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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney, in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable was asked what would a John Mulaney type be if someone were casting a John Mullini type. M’lanie said, when it has come up, it means like a gentle, lilliss, soulless wooden boy who’s fast on his feet. John adds, I’m much less nerdy than people think.
Whatever that means, I feel a little more weight in my feet when I walk around. Eliza Selessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Billboard. There is just a massive campaign going on trying to get her an Emmy. Billboard said, I was blown away when I learned you don’t write out your jokes except for a few key words. Have you always had that ability, Eliza said, I guess so.
I never questioned it or thought about it. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve been asked about it. I figured everybody had a little list of words. I know, people like Joan Rivers had a whole card catalog, but what I do as ephemeral. I’ll talk about Joe and I worked with her and her radio show in two thousand and one, sit there with two writers.
There was like the young guy who would have the hip references and the older, more established guy. Joan was amazing because these guys would write down jokes on a card, pass them to Joan and she would deliver them in her style, in her voice. And you know, some of the younger references, she might not even have known what the reference meant, but she knew how to tell a joke and would nail it. It was really great she and you know every night there were a ton of index cards which we threw out, and here twenty five years later on the fly, I’m thinking, oh, I probably should have taken those out of the garbage. That would have been pretty valua.
But I have now, twenty five years later, not that I’d sell them. I would just donate them to the Comedy Museum. But anyway, that was the thing that happened back in two thousand and one. Eliza said, I’m only using the material for about a year, and anything that I don’t use gets jotted down as a word or a sentence or two. I don’t have a library, and maybe that’s stupid.
Maybe I forget punch lines that I could have used. I have a famous bit among my friends. It’s about Las Vegas. I did it on the road for a year. I never wrote it down to this day.
My husband’s like, why don’t you do your Vegas bit? And I’m like, I can’t I remember it. So after a lie on random friends and my husband to remind me, what was that I said about curly irons by the pool.
Also, I write so much material.
I believe the good things stick when I’m creating that hour. To me, that’s the litmus test. It’s also a great way to fight off Alzheimer’s. It’s normal to do with joke two thousand times and then on the two thousand and first time, you’re like, wait, what was the punchline? But for me, that’s where the craft and practice come in.
I go up a lot, and I love doing it. And I’m always running and rerunning and fine tuning. Because when I do my special or go out on the road and people spend a lot of money to see me, I want them to see a polished product, not me sifting through a notebook or being drunk on stage. More from the Emmy campaign billboard was like your production value is a polished and sophisticated Eliza said, I appreciate that Homi old school. I like a shiny floor.
I like a high production value. Low fi production for sure has its place, and we’ll live in a world where people are getting famous off at TikTok clip from the Giggle Hut. But there’s something special about getting to create a special I agree there. I like the show business of it all. I want people to feel like they’re watching something of quality, and I believe what I create is of quality.
Well, guys, if you listen to this podcast, I don’t have to tell you who the King of comedy is. You know who the King of comedy is. Obviously, the King of comedy is Jack Black, because he’s going to receive the King of Comedy Award at the twenty twenty five Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. Jack Black is the second person to receive the award King of Comedy. Now, obviously, who would be the other king of comedy if not Jack Black?
Only one name comes to mind, the Great, hilarious, all his movies, fantastic, his act is, and stupid at all. The King of comedy Adam Sandler. Of course, given the honor back in twenty twenty three. Jack Black will accept the Silver Blimp on stage on June twenty first. I know you’re looking forward to this.
It’ll be on Nickelodeon teen, Nick Nicktoons, Nick Junior, MTV two who apparently still exists, and CMT eight Eastern five Pacific. Put it on your calendar. So Jack Black the King of Comedy. But if you listen to this podcast every day, I don’t have to tell you who the Queen of Comedy is, do I know? Of course not say it with me some more, of course him more the Queen of Comedy.
I got this press release here from the upcoming because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival, and they included this paragraph. Hell does the Queen of Comedy some more? Celebrated for razor sharp wit, trailblazing stand up specials, and unforgettable roles in films such as Friday Afternext and Soul Playing. Anyway, the Queen of Comedy Samoora and Jay Farrow or the headlining acts at the third annual. Because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival.
It is not until October, but they’ve had a pretty nice lineup the previous two years, so looking forward to that one. Leanne Morgan spoke a little more about her upcoming sitcom Leanne. In Leanne. Leanne Morgan plays Leanne, whose life is upended when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family, she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity, and jello salad comedy writing rule of three.
But she wants people to understand this is fiction. She explains, The premise is not based on my real life. It’s based on my comedy, but it would be too weird to be about me and real life husband Chuck Morgan and my real children. It was Chucklriie that came up with the premise of my husband wants a divorce and does it over email and has had an affair with a younger woman. Here, I am a grandmother.
Blah blah blah, I just did all that. Tim Daly plays her new love interest in the show, and she had to kiss him, something she asked her real life husband about beforehand. She explained, I had to say to you real life husband, Chuck Morgan. I’m kissing Tim daily in this episode, and I go, does that bother you? Leanne said it doesn’t bother her husband because Chuck Morgan wants me to make money.
Roseanne told Fox News Digital about having an accident with a tractor that left her with quote several injuries recently while working on her hill country ranch. I had this one tree, I guess it was two nights ago. I knocked at it and a big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. Roseanne said. It took an hour to move the tree branch, which she described as wingh one hundred pounds.
I was like, oh, I’m seventy two years old, but I just said, my mighty prayers always work. I said, come on, God, I’m seventy two years old, and I just want to be able to harness all this strong Russian energy. And I know he’s still having me if you’re with me, And then I flipped it. She told Fox News. The one drawback from the artwork is I don’t clear the trees as good as I should, and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me on the head.
Okay. Her son told US magazine that Roseanne splits her time between Sexist and Palm Beach, Florida. She’s been busy writing scripts and that she may make a return to TV. The Television Academy has revealed the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five, many people getting in, including Macpacker, Henry Winkler, and Conan O’Brien. The twenty seventh Hall of Fame class will be inducted in LA on August sixteenth.
Congratulations to those guys and the others. Brett Goldstein caught up with the rap and said he’s been a comedian for like two decades, but I’ve done seventeen years of stand up and there’s no proof I could be lying. I’ve always resisted filming. I never put stuff I did online. It’s about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.
There’s a pack to make with the audience, which I love. The exchange happens at a room with an audience, and when you take that out of context and stick it on the internet for people to weigh in on, I sort of think, yeah, this wasn’t for you, It was for the room and where we did it. He had that pretty darn good HBO special recently, and he said it became a challenge of how do you make it work on screen? I know it worked in the room, but how do you edit stand up? How do you frame it?
Where do you cut into a joke? Thank God I work with brilliant people who knew what they were doing, because I was constantly like, how do we make sure this is funny on screen? I don’t know what people were expecting when they came to see me. It amazed me that they bought tickets not knowing me as a stand up. I think it probably worked in my favorite because their expectations must have been pretty low.
Maybe they thought I was going to come out and kick a ball and say f off and leave and that would be enough. But instead I came out and did stand up as myself. In a way, it’s helpful because I’ve promised them nothing and their expectations are low, so when I’m a competent stand up, it seem like I’m really good. Bob oden Kirk is starting to wrap up press for Nobody Too. He spoke with Esquire and said most movies don’t work.
They just don’t. Out of one hundred movies, there’s like two classics in there. There are twelve worth seeing. There’s another fifteen that are fine, and then the rest are a mess. More advice from Bob Odenkirk.
If you don’t want to take risks is don’t be in this business. You know people will make their work too precious and take too long to put it out. I always say, what do you think you’re making? Last week I told you about the Stephen Colbert Book Club. Probably the coolest thing going well.
Keenan Thompson is now putting out a book. What is going on? I guess he saw Jimmy fallon making children’s book money. So Keenan Thompson is releasing his first children’s book, this one called Unfunny Bunny. Unfunny Bunny follows Unfunny Bunny.
As Unfunny Bunny embarks on his first day of school, determined to be the class cut up when his jokes fall flat, Unfunny Bunny learns about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams. The story contains thirty unfunny jokes throughout, with illustrations by Tony Neil. Margaret Show went on social media, listing the fillers, injections, and cosmetic proceidures she’s had on her face. She said this is a fifty six year old woman. She revealed that her chin is fake, stating the whole chin is filler, and added she’s indicted sculpture, which sounds like a science fiction villain, like, oh, we got to stop sculpture.
Nope. Sculpture is an injectable that stimulates collagen production. She’s injected the sculpture into much of her face, which sounds like something sculpture would do. Right. Sculpture wants to capture you and inject stuff in your face.
That’s what sculpture would do. Margaret Chose says her lips are natural, although she once had filler there but not recently. She also said she’ll entertain the idea of a face lip, saying I’ll lift whatever. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
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