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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. No late night jokes this week. I didn’t forget. Just everybody was off other than Tiffany Hattish sitting in for Kimmel, so we’ll skip that.
Patton Oswalt has once again defended Dave Chappelle, saying that the transphobic jokes that got Chappelle in hot waters do not make Chappelle transphobic. Patton says Chappelle is reacting to some things that happened to him when he was young. Patton is the guest on the We Might Be Drunk podcast with Mark Norman and Sam Murrill. Patten said, I thought the jokes were lazy. I don’t think he’s transphobic.
Chappelle is brilliant. I came up with him. He’s a friend, but we disagree on this one effing thing. I don’t agree with a stance on this one thing. Comedians fight about stuff all the time.
Patton got in trouble with some folks back in twenty twenty two. On New Year’s Eve, he posted a photo with Chappelle on Instagram and capture the image. I ended the year with a real friend and a deep laugh. Can’t ask for much more. People got upset at Patten.
The next day, January first, twenty twenty two, he posted, while Chappelle is a comic is the funniest I’ve ever met. Patton wanted you to know I support trans people’s rights, anyone’s all caps’ rights to live safely in the world as they’re full of selves. For all the things he’s helped me evolve on, I’ll always disagree with where he stands now on transgender issues, but I also don’t believe a secret like him is done evolving learning. You know someone that long see the struggles and changes, it’s impossible to cut them off. Paton added, I’ve said plenty of crap on my early albums that I now know better, explaining that comedy does not age.
We should hold and accept that and kind of roll with it. But at the time, I have a lot of friends, I have family members who are trans, who are transitioning, and I talk to them and they’re terrified right now. And it’s exact same thing back when black people would say the cops beat us up all the time, and it’s like, ah, this is all bs, this is fear mongering.
And then we put cameras on cops and low, behold, there’s footage of cops beed…
Listen to the minority group. If they’re telling you they’re scared, they’re not making stuff up. Patton said, one of the gifts of comedy is to evolve at the times. You can talk about whatever you want, but it’s your job to find a way to make it funny. If you’re a comedian and enough people are saying, hey, I’m coming to you because I’m not a skull, it’s just like, this is really harmful, and this is why just go I’m sure I can find another way to say this.
I’m a comedian. You can’t go no, that’s the way I wrote it, and I can’t change it. Well, then, how the f for you and show business? That’s very interesting. WTF the podcast is ending.
However, you can look forward to WTF the graphic novel. Sure why Not. Mark Maren is working with graphic novel publisher Z two. The graphic novel will span the period between two thousand and four and twenty twenty five. Maren launched WTF in two thousand and nine.
Maren said, this is a fantastic way for friends to relive the entire run of the podcast without needing to listen to thousands of hours of material. The graphic novel is already funded, but a Kickstarter will launch on September fourth to allow listeners to pre order the book and gain access to WTF memorabilia. I love Maren, and Maren’s on a hot streak here. You know what, I may have to update comedy stock market. We’ll see in the second half of the show.
But this is feeling a little Jim Gaffick and Bourbon to me. I could do an entire episode on Mark Maron. There are so many Mark Maren articles, and you know, if you listen to the show every day, I like to mix it up. So that’s enough Maroon for today. But there’s a big Newsweek article that I’ll pick at as the next week.
So we’re now switching from press about the HBO special to press about the documentary, and then we’re gonna get press about the end of the podcast, so there’s gonna be a lot of Mark Maren. I should probably have the AI make a Mark Maren song. Kamil Nanjihanni was on Mike Berbigley as Working It Out podcast, and Kamal said that he got a bad review from Elon Musk. Elon didn’t like Silicon Valley. Apparently Elon didn’t like the series twenty fourteen opening episode, which featured kid Rock performing at a tech party while seven nerdy dudes stood by with no one paying attention.
Kamel said Elon was upset. He was like, well, the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties. Non Giohanni thought, yeah, man, you’re one of the richest people the world. We’re like losers on the show. Of course, your parties are better than my parties.
What are you talking about. Dusty Slagh says he finds a lot of common ground between music and stand up comedy, saying, I think in a way, comedy bits are like our own little songs. They are our own little poems. When I do a full comedy special, I almost think about how someone would put out an album. At least the older albums where an album would be complete, might have some themes from an earlier song to come back in a later song and it ties the whole thing together.
He says, these days we’re in a phase of comedy where everybody wants clips. We all want likes, we all want to go viral. When I think about a special, I like to have a full on, complete special that feels like I’m going in and out of little songs. Chris Hardwick is back. You know, Maren gets a lot of credit for broadcasting.
Chris Hardwick absolutely had a huge podcast for years. He was with Nerdict, then it became ID ten T. It is now a comeback, rebranded as I think you’re overthinking it, but Jeeva says, it’s essentially the same podcast that’s always been. Recently, he had James Gunn who showed up to talk about the upcoming season of Peace Easemaker. So that, yeah, that sounds like an episode that would be perfectly comfortable on nerdicst.
And if you’re in Elmira tonight, watch out. You know who’s in town. The worst person who ever lived, That horrible scoundrel Jay Leno, who dared once make a comment about late night comedy. What a just awful person. And listen to this, Jay says, my point is to get laughs.
I don’t try to inflict my views on people. I don’t try to do politics anymore. He even commented on Late Night a scoundrel. He said. It has to do with the nature of television.
They all have way more commercials than they used to. If I see Jake from State Form again, I’m gonna shoot myself in the head. This guy Jay even said, I love being a live performer. I like a live audience and the idea of connecting with actual people. And he says it’s a lot of fun.
How dare you, sir? Tickets for an evening with Jay Leno are still available seventy eight to one hundred and nineteen dollars with service charges included. Elmira, New York. Comedy stock Market. That’s right, it’s comedy stock Market.
Every Friday, we take a look at the comedy industry and I recommend some buys or sell, sometimes even a hold. And you know what, I think it’s the time we sell some Mark Maren stock, not all of it, but let’s take a profit. I think we’re at peak Maren value. If he’s making graphic novels and getting into Jim Gaffigan bourbon territory, we’re at peak Maren and it’s gonna be downhill from here, I think. So let’s sell half our Maren stock and cash out.
High. So what should we do with our money. Let’s buy some stock in hinnadu unaka. Have you caught his special on Hulu? Really fantastic.
Let’s also buy some Kyle Kanaan. Why. I just have a hunch, Like I said earlier in the week, I think he’s low key, quietly maybe perhaps possibly the best comedian in the game right now. So let’s buy some Kyle Kanan while nobody’s looking. Let’s also buy some Patton Oswalt because he has that Amazon special coming up.
It’s an audio special only, so he’ll be doing a lot of press. People will be like, oh yeah, I like Patton Oswalt. So we’ll buy Pat and by Kyle by chinnadou wanaka sell Maren. Let’s also sell all of our fringe stock. The fringe is over and people are just miserable.
You’ve heard me do that store every day, so well sell our fringe stock.
And then I’ve got one more buy recommendation for you.
Jonathan Kite has been doing these wonderful, wonderful Anthony Bourdain impressions on Instagram. I’ve pulled some audio here from one. I mean, check this out. This is just amazing. Costco.
We start with the legendary hot dog, the last honest bargain left in America, inflation proof at a dollar fifty. This symphony of salt, fat and don’t ask too many questions is truly a tube of edible chaos. Costco customers consume over two hundred million hot dogs a year, which is almost as many as Joey Chestnut and Bonnie Blue. And we have the pizza available in cheese and pepperoni. Finally, a two slice solution that everyone can agree on.
And finally, gasoline, because at Costco they proudly pump fuel into both you and your vehicle. You haven’t truly lived the suburban American dream until you filled your suv with Kirkland Signature petroleum and your face with twos pick mystery meat and complimentary cubes of cheddar. They say go big or go home, but at Costco you can do both. That’s Jonathan Kite doing Anthony bourdina I Love it Out Today, Fortune Feimster’s audio album for Good Fortune.
Also on audio today, David Spade’s Dandelion.
Also today, you can save Mark Marin’s Panicked as an audio album and get an exclusive single. John Christ pre save his album, Emotional Support, access an exclusive single and also pre save Mike Vecki Own’s Low Income White and access at exclusive single, All That from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, whose publicist sends me stuff unlike the Hulu publicist and see I’m happy to talk about the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Hannah Burner is part of the lineup for the first ever Hall of Fame Celebrity pro Classic presented by the International Tennis Hall of Fame. That event is today coming up to September, it is the return of the Columbus Comedy Festival. This year’s festival includes multiple comedy magic shows featuring homegrown talent including Michael Kenton, Chris hanniwell a lot of showcases and thematic shows to help audience members discover new performances, including an All Asian and Asian American showcases, one show That’s All crowd Work, and a roast battle show.
Some other popular shows returning our Female af and All Women lineup, Drunk power Point described as a hilarious slideshow presentation of topics and Chicago showcase hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. Chad the Bird is a puppet act with some NSFW hot takes the Columbus Comedy Festival Thursday, September fourth through Sunday, September Seventh’s It’s Fun Fringe is almost over. I better get these articles cleared out. I’ve been bouncing them every day because the podcast has been long. Voicemag and caught up with Ishmael Loofti.
Ismael’s show is called Heavenly Baba, centered around a period of my life where my father was actively trying to convert everyone in my home state to Islam by painting the most insane Islamic slogans and mantras on his car. He says, my father instilled an extremely black and white worldview in my head, and nothing is more black and white than stand up. You either kill or your bomb. There’s very little nuance in comedy, which made it attractive to me. My show started out seventy percent stand up, thirty percent story.
After working on it for a year, I gradually took out as many stand up jokes as I could and replace them with story beats and accompanying slides. Influences David Cross, John Stewart, Al Franken, best worst or weirdest review you’ve received. He says, nobody reviews comedy in the States, which is maybe why American comedy’s gotten so crappy. So I don’t know how to answer this. This is a good interview.
Is there a question you wish interviewers would ask you but they never do? He said, yes, what’s your favorite empire from history? The answer the Ottomans. They took a ragtag group of nomadic horse orcherds and conquered a fifth of Europe while wearing the biggest turbans in human history. And he invent that some of the best food on earth.
Kind of dropped the ball in the twentieth century, but that’s life. Heavenly Baba is at the Assembly George Square, Studio five at six pm. But the festival’s over this weekend, so get on a plane unless you’re already in Edinburgh, and which case, just walk down the street, maybe rent out your spare room. You probably make some money. And I found this exchange pretty fascinating.
Some UK TV executives were at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The topic David Mitchell’s show The Outsider You know David Mitchell for Mitchell and webb Well. Outsiders has been shelved after three years after David Mitchell said he’s too busy to film it again. In Outsiders, comedians are thrust into a post apocalyptic scenario where they must see if they have the survival skills to live outdoors. It aired between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three.
Mitchell said his role on the show was to be a slightly befuddled, irrascable and indecisive leader. You know the part that caught my eye other than I just like David Mitchell. Executives at the Fringe said, it is not currently returning and we have announced that. What a weird way to freeze it. It’s almost as if like English is hit their first language.
It is not currently returning and we have announced that. That’s like very German. Matter of fact, the executives continued, Would we look at the show again in the future, maybe not currently. He loved doing it, We loved working with him. He is quite a difficult man to get a lunch appointment with.
We never say never. Absolutely. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercial interruption Apple Podcast, you click a banner it says uninterrupted listening and then you read the instructions, and I get three fifths of five dollars eventually, and then I splait it with my partner Mark, so I get like a bucket a quarter, but you get the show commercial free, so that’s kind of fun, all right, See tomorrow