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Caloroga Shark Media from Knickstown. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. People in this area are really hopped up for the New York Knicks, who last week eliminated the Boston Celtics from the NBA playoffs. Josh Gommoman is a Celtics fan and wrote a funny piece for GQ.
He wrote at nine to twenty six on a Wednesday night, I was at a concert in Queen’s when my friend texted me, you know you’re so loved in this world six exclamation points. The six exclamation points told me that the Boston Celtics had lost Game two of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, falling down zero two in the series to the New York Knicks. Despite having an otherwise wonderful night, I grew despondent as sarcastic wellness checks from my nick friend sent my phone into repeated spasms. My despair continued to increase. I’ve lived in New York City for nearly fourteen years, but I am deeply immutably from Massachusetts.
I regularly have my beloved Celtics trash talk to me by both the New York City natives and other transplants too cowardly to have imported their native allegiances when they arrived here. Last year, in a turn of events that was huge for me personally, the Celtics won the NBA Finals. But now the critics are back in full force. The criticism is stressful for me because I’m not, by nature a confrontational person. I apologize to my dog when I screwed over her so I can climb into bed.
I help strangers cary strollers up subway stairs. When people describe my work, they often refer to me as nice, even though the word funny is sitting right there. When basketball is involved, I’m an irredeemable hater. Should the Celtics lose this series to the next, which they did, I will suit my hometown squad for their effort and accomplishments, and I will warm myself by a blazing trash can of spite. I will take Solas and the fact that Lakers fans convinced themselves they were contenders in Lucas first season without having a legitimate starting center on their roster, the way your most delusional and tone deaf friend thinks they could win American Idol if Paula Abduel was still judging gone him and continues, I’m doing the Knicks.
This is Knicks down. I’m sorry if I’m being honest, though I’m a little jealous of Knicks fans. Let me be clear here, it’s not because of the Knicks themselves. People love to say the league is better when the Knicks are good. That is true, okay, but real quick, when is that?
No? That is also true. The Jalen Brunson era has been a thrill. I tied through gritted fingers. But before that, the team hadn’t been relevant for what a quarter of a century?
I’ll answer since nineteen ninety four. There was like six weeks of insanity once. But other than that, yeah, it’s been a while. They haven’t won a championship since nineteen seventy three. Still, deep down, I am envious of Knicks fans’ ability to feel their feelings when the Knicks lose.
I don’t remind you that historically that happens a lot. They feel bad, as they should, But when the Knicks win, their joy radiates through the streets of New York City. That is absolutely true. This is Nicks Town. Josh leaves us with this thought.
As a Massachusetts native and a hater, I’ll settle for the eighteen rings. Ouch More basketball. Shaquille O’Neal, he’s still doing his podcast. David Spade was the guest. They started talking about roasts.
Shaq said, yeah, I actually did a roast a long time ago. I’m talking to Jeff about doing another one. Fans assumed Jeff means Jeff Ross. Shack said, nothing is off limits with me. Somethinking about calling my roast black and white.
I’m gonna have five black comedians and five white comedians. David Spade floated the idea of Nicky Glazer. Shaq said, yeah, she’d be great. No actual plan there, but you’ll watch. Oh, by the way, on Sunday, don’t miss Sunday’s episode.
It’s a holiday weekend. You can download it, you know, Tuesday when you go back to work. That’s cool. But Sunday’s episode is my official declaration of the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy. I’ve picked the four names that Sunday’s episode, I’ve already recorded it.
I’m very happy without came out. So don’t miss Sunday’s episode again, holiday weekend and totally get it. Why do you think I pre taped it, but you know, make sure you listen to it at some point Sunday, the Mount Rushmore of late night comedy. One person who might be on it you never know is Conan O’Brien, who’s in the news every day now joining the cast of Toy Story five. He will play a new character called Smarty Pants.
I love it already. Toy Story five hits Theater’s June nineteenth, twenty twenty six. No plot details yet, but the movie is said to involve the toys dealing with modern day kids fascination with electronics. Ernie Hudson takes over the voice of Combat Carl, that character previously voiced by the elite Carl Weathers. Conan O’Brien confirmed the news on Instagram, saying these films are amazing.
I can’t believe this. He added that his role is better than that of Buzz. He says it’s the best character of them all. Ah. Ricky Gervais will be honored with the twenty eight hundred and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
This will happen one week from today, Friday May thirtieth, Joining journalist mc Angelique Jackson on Vine Street will be Netflix executive Ted Sarandos and this is Spinal Tap star Christopher guest. They will be the guest speakers. Why I don’t know either. Walka Fame producer Anna Martinez says the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is honored to welcome comedian Ricky Gervais the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Finally, a star that will give snarky commentary every time somebody walks by.
I always knew we needed a comedian’s touch on our themed sidewalk. If you want to go sixteen twenty eight Vine Street, May thirtieth, eleven thirty am Pacific time. If you don’t want to go, but you want to see it, they’ll stream it live worldwide for free at walkafame dot com.
Also getting a star Mike Sure Mike the showrunner of shows like Parks and rec…
You may know him as Moe’s from the Office. Variety caught up with him. Sure said, the thought crossed my mind that The Office was so popular they’re even giving one out to the twenty fourth year character on the show. This didn’t seem to be the kind of thing I was eligible for. I’d think of stars and the Walk of Fame as going to George Clooney or Julia Roberts.
I didn’t think of them going as folks with my job, but I like that go to writers. I’m a very pro writer guy, and I think there are plenty of folks who deserve to be honored in this way. He joked it would be more meaningful if they put his star near a chipotlet because of the amount of chipotle that we’ve eaten in writers’ rooms. Sure was a writer for SNL. When he told his friends that he was taking a job at the US remake of the Office, they thought he was nuts, He said, everybody thought it was a terrible idea.
Every one of my friends they was like, oh boy, this is going to be a disaster. We were such fans of the British show. Sure got to know Greg Daniels, who was adapting The Office, and soon became his mentor. Sure says I left a meeting with him and sent my agent and manager an email that said, I don’t know if the show’s going to work, but if he offers me a job, I’m going to take it because he’s going to teach me how to write it’s exactly what happened. Even if that show only lasted six episodes and have been canceled, would have been the right move.
Greg taught me everything I know about half hour TV writing, how to break stories, how to write jokes, how to create interesting characters, and not to just run a show. He taught me a billion things. But the thing that’s most lasting is best idea wins. He didn’t care if the idea came from a staff writer, co EP, or an EP with twenty five years of experience. He didn’t care whether it came from someone in catering, a best boy, a camera operator, or a costumer.
Whatever, the best idea was for the moment that he’s trying to solve, for the problem he’s trying to solve, he took that idea. It’s such a simple thing to say that, but it takes an extremely eagless person to actually enact it. I really enjoyed Sarah Silverman’s new special. It is not the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. So there’s basically a short chunk and a long chunk.
The short chunk at the beginning seems to be joke Sarah had worked on that had been sitting around and that part was very, very funny, and then eighty five percent of it is Sarah talking about her parents. It’s one man show ish or one woman show ish. I did notice she plants herself in front of that stand up microphone and never moves, not working the stage at all, just standing behind the microphone, telling stories about her parents. As I’ve been saying about specials lately. Really nice company.
I’m not sure it was the funniest thing I’ve ever watched, but I really really enjoyed it as it was playing. Here’s my list of the best of twenty twenty five so far. The top tier Number one by a mile is the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien thing. Number two Tom Sigora’s Bad Thought is hilarious. Neither of those are stand with Specials, so Getting to Stand Up top Stand Up Special, slash three overall.
Bert Kreischer is lucky on Netflix. It’s just funny. Bret Goldstein’s HBO special from April, or really like that. I have Sarah at five Mattel Lane al Dente that just came out last week as well. Same no to Sarah.
Maybe it’s not hilarious, but it’s a real nice company. I got him at six and Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother at seven. That’s the top tier. In the middle tier, these are, you know, good, but not a level like the others. Roy Wood Juniors Act your age, you’ll find that on Hulu.
Marsha Fear’s America’s Sweetheart on Netflix is okay, and Gabe Iglesias The Legend of Fluffy was really funny, It’s just way too long. And Jessica Curson Special from Hulu. That’s the middle tier. If you’re in Boston, w Camal Bells at the wilbur tonight he tild the Boston Globe. I still think that professionally, everything I’m doing is built on the operating system of being a stand up comedian, even if I’m directing or hosting.
I’m a stand up who also knows how to director, write a produce. So I know how to handle this difficult situation because I’ve done stand up comedy forever. I mentioned this the other day. He chose to honor his date at the Kennedy Center despite some politics happening in the world. Bell was boarding a plane when he learned the news.
Rather than canceled it. He decided to go through with it. Bell told the Globe Trump said I had to take it over because it had gotten too woke. Belle’s reaction, he thought it was woki before. Well, I’m gonna have a woke fest.
He joked that the W in his name stands for wokie. It’s actually Walter. I didn’t know that. To me, it was an opportunity. I’m going to show up and look this right in the face.
Is the National Guard going to be there? Is Trump going to be there? Belle’s opener, Dwayne Kennedy took the stage and said, this is the last time you’re going to see two black guys in the Kennedy Center. John Lovettz is at the wind Creek Events Center in Bethlehem tonight. He spoke to McCall magazine, which is still a thing.
They were curious how John Lovetz describes his style of comedy. Loved said, it’s about my personal opinions about stuff and trying to understand what’s going on in the world. It’s funny everyone thinks of themselves as being young and hip, and all of a sudden, it’s not. It becomes the opposite of what you grew up to believe in. Some people go along with it, and I just can’t.
The show’s just me talking about different subjects and what’s going on in the world and how I see it. Welcome to old Man Mountain, where I live. John LOVETTZ. I guess it’s more about things that happen that make me do a double take. It’s usually something I find ridiculous, and then I start making fun of it.
The stuff that’s going on now is foreign to me. As a comedian, it’s our job to make fun of everything. That’s what comedians do, point out the absurdity. John Lovett’s favorite comedians include Woody Allen, Who’s why I became a comedian. The guys on SNL were all funny.
Robin Williams and Charles Grodin were hysterical. Charles that’s very dry sense of humor where you could say something really dumb and he would just give you this look and you’d die laughing. Any advice for aspiring comics from John LOVETTZ. The main thing for any performer is to be funny. The way you’re funny.
Use your personality and what’s unique about you, the little stuff and the idiosyncrasies you do alone when you’re with your best friend or family. Put that in your work. If you do that, you’ll be unique, funny and people relate to it. But you gotta really work at it. It’s not gonna be handed to you.
What’s love it’s working on stand up and some shows with Andrew Dice Clay. There’s a bill John Lovett’s and Dice. Is that the same audience at all? Apparently it is. The Veil Comedy Festival is back this weekend.
Andy Haynes is appearing there. He likes Colorado, he says, I usually you said as an excuse to go skiing or find some water to jump in. It was asked what he knows about the Veil Comedy Festival, knowing except it’s in Veil, I presume, and out today a proper comedy album. I’m always a fan of those. It’s from Shanna Christmas, highly intelligent.
It’s out on YouTube and Amazon already now. An audio version via Comedy Dynamics Today. Shot live at an intimate jazz club in the heart of downtown Vegas. The special captures Shanna Christmas doing which he does best, making people laugh so hard they forget they’re in a dark room with strangers, with machine gun punchlines, razor sharp observations, and stories that swing from wild to wicked. Shanna invites audiences into a world that’s as smart as it is, side splitting, highly intelligent on YouTube and Amazon and an audio app wherever your audio albums are streamed or sold.
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