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Caloroga Shark Media Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News both today and tomorrow. Pretty robust for the weekend. Tons of news. We’re in this little comedy cycle now where we’ve had Melaney Burr and coming up on Tuesday, Bird Chrysler special. So plenty to talk about in the next few days into all of next week.
Actually, Bill Burr caught up with NPR. I’ll drop in and out of a half assed Bill Burr impression here and not impression, but I try and capture his bite. You know, he’ll speaking short said, it’s this little bit at us, So I’ll do that. In and out Bill tails NPR. He traces some of his rage and his dark humor to the emotional abuse he experienced as a child in Massachusetts.
Bill said, every way that you can be abused as what I’m talking about, I don’t know if you can ever undo things that were done to you. He realized at an early age if he could make people laugh, he was less likely to get hurt. Since then, he’s tried therapy and silo they’ve been aka magic mushrooms as a way of dealing with the past. He says both helps and lately has felt lighter on stage. Let me jump in here there is clearly let me back up.
I posted this on the Facebook group Pretty Daily Comedy News podcast group. A few things. As I’ve aged, I have increasingly been using the phrase many things can be true at once. For example, one, we should all try to be a better person today than we were yesterday. Absolutely true.
Two, many things can be true at once. There appears to be some sort of PR campaign right now to let us know that Bill Burr is a better man than he was yesterday, and that he softened and he’s changed or whatever, that he can dial the rage on and off. That is in every messaging I’ve seen for this current promotional cycle. And again go back to point one. I think we should all try and be better people.
But I’m noticing the PR campaign is what I’m saying. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just telling you i’m noticing it. Bir said that whole myth that you can’t be happy and still be funny’s a myth. I’m a mess of a human being still, this far into life.
That is my existence to day, week to week, month a month. It’s just what it is. But it makes for good comedy. If you want to hear a good, solid hour bilburt Is on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air, you can grab that as a podcast. He talked about the mushrooms and said, I started tripping and it was goofy and I was laughing.
I was like, Wow, this is wild.
And then all of a sudden, like this feeling came over me and I couldn’t reall…
It was this profound sense of loneliness. I think I asked the question, which really is a cool thing to do when you’re on mushrooms, to kind of say, what are you trying to tell me? And it’s weird, like the answer just sort of comes. The answer is basically, this is how you felt growing up. It’s the weirdest thing.
For like a week after, I was who I would have been if all this stuff didn’t happen to me. It was like this honeymoon phase. This euphoria made me want to become a better person, made me want to fix my life. So seven days of that, oh my god, I’m not angry anymore. I felt this lightness in my chest.
But then after seven days the anger came back tenfold, and then I had to work through that. That was only like a three week thing, because I kind of saw who I could be. Bill has asked about some of his early career jokes about women. Bill said, if you watched my earlier stand up, all that crap that I said had nothing to do with women. It had to the fact with it.
I didn’t know how to get on with my life that I wanted to get married, I wanted to be in love, I wanted to have kids, and I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t understand what my problem was, and I didn’t know how to fix it. One of my biggest fears when I was on her comic and I looked at older comics and never got married, never had kids. They were still doing shows and then hanging out afterwards, trying to pick up chicks at the end of it, and I was like, oh my god, I don’t ever want to be that guy. I wanted to get married at twenty six and I have like five or six kids, but I didn’t know how to do it.
Good stuff there, We’ll pick at that over the next few days. Brad Paisley Country Music Store. He’s doing a comedy benefit at Zany’s in Nashville on April thirteenth to benefit a free grocery store he operates with his wife. That store is called The Store. The show was called Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without.
Brad says, it’s such an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything. Most charity events are too long. Most of them are asking a lot of people that attend. You’re asking for money, you’re asking for time. You usually feed them a badly catered meal.
There’s an auction that takes too long. None of that is part of this. This is literally what we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based grocery restored at Nasville Families with Food Insecurity.
They open up their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, I reveal plans for a second store. Brad said, we really thought this would take off, and it’s great to see that it did. No details yet on who’s appearing. The date is April thirteenth.
Doors open five point fifteen, show starts at six. It said. Zani’s in Nashville. Ticket price two hundred fifty dollars general admission. Before you’re like two hundred and fifty dollars, please remember it’s a fundraiser.
I don’t know what’s going on at Amazon. George Lopez’s special came and went, and I didn’t see any press about it. So as I was putting the show together, I saw, oh, Eliza Slessenger spoke to the La Times because her special came out last Tuesday. Now, aside from that, I suck and I’m terrible at podcasting, and I don’t know how to put a show together. I do every single day, type in the words even if I don’t record, I type in the words comedy and comedian into Google, and I visit five six seven websites.
And I didn’t say a thing about Eliza’s special coming out, or I would have mentioned it. Somehow fell off my radar.
Also, what I normally do is if I don’t know if Joe Comedian announces as spec…
And what I will do is I will start a file labeled June sixth, and I will put in there Joe Comedian Special out on surface today, and that way, when the day rolls around, I know it’s there. Eliza came and went so Amazon, I don’t know what’s going on. You make the Hulu publicists look awesome. Haley Times asked Eliza the title of your special, which apparently came out last Tuesday, A Different Animal is an aggressive title, but it also seems like it’s got a bunch of layers to it. How do you think the title relates to your comedy?
Eliza said, I wanted to do something that was very me, but also my comedy is a little bit of force, that aggression built into it. But I did want to sort of announce that I’m on this new platform, Prime Video, and I think what I bring as a performer is different. Every comic should feel that they’re bringing something unique. Otherwise, why are you an artist? In a literal way?
My comedy is a different animal because I do these animal sounds during my show, and I’m very theatrical, and what I do this is different comedy than what you might get somewhere else. I think I create a very special product. She then talks about putting on a show and says somebody came up with having Eliza and big letter behind me because the ideas you’re watching this and just in case you forget who you’re watching. We always wanted it to be on screen, and I wanted to be fun and polished and visually appealing. I thought about doing everything in white, and Amazon was like, that’s gonna be a little hard to watch the whole time.
They’re like, you should be the whitest thing about your set. She explains, I’m the first one to perform in leggings and sneakers when I’m on tour, but for a special it should be special. Ela Times said, having seen around town in La you do multiple sets to night and you’re very focused, stressed down, and very inconspicuous. What’s your mentality when you’re in that mode? Eliza said, I believe in loving the work, so when I go out at night, I’m there to get something out of it.
Always do the set, even if you don’t feel well, even when you’re tired. If there’s no real reason to stay home, like if you have flu, maybe okay, stay home, don’t spread it around or due I think maybe COVID was started by a bunch of male comics just breathing on a microphone, but I’m there to do work, and I’m there to find all the little weak points. I’m there to find new things. I’m there to find tags. So if I’m not on the road, I’ll get up like two three times a night.
I don’t do three sets as often as I used to you because by the third set, even if it’s only a twenty minute set, I’m still like, did I already say this to you? Or was that the other club boy? I know that feeling, especially when I record by out of sequence, I’m like, did I say this one yet? I either can’t remember if I’ve told the story or if I’ve told the story two days from now, if you know what I mean. Plus, I also host the weekly comedy thing on the Live one app and some stories get done here and there, and it usually happens when I’m recording that show.
I’m like, did I say this already? I feel like I did this one already. I try and keep good notes, Eliza said, I try to get up a few times a night because I don’t write anything down, so it’s all in my head. And so for me, it’s about retaining remembering the muscle memory of what gonna laugh last time? The only times thought it was crazy that she doesn’t write anything down.
She said, I write down like a word, like I’ll say gello, and then that’s my mental cue to remember the entire bit. Even though my memory feel shot since becoming a mom. I’m a big believer in the repetition that is the workout. So I’ll do a lot of shows where I riff. If you come see me in Hollywood, chances are I’m making up like a third of what I’m saying there, and then I feel like whatever’s good sticks, and that’s how we arrive at the hour Gavie Igleacias got his hands in the cement over at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Gabe said, the emotions are going, It’s very overwhelming. He paid tribute to other Latino entertainers who came before him with a shirt featuring photos of Vincente Fernandez, Chess Burrito, Desi, Ornez, John Like Guizamo, George Lopez, and Freddie Prinz. Gabe said, I thought, if I could find a way, how do you say a lot without saying anything? So I had this shirt made to showcase this. I love it.
I spent my childhood coming down here with my family. So the fact that I’m here now means a lot, not just me, but being Mexican. It’s like, this guy can do it, why can’t I do it? Everybody is a dream? What’s your dream?
And what are you doing to make it happen? People are mad at Jennifer Huts and she did a promo about her guest, Kevin Hart. They put out picture out on social media. You see Jennifer’s why the queen’s accent came out there? Uh drop the accent.
You see Jennifer smiling brightly in the frame where you can only see Kevin Hart from the forehead and up. One person on social media said, for the first time in my life, I have felt secondhand disrespect. Johnny. You never talk about John Mlanie. I know right.
Late Nighter had a cute story. David Letterman has given an Emmy statue that Letterman won for him. My next guest needs no introduction. He gave it to John m’laney’s father, who appeared in the episode that won the award. Lanie’s father recently got a package from Lenorman.
Dave wrote a note, I found this extra Ammy in a closet. I told the kids. Let’s give it to Chip, So here you go. I hope you love it the way television people love it, and it’s solid gold. Spinal Tap two The End continues a sequel to the nineteen eighty four This Is Spinal Tap is heading to theaters this fall.
September twelfth is the date, once again, directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap two the n continues as Christopher Guest, Michael mckeinn and Harry Shearer, all in their original roles as one of England’s loudest bands. The plot this time spoiler spinal Tap is reuniting after fifteen years for one final concert. Reyner returns as Marty de Bergie, the documentarian who folls them on tour making Cameo Zelton, John Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival will take over Auckland and Wellington throughout the month of May over one hundred and fifty comedians, delivering more than six hundred live performances.
Some of the comedians Nish Kumar, whose name has been coming up a lot lately, comedian and podcast host Olga Kach Australia stand up and presenter, Becky Lucas, TV writer Adam Kaye, also Jen Brister, Laura lex here Shaw, Sarah Keatworth and Moore, UK comedians making their way to New Zealand. Lucas will host the Best Comedy Show on Earth at the sky City Theater, presenting an evening of hilarious comedy from a selection of crowd favorites and rising stars. Closing out the festival is Last Laughs, hosted by Eli Mathewson, also at sky City Theater. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just wanted to touch on one thing that’s been creeping up a little bit, specifically in the Apple podcast reviews.
Some people don’t seem to enjoy the feed drops that you get on Apple podcasts that say you may also like and then you get an episode of something. Let me just be transparent here. So why did I start this podcast? A few reasons. One, I was already hosting the Weekly Comedy Thing.
That’s a weekly show I host on the Live One app. I’m paid to host that show. I put the show together and I was noticing increasingly as they put the show together, I had all this extra material, and I’m like, Eh, why don’t I turn a podcast to that? So that’s one two emotionally, and I’ve talked about this when I was serious. I built all these comedy channels.
I put my heart and soul and I build this thing. It’s super popular for ten years, and then I get tagged out because I got a new boss who wanted to hire his assistant from Philadelphia and I basically got fired for no reason, so kind of annoying. So emotionally, this show you’re listening to right now, it’s mine. It’s not for sale. You can’t have it.
I’m not going to sell it to you. Maybe it sucks, maybe you hate it. I don’t think I hated if you’re listening this far in, but it’s mine. So emotionally, this is mine, right And then also I like to make money. Podcasting is my job.
I’m making money off this and the other shows on Caloroga Shark Media, including Palace Intrigue and Five Good News Stories. We put out the shows, we put commercials in the middle. If you don’t want the commercials, we have the premium subscription. Totally get it. But you know, I put a couple hours into this every day, specifically this one show, and it’s nice to turn a buck.
So the feed drops they pay really well, Like they pay really really well. I wish you could see my face right now. I’m looking at you in the ass going. It pays really well. So I get it.
I personally, I listen on podecasts and I don’t see those drops at all. They’re specific to the Apple Podcasts app and they go in as bonus episodes. So if they’re annoying you, Pockecast is a pretty good app. But like, I totally get it, and I hope you can understand where I’m coming from, all right, see tomorrow