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Caloroga Shark Media. Don’t go calling what Mark Maren does an interview show? Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with a robust Sunday edition of Daily Comedy News. More from Maren with the Hollywood Reporter. Maren’s as it’s not an interview show.
I needed to be in that show, and it was instinctial to insert myself into the conversations. It took some people a little time to adjust to that. They were used to interview shows, and I’ve never ever seen it as an interview show. They asked if Maren envies any of the one hundred million dollar plus deals that some other folks have gotten. Maren said, we did all right, definitely, well enough for us to live the rest of our lives.
But those kind of deals come with extreme responsibility. Why would I want to start scrambling now? The Holly Reporter writes he’ll mock the podcast industrial complex, but Maren’s also happy to play the mayor. Between a meeting in July and a phone call two weeks later, Maren guessed that on no fewer than nine podcasts, the conversation changes to you unnamed podcasters. But the Holly Reporter says, there’s little doubt he’s talking about Rogan Schultz and THEO Vaughn.
Maren says, how they became the orbiters of what comedy shood or shouldn’t be as an effing nightmare. This anti woke idea around free speech with comedians is bs. Whether they knew it or not, they were being used by the right to push this anti woke agenda which is now disassembling every progressive policy. They’re responsible. I can’t let them off the hook for that, even if some of them are kind of backpedaling now.
As for the future, maren says, my social life has really been the podcast, mostly in comedy clubs. I’ll probably go back to AA meetings for a bit of support to not spiral out with the isms, as they call it. But I don’t do dinner parties. No one invites me anywhere. I don’t vocation with friends.
I need to nourish more relationships. Does he want to be invited out more? Yeah? I won’t want to do it, but once I’m there, I’ll be good. I think that some people like to have me around.
Maybe this is all the change talking. Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at the burning sky helf. Cosmetics is catching heat for including Matt Rife in their latest campaign. People are bringing up Matt Rife’s domestic violence joke from his twenty twenty three Netflix special I will be honest here. I had forgotten about that joke.
People on social media are mad at ELF Cosmetics for including Matt Rife, who they claim does not respect women. One person wrote, bruh, not matt Rife. I love y’all as a brand, but Matt Rife is not a good person. Nikki Glaser told Variety that society glamorized not eating. Nicki said, the most notable thing you could do was to not eat or follow diet, and I was like, Okay, finally I’m good at something.
But it started killing me. This next part’s pretty serious. In college, she said, I didn’t want to get better. I didn’t have any reason to because I was like, my life sucks. I kind of went off to college to die.
Was my path to suicide pretty much, because I look so freakish. I just turned my personality up real high because I needed to make friends. I was more funny, more outgoing and always telling stories. I was louder than I’ve ever been in my life. She started to get feedback about how funny she was.
There was a poster for a stand up showcase. A friend took the sign and ran into my dorm room, slammed it on my desk and said, you’re doing this. She started doing research, came across Sarah Silverman. Glazer said, she gets to be yourself and you want to be friends with her, and she also seems like a nice person, but then she gets to say these really weird, out of context, terrible things, and he still like her. That fascinated me.
She eventually winds up on Last Comic Standing and says, I thought I had arrived. I thought things were starting to come in, and they didn’t. I had to move back home with my parents. She did smaller rooms, appeared on some podcasts, started participating in roasts and said I didn’t want to do another roast because I was approaching forty and I don’t want to get called an old horse faced horror over and over. It hurt my feelings every time I did a roast previously.
Then she heard about the Tom Brady roast and away we go. She pitched herself as the Tom Brady of roasting and says, I don’t even know what that meant, but I stand by it now because as I researched Tom Brady, I learned how he was kind of underrated. He was good, but like the one hundred and fifth draft pick. But he trained perfectly and optimized every moment of his life to make sure that when he stepped down on the field he could be as good as possible, and he didn’t take any shortcuts. I always thought that talent was something you were born with or not, but I’ve learned you can be great at things if you just work harder than anyone else.
Not sure that’s true. Part of it. You got to have the charisma. I got to have the look. I’m not sure I agree there, Nikki Glaser.
Nicki says Tom Brady changed my life. The next day I started seeing headlines, started being recognized everywhere. Things went back to normal within three days. But it was twenty years to being an overnight success. Yep, you hear that a lot with comedians.
Glazer says, there’s a lot more interest in me from the industry over the past couple of years. Now I’m in a position where people want to develop things around me. One of her dreams is to be on White Lotus. Leanne Morgan tell’s time people want authenticity and they want to learn who somebody really is. I think that’s my advantage.
People accuse her of doing a fake accent because they can’t pinpoint where it’s from. Her first husband had suggested she get diction lessons. She says, I know it’s thick, but I think it’s made me stand out. Nate Pergetzi says her accent is her accent, and that adds the flavor. As recently as twenty eighteen, club owners were turning her way.
She says. Club owner said, we love her. She doesn’t get drunk and fight in the parking a lot, but we’re not having her back. She can’t sell a ticket. She’s happy that she got famous in her fifties, but I’m too tired.
Something awful. Billboard talked to Sebastian Manascalgo about Pete Corielly the Gator. Pete hates that nickname. Jim Brewer had tagged Pete with that nickname when Pete was the co host on Jim Brewer unleashed paraphrasing here, it’s because Pete has big teeth and he would all of a sudden come out of nowhere and bite you with. He was like a sniper on the show.
Jim would tell ten twelve minute stories and Pete would come in and say one line and get the bigger laugh. Pete’s fantastic, Sebastian said, we’ve been doing the Pete and Sebastian Show about twelve years. We started it out of the sheer enjoyment of calling one another on the phone and laughing. I said, you know what, we should record these phone conversations because if we’re cracking up, I’m sure other people would crack up. Pete’s more of a beer and peanuts Neanderthal, and I’m more of a wan and cheese guy who likes the finer things in life.
That’s a great description of Pete Corielly. At first we were just doing audio. He’d be in a car inside of Starbucks, ripping Wi Fi off the Starbucks, and I’d be in a hotel room in Denver. It’s not guest driven. We’ve had maybe twelve or thirteen guests on our show over the course of twelve years.
It was just two guys talking. We’re not making a dime, but it’s always been a passion project for us. Yelly Times talked to Charlie Day about shaving off his beard for a gag in the current season, it’s always sunny. It’s having a renaissance. It’s like they turned back time.
This feels like a vintage season. I don’t know what happened. A lot of people think it’s because they did the podcast and it got them revisiting the earlier seasons. But you know, I wonder what we have to season seventeen, the Ireland season was off but COVID and last year was okay. There were a couple funky seasons, but this season’s On point of shaving, Charlie Day said, it was horrible just to see how old the man is under the beard.
Once you take off the eyebrows, that’s when it really starts to look freaky. We had that idea, and we knew we had to shoot at last, because if I was gonna shave, that’d be the last thing we’re gonna shoot. Right after we wrapped, I went on a little vacation with my wife and son and I rarely got recognized, which is funny. Every now and then people were fans of the movie Pacific Rim because I didn’t have a beard in those movies, they’d be like, Hey, where you been? Were you not working?
The funny thing is I couldn’t unlock my cell phone with that look because I look so different.
All right, let’s click on this.
Vulture did a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far. This was last updated on August six. Let’s just fly through it real quick and see what they’re into. Mark Maren Panic. Yep, but I have that at the top my list for this year.
Steph Tolev’s filth Queen didn’t do it for me. Let’s go at Kotska’s father was okay. I liked your previous special better, Mike Berbiglia The Good Life. I just don’t enjoy the Mike Berbiglia specials. I liked it twenty five years ago when he just did stand up.
But I get if people like Burbiglia, Brent Weinebox popular culture is on YouTube, I’ve not seen that one. Vulture writes for every new cohort of clubby Punchline comedians and truth telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises. In this case, it’s Wineboch doing a bizarre smattering of impressions. With no coherent design except that they’re all odd mashups and off center angles, regularly designed as setups with little payoffs. That sounds like my kind of special.
I will have to get to that. I also have to watch Borbosa. I also have to watch Jim Jeffries on Dropout, Cameron Esposito’s Four pill I haven’t seen that because it’s on Dropout. I do like Cameron. They have Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Years on Hulu.
I didn’t think that was good at all. Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load on Netflix. I didn’t enjoy that one because of the back and forth between the two different sets. I get the gimmick, but it didn’t do it for me. Roy Wood Junior Lonely Flowers.
That’s way back in January. That one was pretty good, right all right? So that’s Vulture’s list of the best so far. I might as well open up mine real quick, since we’re talking about it all right ready. Top Tier, Mark Twain, Price Cut On O’Brien, Shing, Gillis, ESPN Monologue, Tom Sigorre Bad Thoughts, Mark Marin, Four Tires five, Justin Willman, Magic Lover, Dusty slay Bert Krascher, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman Voice Mag’s been talking to folks at the fringe.
Susan Harrison said the fringe has definitely gotten bigger and more expensive as the years have gone on. That means my approach has been to wait for six years until I could afford it again financially, but also in terms of energy and time spent preparing and self producing. I keep saying this every time I do these fringe stories, inches sounds like a nightmare. Why does anyone go? It just sounds terrible.
You’re staying in like hovels, spending all your money. I don’t get it. For what I mentioned on the back end of a summer Sunday Daily Comedy News episode, is it worth it? Her show? Is?
Should I still be doing this? At the Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower PIP at seven point forty, Eric Idols spoke to The Guardian. They think in the Python TV shows and movies he seems to be enjoying himself the most. Eric Idle said some things in Python were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was cold and miserable sometimes that makes it funny.
One of the worst things you could have in comedy is enough money. Python was quite a lot of arguing and fights, and good work is often like that. The best thing about show business is when it’s over. I think if you’re enjoying yourself, then you’re non acting or giving. You’re just having a good time.
Well that’s not funny. What was his favorite project? The Ruddles and spam Alot were both just fabulous times. One of the things I talk about in the show I call mock and roll because we’re all the same generation. The art school kids went into music when we went into comedy.
My theory is that Python is the first group of mock and roll because we ended up in the Hollywood Bowl just like the Beatles. And I think the second group in mock and roll was SNL. On the first show I hosted, John Belushi, impersonated Joe Cocker to his face. They sang together, there’s something magical about that. Eric Idol, are you happy to be captured by AI for posthumous performances and royalties?
Idol said they don’t pay royalties. I always felt we ought to protect our images. After I saw that tacky commercial with Fred Astaire and the vacuum cleaner, feel very bad about that. So I felt that the pythons ought have done something to protect our image in a way that’s appropriate. But I don’t think there’s a way that’s appropriate.
I have had my image done on one of those extraordinary machines where forty cameras captured from every angle, was for a film they wanted to make. But it worries me. I don’t trust AI. I mean, look how many times you have to correct a word it completely misreads you. Chat GPT writing essays really bothers me.
The point is to find out what we think, not what the machine thinks. And that is your comedy news for a summer Sunday. If you’d like the program without commercials. If you’re on Apple Podcasts, click that banner. It says uninterrupted listening and for five bucks a month, which is like seven eighteen cents a day, and listen Scott Beckett, I know you’re too cheap to give me seventeen cents.
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