I grew up in Houston.
I went to the same middle school as Beyonce. That’s crazy, right, Beyonce alone is pretty big deal. But then you find out Shang Wang also came from the same part of town. It’s like, Wow, that’s a lot of talent. Most have been something in the water y’all.
The Standard asked what his parents think of his success, and he said, I think they’re proud of me. I’m really grateful. Follow up, they haven’t told you not in so many words. You know, Asian American parents or Asian parents tend to be pretty stoic when it comes to expressing affection or things of that nature. But I don’t know.
I’m grateful for my parents. I know they’re very loving folks. I feel like my folks are very much hands off in a way that was like, as long as you’re not getting into trouble and you’re doing well in school, you can do whatever you want. They weren’t against me doing what I wanted to do. They would sometimes my mom especially suggest alternatives to stand up That is sort of related.
She’s like, if you want to be on TV, maybe be a news reporter or something. You know. I guess she was inspired by Connie Chung. But yeah, they were pretty hands off and not pushing one way or the other. Jim Gaffian spoke to The La Times about touring with Jerry Seinfeld and said, I never had an expectation that that would happen.
Jerry has a very clear and concisive view and philosophy on stand up comedy. Then when you talk to him, you feel like you’re talking in Aristotle. He’s kind of like a stoic who reminds you to have control of your material. You don’t get caught up in the trend of the moment. You work on evolving your act in your writing.
Jay Leno and Adam Carolla are doing a comedy Fantasy camp. In January. Jay was asked about stand up comedy being Ai prove Jay said, you know, it’s the one form of entertainment that’s not changed, with the exception of the invention of the microphone. It’s been the same since the thirteenth century. You stand in the town square, you just yell and say things, or do physical comedy, juggle or do something.
But it really hasn’t changed at all. And I find a lot more made of political correctness. Funny’s funny, you know, if you have something you know. Nikki Glaser is a good example. Couldn’t be filthier but hilarious, and the stuff is so funny you have to laugh.
She was the best that that Tom Brady roast. Everybody else was just using obscenities. I’m thinking, I’m getting bored of this, and then she came out and I laughed really out loud. It was really really good jokes. So that’s the case of if you’re funny, all bets are off.
Eleno and Corolla were asked about a comedy renaissance. Corola said, we’re there, Leno said, A young comic said to me and Seinfeld, you guys are lucky you started when comedy was easy. It wasn’t easy. It’s always been exactly the same. Here’s how old I am.
You remember cabaret cards, Corola says, No, Leno says, in New York that’s how they got Lenny Bruce. You had a license to perform in New York City. If you’re on stage and you say the F word or something, a cop can come up and tear up your license, and boom, you don’t work. When the Warren Cord came out in sixty eight or sixty nine, boy Jay is old, all that went out the windows. Suddenly, pornography was legal, comedy was interpretive, but all that was against the law.
If you said obscenity, a cop would put the cuffs on you and take you to jail. And people think, oh, it’s so terrible now, it was way worse back then. The thing is now is actually better for comics because music is expensive to do. You have teams to load in, load out, put up a stage, set up the sound system. A comedian.
You just show up, Corolla said, every time I play a theater and see the posters like Santana was here eight years ago in the percussion section is fourteen dudes, and you look at it and you go, well, I just sold out a show and they sold out a show. How is this working here? The thing that’s funny, though, is that the theater wants to know if you want to come by that afternoon for a mic check, like you’re in Santana new topic, Leno said. People say to me, oh, I bet you wish you were doing the Tonight Show when Trump was president. No, I don’t, because when you really don’t like a guy, it’s worse.
I had a fondness for Bush. He then pantomimed set up for a joke. I don’t think President Bush quite understands and people would giggle him laugh. But if I really hate it him, I mean, you see how polarizing it gets. Now.
I sort of blamed Trump for all that because at the Tonight Show we used to make fun of both sides, and people couldn’t really figure out your politics, so you got the whole audience. Now you either get the Trump people like Gutfeld, or you get the anti Trump people like Kimmel, which to me, I’ll take everybody’s money, thank you. I play both crowds. Brandy Denise is one of vultures and comedians you should and will know, Vulture asked at Brandy Denise, how you’ve ended up becoming a comedian, Brandy said, gering up, I discovered some of Adam Sandler’s old comedy songs, Randy said, I never knew I was listening to a form of comedy, but I love them. Yeah.
Right, she’s saying it right there. She was listening to it and not realizing it was comedy because they’re terrible. I remember after that, I kept a notebook where I began to write my own comedy parodies. I think it was then when I first began my journey with enjoying being funny. Whose career would you like to follow?
Want of psychs. She’s had her own TV shows, she’s hosted, she pushed us out banging specials. And Adam Sandler he does what he wants. He’s transitioned from comedy to drama effortlessly and works with his friends. That’s the goal with my people.
Johnny Mack does like dramatic actor Adam Sandler. I’ve said that before. He’s not funny at all, but he’s a decent traumatic actor and he should just give up comedy and just do dramatic movies. In my opinion, biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since being a comedian, being broke is easy, but making a nice six figures for the first time after being broke for so long as a learning curve. I learned how to spend money quickly, but after that I realized investing in saving are just as important and you start making money.
Some years are better than others, but as long as you learn to budget early, you should be good. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice. Best, you’re already fun. Make sure your spirit is right and you know yourself, and stay grounded. Worst.
A lame ass stool banging comic in Atlanta told me not to move to LA because it wasn’t ready. Well, i’d say his name, but you’ve never heard of him. Like I said, can’t rock this boat, baby, I do what I want. It’s tattooed on the back of my neck, and I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible. And that is your comedy news for today.
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