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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Minneapolis Star Tribune poster review of Theo Vaughn’s show on Friday night, so you can hear that, I’m doing a delivery that’s a little more serious than how I usually open up a show. And it’s because I don’t know how I feel about this. I’m gonna read it verbatim that Star Tribune rites.
He quickly labeled his Friday show at Excel Energy Center as a Juneteenth Recovery seminar, then launched into bits about a black girl with Down syndrome and short buses that catered to students with mental disabilities. I’m not racist, he said early in a set, unless you are. I don’t like the way that reads. Maybe in the room it played better, you know, body language, but that does not read great. The article says Theo’s place in pop culture is more complicated than partisan loyalty.
There were a few mega caps, but I spotted more shirts with images of Johnny Cash than images of Donald Trump. Quoting the article, Vaon pointed out several times during the show that the audience of about eight thousand seems to be nearly all white people, but I spotted plenty of people of color in the crowd, including Andres as Zanbrono, who came to Minnesota six years from Columbia. Son Brno told the paper, he’s just naturally very funny. It’s different from what you usually see. Again, directly quoting the article, everyone was a target, so Molly’s gazed, Jews, people from Wisconsin, and an autistic people.
He described George Floyd’s Square as a fent and all dance hall. Juan is at his best when he tells tales about growing up in small town Louisiana, vividly bringing to life people like Allan, a kid’s so tiny he needed two hands to eat a butterscotch, and the grandmother who wouldn’t let him visit her for a decade because she thought he stole some chocolate from her house. Skipping ahead, his one joke about Joe Biden went over a lot better than his one joke about Trump. When he told the audience who was thinking about buying a gun, the place went wild, the paper points out, and I remind you this was from last Friday. They were less enthusiastic about a bit in which he mused over where the next nine to eleven should take place.
Font Humor clearly isn’t for everyone, but it speaks to enough people to make him a voice that can’t be ignored. An email from the Just for Last Montreal Festival titled a very serious open letter from a very funny festival. It reads, Hello, I’m Sylvan parent Badard, the new owner of Just for Laughs. You don’t know me, which is why I’m reaching out to you today. Over the last few months, the JFL team has dealt with some rocky roads with strange days.
But believe me, we’re back. Maybe we’re a little different than we used to be. We still have the same objective as always, to bring loads to your summer. You’re probably expecting a joke right about now, Well not today. This letter is serious and it’s about an understanding, a promise, and an offer.
Let’s get to it. Subheading number one the understanding, the letter says. The understanding is our appreciation of the long standing, extraordinary relationship between Montrealers and Just for Laughs. For years, you gave our festival the type of unwavering support unheard of in show business. You filled our clubs in theaters night after night made big stars out of total unknowns, and through it all brought a heartfelt spirit that was more family than customer.
You are our most dedicated fan base, and we were the year’s biggest party for you. You brought us the attention that made JFL world renowned. We respected, relying on and delivered for each other. Section Two The promise. So here’s the promise.
You’re going to really love what we have in store for you this summer. Then they explain the shows. I’ll talk about the shows separately. Three the offer. So finally, here’s our offer.
We are certain you’ll love everything our team is putting together for you, but especially the Galas, the festival’s crown jewels, our biggest shows. In fact, we’re so certain that you’ll love our galas for some reason. If you don’t, we’re willing to refund your ticket price one hundred percent, pure and simple. Then there’s some details so far. Personally, I don’t know what to make of the festival.
I’m excited that it’s back. I was sad that it was gone. I think personally I need to see a little bit a few more announcements. Now, I’d like to take a minute and go through the shows here, but I’ve clicked on the tabs on their website where it says shows, and all I’m getting is a stager image and no actual shows. So let me click on artists here that seems to be working.
I’m not going to read every name, but let’s see who the bigger names that we might know from just either hosting or listening to the show every day. Adam Ray, Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butteau, Roy Wood Junior, Mikey Day, Nish Kumar, Malik, Alasol, John Doer, Puddles, Brad Williams, Kat Cohen, Dave mar Hedge, Emil wakem Ivan Decker, Jamarcos, Soirezi Maye Martin, Nick Muhammad, Ralph Barbosa, Russell Peters, Tammy Pascatelli, at Gamble, Jay Jorden, Tom Sigora, k Trevor Wilson, Russell Howard. So you know, nice and I’m glad it’s back, but it’s definitely fallen to number two. Now. I’m going back here and looking at Netflix twenty twenty four.
Now they only see to be doing a festival every other year, and I am on a Netflix propaganda website on Netflix dot com, but they remind us. Here is what happened. In twenty twenty four. John Mulaney had the show Tom Brady Got Roasted, which basically accelerated Nicki Glazier’s career. Kat Williams happened right, and they took a group picture of everybody in this photo.
Krascher, Jeff Ross, Jimmy Carr, Pauli Short, Chelsea Handler, Tiffany Hattish and I’m not reading everybody Chappelle, Nick Offerman, Han Gatsby, Sheng Wang, Otsko, Mosha Kasher, Natasha, Eliza, Sarah Silverman, Gaffigin, Kevin Hart, Roy Woodkin Jung, Jimmy o’yang, mad Friend, Sebastian Madascalgo, Barbosa Whitney, Dion Cole, Tony Hinchcliffe, Leanne Morgan, Papa Stavro, Sassan, the Mishi, Patel, Felipia Sparza, Sarah Cooper, Brett Goldstein, Nikki Glaser. Pretty good photo. So I don’t know. I was originally planning on going up for Montreal. I don’t know if I’m gonna go now.
I just I don’t know. Daisy Lidak caught up with The Hollywood Reporter. They asked her if there was an episode or segment she’s been most proud of pulling off on the Daily Show. She said, the day after the election was not easy. I was hosting that day.
I remember going in that morning just being vulnerable at the way I was feeling and hearing everybody else try to find humor in it. Coming in as a correspondent always played a character hosting. You’re yourself, that’s your point of view, So that day just felt like Catharsis with the audience as depressing as it was. They asked her about the host search between Trevor Now and John Stewart, which reminds me that John Stewart’s appearance on Trevor Ne’s podcast recently was really good. Go listen to that one.
DESI had you feel about that period? She said, it was disorienting, but it put a lot of faith on our showrunner. She’s the whole reason the place runs away does. I just knew I’d have to write it out. And as anxiety inducing as the whole thing was, there were some fun positives that came out of the guest rotation, working with Sarah Silverman, becoming friends with Chelsea Handler, having Morlon Wayans come in, her dream guest is Carol Burnett because she’s the entire reason I wanted to do comedy.
The South Texas Food Bank is inviting locals to enjoy a night of laughter. It’s called laugh Out Hunger. It’ll feature Steve Trevino. On August fifteenth, one of the board members said, it’s always been a concert. This year it’s comedy to see if there’s a change within the community and how many people we can drive and bring to these events.
We have to stay relevant to what our community’s asking for, so we feel like this change would be something good and different. We’re taking a risk and trying it out. Doctor Demento is retiring. Real name Barry Hanson began hosting the Doctor Demento Show back in California in nineteen seventy. Originally, he just played rock songs.
Over time, he started mixing in some of the oddities from his personal collection, and then the whole Doctor Demental thing took off. Most notably, a young musician named Alfred Yankovic started sending in parodies to Doctor Demento. Young mister Yankovic became pretty famous. However, after fifty five years on the air, Doctor Demento is announced he’ll be retiring in October. He told Radio Online.
I’m now eighty four years old. I’ve been doing the show for nearly fifty five years, about two thirds of my life. It’s been a blast, but I’ve come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows. It sounds like I’ll come back for one big farewell in October, and I imagine that will be pretty star studded, at least in terms of parody records.
I’m sure mister Yankovic will come by. And it turns out that Ray Romano did not like the title Everybody Loves Raymond. One of the producers was at the Paley Center and said, in real life, raise a modest guy, and he’s like, everybody loves ray What if the show stinks? That is your comedy news for today. Enjoy the heat if you’re in the Northeast.
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