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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now, if you listened yesterday, you heard that I was just kind of bothered by how serious the show was yesterday. So I’m gonna just make today comedy comedy, comedy, comedy comedy, and I’m even gonna flip the order. If you listen all the time, you know there’s a rhythm to how I do things.
I’m throwing that out the window today. So let’s start with south By Southwest and see who’s playing tonight. At four o’clock, a recording of Comedy Bang Bang in the history of my career, the only show that I ever walked out of, but I understand a lot of people enjoy Scott Ackerman. We’re told to expect special guests and plenty of surprises and maybe a few familiar places. So that’s at four o’clock for fans of Comedy Bang Bang.
Another live podcast at five o’clock today, it’s The Comedians Comedian with a Parna Nurla. I enjoy a partner a lot at The Comedians. Comedian is Stuart Goldsmith. This is a popular British pod. More My Alley at six o’clock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, ass Cat for Us is an as Cat, Anthony Nasamnuwick, Scott Ackerman, Matt Besser, Lisa Gilroy, Lauren Lapkis.
I met some other people in town drop in on that one. That one is at six Nice Show, ninety minute show. There seven o’clock Creek Side Comedy, Parentheses Live Comedy. It’s at the Creek in the Cave. James Adomian, Oh, I guess he won’t be dropping by the CV show.
That was my guess, right, James Adomia, Nico Karney, Megan Gaily, Stuart Goldsmith, Lynn Copletz. At eight pm, the show called an Evening at the Hollywood Improv. This one at Estra’s Folly’s, which is not the Hollywood Improv, but they’re celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of LA’s legendary Hollywood Improv. Your lineup, Doug Benson, Jay Jorden, Opiolig Baju, Melissa Vi and Signor. They tell us, while our stage at south By may not boast the iconic brick wall, it’s still part of our legacy and we’re excited to feature some of our favorite comedians bringing down the House, nine o’clock at the Creek in the Cave comedy for cave dwellers.
Rear Born’s been hearing his name a lot. Catherine Blandford or Riggie Conquest of Punky Johnson, Caitlin Palufo, a lot of buzz on her lately. Good sets at ten o’clock Alex English, Todd Glass, Aparna, Kristen Toomey eleven o’clock Southwest skang Fest brought this up the other day. You live long enough, you find yourself doing south By Southwest. Welcome to the establishment, skang Fest, Joe Rosa, Sam Jay, Bonnie McFarland and Eddie peppotone on that lineup.
Hey, it pays the bills. I don’t judge. Tree Crowder has a special coming out next week on the eight hundred Pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, tree Crowder tackles everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringing as he reflects on his ultimate parntal role as a trash daddy. There is a trailer.
Let’s listen. I try to make myself feel better by telling myself it’s not a Southern accent thing. It’s an American accent thing, like the idea that any thick regional American accent can sound kind of dumb, not just this one. You know, like if you go to the doctor to get some test results back, Yeah, you don’t want this accent from the doctor. I know you don’t, right, you don’t.
But you also don’t want some mate ball from the Bronx, you know, Like, listen, it is what it is. You got stage four cancer. What are you gonna do? No, no, no, what are you gonna do? I’ll tell you what you’re gonna do.
You’re gonna take emo, You’re gonna take you righty a shit, You’re gonna kick cancers. Actually, I don’t want a Bronx doctor. I take that by ills. Sounds sounds pretty inspiring. Actually.
Nimish Pzil will premiere his new stand up social instant Karma Tuesday, April, first good day for comedy. I don’t think there’s a statement there. I think it’s just a Netflix special and those come out on Tuesday, and this year one April is a Tuesday. Instakarma is Nimishpatel’s first hour Netflix in insta Karma Nimess dives deep into the experience of growing up as a first generation Indian American. Nimesh, the lovable outlaw of his family, breaks down his relationship with his traditional parents, the mischief he causes a kid, and whether or not he’s become a better person now that he’s an adults.
For Reade the Seas, he hasn’t no trailer yet. One of the jokes we’re told, and he obviously tells it better than I do. My parents spent two hundred thousand dollars for me to get a degree in finance. Zero return on that investment. That’s good.
Let’s do gossip Corner because we’re trying to keep it light and fun after yesterday’s podcast. Normally Gossip Corner goes on the second half, but we’ll do it here. You know who’s on gossip Corner again. Joe Coy. He was in Green Bay and hung out with some Green Bay Packers.
They are football players. The Joe Cooy concert was date night for Packers head coach Matt Lafleur and wife and for incoming Packers president CEO ed Policy the Policies and the Laflor’s post For a selfie with Joe Cooy and signed a cheesehead football for Joekoy. Now, Joe Koy, you may know the name. You’re like, how do I know that name? Johnny Mack, I’ve heard of Joekoy before.
He’s the guy remember the Golden Globes. He hosted the Golden Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globe the NFL.
On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. I’m sorry, never gets old. And I’m picturing a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast. He likes this kind of humor. This is the Letterman influence on me, where you just beat a joke forever.
It’s funny. Scott Beckett’s throwing things. More gossip Corner, More football gossip Corner. You know who was at Shane Gillis’s SNL. George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey, and Kyle Chusk.
They were all at SNL and they’re like, who are those guys? They sound familiar. They are san Francisco forty nine Ers, also a football team. Kittle went on inster and posted pictures of himself and his forty nine Ers team m It’s on set. Kittle also took a picture with Mike Myers.
More gossip corner. Dave Chappelle hit a basketball game. He was court sided a the UD Arena watching the Dayton Flyers rally from a fourteen point deficit in the second half and the Dayton Flyers beats Saint Louis seventy five sixty seven in the final home game of the season. Chappelle took seats in the opening minutes of the second half. Where was Dave the first half?
Was he in a skybox as he’d come to college basketball games late. Who knows, but we’re told. Dave Chappelle posts for photos with the fans during timeouts. He received applause from the sellout crowd later in the second half when he was shown on the scoreboard. After the game, Dave walked into the tunnel and waited for the University of Dayton players.
He posts for photos with the Flyers and then with Dayton coach Anthony Grant. Chappelle said, I’ll be back too. Coach Grant said, we appreciate you. In the postgame press conference, coach Grant said, it’s not every day you get Dave Chappelle in the house. Let’s keep it light, stuff that normally goes on the second half.
Comedy albums. You like comedy albums. These I didn’t get to yesterday because it was all angsty. In case you missed it, Rachel Pegram’s new album, Silly, Loud and Delightful is out on a Special Thing Records. It was recorded live in front of a late night crowd and Rachel settled everyone in with a neighborly INTROI before getting right to it with her hot takes on top of his including bagfoot and white people.
Now, is that two topics are one? I think it’s one, including bigfoot and white people, and there’s no comma. Probably one topic, but anyway, Bigfoot and white people, her personal history of being a late comer to art, garfunkle, discovering porn, losing her virginity, and a whole lot more so I think the topic is bigfoot and white people, one big topic. One way to find out. Check out her album Silly Loud, Delightful out now on a Special Thing Records also out a new album by Somalia.
Born in California, raised in Minneapolis, based comic a med Kaloff, a men’s album is called Hobby d Hoy. On it, he shares how to beat tough odds, like being born in a Somali refugee camp, but growing up to out white the wife of a brewery owner, and learning how to walk again after breaking his leg at thirty. Oh no, wehe there you go. We got through the first half of the podcast, no angst. It was all light and fun and silly and no politics and you know, none of the stuff we talked by yesterday.
So oho got that done. To take the break, we’ll come back. We’ll do stuff that normally would be in the first half. New Dad Andrew Schultz till the l eight times. When I can end my day by five forty five pm, I’m good because that means I get to spend time with my daughter and just be a dad for a while.
It’s the greatest feeling on earth, Schultz said. The second you have a kid, every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh, it’s the best laugh in the world. When they smile, you melt you’d do anything for them. LA Times is curious, Hey, Andrew, is becoming a parent helped you write new comedy, and he said, I haven’t written a single joke since I had my daughter, or since the tour stopped, so now it’s all focused on trying to make her laugh.
The world gets really small and has made me reflect on comedy material about kids a lot, because when I was growing up, my favorite comedians would do this comedy about how they kind of hated their kids. And when you first have a kid, you’re gonna be shocked at how cloche all your feelings are. The second you have a kid, every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh, it’s the best laugh in the world. When they smile, you melt, you’d do anything for them.
Good job by the La Times, who asked, we’re in this new era of comedy where more comedians are talking about being parents in today’s world and being open and honest about not only raising them, but the conceiving process, which is the heart of your special What’s it like being so vulnerable, Andrew said, cathartic. It was nice in the beginning. It was nice because there are stages. When I first started writing it, I wasn’t even like writing an hour. I was just kind of I was talking about what was going through.
It was just getting back on stage and taking some time off from the last special.
And then my wife and I were trying to get pregnant.
I remember coming back from Burning Man, I was going to a big birthday party for her mom. But I remember that was when we first started trying. I remember doing it and afterwards being like, it’s probably okay if we don’t get pregnant this time, just because I didn’t know it was in my bloodstream at that point. I mean, I was at Burning Man for a week and then I’m gonna go make a baby. So it didn’t happen that time, and then another month went by, didn’t happen.
Another one went by, didn’t happen. I was like, ooh, is it hard to get pregnant. I couldn’t fathom it was hard. You know, my whole life’s been trying about not get women pregnant. The amount of stress that’d go through and plan bees and all the other crap.
Dallycommercial dot Com caught up with Lewis Black, who I thought was retiring at the end of last year, but he’s still out there on tour. Oh wait, now I could edit this. He he got political here. I’m not doing that today. You get bounced to tomorrow Lewis Black John, why don’t you edit this out because I want you guys to know what’s going on here.
I’m bouncing the wid black story Tomorrow. I’m not doing it.
Moving on, bounce the throwing a Guark talked about her weight loss.
She up up about using weight loss medications and the Internet being the Internet got mad at her. She thanked her supporters and told her haters she doesn’t owe an explanation to anybody. Zarna said, anything else is just exhausting. I talked about this recently on a Zarnaguard Family podcast episode, not realizing the impact it would have an offering relief to so many. I see you, I am you.
Proceed with proper medical advice and live your best life. Hater’s gonna hate. We don’t engage in the debate. She revealed she received hundreds of dms for opening up about the use of weight loss meds and wrote in twenty twenty five, can we stop the bs of pretending we’re perfect? Take the meds.
Don’t take the meds, do your thing with kindness around you, and keep it moving. Zarna shared before taking the weight loss medicine, she constantly thought about food, even when having a meal. She didn’t realize that was a habit until she started taking the drugs. Brad Williams was offered a choice write a five minute bit or anything else. He picked five minute bit.
He said, it’s the greatest feeling in the world writing a new joke and having it work. He first considered a comedy career when he was nineteen. He was at a comedian show and tells the story the comedian called me up on stage, just asked me questions and answer the questions honestly. I didn’t try and make jokes. Well, my answers got laughs, and that was the first adrenaline needle where I was like, ah, this feels awesome.
I just started going to open mic nights, driving as little as five minutes and as much as six hours to do three minutes in front of No One, Drunks and other open my comics whoever. He finds that the stage is almost like meditation. It’s where my focus is, it’s where all my intention is. I’m only worried about what’s happening on stage, and that’s a wonderful, beautiful, simplistic feeling. Brad says, I don’t cover politics because I’m not smart enough to do it.
So if anyone’s worried about coming to my show and hearing a rally that’s either four against whatever side they’re on, they’re not going to hear that. But he tells us, I am going to make you go through a whole cavalcade of emotions in the course of an hour and a half, but ultimately I’m gonna make you leave feeling good. And that’s what I want. I want people to go that was worth a babysitter, and that is your Strey free, happy Daily Comedy News for today. All Right, we got through.
One, uh no for me. I recorded these back to back, so that’s why I’m still feeling the Friday episode. But anyway, see tomor