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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The news goes in waves. We’re gonna get a lot of Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy as they have an Amazon movie coming up. Now, we’re getting a lot of Mark Maren because he’s got his special out on HBO on the first plus the documentary, plus his podcast is coming to an end, and he has revealed who he would like to be the final guest.
Maren said, if we could get President Obama back, that would be good to give us a little hope or some sense of reflection, ground us a little bit. I could see Obama absolutely doing that. That first Obama appearance. I actually use it in my college classes if you listen to it as a podcaster. When Obama first shows up, he’s in President Obama mode, but Maren gets him so comfortable.
At one point, it’s just Barack hang out in a garage and they’re just having a real conversation. Then Obama gets back into presidential mode and I got to get these points in but in the middle there, it’s beautiful how he just gets him out of president politician mode and just a guy. Whatever your politics are. It’s a really interesting study of the art of podcasting. Judy last week that there’s a bad blood between Maren and John Stewart, and Maren has said he won’t ask John again out of pride.
Maren weighed in on Colbert Gate, saying the timing was bad. It seems there was a political element, at least an appearance to a certain degree. The messages that if corporations are going to buckle to the whims of an autocrat and authoritarian, then all the art and what we know is freedom of expression is compromised. The writing’s on the wall for late night in general because people don’t watch TV like that. I felt like a make sure both.
I don’t think it’s a complete fabrication that it was a business decision, but the other part of it, in terms of trying to piece of this monster president that should not be done. Show business is shrinking. People are entrepreneurial and building their own show businesses that eventually get appropriated and used by what’s left of mainstream show business and streamers. Hopefully enough interest and focus will be put on original productions film and television. You have to hope for the best.
Where everything just turns to garbage. Bobby Lee was making some news a few days back. Again with Colbert Gate and everything else going on, this got a little bit buried, but he told Entertainment Weekly he thinks the reason he wasn’t asked back to the new season of And Just Like That was due to the removal of quote woke elements. His quote. They tried to put minorities in, and I don’t know, I never saw the show.
He had played Jackie Knee, the podcast co host of Carrie Bradshaw I played of course by Sarah Jessica Parker on the first two seasons of the Sex and the City follow up series, but he wasn’t asked back for season three. Bobby Lee told EWO Comicon, some of the woke elements of the show they got rid of it, and I think that was part of that. I think Sarah Ramirez didn’t come back in some other people. They tried to put minorities in, and I don’t know, I never saw the show. A few points out that the subplot about Carrie’s podcast had concluded at the end of season two as she refocused on her new novel.
Bobby said he was surprised he was even on the show to begin with, he said number one. I don’t even know why they asked, and I was super scared to do it because it wasn’t my brand, really, you know what I mean. But I did it. I walked through the fear. I remember going there being so high and drunk, and when I was reading the script, I couldn’t even under what the f it was saying.
I remember saying to myself, this is never going to happen again. I had to get sober. This is insane. Pete Davidson spoke to Jimmy Fallon about Pete Davidson’s favorite SNL backstage moment. Pete told Jimmy, you know, when you go under the paint cans, there’s that little sign that says watch your head Farley.
They explained that to me in my first season. I thought it was really cool. Pete explained, Chris Farley used to bump his head when it would run the sketch, so there’s a little plaque that says watch your head Furley. A little more information about the re Odd Comedy Festival September twenty sixth through October ninth. The lineup will include local and international comedians, including some names you know Andrew Schultz, who was shocked to find out President Trump didn’t go through with everything that President Trump had promised.
Bill Burr, Gabriel Iglesias, Jessica Curson, Jim Jefferies, Jimmy Carr, Joe Coy who once told a horrible joke about Taylor Swift. Should we listen to it? Yeah, let’s listen to it. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the gold Gloves in the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor. Swift, Kevin Hart, Monster Brownie, Russell Peters, Sebastian Maniscalco, Whitney Cummings’ Zarna Gark. That’s no joke. Margaret Cho is touring her new show is called Choligarchy and explains my new show, Chologarchy is bringing me back to my roots as a political comedian. I’m so frustrated with the all caps state of the Union, and I know the only weapon I have is humor.
I want to fight fascism with everything I have. This will be my most blistering and brutally on a show. Yet, let’s tear down racism, homophobia, and sexism with all that we have, Liza Trigger spoke to Interview magazine. They were curious if she’s always been into gossip. Lisa said, it’s like an immigrant thing.
Once you’re an outsider, you do more observing. I didn’t know what carry out was or delivery. We don’t do that, And then I’m at my friend’s house and we’re getting hot dogs delivered to the house, and I’m like, what is going on? But I was also raised on Access Hollywood Entertainment Tonight and that’s weekly. My high school group was crazy.
It was just a bunch of really thin people calling each other.
And then I was in the corner being like, Okay, I guess I’ll jump off the brid…
Then I’ll tell someone everyone’s mad at you and they don’t like you. Then they get kicked out of the group for being a bitch. She talked about her previous specials The Half Hour in Comedy Central on a half Hour on Netflix as part of The Degenerates and said, and with those, you’re kind of playing the game. There’s a teleprompter. I had my jokes in order, I had my set list.
It felt like a pageant. That’s not like I would like to perform. So for the new special, I was very specific, no set list. I knew how I was starting and how it was ending. I wanted it to be a night out in New York watching me do stand up in a basement.
People were eating mazzarella sticks, people were drinking. That’s how I love doing comedy. I don’t perform in theaters. You know, life does just keep getting worse and worse. First Mark Marin announced he was ending his podcast, and Stephen Colbert got fired, and now Adam Sandler is talking about making even more sequels.
Oh no, there’s talk of growing ups three, Sandler says. When it happens, I’ve got to let you know. I just don’t know what we’re doing right now, but we’re trying to figure out stuff. It would be fun. We’re always thinking of some stuff and trying to get us all together.
I’ve heard chatter. Oh no, oh, I mean, do I have to remind everyone? Do I have to bust out yet another Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore I review because I’ve got them. Here’s one from salon their headline. The sequel to the beloved nineteen ninety six hit is a tip of tide reminder that it’s okay to move on.
Salon writes, of all the dirty, rotten, down low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck, might be the worst so far. Left to his own devices, Sandler’s style of comedy isn’t exactly pleasant to ingest in massive quantities. The comedian actor made a name for himself yelling, doing voices, and playing instruments on Saturday Night Live. Juvenile humor was rampant in the nineties, popular with kids and kids at heart, for whom growing up was a Peter Pan level nightmare. Saidlor’s nineteen ninety five comedy Billy Madison is the most flagrant example of this childish style, soapack with immature gags that it threatens to burst, sending Nickelodeon green slime everywhere.
I like this, This is a good review. But as I said yesterday, people have seen the light. I’ve been out here by myself saying this, and people are coming around now. Salon writes the one two punch of twenty seventeen’s The Myerwoitz Stories. In twenty nineteen’s Uncut gems Leffy was thinking that Sailor might be turning over a new leaf, ready to flex his skills as a dramatic performer.
That’s right, he’s a great dramatic actor. More of that, Adam, please, I’ll go see your movies. But Salon writes Button twenty twenty, Netflix and Happy Madison Inc. Another four film deal, meaning that Sanilor would be tied to the streamer and it’s increasingly dour cinematic output just what Sailor was finally settled into a more mature era. So people were giving Kathy Griffin the business about how she looked she had posted on Instagram.
Just when he thought I was done, I came back better than ever. In classic Griffin fashion, I’m happy to announce two new upcoming shows this November find me in the Glamorous Las Vegas November eighth and Anaheim November twenty second. In the photo, she was smiling, showing off a red, wavy hair of full bangs and a glammed up look. This event titled New Face, New Tour. In this scene to be response to a photo that paparazzi took last month, Cathy was just out living her life.
Seen without her full bangs, sporting long natural hair. She was dressed casually in a white T shirt. People on social media commented and said, she definitely looks different. You know, sometimes people just want to go to the store. As someone who recently lived in Canada for was it five days that I moved to Canada?
I support Canadian comedy. The producers of Letter Kenny. They are new Metric Media. They are self funding, producing and distributing a slate of stand up comedy albums specials known as the A List. You know, like the Canadian stereotype of the go A.
So the A List will feature Kenny Robinson’s of Brena, Douglas, Ron Jossel, Rebecca Kohler, Jared Nathan, Kelly Taylor. The guy behind this is Ben Minor. Now I know Ben because he used to run Serious XM Comedy Canada or Serious Comedy Canada maybe before the merger. I forget how that all shook out. Anyway, I know Ben worked with Ben.
Like Ben, congratulations Ben. We used to like working with the Canadian as we call them down in New York City. Anytime we went up to Canada, they would let us use their facilities and they were pretty cool guys. Ben Miner says New Metric is a world class one stop shop for Canadian comedians and our new stand up and podcast division lives up to the successes we’ve had on the scripted side with Letter, Kenny Shorsey and some other stuff. These six comedians are absolute humdingers and room rocking stand ups.
Let’s continue to support Canadian comedy. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Devon Henderson. Devin describes her comedy style as very cerebral until I decided to start screaming. Her influence is the cast of early two thousands SSNL. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, etc.
Probably did the most to shape my sense of humor. If Tina Fey never existed, I would not be doing this right now. It’s impossible to overstate how influential she was for me. Her favorite way to find out about new comedians. I love this answer, she said, Do I sound like Father Time?
If I say live shows, I don’t have TikTok. I love to stand at the back of the comedy boarn and be surprised by a comedian I’ve never seen before. Amen, Devin nice Jo by the La Comedy Club at the Strat Hotel, Casino and Tower. They’re trying to get you to adopt local shelter pets. You should.
I have two dogs right now and they are both shelter pets. I’ve got nothing but shelter pets since nineteen eighty one. Before that, I didn’t have any pets. From now until the end of the summer, individuals who adopt a pet from the Animal Foundation, we’ll receive a complimentary pair of tickets to an upcoming LA Comedy Club show. LA Comedy Club dot com information there.
This is going on through August twenty eighth, and from Cruisehive dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Apparently a recent guest on the Carnival cruise line there didn’t like the comedy show. They complained to John Heeld. Apparently mister Heald’s job is to listen to your complaints. The complaints said the entertainment was great, with the exception of the eighteen plus comedy.
We couldn’t believe what both comedian entertainers brought up incredibly inappropriate for any age. You did hear the part where I just said that the guest said it was an eighteen plus comedy. Clearly an eighteen plus comedy and the guest clearly understand that, but incredibly inappropriate for any age. The first comedian opened up with the F word and within the next five minutes dropped it at least three times. It was racist and it was cruel.
I cannot believe that everyone stayed and listened to this filth. Mister Healda did not identify the performer, but said it’s one of Carnival’s star performers. The guest said, in my opinion, he should be fired. Politics, sexual connotations, and the use of the F bomb has no place on a so called family cruise line. All right, so it’s a comedy show.
You don’t want us to do politics or sex or use the language. I’ll meet you halfway on the language. But what do you want? Knock not jokes? Mister heald explained being a comedian twenty twenty five is one heck of a difficult profession in comedy, most jokes or at someone’s expense, whether it’s Hardy bullying.
Laurel might want a more updated reference there, I mean, what did Laurel and Hardy last put something? Out. I’m looking that up. Can we please update our references a little. Wikipedia tells me they were active from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen fifty five.
Can we find something that’s a little more current than seventy years ago? Now, Whether it’s Hardy bullying Laurel Jerry dropping a bowling ball on Tom’s head so Tom and Jerry cartoon’s been a minute there, or me making a job about something in the news, or indeed my weight and my ugliness, the laugh comes at a cost to a victim. The nitty gritty of this is simple, though. Our adult comedy shows are uncensored. If you’re in any doubt, please simply don’t go now.
Apparently, the Punchlineer Comedy Club makes announcements before each R rated show that the content may not appeal to all guests. There was also a sign saying the show is adults only. The guest admits that they did leave the show. Mister healed said that was probably the best decision. If you don’t like a joke, comedian says on one of our stages, please don’t demand, don’t write on the boards telling them that mister and missus funny Bone be fired.
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