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Featured: Shane Gillis, Todd Barry, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Ronny Chieng, Bill Burr, Mark Marin, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Netflix Special ‘Beautiful Dogs’ September 5
• Todd Barry Special ‘Domestic Short Hair’ on All Things Comedy YouTube Monday
• Jessica Seinfeld’s A Very Good Plus Night of Comedy Benefit at Carnegie Hall October 18
• Comics Come Home Fundraiser Boston November 4
• Dave Chappelle’s 50th Birthday and Madison Square Garden Residency
• Pete Davidson Returns to Social Media After Rehab
• Multiple Comedy Specials Released on YouTube

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. What’s up. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust one. Today, Shane Gillis will make his Netflix debut, and it’s pretty soon September fifth.

His stand up special is called Beautiful Dogs, was filmed earlier this year in Virginia during his Shane Gillis Live Tour. No trailer yet, but September fifth is soon. Man, things have turned out all right for Shane. Remember he was announced as part of the cast of SNL a few years back and then got not quite canceled, but Lorn was like, no, You’re not on the show. Shane has made his own path.

Congratulations Shane Gillis. Todd Barry also announced a new special. He did that via Instagram. His special, Domestic Short Hair, will be on All Things Comedies YouTube channel. That one’s coming out on Monday.

Yeah wow right. There will also be an album on October thirteenth. That’s good, say you programmed the comedy stations on the Live one app. It’s always good to have new comedy albums. Todd even shared a clip.

Let’s listen. I had a beard for a while, then I got a girlfriend who doesn’t like beards. And she was really subtle about it. She’d say things like, oh, you have a beard. Huh.

Some of my friends like guys with beards. I was like, Oh, that’s weird. Some of my friends like when people say things directly. Continuing our big news Thursday, Jessica Seinfeld’s nonprofit has announced a fundraiser. Some pretty good comedians will be at A very Good plus Night of Comedy.

This will be at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on October eighteenth. By the way, if it’s Andrew Carneggie, why do we all say Carnegie Hall. I’ve always wondered that. Anyway. Pretty good lineup that Jessica Seinfeldt has gotten.

She got Jerry Seinfeld to do the show. Pretty impressive.

Also, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, and Ronny Chieng d Nice will be your DJ for th…

Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Ronny Chieng pretty good. Dan Leary also announced the annual Comics Come Home Right. All the announcements today. This is the longest running comedy fundraiser in the country. It’s twenty seventh year.

This will be at Boston’s TD Garden on November fourth. Your performers pretty impressive, even out there, Jessica Seinfeld, my humble opinion, Dennis Leary and Lenny Clark. Okay, Bill Burr, Mark Marin, already, I’ll take that here, let’s play it. Would you rather see Seinfeld, Kevin art Amy, Ronny Chieng Or would you rather see Bill Burr, Mark Marin and whoever else? I say here, I’ll take the ladder Bill Burr, Mark Marin, Rachel Feinstein, Alex Edelman, or Lando Baxter, Robert Kelly, and Tommy Pascatelli again with Dennis Learry and Lenny Clark on top.

Pretty good. Seinfeld is really really good live though, like really really good, like the best. Dave Chappelle turns fifty today. Happy Birthday, Dave. Dave has been playing Madison Square Garden this week.

I have not seen anything about the particular shows yet. I will share it when I get it. I quick stop at gossip Corner. This from the Sun. Pete Davidson has resurfaced on social media.

You may remember at the end of June, Pete had checked into rehab. Well. Pete has posed for a full length picture posted by his friend Sarah Lee. Sarah posted the dis on Instagram. She posted an older photo of she and Pete on one side, and on the other a more recent picture of the two friends hugging.

The caption says then and now so so so insanely proud of you hashtag Pete Davidson. The Sun says last week, Pete looked healthy as he posts for picture after he got a haircut at Don’s Barbershop. You’ll find Don’s Barbershop in ponte Vedra, Florida. John Heffron’s new specials out on YouTube. It’s called Sunday Night in DC, recorded at the DC Improv in Washington, DC.

You probably could have figured that out without me telling you. John Heffron takes the stage to share his unique take on the absurdities and intricacies of everyday life. Pretty generic description there, right, Isn’t that what every comedian does, their unique take on the things of everyday life? No? Yes, yes, no, yes yes.

From family antics to relationship to Lemma’s work, Shenanigans to the trials of aging, John Heffron masterfully transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, turning the mundane into a side splitting journey of hilarity. You guys might want to run this copy through chat GBT or something. This is very generic. His clever observations and spot on punguli this copy is just so vanilla. His clever observations and spot on punchlines resonate with audiences of all ages and backgrounds, creating an exuberant atmosphere that keeps the laughter rolling from start to finish.

Also on YouTube, JB Balls It’s my privilege growing up in diverse communities, schools and sports teams. JB persona fies the unity our country should strive for. From recounting childhood experiences with white friends aspiring to become the first black president, to narrating a tale of saving a turtle from a gunman, JB addresses these obstacles with wits and levity. This was filmed at the University of Tampa’s Sharlene E. Gordon Theater.

That’s out on YouTube. One more.

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Also out on YouTube.

Foil Arms and Hogs Swines. Now you’re like, who is foil Arms and Hog I didn’t know either, but the he tells me they are Ireland’s top comedy group and Swines is a live comedy special with hilarious sketches, rezor sharp ad libs and sheer silliness. Swines was the best reviewed in top selling show at the twenty nineteen Edinburgh Fringe all Right, That’s pretty good with over one billion online views, including the viral hits Getting past Us Immigration and an Englishman Plays Risk. The group are best known for their YouTube sketches. The show features a host of hilarious sketches, including the World’s Strongest Man Mime Edition, What Happens when an actor is used for military purposes and the true story of when Beethoven was part of a musical duo with some guy called Barry, recorded live in Dublin following a sixty eight worldwide tour.

All Right, That’s foil Arms and hog sounds fun. The BBC asks a perfect question. They ask they have millions of followers for their TikTok sketches, but how will four hugely successful creators fair and a live stand up show at the Edinburgh Fringe. Cocos is one of four TikTok comedians who, she says, want to find out if there are any good at stand ups. Sarell has nine hundred thousand followers, she says, which is better than four LinkedIn comedians, so you’re gonna have a decent hour, not bad, the BBC says, as host Sarell gets stuck straight in with some CrowdWork quote unquote, I can read between the lines there, BBC writer.

In other words, asking people in the front row what they do for living and trying to come up with an amusing response. But Sarell struggles to find good banter with the first victims and awkwardly moves on. It’s not long before we know the professions of most of the people in the first two rows. She eventually admits defeat and says, I think crowd work is done. As mc currell returns in between the other acts, she grows more comfortable and assured, and proves her crowd work can work when she plays matchmaker in the audience.

Stephen mckel three point eight million followers and BBC rights how to put this is larger than life and flamboyant with a flair for physical comedy. His sachet onto the stage could form a TikTok video on its own, but here it only fills five seconds out of his fifteen minutes lot. But he did some work about his family and apparently did okay. Next up, a Yama, Ponder says her first name is Japanese. Four, my parents are pretentious.

A Yama has two point seven million followers. She built her following largely commentating on videos of things like bottles being rolled down stone steps and watching them smash. The BBC writes, yes, that’s a thing on TikTok. No. I don’t secretly write for the BBC, but I’m aligned with this writer.

I like you, BBC writer. Ponder starts here, set with tongue and cheek, brags about being a TikTok star and incredibly famous, before moving on to everyday topics like dating an the nicknames she’s given boyfriends based on their physical attributes wink, wink, nudge, nudge is saying no more, no what I mean. As she exits, she says, I’ve been amazing and you’ve been so so. Next up, Henry Rally one point two million followers on TikTok. He made his name with videos parenting pompous, posh people.

He puts his whole body into fully acting out his ridiculous characters and earns extra laps by being more blunt and risque than his co stars. Of the four, he is the most fully formed act, is the most convincing storyteller, and seems to have the self possession required for stand up. If you’re curious, get over to Edinburgh. Knock Knock is at the Pleasant Courtyard Cabaret Bar until Sunday. And that’s your comedy news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. And I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Mark Normand, Nate Bargatze, Norman Freeman, Dean Baptiste, Eric Appell, Al Yankovic, Maddie Smith

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand discusses the challenges of touring and his ideal day off
• Norman Freeman receives backlash for fat suit character ‘Obese Betty’ videos
• Nate Bargatze on Dave Ramsey’s podcast about knowing when he made it
• Dean Baptiste interviewed by The Guardian on comedy inspirations and industry observations
• Eric Appell discusses directing the ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ movie
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival reported to have recovered to pre-COVID box office levels
• Maddie Smith touring after appearing on MTV’s Wild n’ Out

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Esquire Middle East spoke to Mark Norman about touring. Mark said, I’d just like to work, but I always forget about the little things. You know, people say you want to do Nashville.

I, oh, I’d love to do Nashville. I love Nashville, I love the club, I love comedy. But then you forget that it requires packing a bag, getting an uber, going the airport, flying there, landing, getting none of the ruber. I always forget about that part. I always say yes to everything.

And then I realized, oh my god, I want to kill myself. I’m hungover and now I’m in a baggish claim and I want to vomit on the floor. But I still get to do the Nashville show. It’s kind of like a lady. You’re like, oh, I’d love to sleep with this lady.

Then you realize you got to meet your parents, are getting married, and you have a kid. You know, you just want to kill yourself. All right, Mark, what do you do on a day off? I’d kill for a day off. Well, I actually like stand up.

I’d like to chill out all day. I’m a big walk guy. I think walking is highly underrated, So I’d walk around the city with a podcast going, maybe do a couple pull ups on some scaffolding, have a nice lunch with the wife, and then write some jokes and do some comedy. Comedian Norman Freeman getting some push back after posting videos of their character Obese Betty, in which Freeman performs in a fat suit. One of the video shows Freeman struggling to get the fat suit in a pair of pants, another shows the character eating, and a third clip shows them drinking alcohol.

All three of the videos one viral one has almost five billion views. In a TikTok boasted last week, plus sized fashion influencer Munat’s ab Duels says that she can’t believe people are still making jokes like this about fat bodies. In her TikTok, she asks was that fat suit really necessary? What year is this? Some of the commentators suggested that Abduel should lighten up.

Others agree that Freeman’s video was hurtful. Oh My Julily was speaking of the Metro on a related note and said, we all need safe spaces, but we have to be very careful what we say with cancel culture, and there are a lot of people who come to be offended. They all want to go viral. They know they’re cameras. In the live arena, we have to be a little bit careful what we say, so we don’t want attract nutbags.

But also in the live arena, anything can happen. Lots of stuff is hap in my career, and you have to sort of roll with it. It teaches you to live in the moment. But if comedians are feeling unsafe, if that’s something that should be addressed. Nate Brigatsy was on Dave Ramsey’s podcast and talked about how he knew when he made it.

Nate said, I worked at Applebee’s in comedy. When I got to the point that I was making just as much as i’d been making an Applebee’s that someone who knew go to college or anything, I was like, all right, I’m making just as much as I would make, you know, thirty grand a year, whatever it is.

And then you slowly have little check marks we can be like, all right, I woul…

After the Netflix specials released, we took a pretty big leap where you go to theaters and the audience is there to see you. You gotta have new material. You got of all this new stuff. They’re there to absolutely see you. He’s still amazed at his success.

He says, why would I get any of these awards? I don’t think I deserve any of the stuff. It’s wild and hard to take in. When it happens, it’s pretty surreal. I’ve done stand up for twenty years.

It’s all gradual. I always say, either make it at twenty or forty. No one makes it in the middle, so you either get lucky and get plucked. You have to go out and grind it. The Guardian asked Dean Baptiste who inspired you when you’re first starting out.

Dean said, the most inspirational comic for me when I started was Chris Rock after seeing Bigger and Blacker. After that, I would say that the list is now endless, as they’ve been able to draw inspiration from all over, from Dave Chappelle to Katherine Ryan, to David Mills to Sebastian Maniscalco. There’s inspiration to be found anywhere. Any bugbears from the world of comedy. Dean said, I didn’t like the point in comedy about five years ago, where good comedy shows were measured by how many harrowing, tear jerking stories they included.

Comedy is supposed to be the endeavor of using humored, irrationalized traumatic experiences.

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Also nepotism.

If art isn’t meritocratic, and then I don’t see the point. Just make your rich kid get a job, please. Any pre show rituals, yeah, water and using the toilet. My body likes to cleanse itself before telling dirty jokes. Best heckle.

I used to have a bit where I’d asked the audience what their last meal would be if they were on death row. One audience member replied, your penis Suffice it to say, I had no comeback for that aggressively delivered compliment. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Eric Appell about Weird You Know the Al Yankovic documentary. Appell had worked on the original twenty ten Funnier Die Fake trailer, which starred Aaron Paul as Al Yankovic. After years of hearing from fans they wanted a real movie, Al reteam with a Pell to produce a full length version.

Bell says this was one of three or four fake movie trailers that I made. My thinking back then was if I can make these fake movie trailers that potentially fool people into thinking they’re real movies, real movies they’d want to see, then maybe somebody will let me actually direct a real movie. I remember right after the trailer came out, emailing Aaron Paul and Olivia Wilde, and the three of us were like, this should be a real movie. I remember bringing it up to Al the time and him kind of laughing it off as a joke. When Al emailed me out of the blue in twenty nineteen, I’ve never responded to an email faster.

The two of us got coffee the following morning, and I immediately started brainstorming ideas for a real movie. It was nice that we weren’t actually telling the true story of weird Al. I had to do zero research. I took what I knew from being a fan of Al’s. I think quiet it’s such a great partnership is because maybe he’s a little more joke forward than I am.

I direct mostly comedies, but I wanted to make sure that the movie is enough heart and the emotional beats were really earned. A good example is the Pablo Escobar sequence. In our very first meeting, Al said, I’d love it if I became an action hero like John Wick and Hawaiian Shirt. Maybe I go up against Pablo Escobar. He had just finished all of Narcos.

We had to figure out how to get Pablo Escobar in this crazy sequence. I’ll really wanted it to come out of the blue. It was my job to justify why we had a plant a couple Pablo Escobar references in early The audience will still never see it coming, but we had to know that Pablo Escobar exists in the world. At the end of the day, there’s nothing in the movie that we didn’t both agree we should be in there. All right, I’ve been talking about Fringe strife all week.

Will the Guardian kind of suggest the Fringe is doing just fine? They write Fox office income is said to be back up to immediate pre COVID levels when the Fringe reached its zenith of bloat, and that’s with programs significantly smaller than in twenty nineteen. Shells are selling, which tends to inoculate everyone involved from artist venues agents in the pr folks. Of course, the downsides haven’t disappeared. A queer sketch group from the US called Alphabet Soup or sequestered beneath a Second World War base in the absence of anything affordable above ground.

One of them told an interviewer staying at a nuclear bunker is crazy. Something long and traditional in American culture is fearing the Russians and I don’t wake a day without thinking of putin. Maddie Smith is out on tour. You may know Maddie from MTV’s Wild and Out. Originally from Buffalo, Maddie is known for her quick wit and cutting roosts.

Maddie opens for Bert Kreischer and Theo Vaughan. You’ll find it tonight in Philadelphia, then heading the Grand Rapids, Portland, and a bunch of other places. Maddie Smith Comedy dot com and there you can stream and download her album, which has the wonderful title Another Sexless Night in Queens Been There. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow this shover free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, where we get your shows.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Mark Normand, Tom Segura, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Jay McBride, Jim Jeffries, Harry Conabelo, Chris Rock, Jimmy O Yang, Big Jay Oakerson, Pat Hill, Sarah Silverman, Chris Fleming, John Early, Joe List, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Lewis Black, Hannah Gadsby, Marc Maron, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Greg Warren, Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, Caleb Williams, Shear Zemata, Andrew Doyle

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s Dark and Pale special reviewed negatively
• Best comedy specials of 2023 ranked list released
• Tom Segura ranked number one special of 2023
• Mark Normand special makes end-of-year list
• Chris Fleming’s Hell special on Peacock reviewed
• Joe List YouTube comedy special debate
• Will Ferrell crashes USC Trojans football practice
• Shear Zemata announces first stand-up special on YouTube August 29
• Andrew Doyle discusses Comedy Unleashed cancellation at Edinburgh Fringe

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I took an entire night and watched five stand up specials. I started with Jim Gaffigan’s Dark and Pale. Jim’s previous special, Comedy Monster, I had.

If it wasn’t number one on my end of the year list, it was way up there. So I’m like, all right, let me watch Dark Pale. And it’s not good. I could kind of tell right away Jim coming out in the mask didn’t work doing COVID jokes. Just felt like what are we doing?

And the material just wasn’t clicking, and I’m like, isn’t me? And I went on Facebook and I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, I’m like, is this special bad? And people kind of agree with me. So really surprised at that that will not make the end of the year list. So then I’m like, all right, let me switch over to Netflix.

I haven’t watched Mark Norman yet, but Netflix put in front of me Jared Freed’s thirty seven and single. I know Jared as Smidge. He had a podcast affiliated with a podcast company I used to work at, and I liked Jared a lot. I liked his podcast a lot, and I’m like, all right, this should be good. And immediately I was like, this is better because if nothing else, just the pacing and his snappiness on stage, and I was really enjoying that.

But I’m an admitted comedy snob, and a little while in I it kind of lost me because none of the stories felt real. They felt like they were well crafted comedy stories, but they didn’t feel like they were based in any kind of reality. So I punched out on that, I think it’s totally watchable. You’ll enjoy it, you’ll laugh. Like I said, I’m a comedy snob.

So then I went to Mark normand my notes much better. And Norman is faster paced. If you don’t like a Mark Norman joke, wait four seconds, he’s got another one right behind it. A couple of good laughs out there. I did note that he had to beg for clapter a few times.

He threw out a line and the audience didn’t do anything with it, just silence, and he kind of stood there for a second and got the claptor. Maybe some editing there might have helped that special a little bit. But Norman was pretty good. That’ll make the list. Then I switched over to Peacock and Fleming’s Hell, and right away I was like, oh, this is really fun.

I like all to your things. It was quirky, high energy, tickled my brain in a way that the other specials didn’t just because it was different. I’ll agree with the review that I read yesterday. The sketches kill it. It totally kills the momentum.

You’ll be in the middle of the stand up, you’re feeling the room and it cuts to a sketch, and the sketches are okay, but just in terms of a special, it just didn’t work. And by like the third time that the sketches interrupted the stand up, I was like I had enough. Chris Flemings Hell probably would work better as half an hour, but it will make my end of the year list.

And then it was Friday night at ten o’clock and I remember Joe List was debut…

So I’m like, all right, I’ll watch that, and I put Joe List on and perfectly fine hour of comedy at a comedy club. Really funny, you should watch it. Liked it a lot. I’m going to push back on the word special. We have to stop throwing special out there just because something is filmed and put on YouTube.

Not everything is a special. Joe List did an hour of comedy that was really funny and really good, and you should watch it. It’s not a special and just because of that, I can’t put it on the end of the year list. But totally watchable, totally funny. You should do it now.

The YouTube algorithm, after I switched Joe List off, oh my god, everything it’s suggesting to me is now a Joe List hour like I like. Joe List also was lightly affiliated with Joe and Mark Norman when they had their two Days with Stories podcast at the podcast company affiliated with my podcast company, so I know them. I had meat balls with them one day on ninth Avenue. But like, just in terms of the YouTube algorithm, it’s like Joelish joelas Jolis Jolist, like guys, I like stand comedy, but show me something else. Anyway, here’s the updated best of twenty twenty three list.

I’m going to include two things that are not comedy specials. The funniest thing of twenty twenty three so far conk on Earth. You’ll find that on Netflix. Number one special is Toom Sagoris. Two Kyle Canaine three, Naprigatsi’s Hello World.

You may have forgot about that. That came out in January. You’ll find that on Amazon Cocaine Bear. Cocaine Bear is amazing. I’m hearing more and more people talk about Cocaine b.

There are some laugh out loud scenes in that movie that’s streaming on Peacock. Fourth special of the year, Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl five Jim Jeffries that came out on Amazon in February. Harry Conabolo’s special that came out in April on YouTube. The last thirds little soft, but the front two were good. Chris Rock remember him, He had a big Netflix special that was live.

There was a big deal. Remember that one. That’s number seven. Jimmy O Yang’s Guess how Much is number eighth. I think that’s on Amazon.

The Roast of Mister Peanut Again. If you think I’m crazy, why don’t you go on YouTube watch the fifteen minute version of the Roast of Mister Peanut and tell me that that’s not good. Big Jay Okerson at ten. Mark Norman makes his chart debut at number eleven, number twelve, Nimshi pat Hill’s special was really good, Sarah Silverman’s isn’t bad at thirteen, Chris Fleming Hill slightly behind Sarah Silverman there, and John Early at number fifteen. Now, who’s not on the list.

There’s a lot of big names on this list. Jim Gaffing and Dark Pale not on the list, Joe List, Jared Freed, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney’s Baby Jay wasn’t feeling. Lewis Black wasn’t feeling. Hannah Gatsby’s third special didn’t feel it. Mark Marin, who I normally loved, didn’t make the list.

Andrew Santino Bert Kreischer’s special back in March. I didn’t love the middle and I didn’t love the end. Greg Warren, I wrote down hated sweetened audience is my note there? And Kevin Hart special did nothing for me. I have not seen Roseanne special, and I’m not seeing the eight trillion specials you’ll find on YouTube.

That’s my list. To be curious what your list is, once you go on the Daily Comedy News Facebook group and shear what you’ve been into. Will Farrell crashed the USC Trojan’s football practice on Friday. He gave the team a mini pep talk, which I’m sure they needed, before dropping to the ground and rolling around on the field and will Ferrell’s style hilarity. Several Trojan players, including raining Heisman Trophy winner and twenty twenty four projected number one overall pick Caleb Williams, posted photos with Farrell to their social media accounts.

So Sheer Zemata is excited about her current special. It’ll be on YouTube on August twenty nine. So Sheer said, this is first stand up special I’ve ever had, the first one I’ve produced, and I’m just excited for y’all to see it. I’d like to tell your friends, your family, your enemies, anyone who owes you money. In The First Woman, she jokes about dating woes, masturbation, menstruation, equality, and even Amelia Earhart.

And here’s some fun facts. Drinks were provided by Kendall Jenners eight one eight Tequila Taco’s courtesy of the Lime Truck, and guests went home with period cups as a callback to the chunk of the comedy special about periods. There has been so much drama at the fringe. This from Unheard dot Com Andrew Doyle rights, canceling our comedy show proves the point. This is the show I was talking about yesterday that was canceled, Andrew Doyle writes.

Five years ago, Andy Shaw and I set up a monthly comedy night in London called Comedy Unleashed. Our objective was to challenge what we perceived to be the group think that was developing within the industry. Promoters, TV commissioners, critics, even comedians themselves had begun to turn on X who failed to convey the correct political opinions, and many fellow comics confessed to me that that they had began a self censor for the sake of careers. And so we launched a night which would encourage innovative and freethinking acts, where we might cultivate a comedy literate audience who understood that the art form can’t exist with the potential to cause offense. Not that the acts we booked necessarily had to be offensive.

Rather they would be free to tease the limitations of the audience’s tolerance should they wish. The only condition was that they have to be funny. This year, we decided to make an appearance at the trade fair known as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We booked a venue in Leath on the outskirts of the city. That bill is to include Bruce Devlin, Mary Burke, Dominic Frisbee, Alice Stair Williams and the co creator of the classic Sitcom’s Father Ted and the It Crowd, Graham Lenahan.

Those are two great shows. Again, this is the show that was canceled that I told you about yesterday. Andrew Doyle rights, Given that we knew our show would sell out, we didn’t advertise Graham in advance, preferring instead to tease the audience with the prospect of surprised canceled comedian with the show just a few days away. We finally announced his appearance and within twenty four hours the venue, Leath Arches, had posted a statement on Instagram stating that they quote do not this comedian or his views, and he will not be allowed to perform on our venue and is canceled from Thursday’s comedy show with immediate effect. Doyle writes, the historyonics didn’t stop there.

We’re an inclusive venue, the statement continued, and will not allow such views to violate our space. The venue later deleted the post and replaced it. Doyle asks how a venue can claim to be inclusive when it excludes performers who do not subscribe to the ideology of its staff. Is anyone’s guests. Those who complain to the venue could simply have refrained from buying a ticket.

Instead, they sought to prevent the audience members of a sold out show from making their own decisions.

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Meanwhile, at the Fringe, Evo Graham got two stars from The Guardian.

His show is called Organized Fun. The Guardian rights he may be making his tenth Edinburgh appearance, but you can’t accuse Evo Graham of coasting. He’s got three separate shows at this year’s festival, and the main one, Organize Fun, takes his stand up in a new direction. At the behest of his infant daughter, he explains this is a wholly inconsequential hour which begins with stand up below Graham’s usual standard and ends with a participarity game show below the standard of other comics to do that sort of thing much better. Some comics have a flair for this crowd work, heavy comedy.

Graham isn’t one of them. There’s no spectacle, nor much fun, organized or otherwise to the game he’s created, which in any case gets bogged down in admin. Props to the veteran for trying something new, but as task Masker fans may have anticipated, he does not make a success of it. Two stars, Pleasant Courtyard through August twenty seven. And that’s your comedy news for today.

And I’m wondering why my voice is raspy, because that often happens if I record three DS in a row. I only did this one. I feel fine. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube See tomorrow

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Featured: Dave Portnoy, Kevin Clancy, David Bowie, David Spade, Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Greg Giraldo, Graham Linehan, Craig Ferguson, Chris Fleming

What’s in This Episode

• Barstool Sports appoints KFC as GM of Comedy, plans live-streaming comedy events
• KFC Radio aims to become ‘East Coast Joe Rogan’ platform for comedians
• David Spade turned down David Bowie’s SNL sketch role swap request
• Graham Linehan performs street comedy after Edinburgh venue cancellations over anti-trans comments
• Whitney Cummings taping special at Comedy Store September 23
• Greg Giraldo releases new album ‘French Drug Deal’ September 1
• The Police Don’t Destroy debut movie ‘The Treasure of Foggy Mountain’ coming November

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The Shark Deck pretty robust Monday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. This first one could be really interesting. If you’re familiar with Barstool Sports, you may have seen that Dave Portnoy, the founder, had bought back the company for a dollar That actually came up in trivia last week. But now that Dave’s back in charge, he has bumped up Kevin Clancy, you know him as KFC to GM of comedy, and this is where it will get interesting.

Specific to this podcast. They got a big profile in Deadline and it quoted Christa Stephano who said KFC Radio has helped me in my career immensely. Getting to be heard by the bar Stool audience is huge for comedian. KFC Radio has always had their doors open for new talent, too, which is always cool to see. Clancy told Deadline, I kept hearing about how comedy would be one of the branches at the company and how that we’re going to bring in a GM of comedy and not really knowing what that means.

I’ve been around long enough at Barstool or we have heads of content, heads of production, operations, all these different titles and managers who try to come in and implement new stuff without fail. Six months down the road that person would get a new gig or get fired. And here I am having changed all my content because some random person said so.

And now what I got to the point where I’m never going to listen to anybody el…

Specific to comedy, Clancy sees comedy is almost a bar stool within a bar stool branch. We have this new live stand up show that the out of Order guys host called Dollar Slices, And what I wanted was to have them do an underground, grimy, funny New York City stand up show every month where they’re hosting and featuring all these hot and up and comers that could be sold as the best new scene in New York for comic talent. As guys in New York City, we take for granted the comedy scene so badly. You could just walk outside and go to the comedy seller, pay fifteen bucks, and you get to see the best comics in the world seven days a week. They range from superstars at SNL working out their material or regular is always up on stage night tonight, to new guys just getting their start.

I started to realize if I’m going to marry the Internet to the comedy world, I think we should start live streaming comedy, and I think there’s a world where we can bring the best comedy in the world to every house in America. His ideas to treat it like a sports ball game. Maybe it’s him and one of the co hosts anchoring Clancy said, in my life, I feel like they’re sports, and right beneath that are people that follow their favorite comic podcast the way they follow their favorite teams exactly. That’s why I consider this like sports center for comedy glance. He said.

If I could bring that to those fans and up to the production level and bring the barstool lessons to it, and we’ve become the guys who invented the live streaming comedy event you can watch in your house. That would be a lasting legacy for me to elevate the industry for all the comics, and I bring live streaming of live comedy in your computer or TV screen. Those would be the two major things to blaze the trail on for KFC Radio. Specifically, my dream would be and Bert Kreisher described it best as an East Coast Joe Rogan platform. Obviously we’re nowhere near his level.

But the idea is, you’re on the West coast for Boni especially, you go on Rogan. He’s in Austin, that’s in the central of the country and he can tap you and he’s that kingmaker, and you make that the next best thing. But if you’re on the East coast and you want their promotion, KFC Radio is kind of the East coast version of that. Very very interesting. They’ve got a big platform that could make waves.

Let’s keep an eye on that. We’ve seen what Rogan’s done in Austin. David Spade was on his podcast and talked about the time he turned down David Bowie’s request to switch roles with him in an SNL sketch. In the sketch, Bade had himself playing receptionist that stops you because he thinks that they’re better than you, and he envisioned David Bowie making a cameo as himself. Bowie wasn’t at the pitch meeting.

Spade then got a message asking him to call Bowie at his hotel. As Spade tells the story, I called him and he answers and it’s effing Bowie and he’s like, this sketch is so effing funny. This is exactly my life and these people I see, and he goes one tweek. Can I play the receptionist? That’s the funnier part.

Bowie argued playing himself was kind of boring since everyone has seen that. He suggested that Spade play Bowie and Bowie play the receptionist. I actually think that’s funnier. I agree with you. David Bowie’s ghost.

Spade turned it down because he was hoping it would turn into a recurring character. Bowie was persistent and said, well, what if the sketch never gets on the show. Spade’s like, I’m like, do you know this show? This well so true? What if it doesn’t get on?

I’m blowing it. He’s like, it’ll get on if I do it. Spade admitted that the whole sketch may have backfired on him because not only did it not get picked up for the show, Spade didn’t appear in any other sketches in the its entire episode. He said, the rest of the week, I wasn’t of the show, and I was like, f speaking of Saturday Night Live. The police don’t destroy guys.

Their debut movie is called The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. It’ll be out in November. Whitney Cummings will tape a new special at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles on September twenty three. Maybe there’s still some tickets available. You’ll find a link on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla website.

Greg Groups has a new album, French Drug Deal. Wow, that’s a great title. That’ll be out Friday, September one on a special Thing Records, recorded live at the Punchline in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. French Drug Deal follows Gregg’s previous release in the city, which he recorded live at the Punchline on New Year’s Eve twenty twenty two. From PinkNews dot com, Grand Lenin performed a comedy show outside of Hollyrood in Edinburgh to as Tiny Crowd after being acced from performing at an Edinburgh venue over his continued anti trans campaigning rights Pink News.

After receiving complaints from the public, a community hub, leath Arches, announced that it had canceled Lenahan’s appearance as a guest on The Thursday Show last week, hosted by GB Newss Andrew Doyle. Then a second venue also act Doyle and Lenahan. So the gig organized There’s Comedy Unleashed put the show on the street, where Lenahan performed on a makeshift stage to about fifty people. A video of his street performance was posted on Twitter X whatever can we stop with the x? Twitter comments included I thought comedy is supposed to be funny.

In an interview with Mail Online, Lenahan said that trans rights activists needs to be defeated completely. I want to make it clear, I’m not talking about trans people. I’m talking about trans rights activists, two very distinct groups that often have nothing to do with each other. I just think they need to be defeated it completely. It’s important at least stand in front of a microphone, even if it’s just for a second, and show that these people don’t get to push for the rest of us around and to demonstrate hell times have changed and gotten crazy.

Craig Ferguson’s catchphrase used to be it’s a great day for America. He said. The thing is when I say it now, and I’d still say it, but since about twenty sixteen, half the audience gets mad at the other half of the audience. I say it’s a great day for America, and they’re like, what the hell do you mean by that? And the other people are like, no, he’s right, shut up, no, you shut up.

Davy Club reviewed at Chris Fleming’s Hell that came out on Peacock late last week. I have not had an opportunity to watch it yet again, just to catch everybody up. My mom is pretty sick, so I haven’t had as much time to come home and watch stand up comedy as I might normally have. Thank you for giving who to Chris Fleming has long been a fairly niche figure, writes The av Club. Luckily, Fleming has not jettison at any of the flare that has made him a star.

Among as he says, quote theater people who don’t get cast. Fleming moves through topics with lightning speed. Minor spoilers here the first five minutes alone spoilers, riffs on parades, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama’s podcast, and drivers of Nissan Cubes. Davy Club said the effect is pleasantly disorienting and immediately breaks down whatever protective wall the audience had up much of the set’s success. His own to Fleming’s physicality.

The comedian’s well aware of how bizarre his own body is, offering it up for a slightly nightmarish sight gag in the opening minutes where he vocally compares himself to a horse. Sounds kind of fun and for Milwaukee Magazine, Taylor K. Phillips went on a road trip around the region to gain insight for her new book, A Guide to Midwest. Conversation that the book chronicles celebrates in decodes all the characteristics of Midwest speak. Taylor says, I remember the first time in New York I went up to the Starbucks barista and said, good morning, how are you, and you look like it genuinely scared him.

I’m very joky, bubbly and high energy, and in the Midwest that’s just normal. But on the coast people say things like your Midwest is showing. Back in Kansas City, she was at a coffee shop and heard someone say the phrase, well you know, she’s a character, Philip says, Basically, it meant this woman is bunkers. You have to mentally prepare to interact with her. That’s one of the first times I really noticed how different our phrasing is.

In the Midwest, and that’s your company needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow

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Featured: Mark Normand, Sean Patton, Chad Daniels, Dena Hasham, Anthony DeVito, Ian Lara, Jessica Curson, Sean Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Sam Morrell, Don L. Rawlings, Caitlyn Cook

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand’s favorite underrated comedians
• Mark Normand’s meeting with Jerry Seinfeld
• Mark Normand’s top comedy specials from the past year
• Sam Morrell’s comedy career and road work
• Don L. Rawlings on the origins of Ashy Larry character
• Caitlyn Cook’s one-woman show about bathroom graffiti
• Carnival Cruise considering early evening comedy shows

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Norman spoke to Esquire Middle East as one does and Esquire Middle East ask Mark Norman, who are some of the comedians you’d recommend to people that you feel like we’re missing out on? Great question? Mark said, I love this question because I love giving some love to these killers who aren’t as big as they should be.

Write these down kids, Mark Norman’s list. Sean Patton. I started with him in Louisiana. He’s a little older than me, but he’s just one of these lightning in a bottle kind of comics. He’s whacking all over the place, interesting, original, unpredictable, and just kills.

Then there’s Chad Daniels. He was number one on Pandora for a while, but he’s so good. He did the Fully Loaded Festival and he was killing every night. Dena Hasham is great jokes and I think she’s coming out with a special soon. Anthony DeVito is a funny comedian in New York.

I think has an album out, Yes he does. Ian Lara is really funny. He’s got an HBO thing that nobody saw. Jessica Curson is funny. I’m blanking out him more.

But yeah, check those people out. Oh, Sean Murphy, check him out. He’s got an album too, They asked Mark, I meant about the time he got the approval from Seinfeld? Did he call you? Keep it such?

Mark said, it was surreal, say the least. It still blows on my mind that I have his phone number and that we’ve met. But that’s the beautiful thing about comedy. There’s less pretension. Mick Jagger is never going to meet a bar ballroom guitar playing musician.

He’s off at the O two arena. This ballroom musician is just in some rinketing bars somewhere in Cleveland, and he’s brilliant, he’s killing. But I’ll never meet Mick Jagger. I got to meet Seinfeld because he saw me on The Tonight Show or a comedy club, and that’s what’s so cool. Mark Norman.

Do you watch other comedians? What are your top three specials from the past year? Mark Norman said, I thought Sam Morrell’s At the Same Time Tomorrow was great. That might be two years ago. I thought Louis Sorry was amazing.

Mulaney’s Baby Jay was cool. It’s a nice style change for him.

Speaking of Sam Morrell, The Valley Advocate talked to Sam, who said, I work …

I’m on the road a lot. I’m a comedian. I have to keep busy, and there’s a certain amount of catching up I’ve had to do over the last few years. I like being able to make people laugh, and when it got to the point that I could get the teachers to laugh too, was a way to get through the day. I wasn’t the greatest student.

He tells stories about some of the oddball characters he’s met. There was a guy in Cleveland who told Sammy at his back after Sam had been threatened outside a bar by the boyfriend of a woman who was talking to As Sam tells the story, that man was dressed all in white and introduced himself as the White Knight and a short Sam. He was there to keep that part of the city safe quote, I protect downtown Cleveland. The Valley Advocate says. Some of Sam Morrell’s best riffs are on the never ending debate about guns, Quoting Sam every mass shooting, they say he was a quiet man.

That should be part of the background check. You want this gun, you’d better be Chatty do my podcast, then we’ll see another take. Aftery gun debate, they bring up the Founding Fathers. You know the Founding Fathers had guns. Yeah, they did, but they also had wigs.

They thought a powdered wig was a good look. So that’s my stance on guns. You can have a gun, but you have to wear the wig. At least then I could tell who’s dangerous from afar. Sam has a bit in which he relates how a liberal friend explained to him Trump is Hitler.

Sam said, look, we don’t know how hilarious Hitler would have been on social media. That’s not fair. Hitler might have had a strong Twitter presence. He imitates someone tapping on a cell phone trapped in bunker. Sad Don l Rawlings spoke to The Journal News and said the character Ashley Larry, wasn’t Ashley on paper.

He was just a guy with boxer shorts, dress shoes, and he liked to gamble away his wife’s money. But I was doing Chappelle show, I didn’t get too many speaking roles. I was like, I need to be physically funny. I thought, when the camera first pans me, I want to be funny. So I went to the makeup department and said, I need a bottle of baby powder.

I’m gonna be the ashiest guy in this dice game. I didn’t let anybody know when they sayed action. I had a handful of baby powder and I blew it out, and an iconic street character was born that was Ashy Larry. So when I put the show together, I collect stories and I put him in a document, and I moved stuff around depending on how much I have on a particular day. And I like to include the source.

So for this one, I apparently I don’t know what happened. Here’s what I wrote as the source. One word, Oh you are t w n n Y no idea, but I just looked it up. Oh ourtown New York dot com. Who tells us about Caitlyn Cook who after college, Caitlyn Cook happened upon a piece of bathroom graffiti at a dive bar that said, writing on toilet walls is neither for critical acclaim nor a financial reward.

It is the purest form of art discuss. Cook was an art or history major and thought it was an intriguing way to think about bathroom graffiti from an art historical lens. She spent five years photographing things written on bathroom walls. Her one woman show, The Writing on the Stall is set in the bathroom of a dive bar, She’ll Beat the Soho Playhouse September six through the twenty third. One particular exchange stayed with her.

Someone had written plant your own garden, decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers, and then underneath it somebody wrote, f off, they should bring you flowers, And I love that both things can be true. About five years ago, I was doing a lot of musical comedy, and I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if some of the things I’ve seen written on bathroom walls were lyrics? So I wrote one song where all the lyrics were from bathroom graffiti, and I had photos had taken of the graffiti projected behind me as I sang. It got such a wild response. Everyone loved it, and I thought, oh, I could probably write a whole musical of the You know you’re wondering the best places to find bathroom graffiti in New York City, Well, Caitlin Cook tells us the Cobra Club in Bushwick and Sharlen’s and Park Slope.

Hank Saloon used to be really great, but it shut down a couple of years ago. I just found some a Jimmy’s Corner in Midtown. Really, any sort of Artzydivy bar is gonna have some great bathroom graffiti most of the time. Well, what’s the difference between men’s bathroom graffiti and women’s stalls? Caitlin says, it’s so funny you asked.

I currently have a real blowing up right now about this. It just hit five point six million views, which is wild. I have all these people in my comment section just debating the difference between men and women bathroom graffiti, which is so funny. I see a lot of really uplifting, empowering, beautiful things that women write to each other, like you got this, you go girl, just breathe leave him it’s okay. And in the men’s stalls some beautifully illustrated penises.

What about gender neutral bathrooms? She said, I saw one the other day. More people should be named Luisa. It just makes me think, who wrote that? Were they named Luisa?

Were they in love with someone named Luisa? What’s their story? One more quirket won she saw recently, which said, up until recently, I didn’t know that Stevie Wonder was blind. I thought classes were just his thing. For more information to Vie Caitlin Cook dot com, Carnival Cruises might be adding an early show.

We get this from crushive dot com, which is your home for comedy news. Apparently, if you’ve been on a Carnival cruise lately, you may have gotten a survey which asked whether or not you’d be interested in an earlier evening comedy show, one that runs from five to five thirty pm. Such an early show would be before the early seating for the ship’s main dining rooms, which is usually at five thirty five, forty five or six fifteen. Typically, Carnival’s earlier comedy shows, which are thirty to forty five minute sets, are scheduled between eight and ten PM and their family friendly, while shows that begin after eleven are generally adult rated. Sir Billy Connolly has unveiled four new drawings for sale.

Billy Connolly is eighty He’s been an artist since twenty twelve. The artworks are titled Punchous Tries, Pilates, Got It One, Arm Juggler, Nightmare and Drunk Donkey Billy said, I thought it’d be funny to call Poncious Pilates, and then I thought people would be offended by that, so I fiddled around and I got Poncious tri Spilates. He’s just a guy trying at the gym, trying his best. I don’t understand the whole gymnasium culture, but he doesn’t. He’s good as for one arm juggler.

Well, he’s an example of the fact that most of the figures in my work are doing things that don’t matter, just doing things they do think it’ll do good. I’ve spent my life doing that. You see guys out in their sixties running in an evening and you think, get a chair and a bottle of beard. Switch on the TV. Who are you kidding?

Nightmare? He says. I’m famous for shouting in the night and singing and laughing. My daughters seeing me. I’ve never remembered it.

And Drunk Donkey goes back to his days when he lived in Scotland. He owned two donkeys who he said he would let wander the play seating grass. They cling to you. They’ve got a real tide of human beings. Donkeys are funny animals, but it’s an endearing kind of funny.

Our donkeys used to scape over the wall the garden, run down to the village, and the villagers would bring them back. Donkeys always looked drunk and behaved drunk. And that’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube Where the Gears Shoes See you Tomorrow.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Mark Normand, Jessica Kirson, Paul F. Tompkins, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife on social media success and traditional comedy routes
• Matt Rife’s plans to pursue acting alongside stand-up
• Matt Rife’s new comedy hour material
• Mark Normand on The 800 Pound Grill with Bert Kreischer
• Mark Normand on introversion and fan interactions
• Jessica Kirson on social media strategy for comedians
• Jessica Kirson’s sold-out theater tour and career breakthrough
• Jessica Kirson on pay gap between male and female headliners
• Paul F. Tompkins on therapy and comedy
• Milwaukee Comedy Festival 2023 lineup
• Nina Gee releases first solo comedy album ‘Stutterer Interrupted’

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News Deadline profiled Matt Rife and said, Hey, Matt, your success with social media and self produced specials seems to highlight what’s so exciting about the world of stand up today. Rife said, the idea and route of traditional success in comedy doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s so much fewer and far further between. Now you’d get a late night show for five minutes than you do Montreal.

You get a TV series and Netflix or Comedy Central picks up for full special. That really doesn’t happen now. The entertainment industry has gotten so lazy via social media, and social media does provide everybody with kind of an opportunity to get seen and build an audience. Now a lot of it is luck. I can’t tell you what I did the first time to get my first couple of tiktoks to pop.

I could tell you what that is. Apparently, Rife used to hate social media. He said, I’m a fifty five year old man like I grew up around forty forty five fifty year old comedians who taught me the roots of success. That’s how I saw their careers blossoms. So I’ve built my entire career in life thinking that’s how things are gonna work.

But now social media gives you the opportunity to get in front of people. The entertainment industry is kind of screwed itself over and that they’ve lost the power of accessibility that’s now in your phone. Will Matt Rife start acting? He said absolutely. I love acting just as much, if not more than stand up.

I just haven’t been doing it as long and I’ve been able to get my foot in the door as well as I have with stand up. But now that I have the freedom and success via stand up, it opens up avenues in other areas that I’m passionate about, like film and TV that I’m hoping I can make the transition over too, because it can only feed itself. I’ve done a lot of independent work. I’ve done a lot of MTV Disney style stuff, so I’m really looking forward to the next project that I work on and acting to be something that I’m really proud of and enjoy doing. Matt Rife is working on some new material.

He said, his new Hour is so much fun for me because the first half of it is so silly and ridiculous and fun. And the second half is some stuff I actually got to pour some thought into, which if you’ve watched either of my previous specials, I kind of like to end the last of it with something people can think about and put some thought behind and given some real perspective on something I’m generally passionate about, as well as making it funny with a fun story. So I’d say it’s my most fun hour yet. I think people are going to really like it. Mark Norman spoke to The eight hundred Pound Grill about with Bert Kreisher.

Norman said, it’s a blast. It does take a special kind of comic. You gotta be willing to rally. A lot of comics are lazy, pot smoking, pajama wearing people, and this is like, you gotta drink all night, do the shows, and you gotta wake up and go slip and sliding at noon. It’s not easy every time.

Once you’re in it, you’re all right. I partied my ass off in college. I’m from New Orleans. I’m a drinker, tried and true, so I could do it. It’s not for everybody, but yeah, it’s the best.

Mark Norman said, when he meets fans, they’re basically expecting him to spend all night partying with them. Mark said, it’s awkward. I’d like to drink but chit chat. It’s like, hey, what are you up to? How you been these days?

And I’m like, okay, I’ll take the shot, but I don’t want a small talk. I’m an introvert. At the end of the day, I just feel guilty. So I had to stop doing it because people get so disappointed and I feel like I was letting them down. They’re like, what the hell, man, you don’t want to hang out with us, And I’m like, I don’t know you.

You know me, I don’t know you. I don’t want to sit here and hear about your dog. Jessica Kerson was talking about the importance of social media and said, nowadays, unless you’re a regular on a TV show, you have to play the game. Many people don’t want to do it and don’t know how. It’s a lot of work.

I need to bring someone a film every performance and pay people for editing, adding subtitles, whatever is needed. I have a team of people who do this and they send me things for approval. Because I hate watching myself on video. I can’t, so I let them choose what to edit, and then I uploaded. It’s so wonderful.

People watch it and said it to their friends, and they also follow me and come to performances. Jessica Kurson calls her a current tour the endless tour. I simply can’t stop booking more performances and more and more places. This is the first time I’ve been having performances that are sold out, and it’s also the first time I’m appearing in theaters. It’s wild and exciting.

She was asked if there was a time she thought it wasn’t gonna happen. She said, you’re kidding a million times. When you do things like this night show, I think afterward everything is going to work out. It doesn’t. Year after year.

There were one hundreds of times I wanted to quit, so many rejections, so many things they said I’d get TV shows deals on them fail. It happens to everybody. I’m now at a point where things are really happening, but it’s taken me time. Jessica had talked about the gap between male and female stand ups in the US. She said, when it comes to being a headliner on a stand up marathon.

As a woman, you earn less than a man. Now that my shows are in theaters and they’re selling, I’m earning one of them man does. But for years, if they slotted me in as the headliner in a stand up club, I earned less than a mail headliner. Jessica, is there or anything you won’t talk about on stage? She said, yeah.

I don’t bad mouth my parents, my family, my relationship. I’m private. Though it seems like I’m so open and revealing myself. They’re parts of my life that I’m very private about. And I don’t talk about politics.

I don’t think it’s funny. I have to find something funny in a topic I talk about, and there’s nothing funny in my opinion about what’s happening in politics in the United States. It’s disgusting. While f Tompkins spoke to Variety about therapy, and Paul said, I think, like a lot of people in comedy, I thought my fear was if I become a happier I’m not going to be funny anymore. And really I was just afraid of therapy.

I was afraid of what if I found out terrible things about myself. What if I found out I’m a monster? What if I have ever recovered memory. It’s really just the fear of the unknown. It’s the fear of finding out stuff about yourself that’s not pleasant or it’s sad.

It’s not like, oh my God, I’m gonna be a hannibal lecter. It’s somehow knowing in the back of your mind, I’m gonna have to talk about stuff that I don’t want to talk about, and that’s going to be uncomfortable. I feel like what I do here? Buy me a coffee, Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is returning to Wisconsin for it’s eighteenth year. They’ve announced the lineup the festivals October one through the eighth. Let’s take a look at the lineup. On the first at the lake Front Brewery, Kelly Ryan and some more comedians TBA. On the second, it’s the roast of Milwaukee that sounds fun.

On the third, Gray West, Christine Ferrara, Paul McCarry, and Ryan Mason will play October fourth at the Great Lakes Distillery. Lot of drinking at this festival, I like it. John Naim Danny Lang and Joe Eames and Johnny Beaner. October fifth, that’s Shank Hall, It’s Todd Barry. Let’s see some other folks you probably haven’t heard of other than Kyle Kinane.

Who is your headliner on what day is this one? On the seventh, Nina Gee has released her first solo comedy album. It’s called Stutterer Interrupted. Nina said, the first time I did stand up, a woman in the audience laugh, like, genuinely laughed about a joke I made about my experience as a woman with a stutter. I asked her if she stuttered, knowing the odds werelow that she did.

When I asked her, she said, no, it’s just funny, and I was like, oh, people can laugh up my jokes on my perspective on this, recently, someone who I don’t think really listen to my act said that I make stuttering the butt of my jokes. But it’s like, no, I make the people reacting to me the butt of my jokes. It’s really hard with any art form when you put it out there and people can interpret it anyway they want to. What I do have control over is what I say. So I’m pretty deliberate about my jokes.

Nina has been part of the Comedians with Disabilities Act. That’s a comedy troop started by Michael O’Connell made up an entirely of comedians with apparent and non apparent disabilities. Nina said, Originally it was Michael, who used a wheelchair, and Steve Danner, who’s a little person. And when I saw them, I knew as a group I wanted to be involved in. And I saw them they needed somebody with a non apparent disability and a woman, so they welcome me in.

I believe it was their second show when I joined, and I quickly became an active member. I think it was George Corland who said the best way to get through to somebody is humor, and the Comedians with Disabilities Act does that. Usually when you present as a person with disability, people are afraid to ask stuff, but they’re not afraid to ask comics. I’ve also seen people’s attitudes change about themselves and other disabilities, and it’s been really cool to see that. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Joe List, Chris Fleming, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Theo Von, Tom Segura, Matt Rife, Dave Chappelle, Brody Stevens, Paul F. Tompkins, Alex Gibbon

What’s in This Episode

• Joe List special premiere on YouTube and Peacock
• Chris Fleming’s Hell premiere on Peacock
• SNL writers and cast planning around strike uncertainty
• Theo Von and Tom Segura discuss Matt Rife’s comedy success
• Dave Chappelle debuts on Billboard Hot 100 with Young Lean collaboration
• Remembrance of comedian Brody Stevens
• Paul F. Tompkins on taking a break from stand-up due to career setbacks
• The Shark is Broken Broadway play receives poor New York Daily News review
• Alex Gibbon, disabled comedian performing at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. He tweet from Joe list My new special premiers tonight ten Eastern. You’ll find that on Joe’s YouTube page.

Also on Peacock tonight, Chris Fleming’s Hell premiers.

It looks like the guys at SNL are not expecting the writer strike or the actor strike to end anytime soon. Colin Jost and Michael Chay are playing at Radio City Music Hall of Note. It’s on a Saturday, October fourteenth at eight o’clock, so I guess that they don’t plan on doing SNL that night. Theol Vaughan was on Tom Sagora’s Two Bears podcast and they started talking about Matt Rife. Sagora said, he’s a funny guy.

I mean, he’s a funny dude. I’ve seen him. I’ve seen the clips. They’re all viral, and it really knows like he’s fun working a room. He’s just good at that.

So it’s unique. It’s a unique thing where he’s authentically being himself. Yeah, he’s both good looking and he’s quick and witty and funny, and it all just works. Most dudes that look like that aren’t funny and THEO tagnet with and most that look like that are women. Congratulations to Dave Chappelle, who made the Hot one hundred Billboard chart not for comedy no.

Chapelle debuted on the Hot one hundred alongside Robert Travis Scott. A collaboration with musician Young Lean titled Parasale is number fifty three on the chart. It is Chappelle’s first time on the Hot one hundred. Congratulations Dave. August eighteenth is Brody Steven’s day.

Some comedians are remembering Brody today, Mark Marin, Dean Cook, Jeff Garland, the scholar brother is Dean Delray, Craig Gasson Moore. At the Comedy Story benefit Comedy Gives Back ten thirty Tonight, Vulture caught up with Paul F. Tompkins, who quit stand up for a while. They asked him if it was a deliberate decision. Paul said, absolutely, it was a despair.

My last special which is called Crying and Driving, which I recorded in twenty fifteen. The special I did before that was called Laboring under Delusions. That was for Comedy Central, and I was really proud of it and really enjoyed doing it, was paid very well by Comedy Central to perform the thing. When it came time to do my next hour, which was three years later, I went to Comedy Central and they offered me literally one ten of what I had made for the previous special. I remember talking to my agents saying, man, this deal really sucks.

I don’t know if I should take this. I’m sure I probably use the word insulting or something. And my agent said, well, on the other hand, they’re the only ones making an offer, and I couldn’t disagree with the logic of that. So I swallowed my pride and I put all the money into the special. I didn’t make anything from that special at the time, and I said, I’m just going to make the best special that I can do.

And that was it. It came and went. It aired on Comedy Central. I don’t know who watched it. I was told for the last one I did, the numbers were pretty good, you know.

One as the assumption in showbizz from what I’ve seen, and I keep distancing myself from it. But this is common to a lot of people. I know. I’d see other people and be like, the idea should keep going up and up, and up. So I had not only plateaued, but now I was going back down.

There was a feeling of Wow, people just aren’t interested. In the intervening years, I had gone from wanting to be a guest on a talk show to wanting to host a talk show, and I was unable to make that happen. I did a pilot for Comedy Central, and then after the pilot was told directly by the head of the network, you kind of come off as old fashion and stuffy, and that’s not what our audience wants. You made some casting decisions with the guests that hurt I think, and I was like, ah, you saw every step of the process. You’re not seeing this for the first time as the finish pilot.

You know all the stuff I did. It felt really brutal to me. If you’re not going to pick it up, that’s fine, but this is literally a personal attack saying the audience doesn’t like you. You can say it didn’t go well, I can fill in the blanks myself. Wow, this is really really brutal, port Paul.

He continues, but that was a real real turning point to me. Then having the special happen a couple of years after that and have nobody be interested in it. I thought, this is the one thing I always thought I had, which stand up. I was always successful. I had some stature in the world.

Now I’m realizing I don’t have that stature anymore, and there’s not really a big market for the kind of thing I do. So I was finding joy and doing improv and working with other people and leaning on this other sort of life thing. But I couldn’t go back to stand up. It hurt too much. It really hurt.

There was a period pre pandemic where I tried to make myself go out and do sets and I just wasn’t feeling it. I was just going through the motions of doing it, but I wasn’t connected with the material. I wasn’t connected to the audience, and it felt bad. It was really alarming, Like this isn’t how it feels, this is really weird. I don’t like this.

So I just went where the joy was, and coincidentally where the money was good money for doing an improv podcast. And it’s an ongoing process. I don’t know if I’ll ever do is Special again. I’d like to, but knowing would have to be self funded. Not my favorite thing in the world.

They asked him how he feels doing stand up now. Paul if Tompkins said, I feel like it’s coming back to me, and the more I do it, the more comfortable is becoming. Right now, the feeling that’s coming back is the duck below the surface of the water kind of thing. I’m lucky that I’ve always been able to project a certain amount of confidence regardless of what’s happening internally. But I’m getting back into it.

It’s coming back and the enjoyment of doing it and the feeling of connection. Wow, the Daily News saw the Shark is Broken. I was all excited for the Shark is Broken. That’s the stage play about Jaws kind of sort of. The Daily News says the show doesn’t deliver much at all.

Ouch Not only is the low stakes script dull and pedestrian, but the characters change not at all, despite the premise of three wild men sitting in a boat and not waiting for goodo but for sharks at Spielberg. The Shark Has Broken had its origins at the Edinburgh Festival, and in that context it no doubt was a good campy laugh, especially for an audience that had followed Shaw’s pregaming example, but it makes for thin Broadway gruel alas with a ninety minute running time, a straight up point of view, and a series of behind the camera recreations of a situation that already has been much dissected and discussed. Yikes. Playbill wrote about the Fringe and said, this comedian can’t speak, but he’s making audiences laugh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After a rare neurological condition caused Alex Gibbon lose his ability to speak, he turned to comedy.

He tells Playbill over email, from what my doctors have told made my brain is structurally fun, but it’s sending the wrong signals to my body so effectively, I’m like a Windows update with a pulse. His current show is called Fat Femine Crippled, with the help of his rebel voice on his phone, which is a British woman, and his mobility scooter that he named Miscarriage, Gibbon responds, never underestimate the power of a wide range of facial expressions. He’s made it his artistic mission to destigmatize being both disabled and gay. He admits, far too often the stigma is suffocating. I felt either too disabled to be in queer spaces or too queer to be in disabled spaces.

This is often backed up by the fact that a lot of queer spaces like gay bars and pubs aren’t accessible and the staff aren’t friendly. For my show, what I do is I prerecord all my jokes. It takes several hours per set, but it’s worth it. I typed them up six at a time before turning them into MP three files to press play and pause while on stage for communication during my shows. It’s quite hard for me to go off script in general, so I try to avoid it.

The main time. I stop us for hecklers, mainly because I downloaded famous TV meme type sound bites that many people will know by ear. I can choose whichever suits best to the heck at the time, which both shuts them up and gets them laughed at. And from The La Times, Courtney Perusso’s one woman sex Robot Clown Show, I just want to say sex robot clown show again The La Times. Sorry, it’s a leggy blonde emerges from a smoke filled stage, domineering in a black PVC bra, thong, fishnet stockings and six inch thigh high platform boots her proclamation, my name is Vanessa five thousand and I am here to destroy humanity.

Just kidding, I’m a sex robot. She’s performing Vanessa at US at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival throughout August, after which the show will turn to LA after performances. She encourages people to DM her with ideas or thoughts. She said, many people have written her on Instagram and the performer has used selected suggestions from strangers. I’ll get feedback from everybody, but you have to know who to listen to.

She was inspired by Natalie Palamedes. Have you seen Natalie’s work? If fanastic? Palamedes suggests that prusso study clown, a form of experimental comedy that’s been gaining ground in LA over the past ten years. Amy Poehler produced Palamides special Nate on Netflix twenty twenty.

Go watch that It’s fantastic. Last year, Palamides performed clown with Chelsea and Hillary Clinton on their Apple TV show Gutsie. Clown is distinctive for its lack of a fourth wall, meaning performers look at, react to, and speak with the audience throughout a performance. It’s a highly visual and physical art. While clown can have loud, out, their vulgar, shocking, and gross out moments, it also welcomes vulnerability and beauty, often as a balance or counter.

Peruso explains, I think I can get away with moments of sincerity, or we’re letting people look at me as I am, because I’m also disrupting and looking really stupid. That’s your comed eies for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler, Sasha Baron Cohen, Lewis Black, Mark Russell, Marlon Wayans, Jinny Yang, Carrot Top

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien wanted to name Late Night ‘Ninety Night with Conan O’Brien’
• Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah’ film review
• Carrot Top wins Las Vegas Weekly best stand-up show award
• Sasha Baron Cohen bringing back Ali G for stand-up tour
• Lewis Black celebrates political satirist Mark Russell at National Comedy Center
• Marlon Wayans defends comedy’s role in society amid social media backlash
• Jinny Yang protesting Philadelphia 76ers new arena in Chinatown

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The Shark Deck. I’m shunning Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Apparently Conan O’Brien when he took off of for Letterman, wanted to call the show nightty Night with Conan O’Brien. He tell the story on his podcast and said, we thought it was just really cartoony and funny. Conan was worried about being compared to Letterman and you know year one there, Yeah, that was it took a minted.

Conan said, we had a meeting in this office at thirty Rock, and we’d told Rick Ludwin, who was the NBC Late Night chief. We told Rick we wanted to meet with him, and we were worried about being compared to Letterman, and we said we were thinking of changing the name Late Night. And Rick said, NBC owns that name. It’s popular franchise. We wouldn’t get rid of it unless there’s a spectacular new one.

And we said we wanted to call it ninety Night with Conan O’Brien. O’Brien said Ludwyn was a very proper executive and a wonderful guy, but he was tearing flush at the idea and said it’s going to remain Late Night. With Conan O’Brien. Conan said they weren’t under much supervision when they put the show together. If someone told me they picked a guy who was twenty nine, it was no ex experience.

And they picked a producer and Jeff Ross, who’s done some work with kids in the hall and much of his works been in music. There’s no way they’re not all over them. But we were in New York and most of the people were in La Jeff Ross said, I spent most of my time faking it and making it look like I knew what was going on until I figured it out. Screen Rants has hope for this upcoming Adam Sandler film called You Are So Not Invited to My bat Mitzvah that’s out on the twenty fifth. I’m less enthusiastic.

If you’re a long time listener, you know I openly I roll most Adam Sandler movies. I’m sure Sandler doesn’t care. He’s made a lot of money, He’s very successful, a lot of people like him. In my humble opinion, there are only a few good Adam Sandler movies. The masterpiece being Uncut Gems.

The second best one is probably Hustle and the ones with Drew Barrymore are pretty good. Other than that, Adam Sandler films are garbage and I have low expectations for you are so not invited to my bot mitzvah. But screen Rant writes, while audiences are used to seeing Sandler putting on goofy, indistinct accents and acting over the top, that you were so not invited to my botts us. He’s Adam Sandler playing an average dad. Sandler leans into a two by being sarcastic to his daughters, telling dad jokes, and simply being irritated when he’s distracted from the TV.

Here, let’s listen. Just named Julie ba would make the party perfect. You can have a ball pit that’s kids and at my period for seven weeks. That’s a long period, sweetheart. Green Rant says.

Some shots in the trailer hints at a more meditative and heartfelt performance as his daughter goes to him for relationship advice. Even more interestingly, Sandler takes a back seat in the movie, and he seems more like a supporting actor than the lead. The lead is fourteen year old Sonny Sandler. Her dad is Adam Sandler. Sonny is fourteen, so I will just move on.

Las Vegas Weekly was pulling their readers about their choice for various things that included a top gentleman’s establishment. I didn’t read that part. I read the part about best stand up show? So who did they pick? Johnny Mac?

Well, they write in an era where stand up comedies booming bigger than ever before. No one’s been holding down the Vegas stay longer than Scott Thompson. You’re like, who’s Scott Thompson? I will tell you karrot Top. That’s who Scott Thompson is.

Las Vegas Weekly says karrots Tops always changing performance at the Atrium Showroom remains a mussy on the strip at the Luxer Sasha Baron Cohen is bringing back Ali G variety of says. Baron Cohen has been working on a stand up tour in which Ali G will make an appearance. A source denied that a new movies in development. However, noted that Sasha is a writer and actor abiding by strike rules the quote. As a sagond WGA member, he supported the ongoing strike alongside his fellow writers and actors.

HM, that makes me think a movie is coming In twenty twenty one. Ali G made an appearance during a secret gig at the Comedy Store in Sydney, Australia. Sasha said, I just wanted to get on stage and muck around and see what Alig would be like with a crowd. It was really good fun. Ali g made his first appearance in nineteen ninety eight on a sketch series called The eleven o’clock Show.

If you add twenty five to nineteen ninety eight, you get twenty twenty three. So we see what might be going on here right yes. Tonight at the National Comedy Center, Lewis Black will celebrate political satirist Mark Russell with a reception and dedication. Russell’s friends and fans are invited to the event. It’s open to the public from five to seven if you happen to be near Jamestown, New York.

The dedication and brief remarks take place at six o’clock tonight. During the event, the National Comedy Center will have materials and artifacts from Russell’s career on display, and will add one of his musical parodies as a permanent component of its Lyrical Laughter Exhibit. National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson said, Mark Russell transformed the landscape of political humored America and in doing so, influenced a generation of comedic artists. His musical sat sires well for decades by those inside outside of Washington, made him comedy’s greatest lyricist. His comedy legacy is unique and incomparable Lewis Black’s at Mark Russell was an extraordinary talented satirist with a unique comic voice.

He had a rapier wit, which are words I rarely used to describe a comedian. Hopefully people will now realize how important he was in the pantheon of comedy. Marlon Yans said that films like two thousand four’s White Chicks need to be made today because social media has made people lose their enjoyment of life and comedy. Wayans was catching some grief because he made a sarcastic comment the reference the Jason Alden song. Try that in a small town.

If you’re not familiar with that song, I don’t want to get into that on this podcast, Just google Try that in a small town. You could read the editorials yourself. Marlon was on Jalen Roses podcast and said, I think social media messed up socializing and we’ve got to get back to laughing and finding reasons to laugh and stop being said, damn sensitive. All we’re doing is filling our airwaves, filling our kids with fear and hate, and there’s no laugh and love. The only thing that’s going to bring us together is humor.

What got Way in some grief was an Instagram post where he mocked the viral Alabama riverboat brawl, and he wrote, how about we not try that in a small town. Let’s all just be love, not war. Some people thought he was endorsing the song’s message, Way and said, I actually thought the song was divisive and promoted the kind of mentality that fuels racism, bigotry, and some violence. Let’s stop doing stupid songs like that which negativity towards black people. That stuff ain’t cool.

Wayne said. Most of the people on social media with these negative opinions aren’t even real people. They’re boughts from other countries. They’re trying to strip us. So the very thing that makes our country special, the freedom of speech.

We’re so stupid that we allow this to happen. Sooner or later, they’re going to take away the first amendment. We’re all gonna have to think alike. People are gonna get canceled. You can’t think like this.

What kind of society do we live in? From Billy Penn dot com, comedian Jinny Yang is trying to stop the Philadelphia seventy six years from getting a new arena. Billy Penn rights the white and red posters declaring no arena and Chinatown I fit right in amid the didly lit graffiti, arts sculptures and midi murals adorning the staircase down to the underground arts subterranean space in Kala Hill, where comedian actress Jinny Yang was preparing to perform. Between jokes about being engaged inter racial relationships and growing up as a tomboy daughter of immigrants, Yang swallowed a tasty cake in one Go Regional reference, Trust me it makes sense. She talked about how Philly is so special to her and how trips on the regional rail and a Phillies Chinatown me alive and helped her feel at home while she was away from her family in California.

Then she lit into seventy six Devcorps and it’s proposed to build a new home for the Sixers on the side of the Fashion District mall and recently vacated Greyhound bus terminal. Yank said, these billionaire a holes want to establish a sports arena right up against historic Philadelphia Chinatown. Did you know this? The crowd booed. I don’t want to be very clear who I think the villains are.

I don’t think the villains are the seventy sixers. I don’t think the villains are sports fans in Philly. What I don’t like is the fact that very rich billionaires have decided that they’re going to take advantage of the importance and the real estate that Philadelphia Chinatown is on and extract it’s profit off the back of the little guy. That’s not okay. Don’t f with Philadelphia Chinatown.

Now I’m not from Philadelphia, but what I go down to Philadelphia, one of the things I always say is I like how all the sports arenas are in the one area. If you’ve never been there, the baseball stadium, the football stadium, and the basketball slash hockey arena. They’re all in one spot, and they share parking lots, and it’s very efficient, and you can get right on and off the highway and the subway goes right there. So I’m not sure why the Sixers are moving. I also don’t know where Philadelphia Chinatown is.

Should I get out a map? I should? Right? Why not? Okay, Now I see where this is.

This is over by Franklin Square. It’s kind of by six seventy six. It’s kind of by ninety five. It’s kind of sort or near the subway. But I don’t know.

Why don’t we leave the stadiums where they are? I admit I’m very under educated in all this, but as a tourist, I don’t know. I like what the stadiums are. Later, inter comedy said Yang incorporated six Ers owner David Blitzer and Josh Harris into a top ten list titled Eat the Rich. The segment suggested what kind of food different billionaires might be.

Yang said, between the three of them, their companies have been accused by human rights organizations of taking away affordable housing. I would want to eat them on a dish of delicious stir fry kung pound billionaires. Oh, and I had other things, but that’s a good way to get out because that made me laugh. Let’s get out there and I’ll see you tomorrow. Of fall the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Mark Normand, Paul F. Tompkins, Leanne Morgan, Judah Friedlander, David Koechner, Jason Alexander

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s take on Barbie movie controversy
• Mark Normand’s path to Netflix hour after YouTube success
• Paul F. Tompkins on becoming a class clown comedian
• Leanne Morgan balancing Christianity and comedy career
• Judah Friedlander helping asylum seekers in New York City
• David Koechner’s Office-themed trivia show with Rob Mayes
• Jason Alexander on playing George Costanza and theater roots

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The ev Club thought Joe Rogan had a good take. The take was on the Barbie movie. Rogan on his podcast said, a lot of people who are upset about the Barbie Movie.

I left perplexed. It was a fun, silly movie about dolls would come to life. A lot of it is about the patriarchy, and it’s a comedy. It’s a comedy about dolls. People are upset that it’s a progressive metaphor for life, that they’re pushing progressive politics in this, and I’m like, it’s an effing doll movie.

It’s a doll movie. It’s a fun movie about dolls that come to life and try to interact with the real world. I know some people personally who said it’s anti men. I’m like, no, it’s making fun of dorks. Are we going to do this thing where we put all men as men in one category, We’re not going to judge people as individuals.

I think it’s a superwoke movie, but it’s also a movie about how Barbies are the dolls that everybody cares about, and ken is just an effing accessory, which is real. So when you bring these things into a movie, that’s how they have to be, because that’s how it is in the real world. Eight hundred Pound Gorilla did a lengthy interview with Mark normand Mark said, I YouTube special because nobody would touch me. It was a huge failure, I thought. But it actually got a lot of views, so that did well.

He was referring to his twenty twenty hour out to lunch. Netflix noticed, but they didn’t want to give him an hour. They gave a half hour. Norman said, my agent was somehow able to finagle me into a half hour Netflix, which was already hard to get. I wasn’t in the running, I don’t think.

But we got like twelve million views, which makes me kind of bitter because other people just get it without having to prove themselves. But whatever, the half hour went okay, I think, and eventually I got this full hour and I think this is going well, so hey, I can’t complain. Mark Norman discussed the art of perfecting a joke and said, it’s almost like magicians, where we want you to know, but we don’t want you to know. We want you to think we’re saying it right off the cuff, off the top of our brains. But there’s also a part of you that’s like screw that.

I want you to see how much I slaved over this thing and how much time and effort I put into it. Vulture asked Paul half Tompkins if he was always silly. Paul said always. That was a real class clown, and I like making people laugh. It was very validating to me in the most traditional classiccent of I want you to like me.

Really meant a lot to me because it wasn’t something that I was able to get at home. It was a huge thing to make my mother laugh, and we were a family that joked around a lot. There was a lot of roasting and stuff like that. But to get my mom to laugh rather than respond with something that completely deflated the humor of what I was trying to say, are explaining to me, actually, this is why that is. I know why that is.

I’m being silly. So when I could make my friend’s laugh or make a teacher laugh, that was huge. Making an adult laugh was a huge deal. Christianity Today caught up with Leanne Morgan. She addressed at making fun about her earlier years, which were difficult.

She said, it’s like when Johnny Cash traveled with Billy Graham, he’d talk about prison in real life, she says, some people struggle to hold stand up comedy and Christianity intention. Morgan says some people said she was a Christian, but now she’s a comedian. That hurt my feelings. There was a time when I thought fame would be fun, but now other things encourage me. People come up to me and tell me I helped them get through chemo, or the pandemic, or their husband’s death.

It wasn’t about me, but they were able to escape life for a bit. I think God wants us to laugh and have a good time. He wants us to be hopeful. Great job by Judah Friedland. He’s been helping out some of the asylum seekers in New York City.

Gotham has caught up with him outside the Roosevelt Hotel and Judah asked two women, do you need food at all? Gothamis writes the woman, both from Latin America, I’d freelander warily, before offering quiet thank yous and accepting the snacks. Judah said, what I’ve been doing the past few days is as simple as this. There’s people that are hurting, and I’m just trying to show up and directly help. That’s it.

There’s a class warfare going on, but it’s mostly the billionaires against everybody else. Judah said it was his mother who alerted him to the scene of around one hundred and fifty asylum seekers living on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt. Freedlander showed up at the hotel shot a video capturing the cities during contrast, It shows the unhoused male migrants who are cramped behind police barricades, as well as the midtown lunch crowd is seem oblivious to the situation less than a block away. On Twitter x whatever we’re calling it, Judah said, so many people hurting in the country, whether they’re from here, whether they’re not from here. It’s terrible and it’s angering because you know, this country has the resources to do much better.

Then he handed out some more food and said it was time to get to his next appointment, which was on the picket line with striking actors and Hollywood writers. Before he did, he’d took out a cardboard sign he’d made which said billionaires hate you. David Keckner explained to the Dallas Morning News what you’ll get if you go see him. Keckner said, a night of dynamic entertainment. Here’s what it is.

I don’t want to overstate it. Fellow comedian Rob Mayer and I have been doing this for five years. He does half an hour and I do an hour. We work very well together. We have different styles, but it’s a rock solid show.

The show is hosted by Todd Packer, that’s Keckner’s character from the Office. But I don’t punish the audience the insired sign that’d be a little much. I come out as Todd Packer and do a bunch of the Packer lines to get people stirred up before we get into the trivia. It’s three rounds of trivia. I tell a bunch of stories about my time on the Office and showbiz stories, little tidbits here and there.

We do a Q and A at the end of the show, and the top two trivia teams come up on the stage and reenact a scene with myself and Rob. The News asked him why people connect with the Office so much. Kickner said, well, it’s started with adults getting into it right because they’re in the workplace and they recognize that they did have a broad scope of characters. They probably identify p much with everyone they’ve worked with, and it’s comforting, you know. Then I think the kids probably started watching it and they started thinking, oh, this is just dumb jokes.

But then they started getting the jokes, and now they feel smarter and hipper, right, And then there’s a bond with your parents, and as they became teenager, they think all adults are stupid.

And then when they get into college, now you got a group of people you’re bon…

And when they finally get to the workforce, you prove yourself right. If you enjoy what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. What would you do on a website called buy meacoffee dot com? What you do is you throw some money in the tip jar. I’ll get an email from buying meacoffee dot com and I’ll say like, hey, Smedley bought you a coffee.

And then I’ll take Smedley’s money and I’ll go to the National don’t chain large eyed coffee gamel milk, and then I’ll thank s Medley on the show. Buy Meacoffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Jason Alexander, you know him as George Costanza on Seinfeld. He was interviewed by Playbill. Jason said the stage has always been his first love, and Seinfeld actually felt right into that.

Jason said, show felt like a theater piece. Every week we were just playing to our live audience. We trusted him believe that the cameras and the director were getting the performance that we were giving to the audience. What I have found in good comedic writing from many different writers is they tend to have him music in their head when they’re writing. Neil Simon had his own sense of music.

John Shanley has his own sense of music. Larry David has his own sense of music, and when you latch it in the music in the author’s head, it becomes easy. When he first started Seinfeld, he was doing Castanza as a Woody Allen type, and if you watch the early episodes you can absolutely see that once he figured out Castanza was more or less a stand in for Larry David, he was able to unlock the character’s full comedic potential. Jason quotes Dennis Miller saying, it’s called a sense of humor, not a science. You either have it, which allows you to hear the possibilities of these rhythms in this musicality, or you don’t take a famous piece of comedic material like Who’s On first look at it on a printed page.

There’s nothing there, there’s no funny. The minute you hear Avin Costello start to put the rhythm of the melody on it, it becomes hysterical. There’s magic in it. He says. The same was true of Seinfeld.

When they were writing for say Jerry Still, they wrote the line, are you telling me there’s not one condo available in all of del Boca Vista. That’s not a joke, but when Jerry says it, it becomes radically funny. Writer and performer knew there was singing the same songs. The BBC wrote about the Fringe. Comedy critic Kate Copstick said, I’ve never known the Fringe to be so censorrous.

It’s not a nice feeling. Last year, Jerry Satowitz had some of his shows canceled after complaints from staff and walkouts. The complaints said his act was extreme and its racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny. Satowitz is back at Fringe this year, warning audiences, I might just do card tricks and say nothing for the whole hour, or I might just do the usual screaming fascist stick. Liam Witneil is playing the Fringe.

His shows called Chronic Boom. Yahoo says he positively vibrates on stage, ceaselessly pulsating from one killer antidote to the next. You’ll laugh until your jaw eggs. I’m intrigued. Kind of a generic description there.

But you’ll find Liam at Monkey Barrel Comedy, Monkey Barrel two. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts

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Featured: John Mulaney, Conan O’Brien, Tim Dillon, Dave Chappelle, Joe Koy, Kevin Hart, Jimmy Fallon, Zach Williams, Justin Royland

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney discusses movie financing and new material at Largo
• Dave Chappelle sells out Old Town East Club shows in 19 seconds
• Jo Koy signs deal for two additional Netflix specials
• Andy Kaufman to receive Hollywood Walk of Fame star
• Kevin Hart stars in online betting website commercial with Ryan Fitzpatrick
• Solar Opposites season 4 recast Corvo with Dan Stevens after Justin Royland firing
• Kill Rock Stars relaunches comedy label with Pap Johnson’s album Timeless

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny magg with a very busy Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney’s the guest on the Newest Conan O’Brien needs a friend. During the discussion, they started talking about how films are financed. John Mulaney admitted that movie financing is all he thinks about.

He said, you ever watch a movie and you notice there’s no extras. They didn’t have a dime, and you’re like, that’s Vancouver and there’s no extras. Conan jumped in and said they worked for Tim Morton’s Coffee and a pancake and there’s no extras. I had missed this one. A couple of weeks back, John Millaney has been working out new material.

He was out at Largo, apparently at the ten PM show a few tuesdays back. Mullaney made some references to his girlfriend Olivia, and spent a good portion of his set talking about the joys of fatherhood. He also teld a story about being sued by Comedy Central for one million dollars after failing to produce a third comedy special for the outlet. He had signed a three special deal for a mere five thousand dollars, and Millaney said, I don’t even think they paid me the whole amount. Tim Dillon is the guest on Joe Rogan.

That might be two episodes ago. By now, I have started listening to that. As you’ve heard me say before, Tim Dillon is fantastic. Someday, Tim Dillan’s gonna step on a landmine and I’m going to distance myself from Tim Dylan so fast it’s unbelievable. I will be saying Tim Dylan, he’s terrible, But until then, he’s quite funny.

He’s on Joe Rogan. Dave Chappelle sold out some shows last week in nineteen seconds. This from six fourteen now dot com. Bo Stinger owns the Old Town to East Club and said, I put the ticket linkin, pushed refresh, and all tickets were sold out in nineteen seconds. I don’t know how that’s even possible, or people just on that website going, you know, if Dave Chappelle ever plays here, I’m gonna, oh my god, click.

I don’t know. Maybe they announced like tickets will go out sailing, and I don’t know how that worked. Nineteen seconds is impressive. Stanger felt incredibly honored the Chappelle, one of his comedy heroes, was playing to the club. He said, he knew my name before even sold them.

Mister Chappelle said, thank you so much for this opportunity. He sells out Rita’s across the world, yet he’s here thanking me. You get really scared when you meet your heroes. But he was absolutely wonderful. Stanger was asked about various Chappelle controversies and said, at the end of the day, I have all the adoration for Chapelle.

Comedy can be uplifting to the soul. He’s a phenomenon. There’s a reason why there’s certain stances against Chappelle’s jokes and things that he’s spoken about, but the whole point if comedy is to turn tragedy into comedy. Any scrutiny or any sort of hatred towards Dave is completely misplaced. Chappelle operates on a sense of love, peace, graciousness.

It’s remarkable to see what he’s accomplished and be as reasonable as a human being can be. Variety reports that Andy Kaufman will be honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This will happen August twenty fourth, Andy Kaufman, I know you’re listening. Look, man, this whole hoax that you’re dead. You had a good run, you got almost fifty years out of it.

Show up at your star. That would just be like drop the mic. Oh my god, greatest hoax of all time because at some point you have to cash in because what if you actually die? So I think it is time. Looking forward to seeing Andy Kaufman appear at his own star in the Hollywood walk Off on August twenty fourth.

Netflix must really like this, Joe Koy fellow. He has signed a deal for two more stand up comedy specials. It’ll be a fifth and sixth for Netflix. So these must do really well. Joekoy sells out arenas.

The next one will tape at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn on November tenth and eleventh. Interesting arena there and should show up in twenty twenty four. Joe was currently on his Joecoy World Tour. Kevin Hart never afraid to have a gig. He’s got a new commercial.

He co stars with former NFL player Ryan Fitzpatrick. This is for online betting website. Online betting website tells us leveraging Heart’s brand of comedic belligerents and turning Fitzpatrick’s last name and if fitz Magic. The commercial both entertains audiences and it informs them about betting websites new promo offer. Jimmy Fallon showed up at the Jonas Brothers concert on Sunday and Fallon did a cover of Mister Brightside.

Let’s listen. You don’t Falon can sing. We’ve seen him do a lot of good clips on the Tonight Show. I’m not sure that was Jimmy’s best work. Zach Williams, son of Robin Williams, marked the ninth anniversary of Robin’s death with an Instagram message, Zach boasted Dad on the ninth anniversary.

If you’re passing, I’m remembering you for your most excellent fashion choices. These days are always hard, and I love remembering you for being so very very you. Love you so much. He captioned a photo of Robin Williams wearing a pair of shorts and a T shirt as he waved a racket at fans from a tennis court. Solar opposites his back that showed up on Hulu last night with the new Voice Collider said, it’s incredibly hard to talk about the new season of Solar Opposites without addressing the massive elephant in the room, which was the firing of co creator and Corvo’s voice actor Justin Royland.

I spent a lot of the weekend rewatching Rick and Morty, Collider reminds us. Instead of bringing in a sound alike, the de creative team behind Solar Opposites decided to go a different route. Dan Stevens is now the voice of Corvo and has like a British accent thing going The set up here minor spoilers, you’ll get over it. After Corvo was accidentally stabbed in the throat by a dart throne by Terry, Yemulac zaps Corvo with a voice restoration ray, which gives him his new, confident British accent. From there on out, the series acts as if nothing has changed for the new season.

It picks up after the season three finale. The Solar Opposites are trying to live a more human life. Terry and Corvo networking office job, Jesse’s hanging out with the school’s mean girls, and Yemulac like spending time smoking cigars with the Staff and the Teacher’s Lounge. Kill rock Stars has relaunched their comedy label with the release of Pap Johnson’s Timeless. Pap Johnson is an East Bay native who started out his comedy career winning Sony’s death at a funeral stand up competition.

It was the first time he had ever attempted stand up. Pap shares his uniquely hilarious perspective on life, death, the social grace’s morning, sex, relationships, political figures, pop culture, and more. He’s also willing to look in the bear and poke fun at his own insecurities. You can stream the album at POCP dot co slash Timeless so or you can watch the special on YouTube. Shorthold did not enjoy a show at Fringe.

They gave Bishops only two and a half stars. They write Chris Current and Noah Matthews check their privilege at the start of their debut show as Bishops, raising and attempting to quickly dispel questions of whether the Fringe needs another privately educated white boy sketched double act. The answer, of course, is known, but groups like cry Babies keep making formidable cases for themselves. Bishops currently fits the vibe to its sea, but they have a fair bit of work to do right shortal yikes. The sketches here do just enough to scrape by and provide a reasonable hour of entertainment for the young crowd.

But any fan with a couple of fridges under their belt, we’ll quickly start finding for the X that heavily inspire this show. Both performers are good at least they’re clearing the bar for sketch acting, but formula starts to emerge pretty early. Yikes. The Daily Mail says Netflix viewers hail masterpiece new comedy. All right, got our attention here.

The masterpiece new comedy is Australia’s answer to the Office. What’s this? You’ve seen it and it’s probably scrolled past on your Netflix. It’s Fisk Storry Kitty Flanagan, which describes itself as not another glamorous legal show. One social media user says Kitty Flannagan has created a masterpiece on par with Ricky Jervis is the Office.

Fisk is a fast paced sitcom about high end contracts lawyer Helen Tudor Fisk forced to take a job at a low grade suburban law firm after filled marriage and professional downfaller and I will check that out. You know what I accidentally stumbled into over the weekend? No, you don’t. How would you possibly know what I stumbled into over the weekend? What a weird setup, Johnny Mac so.

I was on Hulu and I typed in su n n y. I was looking for a show about some people who want to born in Philadelphia and it put that up. But the second thing it showed me after I typed in sunny The Office parentheses Hindi version. Yeah, there’s two seasons of twelve episodes each two times twelve equals twenty four of the Office Hindi version. So what did I do?

I watched The Office Hindi version episode one, pretty much a remake of the Diversity Day episode, which, by the way, two points one Diversity Day is the best episode of the Office two. Apparently I haven’t confirmed this, they’ve taken Diversity Day out of the syndication. I don’t know if it’s still on the streamers, but if you watch The Office on you know, your local channel there, apparently they don’t show that episode anymore because somebody is going to be offended about something. Guys, that’s the entire point of the episode. That’s the episode that made the series.

Why are you not showing it? Nobody’s offended, everyone’s laughing anyway. The Hindi version of the Office remakes that episode. You do have to turn the captions on unless you speak Hindy. If you don’t, you’ll be like me and probably would be like, I don’t understand a word they’re saying.

I don’t speak Kindy. So I turned the captions on and had a good time. That Jim guy’s good, the Dwight guy’s good, That Michael Scott guy is good. It’s the American version more than it is the British version, at least after one episode. I’m going to go back to that.

So you’ll find the Office Hindi version on Hulu. It was Steve Martin’s birthday and the Hollywood reporter gave him a nice fluff job. A lot of people came out and said glowing things about Steve Morton. Lauren Michael said, talent is amazing and stunning when you first encounter it, but it has to get better and have a standard that it lives by. You don’t worry when Steve’s on something, He’s not going to be happy.

Until he cracks it, and even then he’s not going to trust it. Tina fades all the story. One time Steve Martin was visiting SNL and I’d seen him do Letterman the night before, and I said, you were so funny on Letterman last night. Steve Morton. Matter of fact, he says, well, you have to kill every time.

Tina says it was chilling to me, but it’s true. Comedy people can’t go on talk shows and blod are like actors. We’re supposed to deliver. Steve always delivers. Amy Schumer talked about Steve Morton’s book Born Standing Up.

Amy says, I don’t know a comic who hasn’t read that book. He’s in the comedy DNA of me and everyone I know. Holly Reporter says the decade since may have compressed his career arc down to a few cash phrases and indelible images for the general public, but Steve Morton’s iconoclastic sets forever minted Martin as a god to the comedy community. He shunned traditional jokes launched at as satirical rants, and, in one move that seems unfathomable mid today’s pressing safety concerns frequently encouraged large crowds to follow him to outside venues. Andy Kaufman did that well, but I guess maybe Steve did that first.

To be fair, Steve said, and I took the audience across the street to a jazz bar. All three hundred people came in and we went to someone else’s jazz guitar show. When the audience has got to be like a thousand, I couldn’t do it anymore. It was dangerous and they couldn’t hear me. If you need something to do tonight, John Novi Sad’s new special is on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube channel that is called Jokes.

I can only tell here and if you have Netflix, Jared Freed’s thirty seven and single premiers A nice hit for Jared. There and that’s your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube Where do you get your shows? See you tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

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