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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was at Lincoln Center. They were celebrating Duke Ellington’s one hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Now you might be like, why was Dave Chappelle there.
You may recall he attended Duke Ellington’s School of the Arts in Washington, d C. And they were honoring him a few years back. Chappelle said of Lincoln Center, man, you never thought you’d see me an event like this, But he talked about the school and said that school profoundly, profoundly, profoundly changed my life. Duke Ellington was a guy who traveled all around the world just based off his talent and his kids. We knew that it was possible, just because his energy was in the air.
The New York Times says Chappelle mostly stuck to the teleprompter, but threw in a few ad libs, including you can’t get one of the greatest comedians in the world to just read a teleprompter.
And then he talked about a certain politician and said, it’s up to us.
We got to keep this tradition alive. This is one of the best things we got going in America here saying I got to make jazz great again. To send your letters to Dave Chappelle. I’ve been mentioning a few times during this admittedly slow newsweek that Nikki Glaser is the gift who keeps on giving. If you need another story, you type Nikki Glaser into Google and you never know what shows up.
She weighed in on this whole Bill Belichick girlfriend thing, because of course she did. But what’s even stranger to me is she was responding to an Instagram post by the Dudes on Dudes podcast, which I didn’t know Nikki Glaser was a fan of the dudes From Dudes on Dudes are two guys that used to play for the Patriots, specifically Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. Even if you’re a casual football fan, you’ve probably at least heard of Gronk. These are like some serious Patriots, so they would know Bill Belichick, Edelman said of Belichick’s girlfriend, she was jumping into that conversation during the interview, just like any PR person would jump in when there’s an unnecessary question that they probably didn’t go over in the pre production meeting, Gronkowski said, Yep, she’s become his rep on top of being a girlfriend. Nikki Glaser chimed in on the instagram in the comments and said one percent this she’s acting as his publicist.
Publicists do this during interviews. People are out for blood. A strange note from John Mulaney’s show has made the news. Have you seen this thing on social media all week? Could one hundred men fight one gorilla?
It’s been going around online, Mulaney said had prompted a debate and our writer’s room about whether three fourteen year old boys could beat up me John Mulaney. Mullanie has now vowed to fight three fourteen year old boys. On the season finale on May twenty eighth, Mlani asked, is this legal so far? We think so. It’s not assault.
We know that, and we’re vetting every step of it. I’ve been led to believe that it’s for TV. It’s a lawful practice. Now, Millennie doesn’t seem like the toughest guy in the world, but then again, he also didn’t seem like he had a drug problem, So maybe he’s secretly ripped and secretly tough. Now.
I don’t know if you’ve raised any suns. Three fourteen year old boys could be quite physically imposing. I’m going to bet a dollar on the three fourteen year old boys beating up John Mulaney if they actually do this thing. Sophie Buttle talked about writing monolog for Taylor Tomlinson’s show. During the audition process, they apparently told Sophie the monologu should be about a page, and if it takes you more than an hour or two to write a page, you’re wrong for the job.
Sophie said, I banged it out really fast, and Taylor and I went and hung out. As plan. The next morning, I flew out to a comedy festival. When I landed, my manager has scheduled a zoom. I got to the hotel and we had a meeting with the head writer, the EP some other folks.
They decided they wanted to hire me. I had to leave the comedy festival early so that I could start that Monday. She explained how long it takes to write a first draft. Technically, our day starts at eight thirty am. We get a research packet with a bunch of online trends and options to write jokes about, and I have to be done with the draft by ten.
On Wednesday, they taped two episodes. Hey, that’s the thing, people do. I know one guy who’s taping Friday and Saturday in this session right now. Wednesdays is our double tape day, so I have to do two monologue drafts between eight thirty and ten, and those are much harder. I use the full amount of time on single tape days, so it feels like a truly great feed of human willpower to get two done.
Nay Brighetzi told The New York Times, I don’t plan on touring doing stand up forever. I want to make movies. People can think if you get too big, are you’re gonna change? The audience is very much in mind with everything that I will make again, I try not to do it for me. It’s for you.
I want them, the audience, to be able to trust that keep coming and see that I’m trying to do something a little against the green right now. When I started in comedy, some comics would be like, well, I’m not for everybody, and I’d be like, well, why do you want to not be for everybody? Nate has been saying the next special will be on Netflix, and I could see maybe one more special after that. I don’t want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way.
I need to let the next wave comedians come up. I got this tour and then maybe one more. We’ll see. I’ll believe that when it happens. John Stuart, he’s in a band, and the Asbury Park Press said they play it on Monday night, Church and State TM is Rick Barry on vocals, Andy Bova on guzar, Jim Bova on bass and John Stewart on the drums.
Apparently they were at Georgie’s Bar on Monday night. Stuart joked from the stage, we know almost eight songs tonight you get to hear seven of them. John was also confused and said, you guys, don’t put the Daily Show on at eleven. I drove here straight from the show. This is embarrassing.
Tina Fay worries that people actually believe she’s remaking The Golden Girls with Amy Poehler and told those folks go to a hospital now, no offense. Tina fe and Amy Poehler, it’s actually a great idea. You guys would crush it. Can’t you make like eight of them? For Netflix, just do it and be done.
There’s a fake image floating around. It features Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudro and Tina Fay as the Golden Girls. Tina told Entertainment Tonight, Oh, I didn’t know about this. I liked that it was fooling people like, why would we ever take a picture where Amy and Lusakudro in costume? But we are not.
If this fooled you, you might be a boomer. And if you’re gen X and this fooled you, go to a hospital. The Great American Comedy Festival comes to Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday, June thirteenth. They’ve announced the headliners River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and host Chip Chantry. Night will end with your headliner James Austin john And The festival began in two thousand and eight to honor Johnny Carson, who grew up in the area.
Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festival is back, Baby, this one not until October. It’s his fifth year, featuring international and regional stand up stars at various venues including the Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola arena. So, who’s there, John, Tom Sagora? Who we’re going to talk about tomorrow fun store I’m sitting on. I needed a headline.
I told you I’m taping two. I told you I admitted it. So I saved the Tom Sagora story to Schoogle. Tom sigorat Garth Brooks. If you can’t wait, But that’s tomorrow’s leadoff store.
You know, you know tap of Friday and Saturday back to back. What do you want for me? Sigora will open the festival on October second, then on the fifth, ohmid Julily. On the seventh, it’s Irish comedian Joanne McNally, who previously appeared at the festival in twenty twenty three. Morgan Jay, La based comedian and musician Morgan Jay, who’s been coming up a little bit on the show lately, makes his Dubai debut on October sixth at Dubai Opera and your closer for the festival on October twelfth that Coca Cola Arena.
Indian comedian Zakir Khan Cohn is performing in Hindi. The festival overall will feature shows in several languages, including English, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as interactive experiences across the city. Out today a new comedy album, Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy, recorded live in Montana. Simon Gibson took the stage with high Kicks before sharing several hilarious personal stories, including his time working as a customer service rep, a fancy coffee artist, and deli server, plus his weight gain slash weight loss journey, his hobbyist dad’s homemade magic wands, and more. Simon Gibson is described as Chris Farley meets Sam Kinnison.
Love it. Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy out today from a Special Thing Records, And I’ve got one more John Clees thing that I saved because you know, you like like a little fun, kicker story at the end of the podcast, leave everybody with a smile. It’s kind of the format works, right. It’s the format is like big names at the front, then talk about like some comedy festival overseas, kind of in the middle. At the end, I try and leave it with a smile.
Let’s how this works. You’ve caught onto this, yes, John Cleese. It’s an old brade magazine. The Third Wife got two properties. One was in London and one was in New York, and we had to sell the other three.
What’s the difference between a famous singer and a famous comedian? About two hundred million dollars. If you lose your nest egg at seventy, there’s not much alternative to constantly working. I could have married somebody rich. And that is your comedy news for today.
Boy, I bet you can’t wait to hear that Tom Sigoris story. I know you can’t wait. Well, I’m about to read it, but you can’t hear it until tomorrow because I pre tape Saturday. See yep.