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Kalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny mack with for Daily Comedy News. You know, sometimes politics and comedy do intertwine. This was pretty interesting on Friday before the big news story over the weekend, THEO Vaughn had Democratic Representative Rocana from California on this past weekend to discussed several topics, including foreign affairs and AI. At one point on this past weekend, Kanna promoted the War Powers Resolution, which is a bipartisan bill that he had introduced with a Republican aimed at prohibiting US armed forces from unauthorized hostilities in Iran.
THEO Vaughn said, Yeah, people say, well, you don’t know a ton about the Middle East, Like that’s fine. I don’t want people I know, my friends getting called up. I don’t want the children and my friends getting called over to die. I don’t even understand how it’s an option. Vaughn went on to tell Kana, it feels like we’re just working for Israel.
I feel like it was supposed to be America first, focusing on like what what are we doing to get things back into America right, like to increase the purpose of being American, refill our hearts with blood and makes us feel something again here and make us be excited about being an American. The New York Times had a big profile of Andrew Schultz over the weekend. There’s also an audio version of it. I think you have to go to Apple Podcasts and look for the conversation. I’m not sure that’s not on Apple, but regardless, I both read it and listened to it.
It’s kind of confrontational, it’s pretty interesting, so it starts pretty basic. The Times ask Shaltz, in the last four or five years, you’ve really blown up. What has shifted to the culture to naby to come to prominence? Andrews said, when I started posting stuff on the internet, specifically stand up, things changed for me. I was trying to get an HBO special or back in the day, Netflix or Comedy Central.
I was trying to get anything, but I couldn’t get any motional with stand up. So out of desperation, I film my own special, pitch it to everybody nobody wanted, and I was like, I’m going to put this online. At that time, there was a sensitivity, especially in corporate America, about edginess and joke. So my gamble was maybe if I put this out on YouTube, there’ll be an audience that likes this kind of comedy. I put it out, A weird thing happened everybody.
They only watched twenty minutes. So I put out a twenty minute version of it in the next week, and I sold out a comedy club the next week, and I sawd out another one. I was like, Wow, there’s something happening over here on the internet that’s interesting, right that people don’t watch full hours. Maybe everybody is me that twenty minute thing that makes a lot of sense to me as a consumer. Times, you obviously have clear ideas about what works with audiences.
Does this create a temptation to pander Schaltz? Oftentimes what happens is yell of an opinion that’s maybe a little different, and you’ll be rebuked for that opinion for years, and then people start to come around. Then the same people that rebuked you will start echoing those sentiments with no accountability. Times you said you asked democrats to be on the podcast. Whom do you ask who said no?
Pete Boota, Judge, Tim Walls, Kamala Harris, and then her team lies blatantly lies times about what Schultz about us reaching out, and it’s wild to blatantly lie when not only did I reach out, Charlemagne, who’s working with them, reached out, Mark Cuban, who’s a surrogate, reached out, and we reached out, and they blatantly lie. Then when people write articles about it, they say, Andrew says he reached out to Kamala, but we reached out to the Kamala people, and they say that never happen, and so what’s the reader supposed to interpret that? As? It’s almost like calling me a liar. Then the interview gets into a bunch of Trump stuff, which is just too political for what we’re doing here at Daily Comedy News.
You can read it, you can listen to Andrew himself. Then they get into Andrew’s use of the R word and another word I don’t want to get involved with at all. So same note, you can listen to that, or you can read it yourself in the New York Times. Then this next point from Andrew, I think is stupid. They’re going back and forth on which words Andrew is comfortable with and which he’s not comfortable with.
So Schultz says, have you heard of fire retardant? How do you feel about that word. Times correctly, retardant in that context means to slow something down. Schultz, and this is just a stupid point, goes, Should we make a different word for that? Come on, dude, come on, just come on jumping ahead, The Times writes.
A few days later, Andrew and I talked again. And Andrew says, I was thinking about a lot of things from the conversation so far. Yeah, you had a good question I thought about all week, which was you don’t say the N word or the K word, but you’ll say other words. I was like, I think that’s true. I didn’t know what to think of it in the moment.
Then he brought up the R word, and how I feel comfortable saying that one? I really thought about it. This is me trying to retrofit my knee jerk feelings on it. I think what makes a slur bad is it’s a descripture plus organized violence as humans were like, that’s bad. But if we don’t remember that organized violence, or aren’t taught about it, or it’s too far in the past, we start to feel like it’s not as heavy.
I think that’s why our reaction is different when it comes to Latino slurs or Asian slurs. Where’s the organized violence? Interesting piece there? The Times also had an article titled what does Shane Gillis want to get away? With?
No interview with Shane there, but they’re mostly talking about tires, and they write Gillis brought a bro comedy fan base and endured a quasi cancelation with his Netflix sitcom Tires. He’s trying to map the leap from edge Lord to the mainstream. His big break turned into an immediate road block, and he went from anonymity to cause cancel Libree overnight. In a way, Gillis’s quick cycle of a sent crash and rebirth allowed him to begin addressing the obstacles that many of the manispheres current New Bro stars now. It’s NU with like an umlock or something, the two dots above the U new Bro And I think this article used Newbro twice.
I didn’t know that was a term, and suddenly we’re using it. But okay, I don’t not even sure what it means, but that many of the man of spheres current Newbro stars are heading towards. Most are still building creative work largely outside the moral spheres of mainstream Hollywood and media, hence YouTube, podcast, comedy clubs and so on. But blessed with both an audience and something of a scarlet letter, Gillis is most interested in finding his way back to Fame’s mainstream, or perhaps to remake it in his mold. They describe Shane’s comedy as an affectionate portrayal of a cockshore simpleton.
Gillis manages this in part because of how he uses his body. Now, this is really smart here. I thought they nailed this here. When he stands now, he’s six foot four and lumberjack stirty. He tends to bend at the neck ever so slightly as to slightly minimize his presence, and Gillis soft steps rather than pounding around, giving him an apologetic mean am I E N.
We’re using the big words today New York Times. Overall, he exudes a kind of soothing sand laeran hangtogness. Somebody got the thesaurus out for this one. Undoubtedly a decade or two from now, and a tour director will find a way to radically remake him in a role of great tragic empathy. Did nobody in The Times editorial deportmagau use some normal words, dude, what is this article for now?
Though it’s masturbation jokes and also gestures with tires, Gilliss appears to be aiming for a post liberal restoration of mainstream comedy values to somewhere in the late eighties with a greater dose of self awareness. Steph Tolev has a special add on Netflix today. It is called Filth Queen. Filmed in Boston. It’s produced by Bill Burr, who told Deadline the first time I saw Steph Tolev was a promotion video she had made for New York City show.
I immediately fell in love with her in her comedy, one of the most uninhibited original voices out there today. I love everything about her.
Speaking of Burr from the Boston Globe, somebody grabbed Burr on the street a…
Bill said he thought everyone was lying. He was told Karen was acquitted, and he’d said, wow. The Netflix release schedule is a little light right now. So we’ve got Steph today, Nate Jackson on July eighth, virdaes we’ll have a special on July eighteenth, this one titled Food Volume. There’s a poster for the special, which shows Virdas holding a lamp in his hand.
The caption reads, Indian comedy is not Silent, It returns with fool volume. Here are your guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmelive this summer. They include Anthony Anderson, Nicole Buyer, Alan Cumming, christ De Stefano, Fortune Fimester, Jelly Roll, Diego, Luna Comeil Nan Jianni this one. I keep making crinkly face at this and I think I brought it up in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Amy Poehler was on her podcast and like just decided to bear her soul and nobody was asking her to bear her soul.
Amy said that every comedian who has appeared on SNLL over the years has quote played people that we should not have played, and quote the part about getting older and being in comedies you have to like figure it out and oh, everything has an expiration date. It was even on SNL fifty when they had that segment which was like, here’s all the ways we got things wrong, and they showed way inappropriate casting for people. We all played people that we shouldn’t have played. I misappropriated, I appropriated. I didn’t know I don’t know what to make of this.
We’ve all done things in the past that were, you know, we wish we could do over, and you know, as somebody like walking around going I can’t believe maybe Polar did that role one time, Like I don’t even know what she’s burying her soul about. And are you gonna give back the money or just what we’re supposed to go? Oh yeah, that thing you did, all right, that’s cool. Like, I don’t know even know why you’re bringing this up. There wasn’t any sort of Amy polar Gate.
And at some point comedy is making fun of things. Otherwise you’re just doing puns and knock knock jokes. It’s almost always like an object of the joke that is being goofed on. She told Will Forte on her podcast. The best thing you can do is make repairs, learn for your mistakes, do better.
It’s all you can do that I agree with. I mean, you know, we make mistakes. We don’t have tom machines move forward, But I don’t I don’t know what this is about. It seems like some sort of virtual signaling to the Hollywood crowd. But Amy’s at a point in her career she doesn’t need to do that, so I don’t get it.
Late Nighter reported that Martin Hurley, you know him from SNL and the police don’t destroy guys, he had started a new Apple back to school campaign. Guys, it’s June twenty fourth. We’re doing back to school already. It only turned ninety degrees where I live two days ago, and we’re doing back to school. Can we just enjoy summer anyway?
The back to school campaign was aimed at college bound teenagers, but the seven minutes short was quietly pulled from Apple’s YouTube channel after one day. In the video, Late Nighter says Hurley, he played a fictionalized version of himself guiding high schoolers through the parent presentation, designed to help students convince their parents to buy them a MacBook. Apple has not explained why they took the video down, but apparently some people on social media called the video cringe, out of touch, and even manipulative. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption or feed drops, you can go to caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast, click up the benner that says uninterrupted listening five buff next a month, that stuff goes away.
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