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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron’ Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It continues to be a very suspiciously slow time of the year, and as I’m looking at it, I think a big part of that is because Netflix seems to be in a gap between doing comedy specials. A lot of times they have one every week, and they seem to be taking a month off here. The last Netflix major release was Tim Dillon on April fifteenth, and we only really had two other specials other than you know, there’s a YouTube special every five minutes.
But Hulu had Curson on the twenty fifth and Brett Goldstein on the twenty sixth, and nobody’s out really doing press looking Ahead on Amazon May sixth, so that’s Tuesday, right, David Spade’s Dandelion is out, Then another ten day gap Matteo Lane on Hulu on the sixteenth. Finally Netflix gets back into the game on the twentieth with Sarah Silverman hbo Is, Jerrod Carmichael on the twenty fourth, and then Mike Birbigley on Netflix on the twenty six So it’s a slow month coming up here. Fortunately, Netflix gave us something to watch Today in the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Conan O’Brien had accepted the prize on March twenty third, and they filmed it. It’s funny who gets spotlighted and who doesn’t.
On the Netflix page, it says cast Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Will Ferrell, Bill Burr, Camille On Jeohnny, Paul Rudd, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Reggie Watts. I personally would have mentioned David Letterman, but that’s just me anyway, that’s out on Netflix today.
Speaking of Letterman, Jay Leno was talking about Dave recently.
Leno had that big interview on the Graham Benzinger podcast, and Jay told a story about being out on a motorcycle with comic Will Schreiner. They decided to drop by Letterman’s house. Leno recalled, thinking, Hey, let’s stop in Malibu and see Letterman. Let’s just surprise him at his house. Letterman was apparently thrown by the visit.
Leno says it was the most awkward thing. Dave was like, huh, okay, come on in. Leno said, We’re like, oh, this was a mistake. It was just so awkward because you have nothing else in common other than comedy. Really, I’m assuming this took place in the eighties, when Leno was a frequent guest on David’s show, and not in the post Tonight Show era.
Benjader was curious what would it take to see Leno and Letterman reunited. Jay said, I have no idea. Dave’s a quirky guy, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Believe me. If Dave wanted to do something, I would do it.
But I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate these kinds of things. Yes, you do, Jay, I can’t get a sense of is Jay a really good guy or is he a bad guy? I know there’s the whole cone of thing. I get it. And when NBC went to Jay and said, hey, you want eleven thirty back, he could have said no, absolutely.
So there’s that. But going back to the eighties, you know, Jay was the Monday guest host for the Tonight Show. Somebody offers you the Tonight Show, you’re gonna say yes. There’s all the stuff with his wife that I think I have a story for that. In tomorrow’s script.
He seems like a good dude, I don’t know, never met him. Comedians don’t seem to like him. The guy was on the Tonight Show for years and at the number one show. Somebody likes the guy, you know. But I do agree with Leno when he says, but I tend to get my handbitten when I instigate these kinds of things.
I don’t mistrust Dave. I like Dave. I think he’s great. He still makes me laugh more than anyone else. The Sag After Foundations shared an Instagram video featuring Caitlin Olsen explaining improv.
When you’re doing improv, just listen, listen, listen, listen. You don’t have to talk much, especially if you’re in a scene with a bunch of people who know what they’re doing. Listen, let them be funny. And when you have something to say, go ahead and go for it, and don’t be afraid to fail because not everything that comes out of your mouth is going to be home run. And that’s okay, it’s not supposed to be.
Shang Wang was on the Where We Live podcast. Shang says, as a comedian, you’re not writing eight hours a day. You just have to sit down once a day. It could be ten minutes could be two hours. But the idea is make it habitual and make it a daily part of your life, just like anything else that you want to pursue.
Seriously, you can’t cram it all in a one day, right, so it’s helpful to come back over and over to your ideas and to give yourself time to think of new things. Josh Jones spoke to The Pink News you’r home for Comedy News. Josh’s new tour is called I Haven’t Won the Lottery, Here’s another tour. But what if he did win the lottery? Josh says, I want new paving.
I’ve been deweeding. It’s getting very boring. He currently lives in the city but would like somewhere with a garden. He doesn’t do current affairs in his act because people are paying for a night out and I just want to entertain them, so I try and keep it light. I just want them to have the best night, not the best night, you know what I mean.
I’m not abba, but I’m pretty good night out. Josh was picked on in school growing up, and he tells the story I remember telling my mom I was getting picked on instead of being like all right, I’ll speak to their mom. My mom taught me how to uppercut properly. She was like, if you uppercut them, they lose their balance, and then while they’ve lost their balance, to start hitting them. So I did that and it worked.
People kind of stop picking on me, because no one wants to get battered by the gay guy. I’m going to take the break here and when we come back, adults situations. If you’re listening with kids, hit stop, hit a checked, be right back, okay. As I mentioned before the break, serious topic here. If children are listening, hit stop please.
Russell Brand appeared in court on Friday. Russell is facing multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. He was in court for fourteen minutes. This one month after British prosecutors had charged Brand with one count of rape, one of oral rape, two counts of sexual assaults and another of indecent assaults. Brand stood inside a plexiglass box in the courtroom, wearing a shirt opened to show his chest and holding a pair of gold rimmed sunglasses.
I’m going to just refrain from editorializing there and I will just continue. Mister Brand confirmed his name, date of birth, and British address, then listened without showing any visible emotion. Brand has denied all of the charges. He was granted bail. The judge of the actor was free to go.
Mister Brand said thank you and left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and jumped in a black Mercedes Benz. The judge referred the case to a higher court called a Crown Court. That hearing is scheduled for May thirtieth. Any trial might be like a year from now because of a backlog of cases in Britain’s judicial system. Switching gears.
Anticipating a slow news day, I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you got any topics, guys? Dylan jumped in and floated, what was the last truly great special, meaning one that people still talk about a few years later. There hasn’t been one in the last two years. Dylan floats Shane Gillis live from Austin in twenty twenty one, Tompsigora’s Ballhog, Bo Burnham’s Inside and Dave Chappelle’s eight forty six the last great special. Now, I am an admitted comedy snob.
I gotta think about that. My brain is already going back to like Chris Rock from like twenty years ago. Let me just google here all time comedy specials. I’m doing that and anything that I find comes from twenty twenty three, So that doesn’t answer Dylan’s question. Let me go back.
I actually have my list. Let me see my Best of twenty twenty three. That year I gave number one to Gary Goleman. I don’t think we’re still talking about that one. Tod Barry, we’re not talking about I do have Shane Gillis at three and Sigur at four and Canane at five for Best of twenty twenty four, the Roast of Tom Brady.
We are still talking about that. That might be the answer, Dylan. I know that’s not really a stand up special. I also had a tell triumph Onnie Chang David Cross a Doomian. So yeah, it’s been a minute.
If I have to pick, and I’m not going to pick something from twenty years ago, I think I’d have to go with maybe one of those Chappelles. It’s been a minute, though, you are right now, Erin. I sent a link to Vogues twenty of the Funniest Female Comedians of All Time, and she couldn’t remember if I’ve done this one or not. And I couldn’t remember if I’ve done this or not, but hey, let’s do it. I’m doing this cold now as I scroll down here, I haven’t even seen the list, but there’s a picture of Gilda Radner, and Gilda is a great choice for this list.
And you know, other than the obvious, you wish Gilda were still around. Had she been part of SNL fifty, she would be up there in the pan antheon. But because she has passed, she’s not visible, and I don’t think she gets talked about, and she would have had a very visible year in twenty twenty five with SNL fifty. All right, I’m gonna fly through here now. The first name is Moms Maybley, which wants me to editorialize.
If I don’t have something to say, I’m just going to move along. I’m not really familiar with Moms Maybley’s comedy. I back in the day programmed some of her records a few times, but it’s just from another era, so they didn’t play well on the radio, and then we stopped playing them. So I don’t really have anything to say about Moms Maybley. But sure, why not Gilda.
Joan Rivers. I’ve talked about it many times. I knew Joan worked with Joan, was in Joan’s apartment, one of the greats. Definitely still talked about Wanda Sikes. I guess Margaret Show now.
Johnny Mack admittedly oversteers against Margaret Show. Here’s why. When I first started It’s serious, a person representing Margaret Show called me an idiot for not hiring Margaret. And that’s not a good way to get me to do a deal with you. That’s not how to come at me.
So I did not hire Margaret. And you know I’ve got a little buyas there. Melissa McCarthy, Okay, Sure, Tiffany Hattish. I mean, I don’t know who else is on this list or not. That seems a little high.
Jenny Slats. People really dig Jenny’s slate. Sure, Patty Harrison. I’d like to think I know a lot about comedy. Maybe I don’t.
Vogue wrote, I don’t think there’s a comedian working today who makes me as consistently sick to my stomach as Patti Harrison, whether she’s guest starring on I think you should leave. Getting banned from Twitter for impersonating Nila Wafer’s singing nonsense songs in her stand up back or delivering a perfectly improvised line in theater camp Hey, Netflix, when is her special dropping? Leslie Jones? I think Leslie is more fun than funny, more attitude than material. Tig Nataro, Sure, fantastic.
Who doesn’t like Tig Nataro? Nicole Bayer? I hear Nicole every day as I listen back to this podcast. She voices a commercial and I hear her every day. Michelle buttell Yeah, Michelle’s a lot of fun.
Absolutely. Ali Wong has a couple great specials. Sarah Sherman one of my current favorites. Interesting pick on the list here, Maria Bamford. Sure, I think Maria works better in person than in clips.
If Maria comes to your town, definitely go see Maria Eightye Bryant, Amber Ruffin, Catherine Cohen, let’s go at Cotska one of my favorites as well. She’s just squirky and fun. I like her specials a lot.
And then the list abruptly ends.
Okay, what do you guys think erin? Who do you think should be on the list? I’d love to hear from you daily Common News Facebook group erin already knows that, and we’ll leave on a downer. We found out on Friday that Ruth Buzzy had passed away at age eighty eight, best known for her time on laugh In playing a matron who wields her purse. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
Yikes. Oh yeah, Ruth was on Sesame Street. That’s kind of how I know her from. Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I remember Ruth. Old people like remember her on Sesame Street.
Yeah, I totally forgot that was the thing, all right. She also appeared in Freaky Friday, the Real One from nineteen seventy six, the famous movie The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again nineteen seventy nine. I’m not making fun of the movie. If you’re of my age, you remember that movie. You know that list I just read Ruth Buzzy should be on it.
And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.