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Featured: Kevin Hart, Matt Rife, Bert Kreischer, Eliza Shlesinger, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart wins 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Matt Rife releases new Netflix special, discusses crowd work and cancel culture
• Bert Kreischer grabs protester at Netflix Cup in Las Vegas
• Eliza Shlesinger roasts Generation Z in viral TikTok routine
• Late night roundup: Senator Mullen challenges Teamsters president, Bernie Sanders breaks up fight

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. He’s got to tell you a lot of stories today that My reaction was, uh, I didn’t see that coming. We’ll get to that in a second quick stop off at late night, do you see Senator Mullen challenged the president of the Teamsters to a fight. Yeah, apparently that happened and Bernie Sanders had break it up.

Jimmy Kimmel said, this is the first time Bernie Sanders was forced to play the role of peacemaker. You know, when he was originally elected to the Senate, he tried to convince Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton to hug it out. And that didn’t work either. That didn’t end well at all. First story, I wasn’t expecting.

Kevin Hart is the winner of the twenty fifth annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Mark Twain Prize will honor Kevin Hart in a ceremony on March twenty fourth. You hear the hesitation of my voice, Let me tell you a story, then we’ll get to the hesitation. The Center cited his iconic character inimitable physical comedy and relatable narratives, as well as his achievements as a comedian, actor, writer, and producer. In a statement, Kevin Hart said, to be honored in this commemorative year feels surreal.

Comedy is my outlet for social commentary and observations on life. I’m grateful to the Kennedy Center for recognizing my voice and impact on culture. Can’t wait to celebrate all right? The hesitation of Johnny Mac’s voice is Kevin Hart? That funny look.

I get that he’s super popular, super charismatic, has some good films. I guess does he. Let’s look that up. We’ll start with the most recent Diehartbody Care, League of Super Pets, Jumanji, The Next Level, The Secret Life of Pets two, First Jumanji, Captain Underpants, Central Intelligence, Ride Along, Right Along Too, Get Hard. I feel like I’m forgetting something, so I have googled the phrase best Kevin Hart movies, and I’ve come to MovieWeb dot com and their article of best Kevin Hart movies ranked ten Captain Underpants nine Nights School eight, Ride Along all Right, seven, This is the End six thirty five and ticking?

Can you tell me what that even is? Five? Central Intelligence, all Right, four, Get Hard three, The Secret Life of Pets, two, Jumanji and one from twenty fourteen Top five. Top five tells the story of New York City comedian turned to film star Andre Allen, who’s unexpected encounter where the journalist forces him to confront the comedy career in the past that he’s left behind. Chris rock is in this movie.

Jerry seinfeldt as a cameo. Does anyone remember this movie? Maybe It’s just me again? Kevin Hart seems nice, works hard, decent body work. It’s comedies, all right.

Here are some previous recipients of the Mark Twain Prize. Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winter’s, Carl Reiner, Whoopy Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lord Michael, Steve Martin, Neil Simon, Billy Crystal. Now, if we start from two thousand and eight, George Carlin, Bill Cosby won in two thousand and nine, but that was rescinded in twenty eighteen. Don’t Ask Questions, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia Louis dreyf Is, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, and now Kevin Hart. Again.

I’m not gonna think about this again until March. But my premise today was a lot of stuff that I was like, huh, I didn’t see that coming. Matt Riife’s new specials out on Netflix. Did you watch it yet? Rife says it’s incredible.

My first two specials I had to do because I’ve been doing comedy for ten and eleven years. When I did them and I was sitting on material, I was very proud of it, but I was like, I don’t know what to do with it. Nobody wants to give me a special. What do I do? So I put them out on my own, which is very validating in of itself.

But to have somebody come from another level be like, hey, we like what you’re doing, we like what you’ve done for yourself. We want to invite to work with us, it feels warm, It feels inviting. Netflix has been great about the entire creative process. Matt was asked if he was worried about, you know, being canceled. Basically is the question every interview asked that question.

Matt said, I don’t really adhere to this whole sensitivity rumor in the comedy world that you can’t say anything anymore. That’s bs you could say whatever you want now you have to prepare for repercussions. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to how do you sleep at night? You know what I mean? Other people’s perspective of you isn’t your responsibility, So how can he sleep at night?

The way I look at it is as a comedian, everything comes down to intent. I know for me, everything that leaves my mouth on stage is purely with the intention of making people laugh. It’s never any deeper, never any more, or never any less than that. That’s all it is to me. Now.

I like dark humor. I don’t believe there’s anything you can’t talk about if you do it correctly, in the right way, at the right time. And at the end of the day, I think you need to just go out there. You have to be yourself, not worry about offending a certain amount of people. You get the idea skip bad on that answer.

He was asked about being known for a crowd work now and Matt said, surprise to me as well, it’s also something I haven’t been doing for that long. It became something that I had fun doing. One thing is a comedian. Even though throughout your entire year you’re growing and working on your material, you feel like you’re getting a bit of groundhock day, or you’re telling the same one hour show over and over. Even I get tired of my own jokes if you tell them over and over again.

So crowd work is spontaneous and unique. I like being surprised, and the ongoing theme of every Matt Rife interview this week is about his looks. Matt said, one of the biggest misconceptions of things I get ridiculed online for is people are like, ah, he only has a female base in the beginning, Yeah, because I blew up on TikTok, which is very female dominant. So I get that perspective. But when you come to the shows, I mean it’s fifty to fifty, it’s couples coming out, its groups of dudes were coming.

That’s one thing I wanted to tackle in this special was showing people that, like, despite me you think of me online, I don’t pander my career to women. I would argue this special is way more for guys. I wanted to make this special for everybody. I pride myself in making my comedy for everybody. It’s not for a specific demographic.

I think if people would just give it a chance with not going in it and be like, ah, like girls like him, I think you’d like it. Here’s another one of those stories I didn’t expect at all. At the beginning of the Netflix Cup in Las Vegas, the TV cameras are on all of a sudden, Bird Kreischer is seen making a bee line to stop a woman who was protesting. The protester appeared to be holding up a sign urging a Formula one to cut ties with the I did a rod dog sled race. Yeah, a little twist there at the end there, Johnny Mac.

I didn’t think dogs led race Bird Kreisher was gonna happen as fifty one year old Berd Krescher grabbed a woman. She was screaming about more than one hundred and fifty dogs, and the cameras quickly cut away. Kays, you’re curious. The Netflix Cup is a series of events featuring golfers and Formula one drivers. Here’s another one I didn’t expect from The Daily Mail.

A millennium comedian disgeneration Z in her stand up routine. The routine was posted Monday on TikTok and fueled the age old war between the olds and the youngs. Who is at the center of this amazing controversy It is Eliza Slesinger, who apparently went on a four minute rant about gen Z and how they’re not nice to millennials. Eliza said, because yours is a context less generation made of soundbites and hot takes, you need to know a little bit about the history of my generation. We’ve taken it up the uh booty.

I’m cleaning that up a little. For our whole existence, we were told we were lazy, and then we could have everything, and then we got out of school if we could afford it, and there were no jobs and there were no houses, and then they said we couldn’t have avocados. A lot of us started doing weird stuff like wearing al jewelry and wide brim hats, moving to Brooklyn and making small batched lavender ice cream. She insisted that the millennials ate the ice cream because it was the food of our people. However, the pandemic changed everything, according to Eliza Slessinger and gen Z started saying stuff to us like, ooh, Millennials, why you so chewgie a word you invented.

Let me chime in here as representative of generation acts, you’re both ridiculous. Hi from old Bad Mountain. How many people just went f this guy? This podcast is stupid. Those of you who are still here, yeah, hear me, I love you back.

Slessunders told her audience she could tell people and gen Z were angry because of society, which was like a tirefire of an urban rummage sale. We’re angry too, but we have heartburn and our back’s hurt. But we’re right there with you. S Lessons are discussed what connectible nails and gen zs, we’re your older brothers and sisters who showed you how to smoke weed out of an apple. We are bosses.

Will give you the day off because your fife’s are retrogreed like, we get it. And she added the people who are over forty that wear their hair down with a part in the middle, you look like a witch anyway. Apparently the gen zs are very upset with that. Don’t do the other day, the New Zealanders were upset that John Oliver was meddling in their Bird of the Century contest. Well, congratulations to John Oliver and the Poudha Katiki again.

Hope, I’m saying that right as you know. It’s a threatened Australasian crusted grebe. The announcement for the annual two week contest winner was delayed by two days after the competition was inundated with votes following John Oliver’s announcement during last week Tonight. Oliver even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon dressed in a Poudha Kaitiki costume to promote the bird. The bird is known for carrying its young on its back, sharing chick rearing responsibilities, and eating its own feathers to induce vomiting as a method to expel parasites and as a course of grunt’s growls and barks, and engages in an elaborate set of mating dances, including the Weed Dance, where the birds offer each other water weed and the Ghostly Penguin where they rise chest chest.

The competition normally attracts just under sixty thousand votes. This year three hundred and fifty thousand votes, with two hundred and ninety three hundred and seventy four going to the Poudah katiki Or. Howard said thousands of fraudulent votes had to be weeded out, including forty thousand votes cast by a single person. Oh not for John Oliver’s bird. The forty thousand were cast for the Towaukee peaky Toca Eastern rock hopper.

Penguins say that five times fast I got it right. On Take three. New Zealand’s national bird, the North Island brown Kiwi, came second with twelve thousand votes. Again, the winner had two hundred ninety thousand, and the world’s only alpine parrot, the Clever key, third place twelve thousand, sixty votes. Forest and Bird Chief executive Nicola Toki said, we’re not surprised these German characteristics caught the eye of an influential bird enthusiast with a massive following good answer.

Oliver said, they’re weird puking birds with colorful mullets. What’s not to love here? A conservation project started in twenty thirteen has increased the population from a low of two hundred in the nineteen eighties to just under one thousand today. We haven’t been a gossip corner in a while. Apparently some fancy people were at Leonardo DiCaprio’s forty ninth birthday in La seen leaving the party together Olivia and Chris Rock.

The Daily Mail says they didn’t hide the fact they were leaving together. They were spotted having a great time and they jumped into an awaiting suv. A driver sped away, so fans of no indication if they were headed to the same spot where if Chris Rock was just hooking her up with a ride. Adam Sandler stopped by Drake University post with the men’s basketball team and shot some hoops. The Drake’s men’s basketball official facebook page shared some photos.

The university said it was great having the legend Adam Sandler stopped by the practice facility before he showed tonight in Des Moine. All Right, I caught up on some podcasts What Now with Trevor Noah. As I was listening to it, and I really like Trevor, I was like another interview show.

And then as I listened to it, I was like, you know what, this is a good inter…

The interview with the Rock was very interesting. Looking forward to seeing who Trevor has on today. I checked out Toss show. I went back and forth. I was like, oh, I’m excited for this.

And then I saw that guest one was quote my wife’s guynecologist, and I was like, play on it. And the opening segment surprisingly really funny, like way funnier than I expected. I was like, oh, this is really good. I’m excited about this one. And that was just the mess around with clips segment, and then the guest was his wife’s gynecologist.

I hit unfollowed not for me. All of a sudden, yesterday, Dan Soder tweeted, Hey, my new podcast is out. Dan Soder’s podcast is called Soda. Episode one is called Ejected from the Car with Big Jay Okerson. As a bit of a podcast expert, this looks like it’s homemade.

I don’t feel like there’s a company behind this. I feel like somebody who knows just enough about putting out a podcast just put this out. Not sure what’s going on there. If you are a new listener, and a lot of new listeners lately, welcome aboard. Sometimes comedy intersects with serious topics.

Lately it has been the Israel Hamas war. So I try to do those stories after the commercial break, because I know you come here for comedy, so I try and do the fun stuff up front and the more serious stuff in the back here. John Lovetts is criticizing John Oliver recently. On last Week Tonight, John Oliver exposed how US money, weapons, and training have boosted the suffering of the Palestinians at the hands of Israel. He played a clip of a Palestinian telling reporters about how his daughter was killed by American weapons in the hands of israelis Oliver commented that the made in America slogan that we’re also proud of is being strapped onto stuff that’s killing people.

John Lovettz took issue with the way John Oliver framed the issue on Twitter. I’m not calling it the other thing, John Lovettz tweeted, because it’s Twitter. Yes, the United States is aligned with Israel, our democratic ally, not AMAS, a terrorist organization who broke a two year cease fire, murdered at least twelve hundred in ac cent civilians, and took two hundred and forty civilian hostages back with them so they could start a never ending war with Israel and annihilate Israel and then Jews all over the world. Lovett’s posted again about Oliver’s clip, this time sharing an Israel Today article headlined hamas terrorist confessed to raping corpses beheading children. The comedian told John Oliver, please talk about this on your next show.

That brings us to awkward segue. Lewis black. He has announced the dates for his final tour. Lewis said in a stabman, I’m only retiring from touring. It’s time for me to explore other avenues, such as writing, reading your rants, and pitching TV shows that will be rejected, which is why I know they’re good.

More in Portland, I can finally give my fantasy football team the focus and time it truly needs, and maybe, just maybe I can become the professional golfer I was born to be. The tour is called Goodbye Yeller Brick Road like it. The final tour begins today in Troy, New York. He’ll be in Peak School tomorrow, Waterbury, Connecticut, and New London over the weekend. I’m not going to read you fifty dates.

This thing goes all the way so far into next May. He had said he would tour through the end of twenty twenty four, but some interesting dates here at the end May fourteenth. Amsterdam, yes, that one. Then Brussels, London, Berlin and Stockholm. Interesting choices.

The various friends paid tribute to Matthew Perry. It was interesting. One friend put out a statement, and suddenly another friend put out a statement, and the other friends were like, oh, we better put out statements too. I think this sequence went like this. I’m not sure if I have it one hundred percent correct, but I think matt LeBlanc went first.

On Instagram, matt LeBlanc wrote, it was with heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together honestly among the favorite times of my life. It was an honor to share the stage with you and call you my friend. I’ll always smile when I think of you, and I’ll never forget you. Never spread your wings and fly, brother, You’re finally free.

Much love than Courtney Cox posted, I’m so grateful for every moment I had with you, Mattie, and I miss you every day. When you work with someone as closely as I did with Matthew, there are thousands of moments I wish I could share for now. Here’s one of my favorites. To give a little backstory, Chandler and Monica were supposed to have a one night fling in London, but because of the audience’s reaction, it became the beginning of their love story. In this scene, before we started rolling, he whispered a funny line for me to say.

He often did things like that. He was funny and he was kind. Her video shared two clips. One was a clip of what aired on the show, and the other was a longer version that showed how close Cox and Perry were in real life. Then the next day, I think we heard from Jennifer Aniston on Instagram.

She wrote, oh boy, this one is cut deep. Having to say goodbye to our Maddie has been an insane wave of emotions that I’ve never experienced before. We all experienced loss at some point in our lives, loss of life or loss of love. Being able to really sit in the grief allows you to feel the moments of joint gratitude for having loved someone that deep, and we loved him deeply. He was such a part of our DNA.

We were always the six of us. This was a chosen family that forever changed the course of who we were and what our path was going to be. For Maddie. He knew he loved to make people laugh. As he said himself, if he didn’t hear the laugh, he thought he was going to die.

His life literally depended on it. And boy did he succeed in doing just that. He made all of us laugh and laugh hard. Then we heard from David Schwimmer. Schwimmer wrote, I will never forget your impeccable comic timing and delivery.

You could take a straight line of dialogue and bend to your wheel, resulting in something so entirely original and unexpectedly funny it still astonishes. And he had heart, which you were generous with and shared with us, so we could create a family out of six strangers. Schwimmer accompanied his caption with a photo of his and Perry’s characters Ross and Chandler in the Miami Vice inspired college attire. Swarm recalled the image one of my favorite moments with you now. It makes me smile and grieve at the same time.

Imagine you’re up there somewhere in the same white suit, hands in your pockets, looking around. Could there be any more clouds? And that’s your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Trevor Noah, Bill Burr, Bill Blumenthal, Matt Rife, Dane Cook, Emily Raskoff, Neil Brennan, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Seinfeld and Gaffigan arena show at United Center – are arenas too big for observational comedy?
• Trevor Noah leads South Africa tourism campaign called ‘The Best of Us’
• Bill Burr discusses pre-show anxiety and irrational fears while performing
• Boston comedy promoter Bill Blumenthal profiled – 20-year bet on comedy growth pays off
• Matt Rife mentored by Dane Cook, discusses rise through social media and crowdwork
• Debate over comedy arena boom – trickle-down effect for club comedians
• Neil Brennan on overcoming dependency on Dave Chappelle’s success after Chappelle’s Show

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Chicago Tribune had somebody over at the Seinfeld Gaffigan show at the United Center. Some of the topics marriage, brunch, vacation, children’s movies, horses, circuses, cemeteries, golfviser’s pets, having kids, submarines, and pop tarts. The Tribune says some topics that didn’t come up war, poverty, politics, racism, and inequality.

And the Tribune says that shouldn’t be surprising. Jim and Jerry don’t do statements. They don’t write around themes. They don’t take off a couple of years only to return transformed touting a fresh thesis. These are not those kind of stand ups.

And you know this early in a set, Jerry said, everybody’s sick of everything. Two hours of Seinfeld and Gaffigan back to back becomes a two man march against universal annoyances at a time when nothing feels universal anymore. Surrounded by footlights, taking the stage to Sinatra, they lent an air of throwback, minus the hackiness that that might imply. Seinfeld spoke with a painfully hoarse voice. At times he offered some nuggets of his personal lifeifications not his thing.

He said, let’s buy a lot of money to fight in a hotel room. When an audience member creepily writes The Tribune stood still at the lip of the stage for a long moment, then sprung forward and snapped a selfie, Jerry sounded amazed and said, look at the arrogance of this individual. Gaffigan joke that everyone thinks he has cancer because he’s lost lots of weight. In truth, he’s been taking an appetite suppressant. Turns out that all these years, all I had to do is take a weekly shot that killed depression inside of me.

They joke that they’re going to have a steel cage match with Steve Martin and Martin Schure at the Tribune rights, but neither plays arenas often, and you can see why. For Seinfeld, the cavernous United Center, echoing his jokes about nothing much at all, dreams a smidge of his chit chatty intimacy. Gaffigan’s goofy hush feels swallowed at times, even more muted than intended. Inside such a large space, it’s also harder to sustain a cascading breathless eruption of laughs when the audience is so scattered. Interesting take there in the arena.

Trevorah as a new title. He is the chief tourism comedian for South Africa. He’s leading a new tourism campaign entitled the Best of Us. The campaign kicks off with Trevor Noah walking poolside at a holiday home. Trevor addresses common misconceptions and queries he often gets about South Africa.

Let’s listen. Hi, I’m Trevor Noah and I’m South African, and because I’m South African, people from all over the world insist on asking me questions about South Africa. So I decided to make an ad to answer some of those fascinates and questions, like how cold and snowy is your Christmas? Well, Tracy, unfortunately we can’t afford snow. Now I’m just playing.

We’re in the Southern Hemisphere, which means when it’s freezing in Connecticut, it’s fantastic in Ktown. Klaus sent me this one. Can you play golf in South Africa? Well, Klaus, we actually have some of the finest golf courses in the world. Judging by your thirty seven handicap.

And you play golf. Trevor doesn’t just answer quirky questions. He highlights South Africa’s verse attractions and these sound awesome, like right up my alley, wildlife scenes in Kruger National Park, bungee jumping at the Blowcren’s Bridge, I won’t be doing that one, surfing in Jurban’s Golden Mile, shortcage diving in Gansby. Maybe I’m not into South Africa at all. I don’t want a bungee jump, nor do I want a shirtcage and high end golf courses along the Garden Route.

Hmm. I probably should have read that before I commented, I like the National Park stuff. I’ll sit on a beach. Bill Burr spoke to nik dot net about having anxiety before shows. Bill mentioned an irrational fear of his laces coming inside as he performs.

He explains that he would combat that by double knotting his shoes, but he was still scared. He was worried at full my career would be over. The Boston Globe profiled Bill Blumenerke, an event promoter of Boston comedy. Bill got quite the wax job from the Boston Globe. They wrote that blumen Reke placed a big bet years ago the comedy audiences would maintain an upward trajectory.

It was a gamble that’s paid off handsomely. Two thousand and eight, Bill signed a twenty year lease at the eleven hundred seat Wilbur Theater. Bill said, we used to advertise in the newspaper, on the radio. Now it’s all online, it’s all viral. Thirty five years ago, if a comedian played the night show with Johnny Cerson, that meant they could sell maybe another three hundred and forty tickets in Boston.

Now it’s aline all viral. The article then starts talking about some Boston comedians and we wind up with Dean Cook commenting on Matt Rife. Rife saw Dane Cook when Rife was fifteen. Rife sent Dane an email. Dane Cook told him to come to La after he graduated from high school.

Eventually, Dane Cook began mentoring Matt Rife took him on tour as an opening act. Dane said, not only was he extraordinarily funny and fast with CrowdWork, but he was starting to use social media in a real honest way. Dane Cook himself known for using social media twenty years ago, and Dane said, at that moment, I really felt like I was on a solo adventure. Nobody had broken through using technology. Part of the hoopla was who’s this guy that’s doing this.

That’s not so much the question today, when it’s almost expected that you’re going to take your stand up to an arena level. Boston based comedian Emily Raskowski thinks the recent growth of large scale comedy shows is a boon for the business, with a trickle down effect for club comics like herself. Emily said, anytime people level up to bigger venues, it opens up space for other people to also level up. Dane Cook warns of a gold rush. She says, I’m sure the heaviness, the gloom and doom of the twenty four hour news cycle made people want to get out and be part of something uplifting.

But I honestly think more of what a spawned this area has to do with the entrepreneurial nature of stand up. But Dane Warren’s there’s only so much revenue to go around. But if you’re good enough, if you keep growing with honest, enthusiastic entrepreneurship, I think a lot of people will get to the arena level. Matt Raife talking about his looks and said, yeah, I’ll play it. I’m young, dumb and cute card.

But then once you become twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, you’re an adult. People stop caring about what you look like, at least in comedy clubs, like are you actually gonna be funny? So now I’m at this point where I kind of hate that I did that to myself because I’m putting a weird position of like, yes, I have this massive fan base that is predominantly women, who are such a powerful fan base. They’re so supportive, and I mean, obviously, I mean look at that. I mean the ticket sales we did in forty eight hours is insane.

But then I have to sort through all of those fans to find, Okay, who are the real comedy fans who were actually here because they believe I’m a funny comedian. Big Think profiled Neil Brennan, who said, the biggest lie I’ve ever told myself is that I wasn’t capable of existing or thriving on my own. This goes back to two thousand and three. He was co writing Chappelle’s show, right and high. But that fell apart when Dave retreated to South Africa for almost a decade to hide from the preciures of press coverage.

Remember that, Yeah, Dave walked away at the top of his game. Somehow has gotten back to the top of the game. You don’t see that often big think rights, as the brain can so cruelly do. Brennan told himself that his success was only thanks to Chappelle, that he wouldn’t be able to cut it alone, a perception that nearly destroyed him. Neil Brennan said, I had an index card in my pocket of funny things that I’ve written or done, whether there were sketches on the show, or lines or whatever, things that I’ve done as a reminder that I had some worth.

I felt like if I was drowning or sinking, I could look at this and call off the dogs. In my mind. Right now, I’m a bit on the fence about how much of life is a solo endeavor and how much is healthy to invest in people. I’m spending a lot of time and energy on people who weren’t reciprocating, so now I’ve withdrawn from a bunch of them. I thought there’d be this hole where they were There isn’t Whitney Cummings special is out today.

It is called Mauthee. It’s on OnlyFans TV. Marlon Wayans was on The Breakfast Club. Maryland says he wants to get even more personal in his future stand up comedy specials and dedicate the next special to his trans son Kai. The special would be titled Skittles or Rainbow Child and would be about his daughter who’d transitioned to his son.

Maryland said, my daughter AMAI is now Kai, and so I talk about the transition now their transition, but my transition as a parent, going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance. I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message, and I know how I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me, but man, it’s one of the best funniest hours I probably could ever imagine. Lewis Black spoke to m Live and revealed in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, he spent time in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula helping to build a cabin. At the time, the area was known for its twenty five cent screwdriver cock tales.

Lewis said, oh mo, that twenty five cent orange juice in vodka can’t beat that. I always wondered why people live there, and the first time I sat down at the bar, I went, all right, I get it. Please don’t destroy as the Treasure of Foggy Mountain will be out soon. And they found the perfect person to play Ben Marshall’s dad. Ben Marshall’s dad played by Conan O’Brien.

Director Paul Burgranti said Conan was very excited and took it very seriously. We immediately thought of him, but we were nervous because he’s so important to us. But we asked him and he was like, I want to make sure you do a good job. Apparently Conan shared some wisdom with the crew, including relationship advice. That advice Conan said, don’t cheat on your partner.

Jason Sidekis will be back in Kansas City this weekend for his seventh annual Thundergong charity event. The benefit concert supports These Steps of Faith Foundation, which helps uninsured and underinsured amputees get the prosthetic limbs they need. The event will be hosted by Jason Sdeakas and will feature musical performances from his Ted Lasso co stars Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, and Sam Richardson. Will Forte A we’ll schedule to appear. Sadekas told The Hollywood Reporter that Hannah is very shy, very nervous.

She’s been taking hours and hours of vocal lessons to get ready for this type of thing. But it’s a joy to know that she’s willing to do it, and I love her to pieces for it. Sadeka’s has plans for his guests. We’ll try to get some barbecue in them, whether they want it or not. They usually do.

Then it’s getting the hotel and they’re always welcome to go to my mom and dad’s place and hang out there. Bill Angvall caught up with Fox and asked that you don’t go with the attitude of trying to cancel people or find something offensive. Bill’s promoting here’s your sign, it’s finally time. My last show that’ll premiere in December. Bill said comedy’s the best thing in the world, and to be able to go to a place and laugh.

Don’t go with the attitude that you’re going to try and find something that’s offensive. That’s what you’re wanting to do. And I don’t know where to tell you to go, but please don’t do it at a comedy show, because comedy is great. It’s very fun. It’s fun to laugh, and you feel better if you’ve had a great night of comedy.

So don’t put it under the microscope too much. Bill talked about life off the road. When I first started out in the business, I couldn’t wait to get on the road. You know, it’d be packed two or three days before I had to leave. It used to be that the show outweighed the road as far as the amount of fun I had.

I started realizing that the road was making it a little more difficult. I wanted to go out in my own terms. He said. Having grandkids was a big game changer. It seemed like I was missing out on stuff, the same kind of stuff I’d missed out with my kids.

I didn’t want to go through that again. I wanted to be able to really spend time with my kids and my wife and our grandkids. So I knew it was just one of those things that you just kind of know. Bill Speci will be on Amazon Prime Video December fifth, And that ‘s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell somebody about it.

They might like it too, And you can follow it for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, pocketcasts, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow

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Featured: Chris Rock, Daniel Tosh, Bill Burr, Matt Rife, Timothy Chalamet, Tom Segura, John Oliver, Weird Al Yankovic, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock recruits USC quarterback Caleb Williams for New York Jets
• Daniel Tosh launches new podcast ‘Tosh Show’ after Comedy Central cancellation
• Bill Burr’s wife Nia gives middle finger salute at UFC event with Trump
• Matt Rife discusses how physical attractiveness complicates comedy career
• Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Timothy Chalamet references Hamas in skit
• The Simpsons Homer-Bart choking controversy addressed by James L. Brooks
• Tom Segura announces ‘Come Together’ tour with World Central Kitchen charity component

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Chris Rock is trying to recruit USC Trojans quarterback at Caleb Williams to come play for the New York Jets. Chris Rock may have forgotten that they signed Aaron Rodgers. He’s pretty good at football, you know.

Social media videos show Chris Rock talking with Williams ahead of USC’s game against the Oregon Ducks. During the interaction, Chris Rock emphatically pleads for Caleb Williams to join the Jets next season. Rock said, that’s Jets, that’s who we want. Williams laughed. Rock said the Jets.

You want the Jets so bad. You don’t want to go to Chicago. You want the Jets. You don’t want the and he used the former name of the Washington NFL team. I’m not going to use that word, Chris Rock.

They currently go by Commanders. You use that other word, and it’s not Washington football team either. I digress. You don’t want that team. You want the Jets.

There’s no place you’d rather play than the Jets. Daniel Sash has a new podcast out today. It is called Tosh Show. Good name. This comes three years after Comedy Central canceled to Tosh Point.

Oh, so that’s where Daniel’s been. On Toss Show, Daniel Tosh will interview people from all walks of life and share his perspective on current events, as well as share glimpse in his own world. However, it will not be your traditional celebrity and comedian interview show, but Daniel Tosh will search out people who peak his curiosity, including his plumber, his stylist, his car guy, his wife’s gynecologist, his favorite drag queen, and more. He’ll discuss topics such as religion, travel, sports, and gambling. Been doing this a long time.

That description I just read you is telling me nobody knows how to describe the show. Daniel Tosh very talented. This might get by on talent alone, but I’m telling you I’ve been doing this for a long long time. That is an unfocused description. Tosh said, I’ve grown over the past three years.

Literally I thought it was six y three. Turns out I’m six to four. I think the listeners will appreciate my new perspective, a suit said with Toss Show listeners can affect a refreshing and fearless take on a wide range of topics. Again, I’ll jump in there once you start doing the generic wide range of topics. That means nobody knows what this show’s about.

A refreshing and fearless take on a wide range of topics from a beloved voice in comedy. We’re excited to share this hilarious, entertaining, and thought provoking podcast with listeners everywhere. Despite my negativity of the copywriting, I’m excited for this one. I have already become a follower. Got a bunch of many controversies for you today.

Bill Burr’s wife. She was at Madison Square Garden. She was not there to see Bill Burr. She was there to see the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In walks Donald Trump with Trump, Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock, Trump Junior, and Dana White.

That’s the guy that runs UFC. We find out Missus Burr apparently not a fan. In a video clip you’ll see all over social media, Missus Burr is seen frowning and gives a two finger salute, one finger from each hand. People are assuming this was about Trump. Maybe she’s just not a fan of Kid Rock’s music.

Huh More controversy. Matt Rife did a tick for Men’s Health magazine. On the TikTok, Matt Riife claimed that being physically attractive was not helping his career. I like Matt Rife. I find him very thoughtful.

I’ll chime in, being physically attractive isn’t hurting your career either. Raife said, people don’t want to laugh at physically attractive people. You don’t want to walk on stage and people looking at your arms rather than listening to your jokes. I think it just makes me work that much harder. Someone on social media wrote, I feel seen the struggle is real.

Riife doubled down on his comments. He went on The Today’s Show and said, I would say it’s harder because of the fact that this conversation is even happening, but the fact that I said it, and I’m doing Men’s Health magazine, which seemed like the perfect context to talk about the shape you’re in. I would say it definitely doesn’t help because people don’t like you. People assume your life is easier when you have all these good things going for you. There’s nothing funny about somebody living an easy life, or so you would assume.

So That’s why I would say it’s a little bit harder. You have to win people over more often. Again. I’ve listened to several interviews with him. I find him very thoughtful.

Saturday Night, I have er Kerfluffel. Took a couple days for people to notice that one joke referenced the ongoing Israel Hamas War. Timothy Shallomy was your host and did a skit with Please Don’t Destroy. Timothy played a character who’s an aspiring musician who wanted to end his life. John Higgins from Please Don’t Destroy says to the character, there must be someone or something you care about.

Challomey said, I guess it’s my music. Shallo May’s character plays a song for the group. They’re not impressed, but he asked them will you share it on Instagram? The group agrees and asks Chalomey’s character for his Instagram user name. He says it’s Hamas h a m As.

Martin Hurley from the Please Don’t Destroy guy says, yeah, dude, I’m not sharing a song by Hamas on Instagram. One Twitter user wrote that Timothy Shallamay snl scat about Hamas is actually one of the worst tone deaf and disgusting things I’ve ever seen more controversy the Simpsons. Is Homer going to choke part or not? People were upset that he wasn’t choking part. Well, maybe he is going to choke part.

Is that what you wanted? James L. Brooks told people nothing’s getting tamed. Nothing nothing nothing. Bart will continue to be strangled, if you want to use that awful term for it.

He’ll continue to be loved by his father in a specific way. Tom Segura as announced a new tour. It is called Tom Segura Come Together. In a statement, Segura said, this tour is bigger and blacker than anything I’ve ever done. But the name has already been used, but come Together gets the point across.

Let’s all come together for a night, one way or another. We’re gonna make memories on this one. Ticket Buyers in some cities will have the option to purchase a platinum charity ticket. S Agora will donate a portion of the platinum ticket sales proceeds to World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. The pre sale is tomorrow ten am.

Information at Tom Sagura dot com. Slash tour. Some of the cities won’t read them all. Let’s see what’s interesting here, Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, then Corpus Christi, Texas. He hits the South out in April, will be out in the West, and it all wraps up June fifteenth and Bengor Main John Oliver joked that the sex strike finally ended, meeting that movies will be back in production, although to be honest, I’m not even sure that I need movies anymore since this seventeen minute video was released of what I can only describe as a hamster Gatsby living its best life.

He then showed a video titled the Awesome Hamster Ballpool Maze. That video has gotten one point four million views on YouTube. John said, it’s a complete masterpiece, and it goes on for sixteen more minutes. I mean, Barbarenheimer was fine. I liked it fine, but let’s be honest, it’s just not as good as that weird Awl promised that he’ll be making some new music in twenty twenty four.

Al said, I don’t think there’s going to be like another bonafid weird Owl album per se, but I want to keep writing music whatever projects come up. I want to be able to write for TV and films and maybe the occasional single now and then. In fact, I will make a commitment I will put out at least one new single next year that got cheers from the audience. Adam Sandler showed up at the Milwaukee Public Market on Saturday, a couple hours before his sold out show. Market security guards’angelo was there and said, I was doing my normal patrols, walking through, scanning the area.

Then I noticed it was Adam Sandler. He was like, ah, you got me. Copper. Sandler took off his hood took some pictures with everyone. D’angela said, you rarely see a legend like that.

I’m used to seeing celebrities, but we saw a real legend. The last story in today’s podcast will be major spoilers for the newest episode of Rick and Morty. I will warn you before I dive into that story. And it’s not yet. Steve O has a new special out today, Steve O’s bucket List.

The official copy tells us if you thought Steve O was crazy before, then you’ll have to brace yourselves for his new act. Steve O told Deadline. I’ve bored my heart and soul into the show and I can’t wait to unleash it on the world. You’ll find it on steveo dot com. I’m seeing something labeled as the Sacramento Comedy Festival, but I think it’s just a show because I saw the exact same lineup being referred to as the Orlando Comedy Festival.

Whatever. This is. A star studded lineup of renowned comedians is heading to the Hard Rock Hotel and Sacramento. It will include Bill Bellamy, some more, Lavelle Crawford, and Don D. C Curry and again that same lineup as playing Orlando, So not really sure it’s a festival.

Fun story from Chicago Eater, two pairs of comedians go heads ahead in a battle that asks not only if they’re funny, but can they cook? Yes. It’s sawteed stand up, a mix of joke telling and food at TV Tropes that aims to set audiences on fire without literally burning the place down. And yeah, they got to be careful, they said, on our first show, we almost burnt the venue down twice. We melt it through two extension cords.

A right, be careful when you do sawted stand up. Here are the rules. Complete a dish alongside your teammate, three servings one per judge, typically a local chef or a member of the food media, while making the audience laugh during a ten minute stand up set. The team with the best dish wins, so even if your jokes bomb, you can still go home a winner. Teams are given an allowance they’re Friday before an event to shop for ingredients anywhere they want.

At showtime, a mystery ingredient is dropped on the contestants. Surprize ingredients in the past have been fish, sauce, butternut squash, caviare. With time, budget and equipment limited, controlled chaos often ensues. One of the creators said, we’ve had people on the show we don’t care about the cookie at all. They’ll make grilled cheese, but they don’t eat butter, and the cheese doesn’t melt.

They just do a really bad job. They’ll put cheese and bread and pan and moving around the pan for forty minutes.

Meanwhile, the chefs are people who normally are on stage, and when they’re o…

Whoa It’s so funny to see someone do the show for the first time and say something with the crown finds hilarious. There’s this looking their eyes. You could see it. Saus E stand up at the Lincoln Lodge Sunday. They hold shows the first and third Sundays of the month, and this one is a third Sunday.

You should go all right, gonna spoil Rick and Morty’s newest episode. If you want to be spoiled, you can check out now and I’ll see you tomorrow. Everybody else gonna spoil Rick and Morty? Are you ready? The Rick and Morty team talk to Variety about the spoiler, which is all right, I’ve warned you enough the death of a major character.

Plus it’s a new supervillain in unmort Ricken appears to be a standard Rick and Mordy adventure until Morty goes on a rampage, Don’s an eyepatch and becomes the figure fans know as Evil Morty. People have been complaining there hasn’t but enough Morty this season. Evil Morty is a super intelligent version of regular Morty. After previously ruling the Citadel, Evil Morty is now settled in his personal Fortress of Solitude, an entire arc compressed into a four minute cold open.

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Are you falling when all this a board? Jaded Evil Morty tags along as they discover Rick Prime has rebuilt the Omega Device, a super weapon that terminates all versions of its victims like Diane. Rick C one thirty seven kills Rick Prime with his bare hands, but at the expense of letting Evil Morty escape. Showrunner Scott Martyr said that episode would have been a series finale on a lot of show and I liked it. It was just an episode in the middle of one of our seasons.

We move at a really crazy piece. The demise of Rick Prime is being compared to the death of Logan Roy in Succession. Yeah, I guess, Although when the Succession episode happened, they had already planned this on Rick and Morty. Mortar said, animation takes so long. Co creator Dan Harmon said, I thought it was a great idea to lean into.

It gave me fives of the wire, learning throughout the first season that there’s different flavors of bad guy, and then you get the satisfaction of watching your favorite drug dealers against the one that had absolutely proven himself to be a meritless sociopath. The idea of team ups where it’s not as simple as I’ll put on a white hat, you put on a white hat, and we’ll go after the guy with the black hat. Harmon said, I think there’s still a conclusion with a story here, because the narcissists would tell you that destroying yourself doesn’t solve the problem. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell somebody about it, and you can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, you two, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Theo Vaughn, Joe Rogan, Whitney Cummings, Trevor Noah, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s Spotify contract expiration and potential move to X/Twitter
• Bert Kreischer discusses how podcasting changed comedy and gave comedians narrative control
• Grammy Awards Best Comedy Album nominees announced
• Whitney Cummings releases OnlyFans TV special ‘Mouthy’
• SNL sketches featuring Timothy Chalamet and Ron DeSantis portrayal
• The Simpsons responds to Homer choking Bart controversy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Bird Kreischer thinks podcasting changed the game, well, podcasting and social media. Bird said, when they kind of clicked, I think people fell in love with comics voices. I think people got to hear you and know you and feel like they’re your friends.

And that’s why people loved Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen, all of them, because they felt like they knew them. During the pandemic. It’s saved our lives. I mean it saved my life. But I think podcasting for comics gives them control over their own narrative of how they want to be represented to their fans.

Look at somebody like THEO Vaughn, who’s white hot right now. He’s always been funny as hell. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, a lot of Comedy Central digs lately, if you notice that, like a lot of Comedy Central digs lately. But if you leave it up to Comedy Central, they may not get it, and they may edit him weird. But THEO knows how.

Theo’s the funniest, so he sits in front of a camera and just theos it for an hour and people love him to death. I think he gave a lot of people way to use their own voice. Theo’s podcast is very easy on the ears. Grayshers said, I gotta say Joe Rogan was the one who was like, if everyone hating each other, we can help each other. When I started, everything was an audition to get a development deal, to get a whole deal.

Everybody was kind of crappy behind their backs to each other. It was a weird energy. If we’re not friends, but we worked together. Then when podcasting showed up, Joe started putting people on and we’re like, yeah, this is Burt. He’s funny, go see him live.

And all of a sudden, everyone’s like, what, yo, Aurried, you want to be on my podcast. Everybody cares about each other. We’re upfront to each other about how much money we make, what the clubs pay, We talk about ad sales on podcasts. It’s very different than when I started, and you couldn’t get someone to help you get past it. The seller speaking of Joe Rogan in your post was speculating that Joe Rogan may ditch Spotify for another platform, perhaps even joining Elon Musk’s x you Know Twitter after Joe’s contract with Spotify expires next year.

The Joe Rogan Experience is believed to draw eleven million listeners per episode. Joe reportedly has a two hundred million dollar deal. A Rets Research founder Richard Kramer told The Verge, it’s a situation where you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t. If you do keep Joe Rogan, Spotify will be locked into paying Rogan as much or even more than before at a time when they need to contain costs. But if you don’t keep them, that’s really tough because your biggest property and source of sales within the ad business walks.

Ashley Carman wrote about Joe Rogan for Bloomberg. She reports Joe Rogan’s appearance at a Spotify advertiser event in Austin recently suggests he’s gonna stay with Spotify, according to people familiar with the event, reports Bloomberg. Spotify flew podcast ad agencies and brand reps out to Texas for a full day of corporate sponsored fun. They were wind and dined. They went to the Grand Prix alongside Dak Sheppard, who schmoozs with guests for about forty minutes.

Later, the group eight in cahoots a private event space where Joe Rogan joined in. Joe hung out for forty five minutes, circulating the room, saying hi and taking photos with atten D’s. So we’ll see if Rogan stays. I had promised you if you don’t listen on the weekend, I had promised on Friday, I would talk about the Grammys on Monday in Today’s Monday. I actually did it on Saturdayday.

Normally I do the weekends in advance, but I hadn’t recorded Saturday, and the news broke and I was excited about it. So if you want to hear the Grammy discussion, that’s the beginning of Saturday’s podcast, which was really, really, really really robust for a weekend episode. The nominees for Best Comedy Album are Trevor Noah, I Wish You Would Want of Psykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, Someone You Love, Dave Tappell What’s in a Name Again? If you want to hear my analysis of that, go back to Saturday’s episode. Whitney Cummings has her Only Fans special out this week, and yes, I was on OnlyFans earlier researching comedy like I normally do.

Oh you don’t believe me here listen, I am seven months pregnant. If I got pregnant even a year earlier, I would have sold the baby for Taylor Swift seconds. I live in LA so I get an invite to a gender reveal party every month for the same kid special. Sounds like it’s pretty funny. It is Whitney’s sixth special.

It’s called Mauthe. It’s her first for OFTV, and it’s free on OnlyFans TV November fifteenth. Whitney recently spoke to Yahoo about the evolution of her comedy and said, your comedy should be concurrent with your evolution as a person. The idea is you’re the same person on stage as you are off stage, so hopefully you’re not doing the same kind of stuff twenty years later, because I’ll look back sometimes in my first or second special and I’ll cringe a little bit. I’m like, you know what, that’s who I was at that time, and that’s okay.

I also loved how Rodney Dangerfield gave the audience a joke to go home with you could go home and the next day tell a joke at the water cooler. I was want to make sure within my act there are a couple jokes that can easily repeat the next day at work and be the funny person, Like I saw the spars of this comic last night. Here’s this joke, and you get to make everybody laugh. There’s so many even if they’re not comics, there’s so many memes. There’s so many little one liners.

People send memes to each other every day, and they send these tweets. So now I’m gonna go a little more conversational. Now I’m gonna tell these stories that no one else can tell. I’m going to get more specific. I am going to get more personal.

Okay, you’re curious. I wound up seeing the Beach Boys on Saturday night. I was going back and forth, should I see Jimmy Card down on Philly or the Beach Boys right by my house? And around five o’clock, oh, a ticket popped up and it was in Rowe Jays. I had a really nice seat for the Beach Boys.

I’m a huge Beach Boys fan. Mike Love is eighty two and I’m like, you should probably go see him nudgs nudge, wink wink, Saintamore, know what I mean. I’d made a similar decision to go see Jimmy Buffett back in twenty twenty two, and I’m glad I did Mike’s hand a pretty good. I saw the Mike Love Beach Boys. I don’t know pre pandemic.

It might be ten years now, and Mike was starting to sound a little Kermit, but it was in good form on Saturday Night, so I enjoyed that. Oh and people are asking me how old the crowd was older than old? Your parents were there. I don’t know how old you are, but it was your parents, it was George Costanza’s parents. It was every old person, stereotype, senior citizens knocking people over, didn’t care.

I had a really good time.

Also on Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live, and Ron DeSantis now being playe…

In one sketch, a woman complaining to her doctor played by bow and Yang, that she’s been seeing a mysterious figure in her sleep every night. The doctor uses a new therapy to conjure the image while the woman is awake. Timothy Shalomey appears in a white tank top, baggy blue pants, and wavy blonde hair and says, I’m Australian YouTube twink turned to indie pop star and model turned hbo octor Troy Siven being played by an American actor who can’t do an Australian accent. The woman asks isn’t he kind of famous? And Bowen Yang says he’s gay famous, It’s different.

The Simpsons have responded to the notion that Homer has stopped choking Bort Simpson. Matt Greening has a duole. The image features Bart holding up a phone that says Simpsons, no more strangling. Homer strangles him and says, why you little clickbaiting. The producers also included a note that said Homer Simpson was unavailable for comment he was busy strangling Bart.

The nine hundred pound Gorilla was catching a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival. Some really really, really enthusiastic writing to the point where I was like, all right, who wrot this? Well? Who wrote it was Eric Farwell. Eric is a freelance journalist who’s been covering comedy since twenty fifteen with pieces in the Atlantic and Vanity Fair.

So okay, this isn’t somebody who just woke out of bed and went, let me write flowing things about comedy. So I’ll take this as a respected opinion. Eric Farwell writes, Eagle Wit ran a long set that proved just how great he is. Bad writing here would be to tell you he’s like Michael Jay or Sam Jay or nineties two thousand Chappelle or Chris Rock because really, egle Witt is his own frequency of comedian, engaging with cultural topics. Sure he is truly brilliant jokes that can seem edgy, and is also inviting intimacy and honesty in this work, Witt isn’t trying to position himself as the version was all the answers, but somebody who wants to Paris Sochet was next.

There’s a contest to see who New York’s funniest comedian is, and if that’s the only metric we’re going for, Paris should win. High praise there. Not only did she run material she’d never performed before, she made it look effortless and crushed so hard the writer says, I lost my breath laughing. She told one joke so dirty, I’m not going to share it with you. The confidence, it’s an absolute perfection of Sachet’s language and structure, made her time in Unforgettable ten minutes.

Eric Farwell writes, if you’re very, very very lucky, you’ll see Britney Corney perform stand up one day. There’s no one who can match her ability to be funny, interesting and illustrative on stage. Most of stand up is a version of the truth, but Corney has such a distinct voice in place she’s operating from that it feels like a one to one of actual experience to joke on stage. Her interest is history, language, and zoology, allowing her to weld academic panache, sweet nerdiness, and jokes so good it borders on sacrilegious. Well.

For example, she has a bit about dating records and the tempo of steel drum music that has a punchline that refers to her date as a pigeon of a man. Firewell wrights Jay Jorden was undeniable. In his set, Jordan has this great syncopated delivery as a Joe continues making a meal out of the end vowels without it impacting the rhythm. It’s so good that it becomes intuitive after his sets, the way earworms convince you this one song as the epitome of music. He’s getting too big for one borrow meaning Brooklyn and his getting ahead can only be good for comedy.

And then Gary Goleman took the stage. Sitting in the back, comics gathered behind me, writes, farwell to watch as I’ve always known comics to do with Goldman. Yeah, that’s side praise when the comics watch the other comics. Goleman is free on stage, not because he doesn’t care, but because he cares so much that he’s taken the time to learn how to harness and is something close to perfect. The crowd laughed at jokes about the intellectual anxiety, and in Oppenheimer screening Harlem and Jesus workshopping his speeches, what they heard was pure poetry.

The Only Times did a lengthy, very interesting interview with mo A mayor mo Is Palestinian. They discussed the current conflict Mohmayer said, the sad part is the fundamental issues have not changed. It’s not the first time Gaza has been under bombardment. It’s not the first time the West Bank is experiencing this kind of settler violence. It’s all elevated and heightened.

Of course, it’s not anything new, So it doesn’t shift the perspective on the show, meaning his wonderful television show MO as much as you would think. It just puts the pressure on us to make sure that we execute it to the best of our ability and we amplify the humanity of it all. We’re all realizing how incredibly important this show is. The fact that it’s literally the only TV show with a Palestinian family and a Palestinian lead co creator at the head, MO created a show with comedian Irami Usef, makes it super important to do this story justice. It’s an amazing opportunity to humanize and to create more understanding and to give people a point of reference.

All right, will the current situation be acknowledged? On season two of MO, most said, clearly, what happened on October seventh is a tragedy. Any loss of civilian life is a tragedy. Period While there’s no way to move forward and build a story without acknowledging what’s happening in the world, it’s awesome possible to know how things will unfold. I mean, what’s the world going to look like in a year when the show drops.

We can’t tell the future, but we could speak about the seventy five years that has build up to where we are now, and we’ll definitely be examining Israeli Palestinian relationships through our characters. The only times asked Moa Mayre on a personal level, how are you holding up? Most said, it’s been a whole month now, and it’s excruciating. Every day I wake up with a sick feeling of my stomach, but also with gratitude for what I have. I have an immense amount of worry for my people back home.

I’m worried about what this will all escalate into, because it seems like there’s no end to the violence. In the bombardment in Gaza. There’s been a lot of extremist settler violence in the West Bank. They’re armed and taking over town, so I’m deeply concerned about that too. The only time said, there’s that old adage that trauma is the bedrock of great comedy.

Mo said that all Palestinian should be hilarious. How about a ceasefire so we could turn in some scripts. Hollywood is waiting. We’ll make sure to get some good zingers in there too. Most comedy is fantastic.

Mo is a good show that one’s on Netflix doing that off the top of my head, very good show. A new comedy vertical is coming to streaming platform VEEPS, featuring new specials from David Cross, Brad Williams, Catherine Ryan and Reggie Watts. Not Bad. Veeps will also be the streaming home for sets from sketch Fest twenty twenty four. The upcoming specials are David Cross, Worst Daddy in the World November twenty seventh, Brad Williams Starfish on December twenty first, Katherine Ryan Missus November seventeenth and Reggie Watts in twenty twenty four and Blair soci Live from the Big Dog December first.

John Clees has been out and about a lot lately. He was talking about Monty Python’s Flying Circus and said the BBC just let us get on with it because it was so cheap and it went out so late, except when they were putting out the Horse of the Year show instead, which they did quite a lot. At the start, they didn’t bother to watch it, so there was no supervision. And it wasn’t because they were enlightened. It’s because we weren’t important.

Cleese is pushing back on our report that had said the new stage version of Monty Python’s Life of Brian would not include the famous scene where Stan, a member of the People’s Front of Judea, declares that he wants to be a woman and have babies at a live show. Clees had mentioned in the audience that had a reading of the script in New York the actors had objected to the scene on the grounds it was transphobic, but Clee said, but I never said I was taking out of the show, and suddenly there were debates on TV about it. He then told a story from nineteen sixty six about writers not checking facts. He said, I remember being interviewed by the Observer in sixty six and the writer has said that my father had been in the church, which is terribly funny and quite incorrect. But she’d misread her own notes in the church apparently looks very close to in insurance.

She apologized and said it didn’t matter if Kate. You’re curious why John clees and retire, he says the genuine reason is financial. After his third divorce, the settlement was twenty million dollars, John said, I’d like to buy a place in the sun before i’d die, or at least a place in the sun where I could be buried. There are a whole lot of things I’d like to be doing, reading, writing and thinking about and you can’t really do it when you’re busy doing interviews to sell tickets that your comedy needs for today. If you like the show, I want you to tell somebody about it.

They might like it too. Nudge nudge and wink wink. Know what I mean? Say no more. Fill the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, overcast podcasts See tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Matt Rife, Gabriel Iglesias, Trevor Wallace, Fahim Anwar, Andrew Santino, Sam Morril, Jay Pharoah, Kamil Nanni

What’s in This Episode

• Stand-up comedy market growth to $3.1 billion in 2023
• Nate Bargatze’s Amazon streaming record and Nashville arena sales
• Matt Rife’s viral TikTok success and Ticketmaster breakthrough
• Comedians’ debate on owning vs. licensing special rights
• Late Night TV’s evolution in post-pandemic era
• Jay Pharoah’s impression comedy and private school origins
• Kamil Nanni’s luxury watch collection

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big article about how stand up comedy has never been bigger. Comedians are setting records for attendance. Take Nate Pergadsey, for example, who earlier this year set an Amazon streaming record before going on to sell a record number of tickets to a show at Nashville’s Bridge Done Arena. Yeah, remember he sold one extra seat to break the record.

He also brought ESNL it’s highest rated episode of the season and easily the best episode of the season. They talk about Matt Rife, a quote young up and comer with ten plus years under his belt. Pick one, who hit the upper echelons of comedy seemingly overnight after blowing up on TikTok.

Also operating at the highest level as Gabe Fluffy Iglesias, who sold out Dod…

According to German data gathering platform Statista, I put a little Latin spin on that is Germans would say Statista, where they’d be like Stastata or something mean sounding. Anyway, those guys say yearly revenue from the comedy market in the US has increased from one point seven billion dollars in twenty seventeen to three point one billion in twenty twenty three. Paul Star’s top touring comic of twenty twenty two was Do you want to Guess? It? Was Sebastian Manescalco at over forty four point nine million dollars whoo.

Deadline spoke to a few comedians, including Trevor Wallace, whose debut special Terodactyl debuts on Prime Video November fourteenth. That’s Tuesday. Trevor says, stand up is cool again. I feel like ten fifteen years ago you would kind of go, oh, there’s comedy on the cruise. We could stop by.

But now it’s like all these clubs are packed every night. Fahim Anwar says, the way people were excited to discover bands, people are excited to discover new comedians, and that never existed before. The conversation turned to Late Night. Fahim said, Late Night’s great. I grew up with it, but it did feel a little more antiquated after the pandemic, right, there’s something about it.

COVID kind of accelerated its dissent, but it’s still fun. I don’t know it’s a story, Ki, It’s like baseball at this point. Fortune Fimestra ass what does Late Night look like going into this new era podcast or interviewing everybody all the time. So what they did that was unique, now everybody’s doing it in some fashion. Deadline asked the comedians about the trade off between licensing your stand up special or producing yourself and keeping the rights.

Fortune said, I think people have to decide what they want to do, what they want to invest in. Are they okay with paying for the production costs? This business is all about looking down the road. What’s the big picture. If your big picture is to make money off a special, then that’s not the way to go.

If your big picture is I want all these eyes on it, I want to sell tickets, then that’s an option. Andrew Santino said, you want to own your own material. I think the music industry taught us one thing about owning your own IP. Not to talk crap, but yeah, Comedy Central, for a long time you were kind of a slave to their game, and that worked at the time. But now it’s changing for the better.

So people get to own their own stuff, distribute how they want. That only opens us up for more opportunities. Whereas a movie in a sitcom deal was once the be all end all for comics, that’s not necessarily the case any longer. Faiman War said, I’ve been doing stand up and live long enough to see it change. It’s weird because the blueprint was the same for so long and things have changed at light speed in the last ten fifteen years, and I think it’s liberating.

I think it. But who’s the stand up comedian? Because back in the day you had to be the whacky neighbor on a sitcom or have a sitcom for people to come to see you do the road, whereas now that’s not the case. It’s almost a hindrance. I have friends and stuff who were on sitcoms and they couldn’t draw on the road just because pop culture is so fractured and segmented.

Now things are getting very very niche, so acting has become less integral to our job. Sam morel So the Columbus Underground. I wish I was just better at sitting in front of a computer and writing. Occasionally I’ll come up with stuff. I used to be really good at it.

Now I think a lot of my jokes come from just like walking around doing stuff and then I’m like, wait, this could be funny.

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And then sometimes I’ll just write it down.

And sometimes I’ll be with somebody and I say, and I kind of gauge your reaction, and either way, even if they don’t laugh, I write it down because if I think it’s funny, maybe there’s something I can do with it.

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And then I just throw it in like a word dock and try to punch it up, make it …

I’m pretty bad. Sometimes they get stuck in a routine and you’re just like airport. White comedians have so many airport jokes. Well, that’s where we are constantly, so you do need new experiences. I went out on vacation, which I never do.

You get some joke ideas out of that, a little open up different parts of your brain, you know. I never thought about that about the airport. Very insightful. The aforementioned Matt Rife was on Jimmy Fallon during the week. Raife talked about doing comedy for eleven years, not being able to get a special or get a TV show, not even being able to get on the Tonight show.

Raife said these things just wearing adding up and a certain point you go, am I delusional? Maybe I’m not funny, maybe I’m not supposed to do this, And then just one random video kind of changed everything. Raife said. He reluctantly began posting videos on TikTok At the beginning of twenty twenty two. He was invited to Just for Laughs in Montreal.

Later that year, an improv comedy show he started with comedian Paul Elia was invited to Just for Last Montreal, but not the Matt Rife part. Oh Ouch. Organizers told him he could perform, but they wouldn’t pay him for his work or pay for his travel at all. He sucked up his pride and went anyway. He had an edited video called The Lazy Hero ready to post, but was feeling pretty down, starting to wonder what the point was.

A friend told him go ahead and post it since was already edited. They went out for the night. The video went quote insanely viral over the next couple of days, got twenty to thirty million views. Where I’ve said, it’s been unreal. My entire life has changed in a matter of fourteen months.

I’m so grateful, going from playing clubs for thirty five people who got free tickets to breaking ticket Master is insane. Good for him. I’ve listened to a few interviews with him. He seems really grounded. Westward to ask Jay Farrow what inspired him to get in a comedy and do impressions, Jay said, I started doing impressions when I was six.

The kids at private school were corny. I would just roast and cook everybody because I realized, y’all aren’t gangsters. All your parents at Bentley’s and your members of the country club. There’s no gangster stuff going down with you. Once it game to that realization, I just started getting up in front of my friends to perform.

What are your favorite impressions? He says, I don’t really have a list, but I like when people asked me to do the obscure ones like John Mulaney, Jason Momoa, Jason Statham, or Joaquin Phoenix. I like those because they’ve been asked a million times to do Kevin Hard. I’ve been asked twenty million times to do Ddie Murphy. I’ve been asked forty or fifty million times to do Denzel and Barack.

So when I get a chance to do the weird ones, it’s much more rewarding for me as a performer. Apparently, Kamil nan Gianni has good watch game. This from the rob Report. Kamil was playing at the Ice House Comedy Club in Basadena and the robber Report noticed he was wearing a watch, specifically a two tone GMT watch reference number sixteen seventy fifty three, which, as you know, hails from the early eighties and mostly follows the design ethos of its direct predecessor, the sixteen seventy five, which debuted in the seventies. Yeah, everybody knows that, Robber Report.

Come on, everyone knows that. For those of you who don’t, both feature a forty millimeters stainless steel case that’s capped by acrylic crystal no kidding, a yellow gold crown and matching gold bezel ring. The dark brown nibble dial includes protruding hour markers alongside Rolex’s signature Mercedes hands and a cyclop state window at three o’clock. All that and circled, of course by a striking split colored brown and gold bezel insert that’s become synonymous with the root beer nickname. As you guys know, the sixteen seventy three five is no longer produced, but you can get a pre owned one via Bob’s Watches.

It will just run you twelve four hundred ninety five dollars. The Robber Report add if you want to complete the Camail Nanjiohnny look, who was wearing a blue knit polo, you can get that at Todd’s Nighter four one hundred and sixty nine bucks. Final day of the New York Comedy Festival. Zarna Garg plays Chelsea at three point thirty seven o’clock. Good Eggs presented by Mark Norman to Gary Veder and Matt Ruby.

That’s a Grammar seat. Brett Goldstein at the Beacon at eight, Andrew de Smuke’s at the New York Comedy Club East Village at eight, and a bunch of smaller shows. And once again I could delete a book mark. As I mentioned yesterday, my browser gets quite crowded. Steve Martin took to Instagram.

He’s happy that his book was banned by the Florida Public School System. Steve Martin instead so proud of my book Shopgirl Band in Collier County, Florida. Now people who want to read it will have to buy a copy. Tommy Tiernan shared a terrifying mid air experience. So there’s Tommy.

He’s on the plane, he’s minding his own business, and suddenly a passenger attempts to open the plane’s door. According to Tommy, he heard roaring and shouting before watching the person try to open the aircraft’s door were mid air. Tommy said the person in question shouted, I’m not a terrorist as he was tackled to the floor. Tommy said, I would suspect he’d either taken a drug a couple of days beforehand and was now in the horrors and wanted to get off the plane, or he’d taken something getting on the plane thinking it’d be great to crack, crack being an Irish slang term for fun. The edibles are everywhere in California.

The captain then made an announcement to inform passengers of an incident on board and was forced to reroot to Winnipeg. Apparently, the police handcuffed the man before removing him from the plane. Tommy said, we landed in Winnipeg and the police came on. He was a bit sad and concerned, but he wasn’t fit for flying. He was more than drugged and more than hungover.

He was a stranger to himself. He wasn’t right in the head. Everybody was relieved when he left, and everybody felt sorry for him. But once you start to open the safety door, you know, California was a treat lads. Tommy McNamara’s debut comedy special and new album Smoldering, now available on YouTube and via a special Thing Records courted live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn.

You can hear Tommy’s stories about free hot dogs leading to Diet’s Harry rock Bottom becoming a regular at the Shell Station, and bonfire misapps. Tommy McNamara Smoldering. I was checking out some clips. It’s pretty good. John Klees is at the Peoria Civic Center tonight.

I love the title of a show. It is called an Evening with the Late John Klees. The show’s framed as a funeral for John. He pokes fun at false reports about his own death earlier in twenty twenty three, Clees jokes, I died several weeks ago, and you’ve probably read about it in the papers. But fortunately I was able to rise again on a third day, which is an old trick which my maternal grandmother taught me which is very useful because I need the money.

John said, when I go out on stage, the people who hate me haven’t bought tickets. Only the people who like me have bought tickets. I always got a lovely, warm reception. If I made everybody laugh in the past, then I’ll make them laugh on the evening. In question, part of the show is a Q and A John said, a lot of the mask about Monty Python.

I’ll ask who my favorite python is and who’s gonna die next. There’s all sorts of dark humor that I enjoy, and we always get something about what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I looked it up, roughly twenty point one miles per hour. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, popc Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocketcast, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, Heather McDonald, Jeff Ross, Kelly Rizzo

What’s in This Episode

• Grammy nominations for Best Comedy Album 2024
• Johnny Mac’s critique of Netflix specials counting as comedy albums
• Bob Saget tribute benefit at New York Comedy Festival raising $1.2 million
• Dave Chappelle spotted performing at Comedy Cellar
• The Rock denies presidential aspirations despite poll showing 46% support
• Trevor Noah’s current tour material and comedic style
• Heather McDonald’s vaccine misinformation video and career impact
• Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with a very robust Daily Comedy News for a Saturday. In particular, the nominees for Best Comedy Album Grammy are out. The nominees are Trevor Noah, I wish you would, Wanda Sykes, I’m an Entertainer, Chris Rock Selective Outrage, Sarah Silverman, someone you Love? And Dave Chappelle.

What’s in a name? If you’ve been listening for years, you know I have a pet peeve about the best comedy album. My personal opinion is best comedy album should be, you know, an album. I know what an album is when I see it. They used to come on vinyl, then CD, then digital release.

To me, a comedy album is not a Netflix special. That’s something else. I’m not sure what the latest rules are, but as of twenty twenty one, the rules and guidelines for Best Comedy Album included album’s quote part as a video project. So the Grammys do not agree with me. I understand why they do this, but I don’t know.

I wish an album were an album. Let’s look at the breakdown. Trevor Noah, I wish you would. When I saw that I was like, wait, what, There’s a Trevor Noah comedy album and I googled it. It’s a comedy special that came out in video back in twenty twenty two.

Wand of Sikes. I’m an entertainer. I could see it winning, but I didn’t enjoy it. Chris Rock selective outrage could be a very pointed pick and would make the awards ceremony very very interesting. Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love?

I like that special lot. Dave Chappelle, What’s in a name? Are we going to give a Grammy to Dave Chappelle and open up the whole transgender conversation again? That could be interesting. If you are curious what has won in the past, let me remind you last year Dave Chappelle for The Closer.

The year before Louis C.K. So it’s not like the Grammys are afraid of a little controversy. Could Chappelle go back to back? Tiffany Attis in twenty one, Chappelle in twenty twenty, Chappelle in twenty nineteen, Chappelle in twenty eighteen, Wow, Pat Oswald talking for clapping in twenty seventeen c K and sixteen weird Owl Mandatory Fun in fifteen. I did like that album a lot.

I’m not gonna call that a Lifetime Achievement Award. That was a very very strong album by weird Al twenty fourteen, Kathy Griffin Calm Down Girl twenty thirteen. I’ll let you guess. For ten years you will never remember what won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty thirteen. This beat out Lewis Black, Jim Gaffigan, Kathy Griffin, A TENACIOUSD You’re Winner in twenty thirteen, Jimmy Fallons Blow Your Pants Off CK one in twelve, Lewis Black and eleven.

Stephen Colbert A Colbert Christmas won in twenty ten. What a weird pick That beat out Kathy Griffin, George Lopez, Batten Hossballd, Spinal Tap, Back from the Dead, and a weird Al Internet Leagus album George Carlin won in two thousand and nine. George passed away June of two thousand and eight. Flight of the Concords in two thousand and eight, Lewis Black and O seven, Chris Rocks Never Scared in O six two thousand and five. John Stewart in the cast of The Daily Show for The Daily Show with John Steward presents America a Citizen’s guy to democracy in action.

That’s a terrible pick. The other nominees also terrible, Ellen de Generous, Al Franken, David Sedaris, and Triumph. I probably would have given it to Triumph two thousand and four, Weird Owl’s Poodle Hat two thousand and three, Robin Williams Live on Broadway two thousand and two, Carlin two thousand and one, Carlin two thousand, Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, and we don’t need to go back to last century. At the New York Comedy Festival, the Scleroderma Research Foundation at its Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine tribute to Bob Saget they raised more than one point two million dollars for the SRF. Congrats.

Jeff Ross kicked off the night, then Ronny Chieng went up, Nikki Glaser, Michael Chay, two of the Counting Crows did a rendition of a long December great song. Singer Adam Duritz shared that was a favorite of Bob Saggett. Bob’s widow, Kelly Rizzo said the fact that everybody’s still showing up for Bob means so much. We’re all trying to do our best without him. Jeff Ross said, I miss Bob.

We’re keeping his name alive. If you knew Bob, the real Bob was the guy who hosted this event. You never saw Bob cry unless it was at this event. See the inside of Bob is hard. At this event, he had a passion for the Sclidermer community.

He’d be proud of this tonight. He’d be proud of Kelly, his nephew Adam, and his daughters. Dave Chappelle spotted outside the Comedy Seller on Wednesday night. Apparently Dave popped in and did a set. The Daily Mail didn’t report on the set at all, but they said Dave stood under the Comedy Seller’s sign in a blank tech top that showcased his chiseled arms.

Dave wore a silver and black luxury wristwatch. I challenged you to say luxury wristwatch even once. I can’t do it. You have no idea how many takes I just took out. The comedian sported a shaved head and had a chain dangling for his neck and grinned while posing for a photo with DJ Seipher sounds The Rock says he really doesn’t want to be the president.

There was a poll that said forty six percent of Americans would vote for The Rock. The Rock was on Trivor Noah’s new podcast, and The Rock says, that was an interesting poll that happened. I was really moved by that, and I was really blown away. I was really honored. At the end of the year in twenty twenty two, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run and if I could run.

It was a big deal that came out of the blue, and it was one after the other. They brought up that poll. They also brought up their own deep dive research that would prove should I ever decide to go down that road. But The Rock told Trevor Noah, matter of fact, there’s a lot of things about politics that I hate. The Minneapolis Star Tribune caught Trevor Noah’s show at the Orpheum.

The heart of his current act. They tell us consists of stories about MLK, Junior German history, Columbus Day, and national anthems. One bit apparently hinged on knowing at least a little about Andrew Jackson’s treatment of his slaves, they write. His delivery is as gutsy as his choice of material. Most comics panic if they go twenty seconds without getting a laugh.

Not Trevor. Noah. He’s willing to dedicate more than a minute to setting up a joke, a risky stunt that paid off over and over again. During a lengthy Q and A at the end, he responded to questions about his love life, Donald Trump’s legal troubles, and Trevor’s decision to wear a shirt from H and M. Pathan McDonald is like super hot lately told you the other day somebody had named her like the comedian to watch, or the next great Thing, or whatever she was deemed.

ABC News caught up with her. She talked about launching a podcast after she heard a fellow comic a launched a podcast to get his name out there and sell more tickets. Heather said, I was like, if a podcast can help do that, I’m gonna do that, and she launched Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald back in twenty fifteen. Heather strives to be anything but divisive, but despite her best efforts, she found herself in the middle of a debate about the coronavirus vaccine after she collapsed during a twenty twenty two stand up set in Arizona. Footage of her fainting was used in a video compilation that pedaled misinformation about vaccine side effects.

Before she collapsed, Heather jokes she had never contracted the virus. Heather says, I fainted right after that, and I have never fainted before or after. She says she still hasn’t had the virus and is indeed vaccinated, and says the video has done nothing but hurt my career because the pro vaccination people think I’m like a puppet for the anti vaxxers, and the anti vaxxers call me names for getting vaccinated. I say, everyone make decisions for themselves, and I have no say in the matter. The Flyover Comedy Festival wraps up in Saint Louis today.

They have a wonderful grid where you can see all the shows on one nice screen. I wish all comedy festas would do this. Some of the more famous people today seven o’clock Jeff Ross, nine o’clock Janelle Jeames, and ten o’clock Shane Tours. There are a bunch of other shows. It looks like that was a really good festival.

I can now delete the bookmark. My browser tab gets quite full with all these festivals. Let’s go to this other bookmark the New York Comedy Festival. See what’s going on tonight. The second Saturday of the festival is usually the big big nights.

They don’t have a grid, so I have to scroll down. Todd Barry is at the Bell House at four point thirty. That’s a cool time. I don’t know what I’m gonna do tonight. The Beach Boys are playing by my house and Jimmy Carr is down in Philadelphia, and I’m tempted to do both, and there’s a good chance I do neither, because I am so wiped out from last weekend’s event, which I won’t mention.

David Kegner plays Chelsea Music Hall at six thirty. Donnell Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven. It’s Goo on Coska seven o’clock, Town Hall, Brett Goldstein Beacon seven o’clock. So many good shows. Shamilton and Improvised Hip Hop Musical at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective at seven, Steph Tolv at the Bell House seven thirty.

Irene to Hew at Union Hall, seven thirty Nathan McIntosh The Down with Tech Tour, Grammercya seven thirty, Mittel Lane, Carnegie Hall, eight o’clock Matteo Lane can Fill Carnegie Hall. Wow Wow, I would have bet a dollar against that. Sophie Sucker’s Sophie Sucks Face, Brooklyn Comedy Collective eight thirty. David Keckner, Chelsea Music Hall eight thirty, Otsgo Again at nine thirty, don Ell Again at nine forty five, D’ll say Sloan Grammar Sya ten thirty. The LA Times has been standing up for LA Comics at the New York Comedy Festival.

They want us to go see Nicky Paris, who’s at the Lori Beachman Theater at nine thirty. Before moving to LA in twenty eighteen, Staten Island native Nicky Paris only dreamed of headlining the NYCF Fresh to Stand Up as a teen. His love of Joan Rivers brought him to the Lorie Beachman Theater one of her workout rooms as an audience member. Does that math work out? How old is Nicky Paris?

All right? It here as Nicky Paris was born Christmas Eve of nineteen ninety two. Jon’s been gone a minute? Now, when did Joan die? Joan passed away twenty fourteen.

So if Joan did a live show, say a month before she passed away, and you were born in nineteen ninety two, you could be twenty two and see Joan Rivers. Okay, the math does work out, Johnny Mac, why don’t you shut up and leave Nicky Parris alone? Separate from the festivals, Rory Scovel is taping his next special tonight at the Cows Center in Minneapolis. A lot of Minneapolis talk this week. Neil Brennan’s at the Fonda Theater in la also taping a special.

Marlon Wayans also also also taping a special at the Apollo. And is that not part of the New York Comedy Festival. There’s a move. I’m gonna take my special in the middle of the festival and not be part of the festival. But the festival had other shows at the Apollo.

But I just regular list. I didn’t see his name there. Who knows? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube.

If you’re new, I do the seven days a week. If you’re not new, tell a friend about it, you apparently like it. You’re still here, See tomorrow.

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Featured: John Oliver, Lewis Black, Gary Gulman, Dina Hasaim, Sebastian Maniscalco, Eddie Murphy, Jimmy Kimmel, The Rock, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• John Oliver’s Bird of the Century campaign in New Zealand
• Lewis Black announces retirement from touring
• Gary Gulman’s new special ‘Born on Third Base’ on Max
• Dina Hasaim’s special ‘Derek Little Whispers’ on Amazon Prime Video
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s new show ‘Bookie’ on Max
• Eddie Murphy’s ‘Candy Cane Lane’ movie trailer
• Presidential debate comedy reactions from late night hosts

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust one today, especially for a Friday. Fridays are often a little light. Let me start with one that’s making me laugh.

From stuff dot co dot New Zealand, your home for comedy news. Southern tourism company real Endz is calling foul on a campaign encouraging foreign citizens to meddle in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century vote. Ha ha. John Oliver has posted billboards encouraging support for the Puda Katiki hope. I said that right on the streets of Tokyo, Paris, London, Mumbai, Brazil, and a small town in the US state of Wisconsin, you only need an email to vote on this.

So thousands of people have followed John Oliver’s lead, giving the endangered bird, also known as the Australasian crested greebe a chance of flying away with the wind. I love the copywriting here stuff. However, the real enz crew says the campaign’s not over until the kakaiky karaka sings. This is not an easy article for me to do, you see. Real Enz has spent a year fundraising in support of the kakaiky Karaka, raising one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.

Unsure which currency that’s in, but it’s still out of money. Right now, it wants New Zealanders to join its campaign Real Enz Chief Revenue Officer Scott McNabb has named his campaign Dear John McNabb said, we simply cannot allow one international check to commandeer our efforts. So we wanted to send a little message to John Oliver. The tiny but mighty amongst us need all the support they can get. We encourage all Kiwi’s, or rather New Zealanders, to get their votes in whichever feather they fancy.

This competition started in two thousand and five. It was run by Forrest and Bird, who decided in twenty twenty three it would seek to find the bird of the Century to celebrate its one hundredth year. That’s silly fun, all right. Lewis Black is going to retire from touring. Are we all getting old?

Ron White did this? Billing vall did this? Now Lewis Black retiring and we’re I don’t know, I guess this is a thing. Now comedians declare they’re retiring. Lewis Black is now seventy five, and he says his dates at the end of next year will be his final touring dates.

Lewis shared this news on his podcast, also posted the clip on Instagram, saying I’ve said this to people and it doesn’t seem to get through to them. What do you mean you’re retiring? Listening to the end of the sentence, I am retiring from touring. Really, I’m not making this up. I’m not gonna come back and tour again.

I’m going through to the end of December next year. Well, I continue to perform, yes, but I will literally perform from time to time. If you want to see me on the road, you better hurry. Final tour date’s coming soon. It’s already been four years since Gary Goleman’s The Great Depression premiered on HBO.

Well Gary Goleman as a new special to debut on Max, this one, called Born on Third Base. In Born on Third Base, Gary Goleman offers up his insights on a range of topics, from growing up poor to pretentious suffixes, while chronicling his childhood experiences with free school lunch programs and questionable densal care. The stand up makes an incisive swipe or two at billionairesm Gary Goleman said, I’m thrilled to be working with the Max team again along with Conan, who have admired for thirty years. Exactly, very honored and grateful to have this special is a doozy. Can’t wait for people to say nice things about it.

Conan, one of the producers on this. Dina Hasham as a new special out today on Amazon Prime Video, this one called Derek Little Whispers. Let’s listen to a clip. Huh, my dad left when I was very young. If you see a woman holding a microphone, her dad is gone.

I man have problems too, right in fact, clap if you’re a straight white man right now. Please clap if you’re thank you. Yeah. Did it feel nice to be heard right there? You know, we don’t hear enough about the bigotry against quiet people.

We just need more voices raised about it because we can’t do it ourselves. Dina was asked what draws quiet people to get behind a microphones start doing in comedy. She said, I don’t think quiet people are really quiet. I think it’s usually they have a lot of thoughts going on, but they either have anxiety or didn’t grow up in a place where they felt safe communicating with the people around them, and so they just kept everything bottled up. That’s why something like stand up can be so revelatory.

It was the first time, at least for me, that I was able to find a place to express things that was comfortable to me where I was immediately rewarded for it. With the Internet, you realize it’s impossible to really come to an understanding with people. With comedy, there’s a little treat for them. They get to laugh as well, there’s a reward for listening, and so it breaks through to people in a way that few things do. I hesitate to call it art, but it’s like that.

To really change someone’s mind, you have to do it in an oblique way. She was asked if there are topics that scare her, and her answer, I guess it’s tricky with the religious stuff, because a lot of my jokes about the way I grew up tend to be sort of skewering religion. There’s a risk of the wrong type of audience hearing that and then using it as an excuse to be prejudiced or racist. I guess my fear is being misinterpreted in a way that ends up hurting people. I’d never want someone to hear my jokes about Islam and then be like, see, those people are bad.

So it’s a tricky line. But I also don’t want to censor myself and deny the experience that I had. All these stories I tell are true, there’s obviously nuance to it, and that’s hard to communicate with each joke. You just have to hope that people are listening with good faith. Sebastian Maniscalco has a new show called Bookie.

This will be on Max Thursday, November thirtieth. Max dropped the trailer, Let’s listen, and the guest store in this scene is Charlie Sheen. You are correct here? What if I make this right with some baseball memorabilia? Guys, I’ve got bab Ruth’s autopsy for now.

I’m gonna tell you something I never told a client ever. You shouldn’t been on sports. Bookie Thursday, November thirtieth on Max. Two episodes out that day Bookie stores. Sebastian Maniscalco is Danny, a Los Angeles BOOKI whos struggling to stay a foot as he faces down the impending disruption of his business as California looks to legalize sports gambling.

Seems like that would be a good idea for a show, and it’s correctly cast. Now. I was thinking about Sebastian. Earlier in the year, he was pretty hot and then the movie This year around Easter, Sebastian has cooled off a little bit. But this feels like right person, right show, right TV network.

I know it’s Max streaming, don’t bog down on that, but yeah, I think this one would work. We also got a trailer for Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane. Quick clip here, everybody, listen, this is important. I’m going to show you, guys something. And when I show you what I’m going to show you, don’t freak out.

In Eddie Murphy’s Candy Cane Lane, which I’ll tell you description a second. This screams Adam Sandler to me. I don’t know why this isn’t an anim Sandler movie. This screams Sandler. Candy Cane Lane follows a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s Christmas decoration contest?

Is that not a sailor movie? When the man inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf who brings the twelve days of Christmas to life, wreaking havoc on the town. Oh no, that one will be on Amazon December one. The presidential debate Wednesday night touched into the comedy world a little bit. Jimmy Kimmel joked Chris Christy, Ronda Santis, Nikki Hally, vivek Ramaswami, and Tim Scott.

It’s a who’s who of who has no chance to beat Donald Trump. Fallon. It was quite a night. There were five candidates on stage, three moderators asking questions, and two people watching at home. Kimmel with an absolutely terrible joke.

Again, I’m sure as a professional joke tailor he told it much better than I’m about to. But this is terrible. Putting the Republican debate on opposite the CMA Awards, it makes no sense. It’s like putting lasagna up against a Swedish meatball. That is terrible.

But he redeems himself with this one. But for these five Republicans, the stakes were higher than the lifts and a pair of Ronda Santis’s boots. Love it nice, simple joke, good premise, not too harmful. Great, No buzz on Sarah Silverman hosting The Daily Show this week. I guess she’s not throwing heat on the Israel Hamas war, but not really seeing anything out of the Daily Show.

I’m surprised by that. The Debate also mentioned it. Joe Rogan. Vivek Ramaswami said, think about who’s moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson.

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk would have ten times the viewership. Politics aside, that notion of a debate with anybody debating being hosted by Rogan, Musk and Tucker Carlson, that probably would do ten times to viewership. So I don’t think that notion is crazy. It is called show business. Would you like to own the Late Show with David Letterman Marquis?

You know the blue and yellow one that was outside the Ed Sullivant Theater. Well enter a sweepstakes benefiting Habitat for Humanity for a donation of ten dollars or more. Anyone can enter the sweepstakes at giveaway Dave dot com until December thirty first. The grand prize also includes a trip to New York City to meet David Letterman and Paul Schaeffer, Johnny Max Goutt, you had another clip for you today. Let’s listen to Dave and Paul.

Hi, everybody, I’m giveaway Dave and this is my friend giveaway Paul. Nice to see it, Nice to see you, Paul. Giveaway, Dave, giveaway Paul. WHOA, what’s going on? Well, we’re giving something away.

That’s what I was hoping you would say. Yeah, what is it? It’s part of the old Marquis that was on the Ed Sullivan Theater building forever and it’s huge, says The Late Show with David Letterman. And not only that, we’ll get it to your home. We’re all getting older.

Man. Dave looks old with the big beard, and I noticed Schaefer is doing a little that esh thing that older people do sometimes with I don’t know if some teethwork had done. Not making fun of Paul, just observing. The Grammy nominations will be out this morning. I’ll discuss that on Monday’s podcast.

And I’m always fascinated by who gets nominated for Best Comedy Album. And if you’ve listened last few years, you know I get my nose in a crinkle about what is an actual comedy album and what is really just a Netflix special. So we’ll see what comes out on the list. Let me look at my list of the top twenty five of the year and see if I can guess here in advance. Chris Rock will get nominated for that live special that was a big deal.

John Mulaney will get nominated for his special because there’s so much press around that. Jim Gaffigan almost always gets nominated.

And then let’s say Marin Santino, Kevin Hart, Nate Bergatzy nice safe choice.

All right, we’ll see what they come out with. I’ll talk about it on Monday. It is the weekend of the Flyover Comedy Festival that’s happening in Saint Louis this weekend. Some of the performers Janelle, James, Sheng Wang, Jeff Ross And what I like about these guys they know how to do a schedule. They must listen to the podcast be like, oh, Johnny Mac will hate us if we just put things in alphabetical order.

Why don’t we put things where he can look by time? They have a wonderful, beautiful grid at Flyover Comedyfest dot com slash schedule. You can even download a PDF version do you know how happy that makes a podcast host. I can look at this in all one spot. We can even play that.

What should we go see? Game? Yes, seven o’clock. There are three shows we’re gonna go see. Zach Zimmerman and I’m Intrigued.

At eleven thirty tonight, the karaoke after party at the Improv Shop Bar. No real big names here today tomorrow Jeff Ross, Janel, James, Shane Torris. We’ll talk about that tomorrow.

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Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival continues.

They also have a website that goes by date order, although they don’t have a nice grid. I think everybody needs to do a nice grid. Make this easy on. Johnny Mac. So, I’m on the New York Comedy Fest a website here, babbling as I scroll down, live as you was listen to me, babbel as I scroll down.

I finally got into the eleven ten part. Let’s see what’s happening tonight Steve O’s bucket List with Live Q and A at the Grammercy Theater at six thirty. Donnel Rawlings at the hard Rock at seven, Brett Goldstein Second Best Night of your Life, Great title at the Beacon at seven, Jessel Nick seven o’clock, Carnegie Hall, Wow, Michelle Wolf, Town Hall seven o’clock. Wow. A really funny titled America’s Next Top Bottoms at Club coming at seven thirty.

Some of the performers they are Mary Beth Barone and Sabrina Wo Bill Burr at the Garden at eight o’clock and I think that’s the Garden Garden. Second City Live nine thirty at Chelsea. Donnell Is a second show at nine forty five. A Tell and Friends at town Hall at nine forty five. Tim Dillon at Carnegie Hall at nine forty five.

Zach Schiffman has a show called Taylor Swift the Eras Tour. That’s at ten o’clock at the Little Field. Joel Kim Booster at the Bellhouse at ten. Boy, what a great night? Huh?

What would even go? See? Cori Elly Pete Corielly, my friend, That’s why I said, Corielly, Pete Corielly at the Grammar Sea at ten thirty. Absolutely great night. I’m gonna go with the Daily Beasts recommendations.

They say go see Tim Dillon and Anthony Jessinic at Carnegie Hall two back to back shows. You don’t have to move great venue. I know you’re passing on Burr and whoever else they just mentioned, but that would be the move tonight Jesslink, then Tim Dillon, depending on the news cycle. Since I’ve recorded this, it looks like the actor’s strike is over. A new deal reportedly comes one hundred and eighteen days after the actor strike began.

Reported deals to go to the National Board for approval. Today, Trevor Noah’s podcast What Now with Trevor Noah is out. The first guest was is the Rock? Trevor said, it’s fascinating to speak to the person who was trying to raise money for the Maui wildfires and then experience the backlash he did in a way that some people completely understood and other people completely didn’t. What’s that like from the inside.

Has the person processed the information? What do they think about it? I haven’t had a chance to listen to that one, but like I said yesterday, I really like Trevor Noah. Joe Coy is taping his special today and tomorrow at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn. Joe Koy is signed to do two more stand up specials with Netflix.

I guess this is one of them, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, where you get your shows. If you like the show, tell somebody about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Mike Epps, Taylor Tomlinson, Hasan Minhaj

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah launches ‘What Now?’ podcast with long-form conversations
• Bill Burr defends Bill Belichick against Patriots criticism
• Mike Epps honored by McDonald’s as alumni, promotes new HGTV show
• The Simpsons removes Homer-Bart strangulation gag after four years
• Late night hosts joke about Republican debate and WeWork bankruptcy
• Ivon Orgy discusses pressures of being a 39-year-old virgin while dating

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the debate last night? Jimmy Fallon pointed out that CBS had the amazing race and NBC has the opposite. Jimmy Kimmel said, Chris Christy, Nikki Helly, vivek Ramaswani, Tim Scott, and Rond De Santis.

What a lineup. It’s like if all the Avengers were Hawkeye. Sarah Silverman was joking about we Work going out of business and said, we Work went from a forty seven billion dollar company to bankruptcy somewhere out there. Elon Musks going Oh challenge accepted. Trevor Noah’s new podcast is out today.

It’s called What Now. The official description listeners can hear Trevor going deep with his guests, including entertainers, CEOs, actors, athletes, and thought leaders. In each episode of the new pod, Trevor Noah will have an extended discussion with a single guest. They did not announce in advance who the first guest would be, and I did not get up at three am this morning to find out. But it’s out there now if you want to check it out.

Trevor, Noah Tild Variety. We’re very lucky. We have a mix of massive stars as guests and some people who nobody knows. Not everybody you speak to us to be a superstars. Somebody will be Number one of the box office, somebody will be a scientist.

It will change how we live for the rest of our lives. The main thing I can say to you is expect to be in some way, shape or form, entertained and engaged. Trevor said, I’m not going to create an echo chamber. It’s a space for dynamic conversations. There’s no denying that many of us, and I mean on many levels, creators, public figures, and individuals have created echo chambers in their lives.

We cease to have conversations with people we don’t agree with. We don’t interrogate our own ideas because we’ve grown comfortable with them. That limits our ability to think and grow over time and create connections with other people. I don’t think I’ve met a single human being where I don’t agree with them on something. Does he miss the Daily Show?

Trevor said, Oh, I miss the people on a lot of the show. But in life you sometimes have to let go of something to grab another thing. My biggest takeaway is how much I enjoy having long form conversations with people, which seems like something you would say when promoting a podcast about long form conversations. Trevor’s excited about the podcast format. Not only can they be longer conversations, I don’t have to worry about cutting away because of time, meaning those commercial breaks that come set times on TV.

I could beat a space where I can make the show as long or as as short as it needs to be. Each episode is expected to run about forty minutes, which he said is about the average commute time. Trevor, who put that in your brain? There was a study out this week. The average commute time in the United States right now is twenty seven minutes.

It’s longer in certain cities, for example New York, Los Angeles, some of the bigger Texas cities, but on average it’s twenty seven minutes. I don’t know what executive told you forty minutes. It might be one of the executives who let me go from my old job. Let’s not go there, John Trevor said, I never want to make something too long. I always like to make something I would also be willing to listen to.

There are moments when it’s funny and there are moments when it’s very serious. What people should expect is my life. My filter on the world is everything is imbued with some things that are funny and some things that are serious. So it sounds like there’s a bunch of these in the can already. If he’s saying there are moments when it’s funny and there are moments when it’s very serious.

How many of you pre recorded, Trevor? How topical is this thing? And I like Trevor Noo a lot. I always find myself laughing with a person that doesn’t mean the conversations are frivolous or trite. When I was growing up in South Africa, there were terrible times, but I don’t remember a time when we weren’t laughing.

That’s the paradox of living. He was asked about Comedy Central dropping Hasan Minhaj from the chair. Trevor said, perfect example of why you need a podcast. In this interview, I don’t have time to give an answer that is long enough to be respectful of the situation. Nice Dodge.

Trevor is also okay with the Ads says, it’s the nature of the beast, and it’s advertising that is paying for access to people who can’t pay or won’t pay for the product. If you were at the McDonald’s in Indianapolis and you rolled through and you’re like, hey, is that comedian Mike Epps? Yeah, Epps said, welcome to McDonald’s. My name is Mike. May I help you?

Apparently, Mike Epps had worked at McDonald’s as a teen. Epps was honored by McDonald’s owner operators and presented with a one in eight Alumni McDonald’s jacket. McDonald’s has a campaign focusing on the statistic that one in eight Americans has been employed by McDonald’s at some point. Mike said of his first job, I was looking really cool and fashionable working at McDonald’s. Everybody wanted something free.

I remember all my friends coming to McDonald’s like, man, you got a job at McDonalds. You’re gonna hook me up. I’m like, no, keeping count on those nuggets. Taught me sportsmanship, believe it or not, even though it’s not a sport. Taught me how to work with people at a young age.

Our youth need to see that it’s okay to start a level like this because it’s not only a job, it’s a learning experience. Great story. Oh, by the way, Mike Epps happens to have a new show on HGTV called Buying Back the Block. That happened a premiere yesterday. Wow, that’s weird.

Homer Simpson is no longer strangling Bart. On the October twenty second episode, Homer meets a new neighbor. The neighbor says Homer is a strong grip. Homer says Seymour strangling the boy paid off, and then ads, just kidding, I don’t do that anymore. Times have changed.

Some researchers have determined Homer has not strangled Bart since season thirty one. We’re now in season thirty five, so if you’re upset about this, he hasn’t done it in four years. And you didn’t notice The Simpsons wiki page tracks every strangulation ever on the show. And I don’t know, maybe somebody I’ll need holiday filler. We can get into that.

Bill Burr spoke to WEEI Radio. They were trying to get Patriots coach Bill Belichick fired. Bur said, one of you guys, relax, he has eight rings. He has one more than Brady. He shut down John Elway.

I’m done talking about this. The Running Gun, Greatest Show on Turf, won three with a six round draft pick, and then everybody was calling Brady a system quarterback, and then they win three more and all of a sudden, Brady knows everything and Belichick doesn’t know anything right, and everybody forgets the Seahawks victory, and everybody says that Pete Carroll screwed up, rather than that was an unbelievable coaching job by Bill Belichick and his crew to have that defense ready for that play. Ivon Orgy has spoken about the pressures of being a thirty nine year old virgin. She says she has felt so much pressure when dating. What if he wants to have sex with me?

What do I say? What if he doesn’t like me once they tell me he’s a virgin? But she realizes now that she’s that chick, there’re gonna be guys that aren’t gonna want to rock with you because you’re a virgin. And that’s fine, because she’s not for everybody that way. The Daily Beast was recapping some of their past interviews because Netflix has been doing comedy spousals for ten years, and over the years they had asked comedians about their first specials.

Taylor Tomlinson discussed quarter Life Crisis and said, on the one hand, he had my agent going, it’s a great sign of a special right now. People are just watching literally anything I noticed. I dropped the g on going, my voice is going, and the queen’s accent is slipping in today. Still feel that marathon. Why it ruined my voice, I don’t know.

Taylor said it helped to be a new thing on Netflix a week before Quarantine hit, but as the pandemic dragged on and on, she said, I started to feel like, well, I probably missed my window because people are gonna forget it even came out. I thought it was going to be the comedy. Tiger King Anthony jesse Nick said, you can’t get darker as you get older because it makes you seem bitter. But if you start out dark, you can always soften and people will still remember what you did, and you’re kind of like an old grandpa figure who definitely fought in a war and has done some stuff, but it’s now a sweet old man. But you can’t go the other way.

It’s almost like being a punk rocker when you’re younger. I’m forty now, and I want to involve and change as a person. As an artist, I want to be the type of villain the other villains are afraid of. We live in a world now where there are very real villains. I’m a comedian.

People get mad at me, but it made people laugh for a living. There are way worse people out there that you should be upset with, and I like that I might make those people are freed. Some of the shows at the New York Comedy Festival tonight include don Al Rowling at the hard Rock at seven o’clock, Jimmy Carr Carnegie Hall at seven. Jimmy Carr is playing in Philly on Saturday. I’m tempted to go down and see him there.

But also the Beach Boys are playing right by my house, and I’m a big Beach Boys fan. Hmmm, John, why don’t you go to Carnegie Hall? If you know John at all, John hates going to Manhattan. I don’t care where you are. Manhattan is the hardest place to get to in the world.

If you told me, hey, let’s fly to Paris to see Jimmy Carr’d be like, Yeah, cool. The flight doesn’t bother me the two hours to get to Manhattan. No thanks. Joe de Rosa plays the KGB Bar. Is that the KGB bar from twenty years ago?

Is that still a thing? No way? The roast of Barbie by character assassination at the New York Comedy Club at eight Rwanda’s Finest at the Stand at eight at Tonight is Comedy Gives Back Laugh At at Gotham, Gary Goldman, Jessica Kurson, Jeff Ross, Aaron Jackson and surprise guests for a benefit show that’s really good. The La Times has been suggesting La based comedians you see at the New York Comedy Festival. They want you to go see jau Ying Summers her hit podcast Tiger Milf.

Summer says, I wanted to headline The Apollo the moment I decided to become a comedian. The Apollo is heaven for megatalent of color, and I’m determined to use my voice to amplify Asian American experiences. I’m proud of myself and I’m pushing boundaries. I’m more than ready. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website caught a bunch of shows at the New York Comedy Festival.

They enjoyed Sophie Buttle. Sophie did a set that never stopped moving and managed to expand our vocabulary around US regions by referring to Texas as being part of South America. They had Buttle works hard on her timing and it shows. Zach Zimmermann was the headliner at that particular show. They say there were space for short one off jokes and a set filled with larger bits about dating, seeking love as a queer person in a city that’s hard to find validation in growing up religious, doing naughty things to rats in Paris.

I can’t even tell you that. I think it’s against the law if I told you what he said sounds like. Issa Medina had a rough set at Brooklyn’s Union Hall. The eight hundred pound Gerrilla says the crowd was bad, as Brooklyn audiences sometimes are, and they were unsure if they could laugh at me. Is unique and important perspective.

Andrea Jin ran through material on loudness, dating someone younger at credit, and the facets of being Chinese. The audience lost it when she discussed having diarrhea, a uti and her period all at the same time, saying, quote, hold your ears, all holes were activated, you’re laughing. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla also liked August White, who ran through material that was feminist, sex positive, silly, and also formidable. There’s a lot of bad comedy right now, but White gives you something to feel inspired by. There’s a sense it’s just a matter of time before she takes off in a big way.

Ashton Womack deserved better from the audience. Ivan Kolkarney drove in from New Jersey to talk about posture, the weirdness of video games like Call of Duty, trying to sell the idea of war to kids, and trying to connect on LinkedIn. The set was hot, and Kokani used every second of it to its fullest comic potential. Mohanda Shiki is someone ready for a large special, says The eight hundred Pound Gorilla, and if this article can help move that along in any way, it succeeded interesting Serini Weira Sakira is a whirling jervish of energy that delivers club writing material and a charged woke package. Everything from ungrateful babies and Cayman Island pillow menus to white audience discomfort and race gets filtered through a delivery that’s on one point five speed and the eight hundred pound guerrilla, says Abby Govindan headlined and did something special.

Abby is funny, but there’s a real tenderness, kindness, and generosity to her comedy that feels personal. It’s like if you had one hundred dogs sitting in chairs and called each of them up by name to get a diploma. Truly someone to watch right. We’ll keep an eye on those names. Heather McMahon is taping her special Tonight’s and tomorrow at the Fox Theater and Atlanta, Georgia.

I’ve been there. That’s a solid theater. HEATHERN. McMahon was called by the Hollywood Reporter the next big thing. You can find her debut stand up special son I Never Had on Netflix.

Heather McMahon, Fox Theater, Atlanta, Tonight and Tomorrow not your comedy news for Today. If you like this podcast, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You know, you can follow it for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. Be Cheer Tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, James Gaffigan, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld, John Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng, Shane Gillis, Prince Harry, Rob Schneider, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• St. Louis Showdown: Jim Gaffigan vs. James Gaffigan name confusion and upcoming performances
• Stand Up for Heroes charity event with celebrity performances and Prince Harry video message
• John Stewart’s 60th birthday comedy bit about aging and wealth
• Rob Schneider’s tweet criticizing Travis Kelce’s vaccine commercial and reported conversion to Catholicism
• Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Maher debate college campus comedy cancellations
• Cracked article ranking female comedians more successful than Amy Schumer
• Theo Von’s ‘This Past Weekend’ podcast reaches #5 ranking

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel commented on a new poll that shows Donald Trump ahead of President Biden in a hypothetical matchup, and Kim More reminded viewers that polling a year ahead of an election is always super accurate and if you don’t believe me, just ask President Hillary Clinton. Kim All went with it’s like after the Turn of the Jedi, the people in the galaxy were like, you know, Princess Leigh is kind of a dud. Why don’t we give the emperor another shot.

Sarah Silverman, hosting The Daily Show, said, don’t panic, it’s still too early to say Biden will definitely lose. He can absolutely dine his sleep instead. Oh wow, Biden old jokes are fun. I gotta admit. All right, if you’re in Saint Louis and you have Gaffigan tickets this weekend, make sure you go to the correct show this weekend.

Conductor James Gaffigan will lead the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the Stifle Theater right next door in the Inner Center. Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, but kind of messes up the story. Jim Gaffigan the Saint Louis Post Dispatch spoke to conductor James Gaffigan and said, you know that guy is following me everywhere. The paper tells us Their relationship got off to a rocky start. Around two thousand or two thousand and one, James Gaffigan got a phone call on his mobile phone.

On the other end, a man eating potato chips said, who is this? James Gaffigan said, I’m sorry, who is this? The conductor said, this is Jimmy Gaffigan, as he was called at the time. The other person started swearing and accusing James of identity theft. That person was comedian Jim Gaffigan.

Somehow, both James and Jim had bought a MacBook on the same day, and Apple confused their email addresses. James said he thought someone was stealing his credit card information. It was so random. James assured Jim that he had bought the computer himself. They calmed down, they compared notes.

James said, we started laughing and talked for about half an hour. They’ve yet to meet in person. James Gaffigan is hoping they’ll run into each other on the streets of Saint Louis. The New York Comedy Festival continues. I googled New York Comedy Festival.

Not much coming up. I’m not seeing recaps or anything. Again. Love the festival, but it just doesn’t cut through in New York City for some reason. One thing that did cut through was the annual Bob Woodriff Foundation’s Stand Up for Heroes event on Monday night, and again that to cut through in the Big Apple, you gotta whip it out.

Bruce Springsteen, John Stewart, Josh Grobin, John Mellencamp, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng, Shing Gillis, and a video message from Prince Harry. Let’s listen. Good evening everyone, and hello New York. Obviously, I was deeply honored when Bob asked me to debut my stand up act with you all tonight. I was so relieved to be invited back.

But then I started to question whether his invite for me to actually do stand up was in fact his idea of a joke. Either way, due to the shockingly low representation of Ginger’s last year and out of respect for my fellow endangered species. Here, I am reporting for duty. So, as I mentioned often, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the British royal family seven days a week.

Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. It was interesting that Harry wore his military medals. Sometimes that’s a little controversial. Harry joked about being somebody who was rarely scrutinized, and there was some kind of gag where they were trying to keep him on script and they kind of played him off.

Also controversy.

The video of Harry doing this was released online just minutes before his father, King Charles the Third, was about to give his first King Speech to Parliament. I’m not going to bog down on this here. If you want to hear all about it, flip on over to Palace Intrigue, wherever you get your shows. John Stewart said, I just turned sixty years old. You know you’re getting old when you say how old you are and people clap.

When I was on the Daily Show, I had a suit on the makeup. The lights were beautiful and if you watch that show, you probably thought that guy could get upstairs no problem. The sad thing is I’m rich. I don’t have to look like this. Many people do surgery on people like me.

But I wake up in the morning, I go ah. Skirt aging is a humilitating process. Many of you are experiencing it. That’s clear. It’s a charity event.

So you’re the people with disposable income, because who knows how long you have worries about Rob Schneider the first from Newsweek. Actor and comedian Rob Schneider has been criticized online after weighing in on Travis Kelcey’s appearance in a Pfeiser commercial. Travis Kelcey is a new commercial encouraging you to get a twofer, which is a COVID nineteen shot and a flu shot. At the same time, Schneider, in a tweet wrote, dear Travis Kelcey, and then shared some differing opinions about vaccines.

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Schneider wrote, at sixty you realize the very real fragility of life and the temporariness of it all, A humbling knowledge that there is indeed a time limit for all things. That God’s design, though perfect, is precious, far beyond its brevity. I’m a new convert to Catholicism. According to The Christian Post, Schneider wrote, I was so angry at the people who shut down the schools and indeed the world, and coursed others to do things against their will, which hurt many people deeply. I offer my unconditional forgiveness and amnesty.

How can I stay mad at the famous singers who would not let others into a Broadway show unless they had an experimental job. I will never forget how kind he to me and my friends when he was the musical guest on SNL. Not clear who he’s talking about there. How can I continue to hold a grudge against the actor who shamed people like me but has been such a great example for other actors to never give up keep fighting for their dreams. How can I still be mad at the lovely actress that said she could no longer be friends with people who didn’t get it, knowing how incredibly kind she’s with every child she meets.

Is this so the back to back of those two stories is this second story? Super sarcastic. Is it a real like, Oh yeah, I’ve changed my ways. Let’s keep an eye on that one. I can’t tell from reading it.

Neil de grass Tyson got into it with Bill Maher. Tyson brought up how Bill Moore no longer performed stand up on college campuses and asked if Mar was writing off an entire generation by refusing to adjust to what students find acceptable. He asked Mar, why is it their fault not your fault. Bill maher defended his side, saying, literally every comedian had a bandon performing at colleges because they can’t avoid defending students. Not sure that’s entirely true.

Mar said, I’ve given up on any place that doesn’t even remotely attempt to believe in free speech and things thing they hear that they don’t like, that they don’t agree with his violence. These people are effing nuts, and you should be calling them out. You’re doing what your parents do. You’re taking the path of least resistance and therefore hurting the kids and yourself. Parents ruin both their lives.

They ruin their effing spoiled kids’ lives, and they ruin their own lives because the kids rule the roost. So that’s what you’re doing on a national level. Syson said, the move is it’s not good enough to be right, you also have to be effective. Cracked wrote ten female comedians more successful than Amy Schumer. You may recall that Amy Schumer declared herself the most successful female comedian of all time.

I’ll just read you the names they came up with. We don’t have to bog down into the why of it all. According to Cracked, Lucille Ball, Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Carol Burnett, Tina Fey, Roseanne bar Joan Rivers, Whoopy Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Amy Poehler. Edison Research announced the top fifty podcast the United States for quarter three. I did not make the list, but Theo Vaughn now number five, Joe Rogan at number one.

Whitney Cummings told Yahoo I started comedy in LA which I highly recommend for people. The first lot I ever did was a place called m a bar which is now closed. But doing comedy places that aren’t built for comedy. By the time you get to a club like the Improv, you have this skill set that I think not a lot of comics have that that came up in other cities. Thank you for reminding me, Whitney.

So I was on the Staten Island ferry over the weekend. You may recall Colin Jost and Pete Davidson bought a ferry to convert it into a comedy club. So as I was sitting on the ferry for half an hour, I was looking at it, trying to figure out how would this possibly work as a comedy club. Maybe if they built on the top deck, but I was in the middle there. The ceilings are super low, which I guess sometimes can work.

But like, nothing about a ferry feels like it’s going to be good for comedy. But Pete Davidson knows a lot more about comedy than I do, so what do I know? But I don’t own a ferry either. Back to Whitney Cummings who said, how did I get started? I think child did?

I mean? How far are we going? Back? Alcoholic home? Try to get attention from drunk parents.

It’s probably when I started started or knew I wanted to be or had to be an entertainer. My dad used to watch Roddy Dangerfield, and I remember that I couldn’t get his attention, so I used to think I got to get in that box. Tonight the New York Comedy Festival six point thirty the Edison Ballroom, Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine, a tribute to Bob Saget. Many of Bob’s friends will be in the room, including Michael Jay, Nikki Glaser, Jeff Ross, two of the Counting Crows, and others to be announced. Run out of time to make those announcements, but regardless, that list is already cool.

Margaret Chose at town Hall at seven, Conan’s at Bam at eight, Kat timf at the hard Rock at eight, at the Comic Trip at eight, Comedy four Piece, a funny special comedy international project with Muslim, Jewish and Christian comedians that was founded in March of twenty nineteen, and a whole lot of smaller shows that I did not read to you. Tomorrow, we really get to some bigger names.

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Tonight in Delaware, it’s the inaugural Towers Comedy Festival. Fifteen national comics will storm Delaware beaches on a mission to tickle your throat until it hurts. These are people you’ve heard of. Nikki Glaser Michael Rappaport, Hannah Einbender, Alonzo Bowden, Nicki’s Friday Night, Hannah is Saturday, Rappaport is Tomorrow. I don’t know what Alonso is.

Matt Rodgers from Las Culturistas is putting out Have You Heard of Christmas? A dance pop album of songs from his twenty twenty two Showtime special of the same name.

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Some song titles include Hottest Female Up in Whoville and God’s Up to His Tricks. Matt Rodgers says, my advice to anyone out there who’s trying to write a pop album that’s also comedy and seasonals, just go for it. Don’t question any of your impulses. You can’t be wrong. Bad news.

If you like Letter Kenny, It’s coming to an end with season twelve. The final six episodes will drop on Hulu Tuesday, December twenty sixth, and comedian Mark Watson got locked out of his own show. Audiences arriving at the Tobacco Factory were surprised to see Mark Watson sitting at the bar, he couldn’t get into the dressing room. Somebody caught this on TikTok. They were fifteen minutes to go until the show.

Mark Watson said, you know, we could do it here, but you paid for a seat, and you paid to be in a room resembling a theater. So I just wanted to know in case it looks like I’m very complacent drinking at the bar. And yes i am drinking at the bar, but I’m taking the situation as seriously as you are. It’s no one’s fault. I’ve been here for an hour to let them know I’m here, and that was the aim that everybody would relax, But I think they’ve over relaxed a bit.

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Jerry Seinfeld, Eric Idle, Michael Richards, Bill Murray, Kevin Hart, Nimesh Patel, Roywood Junior, Jimmy Carr, BJ Novak

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson removes phone-filming audience member at City Winery
• Michael Richards announces new memoir ‘Entrances and Exits’
• Jerry Seinfeld extends Beacon Theater residency with new dates
• Bill Murray potentially buying Frontier Baseball League’s Juliet Slammers
• Kevin Hart stars in Netflix heist thriller ‘Lift’
• Jimmy Carr hosting Big Fat Quiz of the Year and new television spinoff
• BJ Novak launches Chain Fest gourmet food festival in Hollywood

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Pete Davidson went after a quote sneaky fan during his show at the City Winery late last week. Pete noticed somebody was filming and he stopped his show and shouted fu. According to an eyewitness, Davidson then instructed his security guard to escort the person out of the room.

Pete said he pays ten thousand dollars to lock up your phones, and then he carried on with his set as planned. He did not address the incident further in the remainder of his performance. A spokesperson for the City Winery told US magazine that the individual’s footage from the performance was quote erased after being removed from the events base. The Repseid Hour staff were devastated after the show, as they take so much pride and feel so lucky to be working on these special shows. These are the knights that make their hard work all worth it.

Apparently. During the rest of the show, Pete talked about his ups and down struggles with addiction, his attempts to set up his mom with a nice suitor. He also joked about trying to get Good Press. After his car crash. Eric Idol was on Twitter X and was asked to name something that Americans invented.

Eric Idol’s response, mass school shootings. They’re making a Barbenheimer movie. Yes, a Barbenheimer not not two different movies, one big Barbenheimer movies. In Barbenheimer, we follow scientist doll doctor Bambi J. Barbenheimer, who lives in Daltopia with her boyfriend Twink Dolman.

Doctor Barbenheimer ventures into the real world and sees the brutal treatle the dolls receive at the hands of human children. Barbenheimer decides to build a giant nuclear bomb to take it all out. Filmmaker Charles Band says, it’s an opportunity to have fun with bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe in the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor. It’s so silly, but it seems like every other feature is dark and depressing, and it’s like, augh, we need a little humor.

Going to twenty twenty five, Oppenheimer was fantastic. I haven’t seen Barbie but Oppenheimer. I loved that movie so much. It was like an old style, like seventies era movie with like a plot and characters and stuff. Highly recommended it if it ever comes out on Blu ray or digital.

Remember last week, Michael Richards was spotted at the In and Out Burger and was standing on the street with his family. Well, what do you know, Michael Richards has a new book coming out. Isn’t it funny? You don’t hear from somebody for like a decade and a half and then they’re spotted, and what do you know? They have a new book coming out.

It’s called Entrances and Exits. In the book, he’s seventy four year old. Michael Richards will share never before told stories from his life, including being raised by his grandmother. He writes of his time in the US Army after being drafted in nineteen seventy. Richards also provides behind the scenes look at the development of Cramer’s character and his lasting influence on pop culture.

Jerry Seinfeld wrote the ford for the book. Richards will also reflect on his quotes Shameful two thousand and six out first film Shouting Rachel Epithets had audience members during a stand up show in Los Angeles. We’re told the incident drove him into a quote lifelong spiritual quest. In a statement, Richard says, my book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the hole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all. Jerry Seinfeld himself has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater.

He’s added some dates January twelfth and thirteenth, February second and third, March eighth and ninth performances at seven and nine thirty each night. Bill Murray may be buying the Juliet Slammers of the Frontier Baseball League. A source told the Juliet Patch that three people are involved in an ownership group looking to buy the Juliet Slammers, including Bill Murray and Mike Veck, son of the legendary former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veck. However, the local radio station said on Wednesday night, Juliet Slammer season ticket holders were informed that Bill Murray is buying the franchise. So we’ll see.

Kevin Hart has another gig. The man is not afraid to work. This is for Netflix an upcoming comedy thriller called Lift Nope, It’s not about ride chairs, and the trailer is out. Kevin Hart plays Cyrus Whittaker. You know a name that a real person in the real world would have.

Cyrus Whittaker is the leader of an international heightst team who gets enlisted to steal five hundred million dollars in gold from a mid air passenger plane before the fortune ends up in the wrong hands. Oh no. In the trailer, we see Kevin Hart explaining the near impossible task to his coorts and warning that the land in prison if they don’t succeed. He says, half a billion in gold is on its way to as terrorist cell. We got to steal it mid flight, forty thousand feet in the air.

Kevin Hart tries to formulate the perfect plan, although he points out they may have to improvise it and says, all right, then let’s show them what true artistry looks like. Hey, Kevin Hart on Netflix, you’ll watch why Not Right? Sounds fun, sounds kind of fast and the furious, but in a plane. Nimesh Patel spoke to the GW Hatchet about d C style Heckler’s a sys. Washingtonians are well in f so they’ll interrupt a set mid routine to fact check him.

N Miss Patetel says, it’s very rarely of a Heckler and they know more than you. But you know, let that alcohol hit and somebody who’s working eighty hours a week, it’s some think tank words will fly. Patel also appreciates TikTok for bringing him more of an audience. He says, TikTok is onto something China spying on all of us, and I don’t want the government to do anything about it. Roywood Junior was up in Halifax and said, I watched the House of Commons the other night on whatever this Canadian c span you have up here, and they’re arguing a lot of yelling going on over heating and heating costs, and I love that.

That’s how cold it is in Canada that you argue about heating costs like it’s gun control, because the cold can kill you. If you go see him in Canada and you’re expecting all political stuff, he says, I’m not nearly as political. I’m opinioned about my issues, but the stuff from the Daily Show definitely attacks issues with a much harder edge than I do on stage. Regardless, it’s four great comics show on the stage. I’m headlining, but we have Joel Nicole Johnson from the States and also Canadians Mark Elasallin, Arthur Simeons.

Sounds like a good show. Jimmy Carr will host The Big Fat Quiz of the Year for Channel four in the UK again this December, and it’s also a new spin off The Big Fat Quiz of Telly. The press release reads, who is the real star of the King’s Coronation? Who went viral for wearing a puffer jacket? Where your team Barbie or Oppenheimer?

All these questions and more will be answered on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year twenty twenty three. Question Master Jimmy Carr is joined by celebrity teams as they battled out to see who knows the most about the year that’s been. As for the Big Fat Quiz of Television, the producer has explained some of the possible questions. You’re ready, what got Downton fans all on it? Tizz?

I don’t know what does tartise stand for? I could probably think about it if I had any brain Power Today. Why was Nadine Coyle booted off pop Stars? I don’t know. All these questions and more will be answered as The Big Fat Quiz takes on television.

Jimmy Carr is quizzing some of the UK’s biggest comedians to see who knows the most about the world of Telly bj Novak you know him as Ryan from the Office. He has launched a gourmet chain restaurant food festival, chain Fest. Love It December first and second, out in Hollywood. It’ll feature one reimagined iconic item inspired by each classic chain restaurant. Some of the inspirations come from Chili’s, Duncan, Jack in a Box, Panda Express, Pizza, Hut Sonic and Red Robin.

I’ve been into Panda Express lately. They opened one kind of close to my house. I’ve been hitting it a lot, Team Kung Pou Chicken. The one of a kind food and beverages will only be available during the two day chain Fest and will be paired with beverages from Pepsi and Guinness and Smirnoff and Crown Royal and Captain Morgan no Vakata statement said, I love chain food. It’s worthy as a celebration as any other type of cuisine, and it’s high time it got the respect it deserves.

Chain Fest December first and second sounds fun. Let’s see what’s happening at the New York Comedy Festival on this Tuesday night? Election Day? Did you vote forgot to nag everybody to vote? Vote?

Just go vote? You vote for whoever you want, but like, don’t give up your right to vote. Pick somebody. Seven o’clock at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Improvised Colombo.

This sounds amazing. Let’s click on this. Improvised Colombo makes its New York City Comedy Festival debut for a never before seenen episode of the hit seventies TV show Your White Boyfriend Just Can’t Shut Up About Colombo. Featuring queer comedians and queer codd street people, this experimental variety show celebrates introduces in dvs from the global phenomenon of yesteryear. You choose hour Columbo, you name the killer’s occupation, and together we’ll cheer on our favorite trans mask detective.

Sounds amazing. Seven o’clock, Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Sophie Buttles at Union Hall at seven thirty Samantha Bee seven thirty at the Midnight Theater. Conan O’Brien taping his podcast at Bam at eight. See what celebrity friends he calls in for this one.

It does not say, but I have a feeling there’ll be some big names of that one. Ricky Velez is a Chelsea at eight thirty. The New York Comedy Club has special guest headliner at nine point fifteen. The dice on that one. I wouldn’t on the hierarchy of New York City comedy clubs.

The New York Comedy Club not all the way up there, although Carolines is gone now, so maybe it’s moved up a little. Omagelly, let’s talk about us at Gotham at nine thirty. Gotham probably the top club. If it’s not the seller, it depends what you want. Jay Jorden’s at the Bellhouse at ten sam Jay and Keith Johnson at Chelsea at ten thirty.

And there’s a bunch of other shows you can check out at NY Comedy Festival dot com. Now, I was in New York City on Sunday. I visited all five boroughs. I didn’t see anything about the festival. New York is just too big.

It’s a great festival. You hear me calling out the names that it’s only getting as stronger as the week goes on. But like New York is just too big. It just doesn’t have a presence. Even like when they used to have JFL Chicago, it had more of a presence in the city.

It just doesn’t work here. The La Times did an article recommending some LA comedians to see. They suggested you go to see Jada Katapretta at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective at eight thirty. Kataprede is fireball entered Ghe delivers loud laughs, dancing, singing, gyrating, and serving up humor in two languages. There seems to be nothing this fiery Brazilian can’t do.

Brad Williams, very funny comedian, has unveiled his latest special. It’s called Starfish. It’ll be on the streaming platform Veeps December twenty first at five pm Pacific. I’m not familiar with veeps, all right, Brad Williams December twenty first, Why that date? You have to know the joke that Brad Williams is a little person.

So that’s the setup for the joke. Why the twenty first Brad tells us it’s the shortest day of the year. Anti Donna very funny Australian sketch comedy group. They had to show on Netflix a few years back, and they have a great podcast if you want to check that out. They have started a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

It’s called the McMuffin mcguffin, a three hour Dungeons and Dragons campaign. From a TikTok video shared by Anti Donna, we learned that the party will face many dangers, including a demigod and a D and D dragon with five more penises than you’d typically expect to see. So is that five or is that sick? Hmm? The D and D campaign trailer also features plenty of scenes where Anti Donna member Zach would rather be doing literally anything else.

The podcast is not over. But that part was your Daily Comedy News for today. I’m going to talk about the marathon here. So if you don’t care about the marathon at all, or if you like John shut up about it, you were dismissed, that was your comedy news. But let me talk about the marathon.

So ten years ago I did the New York City marathon, and I loved it, and I’m like, I want to do this again someday. So every year I would enter the lottery and you’d get to know and then you can tell your friends. I totally would around the marathon, but they would let me in. So I did that for about eight years, and then last year I got an email and was like balloons popped up and like confetti and it was like, hey, congratulations, You’re in. I was like, what, Oh my goodness.

So I started training again. I forgot to mention over the past ten years, I have torn the meniscus in both knees. My ortho told me stop running long distances. I’m also a beach volleyball player, which is also terrible for the knees, but I keep playing because I don’t know. I don’t want to give into age.

Somewhere along the line I did. After the meniscus tears, I did the Ruckers Half Marathon, and that race that I even completed, it meant as much to me as the first marathon did. So I kept entering the lottery and I got back in, and I was training in twenty twenty two, and I just I would get out there and I’d be months in the training and I’d be like, I can’t even run a mile. My annual physical showed that my iron level had crashed, so I got a bag. It’s kind of like getting a transplant of iron.

That fixed that. So this year I went back out and trained again and made it to the end of the training and finished the race on Sunday. So as the day goes, I know some of you are curious about it. You have to get to Staten Island. If you’re not familiar with New York City.

There are five boroughs, and stat Island’s kind of off by itself. The name will tell you it’s an island. So I took the Staten Island ferry there and it’s kind of zen. You just kind of chill and you watch New York Harbor and you can see the Statue of Liberty. It’s quite nice.

Then you make your way over to the village, which is a holding pen. The weather was perfect, so like one of the things to stress about with this particular racis am I going to be cold? Grab some water, hit the porter potty four or five seven times. Then there you are, and you’re at the foot of the Verrizonto bridge, cannon goes off, boom and here we go, and there was just something primal about running with thousands of other people. There’s just so many people.

The bridge will take you into Brooklyn, which is like, I don’t know, like an eight mile flat stretch, and I was feeling great on that one. My goal was to run a six hour marathon, which is quite slow, but I’m also fifty four years old. And at one point I caught up to the five fifteen pacer and I was like, oh wow, I’m like really doing well. When I ran it ten years ago, my final time was five nineteen, so like, I’m even near the five fifteen balloon. Now.

I knew I was going to be able to hold the five fifteen balloon for five hours, but I was like, oh, this is going well. Boom and boom. Then I needed a potty break because of the water I had drink, and you know, when you’ve got that on your mind, another eighteen miles of well I got to go to the bathroom is kind of annoying. So I took the potty break early and I never got my rhythm back, and at about the eleven mile mark, I bonked. Is the term runners use.

I found a great description this morning from the Guardian. When you bonk, your body is in a form of bodily sedation, where the mind and body have started to stop working as they usually do. You might have felt great two miles ago, but once you started bonking, it can be tough to come back. And that is what happened to me. I in the middle miles like eleven to like sixteen, I felt the closest feeling I could use is drunk.

I could tell my brain wasn’t working quite right. I just wanted to finish the race so I could go home and sleep for a week. I just like was out of it, so I just started walking really briskly. I could tell my legs, hey, can we run here? Nope, And it was just like walk walk, and I was walking at a pretty good clip.

Eventually I started grabbing some gatorades and was able to get my brain back in, but with the bank I had a gut out the last fifteen miles. It was a very long day, but I completed it and I got my medal. I did not make the six hour cut off. Little disappointing there, But on the other hand, I’m four years old. My other takeaway was the race was very loud this time.

I don’t remember it being as loud. There were a lot of bands which I remember bands last time, a lot of DJs, and everybody had their music on three hundred decibels. I run with they’re called shocks, open ear headphones, so they don’t actually sit in your ears. As somebody who’s been in radio for twenty years, I’ve seen a lot of coworkers with hearing loss. Some mois very careful with my ears.

I wear my headphones very low, even when I’m recording, like right now, I have one ear on one year off. I always watch my hearing. I don’t like when my ears ring. Ever, so these shocks had said if you’re a runner, I highly recommend them. They sit right in front of your ear and they use bone conduction and it’s amazing.

You can hear, but you can also hear the outside world, and I find it really helps with the ringing. But anyway, for the race, with the bands and the DJs, I couldn’t hear my music at all, and I don’t want to be like bro. If I could have heard my music, I would have totally crushed this and around there in three hours. I don’t. I don’t want to say that at all, but I do have especially worked out running mix for the long runs where there are songs that I love to zone out to.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller is a great running song. Genesis Home by the Sea, Second Home by the Sea great song to zone out too. Bruce Springsteen Detroit Medley is exactly at my perfect gallop. So I had the heads and phones on and I heard I think half of four different songs the entire race, like it was just so loud. Couldn’t believe how loud it was.

So, you know, I feel like the run itself not at all the time I had hoped for. But I do feel mission accomplished, and I feel unburdened now because now I can just run and I’m not beholding to a training program for the first time in two years. So it’s kind of nice. Thank you for everybody who commented on the Facebook group Daily Coming News podcast group, and I’m going to stop talking about it except during the mentions during the live read this week. All right, and that’s your marathon news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Thanks for all the sport on everything. Oh one of the regulars hit me on the side and said, hey, you’re not hosting Travelers Back. Yeah, that’s for the winter. Between all the running and the situation with my mom.

You know, I go visit her every day. I haven’t traveled at all, so I don’t have anything to talk about, and I really haven’t had the time to research places that I want to go. So Journey Joe Mitchell hosting Travelers Back for the winter, and I hope to pick it back up in February or March when I get back out there. All right, that’s it for today, see tomorrow.