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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Bill Burr on his new special Roy Wood about how much he curses or not and win look at Nikki Glaser and plastic surgery. I’m not out to be caddy. I just found an interesting article.
And Pete Davidson updates us on the Staten Island Ferry My Words fiasco. We’ll find out what’s going on with that. I’ll talk about Dave Shabelle hosting SNL tomorrow. You don’t think I stayed up to two in the morning recording this podcast, did you? Bill Burr caught up with Variety.
His upcoming special for Hulu is called Drop Dead Years, filmed in Seattle. Fridy was curious how Burr picks a city burst it if I’ve done one there before, how much I love a city. If I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback for the crowd when you’re filming a statup special, this camera’s there as people tend to be a little more agreeable. I need that push pull thing to happen. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber.
I’d rather have it more hostile than agreeable? Faridy, Have you found that hostility more than liberal cities? Nah, Because I adjust my ahal vibe to whatever state I’m in. If I’m in a conservative place, I’ll go more liberal. If I’m a liberal place, I’ll go more conservatives.
It’s like trying to make it over medium egg. You know, there’s an art to it. They were curious about how Burr workshops his material. I don’t like it if I say something, everybody goes yeah, it’s one side. Everything is sized now, So I always make sure if once I gets too excited, I’m agreeing with them, not a trash them, or maybe I trash myself.
Political views is something you don’t want to ram down people’s throats. So I go over the double line a lot. Sometimes I’m here and sometimes I’m over there, depends on what you’re talking about. I like this one in the upcoming special very minor spoiler, You’ll be fine here. Bert makes fun of the audience for clapping aka Cleaptor.
As Burr tells it, I say I’ve been married for eleven years, and the audience goes woo. It’s like I get a had or chain or a radiator, What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect.
And also I don’t like that sound.
I’d rather say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t know what to do with that. But if you tell me, hey, a hole, you’re pretty funny tonight, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, hey man, life goes by fast, and I really wanted to make sure that they took the time. I’m like, oh God, please stop talking.
It’s creeped me out. Bild you ever still bum? I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully. I’m like an old fire and knows how to take a punch. So I still lose a fight, but I don’t get knocked out.
Composure. You have to maintain control even when you’re bombing, and you have to make fun of yourself. Last week I had a benefit on Tuesday. I’m not sure if this was the Tuesday last week. During the fires of the week before, so I was working out my set at the comedy store.
I had no seguys. I was out up to the fact that my act wasn’t there yet. There’s a reason they’re coming to see me in the original room on Sunday night. But people come to see you on those nights. They’re very forgiving.
They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching some of these seen do well struggle a little bit. Brody was curious if the comedy story is Burr’s a favorite place to workshop new material. It’s one of my favorite places. I also like a lot of the satellite rooms. The younger comics are running young comics.
He’ll be young, you’re still old, but you know how to act your age comedically around them, if that makes sense. If you perform to your generation, only you grow old with them. The comics that I love growing up. Never stop going to the gym, which is going down the comedy club and get in front of twenty somethings despite the fact that you’re in like your fifties. Like me, I learned how to get your fifty something your old ideas over to them.
If you get down there in your fifties and try to act twenty and that’s gonna be a train wreck. You gotta understand you’re like their funny older relative. It’s like my uncle saying stuff again. As for the special BurrH confronts his mortality. Bill, do you think about death a lot?
It’s a reality, It’s not a fixation or even a fear. If you’re comedian. To get to my age, you’re gonna have lost a lot of friends, unfortunately, and I have, and I missed them. Sometimes late night I put the kids to bend, I can’t go to sleep, and I think about them, and I get said, but I’ll look at death is something to be feared. I don’t think there’s this angry, invisible guy that’s gonna be upset.
Was the time to watch the tapes of my life Variety? This special struck me as your most vulnerable material yet Burr. Then Christ you saw that I’m a recovering meathead and I’m doing the best I can. It’s nice to hear some of my works being noticed follow them. Is it something you’ve intentionally baked in your work or do you think it’s a natural result of getting older both.
I don’t want to be up there just pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows, I was guilty of that early in my career, but that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you realize that you’re bringing home some of the problems at the table, and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way you do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living in a positive way or a negative way really makes you confront your flaws.
God knows, I have a lot of them, a lot of those things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. It was my issue of not understanding myself. Good follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever?
Nah? Not at all. I love when people bring that up, because then I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years they get offended. You’re scatting around to it.
Now. That sort of crap is happen in to comics that I grew up watching. They did these jokes and generally everybody laughed, and the needle moves twenty years later and the same people laughed act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets frozen at time. All the comedian has showing he was where society was at this time.
They feel like because they call out a comedian and made a joke twenty or thirty years ago, and they’re now an ally and they are appeased of all their wrongdoings in society. So much of that stuff’s cringeworthy. You’re gonna make your Instagram page dark for one day, So give me on the right side of history. That’s all took. You didn’t even have to leave your house.
Good stuff. We’ll pick it that some more tomorrow, all right. So this next one I saw and a clicked on it just as a civilian, and I saw that Life and Style mag had boasted has Nikki Glaser at plastic surgery photos of the comedian’s transformation through the years, and I was like, all right, I’m not gonna do that on the podcast. That’s just being cat. But then as I read it, I thought it was pretty interesting.
Nicky said on CBS Sunday Morning in December. So for January twenty twenty five, I was going to possibly have like a brow lift or some kind of really invasive surgery that I’ve been you know, looking at a getting. My agents were like, so this operation, is there any way you could push it till maybe the second week in January. The article pulls out some previous quotes. In twenty seventeen, Nicky tweeted, I know I’m too young for it, but I’ve had tons of plastic surgery on my face.
Not to look younger, are prettier, but to look von trappier. They have a photo of Nicki in twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen, and I believe her tweet at no pun face value. In twenty nineteen, Nicki told Howard Stern that she planned to get plastic surgery someday, face stuff, in particular, quoting NICKI, here, everyone who’s face you like, every celebrity you’re like, they’re naturally beautiful. They’ve all had stuff done, so just little things here and there. I think I might get my lips done next week.
The lip thing you do, and it’s not permanent, just a little plump. Howard tried to convince her not to do it, telling Nicky should look like clown. Nicky said, I’m canceling my appointment. Thank you. That’s all he needed to hear.
According to Life and Style, Nicki had some work done on her vocal cords in twenty twenty two. She wrote on Instagram basically my voice is fried and I’m having her repaired. I’m so excited about this. It’s not going to be painful and it’s going to change my life. The only bummers that recovery from this operation meeans I won’t be able to speak for three to five weeks, not a word, and so unfortunately I have to move some September October stand updates in twenty twenty three.
Thank you for understanding. Talk to you then. Wow. Imagine not being able to speak for three to five weeks. Yikes.
And then during the Golden Globes she did some jokes about plastic surgery. One of them, I love where you put your chick bones. I too, drink a lot of water. I don’t judge. I do it now too.
That apparently a hint at her own experience with getting cheek filler, So who knows, just thought it was an interesting read. The Wall Street Journal asked Pete Davidson what his most prized possession is. Pete said, I have a pair of my dad’s shoes from when he worked in the firehouses, boots. That’s always gonna be my favorite thing. But the coolest thing I have that’s not family oriented is two handwritten letters that Johnny Cash wrote really the week I share that Pete Treasure’s a letter he has from his father that really stuck with me all week.
And I’m thinking of writing my children letters on their birthday this year, and maybe it might not mean a lot to them in twenty twenty five, but it might mean a lot to them in twenty I don’t know. Seventy five, of course, will be one hundred and six years old that you’re still hosting this podcast. I’m on a mission to live to be one hundred and nine. First of all, I attended the bi Centennial as a boy, and then I learned about the tri Centennial. So I’ve always had it to be my life goal to attend the Trice Centennial July fourth, twenty seventy six.
You know, a bit of a stretch, shout, I have to get to one hundred and something. But then I found out if I don’t move, I stay right here in this very basement. In when I’ll be one hundred and nine years old, there’s going to be a total solar eclipse right over my house. All I have to do is go out into the backyard. So remember the final episode of Lost, where Jack is just lying there and kind of fades out.
That’s what I want to do. I want to make the solar eclipse at age one hundred and nine, lay down in my yard, watch the solar eclipse, and then all right. I had a good run.
And then you know, I guess you guys will get two or three more podcasts that …
Who knows, maybe I’ll pretape some stuff. The Churnal asked Pete Davidson. You and John Mulaney recently reunited in an SNL sketch. You guys had a moving scene together in bup gis. What have you learned from John Mulaney?
Pete said, he’s shown me how to preserve I always looked up to him. He’s not only one of the funniest people working right now, he’s a top ten comedian of all time. Should I parse that now, I’d have to sit and make a list. But he’s just not right. I mean, he’s just not I’m not saying bad, but I don’t think he’s top ten all time.
And again, defined comedian, are we putting Lucille Ball, Bob Hope? And I don’t know Richard pryor in the same bucket, or they do different things. If we look at pure stand up. See now I want to do this. I’m so distracted.
Okay, let me pull up a list of somebody else’s list of the top comedians of all time and see if we can get to ten. All right, just so I have a list to work off. Rolling Stone’s at fifty best, right down to the bottom. I’m gonna get all distracted here. Richard Priory yup, George Carlin yep, Lenny Bruce at number three, c K pre canceled, Seek’s probably better than Mlanie’s still, Chris Rock, Joan Rivers.
Joan Rivers is better than Milanie Seinfeld clearly better than Mlanie. Bill Cosby, despite other parts of his resume, if we just look at him as a stand up, better than Melanie Chapelle. I’m down here. They got seventeen, Bill Hardy teen, Kevin Hart nineteen, Albert Brooks Newhart, Eddie Murphy for two albums, Rodney huh, I’m all the way down in the fifties. Now, I’m not sure I’ve named ten comedians better than John Mullanie.
Is John Mulaney in the top ten? Now? He can’t be right. Okay, that’s a topic for the Facebook group, a Daily Comedy News podcast group. I will post that and schedule it.
Where were we? Pete Davidson was saying, Mlanie’s a top ten comedian of all time. And I watched him as he took it on the chin a couple years ago and had to completely revamp his life. I’m kind of in the midst of that right now, and he’s been helping me so much. It was so inspiring to watch him beat his addiction, become an even bigger comedian, going on an arena tours, start a family.
He’s so happy now and it looks effortless, but it’s not. And I gotta say he’s always had my back and he’s always there. Not a lot of people are for me, I’d say it’s just him. Louren Michaels and Machine Gun Kelly Pete, you recently said that you made three thousand dollars an episode during SNL went viral. Pete said it was pretty humiliating that it went viral.
I mean, I hate Today’s World because it was a shoot for SNL and thirty other people answered something and it wasn’t planned. I was just walking into my dressing room and someone threw a camera in my face and was like, watch you buy with your first paycheck? And I was like, yeah, we don’t get paid a lot. I wasn’t really thinking of it.
And then I woke up to a bleeping s show.
Nobody was mad or anything. But that’s not what I want out there. I’d rather it be a trailer for a movie or here’s what I’m working on the last year. So I kind of laid low. I don’t go out, I don’t do anything.
I’m just trying to make it all about the work. The journal asked about the Staten Island Ferry. One’s it gonna be up and running? Pete said, we do have believe it or not in him death plan. Every day I get asked about this bleeping boat, and we’re raising the funds.
We’re gonna do a floorid to Tome. There’s a full plan in motion, and meanwhile people are renting it out. All right, We’re unexpectedly long here on a Sunday because I went off on the Mulaniy top ten. I still don’t all hope prior Carlyn, this is not in any particular order. That’s three Seinfeld, Joan Rivers is five, Chris Rock.
Let me ask you a question. Is Nate Brighetzi better than John Mulani right now? Yes? So? Is Nate Brighetzy in the top ten of all time?
Oh my god, don’t open this can of worms. John, that’s holiday filler. We just did sixteen pre tape shows. Save this for a holiday weekend when you don’t want to work on Sunday. Okay, I’ll save it.
Roy Wood Junior talked about his philosophy of using the N word and curse words and jokes. Roy said, I try to use it in scenarios if I’m impersonating the person who would have said it, or if it’s a feeling of exasperation. So I’m not just gonna say frickin’ or gosh, drn That just for me doesn’t work. I’ve resigned myself to the truth, though, that certain words are gonna nail the chalkboard. Certain people don’t like those words, and if that’s the case, then I’m not sure if everything I do is going to be for you, that’s fine when done properly.
A comedy booker told me ages ago. This was the late nineties. She said, profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. So I curse way more when I’m first starting a joke, and a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words because h words like you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it’s polished. It’s night and day, and so you have all these curse words and they’re scaffolding, and then you slowly start taking the sport beams away to see that whether or not the joke is really funny.
Roy says, you have to stay grounded. You have to know what regular people are going through. You can’t do that by living in an uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You do anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving.
So you have to be immersed in that. You have to be yourself in that a little bit. So, yeah, take the train. Talk to regular people. That’s the one thing I always loved about the Daily Show was the conversation with people.
It’s the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything. It’s talking to strangers every day. I got to talk to anywhere from eight to ten regular people just going on about their life, and you understand their concerns and what they’re going through. And that becomes the things that I could take and put on Star because now you have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection. I had a bump a few things to tomorrow before we go, let me tell you that Lauren Michaels has donated a collection of his work on SNL and more to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
The collection spans fifty years, includes rehearsal notes for SNL, sketches, annotated scripts, personal correspondence, and more. The archive covers Lauren’s early writing on shows like Laughin and The Phyllis Diller Show, as well as on shows like Kids in the Hall and movies like Wayne’s World. A special exhibition Live from New York, The Making of Lauren Michaels, will be on display at the Center from September twentieth through March fifteenth of twenty twenty six. And that is your comedy news for today. If you missed yesterday’s interview with Larry the Cable Guy interviews, not the right word we had a conversation.
He was fantastic. Please go back and check out Larry the Cable Guy in Saturday’s episode. Tomorrow big inauguration, So we’ll talk about that a little bit, but we’ll keep it light. We’ll do normal Daily Comedy News, and I’ll talk about Chappelle on Saturday Night Live. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, hopefully they’ll like it too.
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