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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Remember Louis C.K. Did some stuff and then we canceled him and we never heard from him again. Well, he’s kicking off a year long tour April seventeenth, with two sold out dates in Winnipeg, Canada.
The tour continues through April fourth, twenty twenty six. I didn’t misspeak there. Yeah, this is going to go on for a year. Ck had done an email blast explaining to his fans, I’m working out many clubs now. He played a club right in my town.
I didn’t know that it was happening until it was quite sold out, and plus I think I was heading on vacation somewhere, so it’s kind of like, eh, I’ll just stay home. That reminds me though, I should probably check in to see who is playing that place. Just checked. Nobody super major. They’ve added, but they’ve got Rachel and Adrian.
Okay, not too bad. See Kay’s that I’m working out in many clubs now and through the next few months, getting the new joke stories in general stupidities ready for the tour. I took about two years off before this tour, and I’m very glad I did. I’m having a great time on stage now and I’m excited to share this crap with all of you. I hope you can come because I like you and I’m not afraid of you.
C K signed off the email blast, happy to be lucky to be alive. For those of you wondering what I’ve been doing, I’ve taken up sculpture at clay and stone and drawing with charcoal. I’ve written a novel and I’m working on a second. That about wraps it up on me. But it’s true.
It’s the part of the brain that knows how to reflexively care for child because it isn’t as easy as babysitting. Like it’s your mother’s intuition. Those are the eyes in the back of your head, all those senses that are in fact over developed because you’re inflamed when you become a mom. So it’s the reason why I can anticipate what my child might need, or why a mom can do that. So while you’re out looking for your phone, you’re still making sure your child doesn’t fall or grab a knife.
So does a give and take. I often forget to use a turn signal now, but at least I know my daughter’s favorite foods a late times. How do you balance mom brain with comedy. I don’t know if it’s a balance. A balance just suggests you haven’t fallen so off killed that you’re in some sort of mental facility.
And I know that women often get asked about that there is no balance, it’s just doing it. I just get up, I put one foot in front of the other, and I do the best I can. And I know from watching other moms, I’ve decided it never come down too hard on myself, like you’re really doing the best you can, and the good news is your kid doesn’t know any better, and just do it to the best of your ability, knowing that you’ll be faulted for much in the way you faulted your parents anything you did and didn’t do. Anyway, we might as well have let them have that cookie. Eliza said.
They consistency of getting up in those clubs year after year and knowing everyone. That’s the one consistent thing in my life over the last twenty years, and it’s always been something that brought me such joy, and I love my fans so much. The heart is broken when you’re not with your kids, and then when you’re with them, you’re like, oh, I need a break. But it’s a weird thing, like you’ve become two different people. When I leave home to do the shows, I just have to know that my heart is in pieces.
But I got this amazing job. But I can’t say that I get the joy from being on the road the way I did before. Like I’ve been to Pittsburgh, I’ve been to Austin. I’ve been to the gift shops. I’ve been to the bars, beating the steak.
All I want to do when I get off stage just to go to sleep so I can get home the next day. That’s called turning forty. Eliza, welcome to the club. I don’t know how old Eliza as. How old is Eliza forty two?
Yeah? You turned forty, That’s what happened there. You just want to go to bed. I got to a point where if you start a census with, hey, man, do you want to go to No? I don’t.
I don’t care what the rest of the sentence is. And you know the odds of you going see the Rolling Stones. I have backstage passes. Then I’d be like, oh wait, oh, no, yeah, I can’t go. But for the most part, Hey, John, do you want to know?
I just want to sit home watch TV. I’m old. That’s why I really like a friend of the show, Jason’s intimate, who has counseled me that you know it’s okay to watch a comedy clip online. Thank you, Jason Zinitaman. In front of the show, Liza said, when you’re a woman, you’re always gonna get asked more about your children than men do.
And for me that was a bit of a stutter step, because even to begin talking about something as life changing, life affirming and life shattering as having kids, these are waters that you’ve never navigated before. And I’ve gotten horrific comics like You’re not gonna talk about your kids, are you, which is disheartening because men get to do that and it’s like, oh, that’s so charming, give them a sitcom, but when women do it, it seemed like, ah, well, she’s unaffable now she has kids. That’s not gonna be for me. I’m just reacting to that. I don’t think that way, but I guess people that’s awful.
Eliza says, I also have a lot of hot takes about other things. So for me, the commentary on being a mom is less about the specissivity of an interaction with my child and more commentary on societies commentary on women having kids, And with that I keep it to a minimum. So I’m still blown away with experience that I’m having. I haven’t processed it all yet, so in five years I’ll complain about the kids. Bert Kreischerho spoke to Las Vegas Magazine.
Bert shared, I think it’s always been clear that have been drawn to tragic characters like Chris Farley and John Belushi, But when I got into comedy, everyone seemed to be on the straight and narrow. I didn’t meet Ron White until later in life, and it’s hell quit drinking pretty quickly into me doing stand up. I think if you’re wondering who my canary in the mind is, that, of course is Doug Stanhope some folks that Burt enjoys. Tim Dillon makes me laugh hard as s Theo Vaughn and Staffers Halkias. He never do a bad podcast with same with Big Jay Ogerson and Dan Soder, all those guys is absolutely deliver when they’re on a podcast.
Ali reporter asked Andrew Schultz about comedy Gatekeeping, pointing out it used to be Johnny Carson than Letterman. Who’s it now? Everybody say it together? On three one two three, Joe Rogan Andrew said, I think it’s Rogan and Kill Tony Tony Hitch close show, especially for new comics. I’ll hear reporter, what are you all called the maniverse?
The manisphere? Andrew, the manisphere. It’s so funny. I guess we’re that we’re a bunch of guys that we’re just having locker room talk or whatever the f that term is. I think the tricky thing is when we get labeled in certain ways, like ah, they’re all sexist, racist bigots, and I’m like, I’m not gonna have some writer from Maine to tell me I’m racist.
Stop. I know you didn’t grow up with anybody but white people, but I know you got this NPR job or whatever, but I don’t think you need to tell me how to be an ally. This happened with Bernie Sanders. When Bernie caught steam, the Democratic Party tried to suppress him a bit, and they started labeling his followers the Bernie Bros. And they’re like, he has a sexist problem and a bigotry problem, all these same things.
Then the second had started seemingly being helpful for Trump. It was the same playbook. People getting privy of that. I don’t think it’s advantageous for that to be used. Paraphrasing here from the Holler reporter, Hey, look, Andrew, some people think you helped Trump get elected.
Andrews said, listen, for every election, we want two candidates that we love. I mean, that’d be awesome. Me and Charlie, Me and the God who have been doing brilliant idiots for ten years. Charola Maine’s close with Kamala. He had Comma on the pod.
I had Trump. We’re boys for ten years. We’re talking crap about politics every single week. It doesn’t matter to me. That’s the version of America you want to see.
You want to see you guys who might have somewhat differing ideas, but it can cross the aisle tons. I up as a Democrat my whole effing life. I grew up in the arts in New York. My family had a dance studio. I was going to the ballet.
So to me, that’s the best version of what we can be. We’re all talking crap to each other, making fun of each other, and then we’re disagreeing on how unconstitutional Doge might be. Vir does broke to Yahoo Canada, where he finds his audience is usually made up of around sixty percent Indians. Vier says, I think a lot of people coming for two reasons. Maybe the Indians are coming in because they want to get caught up with home, because they miss home, and I’m kind of bringing home to them.
Large part of the audience their parents are from where I’m from, but it’s not the place I’m actually from. What I find is a lot of Indians they kind of grew up with this time capsule version of India that their parents left behind. So if your mom and dad came to Canada in seventy five, that’s what you grew up believing India was. You know, when you’re twenty one years old and it’s my job to come in and be like, no, I’m from Mumbai. This is what we do think your parents told.
He was a lie. This is modern India and we’re hopefully a little more fun and a little more audacious than you thought. Blood Yellow dot Com is your home for comedy news, And they told the story of the time John Jones almost made Jim Norton pass out with a leg kick stunt. Yes we’re talking UFC. John Jones was out promoting UFC one forty.
He appeared on the Opian Anthony radio show. Part of the show was a running gag where Norton would allow a fighter to put him in submission hold. Jim offered to take a kick from John Jones. Jones lined up through what appeared to be a kick far from full power. Jim immediately let everyone in the studio know he was in severe pain.
Norton’s first words were that he feels like I have to cramp. Norton reflected on the moment on a podcast with Dan Soder. Hurt me so much, I almost vomited. I remember I had the urged a crap and to throw up. I remember he sent me back in a shock.
He put a shit into my thigh and it was fight week two, a bad week, and he also choked me. I remember I went to the bathroom and I was like, I think I’m going to pass out. Jolt News caught up with comedian Sam Miller, who can work both clean and dirty. Miller said there’s a lot of comics that I think it’s not really art if you have to follow rules. I’m very proud that I can switch back and forth, because a lot of other comics can’t work clean.
I don’t mind at all. Sam starred in comedy through the Twelve Steps program, explaining I never thought that comedy was like a thing for a guy like me. It didn’t seem like it was possible. I thought there was no way people would laugh at this stuff. I don’t talk about these issues with an air of shame.
There’s nothing to be ashamed about. Addiction is a disease, and the AMA says it’s a disease. People wanted it to be better immediately, but there are no easy solutions. There’s so much stigma on being a drug addict and homeless, and then you start talking to people and realize even though drug addiction was a very personal problem for me, it’s a very visible, public, social, and political problem. Comedy is a jovial place where we can all laugh together and create amity and camaraderie.
And Jason Alexander was recently on Tom Poppa’s podcast and Jason said, here’s the truth. It’s kind of a weird truth. The only one of the core for I really got to know over the nine years of Seinfeld was Julia. Jason said he became more aware of how he knew Michael Richards after reading Richard’s book. Jason said, I got in touch with him and I said, I love the book.
But here’s what’s said. I don’t think I met this guy. You were doing stuff I wasn’t even aware of. Jason explains, Michael’s process was so isolated in some ways, and I didn’t want any interfere with that process. Jason says that Jerry Seinfeld didn’t open up to his castmates at all.
I don’t find that the least bit surprising, but Jason explains that Jerry wasn’t just acting. He was working on other aspects of the show. He came down, we had fun, We enjoyed each other, and it was a lot of laughs, and I know some things about what was going on his life, but I wasn’t a confidant. He’s down, he’s rehearsing with us, and then he’s in the editing room, or he’s in the casting office, or he’s writing, he’s doing something else. So I didn’t hang out with Jerry and as a result, I don’t really know him all that.
Well, that’s kind of sad, isn’t it, Like I get it? Uh. And if you ever met Jerry, I wouldn’t use the word warm. He’s not a douche. He’s just like he’s exactly what you think he is.
Like he comes in, he’s not impressed, he doesn’t want anything. He’s not like, hey, I gotta have a bottle of champagne. He’s just there to do the job. Doesn’t want to be your friend. He’ll fist bump you.
Not looking to take selfie’s not looking to hang out, doesn’t want to talk about Seinfeld. But again, not a jerky way, just like I’m here to do business. Let’s doer thing. Okay, all right, that was great, guys, See you later, Annie Leaves. Jason did say if any Seinfeld cast members needed any help, Jerry would be there for them in a second, but clarified they had a work friendship, not a social friendship.
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