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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and we’re Jim Packed again today with your Daily Comedy News. I cannot get enough of this. Tom Sigora chop busting on Garth Brooks the latest. To promote his August twenty seventh show at the Comedy Mothership in Austin Joe Rogan’s place, Sagora photoshopped his face over Garth brooks face on an album cover.
Tom even got the font right and has a sticker with the day and time of the show. Tom’s been making fun of Garth Brooks for years. If you watched the recent Netflix series Bad Thoughts, so there’s a wonderful, totally not Garth Brooks at all sketch that was absolutely my favorite. This all gets back to a conversation on Tom’s podcast years ago when they started joking that Garth Brooks might be a serial killer, which of course Garth Brooks is not. He’s definitely not a serial killer.
I just want to make that clear. Despite my certainty that Garth Brooks is not a serial killer, Tom Segura had apparently suggested that the evidence was Garth Brooks very unusual videos that he had posted on social media. Fans started commenting on Garth’s social media posts with one question, which was where are the bodies Garth. Tom Sigora has been blocked on Instagram by Garth Brooks. In the past, Agora has talked about a reliable source who Segory asked does he know?
And they’re like, oh, yeah, he knows? And I was like, is he upset? And they’re like, he just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t know why you’re talking about him. Sigora said, I was like, Okay.
Dusty Slay mixing it up with the country music fans. He has some strong opinions on what’s country music or not. You’ll find Dusty on the Rolling Stone podcast Nashville Now Dusty talking about his new special that was out last week, Wet Heat. Rolling Stone asked, you cost a lot of stir on social media when you claim that Post Malone’s F one trillion was not country music. Why don’t you considered country?
It’s fair question. Dusty said, I’ll say this. I think it was two discs, and I didn’t realize that the second disc actually was a little more country. What I listened to was the stuff with the other country singers and I was like, I don’t like it. I don’t think this is a country.
Personally, I don’t think post Malone has a country voice. I don’t mean an accent. He just doesn’t sound country to me.
And then he was paired up with a lot of country singers that I really like.
I don’t like people switching genres coming over to country and being like, now the country’s super popular, I’m gonna make country. Now. I’ve heard that post Malone his next album is gonna be more traditional country. So I think he heard me. If you want to make a country album, make a country album.
So Rolling Stone was curious, all right, what goes on a country album? Dusty said, I think you need steel guitar, fiddle. If you have those, you already have a recipe for country. That’s a good place to start. If you don’t have a basy voice, you’re gonna need those two things.
If you have a real deep voice, I think you can get away with just an acoustic guitar. And they then asked him about a bunch of albums, one of them Morgan wallins I’m the problem. Dusty said, all right, I don’t think so. I don’t like it, but this is what I’ll say. I got a brother in law from Michigan.
He grew up with this. My sister’s ten years older than they got married. They started dating with her like eighteen, so I was like eight. So this guy, he’s been in my life. He moved from Michigan down to Alabama, lived in a trailer park with us.
He knows all about country music now, and I was trying to show him how not country it is, and he goes, that sounds country to me. So it’s hard to argue. But to me, it’s not country. It’s a thing they’re doing with the way they sing. Now, everything sounds so emotional, and everything’s trying to sound so deep.
I think there’s a groundedness that country music really needs. So The Rolling Stone followed up with Carrie Underwoods before he Cheats. Dusty Slay said, Yeah, country’s very well known for breakup songs, but I feel like there should be a male version of this song where you’re the other guy. You’re the guy that shi keied his car. You need that guy.
Where’s his side of this? What was going on? Why did he cheat? What happened? Did he really is she overreacting?
Did she go to jail cheating’s not illegal in a relationship. I love it. John Mulaney was on Threads pushing his book club. I think the reason John Mulaney has a book club is to make Jim Gaffigan’s Whiskey project look cool. In comparison, I think m’lane’s taking one for the team.
On Threads, John posted some crooked photos, but he explained my three year old photographer his son captured my excitement for this month’s mullany Read’s pick, which is Shark Heart by Emily Haybeck. Mullaney explains shark Heart, very hard to say, was my favorite book of twenty twenty three, and one that I don’t think got enough attention when it came out. It tells the story of Lewis and Wren, a young married couple that faces something many of us can relate to. You know what’s going through my head now. The idea that somebody said the way into a half assed Millenni impression is to do Fred Schneider from the B fifty two’s Lewis is diagnosed with a rare disease that will gradually turn his body into that of a great white shark, like for real.
Next thread from John Mulaney. I think each of you will bring your own life to the book and maybe see it and the changes and losses you have gone through. It’s the wildest premise and yet I think we’ll feel deeply personal to lots of readers. The book is fantastic and you can buy it at independent booksellers all around the world. It is John Mulaney’s book Club Cool.
Conan O’Brien had Mack packer Andy Samberg on his podcast. They started talking about Conan O’Brien’s tenure on SNL. Samberg had heard the show was a little more competitive and kind of grimy. Conan said, yeah, definitely was when I was there.
And then I have to credit Adam Sandler.
Conan said every week he would worry, I don’t know if I have anything this week. It’s late. I don’t think I can write comedy. He would call his girlfriend Spiraling, sh’d tell him to quit. Conan, I was in a state of mind.
I think like Smigel and Odin Kirk and Greg Daniels were like, it’s life or death, and it feels like that’s kind of how everyone feels.
And then this guy, Adam Sandler showed up one day and he’s like babba doo, an…
I love it. He was really happy, and you’re just like, how is this a possibility you can like this? Conan added, I think sometimes real silliness used to be discounted some what it was Adam Sandler who made him realize it had real value. Congratulations to Mark marin his upcoming documentary Are We Good We’ll be in theaters. Independent documentary film distributor Utopia has acquired the North American theatrical rights to Are We Good.
Are We Good shares the life story of Mark Meron. It specifically emphasizes Mark Maren’s self reflective journey through grief after unexpectedly losing his partner, filmmaker and actress Lynn Shelton. The film chronicles how Mark Maron returned to the stage while also exploring his career trajectory over the course of forty years. Are We Good includes interviews with John Mulaney, Nate Brighetzi, David Cross, and Mikhaela Watkins, as well as footage from Maren’s sixteen years hosting the podcast. On the Good One Podcast Bill Byrd, it sounded pretty feisty, especially when he gets into the political stuff.
I’ll get to that later in the week. Berr talked about working on himself and talked about some legacy advice you would hear from comedians. There’s this thing, don’t go getting happy. If you get happy, you’re not gonna be funny anymore. But no, it’s actually better because it opens up this whole new worldview.
So you’re not doing the same thing the entire time. You have to keep incrementally changing every year, so there’s some sort of Fordamentum no what you’re doing. That’s what happens. When people knows a change, you have a positive reaction to it. But if people have left behind who are still angry, misogynistic and blah blah.
I’m not saying I didn’t have a lot of issues with women. I do, but even then it’s not them, that’s to do with other stuff. I just keep going back and figuring out what it is. So I definitely had a fall off of the stay angry bro guys, and they’re not fans now. I just think, well, hey, man, I hope you’re not angry your whole life, because I was on my way to doing that, and I don’t want to be that guy the on me.
If somebody would have said that, I would have been like, well, FU didn’t what I want. But even for a person saying, you know, as funny as he used to be, I still have empathy and go, I know what he’s saying. I like, don’t go to light because I’m not ready yet. Stay here in the bar with me thinking all this negative stuff. I don’t want to be the pied piper that I don’t want my tombstone to be here lies Bill Burr.
He was angry. Were my one effing life that I had? He did that. So I’m also realizing it’s just kind of what it is. You have your stuff, you have to work out, and that’s your life sentence.
Just for Laughs has announced some of the line up at least for Just for Laughs Toronto. Glad to see the Toronto Comedy Festival coming back. It is a fantastic fest of all I’ve been thinking about going up this year. It’s from September eighteenth through the twenty seventh. The names they pulled out in the press release gave Iglesias, Sarah Milliken, Viral Sensation, drop Out, improv and fan favorites Maria Bamford, Almdical, Big Jay Ogerson, and Ron Funches kind of fly through.
This lineup includes Al Magical. I’m guessing if you listen to my podcast, you know Al best known as a correspondent on The Daily Show. I like his stand up a lot. Alistair Ogden is one of Canada’s top comedic talents and was one of the new faces just for Last Montreal. He was pretty good.
Ashwan Singh is a stand up comedian, musician and writer whose work blends incisive humor with heartfeld social commentary. And Indian immigrant turned Canadian resident, Ashwin draws on his unique perspective to explore themes of culture, identity, immigration and family, wit and relatability. Big Jay Okerson, I imagine you would know. Brittany Schmidt is an LA based, Wisconsin raised comic. She likes her comedy like she likes her cheese.
Stinky, that’s hackey, I’d be afraid of that. That’s a little hacky who wrote that? Don’t be fooled by her. Girl next Door looks her humor is insidious. And unapologetic.
She’s open for Theo Vaughan, Chris Red and others. All Right, Shaye Jarina, best known for his viral videos and oppressive social media presence, Open for Bert Kreischer, Connor O’Malley. You can check out Connor’s special stand up solutions on YouTube. Drop Out Improv from the minds behind Dropout Comes, an evening of improv minigames and off the Wall Shenanigans. Brizio Capano is one of the most well known and highly regarded comedians in Latin America.
He was the first South American comedian to shoot an original comedy special for Netflix. Gabe Iglesias, You know who that is? Gavin Mattz in twenty twenty four named one of Vulture’s comedians you should and will know Genia Sheer. You guys know Gina right. Hamoody aka the fob four, described as hilarious takes on immigrant life and cultural clashes.
His skits mixed humor with relatable insights, especially for diaspora communities. Oh my goodness, the ever so serious Harry Condobolo is going to be there. I think we need to update Hari’s crudentials a little bit. We’re told he has performed on such shows as Conan and The Late Show with David Letterman. It’s been a minute Ian finance, described by David Tell as a power act.
Jay Jorden, who has a lot of buzz, also on Vultureous Comedians You Should and Will Know list in twenty twenty, was a new face in twenty nineteen. Langston Kerman, Maria Bamford, Mark Forward will perform his third comedy special will be recorded for future release. He has two specials already. I love the titles of those. One is called Mark Ford Presents Mark Ford and the other one I love this title, Mark Ford Wins All the Awards.
Ron Funches will be up there. Sarah Milliken. She is one of the UK’s and in recent years the world’s most well love touring comedians. Todd Barry Oh, I like Todd? How are you doing on time?
All right? I could do a couple more here. Moa Mayer was announced as a headliner for twenty twenty five’s Dubai Comedy Festival. Liz Meely will release a new comedy special called space Camp that’ll be out September ninth on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid fire storytelling style to share tales of her boyfriend’s botched vasectomy, faking marriage, being a sky Princess, cat missapps, and more.
Liz is also going to start touring on the eleventh of September in Austin, Texas, a whole bunch of dates ending up Boston November sixth. Info at Lizmeely dot com. M I E L E. And Johnny Mack’s got a ton of leftovers, which means he’s going to be able to pre tape Labor Day weekend, which is kind of nice. That’s your comedy news for today.
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