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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan said, comedians are a serious bunch. They’re much more philosophical and introspective, and maybe it’s narcissism, but they’re more thoughtful than one would imagine. For me, I’m always relearning basic truths.
It’s almost embarrassing. I remember a big goal of mine was to appear on Late Night with David Letterman. I want to do that that everything would be solved. So then I remember after performing on Late Show. It was great, but I was like, all right, what do I do now?
And I realized, well, not in a romantic relationship. I shared that with friends and family stuff like that, and that was great, but it was a moment of realization, what’s the important thing? He joked about his comedy saying would stand up. Essentially, I’m complaining about my family, right. But there’s this understanding that if people are complaining about being a parent, that means they’re participating.
If they’re not complaining, either they’re the most well adjusted Buddhists of the world. Or if you’re not affected by this experience of being a parent, then you’re not involved enough. Some of the things I say about being a dad. They’re not earth shattering. The reason work is because they’re universal, and it’s a dismantling of a mids surrounding bearoning and I guess behind it, it’s their whole curmudget thing.
WC. Fields wasn’t really going to eat kids, but it was pretty funny that it was like they should be cooked. I feel guilty saying this. My dad he was very engaging, people really liked him, but he wasn’t incredibly funny. He was a good hang, but he was more unintentionally funny.
And I should also say that’s from my son’s perspective. My kids don’t think I’m funny. Well, I think they think I’m funny. But could he make a career at this certainly not. My father had a joke, why does Jimmy Carter carry around a turkey for spear ports?
That was the joke my dad would tell. And you’re like, are you kidding me? It’s funny. I’ll meet people who know my brother Joe, or know my brother Mitch, and Joe and Mitchell tell these people that they’re funnier than me, and these people will be like, yeah, I know your brother. He says he’s funnier than you.
Jim’s retort, I have more comedy specials than them. Joe Rogan had Mike Veckione on his podcast and Vicky One asked Joe about his techniques were staying common confident before every show? Rogan said, Arenas. One of the things that I do is I have index cards, so I right out before, I’ll get there early and I’ll write like just bullet points of all the sets or the bits, and I’ll put them on cards like this is on this subject, that’s on that subject. I lay them out on a coffee table, and writing them out just cements it all in my head.
It solidifies it in my head, and then it’s just about getting fired up. My set is rock solid. That means I’ve done the clubs and then I went on theaters and start feeling it. You can’t just go up in front of sixteen thousand people not knowing whether or not it’s gonna work. You have to be tuned in and ready to go.
And yeah, you gotta go out there with a lot of energy because you know this person’s like they got an effing babysitter. They bought the tickets a long time ago, and it’s a big deal for them. The Good One Podcast asked Kathleen Madigan if there’s anything she still wants to do. She says, no, that’s such a Kathleen answer, because the weird thing is, if you’re anywhere near my age, we didn’t even know those things were going to exist, so you couldn’t dream of them. What’s HBO?
And it shows up and it’s like, well, I gotta get a special on HBO? But that could have been a goal because it didn’t exist. Serious radio didn’t exist. Netflix didn’t exist, Amazon Prime didn’t exist. Nothing.
It’s all been a winged thing. I think actors could say the ultimate things an Academy award, a SAG Award. We don’t even have any of that. So it’s just like the joy of being and guy, there’s no problems. There’s just happy accidents.
If you just want to tell jokes, and that’s what you care about. You’ve done all the specials that you think you’re done with. Is there anything I’m forgetting about it? I am smiling reading this because I’m thinking about my several times I hung out with Kathleen, And in case you’re curious, she’s exactly who you think she is, like exactly, she really does have that. Yeah, none, nothing’s gonna phase me.
Vibe love her. Hey, Kathleen, you were able to do both Leno and Letterman, which is not of things a lot of comedians did. And she said, yeah, it’s pretty proud of that because my act was just bounce enough that I had stuff weird enough for Letterman but mainstream enough for Leno. The sets were very different. It’s already even picture both in one but even now I could take that hour on Amazon and go, okay, this is what I had to do to be on Leno.
I do all the jokes about my mom and dad because that’s Middle America, and then I’d do the weirder Bigfoot thing for Letterman. She says she’s loving doing theaters. I don’t care. I don’t even want to do an arena. The more I talk about things like this, I think I treat this like a job.
Johnny Corson retired and nobody said, hey, what’s wrong with you. You’d occasionally see him at Wimbledon. He was showing he loved tennis. He’d seem as a fan. He did what normal Midwest people do when they’re sixty five they retire.
I’m good now. Who made me think about it? Because I haven’t thought about is there anything left? No, because the place is that I want to go. I can go on my own.
I don’t need to book a show there. Love her. The Daily Cardinals spoke to Drew Lynch. Ay Drew Lynch, how do you feel about hecklers? Drew Lynch said, I don’t discourage or encourage anything during shows within certain limitations.
On both ends, I love if there’s a show that feels specific to that audience. So if there’s something that happens unprompted, I love to play with that as long as it’s good fun and it’s not malicious. I love that the audience can leave feeling like, ah, that was something unique, it was specific to our show that can’t be recreated. On the other hand, if someone does call out on and becomes so much of a distraction and it becomes clear that in the show the other people are not having a good time because of it, that’s where I have to kind of step in and draw the line. Some people love interactive components to show because that’s the advantage of going to see a live comedy show.
But At the same time, there’s some people who just want to hear the performer. A certain joke is monopolized by one audience member, then it’s up to the performer to try to mitigate that. Something I had to develop because I used to think a lot of people would be heckling me out of a hurtful place. I used to get heckled because of my speech and people feeling impatient. So it was a defense mechanism that is shaped into a tool that allowed me to funnel little bits and spontaneous moments into my comedy.
Something happening from nothing is one of the most beautiful moments in a stand up show. Amen, as long as it’s on the performer’s terms and it’s not becoming so disruptive that other people aren’t enjoying themselves. One way you could support the show become a premium subscriber on Apple podcast click on that purple app that says podcasts on your phone in their search out Daily Comedy News, and they’ll be like, hey, premium subscription. You’re gonna click it, and then you’re gonna go yeah, and then what’s gonna happen? I got to warn yet, I don’t want you to be mad at me a month from now, they’ll charge you five dollars a month.
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Any episodes are ad free. So premium subscriptions and Apple Podcast five bucks a month. First month is free if you want to test drive it. Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Mark Watson’s show was called Search. He’s at Melbourne Town Hall till April twenty third.
The age reviewed and said with a foul beginning, Mark Watson delivers the audience four lies in a single truth to detect, dressing up as a gigantic plastic phallic thing, speaking multiple languages, sleeping with an Australian, a lister, etc. He leaves the stage and returns two minutes later and leaps in with show and slowly dissects the fiction that sounds fun. He details the repercussions of his failed marriage, the bewilderment of his teenage son’s first Google searches since acquiring a smartphone, and zoom meetings with teachers gone awry. A side note this is not a show you want to be laid for. Apparently some people were late and he gave it to them.
They wrote nothing groundbreaking but thoroughly enjoyable. Four stars. Let’s see who’s playing on Sunday. Wow, for all my complaining about this website, it loaded in like one second. Today Gerard McGowan show is called The Hardest Way to Make an Easy living.
This is a show about construction, trauma, demolishing and rebuilding yourself.
All right, let’s listen.
I have a new comedy ten years. This is how good it’s going. I don’t have a bed frame. What’s up? Okay, here we go, Look I go.
Oh, I didn’t know his marriage was trying to get a high five Jesus Christ the wife pipe and then he’s married. He’s married. Don’t hi five him even on a Friday and night. Well check this out, No it wouldn’t. I’m gonna do the joke now, if that’s all right, missus high five wife?
That okay? Thanks? Yeah? Oh yes, it’s not all fun and games. No bed frames caused me a few issues lately.
Not gonna lie. I was. I was on a date with the girl recently, going pretty good, right, going pretty good. She ended up coming home to Cassadel mcgogan and then getting there she walked into my bedroom, saw it another bedframe and just went, I’m sorry, but I can’t do this and left. Don’t like Chase.
After I was like, heyy hey, hey, hey, hey hey, can I go with you? I don’t want to be here either. He’s fine, very charismatic. I had to scope out some CrowdWork there that we had some f bombs in it, but good clip there. Whois Gornham’s show was called It Hit a Pigeon with his bike.
Let show about interactions with strangers, serendipitous moments, and the different ways we show each other who we are. Let’s listen. I love having a dog. My favorite thing about having a dog is walking her to the park. That’s my favorite activity in the world.
I love walking my dog to the park so much as long as I don’t have to speak to any other humans at the park. I hate that I reckon. Nothing illustrates the awkwardness that human consciousness has created better than the difference between dog to dog interaction and human to human interaction. Because the dogs, they can straight away you’re a dog on the dog. Let’s have a wrestle while the humans.
You start off by asking each other how old your dogs are, and people are very specific about that. Four years seven months, which is weird. Lots of difference between a four year old dog and an eight year old dog. Like I reckon dogs, I only have three ages. Really Poppy, not a poppy anymore Gonna Dawson.
Other than that, he’s fun, very charismatic. I would like to see more from him. All right. Closer to home, the Moontower Festival continues in Austin. Let’s see who’s playing on Saturday night and we’ll play the Hey, if you and I were there, what would we go?
See? Game? All right? At seven o’clock. Our options Seth Meyers headliner, event, Chad and j T, Jared Freed at seven thirty.
Let’s see then at nine thirty, Seth Meyers again, Randy Field face, Jared Freed at ten. Okay, pretty easy for me to pick there. Seth Meyers early, Randy Field face at nine thirty. Let’s do. That’s your comedy news for today.
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