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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mag with a very busy Daily Comedy News. Bill Burr’s new specialize out today. But let’s talk about John Mulaney. Oh boy, where it has start.
I’m trying not to come out of the box super negative, but I made it ten minutes in. Can we all agree it wasn’t great. I know I’m gonna be swimming uphill here. I know people are gonna be like, John Mulaney’s wonderful. But was it?
I was on social media during the show and people were not saying awesome things. It was fine, and I think it really illustrates the first series, the Everybody’s in La series. When you do it in the middle of the Netflix comedy special and you can have Jerry Seinfeld sitting on the couch for whatever else is going on, or you know, somebody of that ILK comes by, it makes the show a lot easier. I felt it was like I compared it to a baseball game where you’re watching the first inning and You’re like, oh, Pictcher doesn’t have his best fastball today, and I’m like, Mulani does not have his fastball tonight. I feel like he got by on He’s John Mulaney.
Now, I’ve been in media for thirty years. Everybody’s first show if you want to call this the first show or the seventh show, whatever. But you know, things get better over time. So I’m not kicking a can and going cansel this thing. It’s terrible, but it wasn’t great.
I went through the reviews. I feel like most of the reviews were two thirds written before the show even aired, comparing it to the LA series, and then they like filled in, oh yeah, and Joan Bayaz said something, I feel like, you know, because this thing was at ten Eastern and a lot of the meetings on the East Coast, myself included, so I feel like they were written early. I mentioned it’s a lot of easier when you have Jerry sitting there, and The New York Times wrote how or the guests their answer. Mlanie’s format can lead to awkwardness among the panelists if the conversation doesn’t flow freely at first. That seemed to be the case with Michael Keaton telling a meandering story about going to Benny Hannah.
Joan bias is anecdote about the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King telling dirty jokes was much more entertaining, though she wouldn’t repeat any of them. Men’s Health had the headline. People are roasting John Malini’s new Netflix show as cringe and boring, One user wrote on Twitter, John Mulaney is one of, if not the funniest comedians, and yet somehow as Netflix talk show sucks. Another user said it’s extraordinary boring. Most of the pickup went to Joan Baiaz.
She said to John Mulaney, you could say I could say anything I want out here. We’re all here to be silly enough fun and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames, we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires. She didn’t mention the billionaires by name, but people had some good guesses. Joan said she once owned a Tesla and said, I hated that thing. I thought I was supposed to like it, so I drove off in it.
Within forty five minutes, I smashed it into an oak tree on my property. I was thinking, that’s a sign. So in my opinion, and it might be an unpopular opinion. Rough start for John Mulaney. Bill Burr is on Hilarious Tonight, Hi Hulu publicists.
How you guys doing it is called drop dead years. I’ve talked about the week. You’ve probably seeing the PR campaign for establishment Bill Burr. So we’ll see what the special brings. Are we going to get quote the old Bill Burr or is there some new version.
We’ll find out. Today Bill did a notable interview on the Fresh Air NPR show. It’s out as a podcast. I haven’t had a chance to put ears on a yet. I’m so behind in my listening.
This is what happens because it gets cold. When it’s warm, I go out and I’ll like run for an hour and I listen to things at two point two speed, so I can get through a lot of stuff. Plus I have to walk up the hill to get home, and you know, winds up being an hour and a half and get through a lot of pods. But my kids are grown now. I’m not sitting in the parking lot at soccer practice, and I’m not driving two hours to tournament, so I have to get my listening in anyway.
You don’t care about that, Bill Burr said, I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize that it’s a select few group of nerds eating raw amends, doing their stupid workouts, competing with each other to have the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down? Is Bill making it sound like he has a part time job? Hold on, I want to know where Bill Burr lives. Google. I don’t know where Bill Burr lives right now, but I found an article from twenty eighteen December thirty first twenty eighteen Variety with the headline stand up comedian Bill Burr sells Mediterranean Via in Los Felice.
Bill purchased the property in twenty eleven for one point zero eight million. The nineteen twenty three Mediterranean Via offers three and potentially four bedrooms and three vintage bathrooms in twenty six hundred plus square feet. This article does not mention a pool. It also tells us though Ber maintains a modest, one bedroom and one bathroom co op on a high floor of a well maintained but otherwise unremarkable, one hundred plus year old, low rise red brick building a couple blocks west of the northern terminus of Times Square. So he does have a one bedroom above a badega in New York.
That’s what. Maybe I don’t know. Maybe that’s just where he’s living, in a one bedroom apartment in New York City on the West Side.
Also back in twenty eighteen, a variety reported that they had bought a place…
It’s unclear if that place has a pool. I have totally digressed. But you know, Bill saying, we’re competing with each other after the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down. Bill, you’re not part of the rest of us. I’m sorry, dude, you’re just not.
You were, but you’re not. Congratulations you were successful. It’s okay. I’m trying to be successful. I’m going to get a big house with an infinity pool.
With his podcast takes off, I’m gonna have three places in LA. I’m not hating on you. I’m just saying, let’s not act like you’re just scraping by Bill. As the rest of us are getting pushed down, they politicize the whole stupid thing, and we’re falling for it. I guess he’s saying he’s not a multi billionaire, and I like Bill Burr, I don’t want to sound like hating on Bilberr a lot of press this week.
Burr found an easy target in Elon Musk. He said, I just refuse to believe that his hand salute was an accidental two times see Kyle and he does it at a presidential inauguration. This is why I hate liberals. Liberals have no teeth whatsoever. They just go, oh my god, you believe this.
I’m getting out of the country. And he said that. I think before Rosy o’donna left the country. I’m not even gonna talk about that one. I was like, you’re just gonna leave the country because one guy with diet hair plugs and a laminade face, who makes a bad car and as an obsolete social media platform, Why does an e leave?
Why are we so afraid of this guy can’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Variety was curious why Bill filmed Dropped Dead Years in Seattle. Bill said, if I’ve done a show there before in a city, how much I love a city, and I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback from the crowd when you’re filming a standup special there’s cameras there, so people tend to be a little more agreeable, and 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.
Variety asked, have you found that hostility more in liberal cities? Burn No, because I adjust my a whole vibe to whatever kind of STATEUM in. If I’m in a conservative place, I go more liberal. If I’m in a liberal place, I’ll go more conservative. It’s like trying to make an over medium Meg.
You know there’s an art to it. I don’t like it if I say something everybody goes yeah. It’s one side. Everything asides now, So I have to make sure if one side gets too excited that I’m agreeing with them, that I trash them, or maybe I trash myself. Political views is something you don’t ram down people’s throats, and I go over that double line a lot.
Sometimes I’m here, sometimes I’m over there. It depends what you’re talking about. He talked about clapped spoiler for the special, Okay, minor spoiler, it’s not going to ruin the special. At one point, Bill says, I’ve been married for eleven years and the audience goes whoo. Bill says, it’s like I could a chain her or a radiator.
What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect. And I also don’t like that sound. I’d rather you say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t what to do with that.
But if you tell me, hey, ahole, you’re a pretty funny to night, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, huh, life goes by so fast and I really want to make sure at the time, I’m like, oh God, stop talking like that. It’s creeped me out. Here’s a question that’s been coming up a lot lately with the established comedians. I’m not hating on the question.
It’s a good question. It’s an interesting question. Bill. Do you ever still bomb? Ber said, I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully.
I’m like an old fighter that knows how to take a punch, so I still lose the fight, but I don’t get knocked out. The key to bombing gracefully 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, so I was working out my set at the Comedy Store, and I had no segues. I was owning 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 out to see on those nights. They’re very forgiving. They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching somebody they’ve seen do well struggle a little bit. Bill says the store is one of his favorite places to work out new material.
I also like a lot of the satellite rooms that the younger comics are running. Young comics keep you young. You’re still old being not at 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 to the comedy club and getting in front of twenty somethings despite the fact they’re in your fifties like me, and learning how to get your fifty something year old ideas over to them.
If you go down there in your fifties and try to act twenty that’s going to be a train wreck. You got to understand that you’re like, they’re funny, old or relative. That’s my uncle saying dumb stuff. Again. They asked about the evolution of burrs act.
I don’t want to just be up there 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 everything.
As you get older, hopefully you realize that you bring some of the problems to the table and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way to do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living with in a positive way or negative way really makes you confront your flaws. God knows, I have a bunch of them, a lot of things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. This was my issue of not understanding myself.
Good fun follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever? Nah? Not at all, I though when people bring that up, because I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years to get offended.
You’re just s getting around to it now. The sort of crap happened to comics. I grew up watching They did these jokes, and generally everybody laughed. Then the natal moves twenty years later, and the same people laughed at it, act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets herosent a time.
All the comedian is showing you is where society was at the time. Hollywood in Toto asked what on earth happened to Bill Burr Subetter. The Boston Natives counterculture jokes helped pave the way to superstart him. He wasn’t conservative by any means, but his willingness to call out woke’s insiduous tentacles set them apart from the comedy mainstream. Is twenty nineteen Netflix special paper Tiger confirmed it he was part of a rebel comedy movement, alongside Tim Dillon, Shing Gillis, Theovughn, Tyler, Fisher, Chrissy Maher and Moore.
Earlier this year, Burd took a stupefying position on the California wildfires. More recently, Burd lasted billionaires in the most ignorant manner possible. They cite the line where Burr said, these effing billionaires they need to be put down like effing at rabb dogs. Total rights comedy works best. One is a kernel of truth at the center.
Where’s the truth in burs rant? For what it’s worth, the capitalistic system that yields those evil billionaires has been pretty good to Burr. They get into Burr’s comments on Luigi Burr’s comments on elon Total Rights burst taking a heart left turn, No doubt that’s his prerogative. The problem is twofold, the country’s fearing to the right following the excessis of progressive leadership. He finds himself both out of step and siding with a movement that has fundamentally lost its way.
More importantly, is anything in his recent comments remotely funny? Angry? Yes, ignorant? Sure, ill informed, of course, funny not so much. Guitar dot com, your home for comedy news, had a minor spoiler for the special.
A teaser clip shared to social media showed a snippet of Bill’s Guitar Center segment. In the video, Burd says, I’ll give you the number one place to see sad men Guitar Center. Oh my God one of the saddest places on earth. Failed struggling musicians behind the counter, A bunch of men in loveless marriages to divorce, just walking around to go the guitars. Musicians are finding it funny.
Gibson Mark Agency replied to the clip on Instagram with a row of laughing emojis. Misham and Shore of Periphery commented, Jesus, he’s going for the jugular Questlove replied with a bunch of skull emojis. Lake Wyland of the Tone Mob podcast responded, the void desires customs shop guitars and it must be satiated. Bill Burr hilarious tonight. Other news, Nikki Glaser will return as host of the Golden Globes.
No surprise there. There’s been a lot of rumors and she did a great job. Why wouldn’t you bring her back? She should just do that until they kick her out. It’s a good gig and she did well at it.
Congratulations too, Nikki Glaser. There’s a new documentary about Mark Marin. It is called Are We Good? Directed by Stephen Fine Art’s The Hollywood Reporter recaps. I guess spoilers here towards the end of Maren’s twenty three special From Bleak to Dark, Maren tells the audience a high wire joke he’s been working on since his partner Lynn Shelton died in twenty twenty.
There are scenes of Maren workshopping the joke. The film chronicles the years in Maren’s life after Shelton’s death. It follows Mark as he returns to stand up and use the stand up to navigate the painful experience. The Donkeys’s home videos, recent footage of Maren living his life for testing new bits, as well as interviews with friends and colleagues like John Mulaney. In the end, HBO asks Mark Maren for a special and at boosts Maren’s confidence.
The Holly Reporter tells us the special makes Maren feel like he’s arrived and it becomes a place where his emotional artistic lives meet. Honestly. Quick hit from Gossip Corner, The Statesmen in Austin saw Tom Sigor and Berg Krescher at NADC Burger Apparently some sort of burger joint that we’re supposed to hit when we’re down. There never been there, there been Austin, never mind the burger joint. Luckily somebody had a camera out.
Burg Kreischer says, this is so good. This is so good. The chef says, it’s good with vodka too. Actually, we’ve been talking about doing like a secret menu. Yeah, we could have a secret like you want to turn this thing into two bears, one burger.
We could spikle with little poor osos. Should we do that? Sgora says perfect. I love secret menus Kreischer, Yeah, you should, Chef, we should do it. I’ll let you know what happened.
Joel McHale admitted he was an a hole to reporters on the set of Community. Joel said the reporters would be like, such a great show, just so amazing, and it’d be this one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing. But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on a set, you should have done some research. You should know what show this is. Avery reporters come back and be like, yeah, you really got me, And I was like, yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion not call people out.
All right. What happened with the Community movie? Is it ever coming? Out. Joel said, well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do, and everyone’s in.
That’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules and a script was written, so this is real. We just got to get those schedules together. He did give a major spoiler with a laugh. He said, I’m not gonna tell you anything about it.
I’ll just say everybody dies. He doesn’t think Chevy will be part of this, and again he’s seen the script, so I guess Chevy’s not. But Joel said, I don’t think he’s allowed to. I don’t think it would happen. I’m guessing if you asked him, he wouldn’t be interested.
Obviously, his unceremonious departure in season four pretty much did that end. And an interesting note about Daniel Sloss, he said he had to hire some security when performing in the US. After the UK’s Channel four Dispatches episode Russell Brand in Plain Sight disclosed allegations against Russell Brand, Sloss told Dispatches, according to Comedy dot co dot UK that claims that Brand was a predator were an open secret in the comedy industry. I’ve shared in the past, I worked with Russell Brand exactly once and its completely professional. I don’t know what else happened in mister Brand’s life, but I’ve also worked with Bill Cosby, who is completely professional.
Except for the Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until he passes away. It’s a good one, trust me. And that is your awkward end to your comedy news for today. All right, Bill Burr, let’s see what you got see tomorrow.