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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Al Jaffey passed away. You know him from Mad Magazine’s fold ins. He was one hundred and two from his New York Times oh Bit. It was in nineteen sixty four that Al Jaffey created the Mad fold in and illustrated with Tech’s feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first glance to deliver a straightforward message.
When the page was folded in thirds, both the illustration and texts were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal leaning or authority defining message. The first fold in April nineteen sixty four, issue eighty six, that one mocked Elizabeth Taylor’s marital record unfolded, you saw Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton. When you folded it in, she had traded in Burton for another guy. In nineteen ninety three, Jaffey told The k C Star it was supposed to be a one shot, but because of the overwhelming demand of three or four of my relatives, it went on to a second time, and on and on. Here’s a good listen for you.
Tim Dillon’s podcast with Bert Kreisher. It’s like two hours long, and they really got into the business of comedy. A very interesting discussion. Serious. I don’t mean like serious with a capitalist, but they were talking about the business of comedy.
Really. I couldn’t get enough of it, and for a two hour listen, it went by really quickly. Now I’m going to share here. They made fun of Joe Rogan and I pulled the clip. I’ve cut the clip down a little bit for pacing, but I thought this was kind of funny.
I remember watching Joe and going, I’m in there’s so much meat left on that bone. Yeah, I mean with all the all the things he does, and look, Joe wants privacy and he’s a bad example. But I remember going, if I was Joe, if I could have that outreach, I’ll tell you what I do if you had like his level of power. First of all, i’d be I’d been doing more movies. Well, he’s got a bunch of jobs, right, he’s got the UFC, he’s dad, he’s a comedian, he does the podcast.
So but but it’s for sure there’s maybe more. Yeah, I would do he could do. He is lazy. I think Joe he’s a little lazy. I think that’s kind of what we’re getting at.
I think what we’re getting at is Rogan’s kind of like a little bit lazy. Is that where we’re going? I think he is. I mean I think he is. You look what it is, Okay, work out more.
What does he do? Talk someone for three hours? That’s it, I know, and then smoke, sweed and drinks and this whole spending time with my family. I’m not buying it enough. I asked him his daughter’s name the other day and he stumbled, the world should know their name.
Yeah, they should be monetized some of the topics. Bert Craisher’s advice for his opener, He said, stop opening for me. It’s the worst thing you can do. But here’s why for It said. The thing is, you don’t ever want to be viewed as someone’s opener, so you say to them, stop opening for me.
One guy, I thought I had to. He needs to do his own thing because people are seeing him as my guy. Because you go out to clubs and people don’t respect you. They go, oh, he’s only dot dot dot because of dot dot dot or it said. His last opener is Marcello Hernandez who’s now On Saturday Night Live more career stuff, Tim Millan said, he can go out now and make your career what you wanted to be.
There’s nobody really holding anybody back anywhere. There’s no gatekeepers. That energy has got to go away, like all that energy, and any bitterness or any resentment or any anger that you have can’t be justified or rational right now in this moment in the world. You can be resentful of the government. You can be resentful at your parents.
I’m resentful at both of those, but you can’t be resentful on anyone in this business. So I remember if somebody would get the Montreal Comedy Festival and I wouldn’t get it, and I had a great audition, I’d sit there and I’d be outside a New York comedy club or whatever, smoking a cigarette, New York City, and I’d be like, m effort, but it is what it is. Bert Craisier said, I remember being resentful for people that didn’t even know existed, and I’d be like, I hate you. I hate these people for not knowing, and then I’d run to them. I’d be like, hey, what’s up, and they’d be like, Hi, I’ve never met you before, and I’d be like, oh, for real, right, but you didn’t get my submission tape.
I’d do submission tapes, so I’d put cool music on the front that I felt the guy would like. Bert said, my stand up was so bad when I was young. It’s the other thing I would say, I got really lucky. This is a big statement. This could get me in trouble.
What’s happening now with comedy is what happened with hot chicks in comedy. So hot chicks in comedy they get scooped up the second they step on the scene. If you’re beautiful, you’re in. You’re pretty good, right, even pretty competent, you’re in. You get scooped up.
You get spots, you want, you want a headline, We’ll take your headline. Managers you in, you get in the theaters. Let’s go get you going now. There are some exceptions to this rule. I say, Chelsea Handler is a big exception.
She’s beautiful, and man, when I first saw her, she was a gangster on stage. But I will say that the problem is that a pretty woman sometimes and Eliza is an exception, they get scooped up and they get put in positions they’re maybe not ready for I got lucky. That was just a dude who got to be good or mediocre for a very long time, and then I got pretty good.
And then I got that hot chick moment where they go, hey, you’re ready for som…
I know do this. I’m doing this for twenty two years. That’s what’s gonna happen with comics. They’re gonna get a video that goes big online. Then everyone’s gonna be like, oh, we gotta go see them, and they’re not gonna be ready.
It’s like Last Comics Standing, where guys could do five minutes, ten minutes, and then they blow it. During an hour they blow it. Yeah, I remember it, Last Comics Standing. I remember I would show up at work it’s serious and people are like, hey, did just he’s so and so last night, And I’m like, you understand they pulled a twenty second joke. Anybody can be funny for twenty seconds.
Can you do it for an hour? Can you do it for eight minutes? Can you do it half an hour? Anyway? Tim Dylan and Burke Craish are very very good.
Listen there. I also checked out as promised ots go At Katsa on NPR’s Bullseye, and I couldn’t do it. Man, it was just so NPR has this vibe. The conversation was just like serious. It was like, oh, I have a comedian here, let me do a serious interview there, and there are ways to do it.
Rogan could do it, or Tim Dylan apparently just did it. But this was like, I don’t know, just not fun at all. So I bailed on it and I deleted the Mark Marin one without even listening to it. John Early is getting an HBO special. It’s called Now More Than Ever, a stand up comedy hour and the style of a gritty seventies rockymentary.
It’ll be out in June. No trailer yet. It will feature a stand up and explosive song covers from Brittany to Neil Young, intercut with spinal tap asque backstage sketches. In a statement generally said, I’m so excited to finally come out to the world as the lead singer of my band, John Early in the Lemon Squares. I at the time my life singing some of my favorite songs and sweating my brains out of the taping, and I can’t wait for more people to finally see the sacred show I’ve been doing some version of for the past ten years in New York.
I cannot feel any cooler to have the sport if all comedy legends app Soluteley Productions and for this airing on the Crown Jewel at his HBO Bob Odenkirk, who talked about his heart attack. He spoke to The Independent. He said, I had a strangely upbeat energy in the time after the heart attack. I was chipper and clueless about the enormity of what had happened to me and what other people had felt being around it. It was only over time that what happened slowly sank in My brain was completely hiding this thing for me.
I was trying to make it disappear, and it did. He thinks it changed him for the better. He said, I feel kind of great, like a blank slate, but in a good way. I feel like I’ve cleaned my palette. It made me think about how you spend the time you have in the bottom line is I don’t want my days to be as packed.
I want to be able to enjoy the good things in my life, and I want to enjoy the problems too. When you’re racing around trying to fix things, you don’t enjoy anything. That’s been my life for a little while. I’m trying to cut back on it, and I’m doing a good job. I’m really trying to get some space in my life.
I saw a quick note on offbeat dot com Lewis Black apparently has a special coming out May second, and I was like, did I miss this? Did I erase this from my brain? And I googled Lewis Black Tragically I Need You and the only reference I see to it is from the article I’m quoting. So apparently, according on offbeat dot com, Lewis Black has a highly anticipated stand up special called Lewis Black Tragically I Need You set to release a May second. May second is curious too, because that’s a Monday.
A lot of time specials come out on Tuesday. I don’t know where it’s landing here. Let me google it again. It’s been a couple of hours since I wrote this. Yeah, not really seeing anything.
There’s an IMDb with note details. All Right, we’re gonna go Lewis Black Special. If you enjoy what I do here, one way the sports the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast. So you got a phone there, an iPhone? I want you click on that purple podcast app, or maybe you’re using it right now.
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Let’s talk about Anti Donna. Remember those guys. They had a sketch show on Netflix right when the Pandemic starter was pretty good. That’s how I got turned onto them. They’ve got a new show down in Australia.
It’s called Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe. The Guardian reviewed it and the review’s not so good. Sketch comedy trio scramble for laughs and new show Oh The premise of running a Milburne cafe as heaps of potential, But while there’s always trying to be found in the zaniness, this series isn’t their best, down three stars out of five. The Guardian rights Australian comedy troupe Anti Donna’s previous series, Big Old House of Fun, was set in a shared house, providing an easy means to launch various random encounters. Those could come from strangers knocking on the door or the antics of the housemates themselves.
The group’s new showcase of dippy absurdist humor almost literalizes that revolving door of comedic potential. It’s based in a newly opened Milburne cafe, where the three owners endeavor to find a marketable point of difference to distinguished their business from all the others. A video played early in the first episode of Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe reveals what other trendy cafes are doing, from selling vinyl to stocking over one hundred types of cereal. One cafe serves popcorn and plays a movie in front of the customer. The joke is that’s a movie theater.
Another gets you free books for a bit. That joke is that it’s a library. The bumbling entrepreneurs experiment with adding acts throwing to their menu. Customers don’t want to do that. The show begins with sixteen year old employees Stephanie on her first day.
The camera at one point morphing into a first person perspective to show the wacky trio pelting her with wild banter and nonsensical jokes. Three stars out of five rats. The Age has been viewing shows at the International Comedy Festival. Joshua Ladgrove is at town Hall until April twenty third part comedy show, part history, lesson and Philly and homage So the profound love he felt for his ninety seven year old grandmother before her passing, Baba is a sensational hour. Laughs are abundant.
His historial like knowledge of Slavic political warfare and international relationship is immacularly articulated, as is his deep hatred of communism. You’ll evel his stomach, aching of laughs, tears in your eyes, and the urge to call your releves and let them know you’ll love them. Four and a half stars. Let’s see who’s at the festival on Thursday. Will Anderson’s show is called Will Illuminate the Sidney Morning.
Harold give four and a half star is lightning in a bottle chord? I’ll also give it four and a half stars goodwill and good jukes and go see him at seven o’clock. What do you think, Let’s listen. I live Overseas half of the year, right, I live in America half of the year. And I was there just after the election and this guy came up to me in a show and he was like, oh, I never moved to Australia.
Too many dangerous animals. Oh, look around your country mates. At least the dingos don’t have guns. I’m fine, We’ve made our choices. Right.
He’s like, oh, what about the sharks? What about the sharks? I mean yeah, I mean they’re dangerous, but mostly in the water. I’d let you have your gun if you were like, I’m keeping it off the coast. That’s fine.
A shark really bothers you at any other time of the day, right, You’re really getting money out of an atm at three o’clock in the morning and you just feel a little fin in your back. Turn around as a shark and a balaclava like I’m a dolphin. All I’m saying is we have dangerous animals, but they’re not as dangerous guns. Right, You’re never hear in Australia of some psycho walking into a school and chucking redbacks everywhere. You don’t have our version of the NRA.
The RSPCA is coming out going. Well, the aren’t your way to prevent that? As if the teachers are arm we’re following finders. I enjoyed that a lot. I’m just randomly clicking on these based on the titles.
There’s so many of them, and then I scroll down. I just see what’s going on. How about Daniel Karnell. His show was called I’m Always Sore. The age said, fifty five minutes of exquisitely judged middle brown Australian humor.
That’s a six fifteen show. If you want to go, let’s listen. A bit upset at the moment, guys are gonna get some off my chest. I’m a bit upset with the local service station attendance down on my local server. Huh, don’t if you’re getting this as well, but I can’t go get fuel it anymore without them offer me some sort of deal.
You’re getting that as well. When you go get your fuel, which you like some two for one chockey bars? Mate? Do you want some energy drinks? Would you like some sex in the toilet?
All these eat offers, it’s disgusting of also, don’t want any energy drinks. They are gross. Debrah and Graham they’re the worst at my local server. They’re absolute pests. I was in the other day.
Graham offered me this twoth one deal, goes, do you want to try the new deal? Daniel said, what is it made? He goes, it’s a two for one deal on three letters of milk? So what’s it? Mate?
He goes, you want six letters of milk for the price of three? Who’s drinking that much? Milk? Goes off in three days? I think I’m drinking two laters of milk a day for next three days of gron pull your head in, mate.
Do you think I’m bathing in milk grams? You think you think I’m aout milk baths? I think I’m hand raising three tiger cups? Mate? What would I need six liters of milk?
I’ve got two cents worth that I you would as well? And he got all upset. He’s like oh look, Daniel just came down. Put the knife down, mate, So just say another reason we offer two for one deals because their boss makes us dood. We don’t do it.
We don’t get shifts at the servers. There you go, that’s why you get off two for one deal. So obviously I felt horrible for having a go at him. So if anybody nights any milk, nice nice good job there brought that around. If you can’t make it to Melbourne, maybe you can make it to the Dubai Comedy Festival.
They’ve announced some more comedians coming. They are Otsko at Katza, Bet Stelling and Rachel Feinstein. They’ve all been added the Dubai Comedy Festival May twelve through the twenty first. Pretty good lineup those three and Jimmy Carr is playing there can’t wait and you know it starts tonight Moontower. Yeah, just for laughs, Austin Moontower Comedy Festival.
Let’s take a look at tonight’s line up. Chris to Stephano, it’s seven o’clock, Kenny Sebastian at seven, Kenny has a second show at nine thirty, and something called Perfect Cults at eight. This is comedian Moses Storm The Perfect Cult is a unique interactive comedy special that invites audience members to participate in the formation of a one night only cults. Each night. After opening up about his own hilarious and heartbreaking cult experience, Moses interviews a guest comedian or audience member about their religious background.
He asked them about the parts of their religions they identify with, don’t identify with, parts of helped them, and the ports they find just weird. All right, what do you want to do? Christy Stephano’s seven and Perfect Cult to date? Something like that? Sure?
Why not? And the final item today or spoilers for last Sunday’s Succession if you care at all about Succession, I imagine you know what I’m going to talk about by now, But I’ll give you a chance to bail here. You’ve got three to one, alright, is spoiler’s time? This from Vulture. Executive producer Georgia Pritchett revealed on Twitter that the writers of Succession decided in January of twenty twenty two that Logan Roy would die, and they gave the event a code word on the office whiteboards so no one would find out.
The code word was Larry David. They explained, Larry David means logan dies. So episode four or three said Connor’s wedding Larry David. Vulture adds, my new that would have also been a great episode. That’s your comedy needs for today.
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