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The Shark Deck. Hi, I’m Tryni Mac with your daily comedies. Let me tell you what’s going on here. So my plan for today’s podcast was, during the week, I saw a list of all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three, and I’m like, oh, that’ll be fun to share with everyone. And I have just finished recording that, and it’s twelve minutes of me reading a list.
Now I do want to share with you, but I’m like, I can’t roadblock the first twelve minutes of the podcast with me reading a list. So what I’m going to do today is normally the podcasts two parts. Today we’ll have three parts and if you want to hear me read the entire list of all the comedy specials that have come out so far this year, you could stay for the last twelve minutes. Otherwise you were dismissed early. Totally understand if you bail on that, I will tell you when it’s coming.
Hannibal Burris, he’s out touring as rapper Sue Tune. Statesman dot Com saw his set and they wrote during south By Southwest twenty eleven, Childish Gambino, you know, Donald Glover packed to capacity growed into a club. His rap alter ego was intense, moody, agropunk, and much of the annoyance of the crowd and tendance, including the writer not at all funny. People were mad. Hannibal Burris took a completely different tack when he at the stage.
He said, this is a new feeling for me, not the rapping thing. It’s just usually when I play shows in Austin, I get paid a lot of money. He then did a set that punched way above the non existent cover charge, backed by a full band. He made it clear he was into building the show to prove his rap skills, but still he peppered the set with jokes and many of the songs themselves were infused with humor. High points included Veneers, a baller anthem about fixing your teeth.
I’ve heard that one, it is rather catchy, and a random cover of Christian pop icon Michael W. Smith’s Awesome God. How does he balanced comedy and rap? He says, well, I’m interested in this Gambino thing. Y’all were really mad, he said with a laugh.
Backstage before set, local rapper Eric Morgan said, I thought Glover was going to do stand up and was disgusted when he started rapping. Annibal said, I actually recorded music before I did stand up. My career was always parallel of music. Early on, he who to open mic nights that featured both music and comedy. He did skits on rappers albums he battle wrapped in college.
Then his comedy took off during the pandemic. Stand up clubs were weird, and he didn’t love acting enough to take a COVID test every time he stepped on set, so he went into the studio. He was inspired to make the song for New Years after seeing an ad for hairplugs. He had never had fake hair, but he had fixed a chip tooth. An early version of the song included a dentist drill.
His friends convinced him to remove that. I like making a goofy fun songs, and I also have this real stuff too. He’s decided to just do what I enjoy. That’s awesome. Kathleen Madigan was on the Good One podcast this week and they said, Hey, Kathleen, you’re arguably one of, if not the most successful road comedians ever.
You’ve built your audience on the road exclusively. Is I make you proud? Kathleen said, I am proud of that, but a sort of luck. One time, Louis Black was on The Big Bang Theory. He played some nutty professor and was like, well, you go with me?
And I said, lou I mean, I said come once. It was so boring. I don’t want to go watch. I love you, but I don’t want to go, and he was like please, and I was like fine. We left my house at four, We got home at eleven.
Me and as old assistant drank a bottle of chardonnay throughout the day. We pullowed through a bottle. I had memorized the whole script, his parts, the other parts. It’s so slow and tedious. I just want to tell jokes.
There’s not many of us where. That’s all we want to do. When I started comedy, as far as I knew, that’s all we wanted to do.
And then it started to be like, look, Ray Romano’s got a sitcom and Kevin Jam…
Do you really want to be that board for hours upon hours for what You’re not even an actor? Like they offered me some important, some NBC thing, not that long ago, within the last five years, and I was like, I’m not an actor. I don’t want to I kept saying no, and they kept offering me more and more money. I said no, I’m not seeing that as a bargaining trip. I truly want nothing to do with this.
I don’t think the agency was saying it like that. I was like, you need to tell them I have no interest in TV or movies unless it’s a friend and I get to play myself as a bartender. There are people that are qualified act. It’s insulting to call a stand up comedian. It was no experience an actor.
I’m like, all I want to do is tell jokes in front of people for an hour. This shows two hours and I’m done. That’s my work day. I do some other stuff, but I’m in charge of it all. I’m my own boss.
Initially, when they told me to go edition for stuff, I’d get ticked off at the gate. I could never get on the lot. I’d be out there for twenty minutes going my name’s on a list. Try not to get mad at the person. You have to want what’s at the other end of that gate.
I auditioned for some commercials They did it like three times and I was like, the money’d be great. Why not It’ll take three days out of your life. But the odds of you getting that commercial is it worth the day of your life? I lived in her most at Beach. I could be rollerblading right now.
If you tell me, do you want to go fishing? Yes? Do you want to go blake golf? Yes? But so I want to be on a sitcom all this week, No short Old took a look at forty eight hours in Perth’s comedy scene.
Steve Bennett visited Western Australia. Perth fascinates me. Perth is like as far as you can go from where I live. If you go any further, you’re on your way back, you know what I mean. Perth on the West coast of Australia.
The comedy scene there apparently is centered on the comedy lounge above a downtown restaurant with a design based on the best clubs. It’s British owner John McAllister visited in London. Friday’s show This a couple of weeks ago, is packed to the rafters. Compare Simone Springer’s smiley demeanor is welcoming. It conceals a wearier can’t be bothered attitude, not least to her own.
Add child, her jokes can feel a little mechanical, but she shrubber off script during the best from a risk Gates who would frow with a couple in the front row, You can see why she’s an MC. First up was a relative newcomer, Martin Darcy. His lack of experience showed in a staccato delivery and affected laugh at his own jokes in the sense that he feels a little tooper out of piling, pull back and reveal punch lines on top of each other. Yet he’s a robust gag writer playing up his beta male status and Asian heritage. Strongest of course, when he subverts stereotypes rather than leaning into them, which demonstrates strong potential.
See that’s a really good review, right He didn’t be like, oh there, it was great. I like that. Darcy spoke about losing his virginity latent life to a cougar, starting what came to be recurring theme of the night about age gap relationships. Locally based Scottish comedian Gil Cordner approached the topic from the other direction, giving out strong, filthy aunt vibes a she dished the dirt on having a much younger husband. Next up, looking like wild haired trolls in Team Australian track suits, the Nelson Twins are as.
The name pretty much gives away identical twins who’s entire set is based on doing what brothers do, viciously slinging mud at each other. It’s essentially a well rehearsed roast battle. Next up, Andrew Wolfe has an appropriate surname given his unhinged ailing at the Moon delivery, a manic hodgepodge of depression, anxiety and fury that proves highly effective. There are some good gags about anti vaxers and people say they’ve been abducted by aliens, but it’s the unhinged energy you’ll remember. At one point he worries about going full creamer.
Finally, Sons of Fred a drum tight three man outfit who burst on the stage with a series of tightly choreographed alternative intros. However, they don’t have the invention of the similarly high energy anti Donna to back up their well honed physicality. But the musical theater take on heavy metal is definitely a highlight. Saturday saw the Western Australia final of the Raw Comedy Competition, featuring twenty Newish acts from around the state. Winner Nicole She mocked Chinese stereotypes and some ozzy ones without being afraid to show a little edge.
English act David Hughes was another front runner, and if his attitude mannerisms borrowed heavily from Ricky Gervaise, his bad Dad stick was full of pointed punch lines that hit home.
Meanwhile, Blake Richardson was a charismitic performer with some solid mater…
Oldish hand Xavier mcaldies did a broad set that range from admirably convoluted puns to her miner of just how sinister the phrase lock up your daughters really is. Some of the material is root one how many middle aged male comedians are. Indeed, people talk about hair growing out of everywhere but the head. But he’s a skillful, likable performer who also strays down more creative roots. If never quite foreign enough.
Sounds like a nice vibrant scene out there in Perth. I like doing this international stuff.
Speaking of which Let’s see who’s at the Milburn Comedy Festival on Monday.
Laura Hughes presents Laura Hughes, Laura Hughes and some other Laura Hughes’s is Laura Hughes returns to the festival after a decade in la honing her unique brand of comedy, and she’s bringing wigs. Let’s listen to a clip. There are a few things that you can do that make you instantly cool. Number One, sunglasses at night, because you’re probably going to be parting to the break of dawn and who knows when you might need to weld something. Number Two laziness, especially when it comes to the English language.
Oh, I’m j did you just lullop me? That is tots in approach and I’m Jen’s deva right now, Tyl. The less that people can actually understand what you’re trying to say, the cooler it is, all right. That was fun. Next up, let’s see Michael Schaffar well Worth the Chemo.
He is a testicular cancer survivor, lawyer turned comedian. He has the solutions to all of the world’s problems. Let’s listens. Going to see people having some drinks. I’m not a big drinker.
I find that when I don’t drink, people just try to make me drink. And the worst attempt was on Tuesday, went out for lunch. The way he gives me the drinks, man, you, I’m like, oh, it’s fine, I’m not drinking, and he goes, come on, nice buddy, it’s Friday somewhere, and I go, it’s Tuesday everywhere. Well you know what I mean. It’s five pm somewhere and I go, yeah, but it’s one pm here.
This is the context we’re in. You can’t just change the context to suit yourself. You can’t walk into work naked and be like, it’s all right, guys, there’s a shower somewhere. It’s all right now. I’m looking at the clip.
He’s got a lot of charisma there, so that probably played funnier in the room than it did on the podcast. Let’s do one more Sharam nam Darian horny and depressed. After all his years of being a life coach and dating coach, helping people resolve anxiety issues with their love and life, he realized he was still two things. Desperately horny, desperately depressed. Let’s listen, hi, I’m Sharam Namdarian spelled sh r A m N A M d A R I A M hi.
I’m cold bowl of spaghetti, just joking. I’m the man your mother warned you about, and I’m the man they named Friday after. But who am I? I hear you asked, Well, I’m sure as a bad and I was a dating coach for the last seven years, and a bloody good one at that. Do you like comedy?
Of course you do. Come see my show at the twenty twenty three Melbourne Comedy Festival. Ha ha, all right, he was pretty like, well that was fun. That’s the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on Monday. By the way, you can get into his show for seven Australian dollars.
Now people listen every day. Now we divide that by two thirds, which means you can get in for what four fifty Who’s doing the math? I’m not. I have so blown out my voice because, like I said, I already did the stuff about the one hundred and fifty comedy specials. So let’s take one more break.
If you don’t want to hear me read a list for twelve minutes, you are dismissed. You know the deal. I’ll be back tomorrow. If you want to go through all one hundred and fifty comedy specials that’ve been released this year, hang around. They saw this one during the week.
This is from the Comics Comic Sean McCarthy is the writer there. He has a substack called Piphany, and he listed all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far. You know how many there have been, over at one hundred and fifty. Now, I want to stop using the words special, and Sean, I’ll talk about this a second. His thing not everything special.
For example, I saw Monster Brune released an hour on YouTube and I was watching it Tuesday night and I enjoyed it, But was it a special? Like it is it up there with like Carlynton at Carnegie Hall. No, it’s a guy in a club doing a perfectly fine, entertaining, funny hour. But we gotta stop using the words special. I think hour is the word we should use.
And I’m trying to retrain my brain because I think we all call everything a comedy special, and we got to get away from Sean McCarthy writes. So two clarifications or declarations before you look at the list of twenty twenty three comedy specials. First, especially with regard to YouTube citations, I must remind you how painfully easy it is for anyone anywhere in the world’s record themselves and uploaded for sharing on YouTube as a quote full comedy special unquote. Amen Sean writes, My including on on this list should not be construed as me legitimizing some of these people as professional stand up comedians. Second, I must also stress there’s no surefire way to account for all the new comedy specials available to stream on Earth.
I may have missed one or more. So if you know of some, let them know. I share the list in the Facebook group Daily Companies Podcast Group if you’re curious. But let’s take a look at this January Steve Hoffs that is the recipe. I don’t remember that coming out, and I’m not going to repeat that about one hundred times here, And that surprises me because Steve loves to publicize himself like big time.
So how that came out without it hitting my radar? And again, I write this podcast every day, even if I don’t record every day, I do write every day. I don’t know how I have missed that.
Moving on, Nick whitmer is Always Hungry YouTube.
Mike Brydenstein’s Lie from the Glendale Room at YouTube. Tony Laws Go Mister Tony Go via Comedy Dynamic an Amazon. Now that’s a major label. I don’t remember that. Andrew Santino Cheeseburger yep.
Adam Rose Imperious on YouTube, Alexandros Suvales Bad barrot Ice on YouTube and then bears it be in Greek that special. Ron Irvin’s Prodigal Son YouTube. Andrew Myrie ducking a Pond YouTube, Andy Andres last shot eight hundred pound Gorilla media YouTube. I think that one hit my radar. Nathan Cassidy’s Observational Amazon really, Brian Possein yep.
Tim McLaughlin goes Banani’s YouTube. Nick Nannie’s nessen Dorma YouTube. Nathan Macintosh Money Never Wakes YouTube. We’re a tenth of the way through the list in case you just want to bail out an ex episode. Matt Ruby’s Substance YouTube.
Joe Hill, Somebody’s got to hear this YouTube. Wait, Sean has crossed one out. Number eighteen was Matt Rife only fans and it’s now crossed out, all right. Nineteen Kabir Sing Ballerwood YouTube one four Nos The Snow Mexican YouTube. Brandon Sean Everybody’s at Targate?
Amazon Yeah, Stand Up for Pitt’s Comedy Special with Rebecca Cory Amazon Yeah. Dan Nightingale smash Or YouTube, philp Pointer Sweat It Out YouTube, Drew Lynch can Cuss YouTube, The Red Richardson Special YouTube, Michelle train A Divorced Diaries Amazon Asian American Eyes and Immigrant Comedy Special Amazon. Nate Brigassi, Hello World, Yes, Seaton Smith Live at MSG opening for John Milleny on YouTube, Bruno Romano Too Honest to Have a Job YouTube, Troy DeShane Got Next YouTube? That was just January onto February, which only has twenty eight days most years, except every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s a century year not divisible by four hundred. So two thousand was a leap year if you’re still around.
Twenty one hundred not a leap year, all right, So if you’re expecting twenty one hundred to be a leap year, it’s not twenty eight days in February most years. Sean Hameron Small Face YouTube, Ferris Ia Send Help YouTube. Isn’t this insane. Brandon Bricks Live at the Comedy Store YouTube, Daniel fernanez Alive in Vaccinated YouTube tube, Mofti Good Cop, Bad Cop Nigeria YouTube, Catch each your Boozy kindergarten teacher Energy YouTube, Rodney Norman stand Up for twenty two YouTube bt Just Try YouTube, t t Ladette YouTube Silas of Bollocks. They said there would be jobs YouTube Ben Rosenfield, Don’t Shake Your Miracle Amazon anubab is seeing Bossy Amazon Doctor Jason Long Ride with Casha Netflix.
I actually watch that Marcella Arguello bitch grow Up. HBO mix that happened Mark Marin HBO, Sarahti on a forty four moment aj Grill, I’ll quit one of thirty YouTube. Tony Lyle Live in Auckland YouTube, Chase O’donald YouTube, Ava Carol Late Bloomer YouTube, tiz Ilias Viked YouTube, Ben Zanio Mister Ben Indonesia YouTube, Henry Welsham Book from eight to A Amazon, Jim Jefferies High and Try. That’s on my top ten list. Netflix, Roseanne Barr canceled this Fox Nation, Josh Johnson up here killing myself, peac Matt Rife Matthew Stephen Wright moment, Alan Sidney Dedde Issues YouTube, Natalie Cuomo’s shut Up You Loved It YouTube.
I didn’t know that one came out. I want to check that one out. Kate Quigley Magic YouTube, Annie Malick General Blessings YouTube, Chris Shilting The Son of Tom and Jerry g Rii YouTube. Ronnie Myers You Funny Yeah YouTube, but Rodney Norman Stand Up for twenty two YouTube, Treeol’s Alien Invasioned YouTube. Wayne Beas Record of Underachievement YouTube, Lucas Waterfield Public Inconvenience, Amazon, Joe Lycett More More More, Amazon, Some More, Queen Chandelier and Netflix, Wenderson Neunez Preaching of the Choir in Brazil, Netflix, Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, Amazon, Lavelle Crawford Showtime, Stuart Goldsmith I Need You Alive moment Marcus D.
Wiley Grown Gray Forgiven on YouTube. John Agasild Welcome Back Scotland YouTube, Brad Wenzel Joke Joke Joke YouTube. Joff at the Stupid Experienced Rwanda YouTube. Charlie Burn’s Midwest Goodbye YouTube. John Franklin The Specialist YouTube, Drew Lyncher These Jokes YouTube, Nate Jackson Live CrowdWork Special YouTube, Aksha sree Vastava Mental Health YouTube, Adam Row Juicy YouTube, abishek up Mayu Health Anxiety YouTube, Paul Zertin Hands Free YouTube, but Train Knolls Infinite American Tales YouTube, Vinnie Brand Rip Fat Bobby YouTube, Sarah Milliken self released, Nick Usef Take Care YouTube through February one more month seeks, Marlon Wayam’s God Loves Me HBO max A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Dimitriu Netflix, Chris Rock Did you hear about that?
One? Netflix? AKSh Metha No Smoking India YouTube, Mussud Akbarzada Fame German Iranian YouTube and John McCombs Make a Way to Estonia YouTube, Graham Elwood manifest A YouTube, Russell Kzz The Big Cheese YouTube, Jacob Hatton Relax England YouTube, and Nate’s Armbuster Sorry to Bother You YouTube, Guarav Kapoor. I’m probably butchering this title. Mumbai Say Ia, Mara Dost India YouTube, Stevie Brown My Friends Call Me Beatle YouTube, Paul mon Elected in Northern Ireland YouTube, Dave Lester, How did that make you feel?
Amazon? Joe Mantilla, No one asked for this YouTube, Josh Means Business YouTube, or Zilla Carlson Token African YouTube, Kelsey Cook The Hustler YouTube, Nittish Suka Who Up Person YouTube? Andrew BALISTERI Live from the Greatest City on Earth YouTube. Brian Sclero Never Not Crapping, Clean that Up YouTube. Terrible title, Brian, don’t do that.
That is not going to help you with a title like that. That’s Brian bad title, not a good idea. Jenny Zagreeno gen Z YouTube, Joslyn Sharp five ten two eighty Amazon, Bert Kraisher’s Razzle Dazzle Netflix, Foil Arms and Hogswines from Ireland to Moment. Justin Martindale Gaybash moment, Mona Up Substantiated YouTube, Jamar Malika Neighbors Rotten Luther King Junior YouTube, sore In Para Lab with a Romanian title out of YouTube. Osha Dwyer Knockout YouTube.
J McBride Daddy’s Girl, That’s on My List YouTube, Very good special watch that Kai Kai Apocalypse Now YouTube. Andre Ferrell’s Rude Awakening. Amazon stand Up for California, Amazon Russell Brand Brandemic Locals only, Lee Kyle’s Disco Twicks England to YouTube. Jeremiah Watkins Dandy YouTube link, Mike a Greek Title on YouTube, John Grimes Going for Broke YouTube, Michael Shaffar al Right Next Joke YouTube, Mike Vecky Owns the Attractives YouTube, Angelo Gingirelli Stuck in the Middle of YouTube. Doogie Horner’s Dad Max on YouTube.
Dave Hugh’s Ridiculous on Amazon, Brent Terhun’s One on Flat Earth on Amazon, Well Red Comedy on Amazon, May Martin on Netflix, mort Brooke Spiritually Filthy on YouTube, Dustin Nickerson Runs on the Family YouTube, Gareth wat Doozy on YouTube, Anthony Rodgers Sun Burton Hawaii YouTube, Zach Hammond’s Welfare and Disguise YouTube, Kyle Canaan Shocks and Struts the current number one special of the Year on YouTube. Nathan Katone Let’s Talk about Vexi YouTube, Brian Churchill Alpaco Churchy YouTube, Monster Brownie The It’s in the Bees YouTube. Andy Parsons Live and Unleashed but naturally cautious Amazon, Jeff Lees and Grandma used to heck on Me Amazon, Ben Rosenfield Geopolitical Dick Jokes Amazon, and just this week, Big Jokerson’s whatever It’s called that also came out. So again, thank you Piphany dot substack dot com for this list. Great job Sean McCarthy, who says thirty one for January fifty nine for February fifty nine from March a first quarter total of one hundred and forty nine plus the Big Jay makes one fifty.
I just blew out my voice, Chase. That’s your company news for today. Father Show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. See you tomorrow. Helloo.
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