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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Craig Ferguson is starting a new podcast. I’m not sure the title’s gonna work for SEO Craig. It’s called Joy Coma, a podcast as launch as this week.
On the first the show, we’ll see him interview a broad range of guests from the worlds of entertainment, science and government as he asks, how’s our joy doing? Is it bridled on life support? Where do we find joy in the world? It seems, by any rational measure, to be collapsing around us. A good set of initial guests include Gabriel Iglesias, Tony Hawk, Angela Kinsey, Kathie Lee Gifford, Diedrich Bader we know him from The Drew Carey Show, Lewis Black, Wendy Malick, Shirley Manson, and Tom Papa.
Ferguson said, I feel like I’d let everyone down by not doing a podcast. I feel like I’m the last person I have a podcast. I couldn’t really see a way to do it for a while. I had to have an idea for it. I didn’t want to just be me talking on zoom to people that I met once Eventually I came up with the idea for this one.
This makes me feel good might be a good timing for him since there’s no late night shows right now. Ferguson compares the idea to the BBC series Desert Island Discs in a sense that it’s not really about the format, it’s about the guests. The drive of Desert Island Discs is obviously music, but the drive of this is about how you cope. How do you see your way out of the darkness, how do you shake off the demons, how do you form your own personal Saint Anthony Craig said, it’s my hope that as time goes on, I can talk to people who are not in show business and who may have a challenging or different approach to Joy. For example, if you talk to a homicide detective or a pediatric oncologist, these are very different, catastrophic at times things to deal with.
Sady survived because Joy is a coping mechanism. I’ll do a quick plug for my podcast. While you’re listening to my podcast. My other podcast is called five Good News Stories, comes out Monday and Thursday. It’s a quick hit like this, and I tell you five good news stories only good news, so it’s the number five good news stories.
Tom Sagora was on theo Van’s podcast talking about working out, no not working out material, working out your muscles, and Tom said I would get to a certain point and now not have them at tality of like, oh I got there. It’s almost like the race is over. I’m done. Now I’m good.
And then what happens is you get back to old habits and you get out of shape,…
Then you go all right, I’m gonna work out and eat clean, and then you lose weight and you start to go, oh, I did it. I got to the number again, and then you just pull back, and I got really frustrated by that. I was on tour. We were working out on tour, but not really dialed in on food, and the tour is like aggressive, like NonStop. But I remember that I got back to La to shoot this thing.
I was shooting this pilot I had written. I was covering the whole production, and I remember I was in the wardrobe fitting for it, and I was like, oh, this sucks.
And then I left there after that week, and I was like, I have to take this mo…
But the difference is that I no longer go if I see a number that I like on a scale that means I’m good. I realized, you have to do it like that. There’s no end, It’s just continuous, right, So I just made it part of what I do. I know that I want to eat certain types of food that are good for me, and I’m not saying I’m the most strict dude ever, but there’s so much more clean eating. And I like the workouts.
I like being active, and I feel like I’m very fortunate that I have a full time trainer, so not everybody has that. I totally understand that it’s a huge advantage. All week, I’ve in picking away at Mark Marin’s Great Interview with Jim Gaffigan, as I’ve done all week. I’ll do some lights of voice acting, reading the Marin lines a little more aggressively. Gaffigan said, Obviously, in my twenties, I wanted to be as big as Letterman or Seinfeld or you know, Jimmy Fallon or John Stewart.
But I think now I’m like, oh, once you touch that sun level of fame there is, in a way no going back. I’m not saying we don’t like attention. We go on stage and make serious laughs. We’re not normal. But like when you’re on the cover of Rolling Stone, when you’re like heralded as a modern day philosopher, I think that seeps in.
And even when you say thanks everybody, I’m done, they all seem to come back after a couple of years ago. Hey, remember when I said I’m done anyway, I’m still done, but I’m doing this thing now. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s weird to see. And I think it’s a comment on that they touched the sun and they got that flavor for it.
It’s like Trump running for president so he doesn’t go to jail. Or is he running for president because he likes the attention. It’s not because he wants to be president, right, I think it’s because he wants the attention. Marin. He tasted being the most powerful person in the world.
I used to do a bit. It never really worked about. Like, you know, he’s the only narcissist that ever fully six seated. He did it. Narcissists around the world are like, he nailed it.
A worm has been named after Conan O’Brien. Yes, a species of Nemorarurian worm. I could redo that, but I’m not going to. Discovered by a Clemson University marine biologists five years ago, affects the reproductive performance of Caribbean spiny lobsters, which, as you know, are a critical species in the Caribbean. And Sonio Bieza And with a name like that, you know this dude is handsome, right?
Should I look him up? He’s an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. I’m looking him up. One hundred percent. Nailed it and Sonio discovered the new worm while researching public behaviors of the spiny lobster Penurilius argus in the Florida Keys.
Again, don’t come to me for scientific pronunciation. He named the worm after Conan because of his physical characteristics, being long bodied and pale with a slight tint of orange. Did you enjoy my time with nath VLVO on Friday’s podcast? I did. Early in the interview, he made a joke that I kind of ignored about how he was in his rental.
Well, if you go to real estates dot com, you’ll find the article Nate Valvo why Melbourne comedian will rent forever. He says, I do get jealous when I go to people’s houses and they’ve got things nailed to the wall and they’ve painted something, and I wish more Melbourne rentals had longer rental agreements. It’s been annoying every year having to see if you extend. I’d happily sign a five year lease. He has some tips if you’re looking for a house, stay off Instagram on Sundays.
That’s the day people post when they buy a house. That’s the day you see the photo of the person you didn’t like in high school standing in front of a sould sign and it ruined day. And if you do see it, reports the image as offensive. Steve Hofsteader spoke to WIZM. He was discussing legislation in Minnesota about legalizing recreational marijuana.
Steve had an interesting take. You said, the problem is once you legalize marijuana, you have to have free school lunches because the kids are gonna be hungry because their parents are eating all the food. Missouri just legalized it and they have no idea what they’re doing in Illinois, right over the border where it’s been legal for a while. You go into a dispensary and it looks like an apple store, and as it looks like some guys tight eye basement. They haven’t caught up yet.
It’s wild to see. So I wonder how long it’ll take Minnesota to go from basement to business, because it takes a bit. Congratulations to stand up comedian Eric Rushton, who’s been named as the first winner of the Channel four Shawn Locke Comedy Award. The new prize was created to showcase talent to do writers and performers who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Shawn and Channel four in the UK. Shawn Loock died in August twenty twenty one after veloping cancer.
The award was presented by his friend, a fellow comic, Bill Bailey. Eric the winner will now be given an opportunity to kickstart his own career in TV comedy. He’ll get five thousand pounds to support his live work, as well as a script commission from Channel four’s comedy team and a one thousand pound comission to write a script for the broadcasters digital strand. Channel four said since his comedy debut In twenty fourteen, Eric has been impressing audiences with his intelligent, playful material and likable, self deprecating stage persona, and twenty twenty he won the prestigious Lester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award. Eric says watching Shawn Locke was a huge part of my childhood.
I’m such a huge fan and I can’t think of a better person and to be associated with that. It’s your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube. Trying to get to a thousand subscribers on youtubes. I can monetize this thing.
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