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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. As I mentioned a few times, I want to take the weekend off. It was my son graduated from college. I didn’t want to be sitting there on Friday at four in the morning recording a bunch of episodes before I headed out.
A Rolling Stone caught up with John Mulaney. This is lengthy here. Apparently Mullaney first broke down the Rock Hall of Fame inductees and snubs with Rolling Stone in twenty eighteen. The plan was for it to be an annual tradition, Laney said govid and some personal problems got in the way, but he’s ready to recommit and says I’ll make this an annual thing now. Mullaney started off with some advice when you’re in your twenties, take as many photos of yourself as possible.
You’re so good looking. The topic of chubby Chicker, Rolling Stone asked Mullaney, does he have any experience with the twister Let’s Twist Again? Malaney said, well, I really appreciate Let’s twist again like we did last summer. It’s a funny lyric for a reboot I really like the bald faces of Let’s Twist Again like we did last summer, saying, remember we did the song the Twists last year, we’re doing it again.
And also, I think Let’s Twist Again is a better song than the Twist.
I don’t think I’m alone in that. Sorry, didn’t meaning make it sound like such a novel ideas. Chuppy Chick are still with us. Rolling Stone asked John, is there a group that you don’t care about that you want to see in the Hall of Fame? He said, okay, I mean a lot are in already helped me think a little.
Buttole Surfers, Flaming Lips, they’re not in right Stone, No, they’re not. Olney talked about Phish. This was hugely important music to us. It really kept bands alive. Dad, you have a band in nineteen ninety nine playing guitars, piano and Drum’s was not easy to find.
Funny exchange here, John, I have no opinion on the Black Crows being diplomatic. No, I genuinely have no opinion. So if that’s the pull quote, we’ve got a viral story. In twenty eighteen, John said that the Hall had an anti Chicago Bias. O’Laney said, a lot of things I said in twenty eighteen could be buffeted with, but in reality, John’s a little off.
I like that. They don’t say, well, John’s just misguided and might be on speed. They’re like, is there some truth? We won’t say no? All right?
Moving on. Tonight is the twelfth annual Patrise O’Neill Comedy Benefit Concert, Rosebud Baker, greer Bourne’s DC, Benny Bill Birds Him Dylan to Mesh Patel, Sean Patten, and Rich Voss. Pretty good lineup. That’s at New York City Center at seven point thirty. I’ve told the story in the past.
I’m not gonna be shy. Never ever once enjoyed an encounter with Patrise O’Neil. He just had this thing of like he would just come at you for no reason, just to see how you were to react. And like, dude, this is a professional workspace. We’re at a comedy festival.
You know, we’re trying to do interviews. Don’t do your stupid thing. Go away. So personally, Patrise O’Neil’s comedy funny. Patrise O’Neil, the dude, I know the comedians revere him, love him, never enjoyed my time with him.
That said, let’s raise some money tonight with a good lineup. Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group share this one with me from crack Nora Dunn. Remember when Nora Dunn was on SNL. Well back on May twelfth, nineteen ninety Andrew Dice Clay hosted SNL. He was quite controversial back in that time.
Nora Dunn refused to participate in the show. That week, SNL doubled down. They kept Dice and made repeated jokes about Nora Dunn. Cracked assd You’d been on the show for five years at that point, did you plan on coming back the next year? Nora said, I actually wasn’t coming back after my five years, but the reason was only because I didn’t want to do any more sketches.
I didn’t have any more sketches. I was really anxious to move on. A lot of what I call kids were coming in. I thought, boy, this humor is now bending towards twelve year old boys. She’s referencing Adam Sandler.
There, Nora Dunn and I could be friends. She says of Sandler, a great guy. But I have to tell you, when I saw him on the show playing that thing, I was like time to leave anyway. So Dice is gonna host the show, Nora tells Al Franken, I ain’t doing the show. I’m not coming in.
I called several other cast members and said, you know that Andrew Dice Clay’s doing the show, and They’re like no. Some were saying, well, I’m not to perform with him, and I won’t write for him, and I said, well, I’m not going to work with him. That’s how the word got out to NBC. It must have been Monday morning. I got a call from the AP.
He told me S and L was posting a piece on me that said my contract wasn’t going to be renewed. Cracked. Who did you voice your objections to that you weren’t going to do the show? Just Al Franken, Norah, Yeah, just Al Franken. I called Lauren on Monday morning, too, but I believe he was at a funeral.
He didn’t return my call. Franken wasn’t surprised. He actually asked Lauren that week not to have him on the show. He said, it’s a mistake. He’s divisive and people are going to turn against us if you have him on the show.
But Lauren said he was an interesting phenomenon worth examining. Nora said, well, I was Hitler. I’ve been examining him for years. That doesn’t mean I accept him. I know.
He says he was doing a parody, but the laughs are coming because they love the character and they agree with that character. He was Andrew Dice Clay, he was billed as him, he’s came out as him. Cracked, why do you think Lauren went forward with him as the host? Nora, I don’t know. I think he didn’t want admit he was wrong.
I think he was very, very upset the way I did it, which he calls bad form. But he did call him and he did know, and I didn’t think that anyone would notice. Crack said, how come you never objected to someone like Sam Kennison? Nora. I love Sam.
He was a smart comic. I got along with him very well. I’d seen him in clubs and he wasn’t hateful. Most of his jokes turned on himself. Dice was so hateful.
He’s whipping people up by saying things. Even Johnny Mack doesn’t want to repeat thirty years later. I’ll paraphrase jokes about aids. I’ll leave it there. People would pound their tables.
One of the good pieces I read on Dice was saying, if you listen to a show, people aren’t laughing, they’re pounding on the tables. They’re expressing anger. That’s what they’re angry about. Interesting to change here. Have you spoken to Lauren about any of this?
No, he never spoke to me again. He did hire me to do some things. He was the producer on a Seth Rogan movie and I got worded that Lauren wants you to do it, but he only wants to pay you twenty five hundred dollars and for the size of the role, it should have been like twenty five grand. I did it, but it was one of those things that his little message, you’re going to come and work for me for scale. I also noticed in the credits that I was put last after every character that could have been a walk on, and I had a pretty long scene too.
That’s the kind of thing I suspect. Laura of Wow I was seated at the fiftieth Aniverse in the last row of the studio. I wasn’t asked to be in anything, and in the montage of the year that I was on, I wasn’t in it at all, and I shouldn’t be saying this. I went on the floor afterwards. I ended up standing next to Marty Short watching Paul McCartney sing, and when we finished, we looked at each other and we had tears in our eyes.
Then I turned and there’s Lorne standing there. I hadn’t talked to him in years. I went up and I said, Lorne Michaels and hugged him fifty years. Good work. He just said yeah and walked away, and I went, now that’s a petty man.
Wow. The only times caught up with Eliza Slessinger, they were curious how she reaches different age audiences. Eliza said, I’m always developing jokes for me, and I’m mindful of who might be in the audience. But I’m very lucky that I don’t have a homogeneous audience. I think with some comics, you know exactly the archetype of their fans.
And because I’m fortunate enough to be able to play audiences across the country, you don’t really know who you’re gonna get. You can kind of guess, but we have everyone from conservative veterans to a super queer contingent to people who just look like your parents gen Z. So it’s always about the truth, and it’s always about saying something honest, because comedy comes from vulnerability and from honesty. I don’t hate gen Z or baby boomers. Comedy comes from a place of very much wanting to be seen and explain myself.
I don’t ever write anything to hurt anyone deliberately, and so all my comedy comes from this unending need to understand what the bleep is going on. I think we make the mistake of thinking that if it’s pro female, it has to be anti male, and both things can be true. That you’re critiquing something without aiming to harm and also wanting women to feel a little bit better. One of the comments that I sadly still get is women will come up to me and they’ll say that was my first stand up show, and I’ll be like, yep, that’s right, because your boyfriend probably only showed you his favorite male comics, so you thought comedy wasn’t for you. I’m not the only woman he does stand up.
Thankfully, there’s so many more now that when I started. So everybody can find something for them. But I think there’s a way to bring men in. I call it digestible feminism, bring men in a way. So you just present the facts.
You make everyone laugh, but you’re saying something that women in the audience can vibrate with, and men, if you don’t hate women, will be like, hey, that’s a good thought. Nobody buys a ticket to a comedy show to hear why their politics are wrong, while their gender is wrong, while their colors wrong. And so I try to keep it all social and light and just hate you with skating hot facts that are irrefutable wrapped in comedy so you can digest it and talk about it on your drive home to lacrescenta later. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it too.
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