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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. After last weekend and all the talk of Hebburg. If you’re like, you know, I gotta like that style of comedy, check out Chang Wang. He recently spoke to review wm dot com and he talked about how he spends time on the road connecting with nature.
He told Review, I enjoy the infinite diversity and beauty of plants. I find that to be very relaxing and inspiring and grounding. It brings me to the present, want to just stop and lean in and look at the details on a flower or a leaf. The review rights a mix of universal observational humor and ultra laid back slacker charm. He gets compared to Mitch Hedburg.
Wang said, my kind of humor, my approach to life, and my approach to my stand up. Essentially, it’s kindness and joy. So that means being present, paying attention to finding all the little joys that are everywhere. I mean, there’s disasters, it’s chaos right now, especially in the news and everything. It’s just crazy out there.
But there’s so much good and beauty and joy that we just overlook because it’s everywhere, and it’s so small, we’re too immersed in it to see it. Sometimes. He’s one of those guys that you know, you’ve never heard of, that’s been grinding it out for twenty years already. I hope he pops his career did step up in class when he had his Netflix special in twenty two. That one’s called Sweet and Juicy.
Watch it, it’s funny, Wang said. I’m more of a people pleaser. I’m not a big trash talker. I don’t like punching, especially punching down. I prefer sharing things that might bring a little delight rather than aggression and violence and conflict.
I’d rather delight people. I feel like I had a really chill upbringing, But I think there’s something about being an immigrant or being an other in your youth. You pay attention to what’s the vibe in the room. Whenever we go out somewhere, you pay attention to who’s looking at whom, what’s the energy. I felt like immigrant kids they just have a superpower to have that sensitivity and that awareness.
But it’s also a bit of a rougher way to grow up to be constantly considering these things. To get back to the plants. Wang says, I think eventually there’ll be some sort of possible creative convergence between my jokes and my performances and my love for plants. Give them a cable show. Jeopardy fans, they’re all in a ker fluffel.
You see today on Jeopardy. Comedian Guy Brainam will be competing on Jeopardy against Mike Dawson for Portland. Reddit users noticed Guy’s name and face on the Jeopardy website. One redditaur said, check in the lineup for this week’s contestant. I was a bit surprising the name Guy Brainum.
At first thought, maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe there’s two Guy Branham’s, but nope, seems to be the same guy. Since it lists writer and comedian as his occupation. Some wondered why is he on Jeopardy and not celebrity Jeopardy. One theory he must be smart enough to get on normal Jeopardy. Paullie Shore is opening a comedy club, which is interesting because Polly is the son of the legendary Mitzi Shore, known for operating the comedy club in Los Angeles.
So is Polly opening one in La Nope, Texas, Austin, Texas, Sean Nope, San Antonio. Shane Quaid is Polly’s business partner, and they’ve been transforming the Woodlawn Theater into a comedy venue. They hope to produce at least two hundred and four shows each year, so let’s see fifty two weeks in eight years. That’s four shows a week, more or less. Most will be stand up, but they also envisioned doing occasional concerts as well as movie premiers.
Tonight is the soft opening San Antonio. Comedians will be featured at eight o’clock. The first five hundred tickets each night are free. After that, tickets are ten dollars eighty three cents. Random number guessing when you have the tax that comes out to like an even number, like twelve or something.
So that’s the soft opening. Tonight. On April twelfth, it’s the grand opening. Your headliner Paully Sure, He’ll do shows at seven and ten. Those tickets go from thirty two forty eight to sixty three eighty seven.
Then on May third, Tom Cotter and Carrie Louise will do shows at seven and ten. Their shows cost twenty one sixty five to fifty three oh four random numbers. The Woodland, opened in nineteen forty five, is a movie house and was the site of the world premiere of the movie The Alamo starring John Wayne That happened in nineteen six. They ripped out the seating and put some custom made leather seats. That’s not gonna go well, those are gonna get torn up.
What are you doing. That’s a mistake, Quait said. We want people to be able to sit here for three hours because the other theaters we’ve been to you just don’t want to. You say that now that first tear in a leather seat’s gonna kill you. You can’t have drunk people watching comedy shows on the leather.
That’s not a good idea. I’m sorry. They’ve betted space between the rows to make it a little easier for patrons to slide past one another. You are Elcos will be posted on the back of each seat, allowing folks to order drinks from the bar and have them delivered by servers without having to stand in line. That’s neat.
A forty five panel led wall will be installed at the back of the stage, meaning comics can have any kind of background they want Mary Picaorisi is hosting the soft opening and says everyone talks about Austin and Austin is fantastic. Don’t get me wrong, but I think people are sleeping on San Antonio prepping the show. I stumbled across this one. I’ve never seen a note like this. I just thought it was interesting.
Ali Wong is coming to Portland. You were a show at Helium being advertised as a workout. The show’s called work in Progress. Ali will return to her stand up roots to workshop raw and unfilled her new material in an intimate club setting. Ali will also do work in progress sets in La and San Jose.
The Helium shows are May twenty eighth and twenty ninth. One hundred and thirty one dollars for reserve seats, one hundred and six for general admission for a workout, plus eleven dollars for the service charge. You could take your service charge and uh was the helphrase stick it up your nose with a rubber hose. That’s what you could do with your eleven dollars service charge. So one hundred and seventeen dollars for a workout?
Are you kidding me? No? Absolutely not. Get out of here. With that, I can go see Pauli Shore for thirty two dollars and forty eight cents and Pauli will be doing as a material.
And they have leather seats. What do you have Helium? Anybody know what kind of seats they have at Helium? Let me look at a picture. Looks to me like Helium Comedy Club has shares, wooden shares.
You don’t want to sit in those for three hours. Put in some leather seats if you get to charge you one hundred and seventeen dollars. What are you doing?
Also, the May twenty ninth show is at four forty five pm on a Thursday.
What are We doing? Stephen Rodgers has announced his new stand up special. Half of We will premiere on Nate Bergatzy’s Nate Land YouTube channel on April eleventh. The specials produced by Nate and Brian Reagan. The new hour has Stephen Rodgers blending wit and vulnerability as he shares his relatable mishaps, personal struggles, and stories from his engagement all building.
No, there’s a spoiler here, I’m not no, no, no spoiler. Watch it erase that from your brain. He stares stories from his engagement. You just sit there. Why I’m not gonna tell you.
Come on, what kind of article is this? I could edit that out, but as you can tell him, silly. Today Hattiesburg wants to be the city of one hundred murals. So if you want to be the city of one hundred murals, you gotta have some murals. So they put up mural number sixty two honoring Fred Armisen.
Why wouldn’t you. Luckily Fred happened to be in town on his comedy tour when this miro went up. That really worked out. Fred said, to see myself as a musician. He’s doing that drum thing highlighted on this wall next to the other artist.
Is an honor, of course, it’s a double honor that I was born here. Hattiesburg is a constert miner in my life. I am proud and honored to be from here. Let’s stop off on gossip corner. Louis c.
K selling some real estate. He apparently has sold his three bedroom, three bathroom apartment in a four story walk up in Greenwich Village, New York City. Gimme Shelter says it was sold for two point three six million dollars. It first hit the market last May at two point four to five million. So somebody got a nice little deal there from Louis c.
K. Three bedroom, three baths, three level apartment inside a four story, ten unit walk up at three forty five West Fourth Street. Now can this be right? He bought the co op with his then wife in two thousand and six for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, according to property records, two hundred and fifty thousand, and he sold it for two point three six million. Nice job, Louis c.
K. We’re told the home opens to a large living room on the parlor floor that leads to a small L shaped kitchen with a vintageile that could used for prepp and storage, as well as a breakfast bar. Another large room with three windows and a fireplace can serve as a dining room, and additional bedroom stairs rise to a second floor bedroom with another fireplace and views of historic Jackson Square Park. I’m from New York City. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the phrase Jackson Square Park, and I would dare you to send letters, but again, I grew up there.
I don’t know what this is. It might be historic, but it ain’t famous. Let me look this up. Bordered by Eighth Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south, and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The park interrupts West thirteenth Street.
I mean it’s nice looking at all, but not the most famous park. And for those of you not from the York City, when I’m saying park, you’re picturing like big giant thing. This would be the size of a roundabout in your town. Okay, I digress. There’s a third bedroom at street level that’s accessed by a spiral staircase from the parlor floor, and that has its own private entrance, and it could be used as a home office.
So you wanted to get away from everybody and work on your stand up comedy. C K apparently loves buying and selling things. In December of twenty two, he sold a fourteen hundred and fifty square foot co op on twelve Street for one point eight million after buying it for two point four to five million. Oh took a big loss there, leiy, what are you doing there? He also sold his five bedroom home at thirty five Charlton Street for five point eight million.
That’s less than the six point five million he paid, so what’s going on? He was really terrible at real estate until very recently. Who knows. Let’s see what’s happening at that Nashville Comedy Festival. Uh oh, people gonna be really upset.
Bridge done Arena to night seven o’clock, Kill Tony, destroying comedy. But they’re hilarious jokes. Ooh. The man is fear is getting up and doing one minute jokes by amateurs and then Tony and the gang slam them and we all have a good time. Stop doing that, Tony, what are you doing?
You’re destroying comedy. It’s fun show, folks. Check it out over at Zanies at seven viered Oz Kurt Metzger. He’s been known to be in a controversy or two. He’s at the Lab at Zani’s at seven Veer again at nine fifteen at Maine Zanies Kurt again at the Lab at nine fifteen.
If you’re in Nashville tonight, go see Kill Tony and uh if you can hustle over to Viera, do that. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been rocking and rolling of it had a chance to tell you about it. Luckily, the Age has seen a bunch of shows let’s see what they’re into. Broden Kelly, you know him from Anti Donna. He’s playing Bear Deluxe until April twentieth, The Age tells us Broden Kelly is officially a cult figure.
In this wildly unhinged but completely focused hour. He starts by presenting us with three different Facebook groups where fans those pictures that may or may not look like the Anti Donna star. Oh, that’s like. One of my favorite Facebook groups is people that vaguely look like Adam Sandler. I love that one.
I can’t get enough of that one. The Age says. Kelly definitely holds our attention through the use of a four part structure. He knows when it hit us with an obnoxious banger, and presents some jokes as facts. One line, apparently he told Funnier than I will.
I found out during the research for this show that this is the worst song ever made. Five stars. They gave it all right, Freddy Billa Moria. Freddy’s show is called Allow Me to Interrupt Your Doom Scroll and you’ll find Freddy at the Theory Bar until April sixth. Uh, let me check you, caunty here.
What’s today? Today’s the fifth but Melbourne’s out of us, so it might be the sixth in Melbourne. By the time you’re hearing this, get move and everybody the age tells us his newest show. Allow me to interrupt your doom. Scroll runs the gamut of topics.
Dogs hitting a high school, reunions, dating, go into the library while it all sounds runn of the mill. Billa Maria injects each scenario with a layer of unpredictability. One of the topics spoilers. Don’t act like you were getting on a plane going to Melbourne. Don’t get mad at me, and I’m spoiling the show you weren’t going.
Where does one milk a scorpion? Four stars? And let’s do one more. Julian Cosgriff is at the Art Center Melbourne doing her show Fresh New Worries. She’ll be there until April twentieth.
See if you’ve got some time, book a flight. I watch your flights to Melbourne. Let’s look, I’m in a silly mood today. In case you can’t tell, I’m gonna go on kayak. We’ll fly out of La all right, you guys get to La on your own and let’s fly out on Friday.
The eighteenth because it takes a minute to get to Melbourne. We’ll fly economy. I assume you’re between eighteen and sixty four. Let’s see what we got here. You want to fly direct, right, I’m not stopping over a NonStop?
Are there no non stops from LA to melbourn Oh? I picked Melbourne, Florida wrong, Melbourne, leave it in. I was gonna say, because I’ve flown from LA to Melbourne, Australia. Wait, have I not been clear? Are some of you heading to Melbourne, Florida going?
I heard there was a big comedy festival here. No, no, no, no, no no, this is the one in Australia. Don’t add to Melbourne, Florida. There. As far as I know, there is not a Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival.
They word international was your clue. We should start one now right, We should start dan booblets out there. You know how to do festivals. Let’s start a Melbourne comedy festival at the exact same time. But we’ll do it in Melbourne, Florida, and maybe we can get some guys.
Kayak’s telling me, no flight’s found. I think this bit is over. Move on, John, Okay, let’s go see Jillian Cosgriff. Even though there’s no way to get to Melbourne, apparently from Los Angeles. She’s there until April twentieth.
The age tells us Jillian has already won this festival’s top awards. Upon entry to the show, you’re invited to contribute to her Pindora’s box of concerns. At irregular intervals, she serves up those anonymous problems back at the audience. The clever hook is how common our most private fears really are. Four Stars booblets, get on this Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival.
Let’s do it all right, see you tomorrow.