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Callaroga, Shark Media. Hit Aaron Hunni Mack with your Daily Comedy News out on Netflix Today. Anthony, jesseln, X Bones and All. Jesslnick is also a guest on Mark Maron’s podcast this week. I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet.
Vulture wrote a nice piece about Anthony last week and spoke to several comedians about Anthony Jesslnick. Fulture described Jesslnick as both evil and arrogant in a stand up in the whole package is presented with the deliberative pacing of the meditation app His stage presence is coolly predatory, emphasized by his leather jacket and Jean’s look, wolf like features and the measured way he moves. Sarah Silverman compared it to wrestling and said he’s the heel, and he takes it and he makes it really high brow. She looked back at Anthony’s breakout performance in the twenty eleven roasts of Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen and said, the conceit of the roast is that it’s friends who adore each other tearing each other apart. That’s not Anthony.
Culture writes ros are designed to have the pretense of meanness, but for Silver and says the audience is also laughing because they suspect it might be true. This is a good piece by Vulture, Continuing, they wrote, it’s easy to mistake many comedians acts as representative of their private selves. Jim Gaffigan plays up the affable dad, and Nellie Wong is the snappish, sexually aggressive mom. Their comedy requires buying into those identities and accepting them as sincere. But Jesslinic’s act requires cognitive dissonance.
He can’t be wholly the person he plays on stage, or would be too horrible to laugh at. Off stage and conversational speech. He’s faster, but his words of the same weedy, carefully chosen quality. He’s thoughtful, polite, a little particular, and boring on a setic in a singular focus on stand up as an artistic end. His podcasting partner Greg Rosenthal said people saw his personas like, man, this guy’s an a hole.
But it was harder for me to see because I knew that he wasn’t that big of an a hole. Interesting line from Jessini k Here talking about getting older, he says, friends getting cancer, these are things when you’re just waiting for the news from everyone. I’ll be forty six in a couple months, so a lot of things don’t make me laugh. Nicky Glazer recalled seeing jess Nic perform at an open mic early in his career and said he had these notes up there with him, and he said, I don’t have these notes because I don’t know my jokes. I brought these notes on stage because I don’t have any respect for you.
Glazier says that was a formative moment for me to witness somebody to be that bold and aggressive on stage and have it work. Welter asked jose Nick about that line and said, that’s one of my favorite jokes. I always do it when I’m trying out jokes, and it’s in the Bleeping Showtime documentary about the Comedy Store that Mike Bender fed up. He used that without my permission. He put it in there, and listen, no one saw that things I could still do it.
J Justin Nick did some self assessments. I would guess that most of my comic friends think I’m a better comic, that I’m more pure, that I do things they wouldn’t try to do. He’s annoyed at the current wave of indie scene clowning comedian says Vulture it’s influencers. A decided stand up was going to be too hard. One of my gifts is I never try to make it easier.
I’ve always kept it hard. If I show up and do a silly and hands I couldn’t operate like that too much pride. He discussed by Rife and said, I truly believe all roads leads at me. I just don’t know why you could eat steak and you would want to eat cow pooh. Does it bother him that audiences are drawing to Matt Rife.
I’m sure Gordon Ramsey doesn’t lose sleep at night because Donald sells billions of Hamburgers. I also take exception of the idea that the country prefers Matt Rife over me. That’s like saying the country prefers James Patterson over Sally Rooney. Popularity is not a metric I used to measure myself against other artists. He was asked about the Tony hinchcliff of garbage joke.
Jessa Nick, not pulling punches, said he thought the Brady Roast was his big moment. Even though I think those jokes were hack as hell. He’s a troll basking in the shadow of Joe Rogan Belcher, says Jessa. Nick also has no patience for displays of vulnerability like the Edinburgh Types shows. There’s no comedian who tells me what their life is like, where I even give the slightest semblance of an f I do not care.
You’re wasting time. I get that there are people who are interested in this, but it’s not what I want to do. I have an hour up there. I want to pack that out with pure ingenuity and brilliance. You know, based on that article, I don’t think I would enjoy driving cross country with him.
I enjoys comedy, but I don’t think i’d want to ride in the car with him. You know what I’m saying. It seems like the comedy wins are shifting a little bit and we’re getting back into edgy. Uri Shaffir has struck a two special deal with Netflick. The first one, Ari Shafer’s America’s a Sweetheart, will be on Netflix January fourteenth, making it probably the number one special of twenty twenty five.
The first time I start a twenty twenty five list unless he doesn’t make the list unless it’s bad and I go it’s so bad it’s not even on a non existent list. Here’s the official press release wordage for America’s Sweetheart. From the Joys of Domestic Terrorism to the Genius of Kanye West, Arii Shafir figures out a way to find the positive and gun violence, racism, censorship, political upheaval, gay rights, anti Semitism, and opioid abuse in this hilarious and darkly uplifting stand up comedy special. Netflix is also picking up Ari’s YouTube special from twenty twenty two Are Shafir Jew making it the first time a YouTube special will air on Netflix. Interesting.
Shafir told Deadline a statement, years of drug abuse has dulled my ability to feel jubilation over network deals, but my mother will be able to brag about this to her friends of jazzer size, which is nice. I enjoy his comedy too.
Also, don’t think I want to ride cross country with him?
Who do you want to ride cross country with John Larry the cable guy? That’s who? Because he’s awesome. Remember yesterday I talked about Anna Gastyer for like ten minutes, well as soon as I flipped the laptop shut. I got this from the sketch Fest publicist.
Thank you publicist, Appreciate you. Sketch Fest announces additions to twenty twenty five comedy festival. Newly added performers include and a guest tire joining the Groundlings fiftieth Anniversary. That should be a great show, by the way. Sketch Fess announces additions to the festival, taking place January sixteenth through the second of February.
The festival will host over one hundred and eighty shows. Some of the new shows include an Evening with Mister Throwback featuring the creators, directors, and stars of the hit show.
Also added, Let’s Laugh About Hard Stuff with Anna Sale.
The Groundlings fiftieth Anniversary show also includes Anna, Michael Hitchcock, Lorraine Newman, Phil Lamore, Oscar Nuniez, Julia Sweeney and Moore theme Park Improv alongside Kevin Pollock, Gary Anthony Williams, Rachel dratchenmore. Check out the full lineup at SF sketchfest dot com. I’m mad at this. I accidentally skipped this from one of the scripts. You know, the whole thing with Jay Leno Kathleen Madigan came to Jayleno’s defense.
This is the item that I left out of one of the shows, and I’m mad. Kathleen said, I’ve known Jay Leno for thirty five years. Yeah, he would stay at such a hotel. Yeah, he would climb down a hill for wings. It’s why I’ve always liked him.
Still just a road comic who wants twenty four wings, Well, go get them. Kat Williams has bought a former Alabama military base to launch a movie studio. Kat Williams publicist Amy has sold aal dot Com. I can’t disclose the amount or exact location just yet, but I can confirm that he has purchased a former military base in Alabama. Well, how many former military bases in Alabama could there be?
Al dot Com did some research and see that Fort McClellan’s Barracks and Addiston had been up for sale at a million and a half dollar asking Bryce, that’d be a good guess. The area is known as Starships. I don’t know why, and we are told the barracks and surrounding property consist of thirty concrete buildings with three million square feet of indoor space. Ten barracks rooms each, two large gymnasiums, and more than ninety acres of usable flat land that seems like a place where you might build a movie studio. Connie Alexander was the designated broker which represented the seller of the barracks.
Connie says the property was purchased through an LLC, but did concede that Kat Williams did visit the property frequently during the purchase phase. So I did watch Jim Gaffigan Special. It’s perfectly fine, and average civilian were like it. You know, if somebody sits down and they hit play on it and Jim Gaffigan hands that in, they won’t be like this is terrible. They’ll be like, this is fine.
But I’m a comedy snob. There’s nothing special about it. And I know that the media has decided that this is Jim’s time and he’s stepped up in class or something. A lot of narrative about that, But I preferred Adam Ray Special by a lot. I think this review from Laughingplace dot Com nailed it.
They wrote throughout the first half of the skinny, I found myself laughing out loud repeatedly, even when I could see certain punch lines coming. Yep, Gaffigan. Still he would often make the joke for me, and while this remained the case in the second half, I wasn’t quite as sold on the material. It’s not that his observations on marriage and kids aren’t funny, it’s just they’re pretty well worn territory for him at this point, with this being as eleven special, even his closing joke was weak, which doesn’t seem like a good sign for a comedy special. I didn’t make it that far.
Like I said, I got fifteen minutes in. I was like, eh, I got to play Flight Simulator twenty twenty four. I got stuff to do. So I’ve got another item for you, and I do. I really don’t want to be the you just hate Jim Gafficking guy.
But you heard the butt coming right. But Jim was on the NFL pregame on Fox over the weekend and they did this sketch. Jim is a therapist consulting fans of the Saints, Raiders, Bears, and Jets on playoff delusion. I’ll play it through the Bears part. Once you get to the Jets part, it becomes more visual.
But let’s listen and you can tell me what you think. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. My name is Jim gaff Again. I am a licensed professional NFL realist Classic. I specialize in football fans struggling with playoff delusion.
A good looking guy, many of my clients can’t face the reality that their teams aren’t going to make the playoffs. We scored ninety eight points in our first two games. Wow, it was really impressive. What happened after that? We lost seven in a row.
That doesn’t sound like a playoff team, does it? No? No, it doesn’t. Yeah, you’re welcome. There’s still a chance we make it.
For the bad boys of the NFL. I’ll give you that the Raiders are bad. You’re not going to the playoffs. Here, Halloween’s over. Take off the makeup, honey.
Now, you’re aware to get into the playoffs. It’s not by invitation. You have to win enough games. He doesn’t acknowledge the division that the Bears are in. Okay, I’d like you to take your wife’s hand, look her in the eyes, and just lift the other teams in the NFC North, the Lions, the Vikings, and the Packers.
I’m not going to make it. Are we hilarious, not hilarious. You tell me I did like the line Like I said, I skipped the Jets part because it’s pretty visual. But when the Jets fan is leaving, Jim says, see you next year. King Charles was at the Royal Variety performance and matt Ford got up and performed.
Matt did trump and characters said they’re reading the cats, they’re reading the dogs, and then turned to the King and said, your majesty King Charles, you were named after a spaniel. Be very careful to eat you alive. Cameras caught the King laughing heartily in response. After the show, matt Ford met the King and said, did you mind the joke about sounding like a spaniel? And Charles said, no, it was a very good joke.
You waited for three hundred years to be able to say it. Apparently meant Ford laughed at the King’s comeback. There. By the way, Harry and Megan, who Harry’s got this show about Polo that’s coming out next week and he’s getting savage. Check out the Palace Intrigue podcast.
We talk about the Royal family and it’s gonna be another round of Poor Harry, Poor Megan, they get everything wrong. And I’ll leave you with this one. Joe Rogan, He’s in the news a lot. This next story got a lot of pick up. Rogan on his Friday episode had some comments about President Biden and criticize Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine and use some missiles.
Rogan said, how are you allowed to do that? When you’re on your way out? People don’t want you there anymore. There should be some sort of pause for significant actions that could potentially start World War three. Zelenski says, Putin is terrified af you man, few people you people are about to start World War three.
Rogan suggested Ukraine pursue negotiations instead of escalating military actions, quoting Rogan, maybe that’d be a good thing would like to avoid from a dying former president. We voted Trump in and his idea is to stop all this stuff, and hopefully he can do that. Send your letters to Joe Rogan and that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption. If you’re on Apple Podcast, click that banner there.
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