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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you are in Kentucky, you’re excited. It’s bourbon and beyond. Attendees can enjoy bourbon tastings, culinary demonstrations, and interactions with celebrity guests like Jim Gaffigan.
Oh yeah, this is a whole thing in Louisville today through the fourteenth not just Jim Gaffigan, but the lumineers who I’m a big fan of fish, not actual fish, you know, the Jam band, those guys. Terry Bradshaw’s gonna be there talking family cooking with no G. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not the Queen’s accent. That’s Terry Bradshaw’s family cooking.
Jim Gaffigan told The Courier Journal, I’ve been completely sucked into the bourbon world. There’s something almost mystical about my affinity for bourbon, which goes beyond the taste. It’s also the history and the culture that fascinates me. Jim describes himself as a former beer guide turned bourbon NERD talked about his friend Stu. They were friends in college and since we’re both in the entertainment industry.
We’ve stayed in touch. I’ve been approaching a couple of times about doing a celebrity spirit, but I was worried about the quality, so I called Stu because I knew he was from Louisville. That makes sense, Jim. Besides the taste, I love the history and culture of bourbon. I discovered this whole nerdy bourbon world, and the more exposure I can get, the more I enjoy it.
Jim says, wife Jeanie is happy he’s doing this as a hobby. He jokes, She’s happy that I’m obsessing about bourbon rather than having an affair. My bourbon obsession is a productive use of my time. Well, Jim will be at the festival on Sunday at four to ten on the really cool Fork and Flask stage. Then in October, Jim is recording Jim Gaffigan a Bourbon set, four separate shows that will include content based on his observations of bourbon culture.
They’re going to cut those together and make a special out of it. Apparently, something called the Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program is helping fund all that. Your tax dollars at work. I guess because I googled Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program and they’ve got a dot gov email address. The purpose of the KI program is to encourage the film and entertainment industry to choose locations in the Commonwealth for the filming and production of entertainment productions.
Hey guys, I’ll sell out. I’ll do my podcast from Kentucky. Invite me down. I like money, Gaffigan said. My shows at the Kentucky Center are going to be a love letter to American whiskey.
It’s all a labor of love because learning more about bourbon is something I really enjoy. I hope others will enjoy the shows, but if not, I’ve really enjoy developing the material. Well, if you enjoy it so much and it’s a labor of love, why don’t you turn down the tax dollars. I’m just asking a question. Maybe there’s a reason why you don’t just asking It’s not like your easin.
Sorry, all right, there’s more stuff. Sunday one thirty pm. Jim is doing Listen to this. This is really cool. He’s at the Kruger.
He’s doing a bottle signing and a meet and greet at the Kruger Supermarket. So what can you do at this thing? You can purchase a bottle of father Time Bourbon while supplies last, they point out, and have it signed by Jim Gaffigan, and plus snap a photo together to remember the moment. Boy, that sounds cool. He’s at the Kruger on twelve five oh one Shelbyville Road, you know the one, then at four to ten on the really cool FOURK and Flask stage.
Told you about that already, And he’s got some more events coming up in October. Very exciting, seems. Triple H let the cat out of the bag. He was on the Pat McAfee show. They were curious why Triple H wasn’t at a recent WWE event.
HHH said, to be honest, I wasn’t there. I haven’t had a chance to watch the show yet. I did kill Tony last night. Oh shoot, I’m not supposed to say that. I forgot.
It was a secret that I’m on there until Monday. It was fun, So I guess that means he’s on the Monday kill Tony. We’ll find out. The Hollywood Reporter did one of those big cover stories about Nabrigazzy. Now trust me, on my resume.
I know about how these things get made for my time at Series XM, because this was like the holy grail of publicity in the certain offices in the building. This isn’t somebody waking up out of bed and going, you know, I think I gott write a story about n Abrigazzy. No, no, no, this was like the full on agency involved, PR team involved. Now the timing makes sense because Nate is hosting the Emmys on Sunday, but this was a big deal and I’m not sure this is the best look for Nate, and I think even he is aware of it. I’ll have some thoughts on a comedy stock market tomorrow, but I just I don’t know Nate.
I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, Nate’s gonna have an awesome weekend, but I don’t know. Lacey Rose writes in The Hollywod Reporter. I noticed Nate Bergetzi’s car before I notice him.
The burnt orange Portia has just pulled up to the bustling Nashville restaurant where we’ve agreed to meet, and the valet is signaling for Bagetzi to park out front. Once he’s made his way inside. He’ll tell me that his primo spot is a perk of driving a stick shift. What he won’t say, and what he’d hate having to read here, is that it’s also a perk of being the most successful touring comedian in the world. At this stage, he could afford a whole fleet of them without noticing a dent Inis bank account.
But there’s also a genuine discomfort that comes with the spoils of success. Nate says, I’m grist. I hesitate to even talk about it because I don’t want anyone to think that I’m better than them. Lacey writes on The Hollywood Reporter, and Brigetzi has spent a fair share of his time lately grappling with concerns like this one in therapy, which is another thing that he’s embarrassed about. He’s terrified it’ll come off as some out of touch elitist and not the comfortably relatable Oafish dad that’s earned him legions of fans.
But he’s just come from his therapist office and he ate a good session and maybe a breakthrough, And once he starts talking about it, he can’t seem to stop skipping ahead. In his high school yearbook, students were asked what they thought they’d be doing in ten years. His response performing against Zani’s That’s the Big Club in national there, Nate says, I think it used to feel stupid for me to want to dream this big. I thought this tidbit was interesting. Even after his twenty twenty one Netflix special The Greatest Average American got a Grammy nomination.
Netflix is said to have encouraged Nates to explore other distributors for his next special. He went with Amazon. Netflix came around with a bigger offer, but he took Amazon instead. He was hurt, not surprised. Nate said, it wasn’t that I wasn’t doing well, but everybody started getting a little opinionated and was like, man, they’re getting all this industry love and they’re the coolest thing.
And when I’d get off stage, people would be like, Oh, he’s the funniest, but I wasn’t getting any of that, and it was really frustrating. Patt and Oswald too, I’m a fan of but I’m mad at him because he’s part of the people ruining Star Trek. He recently played Dug the Vulcan. Do you want to hear what it sounds like me throwing something across the room. Have me watch that episode.
And then he goes on Star trek dot com and the question what was your relationship with Star Trek Here I’ll go first, Are you kidding me? I started watching tv WPIX Channel eleven, New York City. They showed it six nights a week at six o’clock Monday to Saturday. Watched it seventy nine episodes, watch them over and over. As a kid, I figured out, oh, season one has these credit, Season two has these credit.
Season three has the blue credits. Season two the Enterprise flish from the side season when the Enterprise comes out of the middle. I watched this thing and I’m memorized. But Patton Oswalt to play Doug the Vulcan said, I was born in sixty nine, so it was always the thing in the background. I never sat down and watched the entire YA series from start to finish.
Some people did, but it wasn’t a big part of my life. What you’re like, the guy doing nerd comedy and you’ve never watched Star Trek tos and you’re playing Dug the Vulcan. Patton says, I remember really really loving the movies and certain episodes of the Next Generation it was the best of both worlds and other episodes that really just had amazing writing and directing. So there’s been that level of awareness, but it wasn’t a realm that I completely was into from the get go. He talked about playing Dug the Vulcan.
He said, everything was in the script. In true Star Trek fashion, They’re going to leave it open an interpretation. What was their background, how did they meet, how did they sustain this relationship. I’m going to leave that up to the viewers. It’s more fun that way, as you’re playing Doug with the vulcan ears and makeup.
He said, it was incredible. I’m in the chair. I’m doing what Leonard Nimoy has done, what Christy Ally did, what all these greats did. I’m not sure how many greats played vulcans. I digress.
It’s almost like it’s part of the Hollywood process, and they really have it down with science. I thought it was going to take hours. They’re actually very, very good at getting vulcan ears on very quickly. It’s not like it was in the sixties and seventies. Patton said, I did want to add lib they wrote my character very precisely.
He’s a vulcan. He’s not going to do ad lib things or have emotional reactions to anything. I love that part of it. This is someone who very boldly states what he thinks and feels, and I was happy to stick to that. I was interested where Spock realizes and comes to terms and accepts the fact that he’s an outsider and no matter where he is, he’s an outsider among all those humans, different species.
Then when his crew turned vulcan, Oh god, this show he’s an outsider among them as well, because he’s half fulcan, half human. When he ends up embracing his uniqueness, The unspoken thing about Doug is Doug loves the fact that Spock’s so unique. You can’t be so unique. You’re either unique or not unique. That’s what you really want, a friend, someone that actually likes the fact that you’re different than anyone else.
Are you guys still here? See I’ve told you on and off over the years. I’m very passionate about Star Trek. You heard the rage come out there, but you know, ostensibly that was a story about comedian Patton Oswalt, So thank you for the indulgence there. Spinal tap is out tomorrow.
They have done amazing amounts of press in character Nigel’s it’s no spoke to Guitar World, we learned. Nigel for the last fifteen years has been living on the border of Scotland. I’ve got a cheese shop there and we work together with his partner Mora. He still plays music, mostly with locals in the nearby pub and says, but it’s not for the public to hear. Well, it could happen, but as it so happens, it’s not.
It’s just for me. He makes cheese. He was asked if the pub sells any of his cheeses. He says pubs aren’t really known for their cheese, now are they. If you know what a pub is, it’s mostly people drinking side or a port or some sort of ale or lagger.
All right, here is a shocking development. I actually watched a comedy special. Yeah. My wife was like, oh, I’ll watch the paper with you. I’ll be down in like twenty minutes, so I had to kill some time.
I watched the entire Apple iPhone presentation, which was forty minutes long. She still wasn’t there, so I’m like, all right, let me see what’s on Netflix, and they stuck Jordan Jensen Special in front of me, and I hit play and I lasted one minute seven seconds. I think the material might have been okay, but Jordan, are you listening? Jordan and your people, are you guys listening? Stop adding fake laughter.
I mean it’s like, hello, Halla. I could not with this special. It actually made me angry, and I posted about it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and then one of the regulars over there, Dylan, made me laugh. I’m still laughing at this line. He wrote, this is the one you watch the day it comes out.
He’s so right, because I never watched them today they come out because I’m always doing something else. But yep, I watched Jordan Jensen minute seven. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but the laugh track is unacceptable. So I did not watch it, and I went out of my way to give it a thumbs down in the Netflix algorithm. That’s how angry Jordan Jensen’s special made me.
Apparently she went on Stoby’s World podcast and people are upset about that. Cracked wrote, and I’m just gonna mostly quote here because I’m not really sure what’s going on? But Cracked wrote these words her erratic behavior on the most recent episode of the Stobby’s World podcast, which dropped up yesterday morning, so that would be Tuesday morning. Barely two minutes into Jensen’s unteenth appearance on the show, made a point to mention that her next stop on the podcast press tour would be on The Joe Rogan Experience. Interesting, they say, the conversation steered towards her hot takes on such rogan Esque topics as the transgender identity LGBTQ issues in general, and how, in her opinion, feminism is dead.
At the same time, however, Jensen argued that the perceived failure of the feminist movement is linked to what she feels is an improper handling on the political debate over the rights of transgender women. They have a quote from Jensen there, and the quote reads, I think if you’re a feminist you also have to have issues with trans stuff. You have to because when a trans person goes now I’m a woman and they get giant fake boobs, you have to go Hey, I haven’t listened to it yet. I’ve added it to Mike Cue. I’ll let you know what I think so.
Anyway, my wife eventually showed up and we watched the paper, and as predicted, she made it to the first commercial break and then said it’s not for me, and she laughed. At least it didn’t take six months for us to watch it together. Boy, the first ten minutes of the paper is rough. Bro. I was sitting there using words like horrific, and the only reason I didn’t hit stop is because they hadn’t yet gotten to the lead guy.
So I’m like, all right, at least let me see what the show’s like when we get to the main character. But I watched two episodes on Goodwill. I want to like the show. It feels like comfort food because it feels like an episode of the Office, except for the parts where you laugh for like the characters. It’s not good.
Maybe it gets better. I am going to stick with it just because of the comfort food good Will brought into it. But it’s not good. At least through two episodes it’s not good, and the first ten minutes are horrific. I don’t know how that even got handed In the La Times caught up with Oscar Nuniez, so the actors Oscar Nuniez, the characters Oscar Martinez, that gets confusing times.
I personally I liked Oscar on the Office. I feel in the paper he’s really really overacting. Every time he comes on, I kind of cringe. The main guy’s very good, and the woman in the Jim Halpert role is pretty good, and everybody else’s vanilla, and then Oscar’s bad. How’s that for review?
And I’m in a good mood today actually, anyway, Oscar spoke to the La Times and said, I like this quote a lot. The best thing about Oscar Martinez is that I go home, I forget about the office and I’m just living. But we do these conventions once in a while, and there are kids, teenagers and young people in their twenties were like, hey man, I’m gay, and your character helped me come out of the closet. I like what Oscar said about Los Angeles. LA is a town where it’s very easy to just go to the beach, hang out with friends, but you’re not really concentrating on your career because everything’s kind of cool.
You’re cruising by. I have often wondered if I moved to the West Coast, would I get anything done? I did more work on Sunday than I did between May and Saturday, because it was a really, really nice summer in New Jersey. Once it heated up, but I got a lot to beach it and sat poolside and shortened some days.
And then you know, now it’s fifty nine degrees in reading and I’m productive …
So yeah, I could say where it would just be easy to go to the beach and hang out. The conversation turned to politics. Oscar said, America is a racist country. You can get pulled over and be shot by a cop. It also happens to be a place where you can come from another country at three years old end up with property and a family and a career.
Both things are true. That’s the schizophrenia of this country. Oscar was born in Cuba. Stay with this next quote. A documented pathological liar who’s afraid of the media and wants to throw critics in jail, who’s anti gay, anti science, anti intellectual.
Every time there’s a problem, he’s the victim. I’m talking, of course about Fidel Castro. That’s why my parents left Cuba and now to be here and going through this, it’s crazy. There are detentionent centers where we’re not allowed to go see what’s happening, and the people in there, that’s crazy, and everybody keeps talking about something else. The Ely Times says that reference was to Latino’s industry who have remained silent.
Oscar says, George Lopez speaks up, but there are many huge stars, millions and millions of followers where Mexican or Latino or quiet. If you’re quiet, you’re not helping your people. You’re helping Maga and you’re helping Ice and that ticks me off. While we’re in the office Verse Rain Wilson was forced to evacuate his home in Sisters, Oregon because of the flat fire. On Monday.
He posted on Instagram, this is his fourth evacuation in the last six years. Wilson got into the science of it all and said, the wet years are really wet, and tons of undergrowth grows. Then there’ll be two or three years that are super bone dry, and all that undergrowth provides excellent kindling. For God’s sake, for the planet’s sake, Let’s do something for our great great grandchildren. Simply limit CO two and other heat trapping gases.
In twenty twenty Rain Wilson hosted a YouTube series called An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change. Liz Meely has a new stand up special out. It’s called Space Camp. You’ll find it on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Billhouse in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid fire story telling style to share tales of her boyfriend’s botch vasectomy, oh No, faking marriage, being a sly Princess, cat mishaps, and more.
If you’re in the New York City area, She’ll be doing a show in Brooklyn on September twenty first, Boston November sixth, and a bunch of other shows in between and Kicking off today is the San Francisco Comedy Competition that, over the year has launched some pretty big names, including Patton Oswalt, who has helped Ruin star Trek, Robin Williams, and Ellen DeGeneres. The San Francisco Comedy Competition is an annual multi week judge stand up comedy contest over thirty comedians out of one hundreds to apply performance shows held in comedy clubs, bars, restaurants, casinos, and theaters in SF and around the Bay. Contestants perform three to seven minute long sets in one of two preliminary weeks. The top five from each of those weeks meets in the semifinals. Then I have to do eight to twelve minute sets for another six shows.
Five from there moved to the finals. Then they do twelve to fifteen minute long sets, and then a winner is crowned. Doors open at six shows at seven to nine. Fifty bucks will get you in at the Center for the Arts three fourteen West Main in Grass Valley. And that is your comedy news for today.
I like today. Today is feisty and interesting and fun. See tomorrow.