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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News as I’ve been trying to reinstate. On Friday’s taking a look at the late night joke, Steven Colbert had a good one about Trump. Don’t know if you saw the job numbers were pretty bad, and Colbert said, when he heard about the employment crisis, Trump sprang in action and fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. You fool, Now there’s one less job.
Don’t you see you fell into her trap. I like that very clever. Seth Myers said. Trump spoke about the proposal to build a ballroom on the White House grounds next to the executive mansion and added it’ll be near but not touching it, so it’s kind of like him and Milania. You could see that one coming.
I like that joke, Colbert again. Now presidents are allowed to do a little renovation. Of course, the Obama added a vegetable garden, Truman and Nixon both added bowling lanes, and Jimmy Carter famously added a sex dungeon. Hulu has Ralph Borbosa’s planet bo out today. I’d tell you all about it, but Hulu likes to keep their comedy specials extra secret.
They don’t want me to know about it, but my spies have told me that Ralph Barbosa’s Planet Bosa was filmed at the Balboa Theater in San Diego, and in it, Ralph shares his adventures in dating, controlling his temper, working on cars, and his views on current events. Kat Williams is working the PGA Tour this weekend. He is the FedEx Cup Playoffs en course correspondent. Why the PGA Tour is trying to attract a new audience. Kat Williams is a huge fan of golf and has a nineteen handicap.
Kat told the Hollywood Reporter, Okay, so I had to establish a handicap when I tore my rotator cuff. So I came in as a nineteen handicap. But I shoot low eighties. You certainly don’t want to bet me. I know I won’t be able to get that when I get ready to do it again.
Eighty three is a good and gettable score for me all across the country at excellent courses. The thing I like about golf is that it permeates so many different parts of your life. It’s not like it fixes everything, but it gives you a new parameter for things. The first four holes not going to your liking. It is the ability to ruin the day.
But it doesn’t have to. You can fix the front nine, you see, and level this front nine out where you can still have a good eighteen. He calls his outlook toxic positivity. And he really thought about this, quoted kat If. I aimed right, and I meant for the ball to go right, but the ball went left.
Where am I in my journey? I feel like the ball knows better than me, and that must be the angle that I must need to take to get to the pin. And that’s why I went over there, not that I made a mistake and shanked it and it went over to the right. I don’t even look at it like that, because that’s the way it isn’t golf, that’s the way it is in my real life. It’s almost toxic positivity.
I know that that happened because I didn’t keep my head down. I’m just gonna try and make sure that I keep it down the next time. It takes away a lot of the pressures of doing poorly because you’ve got so many opportunities to do a better job. Kat Williams, philosopher speaking of golf, What’s going on with Will Ferrell’s upcoming golf comedy. Ronnie Yusef and Joshua Benowitz were originally announced as co showrunners in addition to having created the series with Will Ferrell.
Will Ferrell stars as a fictional golf legend, according to Variety. With their departure, Molly Shannon has joined the series in the role of Stacy. We don’t know too much about Stacy just yet. To me, trading out rama usea for Molly Shannon. That’s like trading Tom sever to the Reds if you catch my drift there.
Billboard asked Matt Rife, are you looking to follow the career path of say Adam Sandler. No? By that, did they mean that Matt Rife might become a really good dramatic actor or are they wondering if he’s going to make horrific comedies? Rif said, it’s hard to say. Life’s going to take me in whatever direction it wants.
But if I had my way, Yeah, that’s the weird thing about accomplishing as much as I have by thirty, including a Madison Square garden. It’s like, what do I do now? It’s the most blessed predicament I could possibly dream of. As far as stand up comedy, my dreams have come true. I know it wasn’t pure luck.
I’ve worked my butts off, but it almost feels like I hit the mark of I could retire if I wanted to. I won’t stop performing until I die, But now I have to start thinking about is there something more? Is there something I’m passionate about that’s new to me? The goal would be filmed in television, primarily film than doing stand up whenever I feel like and performing with my friends as much as I can. That’s one thing I love about Adam Sandler.
He’s always kept that tight knit group around him. Bill Board asked Rife about a swipe from Mark Maron in twenty twenty three. Mark Marin called Matt Rife the it boy of Crampy Comedy, said there was never a beef. He was just being a crotchety old man. I’ve never even met the guy.
I guarantee he’s never watched one of my shows. So if he wants to be bitter and angry, that I get to live his streams yeah, man, you kind of be in a d word to somebody who might have looked up to you. I used to love to watch Mark Marin stand up. I don’t have a beef with a single comedian. I’m living my life, dude.
What do I possibly have to complain about. I don’t hate on anybody. I don’t talk crap about anybody. I’m just out here performing to the best of my ability. I play with my puppy, and I hang out with my friends.
I’m on my own business, and anybody who’s problem with that, it’s clearly an internal battle. All Right, Matt Rife. I like that quote. That was well fielded that question. Josh Blue has a book.
He’s been working on it for years. He said, yeah, it was about fifteen pages a year. I had scribes who I dictated to what I wanted to say. I went through five different scribes over twenty years, and it’s my story, but each person influences how the story is. So I had to go back through and rewrite the whole book just because it was in so many different voices.
It was a long, long process, but I feel like it was worth the weight. Well, that book is out now. It is called something to stare at. The book gets into Josh Blue’s unpredictable life, from his emergency birth in Africa to representing the United States in Paralympic soccer and building a successful stand up career. I have met him.
He’s a cool guy. If you’re in Denver, there’s a launch party tonight at seventy three Art Agency in Denver’s Rhino District. The event includes a Q and a a book signing, light refreshments. Giveaway is in a gallery show of Josh’s original paintings. Josh says, it’s hard when you’re so close to something for so long.
I can’t really see it, but everybody that’s been reading it is like, this is good, and every time somebody says it’s not crap, it feels great. If you are not familiar with Joshi has cerebral palsy and explains, because of my disability, I’ve had to be very comfortable with other people knowing my stuff because I need help to get stuff done. So I feel like I’ve always been very open and comfortable with that. Obviously, talking about getting bullied and stuff like that doesn’t feel good, but it also feels good in the fact that I’m here now if that makes sense, and hopefully because other people’s strength to deal with whatever it is that they’re dealing with. I don’t like corny or cheesy stuff, but if you could take something from these stories in my life, then that’s awesome.
Anyway, if you’re in Denver and you want to hit the Something to Stare at launch party event Bright dot Com tonight six to nine pm. My dogs apparently are very excited about it. They just started to bark their heads off. Usually the mastering process can get rid of the barking, but if you hear the barking, that’s what’s going on. Michael Rappaport is on the list of comedians alongside say George Lopez that I never come on here and be like, hey, Michael Rappaport had a great day.
He said it was Sonny in seventy two degrees out and he got ice cream and he just loves life. I’d never tell you a story like that. From al Alabama dot com, Michael Rapperport went on Facebook and told one point one million followers that his comedy show in Alabama was canceled after quote protests and threats over my support for Israel. Rapaport had announced the show in July twenty third on Facebook, saying he’d be in Birmingham to film the movie and at schedule the performance on his night off. He continued to post about the concert all the way through August, first posting in a video, I can’t wait.
Tickets are available now, but it’s gonna sell out because I’m Michael Rappaport, Ail dot com says. At three pm on Tuesday, however, Rappaport confirmed that the show wasn’t happening, quoting Michael, my show tonight at the Stardom in Alabama was canceled all caps. I did not cancel. I would never cancel, especially since I’m ready here in Birmingham, ready to perform. It was shut down because of protests and threats over my support for Israel and for speaking up about the fifty hostages still being held in Gaza, six hundred and seventy days in captivity, and people are protesting me for demanding their release.
Question Mark. It’s embarrassing. It’s sad, but I’m not ashamed. I stand by what I say and who I stand with. From Stocktonia dot com, You’re home for comedy news, they report, the City of Stockton spent fifty thousand dollars to subsidize a live entertainment event in which the city’s vice mayor was one of the featured performers.
Okay, what’s going on here? Stocktonia says the city tapped the Risk Medication Fund in order for the Wild and Out live show to go forward. This planned on May twenty fourth. The quote Epic Knight of Comedy, Music and Wild Freestyle Battles was the live version offshoot of the MTV Sketch Comedy and Rap show. One of the recurring cast members Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee fast forwarding through all the political details.
Interim city manager Steve Colangelo said he had launched an investigation into how fifty thousand dollars was dispersed without his knowledge or approval and initially quote whether boundaries between policymaking and administration were crossed. Stocktonian reports the Wild and Out show wasn’t the first received a city bill out. The city kicked in one hundred and twenty five grand to subsidize the second year of the Stockton Lantern Festival, a show involving lighted displays. As for wilden Out, the manager of ASM Stockton, which manages the arena, told the director of Stockton’s Economic and Development department that the show encouraged a one hundred and seventy thousand dollars lost to its promoters. Apparently the fifty thousand dollars was quote helpful to quote narrow the loss gap for the promoter canceling the show due to low ticket sales.
Fewer than four thousand tickets had sold in the ten thousand seed arena the day before the show. What has deterred other promoters from booking acts in Stockton? They apparently dropped the ticket prices and got a lot of walk up and got the attendance to seventy seven hundred. Who knows. The Hollywood Reporter had a big piece with John Oliver.
I’ll pick at this for the next few days. They were curious, what timeline does the comedy get layered in the last week tonight? Segments come together in six weeks, but what about the comedy part? Oliver said, really late. The jokes used to come in earlier.
But you don’t want to start writing before stories stable, because then you’ll fall in love with the jokes that are built on material that doesn’t stand up, and that’s a terrible position to put comedy writers in. So it’s only in the last two weeks that the jokes come in. But that first month you’re trying to give people ingredients that they’ll be able to create comedy from. You want it to be like an episode of Chopped, where it’s not impossible to make something palatable at the end. So you’re not giving them broken glass and weed care, you give them eggs.
You’ll find that interview in the Hollywood Reporter. I’ll have more about that tomorrow and on tomorrow’s show, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast is my guest. We talk about all things late Night. But before I get to the interview, I’ll talk a little about Oliver. Where you caught up on South Park?
Did you catch the other day? Actual Ice, like the actual Government Immigrations Customs Enforcement website, used a clip from South Park. Yes, the official Twitter account for ICE used to still from a South Park teaser. The teaser had included footage of Donald Trump groping Satan’s leg under the table at a dinner party. Ice didn’t use that part, but the teaser also featured footage of Ice officers, presumably rating south Park Ice thought that was cool and they decided to use it.
South Park got back at them on social media and wrote, wait, so we are relevant and had a hashtag I can’t even read this to you, but you may be familiar with a particular Louis C.K. Comedy routine about aiding a bag of something. They use the hashtag eat a bag of something. Comedy stock Market. Welcome to Comedy stock Market, or new Friday feature.
We’re I’ll throw out some names of comedians and tell you if you should buy, sell, or maybe even hold their comedy stock This week’s buy recommendations by Stock and Mark Meron His recent special is the best special of the year. It’s Mark’s best special, his podcast coming to an end. He’ll be taking a victory lap and he’s got that documentary by Mark Maren Stock.
Also by Dusty Slay.
His special was really good as well. Plus he’s part of the Nate Brighetzi verse. Always a good thing to have and being Nate adjacent should help Dusty’s ascendency and well deserved.
Also by Adam Sandler Stock.
Despite me screaming about it, you guys watched Happy Gilmour too. Don’t blame me, but forty seven million of you did the first weekend. That means Netflix is for sure going to make more Adam Sandler comedies, paying Adam Sandler tons and tons of money to make terribly unfunny things. So by Adam Sandler Stock, here are my cells. Sell Stephen Colbert Stock.
I know two weeks ago everybody’s like, oh, we love Stephen Colbert, but you weren’t watching Stephen Colbert anyway. And I think that show’s gonna have a quiet few months and then perk back up in May. But I would sell on Colbert. I would sell on Leanne Morgan. Here’s why.
My wife, who was really excited about the sitcom and is in the Target demo. She kept telling me how bad it was and she doesn’t like the laugh track. So if they’re not getting my wife, sell on Leanne. Sorry about the Netflix show. And my final cell recommendation of the week, sell on Bill Burr.
Just the more I pick away at that Vulture interview and listening to the words Bill Burr says, I think Bill Burr’s going to lose his core. He might not care, but I think we’re past peak Bill Burr now so sell On, Burr sell On, LeAnn Sell on Colbert Buye Sandler, Bye, Dusty Sleigh Bike, Mark Marin. That is your comedy stock Market out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Eliza Slessinger a different animal. She’s also putting out an album on eight to fifteen.
That’s exciting.
Also a comedy album from Damien Power.
It’s called not so Funny, now is it? We’re told that’s available wherever you stream comedy.
Also Larry Dean’s Fudnut, fud Nut Fudnut, Nice job by the eight hundred Pound…
She sends me things in advance with dates and stuff, not like the Hulu publicist. Hulu Publishers doesn’t want me to know anything about what they’re up to over at Hulu. A comedian I’m very much into right now is Seaton Smith. He’s over at the Fringe. Voicemag dot Uk has been speaking with a lot of the fringe performers.
Seton says, I’m debuting my show Trauma Bonding after twenty two years of doing comedy. I spent two years opening for John Mulaney, and I’m excited to talk about my family, my childhood, how it’s affected me who I am now, and I’m excited to relate to people. It’s exciting mainly because it’s scary going in deeper talking about childhood stories I always thought were tragic because they don’t seem tragic in themselves, Like there was a time when I lived with my father and the food he bought made my stomach hell, and I was always constipated. These things happened, but what made it tragic is how my constipation ruined the church’s big field trip to six Flags the amusement park. They asked Eating about his creative process.
He said, an idea pops into my head from living a moment in life, and then a journal until I understand the players in the situation. Then it looked for my opinion of the situation, which leads into the conflict of the scene. From there, it’s just playing around, finding the funny and kinek energy. I like that. That’s really smart.
What do you find most rewarding about performing for a live audience? Smith said, when a new joke kills Because I’m surprised as much as the audience. We all get to be the audience in moments like that. It’s my favorite. It’s a thrill.
Influence is Richard Pryor, Patrise O’Neill, John Mulaney, Tony Woods, John Stewart See Smith Trauma Bonding at the Pleasure Usince Courtyard Bunker three for the entire fringe chortle wants to go see Ted Milligan’s show called United. They say Milligan has golden retriever energy and has come up with a pretty good premise for his new show. Taking inspiration from the ongoing rash of Netflix sports documentaries, this show documents a season in the lower leagues for Crubchester United, a team in some town that fell into economic depression after the collapse of the cash register industry. This basically sounds like Wrexham spoilers here you Weren’t Flying to Scotland. Milligan’s approaches uneven and conceptually a little wobbly.
What begins as a streaming documentary in which he provides the talking heads eventually morphs into more of a Ted talk as the video material runs out and has to take over his narrator. It’s nice to see somebody unabashedly silly and cheerful in tone, even if Milligan never quite finds a way to view his underdog tail with real stakes or narrative intrigue interesting. The Times really liked Tom Rosenthal’s show. They gave it four stores out of five. The title of the show is whatever people say I am, That’s what I am, and it puts a positive spin on the title of the first album by the Arctic Monkeys, the punchline being an amazing band if you ignore everything after two thousand and seven.
The Times like a four stars out of five to Cat Cohen, who won Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in twenty nineteen. Her show broad Strokes is the story of a girl who wants to be exceptional, and yet she is unexceptional. The Time says the way she mixes hugely accomplished, velvety smooth singing with wittily warped description of her drive hypochondria career, and when we get to it real illness is always acute, always imaginative.
Also four stars out of five to Lou wall I like Lou a lot.
The Time says It’s not often that a sequel outstrips the original, Yet Breaking the Fifth Wall is a real Paddington IWO of an Edinburgh comedy hour. Interesting the times right, some audience members were used to accuse Wall of making it all up, and sure enough, this is a show about whether or not to trust a comedian who insists they’re always telling the truth except when they’re lying. And that is your comedy news for today. Come back tomorrow, Mike Chisholm and I will throw the ball around for at least an hour. We’ll talk all things late night, normal episode on Sunday.
Appreciate you, see you