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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel said, for the first time in the history of this country, an American president has been indicted for his role in paying hush money to a porn star. Although in fairness, that’s a pretty narrow window. Like when Grover Cleveland was president, porn stars were very hard to come by.
Still, it’s historic, and it’s funny. It’s very very funny. Jimmy Fallon cracked me up with this. When she heard Stormy Daniels was like, Oh, so this is what it feels like to be satisfied. Mark Norman tweeted, wife, are you watching porn?
Me? Ah? No, I’m doing research on the woman who brought down Trump. Kyle Kneen has released his special Shocks and Struts on YouTube. I’ll tell you about it in a second.
But I looked at the MBD and Kyle, I get that you gotta make money. I get it. I want to make money off my podcast. I’m with you, bro, But guess how many commercial breaks there are in a fifty nine minute and fifty six second special. Guess how many breaks?
Fifteen come on? That’s every four minutes. Bro, I just brow twice. What’s with the broad today? Suddenly I’m Pete Koreeli Bro Bro.
Fifteen commercials come on the laugh Button, writes, Shocks and Struts is a manifestation of the comedian returning to stand up comedian after the pandemic, where he bought a van and hit the road. To quote Jehovah’s witness his bits around the country. He stopped on a stage in Salt Lake City to report about his recent travels around the nation. He takes to the sky reporting about pilots not being intimidated by these switches in the cockpit, hits the hotel buffet’s, lands on a cruise ship, compares Joshua Treat to the Kardashians, and addresses the burnout he’s feeling as a fan of science. Shocks and Struts with fifteen commercial breaks, directed by fellow comedian Jonah Ray, available on YouTube now.
Big Jay Okerson has a special about to drop. This one will be out on his YouTube page April fifth, his executive produced by Ari Shaffer. Nicely comedians helping other comedians out. He released a trailer and I’m going to share some of it with you right now. And I have to be very careful.
This true earlier was really really naughty. I wanted to share more of it, but you know a lot of like naughty words and swear words and stuff. So here’s the part I can play. I’ve been called racist a lot. I’ve been called a Nazi a lot too, probably not the most, but maybe the most of any other Jewish person in history.
You think that means you can’t be a Nazi. I’m like, yeah, it’s like the whole thing. Man. It’s Big Jay Ookerson’s dog Belly on YouTube. April fifth, Jay spent the weekend and spoke Ken and The Spokesman did an interview with him, writing it’s not surprising that blue is Big Jay Okerson’s favorite color.
The veteran comic is a blue collar as fellow humorous Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White, Big Jay said, That’s just how it was for me ever since I can remember. It was all blue collar. Spoken is a blue collar city, and I grew up blue collar. He’s from Rochester, New York. They understand what I’m talking about.
I get them, the guys in flannel and the truckers who show up from my shows. They get where I’m coming from, which is a gritty environment which you work hard. I’d take pride being a blue collar comic. He’s not only blue collar, he’s blue like Jeff Foxworthy. Big Jay says it all starts with Andrew Dice Clay.
My stepfather showed me Dice is special. The Dice Man cometh when I was twelve years old, and then opened my eyes and mind. I bet it, Sure did. Jay was planning to talk about outrageous things, but added, I have to watch what I talk about. Is he worried about being canceled.
No, he said he wanted everyone who came out to the show to be able to watch his special, so he was going with new material over the weekend. Apparently the special talks about the trouble Big Jay got into what’s that Well? Back in twenty twenty one at a show in suburban Philadelphia, a disorderly fan was verbally crushed by Big Jay. However, the heckler’s brother crept up on stage and pulled out the stool which Big Jay was sitting on, and chaos ensued. Big Jay said, a drunk lunatic started all this trouble after I destroyed his sister.
It was unreal. I got on top of him, but my fans pulled me away and said, don’t get in trouble for this. We got this. The guy was arrested that night. Made for a crazy story.
That’s good for the special. Big Jay, known for his crowd work, said, what’s so much sting is the most seemingly boring couple is more interesting than you would think. If the most straight laced couple allows me to ask a few questions, I promise you I’ll get to the weird that no one knows about. I get people in the audience to reveal strange things since I’m open about what’s not about me my self. Deprecation leads to some interesting revelations from fans.
A quick note from Fox News, Rob Schneider is teasing an upcoming comedy special with Fox Nation that’ll follow up the Rosanne Bar special. It seems like Fox Nation is into the stand up comedy. There no other details about that available at the time of this recording. Ricky Gervai is touring North America. That’s pretty cool.
He added a show in New York City May first. That’s intriguing. I haven’t seen Ricky in person. I might want to do that La on May sixth, New York on June thirtieth, New York on July first, but that one was already sold out, so you’ll have to scalp or whatever you do. Toronto and Laval, Quebec.
Jimmy Carr also announced some US dates. Was pretty busy for Friday. All this news I’m telling you about, I hadn’t parked or saved. This all was fresh news on Friday. Jimmy is one of my favorites.
I haven’t seen him in a while. The closest he’s getting to me is Philadelphia, which isn’t too bad of a drive. But let’s say US dates looks like it starts October eleventh, Cleveland, Ohio. If you’re in Cleveland, go see Jimmy Carr. He’s at the Mimi Ohio Theater.
Cleveland. Listeners would be at the Philmore in Detroit on the twelfth, Chicago on the thirteenth, Minneapolis on the fourteenth. Wow, back to back to back to back. A lot of time on the bus there. Jimmy November eighth, Boston November eleventh, Philadelphia November twelfth, DC, Then Atlanta, Hollywood, Florida, San Diego, La Mesa, Arizona, Denver, Portland, one in Oregon, Seattle and finishing up December sixteenth, and San Francisco.
I highly recommend you see Jimmy car if he comes to your town, or perhaps a nearby city like Philadelphia.
Speaking of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Weekly spoke to don El Rawlings.
Boy, that was a great segue there, John, Did you plan that? Not at all? Donell said, I was never very good in math and the kind of subjects it takes to make a good architect, so I figured I had to try something else, meaning comedy. Said I was able to make my mom laugh all the time. In fact, she once told me not to make her laugh anymore unless I was getting paid for it.
Rawlings is at the Helium Comedy Club April fourth through the sixth. He said, I was never the class clown. Instead, I would consider myself the class entertainer. Hey, you know this woman, Kara would She sponsors the show from time to time, perhaps even right now. She’s got that book The Power of the Streak.
She was gilting me out. So I was emailing with her on the side about some commercial copy, and I’m like, you know, I’m on a negative streak. She’s like why, and I’m like, well, I had the colin oscopy. So like, colin oscopy prep is not good for working out. You definitely don’t want to take that stuff and go on a long run.
Believe me, you want to stay close to home, move on John. Then day of colin oscopy you’ve got the anesthesia. You’re not getting work out. Then then the next day you actually have to do some work and record some podcasts. I mean, you can only record so many of these in advance.
So I got on this negative streak and she’s like, you better run on Friday.
And then I woke up on Friday.
I was like Karen would and the power of the streaks is gonna annoy me and be like, you’re not running. So I didn’t run, Carrowood. I did do forty minutes spin class while catching up on podcast because my phone is always blowing up. Anyway, Now I’m on a streak of one day or maybe where you are on Monday. Maybe I’m up to four days.
Now. The key here is you want to get on a street because once you get on a streak, you don’t want to break the streak. So Carrollwood wrote this book The Power of the Streak. It answers the question how to stay consistent with exercise and keep you motivated over time. If you want, I can shame you on the podcast.
I could do that. If you struggle the working out rarely Power of the Streak. Grab the book, will you? Let’s available on all formats. You get an Amazon, Barnes and Noble Online.
There’s an audio book. If you don’t feel like using your eyeballs, you get the audiobook on iTunes audible. If you’re even lazier than that, well, if you’re even lazier than that, I’m sure the Power of the Streaks gonna work for you. But hey, give it a shot. Instagram at the Power of the Streak.
Twitter Power of the Streak. Oh but wait, carros up to other things too. She’s got a substack. You’re like, what’s a substack. It’s like a website new letter thing.
So hers is called knock it Off. It’s a free blog slash newsletter on substack. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. Why don’t you go to site? Sign up for free?
You like free, don’t you? Yeah? Knock it off dot substack dot com and knock it off one word substack dot com. Thank you Karawood for guilding me in a doing forty minutes of spin. User one dollar hit me up on Twitter.
One dollar came in peace and I’m like, you’re right, I will clean this up. Thank you for listening, one dollar, one dollar wrote, Mark Meron didn’t say he doesn’t like Tool. He said it’s not the soundtrack of his life because you have to find it as a teed. Excellent point, Mark, if you want to come on and rate me for an hour, feel free. I’m also willing to fight Mark Meron in the octagon.
So far, Joe Rogan has not taken me up on this, but Mark Marin also has a very popular podcast. I’ll fight you too. Let me know. Maybe you’re mad that I said you didn’t like Tool, and you want to toss me around, I’ll do it here. Remember that like TV channel decades, the one I don’t know.
Maybe your parents watch one of those channels that shows old shows. Well, they’ve rebranded. It’s now called catchy Comedy. It’s probably like Channel ninety seven in on your UHF till they still have UHF. There was never Channel ninety seven anyway, you know what I’m saying, anyway, I wanted to look at the lineup.
You’re ready, Here’s what’s on catchy comedy. Six am, Full House, six thirty Full House, seven Full House, seven thirty Full House. So if you like full House, get up early. Eight o’clock Brady Bunch, eight thirty Brady Bunch, nine o’clock, Family Affair, nine thirty, The Donna Reed Show, ten o’clock Carol Burnett, then two episodes of The Lucy Show, then two episodes of I Love Lucy one o’clock. You only get one Mary Tyler Moore Show, but you get Rhoda right after.
Then two Livernard Shirley’s, Two Mama’s Families, won the Love Boat, two odd Couples, Good Times at six, Sanford and Son at seven, on the Family at eight, Night Court at nine, Dick Vandyke at ten o’clock coming out at night Court. Yeah, And then at eleven o’clock cheers should you put a night Court? And cheers back to back Wood. Oh, I know I’m in the basement. Midnight Taxi, twelve thirty am, The Bob Newhart Show one o’clock New Heart.
The Age has been recommending shows you go see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival one of them, Jordan Gray. Jordan says one advantage in being a transgender comedian is there are loads of tired old subjects he can give a new twist, like leaving the toilet seat up to most wives would be annoying, but to a transgender woman almost a thoughtful gesture. That’s a great joke. Jordan says being a trans woman isn’t her big topic, but she thinks audiences are more comfortable if she addresses it. Jordan says, I always say if I had a nose in the middle of my forehead and didn’t mention it, people would be sitting there the whole time going just mention the nose.
At a recent show, she picked on a heterosexual couple in the audience and asked them if they had considered a threesome with a trans person, because I’ve got something for everyone. Jordan Gray’s show is called Is It a Bird? At Melbourne Town Hall through April twenty third. Let’s take a quick look at a couple shows at the Melbourne Festival. On Tuesday, Alas Phillips pretends to be on tropical holiday for fifty minut It’s a nice picture of a lease holding a drink being served in a coconut I haven’t had a coconut drink, and it’s probably maybe the eighties nineties, and spent a minute last Phillips is going on tropical holiday and you’re invited because oh boy, we could all use a nice tropical holiday right now.
It’s her treat and it’s also so fine. Really, it’s a humid clump of sketch, comedy, clowning and general chaos. They’re snorkeling, speed dating and even a fabulous investment opportunity. That’s one, not a scam. That sounds like a good time.
I love the titles of these shows. Freddy McManus’ show is called Freddy McManus is Stoppable. Freddy McManus was a standout performer from a young age, singing country music as the frontman and a boymand. He’s since scaled similar heights in comedy, from touring the country to receiving a ha ha ha from someone who usually only messages ha ha. That’s a great copy.
Following a personal setback, he’s been stopped in his tracks. So in this show, a man with no equestrian experience, we’ll try to get back on the horse. Theater Travels called the show a punchy set packed full of laughter. I love the discri All right, let’s do one more. Daniel’connell’s show is called I’m Always Sore.
Not much description here other than it’s a brand new show, although the Adelaide Advertiser said this is definitely the show you’ll need after a long day, a place where you can sit back, relax and giggle away into the night. The Age said fifty five minutes of exquisitively judged middlebrow Australian humor. Not sure this show is being marketed the best. I want to thank you guys. A couple of things.
One on the Facebook group, I’ve been doing some very very light research. I was listening to another podcast and they did this thing with five questions you should ask your audience, and I’m like, that makes sense to me. So I’ve just been pulling the listeners and seeing what you’re saying questions about was the show too long and too sure or whatever. It seems like most of you are happy with it. I mean, I imagine if you’re in the Facebook group you don’t hate the show.
That would be crazy.
And also the numbers for March were very strong.
It’s hard to compare of different months, so year to year, March to March was way up. But along the way things will happen like the slap which actually spiked last marches and numbers, or you know, Dave Chappelle something something, but March up over February and March over March of last year. So thank you very much for listening every day. Tell a friend, and I do want to acknowledge that political satirist Mark Russell passed away Thursday last week. He was ninety years old.
You know this guy. He had like a Stephen Colbert kind of look and would play the piano and sing political songs. If you’re kind of my age, you remember him. He was best known for his PBS specials. He was a member of the National Comedy Center Advisory Board.
Fellow member John Stewart said Mark Russell was a DC institution who did the hardest thing a comic can do, relentlessly and righteously mock his neighbors. In nineteen ninety four, Russell supported Two Live Crew. You didn’t think I was going to say that. When the hip hop group was sued for copyright infringement for their parody of Roy Orberson’s song Oh Pretty Woman. Russell and two Live Crews frontman Luther Campbell successfully argued before the US Supreme Court that song parodies were protected under fair use.
As Recently, his last October, Mark Russell took on issues including the January sixth insurrection Byron Allen, who worked with Russell on Real People, which ran on NBC from seventy eighty four. Remember that show If you’re my age, that’s where you know Mark Russell from Bryan and Allen called him a brilliant man and an American treasure. Mark Russell passed away age ninety. That’s your comedy news for today. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family.
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