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Featured: Trevor Noah, Gary Gulman, Kathleen Madigan, W. Kamau Bell, Howie Mandel, Dan Boulitz

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah hosting Grammy Awards and the pressure of hosting
• Trevor Noah on why he continues doing stand-up specials
• Gary Gulman’s career path from failed sitcom pilots to Netflix success
• Kathleen Madigan’s rejected flight attendant application and current tour
• W. Kamau Bell returning to comedy after five-year hiatus
• Howie Mandel on how Candid Camera inspired his comedy career
• Snow Jam Comedy Festival’s eighth and final year in Sioux Falls

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your daily comedy. He’s just over a month until Trevor Noah will host the Grammy Awards once again. He told Essence, Can I be honest, it gets more and more stressful every single time because every Grammys is every artist’s most important Grammys. I don’t want to be the host who screwed things up when it’s Taylor Swift’s Grammys or when it’s Bad Bunnies Grammys.

I would say it’s probably one of the most stressful jobs I do because the night is not about me. My job is to keep it going and to keep a connection between the audience and what’s happening on the night. It’s a rewarding job, but man, it’s terrifying esen sasas Trevor. A lot of entertainers, when they reach a certain level, they get away from stand up a little bit. And you you’re staying sharp, you keep doing it.

What keeps pulling you back to doing stand up specials? Trevor Noah said, Man, stand up is a blessing. That’s the simplest answer I can give you. I don’t take stand up comedy for granted. I don’t take it for granted that I can put on a show and thousands of people come out to join me and laugh together and experience this collective feeling of joy.

I really, really really don’t take that for granted. So what’s important to me is appreciating that and remembering what it means.

Also, I think stand up comedy is one of the hardest art forms, and that it’s …

When you make music, you work with a producer, and you work with other artists, and you write together and you collaborate in the studio. By the time you put the song out in the public, you’ve got a good sessence of people have given you the idea that it’s good, and you have a collective to fall back on. When it comes to making a movie, it’s the same thing. But stand up is a crazy beast that nobody can team. You can be the funniest comedian today and you can tell a joke tomorrow and it doesn’t work the way you’d like it to.

I think there’s nothing more exciting in the creation of art than doing something like that. It’s immediate. Esquire spoke to Gary Golman about his first big break Gary did a tight five minutes it just for laughs in Montreal. In July ninety nine, he landed a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars development deal with Fox. He was going to be a sitcom star.

He moved to LA. The network paired him with a writer. Gary said, we sat around, we wrote a pilot, and then they said no thanks. The next summer he did another five minutes at a showcase in LA. Got a similar deal with CBS, again turned down.

The next year, similar deal with show Time, same result. Gary said, it was making a really good living, selling ideas based on my stand up for sitcom pilots that never got shot. It was so frustrating. In two thousand and three, Gary finished third on Last Comic Standing. His last Comic Standing twenty years ago, already Wow.

That burst of fame enabled Gary to sell out shows around the country for about six months. Then that died down. In twenty fifteen, he put together what he knew was his strongest set of material yet and included the abbreviating the State’s bit. He taped a special called It’s About Time, with full confidence it would finally deliver a bigger fan base. The producers had a hard time selling it and wound up on Netflix at a discount eight months later.

Glad to see Gary in his sendency right now. That last special is fantastic if you haven’t watched it yet, it was my number one special of twenty twenty three. It’s also world. Spoke to Kathleen Madigan years ago. She tried to be a flight attendant, but she was told she didn’t meet a height requirement.

I spent time with Kathleen. I never thought of her as particularly short or anything. Kathleen presumes the height requirement is because you have to be tall enough to reach the overhead bins. She said, they didn’t tell me about it until later. He made it through two other interview things.

I’ve worked in restaurants and waited tables. I would have been good at it, but they didn’t tell me that until the third interview, which I’m like, why couldn’t you have put that in the brochure at the beginning. Her current show, if you go See Your Live, includes greatest hits and some new material, and she said, sometimes I’ll do some throwback stuff only because that’s the kind of show I like to see. I like to see maybe a throwback here or too something from I just saw and that a bunch of new stuff, especially hunting Bigfoot, came out last February. Kathleen says there’s lots of bigfoots around.

Florida’s got one Michigan. There’s versions of him everywhere. She’s not scared of bigfoots, but she’s still scared of corporate gigs because a lot of people didn’t pay to be there. Kathleen says, a lot of them don’t know anything about stand up comedy, and it could go sideways. And I’ve had some that did.

There’s nothing you can do about it. And some of them are great. Some of them are like a normal crowd, but any comic would tell you it’s too dicey. But real life going on stage and clubs, She’s not afraid. I think it didn’t bother me because if you’re a bart tender, a survey, you have to walk up to strangers, you know, fifty times a night and go Hi, I’m Kathleen.

You have to be able to be comfortable with that, or you quit w camout. Bell tells the San Francisco Chronicle he plans to get his act together and return to comedy it’s been a five year hiatus, but he’s got a new show. W Camal Bell gets his act together See what he did There, an eight show stand up residency at the Bakery Studio in Berkeley. Each hour long set will showcase new material inspired by current events in his own life. Delimit Engagement kicks off January twentieth, then every Saturday night through March sixteenth.

Howie Mandel spoke to the Press Enterprise about how he got into comedy, and he said it was by seeing a show called Candid Camera. Remember that show. The show is great, how he says, I love pranks and things like that because that’s the most relatable, real kind of comedy there is. It’s fun to do it, to be part of it, and it’s relatable because you can watch it and laugh and think what would I do? Or I’d never believe that, or what if I was in that situation.

It’s just real. We used to watch TV and everything was scripted, and now reality TV, YouTube and TikTok are just real people doing real things, aren’t they. Hidden Agenda Prank is the reality TV of comedy. He talks about the things have changed. There was only one place to go to If you were going to make a living in comedy, it had to come to La and get on at the comedy store.

That’s where maybe somebody was producing TV or film would see you and give you an opportunity to change your life. Today, you could sit in your underpants or your bed in Oklahoma and get one hundred million people seeing what it is you do, and you can actually monitize that and make a living and a career out of it. Look at Matt Rife, a very funny guy who was having a hard time, and so we saw him do CrowdWork on TikTok. The snow Jam Comedy Festival will be coming back, but it’s its final year. That makes me sad.

But there’s a reason. Snow Jam returns to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for its eighth and final year January eighteenth through the twenty first. It’s mission to celebrate comedy in snow while enriching the community by supporting nonprofit organizations in South Dakota. This year’s headliners included Timmy Williams from The Whitest Kids You Know and Sean Jordan from The Late Late Show. Dan Booblitz, Junior Friend of the Show, and Dan and I were texting on the side that think I’m going to do another episode where Dan and I just chat about comedy for an hour or so.

That’s got to clear my schedule and find some time to spend with Dan. But Dan’s said Snowjam Comedy Festival started as a joke and it lasted eight years, which is longer than we thought it would. It’s bitter sweet knowing this is our last year, but it’s better to go out on a high note and leave the crowd wanting more. If you want to check it out, and I’ll talk about it as it gets a little closer Snowjam on comedyfestival dot com. The Guardian spoke to propcomics Bill O’Neal has a solo show called The Amazing Banana Brothers.

It chronicles the pointian attempt of two stuntman brothers to slip on the most banana peels. Bill says, I have this illusion that I’m in charge of what’s going on, but there are all these bananas on stage and there’s sort of landmines waiting. I’ve gotten good at throwing myself around, but every once in a while, one of these suckers sends me crashing to the ground. That reminds me when I did the marathon in November. They were pretty late in the race, like miles sixteen Ford.

They were giving out bananas and people were throwing banana peels on the ground. When you run a race, it’s normal you grab your water and then you just throw your cup and the volunteers clear it up. So you’d go through the rest station and it’d be a mix of water on the ground and banana peels. I had a walk through these things. I mean I had to walk through them anyway.

It was miles sixteen seventeen twenty five and I was exhausted. But I’m like, this is not a good idea. Bill O’Neil’s show requires eighty fresh banana skins for each show. He says that adds up to a lot of peeling and cleaning. Weeks after doing the show at London Soho, theater staff found and aaron banana lounched in the ceiling.

In Lucy McCormick’s show, the stage is so submerged in tomato puret Confettian wine the audience helps her clean up. In the debut show by Sketch duo Grubby little mits, a thousand ping pong balls right down on the audience. Rosie Nichols is in that sketch dew and says, we want our show to be on the line between theater and comedy. Props play a really big part in that. So for Bill O’Neil’s Banana show, part of the challenge again, he’s only using the peels.

What do you do with the banana part of the banana? He had two thousand bananas? What do you do with them? They contacted the Edinburgh Zoo, they couldn’t take them. Eventually they found local businesses making smoothies and deep fried bananas.

O’Neil said, there were shows where my shoulder would pop out and I was writhing around trying to pop it back in. Just another thing that keeps it exciting, all right. If you want to go see the Amazing Banana Brothers that shows in London at the Soho Theater starting tomorrow through the thirteenth, And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Ricky Gervaise, Pete Davidson, Shecky Green

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle storms off stage at Hard Rock over cell phone recording
• Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special ‘The Dreamer’ receives poor reviews
• Cell phone lock pouches at comedy shows explained
• Shecky Green comedian passes away at age 97
• Pete Davidson spotted at Bobo’s Cafe with girlfriend Madeline Klein

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Caloroga Shark Media. We got to talk about Dave Chappelle’s new special, The Dreamer. It is not good. I am Johnny Mick with your Daily Comedy News. But before we get to that, there’s other Chappelle news.

He stormed off stage the other night. Has that happened? Last Wednesday? Dave was at the hard Rock. Fans had paid over one hundred dollars a ticket.

There’s no video of the incident, but according to widespread reports, Dave Chappelle stormed off the stage after a man in the audience whipped out a cell phone. One fan on social media wrote, I saw Dave Chapelle the hard Rock tonight and he rightfully so dropped the mic and stormed off the stage. My favorite comedian ever, my first time seeing him so excited, and some p is starstar s not sure what that word’s supposed to be. Use your imagination. I’m not sure I had to self insert.

Another fan on social media wrote, some fing a hole pulled out his phone at the Dave Chappelle show at the Hollywood hard Rock. It is unclear to me how far into the show this happened.

Also, Dave had a few other shows over the weekend.

Apparently those went fine. For CNN, Dean Obadalla wrote an editorial titled Here’s who you should Blame for Dave Chappelle walking off stage. Dean writes, typically, I don’t blame the audience when things go off script, but in the case of Dave Schapelle walking off the stage, blah blah blah. In my view, one hundred percent the fault of the audience member. What was it that set Schapelle off?

A cell phone? Not one ringing in the audience, which every comedian has to deal with at some time or another, but a person using their phone record Chapelle’s act in violation of numerous explicit warnings. Not to what anyone who thinks this was an overreaction doesn’t get is that Chappelle and comedians at his level or not just concerned with getting laughs, but also with the business end of their craft. That’s why for years, comedians like Chappelle, Chris Rock, John Mullani, and others have been requiring audience members to lock their phones in a pouch to prevent the recording of the show. The measures are partly to prevent people in the audience from recording new material comedian is developing that isn’t ready for prime time.

Imagine seeing countless videos of famous comedians presenting material that wasn’t any good. Beyond that, there’s also the concern that if people can watch a well known comedian’s current tour for free on a bootleg video, they might not be willing to pay for a ticket. Or people may attend and complain they had already seen the jokes before. But something else is at play. Here’s some famous comedians don’t want to be recorded in case they say something offensive on stage that could hurt their career even lead to them being canceled.

In a case of Chapelle, however, I doubt that was his rationale for being one of the first comedians require audience members to lock their cell phones away during his show. During his shows, Chappelle’s history tells us he seems to love to court controversy even if audience members aren’t recording Zach Chappelle knows his jokes and comments will get pressed. Given a stature and pension for telling provocative jokes that sometimes upset people. Onto Dave Chappelle Dreamer, I’ve gathered a few reviews that I have not pre read other than you know, as I cut and paste them into my working document here that do you do the podcast off. I’ve seen the headlines and it seems people agree with me.

Dave Chappelle dreamer, It’s just not good. I think there were like eight jokes in the entire fifty five or so minutes of the special. I did laugh out loud at least twice. I think three times. I’ve explained in the past my psychotic emperor of rooms and drome that I have.

So when he went for humor, it was good, but a lot of speech giving the last twenty minutes is Dave as philosopher or something. Big long stories that got in one very funny punch line towards the end, but just not a funny special. And the front half when he started joking about punching down and cycled back to transgender jokes yet again, Dave, please let it go. I was watching it and I was thinking, this is pretty hack. This special has not quite jumped the shark, but this is this at least temporarily knocks Dave way down the list of comedians that are at the top of their game as we head into twenty twenty four.

Here I had been frustrated that the special came out New Year’s Eve, so I couldn’t incorporate it into my Top twenty three of twenty three list. It wouldn’t have made it. As I finished the special. I’m like, I couldn’t in good conscience put this on the list if I left off things like Jim Gaffigan or Mulaney or Bigly Gaffigan, all of those I did leave off. I’m like, I can’t put Schappelle ahead of any of those if I had ranked further.

Ah. Oh, this is the thirty sixth the best special of the year, maybe by far Chappelle’s worst. Sean McCarthy for The Daily Beast writes, Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix special proves he learned nothing. Sean writes, it feels so frustrating to sit watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervaise devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ plus community, where they could be doing anything else on stage, and then they have the temerity to question us the audience for not laughing with them. Cracked under the headline, Dave Chappelle mostly moves on from troll to philosopher In Dave Schpelle’s new special, it’s almost as if he has to get the you can’t tell me what to say is out of a system before we can get to the good stuff.

I’m not sure the good stuff ever arrived. Cracked. Minor spoilers here. The Dreamers signature bit is a long story he tells to end the show, to tale about the first HBO showcase when he was twenty two, and then details of that story. I won’t spoil it.

Yeah, it’s a twenty two minute story that has three jokes in it, maybe twenty two minutes. Crack rights. There’s still no excusing the handful of trans and gay jokes that dot the special half hearted punchlines as lazy. Yeah, they are lazy as they are unnecessarily goading. I feel like Dave handed in a special and didn’t have any material.

It’s like, all right, if I hand it an hour, I get a paycheck from Netflix. It almost feels like that there’s just there’s no material here. My Google search surfaced a blog by Ian Thomas Malone. I’m unfamiliar with Ian’s work, but if you go to Ian Thomas Malone dot com The subheading says Transgender comedian, film critic and podcast host Ian writes The Dreamer is a pathetic mess from a man who simply doesn’t care anymore. Ian writes The Dreamer is a lazy victory lap from a man with nothing else of value to offer the world beyond self congratulatory musings on his own legacy, a lethargic effort.

I’m solely it fueling the far right grievance industrial complex for another week. While Chappelle claims early on in The Dreamer that the controversy wasn’t worth the trouble, it’s kind of clear that it was, if only for one sad reason. Trans jokes are pretty much all he’s got left. There’s something fundamentally sad about watching Chappelle reflect on how hungry he used to be while he tries to fill time in a special and often forgets that it’s supposed to be funny. Great review there, I think you nailed it.

Comedian Shecky Green, passed away on Sunday at age ninety seven, is a really good. Oh bit of Shecky in The New York Times. I’m completely unfamiliar with Shecky’s work. Other than just knowing the name as someone who would get referenced when you want to do name check an old comedian, So I’ll refer you to the New York Times. Oh bit.

There. On Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson spotted out in public with current girlfriend Madeline Klein. They were Bobo’s Cafe. They were seen looking at the menu and ordering drinks. Boy, that’s some gossip.

TMZ says. We’re told Pete’s a regular at the place and he ordered an ice macho latte before smoking a cigarette outside while waiting for his drink. This was Pete’s first sighting after canceling last week’s shows. Pete is scheduled to play Foxwoods on January sixth. We’ll see if that happens.

Ricky Gervais has explained why Netflix didn’t bother promoting his new stand up special on Twitter or Ricky said Netflix aren’t doing any posters because they can’t be arst they think it’s going to be huge whatever, and Jim gaff again in his weekly post Force CBS wrote his own oh bit, Jim Wright, So I’m not going to use this time to write about my offbeat good looks. What a great father? Was or my humbleness. I’ll let the President do that in his impromptu televised address. Another issue that might hinder the integrity of this self memorial is the fact that I’m still live.

Therefore, this memorial is certainly incomplete. Sure, as of today, I’m a grossly undappreciated comedian and actor. But maybe in the future I will be acknowledged. I mean, probably not, but I might receive the respect I deserve. It’s possible a reviewer we’ll be able to describe one of my acting performances as something other than surprising.

Then again, I could have suddenly passed away prior to the airing of this commentary. All right, that’s your comedy news for today, Yeah, Chappelle, I don’t know, man. If you enjoy the program, A couple of ways you can support. You can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, Amber Rose, Amy Schumer, Ricky Gervais, Jim Gaffigan, Kyle Kinane, Mark Marin, Joe Parra, Gary Goldman, Sam Jay, Sam Campbell

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart sues over cheating allegations and extortion attempt by Tasha Kay
• Chris Rock spotted with Amber Rose in New York City
• Amy Schumer viral TikTok staircase fall rumor debunked
• Amy Schumer’s controversial film pick: The Zone of Interest
• AV Club review criticizes Ricky Gervais Netflix special Armageddon
• Jim Gaffigan on parenting and suffering through bad kids movies
• Rise and satire of crowd work in stand-up comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media Coming he here. I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Kevin Hart is taking legal action over cheating allegations made by a former assistant. The assistant and made these allegations in an interview with YouTuber Tasha Kay. Heart’s complaint was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by People magazine.

The complaint centers on an online interview between Heart’s former personal assistant and YouTuber Tasha Kay. The assistant work for Heart’s company from August. The interview includes allegations from the former assistant that Kevin Hart had an affair at his office. She also claimed that she told Hart’s wife that Kevin was cheating on her and that the comedian had a gambling problem. A preview from the conversation was captured the interview that Kevin Hart will wish never came out.

The document alleges that November, someone affiliated with Tasha Kay contacted a representative of Heart, informing them that the interview would be damaging the Heart’s reputation. The individual stated that Tasha k would publish the interview unless Kevin Hart paid a ransom of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Heart contacted the police and issued a cease and desist order. It cited an NDA between Kevin Hart and the assistant. In twenty twenty two, musician Cardi b won a libel case against Tasha Kay, whom the rapper accused of making malicious claims against her.

Let’s stop off at Gossip Corner. According to page six, Chris Rock and TV personality Amber Rose were spotted hanging out New York City last week. Page six reports that Chris Rock and Amber Rose were all smiles during their quote unquote stroll and then made their way back to Chris Rock’s apartment. Page six says the couple did not show any signs of PDA and noted that the nature of their relationship is unknown. People are mad at Amy Schumer again.

She named her top film of twenty twenty three. She picked the movie The Zone of Interest. That is a movie about a commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was also a wacky rumor last week that Amy Schumer had been hospitalized after falling down the stairs. Not true at all.

I don’t know if you saw this video. There’s some sort of TikTok trend where you do stuff on stairs. I don’t know. I’m an old man. It’s all stupid to me.

Anyway, I’ve seen the video. In it, you see a blond woman dressed in a black long sleeve top, leggings and white socks bouncing sideways up a set of wooden stairs. Then the woman falls down the stairs. Some people said it was Amy Schumer. The caption was Amy Schumer hospitalized after attempting TikTok trend and sources say she’s in critical condition.

It was viewed over thirteen million times. It is not Amy Schumer. The gang at the av Club apparently didn’t like Ricky gervas as New Special as much as I did. It made my top twenty three of the year. They wrote, Ricky Gervais isn’t David Brent from the office.

He’s worse Aavy Club, writs Ricky Gervais Late as Netflix Special finds a new low for the once revolutionary comedian. Ricky Gervas no longer does comedian. He does grievance. Two minutes and two his latest hour long outrage bait for Netflix Armageddon. He’s talking about the backlash he generates and now he’s putting woke in his Twitter bio.

Later, amid ad libbing about Chinese people eating dogs, taking an applause break for saying that white people invented the inWORD and bragging about his nine bathrooms, he cries out f my legacy Today. Jervase starts jokes within my day and ends them with two genders alone on stage. It’s hard to imagine the types of people Jervas targets. A praid of straw men, women and children populate Jervas’s flights of fancy, but offer no truth. These are just jokes, Jervase reiterates, and therefore don’t have to make sense or, in the case of his musty Michael Jackson material, even be relevant.

They simply have to garner a wave of laughter and applause at the idea that white able body people are really the victims and all this treat people respect nonsense. I don’t think the folks at the Avy Club understood Ricky Special. It’s pretty funny. What do you want a comedy special? Debate?

Like what are we gonna do? Get up and do climate change jokes for an hour. I don’t know what people want from a stand up comedian Jim Gaffigan does his U I think they’re weekly comentary’s for CBS, and the recent one he talked about kids movies. Jim said, parenting as a series of sacrifices financial, physical, and emotional. You know how many horrible kids movies I’ve seen in the theater, Way too many.

I’ve voluntarily driven to the theater, bought multiple tickets, and sat through absolute garbage, objectively bad movies. I didn’t need to read a review. I didn’t need to watch a trailer. I knew nobody asked themselves. I wonder if the Smurfs is any good.

It’s not. They try to warn us by calling it the Smurfs. Hardest part the self censorship. After suffering through a movie like My Pretty Pony, any censured being would need to turn to someone and say, well, that was painful. But you can’t say that’s an eight year old, so you smile and go, hey, what did you think?

Yeah? I hope they make another one too. Vulcher wrote about the rise of crowd work crowd Work. They even have a photo castioned three of the most notable anti CrowdWork comedians. They are Kyle Kanaan, Mark Marin and Joe Parra.

In an October episode of Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird, Pete was speaking with guest Sam Jay about crowd work and they agree that they I hate it and the crowds are roudier. Sam Jay said, they absolutely think they’re part of it now and they’re like, I’m giving you a leg up culture writes. Over the past year and change, comedians have gone meta with the trend by needling crowdwork’s laziest tropes and satirizing CrowdWork using crowd work itself. An example the Gary Golman bit that I told you about yesterday, I won’t do it again. Maren recently started doing some crowd work, but not before offering the caveat that his crowd work would be pure and honest and boiled down to what crowd work really is.

He’s a Dynasty typewriter in LA and he starts asking audience members basic questions, then mocks their responses with intentionally juvenile insults. One tells him his name is Joshua, and that’s met with a reply of that’s effing stupid. Another says he’s originally from LA and he gets a reply of that’s where we are now, stupid content that he’s generated enough content. Mark Maron triumphally collects his phone from the audience member declares there’s like three tittok videos. In Joe Parra’s twenty twenty three special Slow and Steady, he pretends to engineer a spontaneest moment by abruptly asking the audience anyone here bang he used the F word.

Para instructs the camera operator to turn the camera around and proclaim Chappelle would probably like that. Crowd work. Australian comedian Sam Campbell started doing some crowd work and asked an audience a member, what is that a jumper? Or what is that they do that? For another thirty seconds or so, I beat passes in Campbell Declaire’s We’ve got a destigmatized crowd work.

I’m trying to talk to this lady. You think I like her stupid hoodie? It’s the worst hoodie I’ve ever seen. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Ryan Seacrest, Gab Iglesias, Sebastian Maniscalco, Miss Pat, Matt Rife, Gary Gulman, Tom Smothers, Brian Regan

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Dreamer’ special released on Netflix
• Dave Chappelle opening comedy club in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Wall Street Journal profile of Chappelle discussing controversies and legacy
• Matt Rife and TikTok’s impact on comedy special trends in 2023
• Crowd work comedy trend and criticism from comedians like Kyle Kinane
• New Year’s Eve special with Ryan Seacrest featuring multiple comedians
• Tom Smothers and the Smothers Brothers variety show legacy interview

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News for your New Year’s Eve plans. If you’re gonna watch Ryan Seacrest, a couple comedians and beyond gab Iglacias, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Miss Pat We’re told each comedian will appear throughout the show, discussing different topics. Gab Iglesias will discuss his favorite fashion trends of twenty twenty three, Sebastian will touch upon pop culture moments in twenty twenty three that ain’t right, and Miss Patt will discuss projects that went on strike this year. Dave Chappelle specials out on Netflix Today, Dave Chappelle The Dreamer.

We’ll see what comes out of that one. I’ll talk about that one during the week, The Wall Street Journal profiled Dave Chappelle a little bit, and they were talking about his attempts to open a comedy club and Yellow Springs. The Journal tells us the comedy and music club bears his logo a white sea on a field of red, black and green. Outside on a video screen, there’s still construction fencing around the brick building. Restaurant one open for months and the venue’s current name, which is why s Firehouse could change.

But Dave is already breaking in a performance room designed for less than two hundred people. He’s performed there three times over a recent weekend for audiences including locals and family, according to one attendees. As the Journal, Chappelle said the club was one of his proudest achievements and linked to the village’s history as a haven for artists, freethinkers, and the liberal politics of Antioch College, where Chappelle’s late father taught. The Journal’s article then gets into the various controversies Dave finds himself in. They write.

Chappelle’s critics say he’s been using the global platform of Netflix to hammer on vulnerable groups, harping on their supposed sensitivities and social ranking. Former fans call it a fixation that damages his legacy. Chappelle defends such material. Mark Gomez attended a Chappelle’s show in San Antonio. Mark said I just respect him and the way he isn’t caught up in the machine of the industry.

It then gestured to all the ninety dollars Chappelle hoodies that were for sale, said this is all money, but it doesn’t seem like money is driving all his decisions. Meredith intended to show in Mississippi be and said that she’s hyper sensitive to Chappelle’s bits about LGBTQ people because one of her two adult sons is gay. Mereth said they hadn’t informed her son about seeing a comic that he can’t stand. Meredith’s husband, Brent, said he’s in immedia bubble just like the rest of us. He’ll give us hell, but he’ll understand.

I can laugh at what Chappelle says, or I can dismiss it, or I can be offended, but that’s fine because the next thing he says will probably be funny. Nineteen year old Arlow found the show funny. Arlow has cerebral palsy. In that show, Chappelle began with his mock promise of doing all handicapped jokes, and then Chappelle pretended to be a disabled person in the audience annoyed because they wanted jokes about the expensive trans people. Nineteen year old Arlow said that was the funniest part of the set because I could totally relate.

In The Daily Beast, Sean McCarthy writes, that this was the year that TikTok ruined comedy thinks Matt Rife. Sean recaps Matt Rife’s year back in January, and Matt re released his debut special titled OnlyFans on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Then in February, Ryfe put out his second special, Matthew Stephen Wright on the Platform Moment. He re released that hour on his YouTube channel in April that has gotten more than eighteen million views. Then the Netflix special Natural Selection, Rife’s third comedy special in less than a year.

Maybe that’s why the material wasn’t good. I mean, how much do you have? McCarthy wrote, Because TikTok broke Matt Rife big time. His example somehow broke the brains of many other, mostly older comedians in the industry who suddenly believed they needed their own crowd work clips to replicate Rife’s rise to fame. Sam Morrel included captioning and reaction shots with the crowd work portions of his special.

Joe List made a running joke of hoping to generate clips in his latest special. Even Joe Parra got in on the action. A flood of crowd work only specials hit YouTube, Matteo Lane, Big, Jay Stavros, Jessica Kerson, t J Miller. Kyle Kanade mocked the trend on his social media and told Sean earlier in the year, I hate bad crowd work and the fact that people will perceive it as this easy bounce towards a viral clip. And so everybody’s putting out clips where I’m like, I would delete this from my phone if I took at a show, you put it online.

There’s this mentality of like, just as long as there’s content out there, Kyle says, I’m like, Wow, what a sea of cramp we’ve created. McCarthy wright, So what’s the problem. Gary Goleman lays it out in the opening minutes of his special. Gary says, I just want to let the people in the front rows know they’re safe for me asking what they do for work. I remember going to comedy shows when I was in high school and later, and the comedian will ask somebody what they did for work and then proceeds to ridicule their profession.

And I just remember thinking, if I’m Emverer in the front row a comedy show and a comedian and asked me what I do for work? I’ll stand up and say, what do you do for work? I didn’t come here to be forcibly cast in your TikTok video, you lazy hack. Sewan adds the dirtiest little secret about crowd work, it’s not actually stand up comedy. It instead transforms the stand up comedians to the thing they claim to hate the most and respect the least.

Improvisers Canaine says, if anything, I feel bad for the TikTok stores, like, all right, well you have a lot of followers. How you going to monetize that, Well, we’ll putting you in a comedy club. But they’re not stand ups. They’re TikTok folks, and they go and sell hundreds of tickets and people get there and are like, oh yeah, yeah, ten minutes of material. Now you’re stage for an hour.

I don’t even blame them. I blame the managers. Whoever gets a hold of them just puts them out there to make that quick percentage of follow them before they burn out and realize they’re not stand ups. Man. Late stage capitalism affects us all.

Rolling Stone dusted off what they called a previously unpublished interview with Tom Smothers from twenty fifteen under the headline Tom Smothers made the Variety Show cool, quoting Tom, I didn’t want to do the standard bs. I’ve shared this article in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Some mothers talked about fighting with the network and he had this theme song they wanted to do, and the network was like, no, no, no, you gotta have something like Bob Open thanks for the memories, something memorable. His mother said. We thought, oh Christ, that was the first argument we had.

Rolling Stone asked about booking rock bands like the Who did you get grief for that? No, none at all. Occasionally something would come up, like when Sonny and Share were on and there was this big controversy they could see her nipples through her duress. They wanted to put bandages over them. Jefferson Airplane came out and Grace Slick did Crown of Creation in blackface.

I don’t know why no one said a thing. Some mothers also talked about doing pot jokes. Did the censors flag it? Yeah. We kept making up things for it, like Mary Jane and a couple of different names I’ve forgotten.

And we had Goldie Keith who did the weather report. She said, if you have unslightly roaches around the office, send them in. We’ll take care of them.

And then we got rolled up joints in the mail from the kids.

Brian Reagan is playing Minneapolis tonight for New Year’s Eve? Does he always work New Year’s Eve? Brian said, I used to like to take it off and host a party, but I’m changing my tune on that. It’s good for audiences because they can go and see my show and still go out afterwards and party as long as we don’t have to be on stage at midnight. I used to ring in the New Year at comedy clubs and the staff on hand out noisemakers.

Adults think they’re adults, but they act like children when they’re given something that makes noise. Reagan talked about where he likes to film his specials, specifically theaters. Brian says, as much as I like comedy clubs, they often have people at tables. That means people of drinks and are looking at each other and they start talking to each other. Becomes less of a show and more of a party.

In a theater, the audience is more focused when people are in a place that’s cool and fun and comfortable. It puts them in a good mood. One less hurdle you have to jump over. If I’m not funny, at least there’s some beautiful stuff to look at. And that is your comedy news for the year.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Joe List, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Gary Goldman, Lewis Black, Hannah Gadsby, Marc Maron, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Greg Warren, Kevin Hart, Lionel’s town, Joe Parra, Zarna Garg, Stavros Halkias, Mike Birbiglia

What’s in This Episode

• Top 20 comedy specials of 2023 that did NOT make the list
• Jim Gaffigan’s Dark Pale special analysis
• John Mulaney’s Baby Jay special and credibility concerns
• Marc Maron’s From Bleak to Dark reception
• Bert Kreischer’s Razzle Dazzle special review
• Joe Parra’s Slow and Steady special crowd dynamics issue
• Concerns about artificially enhanced crowd laughter in specials
• 700+ comedy specials released in 2023 and quality saturation

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Hunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you miss the last couple days, have been doing the top twenty three comedy specials of twenty twenty three today or the specials that did not make the list. So why do such an episode, John, if these aren’t your favorites. There are some huge, huge names on here, and I just wanted to talk through why they didn’t make my list, in no particular order other than kind of sort of when they came out.

Jim Gaffigan’s Dark Pale on Amazon. Now, if you listened earlier in the week, I have Jim as the most influential comedian right now. Jim’s at the top of the pack, touring with Seinfeld, working mostly clean, got a movie career, going, always gets great press, has respect of other comedians, and yet I felt like Dark Pale just missed. It’s perfectly fine Jim Gaffigan, but I think Jim has better in him. It’s by no means a bad special.

Don’t get me wrong, It’s a totally fine special. It just didn’t have that extra gear that some of Jim’s other work has. I know he tried to work a little dirker this time, and I just found it just wasn’t grabbing me, and I punched out of it halfway through. Next up is Joe Lists enough for everybody on YouTube, Very very very very funny. Really enjoyed it.

But here’s the thing. I gotta draw the line somewhere. The word special gets thrown around a lot. And if you were Ricky Gervais playing at the two, that’s a special. If you are Chris Rock and you’re finally responding to slap, yeah, that’s a special.

If your Joe List and you set up a couple of tripods and you do a really really funny thing that happens to be an hour long, that’s an hour or that is a set. I don’t know if it’s a special. So that’s why I couldn’t put it on the list. It just didn’t feel like it was in the same class as those other things. Funny, yeah, should you watch it, Yes, But a special I don’t know.

And there’s a lot of those. Part of the challenge of making this end of the year list was I saw somebody mentioned there were seven hundred things released this year that are ostensibly specials. You know, at some point it’s too much, or you’re gonna watch two of these a day. I can’t next up. I know this guy a little bit.

We cross paths at a previous gig. Jared Freed, cool guy, like his podcast work a lot. His hour is called thirty seven in single. That one on Netflix really great way to spend an hour. I just cut my list off of twenty three and that wasn’t in the top twenty three.

But nothing wrong with it. Amy Schumer Emergency Contact on Netflix. A few people wrote that her acts seemed a little bit tired. I don’t disagree. That’s a double negative.

You just used Johnny Mac. Yes, just never felt like that one kicked into gear. Here’s a huge special that appeared at the top of a lot of people’s lists. John Mulaney’s Baby Jay John Mulaney’s addressing of the various issues he had, including his rehab, that surprised a lot of us. Like a few things I’ll mention on the list.

It’s fine. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. The place where I struggled was when I was watching it. It’s hard to pin down this feeling. I didn’t believe some of the tellings of the stories now I get what comedy is, and I get Hasan Minhaj Gait, and I understand that comedy is often taking a story based on reality and exaggerating it.

But as I was watching it, I just I was like, I don’t believe this version of this story, John. Whereas if I compare that with Gary Golman, I’m sure Gary was doing the exact same thing, taking things based in reality and exaggerating them. But Gary sold it in a way that I didn’t feel like Malini did. If you’re throwing stuff at your phone right now, going this host as an idiot, I get it, just didn’t feel that special. Lewis Black’s Tragically, I need you Lewis Black doing Lewis Black things.

If you like Lewis Black doing Lewis Black things, there you go again. Not everything can be on the best of list. Hannah Gatsby’s Something Special. You may recall Hannah Gatsby’s Nenette was considered by some who have reinvented comedy. I actually liked Douglas Her Other Special better than Nanette.

Like Douglas a lot. This one, I don’t know. The whole thing felt kind of tired to me. Next up, not on the list. Mark Maren’s from Bleak to Dark.

You’ll find that on Max. I’ve been struggling with this one. I’ve really been into Maren, especially in the back half of the year, and I feel like maybe I should go back and watch this one. But when I originally watched it, it just wasn’t grabbing me. And I was so excited for it because I like Maren’s comedy a lot, and I’ve loved his last few specials, But this one, I don’t know.

Maybe it was the subject matter. I saw on some people’s list they had Marin at number one. If you’re throwing things at your phone right now again saying this host is an idiot, I get it. Andrew Santino’s Cheeseburger came out on Netflix early in the year. What’s the line.

If you can’t say something nice, don’t say something at all. Bert Krascher’s special came out in March, Razzle Dazzle on Netflix. Like the beginning, I didn’t love the middle, I didn’t like the end. I did love the machine though, go watch the Machine movie. But this not Bert Kreischer’s best work, and what was a really strong year for Bird.

Kreischer but not that one. Continuing a look at the specials that did not make Johnny Max list, Greg Warrens the salesman that was on YouTube. I saw that on some folks top ten lists. I actually have in my notes here, hated Hardy Craig. One of the things that bothered me is I’d been working in audio for thirty years.

I don’t know it sounded to me. Don’t want to accuse anybody of anything. I’m sure this did not happen, but my brain was wondering, did they add in some extra laughs into the crowd. My brain was like, hmm, this sounds like they sweet in the audience. I’m sure Greg didn’t do that.

So I don’t want to suggest that at all. I’m just telling you what my brain that started hearing, and I punched out on that one, Kevin Hart’s Reality Check, that one on Peacock, that’s Kevin Hart doing Kevin Hart. And like, I get it, he made more money touring than anybody. And I’m just an idiot recording a podcast in the basement, So who am I to say that that’s not a great special. But it’s not a great special.

It’s Kevin Hart doing Kevin Hart. Louinel’s town business as part of the Chappelle’s Home Team brand. I lasted about two minutes with that one. Not for me, BET’s stelling on Netflix. I’ve seen that way up on a lot of people’s lists.

Same note, the crowd laughter, same thing I said about Greg Warren. I kind of was feeling here. I don’t know is that a thing that actually goes on? But Bet Stealing Special did not grab me. This next one.

I think the material deserved a lot better than the final result. That is, Joe Perra is slow and steady. If you’re not familiar with Joe, he works very slow and very steady, a very low energy, slow paced delivery, and he’s hilarious. And as I watched this special, I was like, the material’s great. The problem is the crowd gets out in front of him, so before he can actually get to the punchline, the crowd is laughing in anticipation.

Mitch Hedberg ran into this late in his career. His wife Lynn Shawcroft told me that Mitch was actually struggling with needing to speed up his act because of the same thing that the crowd was getting out in front And I felt like Joe Parra recorded in front of a Joe Parah crowd, and the material may have worked better had he filmed it in front of people who weren’t familiar with his act. If that makes any sense. Zarna garg One at a billion you’ll find that on Amazon Prime. Zorna is a comedian in acendency.

The challenge here is I felt like Zarna had a strong eight minutes, but the thing is an hour. Oh this next name I have, I’ll do that one last moving along. Stavros Halkias, fat Rascal. That one on Netflix and it just didn’t make the top twenty three. Perfectly fine, or you should watch it.

Mike Burbiglia, the Old Man in the Pool. This one at the top of a lot of people’s lists. I’ve talked about this one on the podcast a few times. I think, if you guys watch it, you’re gonna love it. My challenge, and it’s similar to a note I’ve given before.

He went into a bit about wrestling, and I just didn’t believe it. He didn’t sell it, as I said earlier in this episode. Do comedians take stories and embellish them? Of course they do. I understand the craft, but there is something to selling it, and I just felt like, as Birbiglia told the story, the whole thing was made up and it took me out of it.

Leo Reich just had literally who cares on HBO just didn’t feel it at all. I made it about eight ten minutes. Tina Hasham’s Dark Little Whispers, that one on Amazon Prime. I liked it. Filmed in a small room, although whoever did the editing.

She’s telling jokes and you see some stone faced audience members not laughing at all. You got to either tighten that shot or cut away or do something. I was watching her work and I couldn’t look. There was this one guy in the front row. He’s to the right of the stage as you watch your television, so I guess on Dina’s left shoulder, and he’s just sitting there stone faced.

It’s like, that’s weird funny, But I’ll compare it to Joe List. It’s funny. I’m not sure we need to apply the word special here. It’s a set or it’s an hour, but it’s not Chris Rock doing an hour live on Netflix, you know what I mean. But Dina Hasham, you know nice enough, you should enjoy it.

I’ll come back to the one I skipped. Some specials I did not see include Roseanne Barr and Maria Bamford. One of the listeners to the show, Richard through a note in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group and was really raving about Maria Bamford and I just didn’t see that one. And the one I skipped in some ways the biggest special of the year because it blew a guy up, not in the good way, Matt Rife Natural Selection. This came out November tenth, So for the first ten months of the year, Matt Rife’s narrative was, look at this guy, he’s blowing up.

He sold so many tickets, he sold out a billion, million, kajillion shows. Everybody he loves him, go look, hey, he’s popular. Women, he’s awesome.

And then this special came out, and then the backlash came hard.

The backlash came for one of the jokes. Then Matt started to double down defending his joke and did not do well at defending his joke, and that just brought more haters. Dusting off some sins of the past. Now we’re seeing headlines like Matt Rife wants you to think he’s edge of your thre and he actually is the rise and immediately he potentially strategic downfall of Matt Rife. What’s worse than Matt Rife’s Netflix special sexist joke.

Matt Rife isn’t funny. So I’m not sure where Matt Rife is going into twenty twenty four. Maybe he was just a shooting star. Maybe he’s got enough TikTok fans and fans remaining, then he’ll be fine. He had a good year, he had a good ten months.

Anyway, I’m not sure his year ended well, and I’m not sure he cares if it didn’t end well. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you want to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, throw some money in the tip jower.

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Featured: Gary Goldman, Todd Barry, Shane Gillis, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Ricky Gervais, Michelle Wolf, Chris Rock, Trevor Noah, Mark Normand

What’s in This Episode

• Top 23 stand-up comedy specials of 2023 ranked #12-23
• Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Netflix special addressing Will Smith Oscars slap
• Trevor Noah’s ‘Where Was I’ Netflix special
• Mark Normand’s ‘Soup to Nuts’ special in ascendency
• Comedy specials across streaming platforms including Netflix, HBO Max, YouTube, and Peacock

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Today it is the rest of the top twenty three top stand up specials of the year. If you missed yesterday’s episode, I went over the top eleven, which really quickly was number one is Gary Goleman too, Todd Berry, three, Shing Gillis, Tom Sigora, Kyle Cranane, Nate Bergantcy Gervais, Michelle Wolf, j McBride, Jim Jefferies, and Pete Holmes. At number eleven.

You can listen to yesterday’s episode to catch up on that. At number twelve, Harry Condo Bolu’s Vacation Baby. You’ll find that on YouTube. Really strong special for the first two thirds. The last third’s a little soft.

This would have ranked higher, just I don’t know, just didn’t land number thirteen. This one was a big deal. You may have heard of it. Chris rock Is live on Netflix. Did you know about this?

He got slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars and then reacted to it. Selective outrage is the name of that one. That one was like a roller coast. There were points where it was like, Okay, Chris, get to it, get to it. Gets to it, and then he got to it and it was really great, and then he’d kind of take his foot off the gas and it was up and down.

Solid special. Not Chris Rock’s best work by any means, but a really good one. Number fourteen. You’ll find this one on Amazon. Jimmy O Yang’s Guess how much I love Jimmy O Yang.

Jimmy talks about loser friends and negotiating with his Asian parents.

Also some really solid jokes about BTS.

I surprised he didn’t get roasted by the BTS Army for that one. I wouldn’t mind getting roasted by the BTS Army. I’ll take the publicity. Number fifteen. This one came out in December.

Trevor Noah is Where was I Now? Despite it being all the way down at fifteen, I gotta say I liked the special a lot. Trevor’s one of those folks that I find just great company, easy on the ears. I think I just like his accent, but I like the way he thinks. I like the way he speaks and he’s trying to do something.

It’s not just joke joke joke joke jokes. So this one, too, allows you to breathe a time, and that’s something Carlin was great at. Ricky at times reminded me of George Carlin, and I don’t say that lightly, but the points he was making very Carlin esk and I think the beard cut helps. Trevor’s also great at developing characters by doing different voices. His accent work is fantastic.

Trevor Noah on Netflix. Where was I? Number sixteen? I know when I say this one, people think I’m nuts until they actually watch it. It’s the roast of mister Peanut.

So this showed up in commercial form during the Super Bowl, but there’s a full version on YouTube. Jeff Ross is Your Host, also appearing Natasha Laziro, Otsko at Coontzka, Yamanika Saunders, David Lucas, Sarah Tiana, Frank Castillo, and it’s exactly what it’s claiming to be. Jeff Ross is Your Host, and then everybody gets up and does a couple of minutes about mister Peanut. But it’s funny. You’ll find the whole thing on YouTube.

I know I sound like a crazy person, trust me. Number seventeen, Big Jay Okerson’s Dog Belly. That one, also on Netflix. Filmed at Skankfest twenty twenty two in Las Vegas. Jay having a good time on stage, doing some CrowdWork, some storytelling.

That’s a fun one. Love this guy. Number eighteen Mark Norman Soup to Nuts. Norman is one of those comedians in ascendency. Each special you just find him refining it and refining it.

I wouldn’t be shocked if he had a huge twenty twenty four well liked by his fellow comedians. Good description here from deadand dot Co. March delivery is awkward and affable, goofy even he talks like he’s just some guy the kanude apologize to a table for bumping into it, Except that guy happens to be making some of the most vicious, mean spirited remarks you’ve ever heard, in the same tone he’d used to wish somebody a pleasant morning. It’s black comedy tinged with hot pink and vivid tangerine. He’s saying all these horrible things, but he’s also suggesting to you that he doesn’t mean any of it.

It’s number eighteen, Mark Norman Soup to Nuts Number nineteen and Nimesh Patel. You’ll find that one on YouTube. Lucky Lefty. Can someone create an entire hour out of being diagnosed with testicular cancer? Yes, the answer is yes.

Nimesh Patel Lucky Lefty Number twenty on the Top twenty three stand up Specials of twenty twenty three. Sarah Silverman Someone you Love on HBO Max or Max or HBO or Max Max whatever we’re calling it these days. Sarah’s really good about setting up a premise and then taking a right turn. Really like that one’s number twenty one. Chris Fleming’s Hell.

This one on Peacock, and it’s one of those specials that as soon as you hit play, you go, oh, okay, this is different. How do I describe this one? Fleming is super animated, singing and dancing and using the entire stage. It’s another one of those shots in a small club, specifically Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles. He has characters, there are sketches.

Can’t put this one into words, and that’s a good thing. Chris Fleming’s Hell on Peacock, Number twenty one. Similar one that Broke the Mold. John Early is Now More than Ever on HBO, a faux documentary about a musical act, but with sketches, and some funny songs. Jason Zenniman and The New York Times nailed it as he always does.

It’s generally mixing cringe and cabaret. Really fun. Special here and number twenty three of the top twenty three Ralph Barbosa’s Cowabunga. That one on Netflix. I expected more out of this one.

I was following Barbosa all year and I thought he was about to step up in class, and he didn’t quite come to that level. It’s fun, but it’s not amazing. I think Barbosa has more to come, and we’ll keep an eye on him. I think he’s really going to move up the list in future years. All right again, real quick.

The Top twenty three Number one, Gary Goleman two, Todd Barry three, Shane Gillis four, Tom Siguera five, Kyle Kanaan six and eight, Berganzi seven, Urky Gervais eight, Michelle Wolf nine, j McBride ten, Jim Jefferys eleven, Pete Holmes twelve, Harri Condobolu thirteen, Chris Rock fourteen, Jumio Yang fifteen, Trevor Noah sixteen, The Roast of Mister Peanut seventeen, Big Jay Okresen eighteen, Mark Norman nineteen to Mishpateel twenty, Sarah Silverman twenty one, Chris Fleming twenty two, Joan Early twenty three, Ralph Barbosa, And those are your top twenty three specials of the year. Some big, big names not on the list who put out stuff this year, and that’ll be tomorrow’s episode. I’ll explain why they didn’t make the list. But there are some huge names who did not make the list. If you enjoy the show, a couple of ways you can support the show.

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Featured: Gary Gulman, Todd Barry, Shane Gillis, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatsky, Ricky Gervais, Michelle Wolf, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Pete Holmes

What’s in This Episode

• Top 11 Comedy Specials of 2023 countdown
• Gary Gulman’s ‘Born on Third Base’ named best special of the year
• Todd Barry’s ‘Domestic Short Hair’ special praise
• Ricky Gervais ‘Armageddon’ special and wokeness commentary
• 2023’s funniest non-stand-up content including ‘Cunk on Earth’ and South Park’s ‘Into the Pandaverse’
• Netflix’s strong year for comedy specials
• New podcast ‘The Top Eleven’ announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Today it is the Top eleven Comedy Specials of the Year. If you listen to the podcast every year, you know I do an end of the year top stand up specials list. This year I have twenty three of them, but today I will do the Top eleven and part of that is to cross promote a new podcast called The Top Eleven, which is a fun show that takes a topic and discusses the top eleven things in that subject.

In today’s episode will be the top comedy Specials of twenty twenty three. Follow the Top eleven wherever you get your shows. I’m not going to go from eleven to one. I’m going to go from one to eleven. The best comedy special of the year, and it came out pretty late in the year, but wow, it was fantastic.

Gary Goleman born on third Base. Here is a comedian who you see in a scendence. A great guy. I’ve worked with him, spent some time with him, tried to hire him. The boss wouldn’t give me the budget to hire him.

Oops, boss Man. But Gary special The Great Depression got a lot of praise and that was Gary in ascendancy, and I think this is next level Born on Third Base. When you watch it, Gary’s very natural delivery, his choice of words, the way he crafts a story, the way you can tell he’s having fun telling the stories, his pacing, his changing of speeds. The special is almost clean. He uses a swear word pretty late in the special just for effect and nails it.

Good use of a swear word there. He made some very funny material about Jerry Seinfeld that I want spoil. That really cracked me up. So Gary Goleman, Born on Third Base Best Special of the Year, number two and this guy held the crown for most of the fourth quarter. And I really love the special.

Todd Barry’s domestic short here it may even be funnier joke for joke than Goldman’s. Just Gary, just like he just nailed the art of an hour. But Barry had me laughing out loud several times. And as I’ve discussed in the past, I do this. I call it the Emperor of Room thing that I’ve listened to so much stand up comedy over the last twenty years that I’ll do the thing the comedians do where you’ll stay on the back of the room and you’ll be like, oh, great set, great set, great callback.

Oh wow, that was really well written, but you don’t actually laugh. So when something makes me actually laugh out loud, I treasure it. I recommend on Todd Berry’s Domestic Short Hair on YouTube. Number three Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs. That one’s on Netflix.

Here’s a guy, very funny special. And here’s a guy that you can tell as he’s doing the special, he’s just having a good time. His body language is like, isn’t this fun? And I just he’s so charismatic. It’s just a good time.

Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs at number three. Number four Tom Sigoor’s Sledgehammer. That one also on Netflix, same kind of note there. You can just tell Tom’s having a good time with it. Plenty of solid laughs.

And that special. Number five. I had this one at number one for a while. Kyle Kanaan Shocks and Struts. That one’s on YouTube.

Great storyteller, a great way of changing speeds, setting up jokes. Kyle kanay and Shocks and Strats at five six. This guy had a huge year. The special came out eleven months ago January thirty first on Amazon, Nate Bergatzy’s Hello World. I was enjoying that special so much that I paused it and thought my wife would like it, went upstairs, grabbed her, and I went back and I watched ten minutes of it for a second time.

Number seven Ricky Gervais over Again. That came out Christmas Day on Netflix. I loved it. Ricky just went into total DGAF mode. Of all the comedians who have fought back against wokeness, I think Ricky found a pretty good take on it, slipping into character that he had now gone woke and then totally being unable to actually do that.

Ricky at times reminded me of George Carlin. And I don’t say that lightly, but the points he was making very carlin esk And I think the beard kind helps the controversy about some of the jokes about dying children totally overblown. When you see it in context, it’s nothing. It’s clearly a joke. Riggy stops down a few times to explain that he is a comedian telling jokes.

Sometimes people forget that stuff. Number eight Michelle Wolfe’s It’s Great to be Here on Netflix. Now, what’s interesting about that special is rather than making a single hour, it split across three small parts. They’re all about twenty to thirty five minutes. She didn’t want to artificially tie the chunks together, so she just made them separate chunks and it worked really well.

Another one of these specials that you watch and you can tell that the artist is having a good time performing the special, and she’s just a good company to be around. High energy Michelle Wolf, It’s great to be here. On Netflix at number eight. J McBride Daddy’s Girl filmed in Brooklyn in a small setting, nice lean production. You know, some of these specials in these big, beautiful theaters and multicams are great.

Sometimes I like just a smaller show. It makes me feel like I’m in the club. Jay is transgender and she makes a lot of jokes about that very very funny special. At one point she explains she transitioned fifteen years ago, and then jokes, don’t clap. I only did it to compete in the Olympics.

Great special there. You’ll find that on YouTube. J McBride Danny’s Girl. Jim Jeffries High and Dry.

Also on Netflix.

Jim jokes about how he is quit Drinking another special where he’s in DGAF mode and also clearly just having a good time telling the story. One of the weird trends this year was everybody having to make trans jokes. Jim found a good angle on it and saying I have no problem with trans people, but I do like press Jim Jeffries Number ten and a rounding out the top eleven. Pete Holmes, also on Netflix. Netflix, you guys had a great year for comedy, didn’t you.

Pete specials called I Am Not for Everyone. Pete’s another one of those comedians I just like spending time with. He’s got that nice guy vibe. He’s got that body language where he’s having a good time and he just wants you to have a good time, good storytelling, good solid set that flows. Pete homes I Am Not for Everyone on Netflix at number eleven.

Tomorrow, I’ll do twelve through twenty three. But when we come back, I’ll tell you what the actual funniest thing of the year was. Hmm, A quick list of some things that were funny but not stand up specials. The funniest thing of the year even funnier than Gary Goldman’s stand up special Kunk on Earth that came out on Netflix in February. Diane Morgan stars as Philhemina kunk an illiformed David Attenborough or Richard Addenborough, one of those guys.

It’s the history of the world told incorrectly. It is hysterical. There’s a recurring gag that cracked me up every time. I don’t want to spoil I recommend on Kunk on Earth. I’ve watched it twice.

You’ll find that on Netflix. The other truly great thing that came out this year I have this one ranked lower than Todd Berry but higher than Shane Gillis was South Park’s Into the Panda Verse, which made fun of how every movie has become the brave teenage girl showing the old white dude how stupid he’s become. That is every single movie now, and they just rip that to Shred’s South Park Into the Panderverse. Treat yourself if you haven’t seen that one. Several memes have come out of that that have just savaged.

Kathleen Kennedy from Lucasfilm, Bob Iger from Disney, the Marvel Universe. They nailed it with that one.

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Also really fantastic Cocaine Bear, a nice tight hour thirty five, just a fun…

If you have not seen Cocaine Bear, treat yourself. I have that one. Not as funny as Nate Berghatzy, but more funny than Ricky Gervais. While you’re enjoying comedy movies, Burt Krascher’s The Machine. It delivered, nice fun film.

I was very happy with it. That could have been awful, but it was pretty good. I have that one at number ten and a half between Jim Jefferies and Pete Holmes. If you listen to me every day, you’re probably familiar with Burt Krescher’s The Machine story. So this is a follow up sort of of that.

But watch The Machine. That is fantastic. And the other thing I would encourage you to watch is Jury Duty. You’ll find that on free v go on Amazon Prime, you’ll find it there. There’s a trial, there’s a jury, and all of it’s fake except for the one guy that doesn’t know it’s all fake, and it is hilarious.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll come back tomorrow with numbers twelve through twenty three. And if you enjoy the program, you can support the show ad, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or if you’re familiar with what value for value is in podcasting two point zero, you can use the app Fountain to listen to Daily Comedy News and can stream some SATs in my direction. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, click on the show notes so it’ll explain it to you.

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Featured: John Cleese, Pete Davidson, Tiffany Haddish, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers

What’s in This Episode

• John Cleese’s controversial Trump and Hitler comparison tweet
• Pete Davidson cancels multiple shows after trailer incident
• Tiffany Haddish makes jokes about recent Beverly Hills arrest
• Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers dies at age 86

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, It’s Tuesday afternoon. I’m Johnny Mac, and there’s just enough Daily Comedy News for me to throw in a mini episode here. Earlier today was the Normal episode, which was the eleven most Powerful Comedians of twenty twenty three. Tomorrow morning the top eleven comedy specials of the year.

But let me tell you a couple of things that are going on. John Clees is in a little bit of a controversy. He compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in a tweet. Clees wrote that there were five ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump. His reasoning, one he fought for his country.

Two he never used to teleprompter. Three he was nice to dog’s four he wrote his own books. Five he never played golf. Six he wasn’t a big fat slob, So that’s actually six, not five. Then he continued listing five ways that Trump is preferable to Hitler, writing one doesn’t practice genocide, two he has nicer hair, and then left the other three spaces empty.

Got very upset, and Clees then wrote it was a very bad joke, especially on Boxing Day. He then reposted a number of messages supporting a joke, including one saying they both have a silly walk. One person tweeted at John and said the original tweet was not funny and not true either. Clees replied, some people think it was funny and not true. Someone else suggested that Clees’s best comedy as were behind him.

John said at the age of eighty four, I should hope so. Clees wrapped it up by saying some people thought it was very funny, but they have a sense of context. Easily solved, just don’t follow me anymore. Yahoo had a little more detail about Pete Davidson canceling a bunch of shows. Pete had been working on a movie called Riff Raff.

Apparently, there was a paparazzi photographer whose attempts to take some pictures allegedly sent Pete Davidson off the deep end. According to in Touch magazine, initial efforts to dissuade the photographer were ignored, which is said to have angered Pete Davidson to the point where he attempted to engage in a personal confrontation. The incident allegedly made Pete Davidson so angry that after multiple staffer stepped up in an attempt to calm him down, Pete allegedly stormed off and then allegedly trashed his personal trailer. A source said Pizez a good guy. Everybody likes him.

He’s obviously going through something right now and people are worried about him. He has canceled upcoming shows in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Milwaukee. The next show that is still on the docket is January sixth at Foxwoods in Connecticut. Tiffany Hattish was on stage on Christmas and apparently made some jokes about her recent arrest. She joked, I’m sorry, but you ain’t live until you got to rest in Beverly Hills.

Okay, it’s beautiful over there. I mean in quite a few jails, just like the rest of y’all. If you’re gonna do something, I say, get arrested over there, because that jail is nice. It’s so clean. But the food I ain’t eat.

I was fasting. I already ate four times. I was serving food all day at Thanksgivings. I didn’t have nothing to eat, but they did offer me juices and stuff. I was like, oh, this is so nice.

And then my cycle had started in while there, I’m bleeding on the jail. But they are the best Maxi pads. I’ve never seen a pad so big and went from the top of my belly button to the top of my behind. And I was wearing a thong too, so it looked like I had a pillow and a rope. I said, let me get one more of those paths and use it as a pillow.

It was comfortable, was nice. They gave me one of those fleace blankets they get in first grade or something to take a nap on, and I did that. I took a nap. Was beautiful, wonderful experience and sad news. Tom Smothers, half of the famous Smothers brothers, passed away on Tuesday at age eighty six.

His death was announced on Wednesday by the family and National Comedy Center. His brother Dick’s Mothers, who’s eighty four, said in a statement, Tom was not only the loving older brother that everybody would want in their life. I’m forever grateful that I’ve spent a lifetime together with him on and off stage for over sixty years. Our relationship was like a good marriage. The longer we were together, the more we loved and respected one another.

We were truly blessed. In nineteen sixty nine, CBS canceled the Smothers Brother’s Comedy Hour. That was CBS reacting to the Smothers Brothers making fun of the powerful in the country and boosting critics of the Vietnam War. In twenty nineteen, there was an event to celebrate the fifty year anniversary of the firing Tom. Some mothers told the AP at that time, it’s really an honor to be honored in this way.

We’re both alive and not having someone speak for us, we can mumble our own way through Tom’s Smothers was eighty six years old, all right back in the morning with the top eleven comedy specials of the year. See you then,

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, Matt Rife, Bert Kreischer, Nate Bargatze, Theo Vaughn, Joe Rogan, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Shane Gillis, Todd Barry

What’s in This Episode

• Top 11 Most Influential Comedians of 2023 countdown
• Matt Rife’s Netflix special backlash and tweet controversy
• Bert Kreischer’s ‘The Machine’ movie release
• Nate Bargatze’s record-breaking Nashville show and SNL hosting
• Joe Rogan opens Comedy Mothership club in Austin
• Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Netflix special response to the slap
• Kevin Hart named top touring comedian of 2023 with $67.5M in ticket sales
• John Mulaney’s return to stage after rehab and personal turmoil
• Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special on New Year’s Eve
• The Top Eleven podcast launch announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today we’re taking a look at the top eleven most Influential Comedians of twenty twenty three. Couple notes here, there are plenty of great comedians who are not on this list. For example, Shane gillis huge year, not on the list, Todd Berry one of the best specials of the year, and I’ll go over the best specials of the year tomorrow, not on the list.

I’m also very very very very well aware you don’t have to shoot me a note that this list is eleven men. And I spent some time thinking about it, and I’m like, well, who should be on this list? Amy Schumer? Maybe I don’t know, But as I do the list, I’ll explain my reasoning. And as with all lists, it’s all subjective.

Your list will be different. The person next to you their list will be different. I’m gonna throw out some name. You’re gonna be outraged that I said, Oh, I can’t believe that person on a list that’s Setti’s list. Go, so why is it eleven?

We’re doing this to help promote a new podcast, which is called The Top Eleven The Top eleven launches on January eleventh. Each week, the Top eleven looks at the top eleven things for a single topic. Topic can be anything iconic, movie moments, mythical creatures, album covers, history, space facts, you know anything the Top eleven. Whether you’re a fan of eleven’s or simply somebody with a thirst for knowledge, tune into the Top eleven on your preferred podcast platform. This week we’re taking episodes like this and putting them in the feed as a preview, and then on January eleventh, the Top eleven launches.

All Right, you’re ready for my list? You’re gonna get mad. Number eleven Most influential Comedians of twenty twenty three. Pete Davidson, I hear you now? Is he the best stand up comedian?

No? Even Pete Davidson doesn’t think he’s the best stand up comedian. But he’s in the news all the time. He moves the headlines. Pete Davidson moves the downloads.

Who’s he dating? Is he in rehab? Why is he crashing into cars? Sometimes even does comedy at a TV series called Bupkiss. Remember that one.

He’s got a special coming out January ninth, called Turbo Fonzarelli. He co owns a ferry with Colin jos. For some reason, Pete Davidson to talk about always in the news. Number ten Matt Rife. Matt Rife had quite the year.

The buzz for nine tenths of the year was that Matt Rife was it. His problematic World tour went on sale. It broke the ticketing site. He sold out one hundred dates. He was on top.

Then he started doing some press for Matt Rife Natural Selection, a special on Netflix, and then we all watched the special and we were like, oh, eit, this special’s not that funny.

And then somebody had a problem with one of his jokes and then Matt instead o…

Lost a lot of his fans. Then the haters came from matt Rife and started digging out old tweets. Matt Rife was a lot more popular. The day before that Netflix special came out. Matt Rife at number ten.

Number nine, Bert Kraser, did you see the machine? The machine was fantastic, And that was the culmination of probably Bert’s entire hurry up to this point. He got famous off to bit the Machine Now it’s a movie, and the movie was good. Bert also had a huge tour. He also has the very popular podcast he does with Tom Segura, Two Bears, One Cave, Burt Riding High.

In twenty twenty three, next up number eight Nate Bergatsey Nate was named a Comedian of the Year by Consequence of Sound, and Nate had a couple big things, including a fantastic special that’s one of my favorites of the year, Hello World on Amazon Prime way back in January. Nate also set the record for most tickets sold at the Bridgetone Arena in Nashville nineteen three hundred and sixty five. He threw in one extra seat somewhere in a corner to set the record. He hosted the Best Saturday Night Live and quite some time, and I think broke through to new fans. He also has his podcasting network in his own podcast, Andy shepherding comedians who are lesser known, like Dusty Slay.

So Nate’s got a little power base going there. Good to see him coming up. A guy that went from nobody really knows who he is other than his fans fans to having a huge year. Theo Vaughn. If you kept your eyes on the podcast charts all year, you noticed this past weekend went from being number one on the stand up subgenre and then started showing up on the mainstream charts.

I think theo is primed for a huge twenty twenty four. He’s a good storytelling. His pot is easy on the ears. Dio Vaughn at number seven, number six, and in some ways it’s weird that this guy is so low on the list because he is a king maker and a major influencer. It’s Joe Rogan, Joe obviously host of The Joe Rogan Experience, a very very very influential podcast.

You go on The Joe Rogan Experience and suddenly you’ve got a lot more fans. Comedians like Tim Dillon, who’s fantastic, have seen that their speculation that Joe Rogan’s deal with Spotify is up. Will they renew him? Will he stay with them? Will he go somewhere else?

He’ll be keeping an eye on that. In twenty twenty four, Joe also opened his club in Austin, the Comedy mother Ship, which has basically turned Austin’s comedy scene into the third Coast behind New York and La Sorry, Chicago, you can send your letters to Johnny Mac, some of the comedians of pop by there, Tim Dillon, Roseanne Chappelle. Ron White has come out of retirement. I guess from hanging out Rogan and having fun, Whinney Cummings, the guys from Kiltoony. You’ve started doing this.

Yeah, with the Comedy mother Ship. Number six is Joe Rogan. We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and we’ll look at the top five. This guy was already at the top of the business and then he got slapped in the face. Yes, of course, Chris Rock, he’s number five.

Almost every single article about a comedian somehow comes back to the slap, and we’re year and a half two years out from that now Chris Rock’s name comes up with that, whether he wants to or not. And this year he finally responded on stage during Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage is Live special on Netflix. Then that garnered a whole bunch of reactions, and the other comedians reacted to Chris Rock’s reaction, and it’s still a topic. But aside from that, if Chris Rock’s behind a microphone, you want to hear what he has to say. Hopefully he does a lot more.

In twenty twenty four at number four, Kevin Hart. Billboard recently released that he was the top touring comedian of the year, making sixty seven point five million dollars in ticket sales. He sold six hundred and thirty one thousand tickets over eighty two shows. That’s a lot of money, and that doesn’t include all the various endorsements he deals. If you watch football, he’s always hawking a gambling thing.

If you listen to this podcast, Kevin announces, I don’t know, two new projects a week. He’s got his fast food chain. Netflix just did the documentary about Kevin and Chris Rock. So Kevin Hart at number four. Next up, number three, John Mulaney and the press really really is in John Mullenie’s corner.

Lot of good praise for John Mulaney, Baby Jay. I do not have that on my top Specials of the Year list, which I’ll explain on tomorrow’s podcast. Despite my personal opinion eighty six percent favorable on Rotten Tomatoes. It was Mulanie’s return to the stage after some personal turmoil. We learned that mullani had a drug problem, he went to rehabb he had broken up with his wife.

He’s got a baby with Olivia Munn. Number two Dave Chappelle. Much like Chris Rock, almost every single interview with a comedian comes back to Dave Chappelle. Every move Dave Chappelle makes is news. He’s got a new special out on Netflix on New Year’s Even if you host a podcast in its early January, you’re gonna be very thankful that Dave Chappelle has a new special and’ll be stirring it up again.

Dave Chappelle Number two and your number one most influential comedian for twenty twenty three. Jim Gaffigan. Jim is getting better and better at stand up. He’s right at the top of the mountain right now. Has the respect of his fellow comedians.

Additionally, he has the reputation for working clean, which broadens your audience. He’s got his acting career going. He released Dark Pal, which showed Jim expanding his comedy styling getting a little darker. That was very well received. He toured with Jerry Seinfeld.

He had a great interview with Maren Jim Gaffigan is number one. If you hate my list, you can go on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group, and you can say this list is terrible. That’s okay. I’d love to hear your opinion. It’s just a subjective list.

Some names that I had down for consideration that I left off because you only get eleven. Mark Marin I really got back into his podcast this year. I really love his perspective on stand up comedy as an art and it’s like listening to the guy talk Tom Sagora. You know I have his partner in comedy, Bert Kreischer on the list. Why don’t you have Tom?

I only had eleven spots, and I just felt like Bert had a slightly better year than Tom. Trevor Noah, aside from his awesome stand up comedy, the void he has left on the Daily Show is tremendous. It’s been a year plus and they still haven’t solved the cherry issue. Trevor’s recent special on Netflix is fantastic. Jerry Seinfeld not on the list, which is weird because he’s probably the top comedian in the game.

But Jerry just goes about his business doing his thing, goes home. And Conan O’Brien wanted to have him on the list as well for his influential podcast. Eventually, Conan will come back to TV, right He’s been developing a show with Max HBO, Max HBO and Max or whatever we’re calling it this week for years now. Is that ever gonna air? Conan?

But he gets some great guests on his very very popular podcast. So Conan O’Brien will someday return to TV and we’ll be talking about him even more then. So that is the list of the top eleven most influential comedians of twenty twenty three. Back tomorrow with a look at the top eleven stand up specials of twenty twenty three. If you enjoy this program, you tell a friend about it, they might like it too, and you can all follow it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows.

See you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Ricky Gervais, Gary Gulman, Dave Chappelle, Neil Nanda, Dane Cook, Matt Rich

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson cancels shows through January 3rd due to unforeseen circumstances
• Dave Chappelle releases teaser for New Year’s Eve special on Netflix
• Ricky Gervais special review – solid material on anti-woke topics
• Gary Gulman special ranked number one special of the year
• Comedian Neil Nanda dies at age 32

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Hope you had a good Christmas. This is an extra episode. There’s enough going on that I just wanted to check in.

I’ve got a lot of special episodes this week with end of the year list that I already have in the can, but I wanted to just check in with you and talk about a couple things that are happening. This episode to be a little shorter than usual. Pete Davidson has canceled a bunch of shows. Hope Pete is doing okay. He was supposed to play the Beacon Theater on Friday night, and the Beacon announced in an Instagram story post that the show had been canceled.

They did not give any reason. According to Deadline, ticket holders were made aware of the show cancelation in an email two hours before the show. You know somebody who lives a good two hours away from the city. I could see where that might be a little late and frustrating, but again, I hope Pete is okay. Here.

Ticket goers were automatically refunded. All of Peach’s shows have been canceled up until January third. According to Ticketmaster. His next scheduled event is January fourth in Milwaukee. Messages shared on websites for Chattanooga’s Walker Theater, Pittsburgh’s Bay In Theater, and Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater say the cancelations were due to quote unforeseen circumstances.

Netflix released the trailer for Dave Chappelle’s New Year’s Eve special. It’s quirky. Let’s listen. What do you dream about? Not the dreams you have in your sleep, the one to hold in your heart.

Don’t be intimidated by the audacity of your dream, be inspired by it. What happens to a dream deferred? Look at the Dave. He doesn’t know the dreamer. I’m looking forward to that.

Another reason I wanted to check in is I did, indeed watch both Ricky and Gary Goleman. I’ll speak more about these at length later in the week when I do my top special. So the year Jervais’s Top ten. I liked it a lot. Maybe it got a little long in the middle there, but he basically went to DGAF mode and did some probably the best material I’ve heard about the anti woke crowd.

Really solid special. If you haven’t had a chance again. I’ll talk about that later in the week. Gary Goleman special is the best special of the year. I won’t pull my punch there.

I watched that on Friday night and thought it was absolutely fantastic. Gary. Gary’s now really moving up the list. I feel like, maybe one more special and people are going to be like, oh wow, he’s just a wonderful wordsmith and the schedule is just well crafted. So right now I have that at number one, and since I won’t be watching any more specials before I record my top of the Year, because I’m about to do that next Gary Goleman is going to be number one.

Spoilers, I’ll leave you with a sad note. Stand up comedian Neil Nanda has died at age thirty two. Nanda known for appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party. Matt Rich tweeted, rip Neil Nanda. You were one of the nicest, hardest working comedians I’ve ever called a friend, and I hope you can be at peace.

Brother Dane Cook shared a tribute along with the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Dane wrote, I didn’t know Neil Nanda personally, but reading several tributes is both heartbreaking and eye opening. I echo so many expressing that there is help out there. Please remember you were never alone. People want to help you.

There’s a path through your pain. Peror to Neil’s family, friends and fans, dial nine to eight eight for help and love. Nanda told VC Reporter in twenty eighteen that he used to copy down his favorite jokes from Comedy Central into a notebook to retaill his middle school friends, and then he joked, I didn’t realize I was stealing jokes until I was in high school. When I was in high school, I started writing my own jokes, using the structure of some of the jokes I had previously stolen. A friend read the notebook and told me, you know, you could just go perform these right.

I didn’t know, but after a quick Google search, I was off to the laughing skull open Mic told VC reporter, I would say my proudest accomplishment thus Foreign Comedy was performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I’ve always wanted to do a set on late night, and Jimmy Kimmel was my first choice. I performed when my parents were a fan of the host. If you’re just catching up, today is December twenty sixth. There was a normal episode in the feed, and I did episodes all over the weekend.

I’ll be back in the morning with the eleven most powerful people in comedy. See you tomorrow.