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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. June Gaffigan caught up with Las Vegas Weekly, and although it seems like Jim has accomplished everything in the comedy world, he says, there’s stuff I want to do, but I guess I learned a long time ago that it’s the creed of fulfillment I should focus on. It sounds corny, there’s nothing better than coming up with a new joke. I realized this when I finally appeared on Letterman, which was such a huge goal of mine, and after that I was kind of confused.
What do I do now that I achieved this goal? Made me reevaluate what I really love about it. Jim spoke about his kids. They’re ages twelve to twenty one, so when we’re all together it’s usually around the holidays. They consistently have no interest in attending my shows, but when they were little, we threw them on the bus for a month.
They’ve explored the world a little bit. Jim spoke about doing S and L during the election cycle. It was bizarre, is what you would think. But also I was usually done after the cold Open, so it was gearing up for two minutes of work as somebody who does stand up for like an hour. I kind of missed some of that longer process, but it was an opportunity I could never imagine just so amazing, and doing the fiftieth season was so incredible.
If anything, it really surprised me because it was the first time I’ve done something where I felt like most people saw it. Maybe they didn’t see the show, but they saw a clip of it. So it was the first time I was involved in something like that. There are very few people who were like, what’s snl. I laughed at the New York Post.
They said, exclusive interview with Joe List, and I’m like, all right, but it’s not like you got I don’t know Taylor Swift. It’s Joe List, no offense, work with Joe, good guy. But you know, yeah, well from the exclusive interview with Joe List, Joe exclusively, he tells The New York Post. Every time I finish a special, I can’t believe I did it again. You know, you’re doing an hour on stage and you’re like, how am I gonna write material again?
I’m not gonna have this much stuff?
And then you do it.
Feels like a miracle every time. I feel like this special is better than the last one based on audience reactions. Plus, it’s the first one I’ve done that wasn’t filmed in New York at the Village Underground. It’s the first time I’ve cut together two different nights in two different venues, so it’s a lot of first for me. I think it’s very good.
I could be wrong. As for the time, Well, small Ball Joe List exclusively tells the New York Post I was opening for Louis C.K. Nine years ago and we did the LA fourm, which is a huge, sixteen thousand seed venue. I didn’t really know him at the time. Then we all got on a private jet and he was like, what a night.
That was the best show. Joe List playing small Ball at the LA Forum. I’m a big baseball guy, and I just like the metaphor of drawing a walk and bunding a guy over because he sees so many specials out of a crane shot and it’s at a stadium or an arena. The guy comes at the stage and it’s some sort of big act out, which is fine forever’s doing it, but for me, it’s just like I’m standing here. I’m not going to move around a lot, but I’m gonna get the job done.
It’s not gonna be too flashy. I like this part too. Joe List exclusively tells The New York Post the number one comment I get after shows is that audience members didn’t think I was tall. I’m very tall, six like an athlete. But I’ve had crooked teeth and glasses of most of my life and a bad jaw on I’ve been around Joe List, especially when a podcast company I worked at shared the studio with where they would tape Tuesdays with stories Joe and Mark Norman.
I don’t remember thinking that Joe List was tall. I don’t remember thinking anything Joe said. People think that I’m gonna sci fi. I’ve never read a Harry Potter. I’m horrible at math.
I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings. I don’t play chess, and I get laid a good amount. I’ve had no formal education whatsoever. I went to zero college. The other thing is I like foreign films, but I’m also obsessed with hockey, so you know I’m a complex guy.
Brad Williams spoke to the Independent about playing larger venues. Does he changed his style at all? Brad said, the show has always been sort of high energy. I’ve un told many times that the show was meant for theater, and maybe that’s just an over compensation for my size where I’m trying to make it as big as possible. So this show, other than the material, in terms of the energy in the scale, doesn’t changed much.
It’s not like a Garth Brooks Chris Gaines situation where I’m a completely a different person. If you like my show, you’ll like this show. No politics. I don’t fancy myself a political comedian. I don’t want to be a political comedian.
I don’t think I’m smart enough to be a political comedian. So no matter who you voted for, you can have a good time at my show. I want everyone just to have a good night out and no matter who you voted for. So I wanted to forget about the things that are going on in the world. I want you to put down your phones and not doomscroll for two hours about headlines.
I have very strong opinions about certain topics, but even when I bring them up with my show, the last thing I want you to do say hey, you think this way, you’re stupid, or you voted for this guy, you’re dumb. I think it’s really dismissive. We all want the same thing. We all want success. We want safety, security for our friends, for our neighbors, for our family.
Then to be able to advance in our careers and be able to do that. It’s what literally everyone wants. We have different thoughts on how to achieve the goals, but my job is to entertain anyone who buys a ticket. That’s my job. Well, said Brad Williams.
Cameil Non Gianni. He said, when I started doing comedy, the whole thing was in Chicago doing open mics. Was like, I have to talk about stuff no one else is talking about. But now how many guys are talking about the exact same thing. Cancel culture, anti trans stuff, whatever the f it is, it’s exactly the same.
Gianni said. It’s really weird to go up after someone who did a bit about how interracial dating is wrong and did pretty well with the crowd. Is that a thing? Is someone actually doing that as material in twenty twenty five? If I’m not familiar with such a set, but I will listen to Camille Camille said such comedians aren’t even committed to their own philosoph They say two things simultaneously.
We’re like street level philosophers, and it’s just a joke, and depending on what the attack is, that’s a defense. Oh, it’s just joking. But also what we do is important. We’re speaking truth to power. Both those things can’t exist at the same time.
Verbiglia, on a similar note, said the decontextualization of sound and video in the last decade has given anyone who speaks in a microphone a certain new level of self consciousness. It’s like, what does this paragraph sound like? What does this sentence sound like? What does this word sound like? You start to isolate everything, and I’m not free of that.
I do think, Oh, could this be cut out of context? Forbigs defends Tony Hinchcliff the infamous joke there, Burbig said, you can like the joke or not, but it was a joke. The ever so serious Harry Connoboluh said, my stuff has always been heavy. That’s always what I found most interesting. Racism and sexism, or wealth and disparity.
And none of this stuff is new. They’ve been around since the founding of this country. So to me, I’ve always wrestled with the dark stuff. I’ve always found that the most absurd. That’s the kind of stuff my hero has talked about.
If anything, I’ve been trying to get lighter. The stuff that’s heavier has more impact when it’s surrounded by things that are lighter, and also allows the audience they get to know me outside of just somebody who has beliefs. When the audience feels like they like you, like they know you, when you give them the stuff with the weight, it digests better. It’s like the difference between a random person sharing their personal beliefs versus a friend. When it’s a friend, I like this person.
Now he’s telling me this thing, it makes me more likely to listen. I feel like that’s how I’ve been approaching it, having these conversations. It definitely opens you up. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker about the cable news networks and said they’re trying to turn my brain a mush and I’m helping them. Every night, Debt’s scrolling on Instagram and need start reading again.
Then every election it just comes down immigration and the other usual five or six talking points. It’s like how we go through another election. No one’s talking about the complete out of control greed. Most amazing thing for me during the pandemic, other than the fact that a virus got politicized, was the fact that if you had a three hundred thousand dollars house and you were trying to sell it, it was difficult. If you had a forty million dollar house, they couldn’t keep them on the market.
I was thinking, where are they getting this money? How about this? How about Democrats haven’t been able to decide who they wanted for their Democratic nomination for three elections. Sanders wanted both times, and they said, nah, so why I have the primary? They didn’t want them because he was gonna go after the stuff that’s paying all the corrupt people.
These are liberals.
And then you see all the stuff that the right wing people doing right now, pa…
It’s like you guys are doing that four or five years ago. If you look at the news, well they show when they show a Trump are they just show the dumbest person they could find, going Donald Trump’s a genius. That’s what the jay stands for right now. To show a liberal. They show that woman crying when Trump first got elected.
That’s not an accurate patorial of either side. These are crazy people. And meanwhile Democrats Republicans all got on the same page as greedy. They can’t be tried for inside of tradings like what that are we doing here? One of the most divisive things in this country has been Hollywood Awards shows these idiot actors.
They tuck down a red states that never been to the exact same way idiot rednecks talks about California. I ain’t to get the other side of here your opinion. We just insult them and don’t listen to them. It’s like people on the right, what are you a liptart? That’s the Internet?
The Internet? As you start your polling off with a f ed? Who’s listening after f ed? Send your letters to Bill Burr. Happy Father’s Day.
Roy Wood will release his first book, The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir. It’ll be out this fall. Crown Publishing says the book will delve into the lessons and values a Roywood junior is distilled from the unexpected figures who shaped his life after his father’s passing. Roy lost his father at the age of sixteen. Those father figures have included a variety of people’s encountered, from teenage friends to Trevor Noah, which is interesting.
Trevor no was forty one. Roywood Junior is forty six. The Man of Many Fathers due out October twenty eighth. It’s Fringe season, so we’re going to get another run of articles about the Fringe is too expensive? Get this every single year.
I’m sure it is expensive, but this is not a new thing. The Guardian got into it. Nish Kumar told The Guardian. I don’t have any family connections in common or television. My like up was that I went to a post university that had this relationship with Edinburgh.
The review go into the Fringe created so many opportunities for me. There’s nothing anywhere in the world like it. For all it’s problems, I still see that it has this ability to change people’s lives and teach people the job of being a comedian. Kumar says performing every day for a month improved his writing. Plus, you get a certain comfort that means you’re not having a full blown physiological panic attack every time you stand one that confidence never leaves you.
Comedian Annie McGrath says Edinburgh has already become widely unaffordable for so many acts and punters and landlords have a lot to answer for. It’s really sad as it could wipe out a generation of new talent. It also means there’s a lack of diversity in what’s being created if only the wealthiest acts and the bigs names are able to go. Kumar says comedy is one of the things we still do well in this country. Not providing funding for it is insane.
I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more about the expenses. Reese Darby spoke to The Guardian and they were curious, what is one of the strangest encounters with a fan you’ve had? Luckily, Rees Dartby at a story ready and it goes back in the day. I said, I was the freestyle dance champion of a small town called Hokun in New Zealand. So someone needed me a woolen jacket that had dance champion on the back.
Also, someone made a small bust of me once. I remember with the flight of the Concorde. Jamaine Clement once received a plaster impression of his lips. I don’t know how they did it, but to present something to you that he’s of you is insane. Luckily, no one’s given me a Folclay model of my nose or anything like that.
He looked back fondly on the Flight of the Concords days and said, we were young, and it was our first time in the States making something with their money and their brilliance. We got caught up in it. We just concentrated on how we could be so funny that we’re cracking each other up. And when after redo the scene we had some control of the show, we could improvise and do seven or eight takes, and that was really the key, because I got funnier every take. I know that for a fact.
I still say that to people when I do shows. I say, give me a couple more because I’ll peek on the sixth take. Some people say, you went from being that guy in the Flight of the Concords to a sex symbol with our flag means death. What was that like? Rees says, I’m a comedy guy, not a sex symbol.
My character wore some very attractive attire, but it’s still a very insecure, bizarre weird little Man was to try to find himself. The character was perfect for me because I liked dressing up being the captain, and I do overcompensate with authority because I really have no idea what I’m doing. There were definitely some similatteries there, but I was not expecting anything. On a sexual note from fans, the audiences are amazing. That’s your comedy news for today.
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