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Caalarogas, shock Media, Hey Aram, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News for Martin Short, he got COVID After SNL fifty Steve Martin says the SNL fiftieth COVID curse is real and you may recall Colin Jost joked about COVID spreading during the party and having all the world’s entertainers in one room. Looks like it happened. On Thursday. Steve Martin said he and Martin Short will have to postpone upcoming shows in Knoxville and Durham after Martin Short got COVID. He included a picture of Martin Short kissing Maya Rudolf backstage and wrote, Maya had COVID, Marty has COVID.
I wonder why the SNL fiftieth COVID curse is real. Steve said, sorry for the inconvenience. I think we’ll be funnier than anyway. Colin Jost had joked on the show. Health experts are facing increased pressure this winter in face of the outbreaks of COVID, the flu, RSV, and nanovirus, which they’re calling a quad demic.
So we did this mort thing and packed every beloved entertainer over sixty in a one tiny space. During that same special, Adam Sandler did his song Remember That One. He alluded to Kanye West during his song. One of the lines in the song fifty years of finding out your favorite musicians anti Semitic. You may recall some of Kanye West’s social media posts this week.
You may also recall Kanye West was selling swastika t shirts on his website. West went on Twitter and posted, Adam Sailor, thank you for the love. After further reflection, I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi. Adam Sandler has yet to respond to Kanye’s post as I record this on TV Tonight, the fifty sixth NAACP Image Awards, Dave Schappelle being honored with the NAACP President’s Award. The President’s Award honors individuals for special achievement and distinguished public service.
Previous recipients include Usher, Dwayne Wade, Lebron Spike, Lee, Lauren Hill, Rihanna. The awards are live tonight on b ET and CBS. He broadcast will highlight efforts to support communities in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Pasadena affected by their recent wildfires. There were some previous awards given out on the NAACP Image Awards YouTube Channel. Awards included Keke Palmer as host of NBC’s Password, Marlon Wayans for his guest performance on Peacock’s belt Ear, and Jamie Fox’s Netflix comedy special What had Happened was USA?
Today? Asked John Oliver, what was it like popping on The Daily Show? I think it’s about two weeks ago now. Sometimes I got a sleep stories. I don’t know if you know this.
SNL turned fifteen and wait a lot to talk about this week. Oliver said, it felt like going through a portal when I first came to this country in two thousand and six. It was amazing and fun, just how seamlessly I felt like a fit in there. I got to walking and thinking, oh, I could be a correspondent again. There’s still so many people that worked there that were there when I was there.
It was almost like I lost a decade in my life. Was like I never left. It’s a nicer office now physically, that’s the main difference. So was he actually there? The clips I saw I thought he was on a screen.
John talked about current times and said sometimes you can feel better just by reminding herself that things have technically been worse. It’s not the most uplifting message. I’m not sure I’ve ever said anything that sounds more British. That’s a British kind of optimism. Remember, things have been worse.
They’re not good now, but they have been worse. It’s like the British version of a sports coaches speech to a team. Yes you’re losing seven nil, but you could be losing by twenty. Now get out there and do your best. At least you know it’s built on something real.
Friday did a big story with Mindy Kaling and Mindy, you were twenty four when you joined the office. What does that stage of your career mean to you now? Mindy said, As I get older, I realized how lucky I was with that job. Was my first job of doing off Off Broadway theater. I wasn’t in the WGA, I didn’t have health insurance, so there was just the basic needs that needed to be met that would have thrilled me.
But then the idea that I would work on the show for eight years and do this intensive deep dive and comedy writing and comedy acting and being around Steve Carell, Greg Daniels, BJ Novak and Mike Sure just learn from them for so many years. My bar was so low at that time. That just really feels like such incredible luck was learning how to write and act with really wonderful people that I’m so friends with. It completely set up my career. What’s so great about The Office is that it includes those people, but it also is a very different fan base in terms of who’s coming up to me the aar.
A fifteen year old boy will be like, Hey, it’s Kelly from the Office. They just love the show and it’s so pure. Back in twenty ten, Russell Peters was developing a sitcom with NBC. The La Times asked him, Hey, what happened there? Russell said, the industry never really understood me.
I think they saw that I was successful, so they’re like, oh, we need to get on top of that so we can make money too. I was the first Indian comedian that big, and they wanted me to have that American Indian experience. But the Indians in the United States are the wealthiest minority in the country, and in Canada, Indians do well. But growing up we were all blue collars. So I can’t relate to these people where it’s your dad’s a lawyer, your mom’s a doctor, and you live in the scated community.
Where’s the struggle, where’s the empathy. The industry’s changed in the past fifteen years, but it still has a way of viewing things. They still try to make me be more Indians. Say you’ve got to have the accent. I don’t have an accent.
If I do an accent, it’s not going to make sense. There’s a billion and a half people you can go pick with an accent. Why you need me to fake it. I was just up for roll in a sitcom. I’d signed a contract to be the husband, but I’ve got a call saying they’re going another way because they want the guy to be more beta.
And they said I was too alpha, and that guy was going to do the accent too. They always want you to be the weaker mind. I boxed, I do jiu jitsu. I’m an alpha. I baited myself down for the role, but they wanted somebody more beta and more Indian.
It’s not gonna be me. I’ve been in this too long to have nights where I go to bed regret something. I can’t sell out this late in the game. I’ve got kids now, They’re gonna see my choices. A lot of these guys, when they get into the corporate world, their nest egg becomes so solid that their fear of losing that supersedes them being sharper on stage.
Did I make a lot of money? I did. Did I lose a lot of money? Absolutely, And I’m back to being a regular guy again. You know what I mean.
When life hits you, you say, I’m not in pervious to life. The only times was curious how he lost all that. He said, I’m not broke, but I’m not living that high life I was living ten years ago. I did dumb things. I would buy things I didn’t need.
I would take private jets when I didn’t need to because I could.
And then the pandemic kicked me right in my nuts and told me who I was.
But I’ve always been a people person. I’ll do the same regular things I would have done if I hadn’t made it. I still go to waffle House and went there yesterday. I had Jimmy John’s for breakfast today. I can certainly do the nicer things in life, but I just need something to need for breakfast.
I need a coffee. Neither here nor there. I saw a headline comedy legend Jim Jeffries to son of a Carpenter tour to local area. Blah blah blah, comedy legend Jim Jeffries. Can we tap the breaks a little?
Please? Not everyone as a legend? Jim Jeffries is really funny. I’ve seen him live. He’s great, seems like a cool dude.
Is he a legend? How far down the list is the legends list? Now? How about way above average hilarious comedian Jim Jeffries. That’s fair, but legend?
Tap the breaks? Everyone? Jury Duty is coming back? Remember that show? Season one of that was a lot of fun.
They’re gonna attempt a season two. Sources report that Jury Duty’s second season will not be a jury but will be in a corporate retreat setting. Apparently it’s already been filmed. Are you in La tonight? So whyted you to check out?
The Chinese is the stand up comedy scene. Lewis Liu is the producer of the stand up comedy series re Educated, a series of Chinese stand up shows and open mics in La where roast, heckling, jokes that land and those that don’t are all part of the experience, just like they would be in English. Lou said, a bunch of his clients want to do comedy Chinese, but there weren’t any opportunity, so he put together his own show and said, because we had food, people showed up. Some people probably showed up for the comedians. In March of twenty four, they had their first ticketed stand up show at one hundred and forty seat Comedy Club.
The first half of the sold out performance was in English, the second Chinese. It was bilingual because there weren’t enough Chinese comics around. Lou said, after our first show, our comedians were telling Lewis, it’s great that we have a show, but we’re running out of material. So they asked him to add free open mics of the programming because having a small live audience really helps them test out the material. He explained the approach when you come to a new country, you learn about the new things in the new world.
You essentially get re educated. Le Ting Chin is a comedian who explained we feel like when we speak different languages like Chinese in English, we switch our personality. We become another person that’s interesting. Right anyway, If you’re around tonight, re Educated comedy, English stand up from seven to nine, Chinese stand up from nine to eleven at the Happy Humble Hub. Ticket start at twenty eight fifty two.
That’s your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it. Trying to get even more people to listen. I’m not scraping here. We’ve been having a really good twenty twenty five.
But I like doing the show, and the more people that listen to it makes me happy.