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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Variety caught up with Ego Nootum and asked her, if you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing. Ego said, I was pre med because I’m Nigerian American and pretty much all parents want us to be doctors. I was a business miner as well in college.
I love my business classes. I love my accounting class. Doing a ledger was very fun to me. I don’t think i’d be an accountant. I’d be a headhunter recruiter because I love helping people find what they’re looking for.
If you said I’m looking for a pair of pants, I’d be like, what kind? What style? She took that question quite seriously. Most comedians would have clowned around there. All right, what made you laugh the most watching SNL before you were on it?
And she said Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, and Tracy Morgan. I loved, loved, loved watching them. Tracy was always so funny, and then getting to see him on thirty Rock just solidified that for me. Now that I’m there, Heidi Gardner makes me laugh a lot. She just embodies a character.
So well. Andy Dismukes makes me laugh a ton. James Austin Johnson’s really freaking funny. Everyone I work with is so funny. That’s not a fair question.
Kevin Hart has been out and about promoting diet Heart two. Movie Web asked him about the action and die Heart Too, said, there’s so many great scenes to go through, especially when you look at your sporing partner, people like John Cena. What’s it like working with him? Kevin said, John Cena was great. We were very lucky to have him.
He’s an amazing talent, a world star of today’s time. His success is warranted. He’s a tremendous athlete, a tremendous personality in the space of wrestlings at a mirror that to match that was a no brainer. How much did you prep in this one? My size is no match of course for John cenas I just try to come in with a significant amount of personality.
But there are moments in the movie where the alignment are jesting from me he to I are ones where the audience is going to run away remembering afterward our fight scene, especially so I would say buckle up. James Gordon was at the palifest. The Late Late Show is just about to die, the last one April twenty seventh, and they’re not bringing it back. There will be no next host of The Late Late Show. Gordon said they have twelve episodes left to do.
They probably a few were now, and they’ll likely be the biggest show that’s ever done. These will include three carpool karaoke sessions and one of his famous crosswalk to musical segments where he ties up traffic in LA and really ticks people off, as well as the teased Lion King musical performance with James Cordon and Tom Cruise. Cordon will also participate in They Take a Break segment with the Kardashian Family. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of James cordon Lately Show seeing clips, I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched the show. Cordon revealed one of the craziest ideas that they never got to, which would have been Jennifer Lopez living with him in a glass box to spend it over Sunset Boulevard for an entire day to promote her twenty twenty two Netflix documentary halftime.
He says it feels strange to be ending the show. It’s not right because you’re having such a great time it gets to go to work with all my best friends. But at the same time, I’m so certain it’s the right thing to do. I’m so absolutely certain that we did everything we wanted to do, and I think it’s really important to have things end. T K.
Kirkland is going to film a comedy show in Bermuda April fifteen. TK Kirkland billed as the Underground King of Comedy. Yeah, will be the star of the stage. April fifteenth. A local said there’s never ever been a comedy special shot in Bermuda.
Others have done it in Cuba, whatever, but not Bermuda. So it’s a big deal. He’s gonna film it Bermuda and then it’ll be picked up by a major network, either Hulu, TV One, Netflix, Whoever’s going to pay him the most money. But for us as a country, as an island, we will be showcased. If you want to go April fifteenth, eight thirty pm in Bermuda, be prepared for quote strong language is the warning on the ticket.
Chris Gether didn’t talked to Broadway World. They asked, hey, what’s your process like when it comes to sitting down and writing out a show, Getherd said, my writing process tends to be a lot of bullet points in a notebook and notes on my phone. Then on any given night, I’ll start organizing those bullet points to see, all right, if this follows this, does it build momentum or their callbacks to start the show up? If I place things in different places, A lot of it is just random scrawls in a notebook that if he sat down and looked at it, there’s no one else on earth who could possibly decipher what I was going for. I’ve often said if I ever dropped my notebook on the ground and someone found it, I think that might call the police because it’s almost unibomber level strange chicken scratch.
At the end of the day, no matter how much you put in the notebook, you have to get up on stage. You have to try it, you have to bomb, you have to eat it. I have done that many times with this materially as well, particularly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where I kept bombing and rebuilding it, bombing and rebuilding it. That’s a painful but necessary process. He said.
I’m really jealous of musician friends of mine. They don’t have to get up and play a half finished song in front of an audience to see how it goes. And if they have a song people like, they get to play it forever. Comedians throw it out once we’ve released it somewhere, and we pray we have a few more jokes in us. On the other side, if you like what I do here, you go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
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If you feel bad, gotta buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, good way to support the show. Jordan Strauss’s album is called The Funny Thing About Cancer. He says you have to be able to laugh at it. That’s one lesson that he learned after his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Jordan and Chelsea Strouss were planning their wedding in March of twenty two when Chelsea’s knee, which had been bothering her for almost a year, began to be unbearably painful.
Turned out she had bone cancer. Yek Strauss said the treatment was very aggressive, six rounds of chemo and a major surgery on her leg. They wanted to go through the wedding even though she had to start aggressive chemo just two and a half weeks before their wedding day. Two days before the wedding, Chelsea was hospitalized with a fever. It was told she wouldn’t be able to leave until her fever came down for a full forty eight hours.
She begged and pleaded they let her out for a quick ceremony, then she had to go back to the hospital. Jordan says it does seem a little odd a comedy album about my wife’s cancer diagnosis, but I wrote it with a thought in mind that I want this to be enjoyed by people that are going through the same thing. It’s got a website you can pay whatever you want. It’s a digital download twenty percent of all proceeds will be donated to bone cancer research foundations. Chelsea’s cancers in remission.
She’s finished her chemotherapy. They’re about to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary. The Age taking a look at some of these shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One of them is Dave Woodhead. He’s the host of Triple j’s Lunch on the radio, and he said, we get hundreds of thousands of people listening at any point, and I feel nothing when I go on stage, even if it’s just send people in the crowd.
I get very nervous and I start shaking. It’s not just being nervous, it’s the adrenaline kicking in. It’s such a rush the whole time. So I’m a radio guy and I can tell you anytime we do a big live show, I still would get nervous. I think it’s just normal.
If I didn’t feel nervous, I would feel weird. You just you get that adrenaline rush. I feel you, Dave Woodhead. When I was growing up, he joined the festival’s Class Clown competition for teens. He said, I kind of cracked the code that if you chucked a couple of jokes into the presentation got the teachers laughing that start bumping up your greeds.
He saw an ad for class clowns. He decided to give it a shot, and a week leading into it, I remember it being so irritable and really on edge. Just before he took the stage, he suffered a classic high school situation, an American pie moment where I completely ripped my jeans in the worst place, right next to the crotch. I had to do the first show holding my shirt down. But as soon as I got my first big laugh was the first time I relaxed in a week.
I suddenly felt common at ease. The rush is why you keep doing it after a while, to chase that feeling. He’s learned that the comedy festival is a mental game too, and he said, when you’re doing a show every night, you want to impress the audience, but you’re also hanging around with comics, so there’s almost a competitive thing in that. There’s just all this unnecessarily bs that can cloud what you’re actually trying to do with the biggest challenge when doing the festival is to remember to have fun, but remember the comedy’s a fun thing and the people have come out that night. Just want to see you have a good time.
Dave Woodhead show lunch for dinners at Trades Hall if you’re in Melbourne all the way through April twenty third, but not on Wednesdays. He’s off on Wednesdays. Maybe plays volleyball. Who knows. Let’s head on over to the website and see who is playing on Sunday and no Sunday is Easter?
Does the festival have a lot of shows on Easter? Do people go to comedy shows in Australia and Easter? James Rooks show is called Badong. Ever since he was a little kid, James has always been called by his family by his Filipino nicknamed Badong. Now, after turning thirty, he’s asking the question is it time to retire their name?
Metro mag said, my favorite show of the festival. Okay, so before we hear the clip, I have to cherry picket. He dropped a lot of f bombs of the setup. Here is about a song and the lyrics of the song and the punchline is that the couple in the song I’ve had sex four straight days. Then he did some crowd work.
Let’s jump in. It’s fine if you don’t. What’s your name, bro, Joe, You’re like, oh Joe, look, it’s fine, Joe. It’s fine if you don’t. No one does.
I don’t. I’m gonna be up fun with you. No one does, right Joe, I’m getting a vibe with you. They’re like, if we if I made like an R and B group with you and like hopped into booth and made our own remot today, so we’ll go something like this, We’ll go Mata run a Monday, took a for it. Drake gone Tuesday, center a text on Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.
Still haven’t heard from her. Like, let’s do one more here, boy, This website is getting slower every day. I hope you guys like this international stuff. I just find it interesting to hear some different voices rather than say, talk about Bert Kreisher every single day. You know, Oh, here’s Brian Lewis.
We talked about Brian yesterday. Hi guys, I’m Brian. I live in Brisbane. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it. It’s Australia’s biggest suburb.
Took his ages to get COVID up in Queensland. But if I’m honest, it takes the ages to get anything, so it’s really nice for me to be here. I’ve left at home in Brizzie. Always get this wrong. An eight year old, six year old and a one year old.
Yeah, none of them are mine. Just a very bad babysitter. Yea, Now they mind three kids? What a slot? All right, little slow start there, but oh kay, you know who else is playing in Melbourne on Sunday.
Kyle Canaane. Imagine I went all the way to Melbourne. I just saw Kyle Canaane. That would not be a good choice. I mean, I love Kyle Kanade, but I don’t need to fly nineteen hours to do that.
And that is your comedy news for today. On Tomorrow’s show, a look at all one hundred and fifty comedy specials released this year. Now by a look at, I mean, Johnny Mack reads you one hundred and fifty things. I don’t have time to analyze one hundred and fifty comedy specials or watch them or whatever. But if you want the fullest of everything that’s come out this year, check out the back end of Tomorrow’s podcast Normal Stuff.
At the top. I did that at the end. It’s seriously twelve minutes of me reading a list. I’m not sure it was the best idea, so I moved it to the end. But the front of the show is normal, and I meet you back here tomorrow.
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