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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack and my Lucky is holding out here. On July fourth week, there’s still comedy news that I have it for you. How about this one? Andrew Schultz has joined the cast of the movie street Fighter.
Remember the video game street Fighter. There’s gonna be a movie and Andrew Schultz is in it. He will play character Dan HIBICKI. Although I’m a big gamer, you know, I have everything from anatory twenty six hundred and ford, all five PlayStations, a couple xboxes. I got a Collegal Vision upstairs.
I’ve got the original NHL game, so I don’t want to hear about NHL ninety four, NHL twenty twenty five. If you want to play NHL Hockey, I’ll go upstairs and get it. However, in the nineties there, you know, I was graduated college, had a little money, had a girlfriend, kind of missed a couple of years of the video game thing, and that’s when Street Fighter was super popular. So I had to look up. I don’t know anything about Dan Hibcky, and I want to make sure I’m pronouncing it right.
I did a little Internet research, which and I have learned first appearing in Street Fighter Alpha in nineteen ninety five, Hibiki is consistently portrayed as an over confident, arrogant, and utterly feeble character Andrew Schultz. In the series storyline, Dan was a student trained by I’m going to get all these names right. Send your letters to me. I don’t know what I’m talking about. All my pronunciations are wrong.
Street Fighter fans, get it. I apologize. Trained by Gokin, the elder brother of Akuma, who also trained Ken and Ru. Go can stop training Dan once he acknowledged the ulterior reasons Dan has in his mind. Dan’s goal is to defeat Segat, who killed Go Dan’s father.
What are you even talking about, John, I don’t know either. Let’s just move on and dumb this down to Andrew Schultz is in the Street Fighter movie. Burt Kreiser not messing around with this free Birch show. Alana newspapers are reporting that the series is shooting at the Sinnispace Studios in Atlanta. The scheduled production dates are July eighth to August eleventh, according to Local four twenty nine of the you Gotta pending here Write this down Local four twenty nine of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, COMMA Moving Picture Technicians, COMMA Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, COMMA its territories in Canada.
That’s a mouthful. What are they? They are the Atlanta Union, representing most of the crew on Bert Kreischer’s upcoming show Free Bert, which, as much as I like Burt, sounds like a lame CBS sitcom. I don’t know about this one, buddy. I’m happy to be wrong, but I don’t know about this one.
Like if we were at the casino and I had a bet on thomsigorre Lt Gray all In, if I had a bet on Free Bert being good, I’m betting against. Sorry, no offense. In case you missed the story over the weekend. In Free Bert, Bert plays a shirtless comedian, party legend, perpetual wildcard. Okay, fine, he’s good at that.
The machine was fantastic. I love the machine. But his two daughters are accepted into an elite private school in Beverly Hills, where his reputation turns the family into outcasts. He tries to put on a shirt and stifle his true self in order to fit in, but naturally it doesn’t work. Now.
I know it’s all like Bert Crazier. But if I told you Kevin James was storing in Free Gems, in which Kevin plays a comedian party legend perpetual wild card. But his two daughters are accepted into an elite private school and his reputation turns the family into outcasts, and he asked his stifless true self in order to fit in. But naturally doesn’t work. If I told you Kevin James was storing in this, you’d be like, that sounds horrific.
And that’s what I’m worried about here, Bert, But you know I will be happy to be wrong. Todd Barry got me wondering is a comedy downturn Coming off the pandemic, comedy has been kind of red hot. Part of that is because everybody who was big went out and played big buildings, and there was pent up excitement to go see people live. And because the big buildings were filled with the big people, some other people had to play smaller venues, et cetera. So there’s been a comedy boom the last couple of years.
But Todd Barry spoke to the pitch Case c and it got me thinking. So the question from the pitch Tutson Berry, how do you feel about the current wave of releasing specials directly to fans through companies like eight hundred pound Gorilla, Todd Barry said, paying an engineering because this is what’s got me worried. Via Todd Barry. Todd said, well, I mean, it’s good to get it out there if you think of it as a calling card or just an advertisement for you. It’s a little different because I used to be able to just get paid to do a special.
I mean, I guess I’m getting paid in a way, but not like I used to get paid. But I don’t know. I mean, I think a lot of people have hit pretty hard from just releasing it on YouTube. Back in the day when people watch TV a little differently, you could say it’s going to be on it this time, whereas with Netflix you can just watch it at your leisure. Same with YouTube.
So it’s nice to be able to say, if you ever want to watch this, this is where it’s going to be. Sounds like he misses the paychecks. I’ve been doing this thirty seven and a half years or whatever. When I started, there was no YouTube. If you did a show that was a one person show.
He’d make postcards for it and have to order five thousand of them, and then you’d have forty two hundred left. But it was an email lists. I think promotion is a big thing that’s changed and people getting famous because there are comics I run into who I think are not even professionals, and then you see they have four hundred and fifty thousand Instagram followers. Just staying on top of it. I find it really difficult.
And I mean when you moved to New York or LA or something. I started in Florida and we weren’t really talking about TV deals or anything. We were just kind of talking about getting gigs and jokes. Josh gonom In told THEFOD dot com. I try not to be disgusting.
There are lots of really funny comedians who are kind of disgusting in what they say, But what you’re seeing are people who don’t yet have the skills to be both disgusting and funny. You can be disgusting without a lot of practice. I think comedy is a learned skill more than an innate talent. When I started, I was very tentative on stage, and I didn’t have super compelling thoughts to share. He worked as a preschool teacher in Massachusetts and began to develop the quote ear to ground nature for examining my own life that allowed him to x ray the every day and find the comedic skeleton underneath got him until the Ford.
I think so much of comedy is just about the noticing. There are so many topics that are really serious, but when you’re close to them, you can see the kind of absurdity. Kevin Ort’s got that show Cold as Balls. You know, Kevin sits in a cold tub. The guest sits in a different cold tub.
It’s like hot ones, but not at all that show. Ravens QB. Lamar Jackson was the guest. Kevin Hard asked what position Kevin could play if he joined the Ravens. Kevin thought he could be a slot receiver.
Lamar Jackson said, we might have you on the sideline. On Gossip Corner, Adam Saylor was seen in New Jersey working on his basketball game. A TikTok video posted over the weekend showed Adam Saylor participating in a two on two with a small group at rand Park in Montclair.
Also on Gossip corner.
Comedian Sean Walsh was mugged in London, his phone snatched out of his hand. He was walking down the street in broad daylight. Sean has used to find my phone and has reported in his phone is now on Huaking South Road in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. He joked, if anybody happens to be in the area, please go get his phone. I mentioned this yesterday from a variety.
Rob Mclelhenny, Rob mclehenny, say it with me, Rob mclelhenny, Say it with me, Rob, Rob, Rob, you got it? Say with me, Rob? Okay. Now say with me mclelhenny. That wants a little hard All right, let’s break it down.
Mackel Henny, all right, let’s practice mackel you say it? Okay? Good? Good job. Now say Henny, okay, good, Jenna put that together.
Macl Henny, all right, let’s put the whole thing together. Rob mackel Henny, you got it, Rob mclelhenny, I say it fast, Rob mclelhenny, okay. Good. You could guest host the show someday. Rob mclelhenny has legally filed in Los Angeles to change his name to Rob mack.
Now, I’m of a couple of minds here. One. I think a person’s name is super important. I try to get people’s names right. Like, for example, I play volleyball with this guy Alex.
The first time I met him, he goes, Hi, I’m Alex. I’ve been calling him Alex. Then I noticed on the roster his name is Alexi, and I said, I can say Alexi. Do you go buy Alexi or Alex? And he’s like, Alex is fine, So fine, I’ll call you Alex, but I’ll also call you Alexi.
So if Rob McElhenny wants us to call him Rob Mack, I’ll do it. But I think Rob is really overthinking this. I’ll give you an example. If you’re in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you may know that my name isn’t Johnny Mack. My name is John McDermott.
It’s not a secret. I’m not hiding it. Why do you go by Johnny Mack. Here’s why, even though it’s my own name. If I go, hey, it’s John McDermott with Today’s Daily Comedy News, the N into the M is very hard to say, even though it’s my own name.
Whereas the hey, it’s Johnny mac roles. I just first discovered this doing college radio at Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven. It’s hard to say John McDermott. Quickly Johnny mack rolls off the tongue and it’s serious. People started calling me Johnny Mack, so I haven’t adopted it as the name I use hosting podcasts.
Rob mcklelhenney. It’s held variety. About a month ago. People already called me Rob Mack or mac obviously from the TV show It’s always on in Philadelphia. It just makes things so much easier.
As Rob Mac’s new company, More Better Industries has gotten global, you know they’re big time soccer magnets now. Rob Mack found that his last name McIlhenny was a constant source of confusion, and he explains that’s why, as our business in our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob Mack. As I get older, people are more prone to calling me Mac or sir. I just say Rob or Rob Mack, and I find that makes things a lot simpler and easier. People already call me Rob Mack or Mack obviously from the television show That Makes Things Easier, mister mac all, that makes total sense to me.
Again, from Johnny Mack to Rob Mack. Totally get it, bro, But why are you legally changing your name? For example, are you familiar with the singer Paul Hewson. Perhaps not? If I tell you his name is Bono?
Do you know who I’m talking about now? So if you read a newspaper article, it’ll say Bono has a new special ad on Apple TV. You know who that is. He didn’t have to change his name from Paulhuson. Are you familiar with Gordon Sumner?
You may know him as Sting. Same note. Are you familiar with Johnny Mack? Same note? Variety tells us.
Before committing to the change, Rob Mack was worried that he might be disrespecting his ancestry. I did a deep dive into my ancestry, so I was always very proud of the name, which is why didn’t change it at the beginning when everybody was begging me to. That makes total sense. It turns out, as I did my genealogy, my last name has been changed, so many times. As late as the sixties, there was an offshoot of the Mcalennies that changed our name.
And it’s not like everybody was so precious about it. Prior to nineteen sixty five, my brother said, I was actually considering running for government in Culver City and I was going to be Pat Mac. Mac’s sister Katie revealed, literally every person in the world calls me Katie Mack again. I’m Johnny Mack. I get it, but I’m not legally changing my name.
That’s the part I don’t understand why. Rob Mack’s wife, Kaitlyn Olsen say that their teenage children aren’t on board. Caitlin said earlier this year, the kids are really not happy about it because they have that last name, and so do I leally. I don’t know. I don’t know.
I don’t get it. I have a similar problem. I’m not near famous, but I found a solution. Just call yourself Rob Mack and leave the paperwork alone. I don’t understand why you’re changing it anyway.
That’s Study Staley Comedy News. I’m John McDermott. See you tomorrow.