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Featured: Bobcat Goldthwaite, Keith Hernandez, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Colin Moulton

What’s in This Episode

• Bobcat Goldthwaite disowns Hot to Trot on 35th anniversary
• Hot to Trot’s 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating and behind-the-scenes horse chaos
• Keith Hernandez’s guest appearance on Seinfeld and casting process
• Keith Hernandez’s experience acting on Seinfeld with cast members
• Baseball etiquette debate from Seinfeld’s Boyfriend episode
• Colin Moulton discovers ancestry linked to medieval admiral and judge

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Bobcat Goldthwaite disowns his horrible talking horse comedy on its thirty fifth anniversary. The anniversary just passed. That talking horse comedy called Hot to Trot.

It’s one of the few members of the infamous Rotten Tomatoes zero percent club. Hot to Trot a nineteen eighty eight American comedy film, stars Bobcat Goldthwaite as simpleton bachelor Fred Cheney who inherits a bucktooth horse named Don and half of a stock brokerage firm from his dead mother. Okay, he discovers Don as a talking horse who can also speak the language of several other animals. The horse, voiced by John Candy. Cheney returns Don to his talking horse family in the countryside and becomes a stockbroker.

Okay, Don the horse overhears a stock tip and calls Cheney again. That’s Bobcat Goldthwaite’s character, presumably using his teeth to dial the phone. Cheney acts on the investment advice. It becomes wealthy overnight. Does the rest of the plot matter?

No, So it’s mister ed Meat’s stockbroking. Oh hey. Back in twenty eighteen, Bobcat talked about the movie and said it was such a frustrating process and it put me in comedy jail. It was horrible. Honest to god, I wouldn’t do this movie now because how I feel about animals that pore a horse.

It knew that if I was around, it’d have to do stuff that it normally wouldn’t do. They were like, come on, Don the Worse, and Don is just clenching his mouth every time he sees me. Bobcat said there were also unexpected bathroom breaks. The horse’s tail would go up before he had to take a dump. There was a horse wrangler named Quirky.

He would catch it with a shovel and it would never hit the floor. We were doing this serious scene and I saw the tail go up. I look at Quirky and he’s sitting on an apple box. It doesn’t move. The horse had diarrhea and it just blasted the wall.

It blasted me everything from the neck down. The first assistant director was like, ah, that’s a rap for today, not even like, let’s clean the wall and moved to the other’s set. The film was shut down because the horse had diarrhea. Bobcat says, don’t blame the horse. Let’s not throw the horse under the bus.

You could blame me and the rector. Leave the poor animal out of it. Vulture spoke to you former Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez about the big question. Do people want to talk to you more about Game six where Seinfeld? Keith said Seinfeld.

Vulture asked him, so you got a call Seinfeld once you for an episode. What was your reaction? Keith said, I didn’t know anything about the Seinfeld show. We played night games, we didn’t watch primetime. I also never watched primetime my first year of retirement, so I never heard of Seinfeld.

When Jerry conceived the show, he was a fan of mine and a fan of the Mets. He could have gotten a hold of me through the Mets, but he reached out to my former baseball age and who called me and told me about the show. He called me her on the week on Wednesday, and they wanted me to fly to la and be there on Monday the following week. It’s very rushed. When I agreed to it, they FedEx the script to me overnight and I received that on Friday.

I thought it was gonna be a little cameo. Then I realized that I was a very prominent figure in the episode. It was actually the guest star. I’d never acted, never any desire to act, but it seemed like a cool experience, good opportunity, so I agreed to it, and I arrived on LA on Saturday night. I had a Sunday to relax, and then it was a seven am call of the studio on Monday morning.

Keith, did you have any for you agree to it? How much money were they going to pay me? I asked my agent how much? And he said, well, they’re gonna fly to LA and put you at the four Seasons at Beverly Hills and provide you with very nice transportation. You’ll be there for a week and they’ll pay you fifteen grand And Keith said, oh, okay, I’ll do it.

Keither Nanda says Larry David was very friendly and welcoming. Jerry was a little sheepish, but welcoming. Julia Louis Dreyfuss was about three months pregnant with her first child. I believe she probably wasn’t feeling like great, but she was wonderful to work with. Jason Alexander was a little standoffish most of the week.

Hm. Michael Richards was very inquisitive about baseball. He knew nothing about it and questioned me throughout the week. He’s very interested in the lifestyle and my profession contained. It was wonderful.

He was very sweet, a nice man. So they followed up about the Jason Alexander thing. Keith her Nannas said he probably had to work his way through bit roles and here I come as a guest star and who am I retired baseball player. I’m just speculating, but it all changed when we do the complete run through in chronological order in front of the NBC executives on Friday night. I had to pass their litmus test and censors, and I didn’t make any mistakes.

Jason come up to me with a big smile and shook my hand and said nice. Going that point on, he was one full I guess I’d approved myself. I realized I couldn’t hold them up and be terrible and not memorize lines. I had a lot of lines. It was a very very stressful week.

The first scene in the locker room was the most difficult for me because they kept altering lines until the last minute. I memorized not only my lines in every scene, but I also knew Jerry and Jason’s lines. I wanted to learn the cadence of how they spoke, so when they switched the lines, I was stressed out. After I did everything perfectly in front of the NBC suits, I went out in the first scene in front of the live audience and I screwed up, and I was like, cut, all right, Keith, let’s do it again. I’m like, oh gosh, you gotta be kidding me.

I went back behind the set, took a deep breath, try to calm down, and I didn’t make a mistake. After that, Larry came up to me and said, it’s important we get this right. We think we’ve got a really funny episode, and we don’t want to use laugh tracks if we can’t finish this today. We want real laughter, Keith said. I survived it.

I really couldn’t appreciate what was going on until I watched it when the episode aired. Little More Here A few episodes later, in the Boyfriend, there’s a baseball etiquette disagreement to Lane wears an opposing team’s hat while in the owner’s box the Yankees game. They asked Keith, do you do that? Keith said, if a certain organization invites you to game and you’re a fan of the opposing team or another team, you don’t wear the hat. You do not You don’t have to wear a Yankees had or a hat of whatever team invited you, but the protocols if you’ve been invited, you’re a guest and you don’t do that.

Comedian Colin Moulton wanted to check out his heritage. He said, I just got back from Moulton, England. I was searching for some good people in my family tree and I came up with bub Kiss. Molton discovered he’s a direct descendant of Thomas Malton, and admiral and a judge during the reigns of King John and King Henry the Third, who took part in a number of wars with Scotland. However, his ancestor was not beloved the current Moulton said, Thomas Moulton was reviled by the townspeople.

They dismantled a chapelly built. The townspeople hated him. He was a scoundrel. But I think I’ll learned there’s a little scoundrel on all of us. I was just trying to find one good person in my ancestry, and I couldn’t do it.

This all start with my dad. I didn’t want to be like him, since he was troubled in so many ways. Apparently the current Moulton took after his grandfather, who was a vaudeville comic in the nineteen twenties. These days, the current Moulton lives in Georgia and says I can be a comic and live in Georgia. I love my life.

I have a half acre chicken form, I surf. I’m living the life. He surfs in Georgia. I guess you don’t hear much about the Georgia beaches. Yeah, I guess I’m gonna get letters from Georgia.

Now I’m leaving it in. I’d love to hear from you Facebook group Daily Comedy News. If you’re in Georgia and you’re like, come on, man, big surfing crowd, hit me up. I could take it. The New York Times profile Judy Gold and asked her how she spends her Sundays.

Some of the things Judy Gold does is I put on my tennis clothes and I go outside. I get the Times interesting that she mentioned the Times at a Times article. I see what you did there, because they don’t put it on my doorstep. I stretch on the floor for five minutes and then make a shake with almond milk, way, protein berries, bananas, powdered peanut, butter, kale and chia seeds. Then I put my tennis bag together and pack two bottles of water, one with ice, the other with watermelon flavored liquid IV.

At eleven am, we leave for tennis. It’s only two miles, but in the summer it could take fifteen minutes because everybody’s driving five miles an hour on Bradford Street, which makes me crazy. We love the Provincetown Tennis Club. It’s something out of a waspy New England Jane Austin novel. It’s very social and friendly.

I love doubles. It’s like a chess game filled with strategy. Sometimes we see Billy Jean King or Adelia Ephron. I have a Wilson racket which we spend to see who goes first by calling Wine or Margarita. We play for ninety minutes, then we sweep the courts, drive back home and scream at how slow everybody is.

Then she talked about going to the beach for the afternoon. At night back home, it’s work mode. It’s hard to communicate with me because I’m focused on what I’m doing that night on stage, there’s a palpable shift. I see with my notebook at the kitchen table and go through jokes, usually new ones have written during the week and one and include. Then I shower, dress, get my face on, and get my bag ready.

I ride my red trek bike and enjoy the ten minutes of solitary time to get in the right head. I sit at the barn, get water. I don’t drink before set because I want every synapse of my brain working. If I have a new bit, I can’t wait to get to it. The show is about what annoys me, like cancel culture, anti Semitism, stupidity, and turning sixty.

After a show, we bike home on Commercial Street, two old lesbians with their bills going off because everybody’s in the middle of the street. At home, we watch TV. We just watched the Mary Tyler Moore documentary, which I loved, and Netflix is El Dorado. Everything The Nazis, hate, sounds fun that your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Stephen Wright, George Carlin, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld

What’s in This Episode

• AV Club’s 30 Greatest Stand-up Specials of All Time list
• Steve Martin’s ‘A Wild and Crazy Guy’ and King Tut comedy
• Eddie Murphy’s ‘Delirious’ from 1983 and cultural impact
• George Carlin’s ‘Jammin’ in New York’ and evolution as a comedian
• Chris Rock’s ‘Bring the Pain’ and the N-word bit retirement
• The Kings of Comedy special with Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley
• Mitch Hedberg’s 1999 special and the escalator joke

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve thought it’d take a look at the av Club’s thirty greatest stand up comedy Specials of all time. If you are a relatively new listener. When I do these article episodes, I don’t look at them in advance.

I like to just react to them as I see them. And I’ve had this in my folder of things to get to and it’s been good for comedy news. There’s been plenty of stuff, but I figured, with the holiday weekend, let me work this one in. All right. It’s the thirty greatest stand up comedy Specials of all time from the Avy Club.

They write from Richard Pryor and Robin Williams to Mitch Hedberg and Hannah Gatsby. We’re putting a spotlight on some of the best stand ups ever. It’s a slide show. Because it’s nineteen ninety four. I don’t know, but okay, let’s click.

They have ranked these in chronological order, which is good because that way we don’t have to argue about which is the best one. The first one up they have from nineteen seventy five and Evening with Robert Klein. If I’ve seen that, I saw it on HBO eight billion years ago. I can’t say I remember it. Next up from nineteen seventy eight, Steve Martin’s a wild and crazy guy.

It’s very easy to forget just how popular Steve Martin was and how revolutionary his comedy seemed at the time. You go back now, like I remember, as a kid, we thought King Tut was the greatest, most hilarious thing we’ve ever seen. And you know, you go back now and it’s born in Babylonia, moved to Arizona. King Tut hilarious. But back in the day, Yeah, Steve Martin, will I’m crazy guy?

Love it good? Pick Richard Pryor live in concert, nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen seventy nine, I’m ten years old. So even though I’m somewhat expert in comedy, I do get confused as to which prior special is which. Next up, Eddie Murphy, Delirious from nineteen eighty three.

Yes, if you’re my age, you quoted this thing and probably at one point in your life could do almost the entire special off the top of your head. Have some things not age so well? Yes? Are there some things that you wouldn’t do today. Yes, are there some words you wouldn’t use today?

Yes? Did we all love it back in nineteen eight three? Yes? Did we realize Eddie Murphy was just doing a cover act of Richard Pryor, including the red plastic jacket thing. No, we didn’t because we were kids, But Eddie Murphy delirious.

We loved it. Nineteen eighty five’s Stephen Wright Stephen Wright Special. You forget how different Stephen Wright was. A unique voice. You hadn’t seen that type of presentation before, that slow, deadband delivery, and it just tickled your brain in a way that nobody had before.

Another great pick here by the Avy Club. Robin Williams an Evening at the Met nineteen eighty six. Robin another one of those comedians. When he first came along, you saw that different level of energy and it was just like Wow. I’m not sure if you go back now and look at Robin’s comedy you’re like, oh, that’s so amazing, But at the time, yeah, absolutely.

Another great pick. Paul A pound Stones, Cats, Cops and Stuff from nineteen ninety. I remember Paula kind of having a moment there for a while and then disappearing but interesting. Avy Club Rights, Cats, Cops and Stuff remains a seminal work from it’s era and in the wider cannon of stand up as an art form. Poundstone’s ability to command an audience new personal stories and witty sides a stellar But it’s her gift to pivot instantly to crowd working back again that makes her a legend.

Okay, I mean, I won’t fight you on it, but I’m not like yeah, the Paul of Poundstone Special. Next up, George Carlin Jamin in New York, nineteen ninety two. Much like prior, it’s hard for me to off the top of my head remember which Carlin’s special is. Which. Obviously we’re going to pick Carlin specials here.

I won’t be surprised if there’s more than one on here. Let’s see. On this one Jamin in New York, Carlin does an extended riff on the distrust of public drinking water. This one establishes perhaps the birth of the latter day Carlin we come to know and love. Earlier specials were a bridge between the counterculture Carlin of the sixties and seventies and the hilarious dooms Layers of the nineties and two thousands.

But Jamin in New York is the pure brilliant birth of Carlin Is comedy’s resident leftist prophet, the guy who watched The Heat Death of the Universe with a grin on his face. Next up, this one surprises me. Nineteen ninety five, Janine Garffalo’s HBO comedy Half Hour. Not sure I remember that one, and I always really like Janine was thrilled when she was on Larry Sanders. The Avy Club Rights.

Garffalo gave us her take on everything from TV commercials to bands that are too loud to wonderfully understated impressions, delivering the definitive gen X stand up in the process, the definitive gen X stand up set. I gotta push back on that. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t think it’s that. Nineteen ninety six Chris Rocks Bring the Pain Absolutely great special. The Avy Club reminds us the special is best remembered now for a bit involving the N word, which Chris Rock later retired.

Another illustration of how things change and things that worked back in the day don’t necessarily work so well now. But Chris Rock Bring the Pain from nineteen ninety six. Good pick. Nineteen ninety eight Jerry Seinfeld’s I’m telling You for the Last Time. I mostly know this one from playing all the individual clips on Series XM Radio when I used to program that.

I know this material pretty well. Jokes about the supermarket to Halloween candy. That was Jerry retiring a bunch of material in nineteen ninety eight, peaked j R. Yeah, great pick. Next up, Susie Eddie Iszard’s Dressed to Kill from nineteen ninety nine.

I know Iszard’s not everybody’s piece of cake. I like their material a lot. Oh one of my all time favorites from nineteen ninety nine. Is it really that old? No Way?

Comedy Central presents Mitch Hedberg is nineteen ninety nine. This is the one with an escalator. Can’t break it, can only become stairs. I can’t believe that’s nineteen ninety nine. I thought that was a little later, but I guess not.

Mitch passed away in two thousand five. Yeah, all right, here’s a pick that’s out there a little bit. David Cross is the Pride is Back from nineteen ninety nine. I like Cross a lot. Davy Club Rights Patton Oswalt might have become the household names to emerge from the alt comedy scene of the nineties, but David Cross is still the era’s unapologetic, inventive standard bearer.

With the Pride is Back, David Cross brought all these skewed perspectives of the mister show rats who was One Men act a reminder of Cross’s neck for squeezing everything out of truly transgressive premises two thousand The original Kings of Comedy. Sure, that’s a huge one. Bernie mac Cedric, The Entertainer Deal, Hughley, and Steve Harvey yep. Avy Club calls it a game changer. I agree, with little help from director Spike Lee, it showed the massive impact of black comedy to the world on a grand, instantly funny scale.

It’s one of those moments it feels like it will never be replicated again, which is a big part of what makes it special. Continuing, the Avy clubs thirty Best stand up Specials of all Time. Next up the year two thousand and they have Margaret Shows. I’m the one that I want. I’m not sure I agree here they write Margaret Show is certainly not the first out gay woman to make an impact in the stand up comedy world.

But with I’m the One that I Want in two thousand she proves she might just be the most fearless two thousand and five. Sarah Silverman’s Jesus Is Magic two thousand five might have been around peak Sarah Silverman’s She’s the eight Girl there for a while. Is it one of the thirty best of all time? I’m not sure? Not sure about this next one either.

Zach Alafanakis is Live at the Purple Onion from two thousand and six, a comedian who could do Stephen Wright’s deadpan and Robin Williams explosive commitment with the equal power, writes the Avy Club Live at the Purple Onion is a I meant, a showcase of his ability to ride out even the most questionable bits and ring laughs out of unexpected places. All Right, we’re on a run here of me not agreeing. Wanda Psykes s’ma Be Me from two thousand and nine. Davy Club rights I’m Gonna be Me feels at One’s vulnerable and razor shop like she’s been waiting her entire life to tell these jokes. Patrise O’Neil’s Elephant in the Room.

I’ve said this before. I never enjoyed a moment I ever spent with Patrise O’Neill. He had this way of just coming at everybody. I think he thought it was funny. He would just I don’t know whatever you’re doing right now.

He’d walk up to you and go, you’re really wearing that shirt, and it’s just like, dude, screw you. I just don’t want to I just don’t want to be near you. So I am definitely biased against Patrise. Didn’t enjoy my time with him. Davy Club Rights Elephant in the Room.

It’s truly something special at Leased just months before his death. It’s a brilliant set, full of moments when you can feel O’Neill pressing all of his audience’s buttons. Has been on sexual harassment is especially pointed example of this. I know all the comedians love him, especially the New York City like smoke a cigarette in front of a brick wall comedians, but top third, I don’t know a V club. Mike bur Bigley is my girlfriend’s boyfriend.

Boy, what is this like six seven in a row and all remind you I was at serious XM running comedy that was the ten years where I was like really in deep with comedy. I’m not agreeing with any of these bur bigs. Is nice, but I don’t know about this pick either. Maria Bamford The Special Special Special from twenty fourteen. Same thing, love Maria.

I’ve seen Maria alive, But is that one of the top thirty. I’m gonna have to make my own list. And I’m not going to just do that off the top of my head, because I’d really have to think about it. But the Headberg is going to be up there on my list. Kinnison is going to be up there on my list.

There’s no Kinnison on this list because we’re already up to twenty fourteen. That first Dice Special, whatever you think of Dice, that was amazing. I would have a couple of Carlin’s up there, and after research, a couple of priors up there, and after research, I imagine we’re going to get to some Chappelle’s here. No love for the blue collar guys yet so far? All right, next step Tignazaro’s Boyish Girl Interrupted from twenty sixteen.

I like the pick a lot that like peaked Tigg liked what she was doing there. Yeah, that’s a good pick. Patton Oswalt’s Annihilation twenty seventeen. Much like I’ve said about Carlin or prior, I have to remember which Patton Oswalt special is this one? This is the one following the death of his first wife, Michelle McNamara.

Oswalt went toe to toe and punch for punch with his grief. You know, I think there’s better Patton Oswalt’s specials than that one. But all right, I wouldn’t fight you in the alley way about picking that one, but I’d pick an earlier Patton Oswalt special. And if I’m gonna pick a Pat and I’m gonna put a Brian poseyin on my list as well, I’ll have to make a list for y’all. Hannah Gatsby’s Nanette.

I think Douglas is a better special. I get that everybody started praying at the Hannah Gatsby alter over Nanette. I think her next special, Douglas is better. On my list, I would pick Douglass over Nanette. But okay, I get it.

John Mulaney’s Kid gorgeous, good pick, by the way. No gafficking yet either, And we’re already up to twenty eighteen. Kid Gorgeous establishes John Mulaney as one of today’s top comedians. Sure as of doing this, and this is why I don’t them. Advanced things are popping into my mind.

No Dennis Leary on this list. Interesting. No Bill Hicks on this list interesting. Next up Bo Burnham’s Inside. I get that people like it.

I get that I’m old, I won’t fight in the alley and not my cup of tea wouldn’t make my top thirty, but I get it. Norm McDonald’s Nothing Special was really good, very funny. Recorded in the middle of the pandemic. Norm knows that he’s going to die, so he puts this material down. Yeah, kind of a cool special.

Gerard Carmichael’s Rathaniel Again, I know that all the critics think this was the greatest thing ever. I didn’t like it. That’s from twenty twenty two. Wow. And they have Mark Marin’s from Bleak to Dark from this year.

That’s not even on my best of this year? Wow? What did they write here? I’m shocked by this. Mark Marin has endeared himself to audiences through a blend of honesty and world weary wisdom, and it’s a blend that allowed him to go to some dark places over the years.

Da da Da da da. It’s quite possible no other major stand up alive could have pulled off a joke about considering a selfie with his partner’s dead body, and that alone makes this a towering comedic achievement. Huh. All right, that’s The AV Club’s top thirty comedy specials of all time. I don’t know no, Joan Rivers of have to make my own list.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Bert Kreischer, Adam Sandler, Oliver Anthony, Bill Maher, Scott Rakowski

What’s in This Episode

• Five late night hosts launch Strike Force Five podcast for WGA writers
• Comedians perform strike protest show at Fox Studios
• Bert Kreischer’s Fully Loaded tour with lineup of 15+ comedians
• Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah’ hits 96% on Rotten Tomatoes
• Oliver Anthony performs at Joe Rogan’s Comedy Club
• Bill Maher on politically mixed audiences in Texas
• Scott Rakowski accuses NFL of copying his Writers’ Room bit

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News five of the late night host Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Myers. They’ve teamed up for a podcast, twelve episodes of Strike Fource five. Each of the hosts will participate in the conversation. Whoever’s leading the conversation will rotate.

The late night host will give all proceeds to the out of work staff from their respective shows. All right, kind of cool something to listen to.

Meanwhile, earlier in the week, a handful of comedians put on a stand up show…

This part of the strike protests. Comedian Mona Shake organized the events. One of the performers recent roast Battle LA champion Sarah Fitz Himmy. Sarah said, right now is a pivotal time in history for actors and writers to defy crappy pay and working conditions, not to mention lack of health benefits. I mean, who do you think you guys are?

Stand up comedians? Shake opened her set with a bit about audience members confusing her from Mindy Kaling and joking Mindy is rich I am or That’s why I’m doing this. She then segued into a criticism of Bob Eiger. I’m not sure this really landed. She probably told it better than I do, but the line Bobby said it was unrealistic of WGA members to ask for a two percent raise.

Just to put things in perspective, the average writer makes sixty nine thousand dollars a year, while Bobby makes seventy four thousand dollars a day. I think he failed math point taken. I’m not sure that’s a great joke. Alex Hooper said, it costs studios forty eight cents to send you a one cent residual check if you’re wondering where our money’s going. Felicia Michael’s followed.

Hooper ended her set after a few minutes, saying she’d soon devolve into a bunch of penis jokes, which does feel fair on a picket line in front of Fox Studios. Billboard did a big profile of Bert Kreischer about his tour. Bert said, each summer, I want to surround myself with my favorite humans, which are always going to be comics. I want to hang out with my friends and family. Tour and have fun.

I want to float on rivers, boat on lakes, end up in oceans, go hiking, shoot guns, get high on mushrooms and do whatever we can to have a blast. This year, the Fully Loaded tour included at times, Mark Normant and Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hatash, Stavros alki Is, Fortune Feemster, Davittel Lewis Black, Jim Norton, andrews Antino, Big Jay Oakerson, Jay Farrow, Dan Sodor, Chad Daniels, Ralph Barbosa, Rosebud Baker, and Tammy Pascatelli. All of them are great. Wow, what a list. Grayshers said, we wanted to make it the best experience a comic could ever have, with extra tour buses and plenty of amenities to make it feel like a great gig.

As for the lineup, Bert said, this is interesting. There are certain acts that other comedians have a hard time following. Acts like Chad Daniels, who was simply amazing.

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Also, I had Tiffany Hattish on the lineup, which no one could follow either.

Most promoters wouldn’t give a hoot and just say find someone to follow them, But as a comic guy to say now it’s not how it works, and I’m able to talk to a comedian like Dan Soder and ask him to open and he’ll do it because he understands and the request is coming from a comedian.

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And then I’ll take the bullet and close the show behind someone like Chat or …

Everybody there knows me. I’d just take my shirt off. People go crazy at the heart of things. I love comics. I love being on the road with comics, and my daughters, who I bring on tour with me love it too.

During the tour, one of them told me, I love this. You wake up in a different city every morning. If breakfast rate and everyone you eat with is hilarious, this is amazing. The same profile quoted one of the suits. I hate when suits get involved, right because everything I just told you was like fun and upbeat.

And then the suit says, our intention for creating fully Loaded was to build a lifestyle brand that represents all of the aspects of life that Burt enjoys the most, that could then support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. I want to throw up, listen to yourself, and then could support multiple ventures and revenue streams for years to come. Stop. You took all the fun out of it. Congratulations to Adam Sandler.

He has a new all time best reviewed movie. Yeah you are so not Invited to my bot Mitzvah has a high Rotten Tomato score ninety six percent, higher than his previous films across thirty four years of making wonderfully awful movies. Hustle, which is the second best Adam Sandler film and a good Movie, has ninety three percent Somehow The Myrowood Stories has ninety two percent. Uncut gems, the best Adam Sailor movie ninety one percent. Oliver Anthony showed up at Joe Rogan’s Common Club.

If you’re like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? Because I was like, Who’s Oliver Anthony? I do this every day. I’m not familiar with such a comedian. No, he’s the guy that recorded rich Men North of Richmond to the song that went in viral recently.

Yeah whiskey Riff says Tom Sagura got the honor of introducing Oliver to the stage and said, guess what, I have a special treat for you. This doesn’t always happen, but this does happen when you come to really kop blaizis like the comedy mothership. I’m gonna bring on stage right now. This is so effing cool. This young man has exploded in popularity and we’ve all been blown away by this guy’s talent.

We’re so lucky to see him here live tonight, the very amazing talented Oliver Anthony. Everybody, let’s hear it, Whiskey Riff said, the crowd went nuts. Bill Mar will be in Grand Prairie Sexist tomorrow and said sexist knows how to party. I generally enjoy the Red States more than I don’t want to talk ill of anybody, but I’d much rather be in Dallas than you know, San Francisco or someplace like that, because they’re not politically correct. The Dallas News asked Bill Mar what kind of audience he expects.

Bill said, politically mixed, which is very rare. It’s very rare throughout history, but especially now when we’re so partisan. One reason I love doing stand up is it’s the audience who wants me to go there. I’ve always found there’s no problem in Texas. Asked for the Dallas metro area, it’s kind of the perfect combination for the last few years since the left kind of went nutty on their own.

I consider myself mostly what you’d call an old school liberal, but that’s very different from woke. I love it that I can make fun of and do the Trump jokes and everybody laughs at those, including the Republicans and the audience. And I could make fun of the woke nonsense and everybody laughs at that, including the liberals. I think there’s a hunger out there for common sense, left of center centrism. And they asked Bill Moore if Texas is any different now than it was in the nineteen eighties.

Bill said, I’ll say this about the South, it’s definitely less southern than it used to be. I’ve been in many Southern cities and I don’t hear any accent anymore. Austin is a little too New Yorky. I wish it was more Texas. I’m not looking for rural.

But you know what I love about the South is it’s still more friendly than anywhere else. Like I said, less stick it up your butt, just looking to have a good time, looking to laugh. Scott Rakowski is mad at the NFL. That’s the guy who formerly hosted HQ Trivia Well. Last week, the NFL put out a video for the upcoming Sea in which starred Macpacker Keegan Michael Key.

He presented an NFL script for a table read that included star players such as Jalen Ramsey and Patrick Mahomes. Regowski took to Socials and said, now, does it surprise me that a soulless mega corporation with zero creativity or independent thought would choose to blatantly rip off actually creative people to make their content. No, it doesn’t. Does it tick me off? You betcha because the person they ripped off this time was me.

Apparently, Scott feels it’s similar to his old NFL Writer’s Room bit. Scott added, they have the gall to use this. It is their tagline. You can’t make this stuff up. You’re right now, NFL, you can’t.

You stole it. Shame on you, Shame on all of you. The not Funny League. Bete Davidson apparently told the audience at the Garden the other night that he’s using kettleen. No, Kettleen’s not a thing ketamine.

I could have edited that out, but you’re laughing right now, so I left it in. Pete Davidson not on Kettaleen, but he says he’s been using ketamine just a little bit to help with his depression. Dave Chappelle has added some more dates to the Dave Chappelle Live. It’s a Celebration Bitch’s Tour. The new dates include October seventeenth, Milwaukee, the nineteenth Boston, and then the Raleigh, North Carolina on the twenty fifth, Charlotte on the twenty sixth at Lanta on Halloween.

Hey, thank you, Scott Beckett. Scott went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. And he didn’t buy me a coffee. No, he didn’t buy me two coffees. No, he didn’t buy me three coffees.

No, John, how long are you gonna go with this bit? I’m gonna finish it. He didn’t buy me four coffees. No, Scott bought me five iced coffees. Thank you very much, Scott.

Scott has been listening for a while. We email on the side occasionally. Again, feel encouraged to reach out to me. The email is in the show notes. Scott wrote, you’re doing good work.

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Also, you’re missing out on Gary Coleman.

He’s got a lot of news out there, so that inspired me. I wrote to Scott on the side. I tried to give Gary Goleman a radio show back at Sirius XAM, kind of late in my run there. But one of the things that would happen is we pitched all kinds of things, all kinds of people. Hey, bosses, why don’t we give Deane Cook a show?

Who’s that? Hey? Why don’t we give Amy Schumer’s show? Who’s that? And Gary Goldman?

Hey, why don’t we give Gary Goldman a show? Who’s that? There were some executives who would go unnamed, who was like, if you didn’t walk in with Jerry Seinfeller Chris Rock, they were like, I don’t know who that is. And I always wanted to take long term bets on people, and history has proven my instincts were pretty good. So yeah, we talked to Gary about doing a show, but I couldn’t fund such a show, And thanks to Scott’s encouragement, I reached out to see if I can get Gary on the show because he has a new book coming out.

It is called Misfit, Growing Up Awkward in the eighties. I self describe us from the eighties, so this is perfect. Gary Goldman’s Misfit Growing Up Awkward in the Eighties is due out September nineteenth. The book will bring us through the full gall out of school years, reflecting on the awkward and difficult moments and interactions between kindergarten and twelfth grade. Official paragraph here.

Whether it’s stories of failed show and tell presentations and fumbling in his first football game, where memories and anecdotes about his family, friends and neighbors, the book brings us deep into Goldman’s childhood landscap both inside and away from the classroom. Sounds fun because, like I said, I’m from the eighties. There are something called the Streamy Awards. The Streami’s recognized creators in more than forty five categories across beauty, comedy, food, gaming, music, podcast, sports, and more. And yes, I did hear myself drop the g and recognize that Queen’s accent comes out sometimes, Folks, I’m like somewhat expert in comedy.

I don’t claim to know everything, but here are the nominees from the comedy category. I don’t remind you I’ve been hosting this pod every day for four years, worked at Serious XM for ten years. And at least six days a week. I’ll go on Google and throwing words like comedy and comedian. So I was quite surprised to find the nominees in comedy for the Streamy Awards are Zamarcus, Sean Chris Collins, Lucas Lopez, the McFarland’s and your winner, r DC World.

Congratulations, r DC World. I’m curious. Yes, I’ll take out the Google machine and find out. I’ve gone to the r DC World. Pay they say, RDC World is all about making our fans laugh.

We provide entertainment through skitz, flog, short films and more. I clicked on the videos tab, and let’s see how aliens would be if they landed in the hood Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg when they see each other. That one as a million and a half views. How Doc Rivers was in the locker room after the Sixers, Scott blew out two and a half million views. So these guys are doing quite well.

Congratulations r DC World, you’re winners of the Streamy Awards. Comedy. Some festivals this weekend. If you’re in or near Philadelphia, it’s the inaugural Philly Comedy Fest in Port Richmond Twelve Hour Comedy Festival Sunday at the gall and Company malt House. Matt McCusker, Ian Fight Ends, Tim Butterfly, Sarabelle, and Peggy o’leria among your performers.

Meanwhile, in South Coast Massachusetts, it’s the Whale City Comedy Festival that kicked off last night. One of the performers you can see tonight, he’s really good. Anthony DeVito. He’ll be in New Bedford. Nico White plays Saturday.

Sean Donnelly, Who’s a really good play Sunday. Details at Willcitycomedy dot com. Ian Lara is on tour. It’s the Problematic Immunity Tour this weekend in Chicago at Zenis and he’ll be on tour through at least December. December eighth and ninth in Toronto.

Information at Ian Lara Live dot com. That is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow, I’ll look at a list somebody made of the top thirty stand up specials of all time. I didn’t look at it before recording. See you’ll hear me react in the moment.

I did not react well. So let’s tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. Normal episodes have a great Labor Day weekend. Let’s hit the beach while was still ken. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting the show.

Support my sponsors, will you and you can follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow

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Featured: Matt Rife, Paul Reiser, Jane Curtain, Paul F. Tompkins, Beth Stelling, Alex Edelman

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife hit with bra on stage in Atlantic City
• Paul Reiser returns to stand-up comedy after pandemic
• Jane Curtain rejects early SNL as unfunny in retrospective viewing
• Paul F. Tompkins discusses mentoring new comedians and his special Laboring under Delusions
• Alex Edelman performs at senior living home for his Broadway show Just for Us

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The Shark deck Man. Am I procrastinating? Hi? I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You see a marathon training, Humble Brag and this week Hal Higden, who’s my guru, wants a four miler seven four arrest day and then a fifteen.

Now after I record this podcast here, I’m gonna go do the seven. But I have been taking my time recorded a couple episodes of five Good News Stories. That’s the podcast where I tell you five stories. They’re all good news wherever you get your shows. I’ve even wasted the first thirty five seconds of this podcast before I tell you Matt Rife is the latest performer to get pelted with a random object on stage.

This time it was a bra. While you’re laughing, Johnny Mac, it’s not nice, I don’t know, it’s just funny. It’s a comedy show. You’re really upset that I’m laughing that Matt Riffe got hit with a bra. Come on.

An eyewitness tells page six that Matt Riffe was performing in Atlantic City and a female spectator decided to shoot her shot. Writes page six. An eyewitness says it went down when Rife was flirting with an eighty five year old woman who had flown all the way to Florida for the show, and she got pelted with a bra. All right, that’s not funny. I don’t want eighty five ye old women getting hit by bras.

Why isn’t eighty five year old woman at Matt Rife anyway? Rife himself was taken aback because why would somebody throw something at an eighty something year old woman who was getting all of his attention. The insider notes that the woman’s daughter picked it up with disgust and then threw it the rest of the way towards Rife. A second eyewitness says Rife didn’t even bother to catch it. The bra land that at his feet.

An insider said, Rife did pick it up and notice something had been written on the bra. You’re curious, right, what did it say? It said, if you find my bra, tell Matt Rife to reach out to me, and it had her Instagram handle. It also had her hotel and her hotel rooms number written on it. The insider says, rather than keep that information to himself, Rife read it out to the crowd.

Paul Reiser is back in a stand up comedy, and the San Francisco Chronicle asked him what’s been the best part about getting back in stand up? Riser said, one of the things that was underscored for me after the pandemic was how much of the human element was missed. It’s part of why I always love stand up. I was reminded that human contact and interaction is irreplaceable. You can’t get that in a movie.

I don’t personally feel I can get it even in theater because there’s a wall of fiction between you and the audience. I was rusty, as to be expected. There’s no app that’ll make you funnier, better or stronger quicker. It’s only going on night after night after night and doing it. Stand up is technology proof.

There’s nothing you can do to be better other than doing it. He talked about his first time on stage. It was the summer of nineteen seventy four, the summer after I was a freshman in college. I actually found a cassette of that act while cleaning out a closet. Reacently.

I had written first time ever on it and it was five minutes and I listened to it cringing, going, oh, I can’t believe I had the audacity to go out and try and do that. But when you’re so young, you’re protected by a sort of embryo or shield of ignorance in Naivet’s hey, so you have no idea that what you’re doing is no good at all. On the other hand, I’d hate to look back and go, boy, I was much funnier at eighteen than I am now. It wasn’t a particularly great living, but we fellow comics, we’re all supporting ourselves. There were enough clubs, and you get twenty bucks here and a hundred bucks there and seventy bucks there, and it was like, oh, I think I got the rent covered.

We were sell thrilled to have three hundred dollars in our pocket and thrilled not to have to do a regular job. My goal was looking at George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and going, that’s what I want to do.

And then I stubbled into a casting office and I ended up in diner.

Then that got me on the tonight show, that gets me in Beverly Hills, cop All these things happened sequentially on top of each other, so I was like, all right, I guess this is what’s happening for me. Jane Curtain looked back on her early years of Saturday Night Live and doesn’t find it funny. Jane spoke to Deadline and said, we were sent the five year compilation video of S and l’s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one of my daughter. We were out visiting and her husband said, have you ever watched any of these? And I said, you know, I haven’t seen them in a long time.

He said, would you mind if we watched one? I said, no, great big one. So we sat around the TV and I had that sort of anticipatory, open mouthed grin that people have when they’re waiting for something to happen. They know it’s gonna be really great, and it never happened. It wasn’t funny.

Not one thing was funny. There’s not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle. Jane attributes the unfunniness of SNL to it being dated since it’s fifty years old. But after the rewatch, I was like, this really wasn’t a very good show. Was terrible.

Vulture asked Paul F. Tompkins if there’s a certain amount of salvation interesting word in embracing the successes of new comedians. Paul said, oh for sure. Yeah, I mean it does help to keep me away from the bitterness. I remember Beth stelling special Girl Daddy that came out.

Man, to watch somebody who has like when you see the thing where they’ve come in in their own they’ve got it and it’s down and it’s funny, and it’s deep, and it’s insightful, and it’s entertaining, it’s everything. When you watch them become that, I get chills talking about it. I had to refrain from texting during the special. I was like, watch the whole thing and to say, Beth, I love the special so much, congratulations. I have to pull myself back from saying I’m proud of you, because I don’t have any right to say that.

I didn’t have any hand in her ascension, but I felt that way, you know, I felt that pride to see somebody get to the point where it’s like, you did it, You’re so good. This is where you’ve submitted your status as one of the great comedians. When somebody puts out one of those hours that’s unassailable. How can you not be excited by it all right, Paul F. Tompkins, they give your own such a moment.

Yeah, I think Laboring under Delusions. I worked so hard on that and that was the special where I was like, this is me, this is who I am, This is the purest expression of me. Because it’s funny, because it’s personal, but it’s silly. I worked really, really hard in keeping it tight and funny, and I wasn’t afraid to go into the emotions of some of things. I wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable.

I think it was the best night of my career. I think that’s safe to say. I love this. Next story, it’s from the Times of Israel. Alex Edelman arrived at a senior living home for conversation about his solo Broadway show Just for Us.

You know that’s the one where Alex Edelman, who is a Jewish comedian, infiltrated a white supremacist meeting in Queens. I’ve told you about that one. So Edelman goes for the Q and a one of the seniors asked him, where are you from Massachusetts? Now what part Brookline? Now what street?

So he told him what street, But the senior citizens had more questions, where did you go to Camp Seneca Lake, Camp Yevna, a hockey camp, and a few others. Where’d you go to college? NYU? Did your parents ever want you to be a doctor or a lawyer? Edelman said, his father’s a doctor, as a mother’s a lawyer, and they wanted me to be happy.

Next question, what does your shared say? Edelman said, Jesus the Savior of a new generation. And it was written in the style of a Pepsi logo. That got silence. Senior citizen Maggie didn’t like the show.

She said he wasn’t prepared. I thought enough something else to say. If we hadn’t been asking our questions, I don’t know what he would have talked about.

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Also, Maggie was offended by a mistake Edelman made.

He said, my friend Alfred was ninety three. He’s only eighty six. A TikTok comedian is going viral for a video where he explains multiple Southern US cities into quick, simpler terms for his California friend. For example, Austin is described as San Francisco but barbecue, and Joe Rugan Houston is described as Texas Atlanta. He calls Birmingham, Alabama murder Atlanta.

Wow. This TikTok has over a million point four reviews. People in the comments seem to agree with the Texas Atlanta joke, but one comments are pointed out one city is not mentioned and says, this is San Antonio. Eraser, I guess I gotta go do that seven a mile run now, all right? Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, John Stewart, Michelle Wolf, Jeff Ross, Maria Bamford, Tiffany Haddish, Kathy Griffin

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle’s 50th birthday celebration at Comedy Cellar and Madison Square Garden
• AV Club’s 30 best stand-up specials of all time list
• Steve Harvey’s controversial social media team firing
• Bob Barker’s death and tributes from Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, and Drew Carey
• Michelle Wolf’s self-financed special ‘It’s Great to Be Here’ releasing September 12
• Maria Bamford’s book ‘Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult’ and state fair tips
• The State reunion tour starting tonight at Paramount Theater in Denver
• Tiffany Haddish doing weather on Katla

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The Shark Deck Easy One again. Today, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Before I tell you about Chappelle’s fiftieth birthday, I just recorded Saturday’s episode. I’ve been sitting on an article. The av Club did the thirty best stand up specials of all time, and I just went through it cold without pre reading it.

I didn’t react when I’ll do it at all. You’ll hear that on Saturday. I’d be curious as to what your list is. The front half of the list. I was like, yeah, good, pick, good, quick, good pick.

And then I got to about two thousand and five and I was like what. Dave Chappelle celebrated his fiftieth birthday several ways. Friday night at the Comedy Seller. He had a private party in the Comedy Seller Dozen Clothes of For Too Many People. Guests included Angela Bassett, John Hamm, Chance, The Rapper, t I, Justin, Timberlake, Chris Rock, Andrew Scheltz, Michelle wolf A, Zeazon Surrey, Donnell Rawlings, and Jeff Ross Wow.

Then on Saturday night, Chappelle played Madison Square Garden once again. During the week, various guests included Chris Rock, John Stewart as He’s and Sorry Nas, Ludacris, Travis Scott, and Burna Boy. Saturday included John Mayer, Busta Rhimes, Common, Ti, and Pete Davidson.

Also hitting the stage.

Michael Chay, Ronny Chieng, Michelle Wolf, Jeff Ross, Mike Tyson was in the audience. Chapelle also honored the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop, so Common, Ti and Buster Rhymes performed their well known hits. Davis on the It’s a Celebration Bitches tour, which will visit Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Nashville, Chicago, and Kansas City. Steve Harvey apparently fired the social media team they did some social media that didn’t go over so well. Steve Harvey’s account tweeted name a comedian you don’t find funny at all.

Steve says he’s got official social media people handling his accounts. He insists it wasn’t him who posted it. He lamented the tweet as mean spirit and downright negative. A screenshot of the deleted tweet shows it was viewed at least a million times. Steve says the explanation he got from his handlers was they were just trying to get some engagement, but he adds they’re going to be needing some new employment.

Now. Good thing I didn’t see it, because if he had tweeted the name of comedian you don’t find funny at all, I might have responded with somebody totally unrelated to that, Adam Sandler, I’m mugging for the camera, even though it’s an audio only podcast. Adam Sandler acknowledge deep passing of Bob Barker in his social media post. Adam Sandler wrote, the man the myth, the best. Such a sweet, funny guy to hang out with.

Love talking to him, love laughing with him, loved him kicking the crap out of me. He’ll be missed by everybody I know. Heartbreaking day. Loved to Bob always in his family. Thanks for all you gave us.

Rob Schneider chimed in, writing one of the nicest things I ever heard in the show business was Bob Barker saying I moved to Hollywood to be an actor, and the only person whoever let me do it was Adam Sandler. Drew Carey wrote very sad day for the Prices Right family and animal lovers all over the world. There hasn’t been a day on the set that I didn’t think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever. If you’re vaguely my age, anybody vaguely my age, The price is Right was the thing you watched when you were at home from school back in the days of five channels.

So if you were I don’t know, between thirty five and sixty, you probably watched a lot of Bob Barker. Michelle Wolfs special It’s Great to Be Here, coming out on September twelve. She has self finance produced it and licensed it herself, like a lot of comedians are doing. Michelle said, I want to do something different than a traditional special and make something on my own terms. It’s hard to convince the industry to give you money to do something new, so I made it on my own hopes I’ll be able to sell it.

I shot eight episodes and we ended up with five of them combined into three sounds complicated. Don’t think about it, just watch. I’m hoping people like this short, digestible format. If so, I have three episodes in the vault and more ready to tape. I’d like to develop more stand up series, hopefully I’ll get a chance.

We’re seeing stand ups make their own specials more and more funny people might not be getting a chance. Y’re giving themselves a chance, and good for them and comedy and you who watch comedy. I think doing these episodes is a fun way to frame stand up an hour it can be really great, but sometimes you have fifteen minutes that feels like it stands by itself, and I think it should be able to live like that without trying to horsehoe it into a format that doesn’t serve the material for the sake of a format that’s ready or arbitrary to begin. If I can do an hour, and I appreciate an hour, but why not try something new. Maria Bamford has a book out.

It’s called Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult. She spoke to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Before they got to the book, they asked her, Hey, it’s stayed fair time in Minnesota. Any tips for fairgoers? Maria said, don’t work as a costume character.

I auditioned to be Getney the Minnesota Pickle. I got a call back, and I have to tell you the pickles from prior seasons had tales to tell. It’s one hundred and twenty five degrees in that pickle costume, and because now you seem like an object, people will chase you. It’s dangerous. You got to run back to your Kia Rio and hope they lose interest in chasing you in your costume because you can’t take it off and lose the mystery.

As for the book, who was the ideal reader? Maria Bamford said, I think it was me. I hoped it would be funny. I tried to make a self laugh and sometimes I lost my own interest in the writing of the book. Hopefully you can’t tell what those sports are.

It’s very quiet when you’re a tip tip typing by yourself. It’s no fun. I really like a live crowds. I had to get some needs met by having friends listen to me read it out loud to see what worked. He had a cash I provided created a power struggle where they felt uncomfortable if they didn’t laugh.

Fear makes people laugh. It turns out sure, I’ll join your cult. By Maria Bamford, two eighty eight, pages twenty eight ninety nine. If you’re in Denver tonight, the States is reuniting at the Paramount Theater. It’s the start of their four date breaking Hearts and Dippin’ Balls tour.

It’s tonight and then three shows in October New York. That’s kind of a weird tour. It celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the MTV series debut. Eight members the original eleven person group are back. David Wayne said in the nineties it was harder to get together.

We were waiting for Zoom to be popular. Thomas Lennon talked about how tight the group is and said, in my life, I’ve been in the emergency room three times, and twice I was taken or carried by Ken Marino. Marino asked, wait, who is the other person that took you the hospital. Lennon said, it’s my wife, Ken, my wife. Over the weekend, Tiffany Hannis jumped on the TV and did the weather.

She was on Katla doing the weather and now again this is from a few days ago. Please don’t take this to be an actual weather forecast. It’s just Johnny Mac recapping a story. Tiffany addas in the valleys the wine will be blowing strong, so take your wig down and hunker down because it’ll fly off. The coastal areas will experience very moderate temperatures.

It’s looking to be a beautiful, beautiful week. Make sure your air conditioner is on point, you have ice water near you, and stay hydrated. It’s gonna get hot, but it’ll cool down at night. You know, California, it’s called at night. As for the desert forecast, well tomorrow.

On the rest of the week, it’s going to go up, y’all. But get ready because on Friday it’s going to be one of those summerines where it’s gonna be hot, but it’s also going to rain at the same time, so you can wear a two piece in the rain. Kathy Griffin showed off her dramatically swollen lips. What happened? She got them tattued during a cosmetic procedure called blushing.

She posted on YouTube, I’m eft, look at me. Her friend asked if Griffin’s lips were real. Griffin’s husband let out an audible sword when he saw the aftermath of the procedure. Kathy said, it’s a little swollen. From the CBC.

I love this one. A Quebec bar added a woman after being called out for all male comedy lineup, but turns out she doesn’t exist. Montreal comedians Emma A. Sure and Courtly Lapierre have an Instagram account which is called no Girls in the Lineup and they call out gender inequality in Quebec comedy. But Sure said we did it as an answer to us being told that we exaggerate when we say it’s a problem.

Guys, let’s try to book more women and people are like, nah, it doesn’t happen. So we started this page to be like, here are the receipts. So they started calling out bars, one of them lay tro Qua. In Gatineau, Quebec. They have a comedy not every Thursday, often spotlighting only male performers.

So in June let tro Q started promoting a comic name not Sonya Balanger, who started showing up in the lineup every week. But it turns out she doesn’t exist and was created by AI. So the Instagram page No Girls in the Lineup called them out again. It said it’s crazy how much effort goes into just not booking a female comedian. Hats off to you, really slow clap.

The guy who runs the club said that page often mentioned us painted us as misogynists, as if we were making any effort. So, in response of their joke of associating us with this type of management, we responded with the joke of creating this comedian from scratch. Every week they promote Sonia Blanger and then her performance is canceled at the start of every show, and most of our clients hell knows it’s a running joke. I can see both sides of this. I get the point of no girls in the lineup, but I also think the fake comedian being canceled every week just to mess with them back is sort of funny.

Maybe I’m just a jerk. Hey, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Book comedians of all genders will you, but having a fake comedian the lineup is kind of funny. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Stephen Ridley, Pete Holmes, Steve Harvey, Justin Royland, Vivek Ramaswamy, Dave Chappelle, Carlos Santana, Sasher Amada, Andy Kaufman, Mary Lou Henner, Kevin Nealon, Kristen Shaw

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart injures himself racing NFL player Stephen Ridley
• Pete Holmes criticizes Family Feud answer board logic
• Rick and Morty Season 7 returning with new voice actors after Justin Royland exit
• Carlos Santana makes transphobic remarks
• Sasher Amada releases new special directly on YouTube
• Andy Kaufman receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star posthumously
• BBC comedy production costs rising as networks prioritize drama over humor

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The Shark deck. Kevin Hart’s in a wheelchair. Oh no, and Hi’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart went on Instagram and said, forty four and sitting my ass down. I got to be the dumbest man alive.

What the f am I doing? So you’re curious what did he do? He challenged former NFL running back Stephen Ridley to a forty yard dash. Guess who didn’t win. Kevin Hart said, I blew my crap.

I’m done fml. I’m in a wheelchair. Why well, because I try to jump out there and do some young stuff. The debate was based off who’s faster those that know me, I’m pretty fast, Stephen said Kevin. Ain’t no way you’re gonna beat me.

Kevin gave us all the warning to all my men and women out there that are forty years old and above. It’s not a game. Respect that age. Respect that age, or that age will make you respect it. I was just forced to respect it.

This is just a public service announcement because I know people may see me out and I don’t want you to be alarmed. But I’m in a wheelchair. I don’t know what I sare He then explained that what he’s dealing with is a torn lower abdomen and tears to his hip abductors. He said, I don’t know what that is, but I tore them. I tore those two.

I can’t walk. Ridley commented back and said, I saw Tom Brady do it at your age, and I figured you had the joist too big. Bro my bad Kevin Hart eel up and keep making us all laugh. Pete Holmes not happy with the celebrity family feud. So the Holmes family’s up and they’re playing a different family top.

Whatever answers on the board, tell me a cent you’d be shocked to see as an air freshener bing. The other family goes microwave fish. They flipped the board. Food slash Broccoli appeared on the board as the number one answer, gave the other family twenty nine points. Pete Holmes jumps in and goes, hold on, hold on, so any food, any food gets the answer.

That’s nonsense, I say, butter cream food, fish. He dressed Steve Rvy, Steve, I feel you with me on this. Pete started making guttural noises, implying family feud would have accepted anything at all. Why not any sound gets the number one answer, Just go number one answer. Rick and Morty almost back, baby.

This will be the new Rick and Morty following the exit of co creator Justin Royland. Will have a new voice of both Rick and Morty. Hopefully this goes a little better than Solar Opposites. Have you been watching Solar Opposites? Here’s the problem with Solar Opposites and New Corvo.

It’s not even the voice. It’s they started writing Corvo differently. Corville used to do these slow burns that he would do them in threes. It’s kind of like the Rick slowburn, you know, something along the lines of I’m recording a podcast. It’s a podcast that I’m recording it because that’s what you do.

You record a podcast like that kind of thing. And New Corvo with the British voice isn’t doing that. So I like Solar Opposites a lot. The new season really struggling guys, So hopefully they nail New Rick and New Morty. It’ll be back Sunday, October fifteenth at eleven pm.

The president of Adult Swim says it’s happening thanks to the talents of the entire show team, we could all enjoy ten new episodes that yet again raise the bar for comedy and animation. An official season seven description makes a reference to the recastings quotes Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like the Seals than ever. It’s season seven and the possibilities are endless. What’s up with Jerry evil summer? And will they ever get back to the high school?

Maybe not, but let’s find out. There’s probably less year in than last season. Rick and Morty one hundred years, or at least until season ten. A couple of stray thoughts from me. I was watching the Republican debates last week, and I was watching Vivek Ramaswamy, and I was thinking, if there were no writer strike and you were doing Saturday Night Live, you would have to include Vivek.

And then that made me wonder, well, who would play the character? You may remember they had at one point Fred Armison doing Obama and that wasn’t the best idea. So I’m not sure there’s somebody on the current cast would make a good Vivek Ramaswamy. So then do you have to call in a favor or by the time the writer strike is back, none of this will matter because it sounds like the strike’s gonna go on for a while. We won’t have S and L for a while.

Did you also see in the news Carlos Santana made some transphobic remarks. The reason I’m bringing this up is Santana held his hands together as he made the remarks and said, I am like this with my brother Tavespell and I’ve talked about this in the past about Chappelle doing transgender material, and I have asked Dave out loud, Dave, is this what you want your legacy to be? Do you want to be the trans guy anti trans guy? Like every time the topic comes up, everybody goes Dave Chappelle, Dave, that who you want to be? Or maybe do something else and don’t do trans jokes.

In your fourth straight special, Sasher’s Amada’s new special out on YouTube, but today it is called The First Woman. Sasher says, I’m excited to release it on YouTube and give it to the people directly because I have control over it. I have ownership over it, which is not what I’ve had in the past. Boy, we’re hearing more and more comedians say that right, everybody’s self releasing now it sounds like after that initial Netflix bonanza where the Chris Rocks and Amy Schumer’s were getting a lot of money, sounds like the second and third wave of that, nobody was really getting baid and nobody owns everything. So everyone’s self releasing now very interesting.

Sashier said, I’m very proud of my last special, but this is the first special I’ve self produced, and I’m just excited to be in a place where I know what’s happening and if control over my material and artistry, and yes, I can give it directly to people on YouTube. More stand ups are doing that now, and I think people are looking to YouTube as a place where you can see comedy, which is great. So many options now, there’s so many streamers and networks that have comedy specials, but sometimes they get lost in the shovel. So I think when you make it specific and you’re like, come see my stuff in this channel on YouTube, it could be easier for people. Andy Kaufman did not show up for the debut of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I was hoping he would show up and be like psych That would have been the greatest hoax ever. Maybe Andy Kaufman is dead or he’s holding out for an even better opportunity. His Taxi cast mate Mary lew Henner was there, as was Kevin Neilan. I didn’t realize they were friends. Kevin neil And said he was a comedian, performance artist, prankster, trickster, and a song and dance man.

I considered him a comedic genius. He was incredibly inventive. He was brave and darling. Other people might call it annoying and mentally ill, but no, Mary leu Henner said, Andy was a provocateur. He irritated people.

You never knew what was going to come out of his mouth or what idea he had. But he was always so damn interesting and I adored him. I wonder if Tony Clifton came by, that would have been interesting. Kristin Shaw was there as well. She was a past recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award, which is an honor created by the Kaufman family.

And that’s how I met Kristen, like twenty years ago. Now from Deadline, the cost of British comedy is getting more and more expensive. BBC Studios comedy boss Josh Cole said rushed to make comedies infused with straight drama had impacted the ability for producers to land broader comedies. Cole said comedy is guilty of taking itself a bit too seriously in the past few years, and the first rule of comedies make people laugh. Audiences love that, but there’s been a move away from it, and it would be great to see more of it.

Itvs ahead of comedy. Nana Hughes said, the way we consume comedies evolving, the way young people are looking at and discovering comedy. The tone is less cynical, but it’s very hard to be funny. We have to be less offensive and very sensitive to everyone, so that stifles comedy. It’s finding the right place to land jokes without being scared, and that always comes back to risk.

Do we lose the audience if we go hard? Like Ricky Gervais. Nicole By spoke to the Las Vegas Weekly. She recently took up pole dancing, but don’t expect her to be any good at it. Nicole said, I think we need to normalize being mediocre or bad at our hobbies.

I can climb up a pole, I’m very strong and it’s cool. I don’t want to be sexy. I just want to scare people. She was in Las Vegas and said, I did a whirlwind of a trip with my friend. We went to Usher, Chris Angel, MindFreak, circ De Sleg and Magic Mike.

I drove a ferrari at some racetrack. We did go carts. That’s all I like to do it. I don’t gamble. I don’t understand it.

Last time I gambled, I was absolutely faced with my friend’s sister and I was sitting at one of the slots and I was banging a button, like this is how to get you. They get you by sitting here. He just pushed the same button. Then a man walked by and said, you have to put money in it. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Michelle Wolf, Country Wayne, John Mulaney, Rob Cordry, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s pandemic outdoor comedy shows and behind-the-scenes stories
• How comedy has evolved beyond traditional open mics and TV credits
• Michelle Wolf’s new Netflix special ‘It’s Great to Be Here’ in three half-hour episodes
• Country Wayne’s Netflix special ‘A Woman’s Prayer’ on fatherhood and faith
• Jack Links and Rob Cordry’s fantasy football roast competition
• John Mulaney’s early morning baseball games with his son Malcolm

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac, who with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big profile of matt Rife and they were impressed by his low key outside shows during the pandemic, and they asked him if he had any memories. Matt Rife said, yeah, there’s a lot of them. There’s pushing dumpsters with your bare hands, no gloves or sanitizer. There was a show that wasn’t even sold out outside.

There were like thirty two tickets sold maybe out of one hundred and twenty. We could have fitt in the space, but Paul and I already paid the deposit on the space. We already booked the comedians, we had set up the equipment, and then we got news it was going to rain like an hour before the show was supposed to start, and we’re like, well, we’re already out money, so we can’t be out more money and canceled the show. We have to at least preserve what we’re gonna have left, So we took the money out of what we were aready gonna lose and went to home Depot where lows and bought like ten pop up job fair kind of tents that we just taped amongst each other to create a roofed room that we could all perform in outside. I’d say maybe eighteen of the thirty two people showed up.

We still put on a show. Was one of our most fun shows because everybody there was so aware of what a stuff show it was, and that’s kind of what brought together the camaraderie and the humor of it. Nobody could really believe we were doing this ourselves included, and that moment of pure rock bottom in the sense of production of a comedy show was still one of the highs. Of those low moments, we’re able to find gratitude and positivity in that time. Another good one the cops showing up on our first day of doing it, five minutes before the show was supposed to start.

I was in the shower. Paul kicked in my shower door. It was cracked open, so they didn’t have to kick it, but he did it for dramatic effect. I’m naked behind my glass shower door, and Paul’s like, cops are here, and I throw on a towel really quick and throwing some shorts of shirtless running out there, and the cops are inspecting our apartment. We’re like, oh, we’re gonna get shut down.

Somebody must to complain about the noise or the fact that something was going unduring COVID. I remember stopping with the cops, being like, is there anything I can help you with, because obviously you’re here for us, And the cop goes, We’ll let you know, and he makes his way to the back area, goes upstairs, talk to one of the people living upstairs, comes down and leaves. Turns out it was just domestic violence. That’s all. Nothing crazy, nothing to deal with us at all, you know, just domestic violets.

I digress. We were scared at stuffless. We were like, we put so much energy and effort and thought of that first show and so much money in time, I can’t believe it’s gonna get shut down the first time we attempt it. Sure enough, nothing happened. We were abo to do that show for the rest of the pandemic.

Matt talked about how comedy has changed. Said, it used to be just write jokes, learn how to tell jokes. You’d go to open mics, and that led to more stage time. It’s all you really had to do besides learn how to promote a little bit get the word out, but that came from TV credits, late night shows, all that kind of stuff that used to be it. Now that’s the most basic part of it.

That’s learning how to read and write in school. But in order to succeed, you got to do some science class. You got to hit social studies, gym class, math class, all that. To be a well rounded person, you have to learn how to market in social media. You have to learn how to edit videos, how to shoot videos.

You have to learn how to book your own travel. I had no idea. That was such a big thing for years until I got a tour manager. I was booking all my own flights, my own hotels, greyound buses, all that. I’d get to clubs at eighteen years old and they’d be like, hey, who sets up your travel, and I’d be like, I do.

So you have to be able to do everything. Those are the most basic concepts of being a stand up these days. But then when you get into the entrepreneurial side of things. I had no idea how to shoot a special. I had no idea how to produce a comedy show outside of one with my Friend’s Trail and Error.

You have to be willing to eat crap. You have to be willing to fail. But the silver lining and that is you already have nothing to lose. I already nobody’s handing me anything. I’m already not doing apparently what I need to do to succeed.

So let’s try this thing, Let’s figure it out. Let’s fail a couple of times so we can figure out how to do it correctly and do everything. Michelle Wolf has a new special coming up. It’s broken into three half hour episodes. The individual pieces are called New Neighborhood, All Struggles Matter plus Me two and News to Me plus all Beautiful.

When you put it all together, it’s called It’s Great to Be Here. It is Michelle Wolf’s third special. She had one on HBO in twenty seventeen, one on Netflix in twenty nineteen. This one Netflix. Wolf Finance produced and edited the series herself, which consists of performances reported in August twenty twenty two at Comedy on State and Madison, Wisconsin, and Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia.

In It’s Great to Be Here, we will see Michelle Wolf get more personal than she has in pass specials and tackle topics like dating sexual harassment, race relations, and living in a new country. Let’s take a listen. I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of comedians have been using their time on stage to talk about their struggles and how they identify, and I think that’s good for comedy. So I guess what I’d like to do tonight is I’d like to come out as insufferable Michelle Wolf. It’s great to be here.

September twelfth. Then a week later, on September nineteenth, Country Wien’s A Woman’s Prayer will be out on Netflix. Waen brings his Southern flair in this one of a kind stand up special on fatherhood, gender dynamics, and faith. No clip available at this time. Do you play fantasy football well?

Jack Links has teamed up with Rob Cordry for the Ultimate Meat Roast. Cordry says, I’m in four leagues and none of them trash talk enough, so I have a lot of build up energy for the loser of Jack Links Ultimate Meat Roast. I’m really going to get to know the winning league and study them like a textbook so I can properly hurt the losers feelings. Once the season wraps up and we know who the loser is. Rob Kordry will do his homework and get some dirt on the loser who used that to craft a roast benefiting of someone so terrible at fantasy football.

I bet you then person draft at Aaron Rodgers. I’m nothing against Aaron Rodgers, except he’s on the Jets. It’s going to be a disaster. John Mulaney was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and talked about Malcolm, that’s John Mulaney’s son. Mulaney said, I used to spin out about so many things, and I used to want to be so clever and wanted to be this curated little person.

And now I have nothing in my head except yeah, Malcolm, do that. Oh yeah, right? Baseball. Malcolm wakes up at four fifty am every night when he goes to bed, I go, what time you’re gonna wake up? And he goes seven, and we both laugh and we say deal and we shake.

He gets in bed and he wakes up at four fifty. N zip him at four fifty and he goes baseball and I immediately go, you want to play? And he goes game. So I take him out and get him out of his sleep sack Now he and I are in the front yard at five ten am and pajamas and jackets, and I take the ball and I put it on the tee and he’s holding whiffleball bat and he goes two bats, so I had him another bat and now he has two, and I put the ball on it and he goes, dadda do it and I go, dadda do it and I smack that whiffle ball so far and he goes, yeah, a good job, and I go, yeah, good job. I bought a ball on for him, and I go, Malcolm, do that, and he goes, Malcolm do that.

He hits the ball, which means he hits it with his hand holding the bat against the t and the ball falls off, and I go, yeah, good job. And we’re just two morons at five in the morning with floodlights and ring camera lights going off because it’s so early. Frasier is back, Baby, well not quite yet. It’ll be back on October twelfth on Paramount Plus, but Paramount Plus has released some images of the upcoming Frasier. They’re also gonna let people sample it on CBS Proper.

CBS will air back to back episodes on Tuesday, October seventeenth. Frasier premiered in nineteen ninety three and run for eleven seasons. You may remember the character Fraser from Cheers, so Gil’s at Grammar has gotten a lot of money out of Frasier Crean. In the new series, we follow Frasier Crean in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston. Gee.

I wonder if he’ll eventually run into any other characters we might know who live in Boston. Frazer returns to Boston with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Not on the New Frasier David Hyde, Pierce Grammar told people David basically decided he really wasn’t interested in repeating the formans of Niles. But Pierce told Vulture, no one ever approached me about it, so it wasn’t something I turned down, but it was also not something I was looking to do. I don’t have a strong feeling that there’s anything more that I can think of that I need to say about the character.

I love those characters, but I don’t miss them. But he left the door open to potentially appearing on the New Frasier. Just live long enough, you’re all gonna be on. It’s gonna be Niles and Sam and Carla come on like they’re not going to do this. Pierce said, I would never disrespect that in such a way just to say off handily, Oh no thanks, I’m not going to do that again.

Apparently he said that in the half asked Mark Norman impression that slipped out there. It’s too valuable to me. But by the same token, because it’s so valuable to me, I also wouldn’t do it just to do it, and I believe it could be done without me too. Finding new stories to tell in the same way Fraser did after Cheers. They didn’t bring along the Cheers gang to make a new show.

Jane Leaves, who played Daphne, also not part of the show. BB new Rith who played Lilith. She will return as a guest star. What about producer Roz She will appear as a guest star. What about John Mahoney, who played Fraser’s father, He will not appear.

Mahoney passed away in twenty eighteen ten episodes of New Frasier. It also stars Jack Cutmore Scott as Fraser’s son, Freddie Nicholas Lynhurst as Fraser’s old college buddy turned at university professor Allen. I hope they explain why what was Fraser on like nine seasons of Cheers and then eleven seasons of Frasier. I hope we find why Fraser never mentioned Allen or maybe he did. One of you was like dude, season seven, episode fourteen, he totally mentioned Ellen, all right whatever.

Some other characters, the head of the university psychology department, Freddy’s roommate eve In, Fraser’s nephew David. Good Burger is getting a sequel. It is called Good Burger two. Good Burger two will be on Paramount Plus this fall. The film centers on Dexter played by Keenan Thompson and Ed played by kil Mitchell, uniting at their former workplace twenty six years after Good Burger.

They are joined by a new group of employees. In the trailer, Mitchell is driving when he hits Thompson with his vehicle. Thompson explains, hey, man, he almost carburgered me to death. This leads Mitchell to excitedly reply. The New Adventures of Edondex starts now and there’s a new season of Animals in Therapy.

Animals in Therapy uses comedy and connection to advocate for animal conservation. It press release says, unlike many campaigns which feed echo anxiety, the new series uses comedy and relativity to deliver a print in message that we are all closely aligned to certain endangered species. They’re smart, they broke out some famous people. Rehese Derby breaks it down with a Coca po. I don’t know what a cockapo is, but I have Google.

A cockapo is a large, rotund parent adults can measure from fifty eight to sixty four centimeters that’s twenty three to twenty five inches for your Americans in a length when the winning span of thirty two inches. The bird is endemic to New Zealand. Murray Bartlett, you know him from White Lotus and The Last of Us. He connects with Otter. A thumbnail of a video shows two Otters and Murray Bartlett, and the text says to humans also feel happiness.

Episodes will whirl out once a week through September twelfth. You can find this on the Edge YouTube channel. And that is your comedy news for today. Thanks to DraftKings for supporting today’s show. Support my sponsors Hunt.

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Featured: Kevin Pollock, Joe Parra, John Christ, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Joe Dambrowski

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Pollock on his filmography and Jack Nicholson story
• Kevin Pollock discusses his impressions and celebrity mimicry
• Joe Parra Midwest tour and wholesome comedy approach
• Joe Parra’s podcast Drifting Off
• John Christ on the nature of comedy and offensive material
• Jim Gaffigan and Marc Maron discuss dealing with death in their specials
• Joe Dambrowski’s viral spelling test prank and teaching career
• Florida police ask public to stop reporting manatees mating

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Union Leader caught up with Kevin Pollock. I have a minor Kevin Pollock story. There was one time I had gone to lunch and came back to the office and Kevin Pollock wanted to meet to talk about a programming idea.

So I went back out to lunch and had second salad. I did it to be social. I was so full after first salad and then second salad. But I had a nice lunch with Kevin Pollock, really cool guy. That idea did not come to fruition at place I used to work of that you’ve heard of, the one with the satellites.

A lot of things went into sort of development. Never happened. But I enjoyed my time with Kevin Pollock, who told The Union Leader he’ll only admit to being part of six standout movies, including a few Good Men and Casino. Pollock said, my wife and I will negotiate because she insist its way more than six, and I’ll be grudgingly allowed her to demonstrate the numbering individual choices, and then I have to admit, okay, maybe there’s eleven. In a recent interview, Pollock said he has the stories to prove it, including Jack Nicholson hitting on my mom when she gained the set of a Few Good Men.

I’ve been in a number of movies. I don’t know the exact number, and then it instantly said ninety seven. As for impressions, and he does a lot of really good ones, including a shatterer that I love. He said, it’s a parlor trick that wouldn’t work if the celebrity was in the room, because as good as others might think I am, it’s still effects simile. If I could think of someone you love and I can recreate this in front of you, I’ll actually steal the affection you have for this person.

I have this freakishability that I can’t really explain, other than all children mimic when they’re infants in order to learn to speak until someone tells them to stop. Joe Parra is touring the Midwest and the Rust Belt. The tour is called Places I Wanted to Visit in August Love It. Parra said, I think maybe a lot of the material that I have is about missing that alternate life that I could have had had I stayed in Buffalo and the things I appreciate about it and miss As for his style, he said, I thought some ways people do stand up was like, I don’t know. There are shortcuts to a laugh using certain words talking about certain subjects.

But after a while I wanted to figure out new ways to get laughs. And I guess you could call that wholesome if I’m not talking about the dating apps are using swear words. He has a monthly podcast called Drifting Off with Joe Parra, and he said, I definitely feel it’s a cousin of the stuff that I try and do, stuff that people used to fall asleep. There’s no whispering. Ryan Dan does a complex sound sign sometimes and his music is very gentle, but it’s more about having a conversation with the audience or just keep talking so they can’t have those two to three am spirals that’ll keep you up at night.

Yeah, I’ve been there most nights lately. Keep you on a track of stuff that won’t freak you out, and there’s no mouth noises or anything like that. If you ever get a chance to see Joe Parra alive, go do it. I’ve seen him a few times. He’s fantastic.

Fox spoke with John Christ You said, basically, all comedy is just saying things out loud that you’re not allowed to say. That’s really the whole thing is. You just say things that are a little bit across the line. Any comic will tell you that makes comedy so much easier because to say something offensive back in the nineties, you’d have to go so far, be so agreed just to say something that the flabbricass that everybody. But now you get just question every day noble things, and that’s now comedy because it’s across the line.

You just have to make sure it’s done well. I think right before I press publish or a video or make a joke on stage, I look at myself in the mirror and I go, do I believe in this? Is this really something? I want to go to bat four As a comic, that’s kind of a job, not to make it more serious than it is. But in the culture it’s important on both sides that freedom of speech is welcomed.

I feel like what I do here you can buy me a coffee, and buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News through five bucks in the tip chair. I will take your money and I will go to the National Donuts Chain. I’ll be like, hey, National Donuts Chain employee, large ice coffee, caramel and milk. We’ll trade your money for some coffee. I’ll drink it.

I’ll shout you out on the show Buy Me a Coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. When Jim Gaffigan was on with Mark Maron recently, Maren asked him about his special. They realize both their specials, we’re dealing with death. Maren said, you know, and I did this in a different way, but to intentionally deal with death, I’m gonna do it the way you do it.

That was sort of a departure because you did it in ten minutes, and that was sort of a choice. Jim said, it’s all self assessment, right, Maren, Right, self assess and be We’re like, you know, I have to deal with these things they’re either pressing in my life or because look, food is everyone knows food, and everybody knows, you know, a lot of the cultural points that you’re talking about. But death, to go into it and deal with the reality of it, you know, it’s risky, Jim, It is risky, and I think one of the things that with my wife’s medical crisis is you know, I believe that as humans we live in such denial about the fact that we’re going to die, and then we do lose a loved one that we kind of dip in this reality. We kind of, you know, whether we’re sitting in awake or sitting shiva, we kind of look at each other and we go, Wow, this is crazy. People are dead, and then we dip out of it and we don’t want to hear anything about it.

From King five Seattle, one, Seattle based comedian Jodambrowski makes fun of being a teacher. It’s from years of experienced Joe said, I loved dad. It’s definitely the most underrated profession I could think of without teachers. There’s no other profession. Teachers are just so down out, overworked and sad, and being in that sort of trauma makes for a great comedy.

He’s got tens of millions of views on YouTube and nine hundred thousand ins to followers. He’s mister d His breakthrough performance was at school. He said, I remember boring days at school, not wanting to be there, and I never wanted my students to experience that. One day, he recorded himself pranking his fourth grade class with a fake spelling test, including words like tangentine and speak Uslam, which is spelled spee k u z SLMN. Those are silent letters at the end.

Okay, he said, I posted it, and I wake up with twenty million views. The local news at my school trying to get interviews with me, my principal and a full frenzy, not knowing what to do. I remember the secretary being like, Joe, good morning, America’s on the phone and he’s like, I’m in social studies right now. That’s awesome. And Florida police have asked you to stop reporting the manatees having group sex.

Do I have your attention? Yes? The police tell us the manatees are more than fine. The Penella’s County Sheriff’s office took to Facebook to let everyone know we get calls all the time from citizens when they see this, believing the manatees are in distress. We can assure you they’re more than fine.

Manatees actually mate and herds and are often near the shore. So if you see some manateees getting it on, leave them be, will you?

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Mark Normand, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Jay Pharoah, Jim Gaffigan, Mark Marin, Ryan Sickler

What’s in This Episode

• Andrew Schulz raves about Taylor Swift concert experience
• Mark Normand’s favorite comedy specials of all time
• John Oliver and Seth Meyers live show at Beacon Theater
• Jay Pharoah taping special at Den Theater Chicago
• Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa buddy action comedy film
• Ryan Sickler overcomes rare blood disorder

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The Shark Deck. If you listen regularly, you know, sometimes I’ll record back to back episodes, especially with the weekend. So here’s a question for you. When your creative juices are flowing and you sound pretty good on the mic, do you keep going or do you take the potty break you kind of need to take? See, I’ve been drinking one of these large ice coffees from the National Donut chain.

By the way, Pumpkin is back. It wasn’t back a week ago. The app told me Pumpkin was back, and I went there and they’re like, no, and Pumpkin’s not back. What are you talking about? But it’s back now, baby.

Anyway, I’ve had some and I’m like, kind of could you use a break here? DMI Johnny Mac. But I’m flowing, so I’m gonna keep going. Andrew Schultz went to see Taylor Swift. He was very excited.

I also saw Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift was amazing. I’m not the biggest Swifty, but I walked out of that concert going, wow, she’s great. Now. I’m a big Springsteen fan, at least I was until he decided to charge everybody five hundred dollars for tickets this tour.

Note thanks brucing your four times. I’ll pass and enjoy the empty seats he would have had in Philadelphia. And Yeah, Springsteen was on Instagram saying, hey, take it still available. He wound up canceling those shows. Bruce himself was ill.

Or maybe conspiracy theory, Johnny Mac. Maybe Bruce didn’t want to play to empty seats in Philadelphia. I love a good conspiracy anyway. Taylor Swift like four hours, high energy, choreographed as routines. You know, so if Bruce and the guys want to stand at the other end of the stage and just play guitar, I’m not as impressed as I was twenty years ago.

I digress, Johnny Mac, getto You’re and a f in today. Andrew Schultz want to see Taylor Swift. He was on Instagram and captured it. I went to Taylor. By the way, it was the greatest live concert I’ve ever seen in my life.

The only person who can compare to Taylor Swift is to Michael Jackson. Let’s not compare Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson. Maybe Michael Jackson as a performer, but you know, you know, google Michael Jackson. Let’s not get into that. Schultz said, there’s nobody else.

You’re doing it a service to any other artist if you compare Taylor Swift to them. I’m being honest with you. It was the most amazing live concert I’ve ever seen. Andrew was asked if he’s ever Beyonce. He wrote back, Son, I’ve seen Beyonce and I was just gonna hurt feeling here, But you’re doing it a service to Beyonce to compare it to Taylor Swift, because Taylor is in another galaxy.

Love it Middle East Esquire, you’re home for comedy new Who’s asked Mark Norman, what are the three top specials of all time for you? Mark Norman said, WHOA. I’m going to try and be objective because some of these specials they hit at the right time. You’re young, they mean a lot to you, So I’m gonna try it and not to go personal and emotional. I think Louie’s second special Chewed Up, it’s like a masterpiece.

That’s the stop of the heap, masterpiece opus best work he’s ever done. Are you enjoying the half? Asked Mark Norman, and I’m starting to slip in it’s not quite there, but it’s not awful. Chris Rocks Bring the Pain is pretty damn amazing. It’s rod it’s dark, it’s it’s funny, it’s silly, it’s got everything.

It’s got crazy jokes where you’re like, oh my god, I can’t believe he’s saying that. But it’s also really smart stuff. There’s so many great specials. Norman said, I love Zeinfeldt’s first one I’m telling you for the last time, that has so many great jokes in it. It’s just years of reps and doing work.

I love these early specials because he could see how much time and effort people put into it. Killing Them Softly by Dave Chappelle, the first one’s incredible. Top to Bottom, the Sesame Street bit, that’s incredible. Ellen’s first one Here and Now is really good. Richard Pryor obviously Live in Constant might be the best comedy special ever made.

Top to Bottom, Gaffigans Beyond the paleis great. Milany’s New Town is still I think his best work. Killer. I agree. Napergatzy’s last special put that on the list.

That one was incredible. Yes, Bill Burrs, why do I do this? I mean that hour blew my mind, and Michelle Wolf’s first HBO special was incredible. Check that out The New York Times. I went to see John Oliver and Seth Myers.

They played together at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan. They each day a fifty minute stand upset. Then they returned to the stage together and answer questions. One man in the back shouted out that his goal was to be a talk show host. Seth Meyer said, bad timing.

Referring to the writer Strike Oliver said, can we have a job from you? The time says the biggest difference in seeing John Oliver live is his pacing. Last Week Tonight is so densely written that the show needs to be a little hurried to make it to intricate give its work. A lot of jokes and quick pivots must be crammed in In a stand up John Oliver’s assured deliveries and more jaunty, leisurely and varied, alternating speeds wildly in the course of a sentence. He still speaks on articulate paragraphs, but the punchlines can be so dry that some of the laughs take a second to arrive, but then they linger a slow burn kill Oliver said, America is a divided country.

You constantly hear people saying that, and he gave it a beat and taconet with and other people agreeing with them. The times right. So there’s something about the timing of the pause and the shift and intonation that made an unexpected and funny point one. He followed by skewing those who claim that we’d never have been more divided. He asked, what more did the Civil War have to do?

Some other topics, why British food stinks, the frustrations of daylight savings time. He predicted future generations would judge us harshly. His central theme was take a closer look at history and it helped make sense of the present. Seth Myers was more down to earth and observational, opening with jokes about recent gigs in Florida than moving on to his family and COVID. Jay Farrow was taping his next special tonight at the Den Theater in Chicago.

We’ll see if he busts out some of his famous impressions, including Barack Obama, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Stephen A. Smith, Kanye West, and Chris Tucker. Den Theater Tonight, Chicago, Mark Marin had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast, Oh it’s probably about a month ago now, and Maren said, I don’t know. It bothers me because I get older. I really don’t understand people.

You know, you think people are right, and then you see stuff that goes on it’s like they’re definitely not. There’s a lot of people they volunteered for their brains to be broken into a certain way. Jim said, yeah, you know, it’s like among comedians, it’s like a different kind of comedy. I get it. It’s not for me, but they’re decent people.

Dave Batista and Jason Momoa will do a buddy action comedy currently titled The Wrecking Crew. No plot details are released right now. If you are a cannabis enthusiast who likes comedy and you can be in Muskegan, Well, head on over to the Bowl at six twenty three West Clay Avenue. R j N Comedy is having a show tonight to I’m not into the cannabis. If you are, that’s cool.

I don’t care what you do. But apparently there’s a consumption space and it launches this weekend, so they’re having a comedy show. The guy putting this together says, comedy has pretty much been in my whole life. I like to make people laugh. So this first year, we’re hoping people come out and have a good time and tell other people so we can grow it next year.

It’s a free show six to seven thirty tonight. Russell Karen’s Farigatura, Jay Harris, Kevin Johnson are your comedians from the La Times How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rear disorder and laughed in the face of death. The La Time says Ryan Stickler’s storytelling style is unparalleled, his high pitch laugh is infectious, and his spirit draws you in like the smooth inhalation of a joint, which Schickler also knows the thing to two about. Sickler has a rare blood clotting disease that almost killed him. He talks about his comedy and he said, early on, when I went on stage, I used fake buck teeth and did a hillbilly character.

I’ll tell you what though, the next time I used those buck teeth, they broke and I had nothing to go with that. I was like end of prop comedy. That was like my second set ever, and I had no idea. What was even funnier what to do? He has a genetic mutation that increases a person’s chances of developing abnormal blood clots.

He said, it was the first time I was ever headlining the Breya improv for a weekend. I’m in the shower getting ready. Suddenly I fall on my knees. I’ve never felt pain like this in my life. I looked down and both my legs are like clotting.

I got rushed on the hospital and ended up being kidney stones, but they put me on bed rest, which made my legs clot Long story short, he spent the month of January on his back. The angle of his hospital bed never set higher than thirty degrees. When his tests were good, he was able to leave the hospital. Then is good news. This one’s ikey from matured old taking a look at the fringe.

Benjamin Bellow said he experienced three racial incidents during his ten day run. That is awful, He said that had never happened before. Twice he was told go back to your country. The third time, this is horrible. Let me just read the sentence as written by Turtle.

In the third case, a woman repeatedly said she couldn’t see him in the dark. People are horrible, man, Just come on. All this occurred in public places. In two cases, fellow comedians intervened. In the most aggressive case, stand up Dafna Barum called the police after no other customers or staff in the cafe where they were eating stepped in.

Below said it’s like no one knows how to respond when these incidents happen. It’s exhausting to have to deal with incidents like this, not only as it’s happening, but then to raise awareness afterwards. Black Acts should not be racially abused for visiting Edinburgh to make locals and tourists laugh. These incidents will never stop me from coming to Edinburgh. I’ve never experienced any racist incidents here before, but this year felt strange.

Perhaps they are isolated incidents, but it needs to be addressed. Black Acts visiting the city needs to be aware that there’s an increase in racial incidence. Apart from getting ready to protect ourselves, we do need more allies to act when they witness these incidents. There’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, revigate shows see tomorrow

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Featured: Bill Burr, Adam Sandler, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Rob Schneider, Conan O’Brien, Joe Rogan

What’s in This Episode

• Tig Notaro, Fortune Feamster, and May Martin launch ‘Handsome’ podcast
• Bill Burr’s ‘Old Dads’ movie acquired by Netflix for October 20 release
• Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah’ releases on Netflix
• Adam Sandler animated film ‘Leo’ coming to Netflix November 21
• Brodie Stevens tribute comedy event recap
• Rob Schneider criticizes Biden’s Hawaii fire relief response on Twitter
• Bert Kreischer discusses surfing wipeout videos and plans to surf in Texas with Robin Shadow

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark deck Man. Any day you get a new Adam Sailor Movies. Fantastic, isn’t it? Yeah? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

Taken a Sorrow, Fortune Feamster and May Martin have launched a new podcast. It’s called Handsome. Handsome is a comedy and storytelling podcast where the three comedians laughed their way through a candid, far reaching, and uproarious conversation. Pretty good guest Keenan Thompson, otsko At Katska, Neil Patrick Harris, Jimmy Fallon, and some others. Topics on Handsome range from childhood memories, to philosophical musings, to creative inspiration and even thanks to Sarah Silverman, another good guest, private part hygiene.

Pay attention to this next paragraph. A little while back, the three of us decided to get together, have some laughs, drink some whiskey, tell some stories, and even devol. I’m never before told secrets, said hosts Tig Fortune In May. Are they the borg? Did they all speak this in unison?

How does that work? I’ve seen two person quotes which confuse me. This is a three person quote. How does that work? The three of them, presumably assimilated by the board said, luckily and completely by chance, it was all being recorded on professional recording equipment.

We’re beyond excited to release our first episode and officially become the most handsome trio of hosts in podcasting history. New episodes every Tuesday, and what a shock they all have the same representation at c AA. If you were looking forward to Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s movie, well things have gotten easier for you. I think. Originally was going to hit the theaters, but Netflix has acquired it.

It will be released on October twentieth on Netflix. No trailer has been released yet. In Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s a middle aged father and his two best friends sell their company to a millennial, and they soon find themselves out of step and behind the times as they struggled to navigate a changing world of culture, career, and fatherhood. Sounds like Bill Burr would be good in that role if he is presumably one of the dads. Brian Simpson playing Joe Rogan’s Club this weekend starting tonight.

Don’t miss out. Brian Simpson named in twenty twenty one as a new character of comedy by Just for Laugh He was also named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch for twenty twenty three. He’s recording a special at Rogan’s comedy Mothership, So you might want to go, all right, big exciting day. New Adam Sandler movie, That’s right, you are so not invited to my bot Misvah. It’s on Netflix today.

It stars Adam Sandler’s teenage daughters, Sonny and Sadie. Adam Sandler plays the dad. It’s based on a young adult novel in which lifelong best friends Stacey and Lydia Stacy played by Sonny Sandler, have long dreamt of epic bot Mitzvah’s, but when popular boy Andy Goldfarb and Hebrew school drama come between them, the perfect plans go comically awry. The Hollywood Reporter says, as with many Sandler comedies, you were so not invited to My features more than a few dumb cringe worthy jokes. Let me back that up again.

Features more than a few dumb cringe worthy joke, but they add thanks to it’s well observed, amusing depiction of teenage girl aangs that a genuine sweetness at its core, it proves thoroughly winning and then the Hollywood Reporter like spoil the ending. I’m not going to do that. I started to, but I made an edit. I have saved you because I know you want to watch this and is it that wasn’t good enough? News.

There’s another Adam Sandler movie coming, I know, right, yes, Leo coming to Netflix November twenty First, all right, what’s this one? It’s animated. It is a coming of age musical comedy. Adam Sandler voices a seventy four year old lizard who’s been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades. When he discovers he only has one year left to live, he plots an escape, only to get caught up in the problems of his anxious students.

Let’s listen, Wow, Sammy’s olva. Here we go. Alright, another year, another batch of fifth grade headcases. I tell you why one kid calls me Lizzie. This year I quit it.

Just don’t pee in my lettuce ball. Then we’ll be all right. I don’t know. I gotta feeling this year is gonna be different, something big. It’s gonna happy.

It’s pretty good cast I mean, Adam Sandler, but other than that. Bill Burr Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Sadie Sandler, Sonny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Schwartzon, Nick t Turo, Robert Smigel, Jocoy, and Stephanie Sue. The Eight hundred Pound Guerrilla website recap the events at last week’s Brodie Stevens tribute. They say it featured a great night of comedy featuring top comedians including Jeff Gorland, Dean Cook, Mark Marin, Dean Delray, Sam Tripoli, Byron Bowers, Craig Gass, and some other names I am less familiar with. Goreland said, outside of Brody, comedians don’t generally like each other.

Maron praised Brodie Steven’s work ethic, saying, rarely as a comedian gun all the effing way like Brody. Eight hunder Pound Gerrilla says the night started out with a ten minute montage of Brodie himself, and he still managed to generate big laughs even from the Great Beyond. It was also supposed to be a walk and a softball game, but those were postponed due to Hurricane Hillary. Some quick house keeping you may have noticed an uptick in the commercials again, I’m transparent. This is a commercial endeavor.

Now starting next week, you’ll hear me doing more live as they say. Thanks for the folks at Gemini thirteen who have done a great job selling the show. So one of the ways you can support the show is support those advertisers. So when you hear me take a minute, minute and a half telling you about a product, a great way to support the show is to use those products and make sure you use whatever code that I’m hawking during the commercials. You’ll start hearing those things on Monday.

Thank you in advance for supporting the show. Rob Schneider has criticized President Biden over his response to the fires in Hawaii. Schneider posted a screenshot on the thing we all call Twitter. Schneider captioned it one hundred and fifteen billion US taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, one point nine million dollars to American Maui fire victims. Biden hates Americas.

Send your letters to Rob Schneider. Bert Kreischer was speaking with Tom Sagora on their Two Bears, One Cave podcast and they were watching some people wiping out surfing. Bert says, it’s my favorite. Those are my favorite videos to watch people getting effed up by waves. Go to kuk Slams dot com.

It’s one of my favorite things. Bird continued his surfing enthusiasm, saying, Robot Shadow hit me up about going surfing at a wave pool I think in Texas. I was like, you texted the right off, and guy, let me know when you want to go. You know who Robin Shadow is. Google him.

I may be getting this incorrect, but Robin Shadow is part of a whole group who showed up in Hawaii. At the same time, there’s a whole group Kelly Slater’s age who all the shot up in Hawaii. They all took different paths. They’re all buddies, They’re all badass surfers. If I’m not mistaken, Rabbit Shadow was the first person to not really care about professional surfing.

He just went out and made videos, DVDs, do badass stuff and people buy it. So we’re in. We’re going to effing Waco, Texas with Rabbit Shadow. The Hollywood Reporter listed the forty most powerful people in podcasting. I didn’t make it.

It’s not the worst list I’ve ever seen, but it’s the Holy Reporter, So you know, they’re kissing Agent Bud and they’re gonna go with the big stars. Some names you may know. Conan O’Brien. You’ve heard of him. He has a podcast called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.

Did you hear my cheer? Click there? Yeah? I lean to the left and it made a noise and I’m not editing that out. Another name on the list Joe Rogan.

You may know him from The Joe Rogan Experience, a rather popular podcast that The Hollard Porter says reportedly averages eleven million listeners per episode. Nick Afferman is touring. The official description, Join Nick Offerman for night of deliberative talking, mirth, and music and evening that compels listeners to chuckle while also causing them to honestly countenance the aspects of humanity about which we have to laugh so that we don’t want to attack each other with the shovels. Nick Offerman tonight in Calgary at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Oh, that hasn’t shown up in my Google stuff.

Let’s let’s take a look at that for the weekend. Nice line up Nick Offerman Tonight, Jonathan van Ness on Saturday, Andrew Schultz on Sunday. You’ll find them all on Prince’s Island Park in Calgary. Anyway, Nick Offerman’s tour. If you’re in Cleveland and I know you are, he’ll be there September twenty ninth, then Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, wins Are Ontario.

I won’t read you the ten other dates. You can go to Nickofferman dot COO. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow the