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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News, came across an article on cracked dot com then asks a wonderful question about Seinfeld, which is is Elane hot? Now we’re not talking about Julia Louis Dreyfuss, who’s absolutely gorgeous. We are talking about Elaine Venice and I love this question. Cracked asks is Elane canonically hot?

If she is, why is she hanging out with these dorks? Is she a hot woman doing dorky things? Or is she a dorky woman who happens to be extremely hot? They also ask our hotness and dorkiness mutually exclusive m There’s an episode in season seven, the Secret Code, more commonly known as the Bosco episode, and which Elaine pursues a man who can’t seem to remember her. Crack says, if Elaine is an average looking woman, then her forget abilities one thing no one likes to be forgotten.

But if she is she appears to be stunning, then her pursuit of Fred, an aggressively below average man is much funnier. Isn’t a woman clawing her way up to win the affection of a man. She’s a beautiful woman. Seeking to subterranean depths Cracked Rights. Here’s some evidence that Elane wasn’t created specifically as a beautiful woman, but in appealing every gal.

Before Elane became a Lane, there was Claire, who’s a down to earth waitress who filled it as the woman in the pilot. Yeah, there’s no Elane in the pilot. When the role was reconceived, Rosey O’Donnell was among those considered. The character is rumored to be based on Seinfeld writer Carol Leef. It seems that when Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David considered a female character for the foursome, they didn’t want her hotness to be paramount.

Perhaps this is why Seinfeld’s men regularly acted like Elane was at best average looking. Some of this is explained by the whole setup. Jerry had dated Elane and they were both mature enough to continue a platonic friendship. George and Kramer coat of the guys you would respect that you wouldn’t go after Elane. That makes total sense to me.

Krack points out, had it gone in the direction of Jerry and friends being attracted to Elane, Seinfeld would be more like Friends or maybe the Big Bang theory, the show’s chemistry would have been all altered. Jennifer Kelshin Armstrong is a Seinfeld expert who says, I can tell you this, which is that I know the writers made it clear that they were not doing that, that that in question was a will they or won’t they type of tension between Jerry or any of the men and Elane. The network was always harassing them to create a Sam and Diane on Cheers type of thing with Elane and Jerry, and they finally said, no, we’re not doing that. We’re not a normal sitcom. Okay, how about the overwhelming proof that Elane is really pretty?

Some examples all three men snap out of it in season three’s of the Tape when Elane records a sexy message on Jerry’s tape recorder.

Also in season four is the Shoes, and season seven’s The Gum, other men are s…

Perhaps the clearest confirmation that Elane is canonically beautiful is by the transitive property of the men she dates. Here’s the Jerry theory. Jerry only dates beautiful women throughout the span of the show. There have been reported seventy three different women that Jerry dated, and they’ve been played by Lauren Graham, Kristen Davis, Courtney Cox, Morley Maitland, Terry Hatcher, among others. Elane dated Jerry, therefore Elane is beautiful.

All right, that makes sense. How about the law of Putty. Putty, who presents as a hunk, would never date a woman that wasn’t physically beautiful. Putty dates Elane, hence Elane is beautiful. Then there’s the famous man thesis.

In Seinfelds New York City men are constantly dating women out of their league. The application is that the women are settling. The dating pool in this universe is advantageous towards men. The exceptions to the rule are people like JFK. Junior and Keith Hernandez, who are implied to be the catch.

They’re so famous, especially in New York City, they could date anyone and both of them or just in it Elane h What do you think? Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group would love your thoughts. Now, I let’s see Seinfeld. What years were Seinfeld? Seinfeld was eighty nine to ninety eight, So in eighty nine, I’m twenty and in eighty nine.

Julia Louis Dreyfuss isn’t around twenty eight. As I watched the show, I liked earlier season regular Girl. Towards the end of the series, she GLAMs up a little bit, and that’s just kind of how I roll it in real life. And I remember we used to hang out at a bar called Sidetracks and Queens and there was a woman we had dubbed the Elane Waitress. She had that same kind of big hair that Elane has in the early episodes.

We love the Elane Waitress. Anyway, what do you think? Obviously Julia Louis Dreyfuss gorgeous. Have you seen pictures of her lately? Fantastic move on.

John Pete Davidson has been wearing uggs lately. His stylists, Britt Theodora, told GQ Pete Davidson is even getting custom pairs made because they don’t make fun colors in men’s sizing. And guess who has influenced Pete Davidson to wear ugs? That’s right, Adam Sandler. Bete says, I’m a big Sailor fan.

I think Saidler is like ten years ahead of everyone. On fashion, and he wore uggs a lot in the y early two thousands. According to Pete Davidson, there’s some sort of oh you don’t give a hoot attitude that comes from wearing ugs. It’s very powerful. You have grocery shopping, or you go to the movies, you go out of your house and uggs.

That’s cool. Man, Just for laughs. Is coming back to Toronto for twenty twenty three. That is a great festival. You guys often hear me talk about Montreal.

I did the Toronto one one time and I really loved it. If you want to take my advice and go see less famous comedians in bar settings, Toronto is fantastic for that September twenty feet through the thirtieth. Some of the names announced Andrew Schultz, Leslie Jones, Jonathan van Ness, Nicole Bayer, Marlon Wayne’s, Ronny Chieng, Ron Funches, Patty Harrison, Chris Read, Neil Brennan. Wow, oh there’s more. I just needed to breathe, Michelle Wolf, Mark Ford, Rory Scovel, Joe to Rosad, will Say, Sloan, Jessica Curson, Samarel, Tom Papa, Jim Norton, Michelle but So Joanne McNally, Drew Lynch and more.

Wow, the office ladies are going to be there and there will be a Napoleon Dynamite screening and QNA JFL Toronto, September twenty first through the thirtieth sounds fantastic. The folks over at Fireball Dragon Reserve Noah slow newsweek when they see one. So they put out a press release suggesting you get some of their bourbon for your dad for Father’s Day. They tricked Johnny macken and talking about this, they pulled out Rob Riggle and said, just like Fireball. Rob Riggle is known for bringing laughs and spicing up anything heat such as it was a no brainer to make him our honorary and Master Distiller for Dragon Reserve.

His deadpan delivery and rebellious ir reverend personality was the perfect combination to bring this anything but boring product to life. That’s right, Rob Riggle crown the first honorary Fireball Master Distiller. In his highly coveted role, rob Riggle helped shape the final result of Dragon Reserve through Riggers product testing. The result, says Wriggle, absolute fire well done. Press team.

The La Times had a lengthy article about how much your comedians getting paid, And I’m not talking about Pete Davidson and Dave Chappelle, talking about your rank and file working comedian. Megan Cooster has been grinding in the LA comedy scene for several years. She said, I absolutely do not make a living doing comedy. Occasionally I’ll get paid for a college gig or a partner sag Ultralo budget production. But you couldn’t even buy a two thousand and one toyotas Sell with the amount of money I generate yearly from comedy.

I wonder how much it trissell is. Oh yeah, I’m Google, and of course I am all right. I don’t want on one of those used car websites two thousand and one Toyota Corolla l E price seventy nine ninety great value up, there was an accident reported. I don’t want that one. I want with no accidents.

Let me go down. Here’s one at two thousand and one Toyota Corolla l E sixty nine ninety eight. No accident or damage reported. It’s got eighty seven thousand miles on it, which is not a lot at all for a twenty something year old car, but as usual I digress. Derek Brown opens at sold out headliner shows on the road and says he brings in about five hundred dollars per show.

If I’m headlining or featuring around LA, the pays usually twenty dollars. Megan Coaster says, when you have three jobs and crippling debt, you literally can’t afford to stay up until three am every night pretending to respect an agent. I mostly sell trash I acquire for free on eBay. I’m a garbage woman. LA.

Comedian writer Ellery Smith says the swings are huge between year to year. I’ll make anywhere from five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars a year on Comedy Wow. The official poverty line, according to the IRS, is far above that, so Ellery moonlights as a babysitter, copywriter, or even working at a shady donut shop. I wonder what a shady donut shop is, she says. Thirty to forty thousand dollars would change everything for me.

The UCB Upright Citizens Brigade Theater is under new ownership and they’re trying to change things. They have worked out that all shows are paid the same, which is a fifty fifty split after house recruitment, which is forty five tickets sold for every show regardless of ticket price. But the LA Time says note any show could have anywhere from two to fifty performers, which means pay could range from six dollars to fifty dollars per performer depending on the ticket sales. One of the suits of the theater says, the goal here is the theater does not lose money. That will always be the only goal for the theater.

There’s no way you’re going to make money on this theater. It’s just impossible. Stand Up Jay Light has worked his way up the ladder in the LA comedy scene, earning a credit on the Comedy Central version of Roast Battle. He says he currently owns seven to ten thousand dollars annually doing comedy, yet stand up has helped him get gigs writing for reality competition shows including Master Chef, Master Chef Junior, and Domino Masters. That’s your Comedy needs for Today.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Early explained how he got to work with Taylor Swift. He told racketmen dot Com, Well, she loves search party, which I didn’t know until she asked me to do the video. I didn’t know she was aware of who I was.

So she asked me to do the video and was so incredibly humble and professional in the way she asked me. She was like, I directed these other videos. If you want to see samples of my work, your Taylor Swift, I know who you are. Of course I’ll do it. Let me jump in there.

I’ve been I went to see Taylor a couple of weeks ago with my daughter, and I said, the weakness in Taylor’s game is her stage banter. Because she does this thing. It reminds me of the Eddie Murphy bit where Eddie’s talking about Michael Jackson and Michael says, is it okay if I sing to you? Taylor will get up there and be like, wow, golly gee, guys. You know, I thought it’d be okay if I had one of my friends out and we sang a song for you and the crowd goes nuts.

It’s like, what are we gonna do, Taylor go No, we don’t want your friend come out anyway. You’re Taylor Swift, I know who you are. Of course I’ll do it. I appreciate her not assuming her stature would just be a total given for me, which of course it absolutely was. Of course I was dying to do it.

I’ve always wanted to be the Kathy Griffin to someone’s eminem. It’s hilarious. I still get tweets from random Taylor Swift fans, dms on instaff from people all over the world who were like, please show this picture to Taylor, just begging me to send her stuff. It’s so funny, and I do. I send all of it all right.

Then they asked Jonah Early, you’re playing eleven hundred seats, You’ve got an HBO special, your buddies with Taylor. Are you feeling my minum career wise? Yeah, thank you, he says, Oh, I don’t know. I always feel like you’re alone in your house. That’s what I find so beautiful about the tour.

Its the first time in a long time I’ve felt any real people are receiving my work. It’s so lovely. The entire industry. It’s all social media, lives on social media. It’s such an alienating, animized experience.

Doesn’t feel like anything. It feels like air with live shows. It’s like, oh, people actually want to come see me. Joel McHale told Variety that production on the Community movie was about to start. He says, I think they were extremely close.

I mean Dan somebody that tweaks things. But obviously that’s all stopped. I think it was pretty dorn close. Why did it stop? Writer strike?

Joel says, it was close. The shoot date was coming up. We were all excited to do it, and the writer strike app in, which obviously put everything on hold. And rightly so. Brett Goldstein, you know him as AFC Richmond head coach Roy Kent.

We’re getting season four, right, you guys aren’t going to walk away from that moneymaker, right right, right, Brett Goldstein. He’s got a comedy show tonight in San Diego with the Civic Theater. If you’re in town seven o’clock to play Roy Kent. Brett said he deepened his voice and changed his physical stance shoulders back, stiff body to represent the character’s emotional withdrawal in real life. He has a lighter, at looser, chattier and much funnier presence, but he does curse like his character.

So the show’s restricted to age fifteen and up only. So I watched Ted Lasso with my wife and I have this theory that Roy Kent is more attractive than Brett Goldstein, straight married man. But Roy Kent has this aloofness and wears black clothes all the time that I don’t think real life Brett has. Weighing on this Ladies Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group, what I know? What am I wearing?

I’m wearing a Stormtrooper T shirt and my Villanova hat from barband dot com. You’re home for comedy news. Irish strongman Pa O’Dwyer Where are you going with this? John? Trust me?

Trust me? Irish strongman Pa O’Dwyer published a video on his YouTube channel where he and Tom Sagora performed a strongman workout. Sure O’Dwyer weighs three hundred and eight pounds, He’s a five time Ireland Strongest Man champion. Tom Sagora is none of that. The pair began flipping tires, which is a compound movement incorporating in their glutes, hamstrings, quads, shoulders, packs, and biceps.

It’s full body movement that starts between the squat and a deadlift of heavy tire and moves into a press to flip the tire over down a course. Barban watched the video and sat Sagorino’s wire squad for enough leverage without compromising their backs, they maintain neutral spines. Once they exploit from the bottom, they quickly adjust the load of the tire to the shoulders and chess while driving through a press to topple the tire to its opposite side. Julia Louis Dreyfuss, I’m planning on talking about her at on tomorrow’s podcast. She was on the hot Ones pod.

You know hot ones you eat increasingly spicy chicken wings. She said, I don’t know why anyone to subject themselves to this. She talked about one of the challenges of filming Seinfeld and said, what we were always challenged by was as soon as you walk into Jerry’s apartment, what do you do? What am I gonna find to do in the apartment. You can’t just come in and sit on the couch.

Every time he had the couch, you the kitchen, you had the sweet spot, which I believe we called the alleyway between the counter and the couch. That’s where a lot of stuff happened. I felt like if you could hold court there in a way, you also had to figure out what you’re gonna do, which is why I, as a Lane would often go to the refrigerator and just find things, or even go look in the refrigerator and not do anything. We were limited. We had to be creative about it.

The New York Post talked to Tom Poppa about his new book and said, you know, if you’d told me I had to live on the Upper east Side, make it on the five dollars a night, I was making it the comic strip back in the day. Had to stretch of that money. So you went there the next day. I’d quit, but I didn’t even think about it then because the inspiration that New York was, especially in stand up comedy. I remember I was hosting shows and bringing up at the time Ray Romano, John Stewart, Rhett Butler.

These people had shows and I was saying their name and they were shaking my hand. Felt like it was a backdoor in a show business that only New York could give you all right, Tom Papa. Were you New York Post reader? He said, of course, especially when I was writing weekend update jokes for Colin Quinn. That was such a New York thing.

But every moment would wake up, go to the corner and get coffee from the one stop, and stop at the news stand, get the Post, get the Times, and head back with your stack to start writing jokes, hoping Colin we use them on Saturday nights. It’s been kind of a slow two weeks. And when it’s a slow comedy newsday, I do things like google Joe Rogan and usually something comes up that I can use as filler. For example, the headline billionaire golfer Tiger Woods weird handlers get dis by Joe Rogan after Ari Shaffier’s bizarre experience. Okay, essentially sports dot Com recap this apparently Ari Shafier, it’s old Joe Rogan.

We did a commercial with Tiger Woods. They were like, don’t curse around him. It’s like before the scandal. They’re like, don’t curse around him, don’t swear, And I was like, okay, but Ari says Tiger himself then casually used profanity and are he’s like, I’m like, wait, just tell us not to do that. Rogen schimed in and said, the people around Tiger, they’re just handlers.

They’re weird people. There’s weird people that get a kick out of having power over their star. They’ve power to access. They’re like, you can’t have access to the star. He can’t get close to them.

Sam b is back with a podcast, this one called Choice Words with Samantha B. What will Samantha B do On Choice Words with Samantha Be She will interview celebrities, politicians, and others copywriting Rule of Three about the choices they made in their lives. Greg Barris has a new comedy special out on YouTube. It’s already out. It’s called Deep Healings.

Accorded Live in La. It kicks off with an intro from Reggie Watts. Greg is known for his charismatic energy, twisted humor, and psychedelic leanings. Deep Healings features Greg Barros in an intimate setting where he expertly mixes his stand up with audience interaction, moments of forgiveness, kink shares, family values, lack thereof, and interstitial meditations and one of the most original comedy specials of the year. He also has an album called Deep Healing, which was recorded separately from the special Yes, My kind of Comedy Album, A comedy album that’s actually a comedy album.

The comedy album Comedy Album kicks off in an introduction by Nick Foon, who’s fantastic fans around the country. You know Greg as a regular tourmate and opener Forward Signet Sorrow and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. Smash that like button. Yeah see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Chenny mag with your Daily Comedy News late night writers on strike. The Late Bot said, New York City’s yellow skies from the forest fires are like an homage to the subways, paying tribute to the countless yellow walled, urine stained stations that have become part of the iconic landscape. It’s like the skies are saying, this is New York City and yellow is our color.

Meanwhile, Pete Davidson taking on Peta.

Apparently Pete’s tired of being compared to a straight cat. Pete Davidson and Peter are going headshead and the billboard war. It’s like a rap battle, but with cute puppies and kittens on the side. On yesterday’s podcast, told you about that billboard. Apparently Pete did not hire a billboard, which is kind of a shame because I sort of liked the insaneness of that.

But it wasn’t Pete. It was a group called Core and they tell the New York Daily News they are responsible for a rotating digital billboard at the corner of forty third and Broadway. The billboard says Peta can’t handle Pete’s bde and they clarify, BDE stands for by dog energy. Pete is having none of this. They say it’s tragic that Pete didn’t seek out a borrow borne mutt from a city the animal shelter, because a scrappy New Yorker with charm personality and unconventional handsomeness could have been his perfect match.

I liked that they got that in there. You may recall Pete had left a voicemail. More details on the voicemail. Apparently, Pete said, my mom’s epic dog who’s two years old, died a week before, so we were all sad, so I had to get a specific dog. It was the same voicemail where Pete suggested that the person how do I explain this mouth stuff?

You got it? Move on. A spokesperson for Core, who put up the billboard said, we all think dogs deserve love. Pete thinks dogs deserve an early grave. Maybe instead of harassing celebrities, Pete should focus on actually helping animals.

The world could use a little more BDE, and by that I mean by a dog energy. Of course, Pete, in a statement to The New York Post, called Core fundamentally dishonest. The billboard is a front group the puppy meal industry, among others. It does not provide services or find homes for animals, and as a financial interest in propagating misinformation about Pete’s rescue team, which is on call twenty four seven to offer relief to abused and suffering animals and provide end of life services for people who can’t afford to pay for their sick and dying animals to be put to sleep. We encourage everyone who cares about dogs to adopt from a shelter and ignore this greedy group’s attempt to make a buck off the backs of suffering puppymeal dogs.

Core is a non profit. They say they research and expose a variety of activist groups. Apparently CORE has taken on different names over the years, including the Center for Consumer Freedom, and they have fought Peter back and forth over the years. Interesting, Pete added this billboard and anybody who supports it is on the wrong side of the issue. More Pete Davidson News he missed his shows in Raleigh, but it wasn’t Pete’s fall.

There was those forest fires. His flights were canceled. He couldn’t get there.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip corner, Kim Guardashi and addresses rumors that she and …

You see in Back in October of twenty twenty two, report claim that Kim had rekindled her romance with Pete, returning to one of their favorite New York hotels two months after officially splitting up. But Kim said on The Kardashians she was using the New York City place for a date with a new guy who she’s calling Fred, and said, what’s so funny is my friends wanted me to meet somebody, so we go to New York and she picked that hotel. She said, that’s like my spot because there’s a private room downstairs. But then on the internet it was like Kim reconnects with Pete at this place. Kim was asked directly, was he there?

Kim said no, but it was the place that I would go and have my secret dinners with Pete. All right, pretty big ted Lasso news. It caught a lot of people’s eyes, including mine. Apple TV. They tweeted a picture of coach Beard, Roy Kent and Nate and captioned, it smells like potential.

People started wondering if that means there will be a Ted Lasso spinoff. Well. Coach Beard is played by Brendan Hunt, who was one of the co creators of the show, and he did an ama on Reddit. Will there be a spinoff? He says, we don’t know to break and we’ll take one.

Presently. Nothing’s been ruled out. Everything is possible, but that includes the possibility that we’re done. We won’t know until we’ve sat with it for a while, decompressed, et cetera. He talked about some of the plot lines from the recent season, including how it was teased there was maybe a relationship between Ted and Rebecca.

Maybe, he said the creators considered it out of professional responsibility, but never with enthusiasm. His theory the coach and the club owner are soulmates, but that they can be soul mats without it being romantic. Brendan Hunt said, we’ve been taught by years and years of TV that when there’s a male lead and a female lead they end up together. That could be hard conditioning to see passed. He addressed Coach Beard marrying Jane and Ted not being at the wedding.

He said story wise, Ted had just boarded a plane back to the US, so would have felt anticlimatic dav And back in the UK so soon hunt set Personally, I think Beard called Ted and told him we could sit this one out, and Ted said thanks, because the ceremony conflicted with a big game for Henry’s soccer team. The history of their relationship, in my opinion, is long periods of seeing each other in long periods, not We’ve entered one of the latter, but the former will come around at some point. They love each other, they’ll see each other again. He answered questions about Beard’s decision and Mary Jane because some people found the relationship abusive. He says he doesn’t think Jane is an abuser, though he admits their relationship is toxic.

As Ted says, their baggage goes together, real nice. They feel like they’re the right person for each other. The main thing we know about Beard and Jane, he just loves her. She makes life more interesting. Where he was once addicted to meth, he’s now, in my opinion, addicted to her pheromones.

Did I miss the meth plot? Huh? Is he making the right long term decision? Don’t know? Is he doing something that he wants to do right now, certainly, and there’s joy to be had in that, Hunt said, he and fellow creator is Jathon Sadakis, Bill Lawrence, and Joe Kelly intentionally left Ted and Michelle’s fate ambiguous when the Coach returns to Kansas.

This answers a question my wife and I had, And apparently doctor Jacob no longer in the picture, and Ted and Michelle care about each other, but they’re different people than they were when the show began. Their priorities being good parents to Henry. As for Roy and Keeley, he says, I’ve known couples who have seen perfect together and then suddenly fine, they broke up. People who haven’t gun to work on their stuff can sometimes find that they lose something they’d wish they’d kept. Taylor is back on on tour, selling on places all across the country.

That’s right, Taylor Tomlinson back on tour. Who think I was talking about? And Taylor Tomlinson said, I think we’re definitely in the middle of a boom right now. Even my manager has said stand up has never been like this before. I mean, people are playing arenas and doing multiple shows at theaters.

That’s a relatively new thing, even when it’s a kid. The people who did arenas were Dave Chappelle, Steve Martin, and Dan Cook. Did Steve Martin do arenas? I don’t recall Steve Martin touring comedy since way back, and I don’t know. I don’t know about that one.

Correct me if I’m wrong. Facebook Group, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Taylor said, Now there are people I know that are in arenas, and even people who could do arenas but prefer smaller venues. She’s trying to figure out the inconsistency of TikTok. Taylor says, it’s hard to know exactly what to do on there.

There’s kind of no rhyme or reason to it, like what time of data post or what we’ll do well. Instagram is more formulaic. We’ll run post by each other and go, okay, is this joke good enough to do on stage? Where’s this just a quick one for TikTok. I have to really make sure that I’m good with stuff about myself being out there before I talk about it.

I struggled with that on the last special because I wasn’t sure I wanted to talk about it. Then I started talking about it and made me feel better. People were connecting with it. In my early in mid twenties, i’d kind of say anything on a podcast. It was a lot more loose on stage, and now more intentional because people actually pay attention.

They see me on purpose and remember what I say. She’s doing shows at the Pike’s Peak Center this weekend, then I’ll head off to Kansas City after that, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Back in the States this fall Colorado. September twenty second, Melissa Rivers is giving Joan Rivers assets to the National Comedy Center. This is pretty cool.

The museum is in the planning stages of an interactive exhibition that will center on Joane Rivers card catalog of jokes. Journey Gunderson is the executive director, She told The New York Times. When it comes to the Joe Never’s Joke collection, I don’t know that another exists that is nearly as vast. Carlin’s archives were mainly scraps of paper organized in a ziplock bag. As they put in a folder, Rivers paid close attention to set up some punchlines, typing them up and cross referencing them by categories like parents Hated Me?

Or Las Vegas or no Who’s sex Appeal. The largest subject area is tramp, which includes seventeen hundred and fifty six jokes. Great article about this in the New York Times, and they’ve got some examples of it. So here are some typewritten cards. One fashion My dress is by Calvin Klein.

My body is by Friedo Lay. Here’s one from April eleven, two thousand and three. I’m thrilled to be on Broadway. The only thing that could make me happier is if I’d slept with someone to get there. Here’s one titled no sex Appeal.

My vagina is like Newark. Men know it’s there, but no one wants to visit. Here’s a beat up sheet titled how to handle a Heckler. I’m sure she told these better, but some of them. Button your lip, your bridge is showing.

How do you want your forehead? One? Lumper? Two? Who is this guy in an empty suit?

Hide your head and your ill fitting to pay now? Even the typeface here makes me think this is sixties. I worked with Joan and around the turn of the century at WOR Radio. She had a radio show from seven and nine pm, two thousand and one. I worked with her a lot.

I remember your guest producing the show a lot during the anthrax scare that followed nine to eleven. I don’t know if you remember that. If you’re in New York, you probably do. She had two writers, an older guy and a younger guy, and they would sit there next to her and they would just scribble things down on index cards, pass them to Jane, and she could deliver a joke that had been in three seconds earlier. She might not even know what it meant, but could nail the punchline.

Really fun to work with her, And I’m going to leave you on a heavy note. This from People Anna Marie Tyler, ex wife of John Mulaney, is mourning the loss of her French bulldog, Petunia and reflecting on how the pet supported her throughout her divorce from John Mulaney. Warner in advance nothing fun for the rest of the podcast. If you want to check out, this is going to get really sad, really quickly, you’re ready. Petunia took her last breaths while cradled in my arms, even after life had left her body.

I sat with her, held her and continued to talk to her, told her how much I love her. I told her how grateful I was for her love and companionship. I promised her that I was okay, and that I’d be okay without her. Crushed, lonely but okay, Tyler wrote that in twenty twenty, during quotes a severe mental health breakdown and what appeared to be the impending end of my marriage, Petunia would now guard me with the deepest kind of love I’d ever known. When I was hospitalized for depression, self harm, and severe suicidal ideation in the first two weeks of twenty twenty one, the doctors asked me to make a list of my reasons for living.

Petunia was the one and only thing on that list. Millany and Tendler announced their split in May of twenty twenty one. That news came three months after John Milaney had completed a sixty day rehab stay to see treatment after a relapse of his decades long battle with addiction. Tendler writes, while Petunia had an undeniably adorable face, she was not what would you call a good dog. She was, in fact, very very naughty.

She inherited one of the worst terrier traits resource guarding. Oh, you dropped a tube of chapstick. Forget about it. That’s Petunia’s now. A sock did make it into the laundry.

Emperor Petunia found it. That’s now Petunias suck. Let this be a disclaimer to anyone who is lured to Frenchies by their expressive faces and silly personalities. If you’re considering getting one, don’t. They’re a breed that persists only through human medical intervention, and ethically, that is not a type of dog that should exist.

Petunia was a lemon, but she was my lemon and I loved her unconditionally. That’s your comedy needs for today. Follow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube. See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late night writers still on strike with a late bot is talking about all that smoke. If you live in the Northeast, I’m sure you noticed it. And the late bot says, you know the smoke is bad? What even Snoop Dogg starts coughing and ask for a glass of water.

The forest fire smoke has reached such epic proportions that Donald Trump has declared it the biggest, most tremendous smoke cloud in history. He even offered to negotiate a deal to build a wall to keep the smoke out and make Canada pay for it. The late bot said, I heard Pete Davidson try to use the forest fire smoke as a smoke screen a hide from his ex is speaking of Pete Davidson. That whole thing with Peter that I told you about. Well, Pete’s plan for Wednesday was to put a billboard up in Times Square.

Yeah, this isn’t from the Onion, this is from the av Club. The plan was for a Time Square billboard to say that Peta can’t handle Pete’s b d E. In this case, what’s bde by dog Energy Pete and Pete, please keep this up. It’s been a tremendously slow two weeks of non comedy news as we’re about to see, so please keep it going.

Speaking of Pete, let’s stop off on Gossip Corner TMZ, says Pete.

Davidson spent the weekend living it up in Las Vegas. On Friday, he went to celebrate a friends bachelor party with a large group of pals. After racing cars at Speed Vegas, Pete and the gang headed over to David Blaine’s in Spade’s Magic Show over at Resorts World. An onlooker said they were celebrating his good friends bachelor party. The group then wrapped up the weekend by attending the UFC and playing basketball at UNLV.

Chris Rock was home on mining his own business Sunday night around eight o’clock and he looked at on the fire escape. First of all, I’m amazed that Chris Rock lives somewhere with a fire escape, But Chris looked out the window and saw a man on the fire escape of his Soho apartment. Speculation as the man may have been trying to film Chris Rock. That’s creepy. Chris called the cops.

By the time the cops got there, the creepy guy had jumped in to a white Mercedes and took off. Authorities have not found the creepy person. Cops believe the man is in his twenties. Hannibal Burris is out there promoting a new music album. So that’s a step too far for us to talk about on this podcast.

But hype Beast was asking him about his issue tune musical career. But then they asked this question, how big of a bowler are you? Okay, Hannibal said, I’ve been bowling pretty heavily for the past few years, and I bowled as a kid. I didn’t bowl as much during high school. I got back into it in LA in twenty nineteen, and when I started bowling more, I had an idea for War and I love this and Anthony Bourdain style bowling travel show.

Hannibal says he pitched it to the PBA and then they needed a fill in for a celebrity bowling tournament, so Hannibal flew from Houston Phoenix and appeared in that. Hannibal says, getting a strike’s a great feeling when you first notice in those couple of seconds right after you roll it and then it happens, the noise of it and when you get into a rhythm. It’s a fun activity and a way to hang out without being at the club or a bar or something. My song one three Pocket, I See what you did there, Hannibal, is a song about bowler It’s the hardest track about bowling. Oh there’s more.

Hannibal says, I didn’t have a bowling ball for a while. Someone stole my bowling ball out of the car during the pandemic. That was devastating. I drove around looking for them, and if I saw somebody, there was going to be a confrontation. I might not win, but something’s going to happen.

I left it in the car because I thought it’s fine. It’s not a computer. No one’s going to take a custom fifteen pound bowling ball. An update on Jamie Fox, my former co worker. It’s been nearly two months since the family revealed that Jamie had been hospitalized due to a quote medical complication.

An insider has told radar Online that Jamie is receiving treatment at one of the top physical rehabilitation centers specializing in stroke, rain, and spinal cord injuries. The insider tells Radar Online Jamie’s receiving treatment. The clinic specializes in physical therapy programs to treat injuries or a physical condition that limits or prohibits the ability to walk or walk correctly. They teach people how to walk again at this particular clinic. The source says, Jamie wouldn’t be at this clinic if he was not impaired in some way as a result of whatever happened to him.

But fan should rest assure Jamie’s in the best care at this type of clinic. So, as an observer and somebody who has worked events with Jamie Fox and been around Jamie Fox and the Jamie Fox camp, I have found it surprising that there has been no photo of him where they take five hundred shots of him sitting pool side looking cool, looking happy, take the best picture and put that out. There was a text message from Jamie Fox on his social media, but we haven’t seen a photo, and that to me makes me worry that you know, something’s not right here again, worked with Jamie, good guy, speedy recovery. Hope you’re doing well. It is a slow news day, so one of the things I do on slow news days.

Is that any comedians whose name I could think of, I’d throw in a Google and I see what comes up. And boy, I went deep today. I got all the way to Jim Norton and I found this story. It’s from a month ago, but it’s pretty funny. A month ago, Jim was on Guttfeld.

That’s whybody heard about it. I know, Greg, I know you have the number one late night show. I know all about that. Why is there zero media coverage of a conspiracy? Right?

Yes, se many clips Greg, I’ll use him anyway. And waiting on a bud light controversy, Jim said, this is a product that makes you pee your pants and drive the wrong way on the highway and people are so upset. My identity’s not wrapped up. And who else drinks the beverage I drink. I like diet Coke.

I wouldn’t care if Hitler was on the can. I would drink diet coke. If it was high fiving bin Laden, I’d be like, I’d like a diet coke please that I’d crush the little mustache hairs off it, and I would enjoy my diet coke. My identity is not tied in with other people who enjoy the beverage I enjoy. If you’re of a certain age, you will know the name Pat Cooper, quite possibly from Pat Cooper’s many appearances on The Howard Stern Show.

Pat has passed away at age ninety three. The New York Times opit says Pat Cooper, the stand up comic who made Outrages act, progressing from mocking Italian American families like his own a publicly insulting celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Howard Stern, died on Tuesday night at his home in Las Vegas. He was ninety three. For more than fifty years, Cooper, clad in a tuxedo and Clark Kent spectacles, ranted comedically about his background, his family, the people would wronged him, and just about anything else that bothered him. He developed the act, leased with sound effects, in small clubs in Baltimore and New York in the nineteen fifties.

I mentioned yesterday that if you try to google comedy, the name that keeps coming up over and over and over and over and over and over is Matt Rife. Matt announced that Big tour, and you might be wondering who is Matt Rife. Jacksonville dot Com thought you might be asking that question, and they put out some fun facts about Matt Rife. Number one. Rife has a masked over thirteen million followers and more than two billion views globally.

He’s twenty seven. He has three million followers on Insta and ten million on TikTok. Fun fact number two. Matt Rife is known for his crowd work and lightning fast banter with fans. In one video, Rife goes into a lighthearted back and forth with an intoxicated woman as she’s heckling him and he jokingly calls her Wednesday Adams.

Fun Fact number three. Matt Rife got his star on MTV’s Wild and Out. He made his TV debut becoming the youngest cast member on MTV’s Wild and Out, which was hosted by Nick Cannon. The premise of the show had Cannon and a revolving a list celebrity leading two teams of improv comedians each week as they competed against each other. Still runs today nineteen seasons.

Fun fact number four. He’s appeared in multiple sitcoms. In movies, his credits include shows like Brooklyn nine nine, berb Patrol and Fresh off the Boat. He’s also appeared in movies like Just Swipe and North of the Ten. I’m not familiar with Just Swipe and North of the Ten?

Are you You’re not Google Time? Just Swipe from twenty twenty one. You see Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much she can get away with while dating via webcam. Matt Reife played at Colin.

North of the Ten is a story of five friends who happened to be social influencers. They’re on the rise and chasing their Hollywood dreams from the South Side of Chicago. Chicago people, and I know you’re out there, Becky. What does the ten refer to? See?

When I read the ten, I’m like, Oh, this is going to be about like the Santa Monica Freeway or something. Talk to me Chicago anyway. Fun fact number five. He previously dated English actress Kate Beckinsale. They were spotted together on a few PDA field dates back in twenty seventeen.

Their last outing was in twenty eighteen at Dave Chappelle’s show in la and then apparently they called it quits. That’s your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. But if you’re on YouTube, you’re got to smash that like button, aren’t you? How Come I don’t have ten million followers say tomorrow?

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny magg with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re a drive by listener who just came for the It’s always sunny stuff I put in the headline. That will be the second half of the podcast. We’ve got feisty news today.

We’ll start with Pete Davidson versus Peta. TMZ reports Pete left Peta a profanity laced voicemail. Apparently, Pete Davidson left a heated message on Monday for Pete’s senior VP of Cruelty Investigations why her Pete had gotten her name because she had issued a statement to TMZ expressing Pete’s collective disappointment in Pete Davidson buying a puppy at New York City pet store instead of adopting from a shelter for the report. On the voicemail, Pete Davidson announces himself and says he’s responding to the statement, which he calls uneducated and premature. He notes that he’s allergic to dogs and that’s why he had to get a Kavapoop, which is a nearly hypo allergenic breed because they don’t shed.

He added that the dog was for his mother, whose previous dog had just died. TMZ says, then an explet of lace dive Tribe, in which he angrily tells the woman to do her research before talking to media, he drops an fbomb and I love this phrasing makes a vulgar suggestion involving his penis. Pete is not backing down, they telled TMZ. If Pete had done his research, he would know that there’s no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog, that at least a quarter of dogs and shelters are purebreads, and that Petfinder has listings for homeless dogs. If every breed under the sun, including the one he purchased, TMZ reached out to Pete.

Pete admits he was unaware he could adopt a specific hypoallergenic dog. He said he was told it wasn’t an option, and if it was, it was rare. Pete said, I haven’t seen my mom and sister cry like that in over twenty years. I was trying to cheer up my family. I was already upset that the store filled me without my permission or acknowledgement.

Then this organization pete and made a public example of us making our grieving situation worse. I’m upset. It was a poor choice of words. I shouldn’t have said what I said, But I’m not sorry for standing up for myself and my family. Pete said.

Our hearts go out to the Davidson family for the loss of their dog. But Pete must know in his heart there’s no excuse for buying a dog and propping up the puppy mill into street when millions of dogs await loving homes and shelter. And we hope he’ll do the right thing and adopt next time. More from Pete Davidson. He was at the premiere of Transformers Rise of the Beast.

He does a voice in the movie. The paparazzi asked him about the ferry. Remember he bought a ferry with Colin Jost. Pete said, I have no idea what’s going on with that thing. Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry and we’re figuring it out now.

I’ll jump in there. That’s a funny line. It’s a funny story. But let’s think for a second. You don’t just accidentally buy a ferry.

It’s not like there’s a guy on the street corner going, Hey, you want to buy a ferry, and because you’re stoned, you whip out two hundred thousand dollars. That’s not how ferry purchasing works in my experience. Pete. If I’m mistaken and that’s how you bought the ferry, please let me know. So I personally don’t think you bought a ferry because you were stoned, Pete.

Then joke. Hopefully it turns into a transformer and gets the f out of there so I can stop paying for it. This next story from the Hollywood Reporter, I’m gonna go lightly here. I need to educate myself about it, but I think this is going to be well talked about. Headline burn it Down.

A new book explores SNL and its culture of impunity. Author Maureen Ryan writes that Lauren Michael’s long tenure as a power player at SNL’s enduring importance or intertwined with a culture of impunity. There’s then an excerpt addressing the Gene Doe accusations against Horatio Sands, and I skimmed it. I obviously hadn’t read their whole book, but I read the excerpt and seems like a hit piece on Lauren Michael’s and I’m not sure how that’s going to play in the industry. I’ve never met Lauren.

Lauren’s reputation seems to be pretty good, and the amount of stars that I think would side with Lord Michaels if this gets into a big public thing, I think Lauren will have a lot of big, big, big names on his side. But we’ll see. Maureen Ryan writes, during many different NBC regimes, Lauren’s power has been near absolute or depending on whom you talk to, absolute. The excerpt then talks about someone named Grant and says when Grant joined the show in the nineties, he observed that the lighting designer was an eighty some thing World War Two veteran wh would work there till I think it is in the nineties and whose vision was failing, and he was the lighting designer of the show. During Grand’s time at S ANDL, the rules, such as they were, were insane.

People smoked in their offices in the early aughts, despite the existence of a Manhattan indoor smoking band. I’ll jump in there too. I’ve worked at places such as radio studios where you don’t smoke in the studio, and there are some celebrities who are going to smoke in the studio and don’t care, and it’s really annoying. But to say that the only place that ever happened was SNL, it’s not the only place that ever happened. The excerpt says the lighting designer and others had such long tenures at SNL in large part because Michael’s is has Grant put it the prime minister of his own nation.

He has his own laws and his own rules. All the current Comcast executives when they talk about him, it’s like he’s I don’t know, Mandel or something. You know, this figure who looms largely over show business and entertainment at NBC. He’s the last real direct connection between what we have now and what we have then, this magical, mysterious, nostalgic time, the halcyon days of television. Whether or not creating an awful work environment was Lauren Michael’s goal is relevant.

Decades. SNL has been a frequently it’s terrible, punishing experience for a lot of people who work there or ended up in the show’s orbit. The fact is in full view and any number of books, interviews and other coverage of the show. What is wrong is systematically and institutionally wrong, and Michaels runs that institution. He has had the power to change the SNL culture for the better on a number of fronts, But the hours, the pressure, lack of inclusion, the punishing, manipulative atmosphere, not enough changes have been made to prevent the worst successes of all that from negatively affecting many people for many years.

So yeah, I’m not sure what to say about that. Never worked on SNL, never met Lauren Michaels, I worked closely with Jim Brewer. I don’t remember Jim badmouthing Lauren. I’ve run into Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Jim Belushi a little bit, Matt Ackroyd once even met Ratio. So I’m not sure this is going to play.

Let’s see what happens tomorrow. I will google Lord Michaels and let you know. A me too documentary about Louis C.K. Is not heading forward at showtime. No reason given by the network, although I’ll point out a lot of streaming services have been removing content at some sort of money saving thing.

But the Louis C.K. Doc directed by Carolyn Sue was not told from his perspective, but used the comedian as a focal point to discuss the me too movement and where it’s gone in recent years. It was ordered by Paramount plus his chief content officer, David Nevins, who has since left the company. Back then, I remember this quote, Luis c. K is a slightly different situation of Harvey Weinstein and is a great, great comedian has come back in his own way.

The doc is no longer moving forward at the Network for Variety, and it’s unclear if the project will be picked up elsewhere. If you’re trying to prep your podcast on Tuesday afternoon and you googled the word comedy, oh my goodness, there were ten billion hits about matt Rife. Why Sean matt Rife is kicking off a brand new tour. It’s called the Problem Mattic Tour, with Matt in the middle there in caps. The Problemmatic Tour will take him across the country Australian Europe, starting in July going to October of twenty four.

Matt Rice said, I couldn’t be more thrilled to live out this lifelong dream toward the world spreading laughter with some of my best friends, something I never thought would be possible. The remainder of this podcast will only be about It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I’m going to really really spoil episodes. If you don’t want to hear that, see you tomorrow. If you don’t like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, might as well check out if you want to hear about the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which kicks off today.

Stick around all right? Everybody else Gone? In three two one okay, Looper gave the new season seven out of ten. They wrote pros a rebound from the show’s previous season with multiple belly laughs each episode. Last season was pretty good, more pros hits its satirical targets far more frequently.

Sixteen seasons in, and we’re still finding new ways in which the Gang is awful, and this time we don’t have to rewrite Cannon to get there. Cons It’s not the show at its peak, with some gags falling flat, but it’s a closet show. It’s been a peak form for quite some time. Alright, I’m excited, Looper says. The primary reason why this season’s more successful compared to last season is the topical targets the writing team is chosen to skewer.

When it came to the Waiier themes, last time, Marona felt like episodes were reversed, engineered to tackle specific subject matter head on, forcing the Gang to be at the center of the national conversation. Here, the stakes are much lower in ways that recall the strip down storytelling of the earliest seasons. Okay, here come the big spoilers, big, big, big spoilers coming up. The premiere episode on tonight, The Gang Inflates deals with the recession entirely through the attempts of Mac and Dennis to start a business renting out inflatable furniture. Collider says in the first six episodes, the sixteenth season goes in the wild directions would expect from the group.

The Gang spores everything from inflation and their legacies to trying to get Brian Kranston and Aaron Paul to buy their own alcohol brand. Coming after Charlie search for his father last season, this season also brings family and see the equation much more often. For example, the first episode, The Gang Inflates, We’re spoilers here has Dennis indeed attempting to get back into Frank’s will, while Charlie’s mom, Max’s mom, and Uncle Jack are around for more of the season than expected, which makes for a nice addition. In the second episode titled Frank Shoots Every member of the Gang, Charlie, Mack and their mother is go to meet Axe Uncle and Charlie’s sisters in order to gain pieces of their families legacies. For the Kelly family, that means a giant jar of teeth full from past generations ever since the family arrived on the Nina Pinta and Santa Margarita.

Maybe the biggest surprise in season sixteen, especially with episode names like Frank Versus Russia and Frank Shoots Every Remember the Gang, is that the show doesn’t seem to be attempting any larger commentary. In Frank Shoots Every Remember the Gang, Dennison d attempt to get Frank to give them their gun, and while the Gang Inflates does an admirable job of explaining inflation in a way that Charlie can understand, there’s no larger message. The closest the show comes to commentary this season is in risk E Rat’s Pizza, in which the gang goes to a chucky cheese like restaurant where they realized times have changed and they rail about how things used to be better. D argues that Frank’s experienced with the restaurant with its racist jokes was a different time, while d in the rest of the gang missed the restaurant that used to have a bar, sell lifelike guns and had animatronics that look like birds with realistic human breasts. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

Back tonight. Two episodes tonight on FXX. You’ll get a new episode every Wednesday, and then on Thursday, the newest episodes will show up on Hulu. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Over the weekend, Dave Chappelle and the Roots performed at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. John Stewart Michael Chay also there. The Inquiry Rights The picnic arrived with an air of mystery, in part because no cell phones were allowed and thus there was no social media sharing of valuable jokes or controversial remarks.

Access was not provided to the media. The Inquirer paid its own way in if your ticket was on your phone, Stafford scribbled seating information on a post it note. The reporter did scribble down some notes and said Chappelle’s best observational joke was about how houses in Philadelphia are so close together you could open your window and reach into your neighbor’s refrigerator. Between the Roots set and Chappelle’s set, each one was an hour. John Stewart was announced.

John said Chappelle and the Roots were among the few things that could get him to drive his old ass down the turnpike. Stewart riffed on how decrepity is, including needing reading glasses to look at porn on his phone. He closed with an excellent routine about how it’s easier to buy an AR fifteen rifle than adopt a cat. The inquiry rights, all right, but what about Chappelle? Was he funny?

Was he offensive? They write? Chappelle certainly didn’t back away from his reputation as an equal opportunity offender. His button pushing jokes got big laughs. He even mocked his Filipino American wife’s appearance, while also depicting her as cutting him down a size.

Good observation here, they write, Chappelle remains a master of conversational comedy. He’s well prepared, but gives the impression of seriously thinking through his issues, such as how he feels about Will Smith versus Chris Rock or when he was attacked at the Hollywood Bowl and real time it feels genuine. Stewart seemed off kilder in comparison, But all right, fasten your seatbelled, I’ll read this next sentence verbatim. Anyone expecting Chappelle to double down was disappointed. It’s Pride month.

He said, I’m not going to talk about those people. He said he would make jokes about the disabled. A flurry about former North Carolina US Representative Madison Cawthorne followed, neither Chappelle nor Chay could resist bringing up former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Leats Thomas, a favorite subject of anti transactivists, but both comics came to the same conclude. An express by Chappelle let the b words swim nap Bergatzy’s going to be the pace car driver at the NASCAR Cup Series Ally four hundred and the Nashville Superspeedway on June twenty five. The GM of the track said, this summer, we’ll provide the most thrilling entertainment in Nashville.

There’s no better entertainer out there than Naburghatzy did take part in our remarkable event to bring fans from Middle Tennessee and across the country in the world together right here at Nashville Superspeedway. Joe Rogan had Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, and Ari Schaffier on his podcast. They talked for two and a half hours. One topic the bud light controversy. Rogan said they should hire a kid Rock to be the spokesman.

Gillis said, we talked about it last night. That would be the best. Ari Shaffier suggested thirty second kid Rock commercial Let Him Go Nuts. Shane Gillis said, keep drinking bud light. It’s what you enjoy.

I mean, come on, man, we’re all talking crap on phones that are made by sweatshops. It’s all nonsense, Rogan suggested, using internet meme character Peppe the Frog holding a bud light saying feels bad man. Rogan continued and said bud light should go full heel, using the wrestling term for bad guy. The folks over at cracked dot com caught Mike Ribiglia on the Working It Out Tour on Mike’s Working It Out podcast, for Biggs does a variation on the familiar comedian talking to comedian format. Rather than sharing anecdotes, he invites comics to work out comedy material in real time, and that’s the conceit of the Working It Out Tour.

A series of colorful note cards, each containing a word or three, served as prompts for the comedian and try out new jokes. He even dissected his success rate as he worked through the new bits. For example, the audience liked when Biggs described his days as a single man searching in vain for a partner who is interested in being naked. At the same time when he fell in love with his eventual wife, he had a break up with the old girlfriend, and he said to the audience, Oh, you were with me on the wandering around naked part, but I lost you when I had to tell the old girlfriend. Remember when I said, it’s not you, it’s me.

Actually it’s you, Crack says. In the hands of a less confident comic, the idea of trying out unfinished material might seem like a rip off, but for Biggs makes working it out an integral part of the show, explaining the process and then demonstrating how he shapes routine it’s final form. He ends the set with extended routines that are more evolved, sharing fully evolved comic stories guaranteed to kill. Even a magician intent on revealing where the rabbit is hiding in a hat knows he has to end with a bang. In this case, knowing how the trick was done just made it more satisfying.

There’s a Roast Battle League. I find this fascinating. Comedian and writer Pat Barker describes Roast Battle as one of those shows that always ends up entertaining, even if it doesn’t go well. Barker has competed in forty five Roast Battle contests, and over the weekend was representing Los Angeles in a Roast Battle League tournament against the best roasters from Tokyo. What this is it?

Saye? I love it. Last year local champion Page Wesley encountered Joe Urell, a battler with cerebral palsy. He’d quipped, Oh big surprise, Page hating on a vegetable. Wesley retorted, Joe’s birth mother had a drinking problem.

Well, I mean she was pretty good at it for like nine straight months. Wesley says, one of my favorite parts of roast battling is radical self acceptance. To get good at it, you need to be comfortable with the roastable things about yourself. Watching a good battle feels like admitting we’re all humans with flaws and being able to laugh at it makes us all feel better about being flawed. The Roast Battle League was launched last summer, with teams from La San Diego, New York, Chicago, Austin, London, and Tokyo.

In LA League, specific battles have found a monthly home at Culver City’s Jam in the Van three rounds plus overtimes, and it often ends in a draw. They’re even working on creating a hall of flame in every League location. There are three official rules one original material only, two no physical contact. Three exception of number two, which is every battle ends with a hug roast. Battle regular Alex Hooper once told Simon Camwell, thank you for fixing your British teeth.

Those things are so straight and white. They would just offered positions in Trump’s cabinet. Well, I’m gonna get out on the laft. There. That’s your comedy needs for today.

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The shark deck hidly home. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Patton Oswalt talk to the graduating seniors at William and Mary and said, to the graduating class of twenty twenty three, I say three words, you poor bastards, He said, don’t think of me as your commencement speaker. Think of me as your shift manager at the Walmart. Patton said, if he was giving the same speech back in twenty thirteen, it would be the Walmart manager equivalent of a pep talk.

Clean up the spill near the sporting goods, set up the Halloween display, easy manageable task expected of any employee. But in twenty twenty three, a go get him pep talk won’t work anymore. The environment in twenty three is like if a tornado had ripped the roof off the store, while an eighteen wheeler has overturned and set looser truck rolled of rabid white Nashalist possums in the gun department. This is some speech, Patton said. Your concerns as you stumble out into the reality tomorrow.

Massive democracy is crumbling, truth is up for grabs, the planet’s trying to kill us, and loneliness is driving everyone insane. Took a pause and said, let’s hear it for the nihilists out there. Huh. Patton said, when he graduated, he basically breezed into a world full of trivia and silliness and fun. The new grads are about to enter a hellscape where you have to fight for every scrap of your humanity and dignity.

At that point, he stopped to check his notes and he said, in the margins, say something positive here, He says, I’m a comedian. I’ll get out of this. I’ll watch this. This will be amazing. He looks the grass in the eye and says, you do not have a choice but to be anything but extraordinary.

It’s been truly amazing to see how your generation has rebelled against every bad habit of mine and every generation that came before me. Everything we let calcifa, you’ve kicked against and demolished. You’ve rejected that whole twenty four seven no days off grind. You’ve rejected apathy. You’ve rejected ignoring your mental health because you’ve got a muscle through it.

No matter what. You’ve rejected alienation and cruelty. You’ve rejected not trying to include everyone you’ve rejected, not looking out for each other. And those are hard things to reject because accepting them sometimes makes life way easier. Great speech, Huh.

Patton had some advice for people with lesser GPAs his was at two eight, and he said, obviously you should work hard and bully hard, but you should also wander easier. Right and by the way, in the spirit of my two point eight GPA, the last two pages of my speech I finished an hour before I gave this his final thoughts. Be human in all of its bedlambon, beauty and madness and mercy for as long as you can, and in any way you can. It’s time to live. Jay Leno looked back on his famous nineteen ninety five Hugh Grant interview.

Wow it doesn’t feel that long ago, does it, Jay told the Hollyer reporter. I called him up and I said, you’re still in for tomorrow, and he goes, yeah, Hugh greenk goes, you know, I affed up, but you know it’s my fault. Leno asked the famous question, what the hell were you thinking? Chris Wallace interviewed Jane was curious how he came up with that question, Jay said, just off the top of my head, you know he was great. Nowadays you’d have one hundred handlers more.

Jay Leno news the total press release clickbait, and I clicked, and I took the bait, but all right. Carnival Cruise Line has announced that Jay Leno will serve as the godfather to its new ship, Carnival Venezia. Yeah, okay, I’ll play. Press release. The ship is the first to incorporate the Carnival Fun Italian style.

Jay will perform a special comedy show exclusively for Carnival’s event guests. Jay said, I’m truly ownored to be named the godfather of Carnival Venizia. I was an offer I couldn’t refuse. Carnival’s focus on fun, combined with the Italian theming of the ship is something that’s truly unique. I’m also excited to at my very own cruise ship, although I think I’ll need a bigger garage.

They also used like a picture of j that’s I don’t know, forty years old. He’s got a little gray hair in the picture, but not that much, and he’s a couple of pounds lighter. John Oliver will not be picking up an eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series at the Emmy’s if we have the Emmys. Wow, that’s shocking. But there’s a reason the Academy changed the categories around a little bit last week.

Tonight, we’ll be battling it out with SNL and A Black Lady Sketch Show in the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series. Deadline says, now the race for late night show is more open than it’s been for years. You could consider Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Seth or the Daily Show. Seth Meyers said, I liked the answer to how does somebody beat John Oliver is you just move them to another category. Deadline spoke to a number of late Nights sources over last few months.

The general consensus is that the Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel, Alive Late Night in the Daily Show will get nominations. Multiple people suggested that Jimmy Kimmel will now be the front runner to win. He’s well liked, and some highlight the fact that he’s an LA guy, which could play well with voters, as well as Jimmy’s kept his profile high with jobs like hosting the Oscars or Voters have been known to give a nod to an exiting favorite that appened with Conan and Trevor. Noah’s final year is eligible here, so we’ll see same note on James Gordon HBO lobby to keep Last Week Tonight in the talk category, but because it’s more scripted and Oliver doesn’t regularly have guessed, so they were kicked out. The Academy rules state a scripted variety series is defined as a variety program that is primarily scripted or loosely scripted improv Scripted variety may occasionally feature unscripted elements, but the main intent of the series a scripted or performed entertainment.

So that puts Last Week Tonight in the same category as Saturday Night Live, which did not have a good year. So we’ll see a Black Lady Sketch Show also expected to be nominated in that category. We’ll see what happens come September if there’s even an Emmy’s telecast. There is a writer strike. You know, hey, Dave Chappelle back in the news.

DC’s mayor has announced plans for a major redevelopment designs who honor the district’s historic Black Broadway and add affordable housing. It’s a project at the northwest corner of fourteenth and U Streets in Northwest. It will include a bunch of things, including a new comedy club back by Dave Chappelle. So I’m recording this on Saturday afternoon, which I usually don’t do, but I flipped my schedule around because it was so nice out Friday. And on Saturday, my kids’ soccer game was canceled, and I was so sad because I’ve been a soccer dad now for oh let me do some quick math in eighteen years, most weekends and this was the last game of the season and it was canceled.

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Shannon hit me up on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Shannon wrote, John, you’ve noted that you don’t think some shows are really stand up, like John Melaney’s Baby Ja and maybe you mentioned Burgatsis Show. What’s your criteria for including something as stand up as opposed to one man show? Would you say Milaney’s older stuff was stand up? To me?

It just seems like different flavors of stand up. So I thought about that, and I gave Shannon an answer on the Facebook page, and I said I’ll elaborate a little more on the podcast. So as I think about out it. So first of all, look, everybody I’m going to talk about here is great. It’s all comedy, it’s all funny.

Also, I want to point out I’ve never performed. I’m not a stand up I’m not a comedian. I’m not a performer. So definitely don’t want to take away from anybody that we’re going to talk about here. But to get to the question, I think as I think of stand up comedy as I sit here in the basement in twenty twenty three, I tend to think of something that has a punchline at a pretty rapid pace.

It’s a bit of dated reference, but the person who keeps coming to mind is Sam Kinnison. Sam getting up there telling jokes about being married and just slamming home a punchline every few seconds. A more modern version might be a Bill Burr. But you know, there are different forms of stand up comedy. I think of Bob Newhart doing those one sided phone gags Bob’s Hall of Fame.

I guess that’s stand up. So the term I coined on the Facebook group was stand up stand up. Kinnison’s doing stand up stand up. Burr is doing stand up stand ups, Louis C.K. Is doing stand up stand up.

Then you get things that are a little more storytelling, like a lot of what Mike Berbigley it does, And I think Mulaney did that on his most recent special. That wasn’t like set up punch, set up punch, It was more humorous storytelling. Seinfeld is a stand up Jerry just gets up there and chucks jokes. Jackie the Jokeman nothing but jokes. Gilbert Godfried was nothing but jokes.

Hannah Gatsby storyteller.

And then we can get into the gray of all this.

Dave Chappelle kind of weave stories and then drops in a punchline to keep you engaged. So, yeah, Shannon, you bring up a good point. It’s one of those I don’t know, I know it when I see it. That’s probably not helpful at all. Mulaney just felt more one man show, more like what Hannah Gatsby is doing than say a Bill Birthing.

Hope that made some sense. Happy to discuss this with everybody. You can submit your comments on the Daily Comedy News podcast group.

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Jason Farrago wrote in The New York Science, if you studied art history or another with humanities in the nineties or two thousands, or to say, if you’re around the age of forty five a Anna gats you may remember the word problematic from your long ago seminar days. Back then, it was a voguish noun borrowed from French that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or at sext Soon. Though, like so many other efforts had think critically, the problematic got left behind in the centuries great shift from reading the scrolling. These days we encounter problematic exclusively as an adjective, an offend judgment of moral disapproval from a speaker who can’t be bothered by precision. At the Brooklyn Museum you will find a few parentheses, very few paintings by Picasso, plus two little sculptures in a selection of works on paper suffixed with team quips by Gatsby on adjacent labels around and nearby, or works of art made by women, almost all made after Picasso’s death in seventy three.

Finally, in a vegetable clips from Nanette play on a loop there’s little to see, there’s no catalog to read. The ambitions here are at gift level. The actual number of paintings by Picasso here is just eight seven or borrowed from the Picasso Museum in Paris, which has been supporting shows worldwide for the anniversary. There’s a fixation though, on genitals and bodily functions. Each sphincter, each phallas is called out with adolescent excitement, with adolescent vocabulary too.

What jokes there are, example, Meta hardly know her museum really could have rained in this immaturity, though to their credit they’ve at least fleshed out the show with some context on the cult of male genius or the rise of feminist art history in the nineteen seventies. And I’ll leave you on a downer from the Washington Post. A former Playboy centerfold model who says she was drugged in rape more than five decades ago by Bill Cosby, has fought lawsuit against Cosby under a new California law that temporarily lifts the statue of limitations on civil sexual assault cases. The suit was filed on Thursday. It’s the first known use of the lawn California against Bill Cosby, opening a new front and a year’s long and multi pronged legal battle against the eighty five year old Victoria Valentino eighty years old, so old, The Washington Post.

It’s not about money, It’s about accountability. Rape, steal something from you that cannot be repaired or restored. You can file the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, but then it is your come. Many News for today, See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack who with your Daily Comedy News. The Hollywood Reporter talked to John Mulaney about his twenty fourteen sitcom Mulaney. Do you remember that one happened? Nobody watched that.

I remember that one coming out, and I paid attention to it because I was running Seo Sex I’m comedy at the time, so I was hip to John Mulaney a little earlier than most. But yeah, that bombed pretty hard. Anyway. Calling the show Mulaney was the title risky John, John said, very anonymous. I think they thought I was bringing a sensibility to it that was, I don’t know, more widely appreciated.

And then I was also trying to turn that on its head by doing a multicam like, look, we can really make this form weird and interesting. Again, there were a lot of challenges, and I really suffered from high self esteem at that time. There was another version at NBC called Mulaney Don’t Drink, which was about me getting sober twenty three. Interesting right, John said. It was based on the time my life when I got sober twenty three and a two roommates, was just trying to figure out, what does good person too?

That was an actual part of my life or a pointless gauntlet I threw down in front of myself. That was the NBC show and it was really something lost when I, on the advice of others higher up, took that out. But I take full responsibility. I lost the thread that made it something. John also discussed SNL, saying people talk about how high stakes and stressful it is.

It’s also the most protected environment and entertainment we don’t get notes. I saw Jeff Zucker maybe once when he was the president of NBC. Nothing reached us. So to suddenly be the writer, producer and star of a network pilot, let alone a series, it was suddenly being the captain of a cruise ship. I was like, I have to worry about personnel, menu binders, meals for people, hours, how late everyone’s there.

Would you do another sitcom? John? My immediate thought was, oh should I? One thing I learned from doing that was I wasn’t sure what my story was, like, what exactly am I bringing everyone and why do they need it? But ye as before I die, I’d like to write one film as good as Searching for Bobby Fisher or any of those films I saw as a kid that really packed a punch and just got life right.

If I could do that once, I’d be very happy. Moamer talked to the highly reporter about the line, and mo said, you don’t know where the line is, tell you across it. Anytime I was fearful about something in the show was because it was so personal. It was scary. There was one scene where I literally broke down.

It was about my father being tortured and about dealing with that and suppressing that. In the series, I thought, oh, man, I didn’t warn this in my actual life. Whoops, I’m walking off and nobody can even look at you in the eye. Years ago, Dave Chappelle told me be so honest that it’s hard to make eye contact with you. I didn’t get it until that moment.

It makes me emotional just thinking about it. Yeah. Who asked Harry Kanabolo if he thinks his experiences growing up in Queens, New York City, not too far from where I grew up, helped shape him into being a quote unquote political comic. Harry said, I think it developed into that the same thing that made me want to work in immigrant rights is the same thing that made me want to write honest, confrontational material was this idea that things aren’t fair and I want to do something about it. Then after a while you start to realize comedy’s not going to fix anything.

But initially I just had this fire off. I want to say something. Post nine to eleven, everything changed. Before that, I was a kid sheltered in the diversity of Queens and really didn’t question us history as much as I probably should have. And after nine eleven, I’m all of a sudden thinking about work critically.

I thought a lot about racism and how that manifests made me rethink everything I thought about the country, So that really spurred my intellectual curiosity and that spurred my stand up development. As for the comedy climate today, Hurry says, there are all these social movements happening at the same time at a much faster rate as results of the Internet, and people for the first time you’re getting their voices heard, and that comes with the power dynamics that come with any form of expression. In this country. Generally, it’s mostly a white audience in the mainstream who controls the studios, and it’s usually white people out of control and most of these things. There’s institutional racism in this country, and so everything you’re creating as an artist is always up against that background, and all of a sudden you’re seeing this period of great change, at least great questioning.

There’s growing pains and that people don’t know how to communicate with each other, They don’t know how to talk about critical things, and certainly Twitter doesn’t help. The Internet doesn’t help on that, and navigating that is really hard, especially as an artist, especially as a stand up who edits live. Unlike other art forms, we make mistakes as part of the gig. And so I think people will look at this period as one of great transition and like a tug of war of videologies and also of opinions on how free speech works and how it should work. The Good One Podcast talked to Kathleen Madigan about touring, and she says it’s very difficult to have a normal life.

Most people will hate you because your gun all the time. They think it’s funny in the beginning, and then you miss another baptism and another birthday. That’s never the life I wanted. You can’t have stability. You have to be comfortable with organized chaos.

I do really well and organized chaos because it keeps my attention. It’s activity base versus with my one sisters. Safety would be her number one thing. She wants to be organized, safe, nothing, unpredictable. That’s her idea of happiness.

Mine is I like to be very unpredictable. I like it to be chaotic, but I want to know I have control over it. I’ve always been like this, even when it’s a kid. I think my parents would say that too. Like my one sister, every night before school, she had her uniform out, her things set out.

Everything was perfectly organized and neat My side of the room looked like it had been looted. Variety asked Wanda Psychs where there are times when comedians were anti gay or anti trans before you came out, when you were still coming up and want to said yeah, people would say all kinds of horrible things. So we used to let people get away with but you know in this country they would hold public lynchings and people that have picnics any potato salad. While watching We’re evolving, We’re getting better, the steps back in both the news and comedy. That’s what makes the most noise and so the progress we’re making, I think they’re just louder, all the Trump supporters and all that.

But I like to focus on the winds. I mean, there’s not a lot of them, but I like to celebrate them. Hey, you know what’s back this week? It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I’m looking forward to that, one of my favorite shows.

A new study determine that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has the highest words per minute, at one hundred and seventy six point two words per minute. The av Club rights that might not be ideal in terms of accessibility. You see there’s a six second rule in subtitle creation that suggests a two line stipit of dialogue should be on the screen for about six seconds, which is roughly one hundred and forty words per minute, not one hundred and seventy six point two The nearest competitor, Brooklyn nine nine one hundred and seventy four point six words per minute. Today is June fourth, and if you were a friend of mine, you know that every year I watch Star Trek two The Wrath of Khan for the anniversary that was the Saturday night movie Be in the Basement last night and I’m a little sad I didn’t get to go see Khan the musical. Today’s the last day that it’s playing.

Con the musical based on Star Trek two The Wrath of Khan, except this time it’s a musical and trickmovie dot Com said the script is flat out funny, all the jokes landed, delivered at a machine gun paste and rarely misfiring. The humor covered diverse topics like Shatner’s Tupai. By the way, there is an entire plog about Shatner’s Tupai. I think it’s actually called Shatner’s Tupei. Wonderful deep dive, the historical unreliability of the Hamilton musical and the inherent comedic gold of chickens.

The nerdiest Trekker, the lifelong theater kid, and the newest arrival to the fandom will all laugh until their sides get sore. While there are deep cut Trek references around every bend, and some of the jokes will warp past Trek newbies, the writers nevertheless go out of their weight to ensure the play remains accessible. Songs benefit from a variety of musical styles, with tap jazz group showstoppers and heartfelt solos. Standoutlets include Admiral Kirk’s character theme and Khan’s flamboyantly vengeent my ram. The set up here Data from Star Trek the Next Generation.

He’s doing some sort of holidack simulation of the events of the Wrath of Khn. So we’re seeing this through Data’s eyes. Data acts not just as the narrator of the musical, but also plays certain characters in the story. I listened to an interview with the creator of the musical on a podcast called Inglorious Trek Sperts. If you were a Star Trek fan, that should be the next thing you download.

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic Star Trek podcast. So for memory, I think they said Data steps into play David Marcus. He plays Cohn’s sidekick, and I think he plays one other character. Anyway, I’m sad I did not get to see con the musical. But if you’re in New York City and you got up early today and you download the podcast and now you’re pumped.

It’s playing today at the Players Theater in New York City. The creator did say on the Inglorious Trek Sperts podcast that he hopes to do more versions of this in the future. I just may was a real bearer and I didn’t get a chance to get out there, but call the musical.

Speaking of star Trek, William Shanner is the guest on the most recent Mark M…

So I met Shanner and I’m a big Captain James T. Kirk fan in case you can’t sell but Shatner when I met Shatner in real life, he’s got a reputation for being difficult. I think I’m on team George de kay here. If you listen to the Marin interview, especially in the beginning before Shatner warms up, you can hear a little bit of the difficultness or the Okay, this guy’s just a pain to get along with. That was my experience when I met Shatner.

The second time I saw Shantner, he was leaving Serious XM and I was walking in and again, I’m a big trekky and I couldn’t even be bothered to attempt to say hello. So turn off from this first visit. And I’ve met a lot of cool celebrities over the years, but Chanterer wasn’t one of them. Unfortunately, soars Trek to the wrath of Cohn. If you’ve never seen it, pretty good film.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. To see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Manic with your Daily Comedy News. Esquire asked Ronnie Ching, is there a difference between how you approach actor Ronnie Ching and comedian Ronny Chieng. That’s a good question, Ronnie said. Stand up comedy is a very direct form of self expression.

It’s very me focused. I know what to say and how to say it because it’s coming from me. I’m a little bit more fearless with it because it’s a live medium. The nature of live mediums as you say something in the moment in the room, everyone gets it and you move on. It’s not recorded and play it out of context forever and ever.

You know what I mean. When you’re acting, you’re doing someone else’s project. It’s more of a team sport. So I defer more to the creators and the directors.

And also, I’m very much out of my comfort zone.

I’m not a trained actor, so there’s fear with it in terms of what I’m like, Am I holding my own with these other trained actors. When you’re doing a scene with someone else, you have to do with them. You can’t just talk to them. You have to listen to them. You have to care about them.

All things that you don’t have to do in stand up comedy. You literally don’t have to listen to anyone, to care about anyone when you’re doing stand up quick anecdote for me in my podcasting career, I was doing some voice acting and use that term extremely loosely for a documentary and I really struggled with it. I’m not a trained actor, I’m not a performer, but the words because they weren’t mine, the sentences weren’t structured the way I speak. So I was reading the dialogue and I couldn’t nail it.

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And then I asked the guy who was producing the session, I’m like, can I do it…

And took the gist but phrased it the way I would say. I was playing a cop, and that just felt more natural to me. I don’t even think they used any of my takes. I’m not offended. It was not a good session by me.

Ronny Chieng, Hey, what’s your favorite Chinatown? He said, I don’t have to go with the country of Malaysia, It’s probably my favorite Chinatown. I feel the most at home there, the food is the best there, my family is there. Esquire was like, that’s a cop out answer, and Ronnie said, oh, you want American Chinatown, I’ll have to go with Sorry, everybody, New York City, come with me, guys, New York City Chinatown and the best Chinatown. I agree in New York City Chinatown is pretty good.

Neil Brennan spoke to the Washington Posts and they had some good questions, good questions. Press Hey, Neil. In your twenty seventeen special Three Mics, you use those three microphones to deliver three different styles of comedy. In Blocks, you used toy like figures to represent facets of your personality. What do you like about structuring your stand up in such unconventional ways?

Great question, Neil said, it’s a way to stand out. It’s a way to express more than just a monologue. We’re certainly a monologue of glib self confidence. Now, having said that, the show I’m doing in DC as no structure, I mean as a structure. But it’s not like that.

It’s not three mics, it’s not blocks, it doesn’t have a different dramatic ethos. There’s two big sections to the material I’m doing. One sort of living online. The second half is the world I inhabit now is where almost every time you pick up my phone, there’s an alert of like, hey, your friend is in trouble. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Joe Rogan, Kevin Hart.

Comedy is such a focal point in culture now. It’s an on situation of being comedy. There’s always something yes, hence this podcast. I personally love it, and because it’s an interview with the comedian Neils asked about say it with me, cancel culture. Neil’s take same as everybody else, the thing that comedians are under attack, I just reject.

I don’t believe Chapelle’s under attack. Most of the people I know that are quote under attack or doing arenas. I think it’s just a matter of all these other quadrants of society of fail. I’ll go with clergy and politicians. They’ve proved to be sort of corrupt, so somebody like Chappelle or Chris Rock or somebody like Joe becomes reliable.

I don’t think it’s because comedians are morally superior. I think it’s because we don’t ever pretend we are. Because we never pretend we are, people go, wow, there’s an honest broker. Bert Kreischer told a story about how we bet ten thousand dollars to prove he could take down San Francisco forty nine ers running back Christian McCaffrey. Bert told Rich Eisen I cornered Christian McCaffrey, and I was struck, and I said, hey, I think I can catch you, and he goes, what ten thousand dollars if I can catch you.

McCaffrey has confirmed the bet was put forward, but no actual tackle attempt was made. McCaffrey said, it’s a true story. He asked for ten thousand dollars in this I don’t know twenty by twenty five foot square foot room to paint the picture. He’s in a full swet about nine to ten beers deep, and he has a shirt off, of course, and he’s asking me this question. For a moment, I was like, you know what, maybe with the conference level you’re at right now, you might be able to do it.

I think it’d take ten steps to be out of breath, so there’s no shot it’d even make it to three hours to take a nap for an hour and a half to hour number two. I’d tell him Bert, there’s guys train all year and get paid a lot of money to try and do that, and they still can’t do it. So I don’t know if you’ve got a chance. Man. Jay Leno has no plans to retire, he told Page six.

You retire when you have a stroke. Then you slow down. That’s when you retire when you have your stroke. You may recall Jay had a few incidents earlier this year, and he said, I’m fine. Look when you’re in my position, when you’re any kind of celebrity, you’re luckier than most people.

So when something bad happens to you can’t wine explain about it because bad things happened to people every day. Either they get burned or they get cut, and they don’t have the financial wearwithal I did, so I just make jokes. Plus, it’s Hollywood. As long as you look okay, you’re okay, nobody really cares how you feel. Jay has learned to live in the moment because show business is fleeting.

You enjoy it while you can, and it’s fun. Some days you’re popular, some days you’re not. Is his wife Mavis worried about his hobbies, you know, like riding a motorcycle where somebody could get hurt, or fixing an old car where somebody can’t get hurt, and Jay Leno says, as long as they’re not cocaine and girlfriends, she’s fine. Believe me. Brody Fast will come back in August for a third year.

It’s the annual benefit Comedy Gives Back. It is named after Brody Stevens, who passed away in twenty nineteen. Part of Brody’s trademark was eight one eight, So the benefit is held every year on August eighteenth. This year Friday August eighteenth at the Comedy Store. Then on Sunday there will be a walk followed by a star studded softball game.

No names yet. Joining the walk acost you fifty dollars, but you get a special Brody gift bag with Brodie swag and all the postwalk festivities including music, comedy speakers. I think that means people speaking. You’re not walking away with things that you listen to music on, and a ticket to watch the star studied comedians softball game. David Mitchell, you know him from Mitchell and Webb and also from Peep Show.

He’s got a new BBC genre bending detective comedy. It’s called Ludwig. David Mitchell plays a man who takes on the identity of his brother DCI James Taylor. DCI James Taylor has disappeared off the face of the earth. Mitchell’s Ludwig lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living under his number plume, and he struggles to adapt to being a twin who happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge’s busy inner city Major Crimes Team.

It’s a comedy, but it’s also a cop show. The concept the hero is a fake coup and this article points out I didn’t realize this peep show, which I love, was created and written by Jesse Armstrong. Now you’re like, I know that name, Jesse Armstrong. Who’s that again? Jesse Armstrong, the creator and show owner of Succession, also did peep Show.

Dude, that’s one heck of her resume.

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The Shark Deck. Happy National Donut Day. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News now regular listeners. Now, I hit the National donut chain every day. Here’s my large iced coffee.

Then I’m almost done with well. Today, being National Donut Day, the Late Bot decided to make fun of me. These are pretty good. You’re ready from the Late Bot. I heard Johnny Max celebrated National Donut Day by setting a new world record.

He ate so many donuts at the local baker he had to take out a loan just to restock. Johnny max love for donuts knows no bounds. He’s the only person I know who orders a dozen donuts as an appetizer. They say Johnny macloves donuts so much that this blood type is actually powdered sugar. To commemorate National Donuts Day, Johnny Mack organized a marathon called the Run for Donuts.

The Catch the finish line is at the nearest Krispy Kreme. I heard Johnny Max celebrated National Donut Day by going out on a donut crawl across town. He claims he hit every donut shop. Let’s be honest, he probably just stayed at the first one do honor National Donut Day. Johnny Mack invented a new game called to Pin the Sprinkles on the Donut.

And finally from the Late Bot. These are all good AI generated jokes. You know, they say you are what you eat, and if that’s true, Jenny mc must be a giant, walking talking donuts. Dana Carvey revealed why he would not let Robin Williams make an appearance in a Church Lady sketch. This from The Hollywood Reporter.

Dana Carvey said this on his podcast. Dana said, Robin was a really good friend and he really wanted to do church chat. This was in the early days. This was my golden ticket and I was very careful. I thought if Robin got so excited, I was just afraid of it.

Robin called Dana Carvey one Saturday morning asking to be on the Church Lady Sketch. Carvey said no. It was heartbreaking, but you know we got past that and we were friends. But in those days, your character was very precious. I wanted to keep it quasi reel in a sense.

The Hollywood Reporter had an actor round table several comedians on it. One of them John Mulaney, and they said to John, John, your comedy historically has been about telling personal stories. This hour felt more confessional. You said it was fun. Was it also cathartic?

Mulaney said, that was the challenge I wanted to give myself to be vulnerable. What I wanted to see is could I say this much about myself but still own the room and be an entertainer. That just seemed more of a challenge as opposed to more somberly or groundedly presenting the facts of what the specials about. John Mulaney said, I don’t think people set out to be likable. I think they put themselves out there in some way, and speaking for myself, they enjoy the feedback that others relate to you, to what they’re saying or doing.

It starts off with though I must be honest something or there’s something about me these people get I find that one most dangerous. When they don’t get you. Then that’s phase two and you go, oh, I like the positive, but why aren’t they getting this part? Why did they miss this aspect? Then if people are disappointing in direction you take, I wouldn’t say that that’s hard because it’s very music at first, because it’s so parental, like we’re disappointed in you.

It’s just not feeling because I didn’t know we had that kind of relationship. The thing I found during the tour was this idea of I’m not going to people please as much in life. Is all great and it’s very liberating, but it’s interesting to see when you stop people pleasing, some people are not pleased, like not everyone will just applaud it. The Hollered reporter asked John Mulaney about his TV appearance, is pointing out on guests he plays basically chan Mullaney, and Millaney said, if you go through my work, most of my television is me playing myself on my friends shows. Illi reporter followed that up with it also seemed to fit into this repackaging of you, or at least of who the audience thought you were.

If likability is jail, how conscious and freeing is showing this other side? Mullaney said, We’ll see, because am I still doing the same thing? Am I trying to communicate? Hey, there’s a lot going on with me, y’all get it now? Am I still looking for that?

Of course? I am one of the other comedians on the panel is a mayor. They asked him, if a fan approaches you on the street, how do they recognize you? And Mo said, I usually get I’m a huge fan of your music, and I’m like, I’m not DJ Khaled Mullaney turned some Mo and said, I don’t know if you felt this with your first stand up special, but you basically have from age zero to twenty fives or rumin eight on things and come up with the sensibility and figure out the jokes you like. So your first special is the first twenty odd years of your life, and your sex special is one year.

It was made while you were mainly touring. That the musicians say that a lot right. You get your whole life to make your first album in six months to make your second one. MO said, it’s a really great point for me. I was always explaining myself was Wait, you were born in Kuwait but you came to Texas when you were nine, so you’re KUWAITI.

And I’m like, no, I’m not KUWAITI. My parents are Palestinian. Wait o’t come, you’re not Kuwaiti. You were born there. I don’t get it.

And I was like, I’m effing tired. Of these questions. So the whole first special is going to be answering all your questions, and then I just want to be a comedian. The Albuquerque Journal caught up with Carlos Mencia. I should see how young the writer is.

I don’t think they got the complete picture of Carlos Mencia’s career. The Journal writes he’s known for his raw and unfiltered style of comedy, which he has showcased a great success on comedy stages and in television shows and movies. Yeah, I think he’s known for two things, one being mind of Mencia, the attempt by Comedy Central to keep doing the Chapelle thing after Chappelle kind of blew up there for a minute. And the second the whole Joe Rogan Carlos Menstelia joke, theft thing that Mancia has admitted to. I’ve been in a room with Mencia at Sirius XM where he admitted to it.

Anyway, The Journal rights mean Sia only shot two stand up specials due out later this year, and apparently he’s on a Disney Plus series, The Proud Family. Mencia says, I don’t consider any of this work, especially right now. People need comedy the most. After big, major events in the world, we need to be able to laugh through all the seriousness. It’s time again for me to perform.

I remember doing might Have Mencia and talking about the impending great divide of the left and the right. If you go back and look at it, it’s happening now. That’s when I get excited with a sense of purpose. Beyond there’s this extra level of relevance. He says.

The past ten years have been difficult, and it feels like two different personas are merging together. Interesting, Carlos said, I have people who’ve seen me live and talking about the live shows. Then I have the Internet who’s been trying to cancel me since two thousand and five. The two personas are coming together, and I’ve been defending myself on social media. I needed to be heard and corrected what’s being said about me.

So I don’t know what’s being said about Carlos Mencia on the internet these days. But here’s a clip of Carlos Mencia talking about Carlos Mencia. A lot of people out there are going to ask, why did they interview Carlos about the CEO. Carlos is a joke cleief steal’s jokes. And we know this, and listen to me and look at me when I tell you this with all honesty.

If you think that I steal jokes, yeah, you’re right, of course that’s steal jokes. Are you out of your mind? When I come to a comedy club, you better run, You better get off stage, because if anything you say is even remotely funny, I’m gonna make it mine. And all I’m gonna do is say Mexican in the front. I had a clip that down.

He used a lot of salty language in there. Is he joking? Is he telling the truth? I don’t know what is Joe Rogan think? Anyway, Let’s not unpacked that all Rogan mid Sea I think today.

Speaking of Joe Rogan, he said he saw Sam Kinnison for the first time. Was like, oh, that’s comedy too, And that was like one of the first times I thought I could do comedy. I was like, maybe I got a wrong idea. That comedy was Seinfeld, Richard Pryor polished. It’s all done, and like you can’t do that.

You don’t know what you’re doing. Rogan’s inspirations Kinnison, Bill Hicks Richard pryor all them, Lenny Bruce. But I saw an open Mike Wants and gave me the confidence because I was like, oh, everybody to the beginning, because you see someone like an open mic night first time I went. When I did my show afterwards, Teddy Bergeron did the set, so Teddy Bergeron went up it just like showed everybody out. It’s done.

This cracked me up. The Sun, British tabloid, they were writing about Harry and Megan. By the way, I’m the writer on a podcast called Palace Intrigue. We cover the British royal family every day, and by that I mean we pretty much talked about Harry and Megan. Always play the hits and all formats play the hits, Megan Markle anything big downloads.

But I laughed at this. They quoted Tim Dillon as Hollywood broadcaster Tim Dillon, and I’ll read you what Tim Dillon said. I heard Tim Dillon’s podcast. I think the Sun missed that Dylan was kind of doing a bit. Anyway, Tim Dillon did say all I want to do is hang out with celebrities.

I was at a party the other night talking to somebody about these people and it’s just constant with them. Megan was texting the person I was with there. The point is they just won’t stop. These two. They’re like low grade reality stars trying to attach to anything.

I’m literally at the party and they’re showing me text of this woman begging people to hang out. She’s trying to get places. It’s sad, a lot of it isn’t working. And they’re all in their eyes at mellol and we’re having a good laugh about this. I respect the huzzle.

I get what they’re trying to do. Again, I just read you the transcript. I heard Tim say the words. I think he was kind of joking, but anyway, that’s Hollywood broadcaster Tim Dylan. New album out today from Rachel Mack.

It’s her debut comedy album, Teacher of the Year. She’s a Wisconsin Natives. She started doing stand up in LA and then moved back to Wisconsin to record this album. She jokes about her job as an English teacher, being a hopeful tilf. I assume that’s a teacher I’d like to be friends with, and army teachers as well as a solution for solving teen pregnancy Revelations about her Christian upbringing and the Tedium of motherhood Rachel Mack Teacher of the Year.

The remainder of today’s podcast will be massive spoiler discussions for the finale of ted Lasso. If you haven’t seen it yet, why don’t you hit pause? Come back after you’ve seen ted Lasso. But this will be the last topic of the day today. All right, are they gone?

Let’s talk ted Lasso spoilers. In three two one, it was all right, like everybody else. I started watching ted Lasso during the pandemic and it hit the spot during the pandemic, was like, oh, this is just bright and fun, and it became one of those shows I watched with my wife and we liked it together, and we just liked it. It was just happy, and it was about soccer, and it was light and flighty, and like most people, Season three were like, what is even going on? The show started to fall apart when Nate went evil, and then towards the end of season three, suddenly Nate’s not evil anymore, and he quits his job because he loves the girlfriend.

He loves the girlfriends so much. She’s not even in this season finale or series finale. We’re still unsure if there’s going to be spinoffs or whatever. I’ll talk about that in a second. But yeah, Nate loves this woman so much, and then she doesn’t even pop up in the last episode.

Weird decisioned by the creators. The Guardian wrote, good riddance ted Lasso. How the nice comedy became utterly dreadful television. You know, my wife and I we decided we were kind of behind. She hadn’t seen the second to last episode and I hadn’t seen the last two, and I’m like, let’s just skip to the finale because none of it matters anyway, and we’re gonna get spoiled on the internet.

So yeah, I haven’t actually seen every episode. I haven’t seen the second to last one. The Guardian says, rubbish jokes inept plotting a week script should we go on? Characters veered into incongruous demonstrations of whimsy or cruelty or wit, none of which train true to their personalities, but served whatever the script needed. Conflict, typically a driver of plot, went out of the window.

We got episodes dedicated to solving bad fathers, homophobia and racism, while genuine plot developments happened off screens, such as Nate quitting his job at west Ham so he could wind up back at Richmond, or the revelation that Ted’s folksy charms are not an inherent quality but a learned defense mechanism, and that was abandoned as quickly as this therapist was written out of the show. And yet we saw the therapist like nine times during the finale watching the soccer game Why Rolling Stone had a review that was on point Ted Lasso Season three finale the end of a frustrating bad season. They write without Ted and by extension, the team he coached as an organizing principle. Season three felt more and more unfocused with each week. I agree.

Big ideas were introduced and then dropped. Huge moments took place entirely off camera. Characterization was all over the map. The worst offender was the storyline about Nate yep. Rather than show him gradually recognizing what an abusive person he’d become, that’s terribly he’d betrayed Ted, the show seemed to view his redemption as a matter of Nate learning to love himself, and the writer’s method of doing it was with a bizarre love story involving Jade, the hostess at Nate’s favorite restaurant, who had no personality and no apparent reason for wanting to go out with Nate other than taking pity on him after another one was meeting him in front of Jade.

Nor were we given any reason why Nate was so hung up on Jade, given how repeatedly cold she was prior to him to that moment. Yeah, this is a bit of a mess. Will there be spinoffs? I think they gave us a major hint. It’s in a scene where Ted Lasso was talking to Trent Krim, who was fantastic this season.

Trent was really good. Trent is showing him the book, which I think was called The lass Away, and Ted said, I’d changed the title. It’s not about me. It never was. So we’ll see if we get Ted Lassos season four.

I hope they do. I like a lot of the characters, even though the season was a mess, and there’s plenty of things to be done without Ted on the series. Anyway. That is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube wherever you get your shows.

And I’ll see tomorrow