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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. My son graduates college today, So both today and tomorrow are pre tapes that I did about a week ago so that I could be with the family today. I’m sure you can understand. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker.
Bill said, there was a thing for a while while we’re holding comedians accountable for what they were saying, like we were these wizards like would go on stage and say something, and then suddenly people thought that and then meanwhile corporate America could be as effed up as they want to be. Then Burr asked the interviewer, are you homophobic? The interviewer said no. Burr said, all right, what joke can I tell that would make you homophobic? Is there a joke?
How does that joke go? The New Yorker said, I mean, I agree with that up to a point. But I just wrote this piece about how parasocial relationships. Burr cuts in the article says, with visceral disdain parasocial relationships. Who’s going to say that now?
Is that a same term parasocial? That sounds like some bs to censor comedian and blame the ills of society on a comedian rather than the people that are actually making the efing laws. I’m not running into a box store, I’m not hiring people. I’m not trying to poison the fing a food supply New Yorker. As a journalist, if I say I just wrote a bunch of stuff down and you don’t have to listen to me, that wouldn’t fly.
I have to take responsibility for what I’m saying. Bur. Journalism is not stand up comedy. We’re not in the same world, New Yorker. So what do you think your responsibility is?
Bur? My responsibility is to make you laugh. And if I’m being malicious, people know. People know if you mean it or not. So what people did you?
People? You journalists for a while, they’re not even because you gave an f just because it was a hot story. All of a sudden, you’d finish your act and somebody’d be like, I want to talk about some of the statements you made, statements I was up there telling jokes, or it continues. I’ve had people who have said fed up stuff about me on the internet and then they come up to me and they’re like, Hey, Bill, how’s your family, and I want to be like, you don’t give an f about my family, but I can’t because they’re a white woman, and I can’t say anything. Oh my god, when a white woman complains, people listen.
So I’m just cordial and those are liberals, dude and burst? Are we only going to talk about this because I don’t want to be this like political ideology. Guy Bert was there to talk about Glengarry Glenn Ross. Really good piece in the New Yorker. It’s behind a paywall, but if you’re good at the Internet, you can figure it out.
Nate PERGATSI, you talked to USA Today last week. They described the scene as Nate is at the fundraiser for the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Nate gets up. He jokes he has a sustain for reading because every book is just the most words. We’re told he’s wearing a black tracksuit on zip to reveal a casual white T shirt and sneakers, and he opens up with I didn’t know you all wore suits.
My business casual is different than your business casual. It’s the most ties I’ve ever seen in my life. That’s a good way to warm up the crowd. I like it, He apologizes to the attendants. Reading is a hard thing.
I really want to do it. I love the idea of it. He talked about his new book and said, We’re not a book that’s better than anybody. We’re just one that sits there and it’s a fun read.
And then after us you go back to the books that they are actually going to le…
Nate looked back on the days of starting out and said, started in New York, I’d stand on the corner handing out flyers, and I would get stage time if you could bring people into the show. Yeah, if you’ve ever been to New York City, I feel bad for those people doing that. You see them all the time in the Times Square area. It is awful, and Nate said, I didn’t imagine it to be the level that it’s gotten, meaning his career being really huge, specifically playing in front of nineteen thousand people at the Bridgetone Arena. It’s kind of weird because you hit a moment with this thing that’s been driving me for twenty years, and I’ve got to think about what the next thing’s going to drive you.
That’s where the Nate Land Company and all the other stuff came in. As he said in a few other interviews, he thought about, you know, maybe not being a clean stand up. There were times and you’d feel like, all right, if I went another route, maybe I’d get to jump up. But fortunately I always tell myself, no, stay the course and just trust that it’s going to work out.
And then he once again in this interview, floated that he’s going to do two m…
Osco at Costco is part of a New York Times series where Asian American comedians talked about people they really dug Osco talked about Tignatour and said she’s a friend now, but before that it was a comedy idol of mine. She directed my first HBO specialty Intruder. She’s unapologetically herself as a comedian in person, an artist super deadpan, and her joke no Moleste plays on linguistics and uses that as tangient Osco explains, a lot of Americans only know one language, English, so the idea of hearing the word moleste is like, oh, it sounds like something that would have a negative connotation. She does the classic if this then what set up in stand up comedy? That structure only works when you continue building out the bigger picture and go further, and she does that really well.
I think about that joke a lot because it’s so simple. It’s not over explaining a situation. It’s trusting that all humans communicate similarly, and then we all have the ability to see of the absurd in situations. That’s what I love about it. She plays at the height of people’s intelligence.
Moa. Mayer spoke to The Houston Chronicle about coming to the States and said, there is an adjustment period. You can’t just land and feel at home right away, a massive adjustment to the geography, the buildings, the people, everything. I landed here a few days before Halloween. I didn’t even know what the hell Halloween was.
Then two days later everyone’s naked and crazy and there’s blood everywhere. Is beyond shocking and terrifying. It was a lot emotionally. I didn’t have my mom or dad with me. It was just my sister and my brother.
Was really tough for a while. Where a parent’s going to be okay. I left right before the oil fields were set ablaze. They wanted to protect me and get me out of there, but I almost wished I didn’t leave. I wanted to stay with my mother and help as much as possible.
Zarna garg I told a story on Fox News is Brian kill MEA’s show about how her father had set her up for an arranged marriage, and at fourteen years old, Zarna made the decision, no, Zarn, it’s old, Brian. My dad was like, listen, if you don’t want to get married, you can’t live here. He thought he would scare me to submission. And I thought he’d come around. I thought he’s riddled with grief because his wife just died, my mom, and then he’s going to come around.
This is all going to be okay. We’re basically in a face off. She wound up couch surfing for two years. I showed up on my friend’s house and after day and my friend’s mom was like, you should go back. And that’s when it hit me like, oh my god, I have nowhere to go, and was almost two years of where can I go?
Tonight. Zarna says her father was coming from a good place. I know it feels shocking here in America, but what he remembers is that I walked away from a guaranteed life that he was going to set up for me. He wasn’t a bad guy, to be clear, he wasn’t. He came from a good place.
I have three siblings who were arranged. My sister was arranged and is deliriously happy and successful. TJ. Miller is really into bitcoin. He says, eventually there will be a movie about the bitcoin revolution, and it will be interesting because the revolution didn’t happen all at once.
According to TJ, it takes only a little over two full days to get the average person up to speed on bitcoin. He was asked why more celebrities aren’t bitcoiners. DJ says most people refuse to sit down and study. Again. He was on Coin Stories and told host Natalie Brunell it’s really hard to get people to study after they graduate from any level.
According to TJ, it will take you about fifty hours of study to truly understand bitcoin. So by two days, he means two full days. See, I thought he meant, like, you know, two days in a row, No fifty hours. So to say somebody, it’s going to take fifty hours feet to understand this, They’re like, I don’t want to. They can’t even watch a netfl series, they can’t even watch White Lotus because it takes seven hours.
Miller introduces himself as the only celebrity that is a bitcoiner. I can’t really think of anyone else you can tell, and I’m passionate about it. So what I’d like to be able to do is be somebody that helps bring cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring more people to it. And that is your comedy news for today. To enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
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