Author: johnnymacdcn

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Featured: Langston Kerman, Marc Maron, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, Sunny Leone, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Judd Apatow, Amy Schumer, David Geffen, Brett Goldstein, Tom Segura

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron WTF interview with Jim Gaffigan on pandemic and political engagement
• Dave Chappelle Fall 2023 tour announcement
• Pete Davidson reckless driving diversion program
• Brett Goldstein first US stand-up tour announcement
• Russell Peters and Sunny Leone friendship fallout
• Jerry Seinfeld Italy vacation with comedy celebrities

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Langston Kerman is my guest in the second half of today’s podcast. He’ll be hosting Montreal’s Just for Laughs New Faces. Normally I would be up there tonight checking out the new faces, but as I mentioned recently on the podcast, my mom’s been a little sex She’s okay, thank you for asking, but not in a place where when I had to make the decision two weeks ago, I had a call Montre, I’ll be like, yeah, I’m not gonna make it.

I wanted to stay close to home, but she’s doing okay. Thank you for giving a hoot. I have not yet seen Mark Normand or Jim Gaffigan special. Probably won’t get to them until next week. I’ve got a lot of stuff in the evenings this week, but a high, high, high like super recommendation for Mark Marin and Jim Gaffigan.

They were on Maren’s podcast and I went through the trouble of transcribing yet, I mean, I didn’t sit here for an hour. I’ve a program that does that for me, and I’ve really picked out different sections of that interview that I’m going to share with you, and I don’t want to keep going, Mark said. Jim said, Mark said, Jim said, so I’m going to try and do a little voice acting. I’ll read the Marin lines a little harsher and the Gym lines a little softer, and hopefully you can follow around. Marion asked Jim, I think something shifted in you.

It seems like the pandemic at the Trump presidency where you were like, I have to talk about real things a little. And Jim said, yeah, I think there’s that. It’s a maturity, and I think it’s also self assignment. And your special is dark in the title too, yeah, bleak to dark. Yeah.

I mean I’ve always been kind of a nihilist, but for me it’s stand up specials or you know, material is assignments. And sometimes when I say assignments, it’s like life is being thrust on you. So it’s like the tragedy that you experienced, it’s going through the pandemic. It’s realizing that every day we were watching here’s the tally of people dying, right, and you’re watching sort of the unfolding of our biggest fears, and there’s so much of it. There were powerless over it so you sort of have this very kind of conscious denial, like it’s not even happening.

That’s not the denial, it’s sort of like, well, there’s literally nothing I could do at this point but ride this out and try to be decent and have as much fun if you’re capable. I kind of remembered on Twitter or somewhere you stepped out of your persona bit to make some statements about how you feel about the world. Then I knew that you had a way the idea that like, I’m gonna lose some dumb dumbs. Now, how did that pan out? Did you feel like you lost some dumb dumps?

Jim said it. It was like, I’m looking at my kids watching the news, you know, George Floyd, the pandemic, the mishandling of that, you know, environmental disaster after disaster, and you know, looking at Trump really being neck and neck with Biden. I’m like, what is going on? I guess I’m an optimist. I just assume people will be all right, like old timey.

And so I reached the point where I was like, I was having dinner every night with my kids and I didn’t want to look at them and if the democracy did fall, and you know, they started rounding up certain people. Yeah, I didn’t want to be like I didn’t do anything, you know what I mean. I also think like nobody, no actor, comedian, no one’s going to be like, oh, who’s Lebron want me to vote for? No one’s doing that, But there is something about it I wish they would Maren, Yeah, that’ll almost to be better than what the hell’s going on. Jim.

Yeah, but there’s something I said for I not thought I was even going to talk about Lebron, but I think he’s done a lot of good with his platform, and there are consequences. He’d probably be twice as rich if he kept his mouth shut, but he could also look at his children and look at himself in the mirror. Fantastic interview. I’ll do more of that tomorrow. Dave Chapelle announced a tour for the fall called Dave Chappelle Live.

This information went to The Today Show of all Things. The tour opens with two dates at Madison Square Garden and wraps up at Chicago’s United Center. Let’s see New York, Chicago, Detroit, Lexington, Kentucky, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Omaha, Nashville Saint Paul on October fourth, Chicago at the United Center. Tickets on sale today, Local pre sales today ten am, General sale tomorrow ten am at ticketmaster dot com.

Also announcing a tour and also pre sale today, Brett Goldstein, you know him…

This fall kicks off October fifth and Denver. It’ll at Boston, Minneapolis, Sacramento, New York City’s Beacon Feater that shows a ready on sale at the New York Comedy Festival, Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. Pre sale today ten am. General on sale Friday, July twenty eighth. Ticketmaster, Brett Goldstein, Tour dot Com.

Other big news, Pete Davidson has entered an eighteen month diversion program after being charged with reckless driving. This information from the La County District’s Attorney Office. Pete has to complete fifty hours of community service. He can do this in New York at the New York City Fire Department. That is interesting, and I’ll remind you that Pete’s father, Scott, was killed during the nine to eleven attacks.

His father was a New York city firefighter, so that is of interest. Pete also has to complete twelve hours of traffic school and appear at a Morgue war hospital for educational purposes. Pete must also pay restitution and obey all laws. Women on gossip corner for a while. Here’s the one from the Indian Express about Russell Peters.

The headline Sunny Leone says dating Russell Peters was a mistake and addresses the rumor of her husband, Daniel Webber beating up Russell Peters for making jokes about her woe. The Indian Express here home for comedy news tells us Sunny Leon and Russell Peters dated briefly, but their friendships suffered because of it. He said it was a mistake. I generally believe that him and I were such good friends and we had so much fun together and everywhere I would travel in the US, there were a lot of places that he was at because he was doing a show and would meet up in a fun drink, go out, be really funny and silly, and all of a sudden we messed up by going out on a date. She asked if Daniel actually beat Russell up for making a joke as was shown in the streaming series based on Sonny’s life, and she said with a laugh, No, that one was sensationalized a little bit.

I really do wish we were still friends. He went this way, I went the other way, which is totally fine. But if I ever did see him again, I’d be so happy to see him, even if he talked crap in a stand up comedy. It’s okay. When I dated Russell for this really short time, it was also the time I met Daniel, So then it would be really weird if I was still friends with Russell when I was just stating him and continue to be with him when I was with Daniel.

It’s like weird mixing of weirdness. I had to drop the friend, and I’m sad about it. And from the New York Post, listen to this crew. Jerry Seinfeld dining with Larry David, Judd Apatel, Amy Schumer and David Geffen in Italy. Jerry Seinfeld spotted in Italy dining with all those people.

The Post says Seinfeld is on vacation with his wife Jessica, and they dinner at Andrea Panza. Seinfeld was also captured posing for photo with a young wide eyed fan who came over to the table to greet Jerry. I’m sure Jerry loved that and was like, oh yeah, cool. I’d love taking pictures with Randoms while I’m out with my celebrity friends. Last month, the Seinfelds were seen soaking up the sun on a yacht in the south of France.

The post says Jerry was showing off his farmer’s ten and Jessica was snorkeling at a floral print suit. CBS This Morning profile Tom sagoora, I haven’t found any transcripts of that one yet other than this one thing. And Tom told CBS it’s fun to find a funny thing and something that people go that’s not something to joke about. I think every comedian has at least some of them in that where it’s like always fun to poke a little bit. The Streamy Awards were announced.

Yeah I’m psyched for these. Produced by Dick Clark Productions and Tube Filter, the Streamy Awards s you Know Sunday, August twenty seven, will stream live on the Streamy Awards YouTube channel. The comedy nominees are listen to these names, De Marcus Shawn, Chris Collins, Lucas Lopez, the McFarland’s and DC World. Amy Schumer posted on Insta about the Barbie Movie. You remember Amy was going to be in the Barbie Movie at one point she is not.

Amy wrote really enjoyed Barbie and Oppenheimer, but I think I should have played Emily blunts Oppenheimer role. Do better, Hollywood, Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon. Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come on for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience the journey of a lifetime.

Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcast. Hey, if you want to support the show, here’s a super easy way, okay on YouTube. I’m trying to get to a thousand subscribers. When I get to a thousand subscribe, I can monetize the program on YouTube so I don’t even care if you’ll listen on YouTube. You’re already listening, and I thank you for that.

But the next time you’re on YouTube, go to the Daily Comedy News channel and push subscribe. It’s all you gotta do. Take you two seconds. Your phone’s are ready in your hand? Is it?

Probably is. Mike Kaplan tonight is playing the Relay Henley in the UK, and he’ll be at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Mike says the audience at the Relay Henley can expect topics including polyamory and psychedelics, my thoughts on Beethoven, marriage, Jay z Can’t, calling philosophical paradox as Netflix, and more. Seriously, the main topic the show covers is my growthin relationships as a human being in general, eventually offering my past dumb self advice to become the currently hopefully less dumb self that I’m working on becoming, with respects to answering questions like how can we live in meaningful life? Why we’re here?

And what’s going on? Does anyone know what’s going on? Jenny Yang is playing the Crystal Ballroom in Boston tonight with Eugene Merman. He’s the headliner. She spoke to the Boston Globe right when attacks on Asian Americans roast during the pandemic, Yang took the streets of her adopted hometown, LA with a sign that read honk if you won’t hate crime me.

They randomly asked her, seems like a setup if she’d like to host one of those bachelorette parties on a pedal bar. She said, Oh my god, I’m obsessed with those boozebikes. You hear a gaggle of cackling women coming around the corner in denim shorts and they’re so drunk. I want to live that kind of care free life. All the sign those headbands with the little sparking penises.

I want that kind of life. Her show’s called Fiance Energy, and she’s opening for Eugene Merment at the Crystal Ballroom tonight. Let’s see who’s at JFL to thirty. John Marcos Serrezi tapes his podcast four thirty steph tolev is doing the keynote address. That should be interesting.

Seven o’clock just for the culture of seven o’clock Alley Wong seven o’clock at Zebra d Giovanni seven o’clock Russell Peters seven o’clock, New Faces Group one seven o’clock, for ten at seven o’clock, Damiel Sloss seven o’clock, Brad Williams Wow seven o’clock, Rashid Badry in English seven o’clock, Brits Ish seven o’clock, Curtis Connor seven thirty, Surrounded, seven thirty, Best of the Fast seven thirty, Adrian Appalucci, She’s Grade eight thirty, Lucas Brothers eight thirty, Judy Gold eight thirty, Drennan Davis eight thirty, Zoner Guard nine o’clock, Kyle Knaine nine thirty, Philippias Sparza nine thirty, Daniel Slast nine thirty, Sam Morrell, What a Night Man, Nasty Show at nine thirty, New Faces two at nine thirty, Curtis Connor nine thirty, Best of the Fest nine forty five, Russell Peters nine forty five, or Zilla Carlson ten surrounded at ten, Gina Is Sheer ten thirty, We’ll Say Sloane at ten thirty, The Comedy Store Presents at eleven fifty nine, Zach Zucker Presents Stamp ten, ELEM fifty nine, Midnight Surprise, ELM fifty nine and the Alternative Show eleven fifty nine. So even at midnight, you have four choices. Let’s play the what would we do if we were going their game? While I would go see New Faces one and two, but I’ll give you an alternate recommendation in case that is not your jam. But that’s absolutely what I would do.

But if you didn’t want to do that, I would say, do Adrian at seven thirty, Do Kyle Canine at nine, He’s awesome. Then go have a beer and then hit the Alternative Show at midnight. That would be a great night. Variety wrote about New Faces. Joe Koy remember being a new Face and said, immediately after I walked off the stage, the book or from This Night show said save that set, we want on on the show.

It felt like a scene from a movie. Ronny Chieng was also a new face. He said when I was in Australia, would hear about just for laughs and all our comedy heroes going there? When I got invited for the first time in twenty twelve was a huge deal for me and essentially launched my career. I met Trevor no One my US agents there.

Chang says, of Montreal, it’s like a comedy convention. It remains relevant because it’s the only chance for people to gather in that kind of setting. In North America, it’s hard to know where you’re going and how you’re doing. But JFL gives comics something to aspire to. If you do this, it’s a step forward in an indication you’re on the right path.

Blankston Kerman is your host of New Faces Tonight. Lankes then made his debut in twenty twenty twelve. It just for laughs All Access. He was named a new Face at twenty fifteen. I was at that show.

Listen to the new Faces from twenty fifteen, and this is why I take New Faces seriously. Let me know if you’ve heard of any of these people already. Dulce Sloane, Alex Edelman, Jack Knight, who unfortunately passed away last year, John Early, Moses Storm, Estra Steinberg, John Ronitzky, he made SNL, Rob Gleason, Emma Willman, Vladimir Kamano, who I thought was going to have an awesome career. I don’t know what happened to Vladimir Ian Abrason, Chris Red SNL, Nate Fernland, Julio Torres, Clayton English, Ashley Bornhill, Langston Kerman, Matthew Brossard, Pat Reagan, Leonard Utz, and Claire Mulaney. That’s your twenty fifteen New Faces.

So think about how many names you know that came out of that. That’s why I take this so seriously. So Langston is your host tonight. He’s got an upcoming series for Audible you’ll hear us talk about. He’s also on the Boys.

So for Langston two shows, New Faces Tonight seven and nine thirty. He’s also the host of New Faces of Comedy Unrepped tomorrow at nine thirty. Friday Hill tape his podcast. My mom had told me at the Double Tree in the Ovation room at eleven o’clock and then Friday night at seventies at the Jack Whitehall Galla. Now you’ll hear me at the beginning mentioned my birthday.

I did some show prep. It’s a running horrible website. Told me that Langston and I have the same birthday. We don’t. Here’s Langston My first two things I really hope aren’t try hard, but I’m going for the first up September tenth, nineteen sixty nine.

Oh oh, Park No, but birthday right you’re September ten. No, not at all, like Jesus Christ. So the Internet is making me look like a jerk. Yeah no, I’m I’m nowhere near September. I’m I’m all the way in April.

Oh my god. All right, I’m leaving like yeah no, that’s a cool day. Hell yea, the Internet sold me September time. I’m like, all right, I’ll open with that. All right.

I totally blue this, So let me just totally ruin my day. I dropped my daughter off yesterday. She’s taking two weeks of classes at University Michigan. So I hit Zingerman’s Deli? Is that a good reference to make or the locals like it?

I had a corn beef with mustard. Was probably the best corn beef I ever had. Yeah. I was about to say, it’s a it’s a go too. That’s it’s great.

You’re you are. You’re missing on birthdays, but you’re nailing it on everything else. That’s I’m one for two. I gotta pick her up in two weeks. What should I do while I’m out there and I’m solo.

I’m not looking to pick up chicks, but you know, like what obviously I mean I guess it’s two weeks from now, so there’s not gonna be any football to go enjoy. Damn, I don’t know. There’s it’s a summer. I didn’t spend summers in Michigan. It was more of a year, you know what I mean.

I was getting drunk and hanging out with my friends while I was there, So I can’t even recommend adult and arbor that well, okay, that’s cool. So I normally I hit the festival and I love new faces. As I was prepping for today, I was at your twenty fifteen show. That’s a killer lineup. Two people out of that made SNL.

There’s some names names there. How was that experience for you? Is it competitive or is like everybody in it together? No? I mean, I I mean, obviously it is competitive.

Stand up is a uh this is an individual sport at the end of the day, right, Like we’re not We’re rooting for each other. We love each other. But I’ll kill your family if it is the difference between me being successful and not successful. That said, I do look back on that class and feel a lot of warm memories of like us really enjoying each other’s uh you know, little moment our five minutes, we were all like standing in the wings and slamming the floors and being very excited for each other in that moment. So yeah, it was great, truly a really really awesome group.

We We’ve often referred to it as like the the two thousand and three NBA draft of of of lineups, if that makes sense to anybody, And that’s it wasn’t a small room, but it’s a smaller than where they have it now. They have it now in the big theater, but yours was more in like, uh, it’s almost like an auditorium because you got people on three side of you and it’s just gotten bigger and bigger. Yeah, it had real like chemistry one oh one vibes I think for as far as spaces that you know what I mean, one of those big auditoriums where a professor comes in and says half of you won’t make it all the way to the end of the semester. That was our vibe. But it’s good to know that it’s it’s scaling up, that the opportunity is sort of growing even as there are no opportunities left.

It’s it’s really exciting. So you’re hosting New Faces this year. I was talking to Alonzo the other day, who hosted a while back, and he said JFL didn’t even tell him who was on till three days before. As we’re recording this, we’re ten days out. Do you know who’s on yet?

I have no clue that nobody’s told me anything. And I’m sure even when they announced that they’re not going to be like, let’s tell Lengthston first and then we’ll tell the rest of the world. As a host, does that matter other than what they put you on the cards and you’ve got skills and can sell it. Do you need to know about the people? No?

I don’t think so. I don’t think that’s my responsibility there. I think I just want to I just want to warm them up, you know. I want them to feel good and nice and wet for whatever is coming after me. I don’t need that to know who it is.

I’m excited to find out who it is, and I’m I’m hoping that it’s folks that I know and am personally excited about. But the details are none of my business. So I’m excited to see it all play out. As the host, I keep trying to figure out the right way to phrase this without dragging anybody. Pete Holmes did an awesome job last year.

Yea, if I compare it to sports, I felt like he was throwing seventy eighty and not using his best best fastball. And as I talked to Alonzo about it, he was explaining to me, you know, that’s probably about you know, you don’t want to like absolutely crush and then you’ve got someone newer coming along, So what’s your philosophy in terms of, uh, you know, going out and doing your A plus material. And I’m not saying you know you’re going to do bad material, but maybe working the crowd a little bit, feeling the room, reacting to the moments rather just coming out and then you know, making someone less experienced folly or eight plus game. Yeah. I mean I’ve never hosted for New Faces before, so I can’t say that I’m speaking from any experience in that space.

But I think hosting in general is far more about making the crowd feel comfortable than it is about like being the best comedian on the lineup. Like when you are hosting, you are almost accepting that, Like at the end of the night, when everybody’s filing out, they’re not. They’re not stopping at you and being like you were my favorite. They’re stopping at you and being like, hey, you are a good time. I really like hanging out with you.

So I think that’s a healthier approach, is just being like, let me, let me make these people comfortable, let me remind them that despite their their suits, underneath their outfits, that this is truly a chance for people to just like vibe and love each other and possibly me the next big famous superstar that we all don’t realize should be a superstar. So yeah, I’m I’m I’m filler, baby, I’m just the party going. So, as a new face, are you tighter during that performance than you might be on a different night. Are you worried about industry or is it just another night for me personally? Or well back in twenty fifteen, Back in twenty fifteen, I was shitting myself.

So yeah, I was as tight as I think. And I’ve often approached comedy this way, that with every big opportunity, I challenge myself to squeeze in at least some new joke or some random riff. And so I do remember sort of like finding that and then feeling like, oh, I’m still in the art. I’m not just reciting my jokes like you know, like a poet up there kind of thing, I think. But it’s it’s a very nerve wracking process, and it’s a lot anxiety to feel like all everything I’ve been working towards is on the line here.

And so yeah, you’re tight, and you try to keep it tight, but hopefully they’ll they’ll leave at least a little room to to, you know, mess around inside of that thing. What’s the experience when you get off? You’ve crushed and now you’ve gone from a person that a suit type might have walked past in the hallway two days ago, and now all the attentions on you and you’re the hot chicken the room and everybody wants to be your friend. You know, how do you ride that roller coaster and the people just trying to glom onto you now that you had a good outing, Oh you you you ride it like a like a show pony. You know, you really enjoy that ride.

You take all those free drinks, and you have a lot of meetings with important people who assure you that they care about you and no one else. And you have a phenomenal weekend in Montreal, and then you return to wherever you’re from and you get a little sober from all of that stuff. You know, you realize everybody says a lot of things that they don’t mean up there, and then you come back to a reality that doesn’t necessarily match that same enthusiasm. But I do think that’s the beauty of JFL right, is like, if nothing else, this is a week, a couple weeks of truly just euphoria day camp, four comedians, and whether or not that turns into a life changing opportunity is none of our business. But you got to drink, you got to hang out with your peers, and you got to see some awesome shows.

Do you have any spots up there that you really like? When I go, I love daytime Mount Royal. I always go up to the top and I could lose a couple of pounds. I’m a bit of a runner, but I love It’s just a nice free I don’t know what it’s three four mile downhill. If you climb all the way to the top and you can run that path down, it’s just that’s a nice cruise.

But do you have any spots that you like, I haven’t done that, but I’m gonna. I think I’m gonna challenge myself to do that. That sounds really nice. I are new Faces year went and did the I can’t even remember those boats where you like are sort of like doing that weird rafting thing, but they’re like the wave runners, like they’re these giant boats where they basically are like intentionally slamming you into these giant waves. And did that with a bunch of like agents and other comics, and that was great.

I’d go and do that every single time I’m there. It’s really fun. That’s a good time. You said the word poet. I try not to ask comedians things they’ve been asked and answered five hundred times, so I hope this topic doesn’t for you.

But as I was digging in and I’m like, wow, MFA and poetry. That is awesome. That is something it ain’t I wouldn’t call it awesome, but it is technically a thing that I did, So yeah, it’s it’s great. What’s the transition from poet teacher comic comic slash actor? That’s the sequence there?

What’s the decision making process around there? To get out of one and turn to the other. The decision making was deep unhappiness. I think that that was no. I think at its core, uh, you know, poetry is something I really loved and did for years as a younger person, and I was writing, I was performing.

I sort of had waves of being a performance poet, and then I transitioned into literary poetry, which led to the MFA, and ultimately for a while at least was thinking maybe I’d find a career in that. I think at its core, some of the driver into comedy felt more about being able to get some of those same feelings out that you might find in a poem, right, some of the emotional journey that I’m exploring in my poetry without feeling as tethered to just the words on the page. Right that like, when you are reciting a poem, a lot of it is just sort of say the words as they are written, because the precision of the words is what we are celebrating. And the joy of comedy is almost the looseness around the original words and sort of finding new feelings as you’re performing it every single time. So yeah, it just comedy for me felt like an opening up of some of my creative form whereas poetry felt at least now feels a little constricting for what I want to do.

Does it help you with your writing? Maybe finding a different word and a typical word to punch up a bit. Does that translate at all? Yeah, I’ve been lying if I didn’t say that. Some of my comedy sort of like mimics my poetry, and certainly it’s very intentional in that way.

It’s not like I just a sucker for the old form. I think I recognize a lot of the things that I did well in poetry and try to apply them as much as I can to the comedy, and it helps, I think, Or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe people hate it and they’re not telling me as often as they should, But for now it feels like they’re the poetry is servicing the comedy, and vice versa. How did you find teaching, I’m an adject professor, teacher radio class. That’s happening to you?

Okay? That that answers it. You know, when I get, especially post pandemic, the class sizes have gotten pretty small. If I get one or two students who care, I can focus on them. But you know, sometimes you’re looking out to that room and you get ten people who you know, I see rare pods.

You know, I’m not stupid. You know, people checked out. It’s hard sometimes when you got people that don’t want to be there. How was your experience? What age were the students I taught?

Well, I’ve taught in various age ranges, but when I was teaching full time, I was teaching high school English, so ninth, eleventh, and twelfth grade English. I skip tenth. But the the challenges, I imagine have advanced far beyond what they were for me. For us, it felt relatively straightforward. No phones, no headphones.

Those were the rules. We followed them. The kids more or less did what kids do. Sometimes they listened, sometimes they didn’t. Now I feel like the classroom is like built in a way where like you can’t tell them not to have all their stuff while simultaneously telling them to have integrity around their stuff, and that seems way harder to be, like, well, I can’t tell you to put your laptop away, but I have to hope that you’re not on site that isn’t related to what we’re doing.

And they’re absolutely doing whatever they want on those those laptops, So you know you could I teach at nights, so you know, sometimes Monday night foot balls onto the back and then it’s it’s hard, It’s hard. Yeah, No, it’s a different game for sure. I want to ask you a couple about a couple other projects you’re able to talk about yes week. Cannabis yet, Uh yeah, I think I can tell you everything that I know about it. Nobody’s told me to shut up about it, so yeah, I’ll tell you what I what I can.

It’s an audible project, and it’s exciting, and there’s a really cool cast, many of whom I know, and then some of whom I’ve never met before in my life. But it’s It’s a cool thing about audio projects I think, is that like we don’t actually go in the room together and say all these things. We’re doing it very independently of each other. But somehow a very talented editor sort of like mashes it all together and lets me be on on a thing with method man. That’s that’s pretty tall.

That’s great. Yeah, great, I gotta ask you about the Boys. What a hot show. And I guess if everything else fails in your career for some unexpected reason, you could do comic cons for twenty years they haven’t asked me yet, but that’s crazy. I’ll be I’ll go sign posters of me when I used to be buff.

Yeah, that that seems cool. Ever, let me cool. All right, they’re telling me you gotta go to other things. So I appreciate this. This was awesome.

That was fun, all right, appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Good median Langston Kerman. You’re a host of new faces at Just for Laughs in Montreal. He was awesome.

Really enjoyed talking to him, and that It is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. Smash the like button all that. If you could still make it to Montreal, you should go. It’s really awesome.

If you’re anywhere in the Northeast, you could make that show tonight if you got up early and listen to the podcast. If not, you could surely make Thursday Friday in the weekend. It is fantastic. See you guys tomorrow. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new vote of Argentine suck a phenomenon. Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Mark Normand, Snoop Dogg, Marc Maron, Trevor Noah, Larry the Cable Guy, Amy Schumer

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle raps at Cincinnati Music Festival after introducing Snoop Dogg
• Jim Gaffigan releases new special ‘Dark Pale’ on Amazon with Marc Maron interview
• Mark Normand releases new special on Netflix
• Trevor Noah announces new children’s book ‘Into the Uncut Grass’ for October release
• Larry the Cable Guy denies death hoax on Twitter
• Just for Laughs announces 2023 New Faces of Comedy lineup
• Twitter rebranding to X discussed by comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck play lot to get to new specials from Jim Gaffigan on Amazon Today, Mark Norman on Netflix Today. Jim Gaffigan is the guest on Mark Marin’s podcast It Is Fantastic. I’ll be picking away at parts of that. Not today, there’s a lot’s covered today, but over the next few days. So check out Jim Gaffigan on Marin and High.

I’m Johnny Mac with your daily common news. But let’s start with the biggest name in comedy, Dave Chappelle Cincinnati dot Com. Right, So, everything was going as planned at the Cincinnati Music Festival Saturday night until Dave Chappelle showed up. Oh WHOA what’s going on here? Cincinnati dot com.

They write, Norman Brown wooed the crowd with his spirit catchrick guitar solos, avery Sunshine, lifted everyone’s spirits with heartwarming anthems and banter with a guitarist and husband Dana Johnson p Funk Connection, gave up the funk and tore the roof off the sucker that all sounds great baby face at the whole crowd singing along and falling back in love with him. Then Dave Chappelle got on stage. Wonder what happened Now I know how the story ends. I don’t know why Cincinnati dot com is making it sound like this was some sort of disaster. It wasn’t they right.

The first time Chapelle hopped on stage, it was to introduce the headliner, Snoop Dog. Dave Chappelle said, I pulled up tonight just to let everyone know in the area. Thank you for letting me live a normal life. Thank you for letting my family be safe. With the East Coast West coast feuding.

He was always Switzer lerned. He was always team hip hop. Please make some noise for the legend Snoop Dog. Cincinnati dot Com rights. It was after the show, after Snoop and said goodbye to Cincinnati and walked off stage, that Chappelle really took the spotlight.

Dave Chappelle said to the dwindline crowd, Ohio, let’s go from this state. We could change the world. Let’s see what we can do if we get a chance. I live right here, I live right down the road. After his short speech, Chappelle asked the drummer to lay it beat down, and we heard Dave Chappelle rap Let’s listen to just a piece of that up.

Jim gaff again has that new special today. It’s called Dark Pale. As I mentioned the top his interview on Marin is fantastic. In Dark Pale, Jim Gaffigan dives into some topical issues, then speculates on how people might respond. Minor spoiler following his jokes about COVID and plane crashes.

Gaffgan stops for second and notes, this is usually the point where people ask when’s he going to do the food jokes? And he goes further discussing funeral decorum, and he stops and asked the crowd was that too dark? It’s going to get worse. Soodberry reacted to Twitter, did you see that we’re going to change Twitter to X? Probably has happened by the time you’re listening to this, Sodberry tweets Twitter employee, I don’t know follow me on X.

Doesn’t really roll off the tongue elon Musk, You’re fired. Trevor Noah said, I’ve always wanted to write a book for all ages, and I’m really excited to announced Into the Uncut Grass, which will be out on October thirty feet Trevor says you can preorder a copy at Trevor Noah books dot com. And Larry the Cable Guy is not dead. Another comedian dead rumor. Larry took to Twitter and said, as much as some haters would love for me to have died, which I don’t know why other than being jealous of my nineteen eighties Dolph Lundgren circa nineteen eighties looking body, I’m still alive and currently putting icy hot on sixty five percent of my body after trying to put on my socks.

Apparently once a year someone spreads this rumor. It’s fake. I’m fully mobile. The last time I laid motionless was on my honeymoon. According to my wife smiley face emoji, I’m not dead.

I don’t have sleepapney or diabetes. I do, however, have major farts from honey roasted pistachios. I love y’all. Just for laughs, put out the big press release talking about who the new faces of comedy are for this year. During this week, I’m going to do several interviews about the new faces.

They’ve all already been recorded, and you’ll hear me talk to the hosts and the host joke that they didn’t know who was going to be on their shows. That’s because we recorded those last week. But the names are now out. This is a lot of material, so I’ll split this up over the next few days. Artists who were once named they just for laugh new face now pay attention here.

You’re going to know these names, so new Faces is nothing to be ignored. Former new faces include Kevin Hart, Mike Berbiglia, Amy Schumer, Ali Wong, Tom Sagura, Eliza’s Lessenger, w Kamal Bell, Kay, Trevor Wilson, Fortune Feamster, Pete Davidson, Rami Usef, and many others. Today, let’s focus on the new faces of comedy. Those showcases I usually attend I mentioned I think on Friday or Monday. My mom’s been pretty sick, so I’m not going to head up there this year Wednesday, seven o’clock at nine thirty, but normally you would find me at both those shows.

And here are the new faces. I have pre looked at this and I think I only know one of the names. But that’s what new Faces is, all right, Let’s go through them. Fumi Abe is an La based Japanese American stand up comedian and writer who has performed on The Late Show with Stephen Kober and has been a staff writer on James Core Show. He currently co hosts the personal finance comedy podcast cash Cutis.

Darius Bennett is originally from Detroit and bought a spur of the moment one way ticket to LA in the middle of the night and has never looked back. Darius can currently be seen on Netflix’s Introducing and says. He’s been featured in numerous commercials for Five Hour Energy and Rocket Mortgage. Troy Bond comedian writer based in New York City, tackling everything from capitalism and big banks to superheroes and the Wizarding World. Bond as a versatile comic to watch.

He co hosts the Bonding Podcast with fellow comic Tory Cole. Number four Zach Brazzoo stand up comedian based in New York City by way of Boston. Zach was named a Comic to Watch at the twenty twenty one New York Comedy Festival. Tommy Brennan, as a Midwest kid now living in LA also named a Comic to Watch at the New York Comedy Festival. You may know Tommy from his web series and podcast roommates in law Nico Karney, Brooklyn based comedian.

His stand up covers his experience as a transman, growing up in Savannah, Georgia, and whatever else he finds silly and interesting. He has a monthly show at Clubcoming Boys Club. He was recently a headliner at the twenty twenty two New York at Comedy Festival. Morgan Jay, that’s the one name that I know on this list. Jay has made appearances on MTV’s Wilding Out, NBC and Comedy Central.

First generation American, he takes his musical influences from his Brazilian and Italian background and nineties upbringing. Dan Lamoort is a quote unique stand up comedian unquote, and that’s not just because he’s on the spectrum. His career started young, at nineteen years old after suffering a career ending injury as a college baseball player. Over the course of three years, he’d go on to lose over a one hundred eighty five pounds, become an ultra runner, and inspire many of his fans to pursue their own weight lost journeys. Lisallow as a writer, performance stand up comedian, using the stage to reflect on her experience as a single Chinese American female living in Los Angeles.

She’s placed first in Bert’s back Rooms LA Top Comic competition and was a finalist in the Crazy Wocation’s Comedy Festival. Sam Morrison is a Brooklyn based comedian and writer. He just made his Late Night’s debut on SETH. His solo show, Sugar Daddy, played off Broadway for fourteen weeks. Next up is Cheek A Robinson, So time out here.

I just went to find out how to pronounce Cheeka’s first name, and I found a clip on YouTube of a dude doing an interview show No Harm, No Foul, But the guy’s pretending to be in front of a crowd and has fake applause. But I think we’re supposed to believe it’s real anyway, found that amusing. Cheek A Robinson, comedian, writer, actor at three D animator based in LA hailing from Flint, Michigan. Recently named a Comic to Watch at the twenty two New York Comedy Festival. He’s one third of the sketch comedy trio Zang.

Kelly Ryan started stand up at the age of seventeen while getting her BS in communication studies from Texas Christian University. She performed improv for four years and taught the art form for three At TCU, she got to open for snls Vanessa Bayer and eighty Bryant. This year. She can be seen headlining and featuring for acts like Anthony Jessenick, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings and more. She owes a podcast called Night Coup.

Brittany Schmidt is an LA based Wisconsin ree’s comic. She likes her comedy like she likes her cheese stanky, don’t be fooled by her girl next Door looks. Her humor is incidious and unapologetic wow. She’s been featured in clubs opening for theo Van, Chris Redd, and Moore. She just put out her debut comedy special, From Ho to Housewife back on July nineteenth.

Anna Sarah Gina is a writer and stand up comedian, named one of Time Out LA’s twenty twenty Comics To Watch and Vultures twenty nineteen Comics To Watch. She produces the La branch of the long running San Francisco show of the Business. Sahebs Sing won the Magoobis New Comedian of the Year composition. His original videos have earned him a strong following on social media. In twenty twenty one, he worked as a writer and performer for Comedy Central.

Sahannas Rivenizan is originally from Dallas and is a graduate of University of Texas Austin. She can be seen in recurring roles on Freeforms, Brownish, and Apples for All Mankind. She will next be seen in a leading role in the Michael Showalter Amazon freev series called The Predeeps of Pittsburgh. Next Uz Derek Stroupe and Alabama native but not your average slow talking Southerner with the cadence of an angry auctioneer. He locks people in with his detailed stories and over the top energy.

He’s been described as a fun mix of Lewis Black and Ron White Nice. He regularly goes on the road with Josh Blue and John Christ. Audrey Stewart comedian slash actress based in La A regular at the Hollywood Improv, Audrey’s been on the NBC series Bring the Funny, The Drew Barrymore Show, and the Facebook watch series Fuzzballs. Saltrahio as a stand up comedian with blue collar roots in Stockton, California, His man child sensibilities have been featured on comedy centrals. Obscure observations on his own life will keep you scratching your head and laughing at the same time.

Ash Award is a comedian writer based in New York City. She recently joined SNL as a writer. And Maggie Winters is a Chicago Fried comedian turned Internet personality, best known under the moniker Saggy Splinters. She trained at both Second City in Io Chicago. She’s opened for Colin Joe’s to Hannah Einbendert Rogers and was named a Content Creator to Watch at the tw Comedy Festival.

Later in the week, I’ll tell you about new Faces, unwrapped, new Faces, characters and new Faces International. The Just for Last Montreal Comedy Festival really kicks in a gear today. Let’s look at the schedule. Seven o’clock, Just for the Culture, seven o’clock brits Ish, seven o’clock Tom Poppa, seven o’clock Britannic, seven fifteen, Drennan Davis, Steph tolev at seven thirty, a show called Surrounded at seven thirty. Let’s see what that is.

Surrounded in electrifying comedy show where the audience is the material. Today’s best comedians take the stage with nothing more than Mike and turn everyday interactions into memorable punch lines. Now, nice lineup, Little Rell, Mark Norman, Phelipia Sparza, Dan soder Any, Leader Wren, don’t sleep on that one. And the ten o’clock Show has Sam Mourel, Preacher Lawson, Rosebud Baker and Nate Jackson. Don’t sleep on that one, Okay.

Seven thirty, Best of the Fast eight thirty, Lucas Brothers nine o’clock Joel Nicole Johnson nine fifteen, The Laughter Bad Boys and Friends will present a bilingual show. Nine thirty Allen Jan Meetra, This is all tonight, a nasty show again at nine thirty, Daniel Sloss at Night thirty, Best with the Fast nine forty five second Surrounded show I mentioned earlier at ten, Razilla Carlson’s It’s Personal at ten, Jean Marco Serezi at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise at midnight. All right, this is a tough edition of the what would we do Tonight? Game? So I cheated.

Normally I would say let’s go see British, but I see we can do that later in the week, So let’s go see that surrounded show with Mark Norman at seven thirty. And on the back end, let’s go see Gianmarco Soresi at ten thirty. So we’ve got a whole round nine or so that we could see something. Let’s see Alangan Mitra. I don’t know too much about Mitra.

He stand up comedian and comedy writer living in New York City. Let’s do that for something a little different. Some news out of comic con Rick and Morty for the voices in case you’re worried. One of the producers said, it’ll be sound alikes. The characters at the same characters, no change, So they’re gonna find somebody who sounds like justin Royland to do that.

My former co worker Jamie Fox put out an Instagram video and he said, first of all, I want to say thank you to everybody that’s prayed man sent me messages. I can’t even begin to tell you how far it took me and how it brought me back. I went through something that I thought i’d never ever go through. I know a lot of people were waiting wanting here updates, but to be honest with you, I just didn’t want you to see me like that man. I want you to see me laughing and having a good time party and cracking a joke, doing a movie or a TV show.

I didn’t want you to see him with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through. I know the man A little bit worked will him? That sounds exactly like him. He looks thin in the video, But hope Jamie’s doing okay. Futuruma’s back showed up on Hulu last night.

The Hollywood Reporter says the new episodes on Hulu were a fun fan service, but not much more, and that’s okay. If ever a show owed it’s core audience, some measure of fan service would be a series that was canceled by Fox in two thousand and three, only to be resurrected, first in a set of feature length installments and then for a regular Comedy Central run that concluded in twenty thirteen. The premier starts with some reboot commentary. Fry announces his decision to give his life purpose, and as much and everybody’s horror, that purpose is to watch every available episode of TV ever made, starting with a subscription to Fulu. The world’s fourth most popular streaming service.

Mark Maron was on the picket lines. It was a bit of a show. On Friday, some famous people showed up for the writer strike. Mark Marin was one of them. Mark said, the momentum is still building.

I got some of my comedy buddies were like, let’s go, Let’s make sure we’re there and we show up for our union. There’s a lot of people here and look, eventually they have to negotiate, right. Some of the other comedians that were there, Fred Armison, Hannah Einbender, Chelsea Peretti, Mark Prosch, who plays the Energy Vampire and what we do in the Shadows, and the comedy team of Eric Warheim and Tim Hidecker. Hidecker said it’s gonna be a long struggle along fight. We’re gonna have to be out here until we get what we need.

They were confident because there’s an Arby here and Eric hasn’t eaton Arby’s in a year. And I’ll leave you on a sad note. Fans of The Bob and Tom’s Show are morning after the news that Ron Sexton, known to many as Donny Baker, Floyd the Trucker, and many other characters on The Morning Show has passed away at age fifty two. Sexton’s family announced the death on the official Donny Baker Facebook page on Saturday morning. The post read, he was Donnie Baker to you, but Ron and Dad to us.

Bob and Tom’s Show host Tom Griswold put out a statement and saying he made many many happy during his more than twenty years with The Bob and Soom’s Show, and remember him with love and gratitude. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts,

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Foxworthy, Kathleen Madigan, Lewis Black, Jackie Martling, Jenny Yang, TJ Miller, Nima Naz

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s new Amazon special and early career hiding comedy while working in advertising
• Jeff Foxworthy critiques modern comedians for lacking jokes and relying on storytelling
• Kathleen Madigan’s bit about customer rudeness at Taco Bell
• Yuckfest comedy and music festival expanding from Midwest to Boston in October
• Anthony Anderson and Cedric the Entertainer launching Kings of Barbecue unscripted series
• Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival programming
• Jackie Martling’s Joke Man documentary reaching number four on iTunes
• Jenny Yang’s Self Help Me Tour blending comedy with wellness satire
• TJ Miller voicing character in crypto-themed animated comedy Four Chin

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan’s news special is out on Amazon tomorrow. Jim talked about the early days of his career. He spoke to Variety and Jim was living a double life.

He had a job in advertising and was kind of hiding the comedy career, and he said, I think today we’ve been educated by YouTube and streaming services and decades of Comedy Central. There’s a respect for stand up comedy. But back then, if you weren’t on The Tonight Show and we were talking about being a comic, you were just considered mentally ill. I remember being so excited when I booked my first TV slot on Caroline’s Comedy Hour, but I couldn’t tell anyone. He became the oddball guy at work who was more of a mascot than anything.

He’d show up exhausted and sleeping on his couch during lunch because he was up late taking classes of doing shows. Jim said, when they came in to fire me, I was actually asleep. They had to wake me up to lay me off. The worst part was I couldn’t even use it my act because David tell already had a great joke about being woken up to get fired. Hot take from Jeff Foxworthy.

He spoke to the states and said, it was a different world back then. It was about getting on the Tonight Show, and if you could get to that couch and make Johnny laugh, there was nothing better than that. That’s not the hot take. It’s this hot take. But I got to set it up, The Statesman wrote, Jeff Foxworthy, they did not say this, the Statesman wrote.

Back then, most successful comics delivered jokes. However, the top comedians today who are headlining arenas, such as Joe Koyburg, Chreisher and Gabriel Iglesias tell stories. Okay, so that’s a setup from The Statesman, to which Foxworthy reacted and said, I don’t say this off and out loud, but when I watched these people and there’s so many of them, I say, where’s the jokes. You’ve been on for three minutes without a laugh. Where are the jokes?

I guess times change. Remember what it was like with Rodney Dangerfield. Good joke from Foxworthy. Here. He was watching the George Carlin documentary on HBO last year and said, at one point, shut up the tail pointed out that George Carlin hit his fortieth anniversary of stand up.

I looked at my wife and said, holy crap, forty years of stand up. Carland did stand up forever, and my wife looked at me and said, you’re a year thirty nine. Kathleen Madigan spoke to the union leader and said, I do a bit in my act about being in Taco Bell and this guy in his mid sixties was just breeding this twenty something because they were out of mild sauce. And I’m like, I’m pretty sure she’s not in charge of the supply line. Quite yelling at the girl.

It’s not her fault that Taco Bell is a corporation, is out of mild sauce. If you keep yelling, the girl’s gonna quit and then we’ll have to do it. I don’t know how to make a soft chalupa, do you, sir? I don’t think you knew. So let’s be glad this young person has showed up and it’s gonna get you what you want to the best of her capability.

You’re lucky she’s here. Kathleen Madigan spoke about her friend and often tour partner Lewis Black and said off stage he can actually be quite silly and goofy. But there are topics like I was in a bar with them once and he got into it with this guy about the Yankees back when George Steinburner on the team. I thought Lewis was gonna stroke out, And I said, you know, dude, there are things that are worth getting this angry about. You don’t actually know, George Steinburner.

You don’t play for the Yankees. You don’t play for the other teams playing the Yankees, So just bring it down a level. Plus, I didn’t want to get in a bar fight because out of me and Lou, I would be the one throwing punches, not him. He’d run away from Vanya Land. Yuckfest will be making its way from its Midwest roots to set up up in Boston October nineteenth through the twenty first Yuckfest founded by comedian Caitlin McPhee launched the fest in Indianapolis in twenty nineteen.

It’s a weekend long celebration of music and comedy. The lineup so far Bethany Van Delft, Daniel van Kirk, Gordon Baker, Bone, Michael Christmas, and Zahid Dooji.

Meanwhile, Anthony Anderson and Cedric the Entertainer are teaming up for a n…

In each one hour episode, Kings of Barbecue will follow Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson as they meet with barbecue chefs, pitmasters, and everyday experts who share their knowledge and secrets of the trade. Friends for years, Cedric and Anthony bonded over their shared love of barbecue and the unique history that surrounds it. A relatively quiet Monday at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. That is not uncommon for a Monday to be quiet at a festival. Five o’clock show, Dan Galia inter Dan Mentional Live, I’m Curious, I’ve Clicked Dan Galaia performs his debut musical comedy album inter Dan Mentionol, produced by Scott Thompson from the Kids in the Hall.

Seven o’clock Just for the Culture, nine thirty The Nasty Show looks like We’re gonna drink again now Tomorrow night, Tuesday Night, It’s loaded up. I will tell you about Tuesday Night on Tuesday’s podcast. It is loaded up. Oh, by the way, Jackie the joke Man sent me his book, Thank You, Jackie Martling, and he said his new documentary joke Man was. I was texting with him on Friday Morning, number four on iTunes.

I think Jackie said, but if you haven’t checked out joke Man, you really should. It’s really good. Jenny Yang is touring the Self Helped Me Tour, which she calls a competitive self care comedy show. You may recognize Yang as the voice of Chrissa on the animated series The Great North. You also might recognize her from her days as a labor lawyer.

Yeah, she said, I start writing and perform my own poetry, and that’s how I started performing. I always had a lot of feedback. It’d either make people cry or make people laugh. So it wasn’t until I got really burnt out from working in the labor movement that I was like, oh, I can’t see if future from myself as a happy person. Let me try and cultivate my creative side.

The Self Help Me Tour is kind of like my satirical take on wellness trends. It’s like seventy five percent making fun of wellness and twenty five percent talking about it sincerely. Every single show the three wellness warriors, who are usually comedians, compete to be the queen of self care regardless of gender. On the panel is always a fourth person who doesn’t compete, who’s always the resident expert on the topic. When we did our first show in la it was about burnout and work life balance.

I’m telling you right now, the therapist we had on hand made everybody gas. That’s to me is what the Self Helped Me show is all about. We get to make fun of wellness but also offered maybe a little bit of medicine that you need. It’s a lot of sugarcoating with a tiny bit of medicine. TJ.

Miller. It will be one of the voices in an animated comedy called four Chin, except where the e’s supposed to be stick of three there, so four tune three fourteen three is going to make fun of crypto companies and crypto bros. You can also expect references to other business boondoggles driven by egomaniacs. The note says, think theronos and we work. And I saw an interview with Toronto comedian Nima Naz and it’s in the Toronto Guardian, and I love how just matter of fact, this entire interview is I’m going to read it pretty much verbatim.

You’re ready the Guardian. Who are some of your influences? Answer? Russell Peters, Kevin Hart, Andrew Schells Luisk Guardian. Who’s your favorite comedian growing up?

Answer? Russell Peters, Guardian. Who’s your favorite comedian now? Andrew Schultz Guardian? What is your pre show ritual?

Answer? Go over my set list several times. Just take deep breaths and tell myself positive affirmations. I’ve been interviewing a lot of people lately and some of the interviews were really awesome. And you know, sometimes you ask somebody question and you get a one word answer like this, and it is brutal.

I’m not gonna say anymore. Okay, Neimanaz what’s your favorite place you performed in? Why Australia because I got to make people on the other side of the world laugh. Do you have anything to promote right now? Yes, I’m opening for Christa Lei and Montreal and Nimishi Patel in Toronto in the fall, and then it’s your comedy news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, smash to like button, tell a friend, follow a show, all that see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Ron White, Tom Segura, Harry Kanabolo, John Marco Serezi, Eliza Shlesinger, Adam Carolla, John Crist, Michael Rapaport

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife crashes ticketing system at Spokane Fox Theater
• Ron White gives advice to Tom Segura about stage performance
• Harry Kanabolo receives death threats over documentary The Problem
• Eliza Shlesinger performs USO tour in Tokyo for military
• Adam Carolla discusses Los Angeles Rams and traffic issues
• John Crist discusses YouTube comedy career and Christian humor on Fox News
• Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival Sunday schedule
• Michael Rapaport endorses Sal and Chris’s Deli in Astoria Queens

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck how July twenty three, and Johnny Max has only been to the beach once this summer. High I’m the Johnny Mac. I just mentioned this is Daily Comedy News. But yeah, I liked the beach and the late bot said Johnny Max Beach vacation has been rescheduled for the fiftieth time. I heard the airlines are considering naming a plane after him, the Johnny Delay.

Wow. Johnny Max Beach bag is packed and ready to go. But if he ever writes a book, it’ll be called Journey to the Beach Ossaga of fifteen days, one hundred excuses, and zero miles traveled. You ain’t getting leap Bot. Matt Rife plays in Spokane tonight.

He’ll be at the Fox Theater. The marketing director of the Fox Theater, Kathy Gustafson, said, there were so many people online trying it by tickets at the same time. It crashed our ticketing system. It brought the whole system down. It’s pretty unheard of.

It doesn’t happen very often. It happened one other time a few years ago with a different comedy show. I wonder who that was, and that one sold out in about an hour or two, but it didn’t crash our ticketing system. Tickets face value where fifty seven dollars. Resales for tonight’s show range anywhere from one hundred eighty to seven hundred twenty dollars To see Matt Rife in Spokan Tonight Wow, Tom Sagoora got some advice from Ron White.

Ron White said, if you’re doing good up there, slow down, because across the board drop it down a notch. Everybody’s instinct a lot of times is to speed up, and if you’re dying up there, slow down. Harry Kanabolo was on John Marco Serezi’s podcast, Harry Has Caught Grief for his documentary The Problem Without Poo and joined. Marco asked if he was scared from any of the death threats, and Harry said, not really, not one in particular. But when people started messaging venues we had to get extra security at shows.

I wondered, how real is this, They’re actually beefing up security. I’m like, this isn’t fun, and I’m also like, I don’t want to die for that. I’d like to be mordred for something more important than an effing cartoon character.

Speaking of John Marco and I hope you enjoyed my interview with him during th…

He was talking about his girlfriend Tillva and said, should always be begging to go on a trip where I won’t do shows and there’s not even a chance to do shows. And I think, whenever there’s a chance to perform, I’ll take it for me. Friday and Saturday nights, those are the big ones. Those are tough to give away. So when she said her friend’s wedding was on Sunday in Cleveland, I was like, bingo.

Perfect. Stars and Stripes dot com you’re home for comedy news covered Eliza Slessenger’s USO show at the Enlisted Club in Tokyo that was on Thursday night. Eliza said, we’re so pumped to be here. We wanted to kick off the tour and I was like, take me to the place where we have the smartest military, the best looking. So we’re going to reveal a naval base tomorrow.

Extra seats are brought in a fit approximately four hundred people into the Enlisted Club, She told Stars and Stripes. A tour highlight was a helicopter ride from Yakota’s flight line. She said, going up at a Huey and touring above downtown Tokyo when a helicopter was once in a lifetime for us, several times a week for those guys. She said she met a guy at a Kansas airport who was so hot and so charming, and then added he was definitely at January sixth. The audience kind of groaned and there was an outbreak of laughter, and Eliza said, I’m just talking to him.

Listen, Ludacix can be attractive. The LA Downtown News talk to Adam Carola about the Los Angeles Rams. Corolla said, LA such a disastrous for as traffic at parking. I don’t know how anybody can get to a game on time. If you want to see the Rams opening game, it’s so far you have to leave your house sometime around Memorial Day.

I’ll leave early if it’s a blowout, but if it’s a good game, I’ll hang out. I’m a Rams fan. Glad LA as a team again, you actually have two teams. No one talks about the Chargers. There were a lot of dark years there.

I had a root for Saint Louis, even though I couldn’t find it on a map Hi. I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming on for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience that journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcast, It’s Sunday at the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, and quite possibly Sunday where you are.

If you downloaded this, you know on Sunday, Well, no, if you’re actually listening to it on Sunday, it’s possible you downloaded it on Sunday and didn’t listen until Monday. Anyway. The schedule for Sunday, July twenty third, twenty twenty three, Just for the Culture at four thirty Sunday Night Improv at five o’clock, Let’s see what this one is, Montreal’s longest running alternative and dynamic storytelling improv show, Special Surprise Guests seven o’clock Just for the Culture of seven o’clock, Britannic eight o’clock. JFL Originals showcasing the best in Canadian comedy. JFL Originals is a series of live recordings set in different cities across North America.

Hosted by David Pride. This live taping will feature some of Montreal’s best comics, including Dena salag Emil Curry, Eva, Alexopolis, Gino Durante, John cattro Qua, Got That Right, Kazen Lee, Troy Stark and Zach Kick eight thirty, The Lucas Brothers nine thirty, The Nasty Show ten o’clock, or Zilla Carlson’s Personal eleven fifty nine Midnight Surprise. All right, if you’ve been playing along and the what should we go see today? Game? I guess we’ll do Sunday Night Improv at five JFL Originals at eight, so we can probably get a drink it between there, and then we’ll have two drinks and hit Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

Comedian John Christ was on Fox News with Brian kill Me to talk about his career and rise to fame. Chris First Big came popular through his YouTube sketches and was initially nervous about poking fun at the Christian life. He said, I was homeschooled and very sheltered, so I started telling these jokes about growing up at church. I’d do a joke like, just because your kid is named a Bible name, doesn’t mean he’s going to be a good kid, because I’m pretty sure a kid in sixth grade named Jesus stile my bike. Jim Gaffigan is a bit about growing up Catholic, having six kids, and trying to steal cake at night when the kids are sleeping.

No one can steal that. That’s his joke. If I talked about being homeschooled and working at Chick fil A and no one can sell that, I lived it, and I tell it from my perspective, I just started doubling down. I’m just gonna talk about me. That’s when my careers took off.

Michael Rappaport has proclaimed Sal Chris and Charlie’s Deli in Astoria as the best deli in New York City. Rappaport made this announcement on TikTok Report said all right, I’m gonna make this short and quick. Listen. I don’t do sandwich reviews because there’s only one place in New York City. You want a true blue New York hero.

Sal and Chris’s Astoria Queens. Okay, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on app, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shoes smash I like button see tomorrow. Hi. I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Theo Von, Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy Kimmel, Gina Yashere

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura and Theo Von discuss keeping comedy acts fresh and avoiding staleness
• Jim Gaffigan’s humorous take on summer expectations and beach culture
• Jimmy Kimmel on Las Vegas comedy scene growth and supporting local comedians
• Jimmy Kimmel reflects on being longest-standing late night talk show host
• Montreal Just for Laughs Festival lineup and ongoing programming
• Gina Yashere touring Detroit with ‘Women King of Comedy’ show based on African warrior film

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. You trust me, right, Okay, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to pause the podcast and go see oppenheim Er. Hit pause.

Okay, now that you’re back. Wasn’t that movie awesome? I know what it’s not to do with comedy, but I loved it. The other people are going to see the Barbie movie. I asked the late bots or write some jokes about it.

Late Botts says in the new movie, Barbie’s bff Skipper is the voice of reason in the movie, saying things like Barbie maybe don’t wear high heels to climb Mount Everest. Barbie’s echo friendly corn. The movie runs on dreams and the shattered expectations of unrealistic beauty standards. In the movie, Ken tries to impress Barbie with his cooking skills, but his signature dishes microwave macaroni with a side of plastic pas. Tom Segura and THEO Vaughan are keeping it fresh.

Sigora was on THEO Van’s podcast and said, you know, the great thing is you have the ability to recognize that things are getting stale and what happens is you think you’re going out there doing show after show and you go what is it? And you realize, oh, I’m stale on board and I do the same show beat by beat. I turned my face here a gesture like this, it’s hitting the mark and it’s bad for you. So the first thing I try to do is open the next show differently, whether it’s a joke from the act I have to move to the front, or if I’m gonna rif it the front, or I’m gonna write like a whole new thing. It gives you his energy for the rest of the show, because there’s like something inside you that changes.

Jim Gaffigan writes for the CBS website, and Jim wrote, Summer’s here, and so are those summer expectations. First and foremost, there’s an overwhelming pressure to enjoy summer. I feel this every morning when I look out my window and go, oh, it’s nice out there. I guess I should go out there and be uncomfortable. I wouldn’t want summer to feel unappreciated.

I’m feeling that right now. It’s sunny and dry out for the first time in like a month, and I want to be outside, but I have podcast to record. Jim writes, Of course, it’s not enough to just enjoy the summer. We’re supposed to have well mapped out summer plans every spring, and the question start, Hey, you got any plans for the summer? When you can do the summer?

Why do we need a plan? I thought summer was about relaxing. Are we supposed to schedule when we relax? That sounds stressful. I relax by not having plans.

Good by Jim. Why does summer mean we have to travel? It makes no sense. Well, the weather it’s finally nice here. I guess we should go somewhere else.

We live here, All our stuff is here. Why would we go somewhere or our stuff isn’t Jim Man’s. If you’ve been to the beach, it’s all sand, sand and bugs. I never understood the appeal of the beach. Sometimes you have to pay to park at the beach.

You pay to park, and if you want to sit down, you have to bring your own chair. Yeah, I’ll pass on the beach. Jimmy Kimmelli spoke to the Las Vegas Weekly about Las Vegas and said, I think comics love coming here. Now it used to be that the audiences here were weird. With downtown blossoming the way it has and with the locals really coming out to the comedy clubs.

It wasn’t the case when I grew up here. You’d have to drive to the Improv in La if you wanted to go to a comedy club. It’s fun to see the various levels of comedy, and I love meeting a comedian who tells me they’re from Vegas. It’s getting less rare. This is a very weird town.

It’s a big town and small towns simultaneously. And I didn’t realize how weird the city was until I moved and people shocked here. I grew up in Las Vegas. They don’t imagine that there are Little League teams here. They think of a Little League team.

They imagine the kids being chased around by one of the Sigfried and Roy Tigers. I think a lot of interesting stuff growing up. I had access to real show business. And my best friend is now my band leader. His dad was the room service butler for Bill Cosby time out.

Jimmy, I’m not sure you want to brag about somebody being the room service butler for Bill Cosby. Google words like Cosby in hotel and get back to me, But I digress. Kimmel says it’s very important to support local comedians. People sometimes ask me if I feel competitive with the other clubs. Jimmy owns a club in Vegas, and I don’t.

I think the more comedy clubs there are, the more funny people there are, the more stars that will come out of Las Vegas. We didn’t have anything like this when I was a kid. It was pretty much limited to making print calls and calling jokes into a radio station. Now you see people on social media and they’re much more inclined to get up on stage. They have fallings when they’re teenagers.

They take a lot of interest and pride, and performers are coming up out at Las Vegas. I’m rooting for as many comedy clubs as we can possibly handle. The Las Vegas Weekly asked kim all Hey, after main relevance become the longest standing late night talk show host, has that come with the responsibility of always having to be on Jimmy says that worked very hard. They are comics who work really hard, and there are comics who don’t. Some of the comics who don’t are just naturally funny enough to make it work.

Any of people. At Jerry Seinfeld, who’s naturally funny and works very hard as a result. He’s Jerry Seinfeld. Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major league soccer experience, the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. The Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival continues taking a look at tonight’s line up. Seven o’clock Britannic seven o’clock, Just for the Culture, eight thirty, Lucas Brothers, nine thirty, The Nasty Show, ten o’clock Ursula Carlson, It’s Personal, eleven fifty nine, The Nasty Show, eleven fifty nine, Midnight Surprise now, if we’ve been playing my little game of what would we do if we went to the festival, we have checked all these boxes already. We’ve seen all of these, So I guess let’s just drink.

Festival kicks in a full gear. Next week, Genie is Sheer is touring Detroit. She’ll be at the Majestic Theater seven o’clock tonight and says, my audience is anybody with a sense of humor. There’s a vast mix of people, old, young, black, white, gay, straight, war non binary. I am like your funny, crazy, next door neighbor.

Comedy combined some of the best things I love in life. Meeting people and traveling people who want to come and hear me talk is the icing on the cake. Her new tour is called Women King of Comedy. It’s based on the movie Women King, which focuses on an African tribe that is protected by a unit of female warriors that is not far from where her own parents were born and raised. Gina said the show encompasses everything from my birth to how I made it in America, how I got a sitcom on TV coming from London, just the stories of what my life is up to this point, but with jokes.

Whenever I go to a different city, say Troit, I just don’t do the same set. I try to walk around the cities, do a little research, pick up local slang and incorporate that into the show. I’m not focusing on anything in particular. I walk around just let the ambience soak in. She created and acted in the show Bob Heart’s Appashola and said, I based it in Detroit because I was there a year before doing the show.

I met a bunch of Nigerians and I found there were a lot of Nigerians in Detroit, so there’s a rich history and it’s a great place to base the show. In last weekend, San Francisco supervisor shem And Walton tried his hand at stand up comedy. He’s not trying to be re elected or anything, so I guess he was like, let’s go for it, The San Francisco Standard said. Dressed in jeans, two tone nikes, and a flat brim SF baseball cap, Walton looked relaxed before a pat crowd of folks would pay thirty dollars a pop to get in. He signed copies of his book and then he paced the stage riffing on topics from the media’s treatment of him to white people’s fondness for bragging about their black friends.

During a ten minutes set, he poked fun at environmentally conscious virtual signalers who think everything needs to be green. Walton said, someone and asked him if his job was green, and he said, mfer, I don’t know the money green. He added, he doesn’t care what the media says about him. However, he couldn’t resist in firing back to allegations in the press from last February that he had single handedly delayed a much anticipated hearing on reparations for San Francico’s black community by taking a week long vacation in Colombia that included a stop at a Hooters and medine sentence I didn’t expect to say, Walton said, How the f did I set reparations back? What about the three hundred other years and less?

Do you think TikTok is stupid? After the sphere grabbed the world’s attention with its fourth of July show That’s the big round thing that looks like a screen in Las Vegas, the internet has been buzzing with memes multiple Instagram and TikTok’s Sphere filters have emerged to allow people to put their face, can’t or favorite TV show clip on the Sphere’s screen. Comedian Zachary Barker took the filter and he started thinking what would a giant, ominous sphere talk and sound like? So he started the ORB series. It started as this authoritarian ally watching all seeing eyes.

I figured if the ORB was a giant, ever watching police state thing, what would it be looking out for. The ORB series depicts the sphere accosting Las Vegas visitors for illegal and debaschrous behavior. He posted his first video on July tenth, which got seven hundred thousand views on TikTok. He’s posted ten Sphere videos so far and they’ve accumulated three point seven million views. I’m just gonna sit here in the basement and talk to you guys.

That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free at Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, even TikTok. I guess I throw some clips on TikTok’s sure, I’m just spars everybody else. That’s where hi. I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia, Hannibal Buress, Kamandoi Gianni, Bert Kreischer, Bill Bailey, Steve Martin, Martin Short

What’s in This Episode

• LateBot Barbenheimer jokes and double feature commentary
• Jim Gaffigan Variety profile and new special Dark Pale on Amazon Prime
• Jim Gaffigan’s mentorship of Mike Birbiglia and early Georgetown connection
• Hannibal Buress pivoting from stand-up to hip-hop and music career
• Hannibal Buress heckler interaction and commentary on stand-up audience entitlement
• Kamandoi Gianni voice acting in animated film Migracians
• Bert Kreischer’s international touring and outsider perspective on comedy
• Sean Lock Memorial Comedy Award launched by Channel 4 UK
• Only Murders in the Building Season 4 guest stars announcement
• Craig Robinson’s Killing It returning to Peacock

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Man here Daily Comedy News. I am missing the late night jokes. I had late Bot spit out something about Barbenheimer. You know about this.

You go see the Barbie movie and Oppenheimer. Back to Beck, late Bott says, who’s excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer and open on the same day. It’s like Kennon Einstein duking it out in the Ultimate Showdown.

Let’s talk about a double feature night.

Watch Barbie first for some fashion inspiration, and then Oppenheimer to feel incredibly unaccomplished. Not bad. One’s about hot trends. The other is about nuclear meltdown, and I think the best one is I heard Barbie’s getting a bit too real. In this one, she faces existential dilemmas like should I go with the pink convertible or destroy two cities to end the war.

I’m seeing Oppenheimer in about two hours after I record this. I will let you know how it goes. Jim Gaffigan got the A friend used to use a phrase, wax your car. Jim got a wax job from Variety. Oh boy, what a flowing article.

Jim’s gonna be up in Montreal picking up Awards, and he’s got his new special Dark Pale hitting Amazon Prime on July twenty fifth, that’s Tuesday, a Savior calendar run there part of the Watch Job, Mike Berbiglia cold called Gaffigan after searching for any other comedians who attended Georgetown. Gaffigan not only answered his landline, but met Berbiglia for lunch and gave the aspiring comic advice. For Biglia said it was not only some of the best advice he ever received, but he still seeks Gaffgan’s counsel to this day now. So that’s interesting to me because you know, I’ve heard if he helped Jim early in his career, he doesn’t return calls when he gets a little more famous. I’ve heard that from people who worked at Serious Satellite Radio circor twenty four to twenty fourteen.

I’ve heard people say that that you asked him to come back on and he’s never heard of you all of a sudden. That’s weird Forbiglias said, I think he’s a real master and student of artistic and entertainment autonomy, which is to say, he creates his own special, it creates his own material, He creates his own tours, the artwork for the tours, all this stuff. Yeah, Jim’s creating their artwork for the tours. There’s not like a graphics department. Is Jim home on Microsoft sketch drawing these things.

Yeah. A lot of times it’s someone’s not that great at it. They can end up with a really watered down marketing of themselves. Hello that’s me, or cover arter material, Hello that’s me. But he is extraordinarily focused on his great taste and is a very wise and generous guy.

Gaffigan said in high school, the closest thing to the entertainment industry was the marching Band. He consumed SNL and adored David Letterman, didn’t we all. He secretly wanted to be a performer, he said, it just wasn’t realistic pursuits. My father was the first one in the family to go to college. My grandfather made dentures.

My great grandfather worked in a coal mine. It took my family one hundred and fifty years to get to the middle class. One of the big influences on Jim’s life was the death of his mother, Marcia, at age fifty three. Jim said, I think the injustice of it because she was only fifty three. Had me rethinking this whole idea of following the rules.

I’d grown up believing a thing to do is where it’s hie and get a job and retire at sixty and play golf for five years until you die. After I lost her started reevaluating my entire life. Six months later, he attempted stand up for the first time. Said it went well, but he was surrounded by friends. It was a safe environment.

I don’t think I realized just how safe an environment it was because then I went on to eat it on stage for a long long time. Hannibal Burris is opening for Hannibal Burris. You see, Hannibal Burris dabbled in hip Hopson’s College, and he did battle rap. During the pandemic, he got into a little bit more. He’d quit drinking after twenty seventeen running with the police, and in twenty twenty one he was expecting his first child.

He told The New Yorker, it was me realizing I wasn’t excited about trying to do a lot of stand up comedy the way I used to. I didn’t want to be out there, just didn’t feel good. Music refocused him. He hired a band, music publicist, a vocal and performance coach, and he committed he was routinely turning down six figure stand up gigs. He made fun of himself, going f that, I’m doing music, bass, I’m not doing your stand up crap.

Let me rap. Eventually he realized that stand up gigs could subsidize his music career. At a recent set, a drunk woman in the audience kept interrupting, you’re so Hollywood. Hannibal said, I’m Hollywood. Really, Oh man, we’ll talk later.

Annibal said, no, we won’t, not at all, absolutely not. The heckler kept going, and The New Yorker writes Burris paste searching for the right response. I love this. The pause is not like, oh, I’m stuck gonna can’t come up with a joke. He turned to the drunk woman and said, I’m genuinely baffled while you won’t shut the f up, what are you talking about?

The audience roared, and he returned to his bit, and then he said that would have landed way better if you would have shut the f up. He told the crowd, that’s actually why I don’t do that much stand up for real. There’s a level of white entilement. My audience would promise you, hmm. Interesting.

Kamand on Gianni is an anxious duck in the upcoming animated Family Duck’s franchise Pick Migracitions. This from the people that made Minions. Migracian will be in theaters in December. And in the trailer we see kamand on Gianni’s Max say WHOA, We’re not flying through this crazy death trap as they dodge busses, scooters, and people while crossing New York City on their way south. Forbes asked severed Us if he has a favorite country’s performed in Vivers said, my favorite show might have been Stavenger, Norway.

I did Oslo and God was kind and we had a thousand people show up. Then they said there’s this fishing village called Stavanger. Do you want to go into a show. There were only thirty two people, out of which I think twenty were comps, so nobody knew me, no safety net. It was a good test on a first world tour to see if my material really did translate.

Forbes said, hey, you’ve moved around quite a bit growing up. What effect did that have on your comedy bed as said, it took me a while to figure that out, and the minute you say I’m an outsider, I didn’t realize how broad that made my perspective. I didn’t have to pick a camp in America. I didn’t have to fit into woke audiences. I don’t have to fit into alpha male audiences.

I don’t have to cater to those microcosms. That’s the big positive finding depth with any outsider perspective, I find something deeper that isn’t just hey, I landed in New York three weeks ago and your taxis are aggressive. A new comedy award in honor of late comedian Shawn Locke has been commissioned by Channel four in the UK. Shawn Locke was best known for appearing on Eight out of Ten Cats and some other shows. He passed away in August of twenty one.

The Shawn Locke Comedy Award will honor the late TV stars legacy and showcase quote talented new writers and performer who embodied the alternative comedic spirit of Shawn An Channel four winners will will see five thousand pounds to support their live work and a one thousand dollars script commission from the comedy team, along with mentoring and support from the broadcaster for newer writers and performers. Bill Bailey helps set up the award and said it’s a way to honor Seawan’s memory and to inspire others to pursue their own unique comic brilliance. Only Murders in the Building. Why you mentioned that, John Steve Martin Martin Short they were comedians at some point, right, yeah, and Selena Gomez. Only Murders is back on Hulu April eighth.

Some of the guest stars this time Paul Rudd, Meryl Street, Amy Ryan, Jane Lynch, Andrea Morton, Tina Fey, and others.

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Meanwhile, Craig Robinson’s Killing It returns to Peacock on August seventeen…

Killing It is a comedy about class, capitalism and one man’s quest to achieve the American dream, but first he has to overcome vicious criminals, nature, unwild, and worst of all, corporate America. Guest stars this season include Tim Heidecker, Beck Bennett, and Kyle Mooney. Craig Robinson says it’s the same wild roller Coasters last year, an ambitious, complex exploration of life in pursuit of the America Dream mixed in with some of the stupidest jokes on television. We got so many amazing guest stars this season while we’re turning all our old favorites except for the snakes. Indiana Jones will be pleased.

Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. If you like what I do here, you can buy me a coffee at Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

What you do is you go to that url. I’ll say it again, you throw some money in the tip jar. I take your money and I go to the National Donuts chain and I pick up a large iced coffee with caramel and milk that I have already ordered on my app. So I drive there and I listen to Daily Comedy News for some quality control to mature. I didn’t blow an edit usually don’t.

And then I get my coffee and I drive home and I listened to the rest of the episode. Works out pretty well. Buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s take a look at the just for last Montreal Comedy Festival. The off JFL shows have the gun I promised you yesterday I’ll tell you about Britannic right now.

I will deliver on my promise. Britannic is the sketch comedy duo of Brian mclenny and Nick Kosher. Together they’ve written for SNL It’s always Sunny, and they were working on some new projects and I love this copy. Here it says, or at least they were until the writer strike happened parentheses. If the writer strike has been resolved, please disregard, but we bet it hasn’t.

Also off JFL, the Lucas brother is Keith and Kenny Lucas are two of the freshest, most dynamic talents in entertainment. Says the copy. The bros are also working on some upcoming projects between strikes, including a reboot of Revenge of the Nerds. Interesting. The next show is called It’s Personal.

Like this description, welcome to the days of mind your own business. Don’t comment another business, not the gender, sexuality, body, hair, education, or career.

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We want to talk about things and want everyone to know it’s personal.

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All right, let’s play the if we were at Montreal, what would we go see?

Game? I should just share because it keeps coming up. I’m not going this year. My mom has been pretty sick and I want to stay close to home. So I reach out to the just for Laughs people and I’m like, hey, I can’t go this year, don’t take me off the list.

Sorry, here’s why. And that’s why they’ve been hooking me up with all the interviews. I’ll have some more interviews next week. So thank you just for last press team. I appreciate you letting me be part of it from AFAR, But yeah, I can’t go this year, but if I did.

Here it’s a night show seven o’clock Britannic seven o’clock, just for the culture. Now, theoretically we want to see that last night, the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty, the Nasty Show at nine thirty. It’s personal with the Razilla Carlson. I just teld you about that. Another Nasty Show at midnight, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

Now, why is midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine? Jetty Mack Airlines do this the same way because nobody knows, like, is midnight twelve am? Twelve pm? It’s twelve am. I know that, you know that, but people get confused.

You never schedule anything right at midnight. Either do eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. That way people can handle it. So if you do it at eleven fifty nine, people understand Friday at eleven fifty nine is Friday at eleven fifty nine. If I say midnight, technically it’s Saturday at midnight, But then you would think that’s Saturday turning into Sunday.

So it gets very confusing. Long expedition to tell you what a midnight surprise at eleven fifty nine is. Shut up, John, Okay, let’s see what should we see in my fantasy. If we saw Just for the Culture last night, well we haven’t seen Britannic yet, so that’ll be our seven o’clock show. That’ll walk us right up to the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty.

That’ll walk us right up to It’s Personal at ten. This is working out great, and that’ll walk us up to eleven fifty nine pm. Surprise perfect and listen to this news from the Edinburgh Fringe. We’ve heard how expensive it is for performers to at the Fringe. Someone is paying more than eleven hundred pounds for a parking space for the month.

Brian made over four hundred pounds during the festival of the last year. He said the extra income which came in during the festival period was great. It does help in these challenging times. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your stuff see tomorrow.

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Featured: Gianmarco Soresi, Steve Harvey, Hannah Berner, Curtis Conner, Zerna Garg, Ian Lara, Joanne McNally, Leanne Morgan, Nimesh Patel, Sarah Sherman, Brian Simpson, Sabrina Woo

What’s in This Episode

• Steve Harvey death hoax and trending #RIPHarvey
• Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch for 2023
• Hannah Berner’s comedy style and female perspectives
• Curtis Conner’s YouTube success and podcast
• Zerna Garg’s observational family-friendly comedy
• Ian Lara emerging as NYC hottest stand-up
• Joanne McNally’s recovery journey and comedy
• Leanne Morgan’s career trajectory
• Nimesh Patel’s finance background and comedy origin
• Sarah Sherman on SNL and vulgar comedy
• Brian Simpson’s foster care and Marine Corps background
• Sabrina Woo on updating performances and non-binary identity
• Variety’s 2023 Comedy Impact Report honorees

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The Shark Deck. Steve Harvey is not dead, and I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the hashtag that was trending riip Harvey? Comedian Steve Harvey reacted to it. He tweeted an image of himself holding a phone while scrolling through social media posts and captured it me seeing that ri ip Harvey is trending.

His followers said the caption was the best response to a hoax they’d ever seen. Two big articles in Variety, the first zernagorg Lean Morgan, Brian Simpson among Varieties Ten comics to watch or twenty twenty three.

All right, let’s see who the ten comics to watch our This is always a great l…

Some of the past names Tiffany Hattish, kamand On Gianni, Patton Oswalt, Taylor Thomason, and Quinta Brunson. You’ve heard of them right. This year, Hannah Burner, a nationally ranked junior tennis player, Berner switched her attention to entertainment. She exudes an affable yet direct style, and the comedian thrives on stage. Discussing her womanhood, she says, it’s almost therapeutic for me.

Let girls know I’m not perfect. I love the tension of having men in the room. They need to hear some of these things that normalize and actually become educated. While she’s trying to offer commentary, she’s determined that each punch line lands for the entire crowd. I’m speaking for the girls, but I also want everyone to be in on the joke.

Bridy writes. With her work, Burner creates a female locker room where people can hear things and feel less alone. Anyone’s welcome in the locker room. Next up Curtis Connor, a Toronto based performer, podcaster, and YouTube sensation I’m not familiar with Curtis. Curtis found an audience on Vine, later migrated to YouTube.

He’s a massed over four point three million subscribers and more than seven hundred million total views. Curtis says humor is born out of people and in the ways we interact with each other and process the minute details in our relationships. That’s the stuff that has always made me laugh. The human experience is hilarious. He hosts the podcast Very Really Good, influences Both Burnham, John Mulaney, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, Zerna Garg says, I remember being told my whole life that I was really funny, and I used to dread it because I was thinking, my parents didn’t get the scientists, they didn’t get the mathematician, they didn’t get the doctor.

What are you supposed to do with that? Varidy, says Garg has taken her refreshingly observational, family friendly style and spun it into a popular TikTok account. I see a theme here. Her One in a Billion special is on Amazon Prime. Influences Virdas add Matzal, Russell Peters, Hasan Minhaj.

Next up, Ian Lara, a first generation Dominican American emerging as one of New York City’s hottest stand up comedians, with material touching on themes of growing up with immigrant parents, being unsure about his race, and his relationship with his born again Christian father. He said, I’ve been doing stand up for twelve years. You have to do work to become good at it, but also need to draw from your life experiences because that’s what audiences relates you. Most. Influences Kevin Hart, Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Not Bad.

Next Up, Joanne McNally The Dublin Natives says, I want to be buried in a theater. I love the feel of them, I love the box office, I love everything. She found touring and performing to be a vital source of motivation as she pivoted to comedy and sought recovery for her eating disorder. She said, for Wallas Bolimia and now it’s stand up, it was something that basically gave me a reason to recover. Before I got a stand up, I knew I had to recover it because it’s not conducive to a happy life.

I did see recovery as failure. Really, I didn’t see the point of getting better. I thought I’d just hate my body and always be really sad. Then comedy gave me a really healthy, productive sense of purpose. She had a podcast, My Therapist ghosted Me.

Influences Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Michelle Wolf, Tommy Tiernan. Next up, Leanne Morgan, Who’s having a great ear. The article tells her journey of selling jewelry door to door. I’ve told you that stories a few time on the podcasts. Her influences Jay Leno, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, Nimish Ma Till been talking about him a lot lately.

He said, if there’s something I feel liss taboo, I’m always tempted by that third rail. I’m usually on the right side of history, at least on the right side of the joke. I became a comedian more from circumstance than chasing dreams. I graduated from NYU in two thousand and eight with a degree in finance, which is about the funniest thing you could do. At the time, when I was unemployed, I was seeking an outlet for some subconscious, existential dread I was experiencing.

It’s not an easy sentence to say I saved you the Three Edits. I like making people laugh, and I’m good at writing and making people laugh. His influences Russell Peters, Chris Rock, Patris O’Neil, Mitch Hedberg, Sarah Sherman, Well, yeah, we know Sarah Sherman. She’s on Saturday Night Live. By her own admission, her stand up act could be vulgar and descriptive.

Her influences The Nanny, Larry David Peewee’s Playhouse, and rend and Stippy. That’s great Brian Simpson next up. He’s having a good year. Brian says, over time, I’ve been able to get more concise, with less fear of silence, and I’ve probably gotten better at getting deeper into things. There are things that I couldn’t make work ten years ago, but I kept them in my notebook, and now there’s some of my best jokes.

Simpson grew up in foster care and served in the Marine Corps, both of which help inform his comedic perspective and made him good at reading people in situations. His influences George Carlin, Red Fox, Eddie Murphy, Toom Sagora, Whoopi Goldberg. Sabrina Woo says, I think something that makes a good stand up and a good actor is updating her performance, really living in the moment of it, never reading the same lines the same way, feel the crowd, feel the space. Sabrina adds, Yes, I’m non by in my life is absolutely perfect. I mean, hear it all and I live comfortably in that truth.

Their influences Tik Nataro Alley Wang, Mike Berbiglia nick Nameerrov. The fantastic Canadian comedian that passed away last year, is that ten. Wow, I went quick. I went back and checked that’s ten. The other big article is Natasha Leone, Hasan Minhaj, Jean Smart among Honorees and Varieties twenty twenty three Compact Comedy Impact Report.

M let’s skim this one because this has a lot of like industry suit types and you and I are less interested in that the premise of varieties article from stage to screen behind the scenes. Here’s a look at the most impactful comedic voices over the past year on the list. Abbott elementary talent agent, Kara Albert, the Bear, Daniel Brooks, you know her from Peacemaker Max Burgos, who’s the co head of comedy touring for IgA, Gerrod Carmichael, Oh yeah, Rathaniel. People still buzzing about that one. Michael Cox is the booker for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Jim Donnelly is the Executive VP for Comedy Development for Universal. Again, all the suit stuff doesn’t interest me as much. Jillian Doyle works in the music and Comedy touring department at ce AA. Nathan Fielder, creator of the rehearsal Hannah Gatsby. You know about Hannah Amy Gravitt is an Executive VP at HBO Programming.

Bill Hayter, You’ve heard of him. Kevin Hart and thy Randolph. Thy Randolph is the CEO of Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat. You know who Kevin Hart is. Ryan Johnson, you know him from Star Wars Movies and glass Onion and poker Face.

Kathleen Lewis is an agent Natasha Leone. We know her from poker Face. Mark Maron Hope. You’ve heard of Mark Marin if you’re this foreign of this podcast. James Morriston, who had a good year on jury duty, Comedian May Martin, Hasan Minhaj the program, Moe and Crediting, Moa Mayer and Rammie Yusef, John Mulaney Otsko at KOSCA.

You’ve heard me go on and on about her. Trevor Noah. It’s a long list. Tracy Pacosta, who’s the VP of Comedy Series for Netflix. Robbie Pro VP Stand Up in Comedy Formats for Netflix.

Dwayne Perkins, actor on The Blackening, Billy Rosenberg, Senior VP Head of Comedy and Hulu. Jason Siegal, the actor, and Brett Goltzie and Bill Lawrence, the co creators of Nope. Shrinking. You thought I was gonna say some other show. Jean Smart we know her from Hacks, Sadegas, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence for ted Lasso.

There’s a long list. Come on, guys, Aaron Wehenberg up to the W’s Hopefully we’re almost done. Senior, VP Network, Comedy, ABC Entertainment, Roy Wood Junior. And that’s the end of the list. Boy, that was long.

All right, Let’s do something more fun. More from Rolling Stone’s interview with Tom Sagora, the conspiracy theory about Garth Brooks. Rolling Stone says it’s particularly wild given his Chris Gan’s sex addict alter ego. Segura said, it’s so creepy, and there are so many people have no idea about that, and when you show it to them, they think it’s photoshop. They’re like, what the F is that?

And you’re like, no, this is real. Did you hear he announce he’s gonna do five more Chris Gain’s albums. Five That means he’s gonna be doing Chris Gaines when he’s seventy. It’s crazy, dude. Sagora said, the whole thing with Garth Brooks started from legit place his announcement that he was joining Facebook is and will forever be one of the most bizarre, cringey, creepiest videos I’ve ever seen.

He’s in his hotel room and he’s like, well, I guess it’s fisial. I’m on Facebook now. I didn’t think it was gonna be like this, And You’re like what, And then he’s like, I don’t know if this is gonna be like And then I talked to one of my people and they were like, think of this as a conversation.

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And then he takes his voice down a register and he goes, I like that.

It’s wiping out the walls between you and me.

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And then he takes it down again and goes, I really like that.

There are famous people, but he is out of the stratosphere famous, and I know he puts on great shows. When you get to that level of fame, On convinced you of an inability to see the world objectively and interact with people, because people don’t interact with you normally. I can’t imagine what Court’s real life is like, but it’s got to be weird as stuff. Gore says, I don’t want to sell out who told me? But there’s one hundred percent confirmation that he is extremely well aware of what’s going on.

He knows who I am, and he hates my guts. My friends said that when people bring me up to him, he pulls the video of me breaking my arm and he goes karma. New topic. During Bird Chreisher’s show at the Gorge Amphitheater on Saturday, there was a metal emergency shortly before at ten o’clock. Davros Halkias was on stage.

He was interrupted by crew to be informed that he needed to stop. EMTs and paramedics made their way through the crowd near the front of the stage where a person was experiencing a medical episode. Comedian and show mc cipher Sounds told the crowd make some way to let the responders do their thing. The patient was placed onto a gurnean was carted off to safety. Hi.

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Montreal announced new show hosted by Mark Norman. It is the Improv’s sixtieth anniversary show and enjoy NonStop comedy from Mastovo lineup of performers, all while supporting a great cause. Comedy gives back. That one’s coming up next week tonight at the Festival seven o’clock Britannic. I’ll tell you about that one tomorrow, just for the Culture at seven o’clock, The Lucas Brothers at seven o’clock, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, Burzela Carlson at ten o’clock and Midnight Surprise at midnight.

All right, if we were playing the what would we do at Montreal tonight? Let’s see, I’d probably just go see just for the culture, for the guest I’m gonna tell you about in a second, I’d do that at seven man, I’d stick around do the Nasty Show at nine thirty and I would do Midnight Surprise at twelve on the Just for the Culture show. It’s hosted by Alonzo Bowed and you heard from him on this podcast. Zarna garg is one of the performers we just learned Zorn as a comedian to watch.

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Also on The Bill, Joyle, Nicole Johnson, Judy Gold, Arthur Simeon, Mark ellis…

I love New Faces. It’s like my favorite thing to go up for. You know, my whole thing is at the top of mind. You know, I don’t I don’t go there to see Chris Rock because I’ve seen Chris Rock luckily, and I can watch Chris Rock on Netflix. I’d like to see who’s out there.

Was that New Faces last year? You rushed like crushed and so let me just start with your slot. I’m doing it from memory. I think you went eighth or ninth in the second groups. I would last best night could tap the am, but I was last.

So is that a tough draw? Because if you’re me, you know I’m sitting I’ve been there for three hours. They did both shows. You’re the twentieth person I’ve seen is that bad draw worked. Yes, look it works at the end of the night.

I if I’d had gone bad and I would have blamed the spot for sure. But Pete Holmes was hosting and he gave I was part of the Celtic group. The second show, and he kind of pulled us aside and he said, hey, just so you guys know, the second show is always even better. First shows good. Second shows is even better.

The audience drape’s having a good time. So so then he goes out. We hear the first show, it’s tough, great, he goes out to hit the second show. He comes back and he goes then they are tired. They are really tired.

I think a lot of them the first show too. And we were like, oh my god. And so we we could tell because we have ears that the second audience was a little bit tired, a little bit more, and I honestly think I was able to let go of ever adiety I was feeling, and I went, well, you know what, look at that. I came all the way to Montreal and the audience is tired, and this is the big said screw it. And I think, like that energy is why that went so well.

So it worked out for me. It helped me be chill and go screw it, and I felt really good about that chance. Was that your planned of material for the night or did you add lib last second? No? No, no, no, no.

I’m I tried to be brave, but I’m not that breake. That was prepared. It was prepared and rehearsed. So I’d like to know about the process. I’m going to deliberately start with a question that I could just google, but for the listeners, how long have you been a comedian, mister new face?

I would say like eight years. I think there’s always a comedian, there’s always like you know, I was an actor first. I took a stand up comedy class when I wasn’t really a comedian, you know, I would do one or two shows a year at they’re easy, braver shows where the comedians brought the audience and they were very favorable. But after failing it acting for a number of years, at twenty six, I pivoted into stand up comedy. So you’re you’re a new face eight years in?

What’s the process? How do you get selected? Did your agent get it? Just just for last just know you’re out there? No, my, my, agent.

I had an agent, so it’s unwrapped and it’s repped, and my agent got me an audition for repped. It was actually my first audition. I was surprised. I wanted to get it the years before, but I just didn’t get a slot. So I had I had a new I had at the time, and they got me a slot.

I auditioned I think three weeks later, maybe I had a club back, and you know I did. I mean most of them are. Then I ended up doing at CHRFL and then they give it to you and then they announce it until like three days before the festival, and it was really exciting. And to come back this year I was told, I said I then so in the year after New Faces debut, But I was like, okay, but I would love to be back. I would love more time than Montreal.

So I ended up working out Real nice. That’s awesome. What’s the environment there? Is it competitive or is it camaraderie. We’re all on the same boat, Like you don’t like win the night, but you know it’s probably nice to be the shining star.

Sure, sure, I think especially New Faces, everyone is so we’re all hey, we’re all very happy. To be there. There’s a thing you’re telling yourself to combat your anxiety about the actual second go. You know what, even if I bomb, people will back home. They’ll be like it was a new face, and you get to use that credit for the next five years before it becomes sad when they start seeing the wrinkles and you’re still going the host say this guy was a new face.

That’s what it’s pressed. But we’re all very happy to be there. Of course there’s competition, but the nice thing about stand up and the painful thing is you can’t really affect each other. You go out there and the audience determining how everyone’s going to do, so you don’t have to be like mean about it. No, it was me.

I think Pete really was who as a new Pacings many years in a row, was really like gave us a pep talk, a reel as quotes as I’ve ever been yet to a locker room pep talk from a coach. Was Pete Holmes with one of his big leggy legs on the cuts, telling us that it’s gonna be okay, that’s awesome. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time with Pete and he’s exactly who you would hope that he is based on his persona. It’s not like there’s stage Pete and then a different guy backstage. I was talking to Alonso yesterday about I felt like Pete was throwing, and Alonso explained to me why I felt like Pete, if I used the sports analogy, was throwing like seventy eighty miles an hour and didn’t go to his top.

And Alonso was explaining, as the host, you know, he doesn’t want to go out and crush and then have somebody who’s earlier on the food chain come out and have to match, you know, at a list or at his top. Yeah, you know, I think’s terry nice. I think there’s plenty of comedians that would not be able to resist the urge to crush. But no, I think he knew. I think he was very cogniss I’m like making not show up gun for everybody.

He sat at the side of the stage and watched everyone set and laughed. All my god, I can’t even imagine, but he did that, and he never you know, you bring up all these comedians, you could give them a weak prow. You could say something that’s just a little off of the audience is diffused, but he sent it up, he set it up clean. He’s a pro. So hopefully if I ever hosts something like that, I can resist the urge, or if I do badly, be like, well, you know, I was trying to do badly to keep keep the things nice for everyone else.

It’s a good excuse, too hilarious, all right, So you crush, you walk off? Are you the sexy object? Everybody trying to sign you up for stuff? Or it’s another day in the neighbor. You know, I got to meet a lot of people, a lot of people.

They want to people of the TV show, and you’re like, oh, I want to talk about the sand duct. That’s what I’m focused on. But yeah, you end up taking a lot of like meetings. It’s kind of overwhelming how many people in the comedy industry show up the JFL. I think as I was like walking around the fifth party on the night, I was like, oh, how how did I how did I even participate in this business without being here?

And it’s just like one of those central events where so many people are are there and I met bookers, I met agents, I met managers, like but I’m most excited to meet comedy club bookers because at the time, I was like, just give me on the road, and it certainly did that. And that environment seems a little cooler than I was talking about. When you’re out in la as I’m talking and instead of making eye contact with you, I’m looking over you to see who’s a bigger star than maybe I could. I’m looking I’m already having my next conversation. Oh there’s Pete Holmes.

Thanks, let me go. Uh, you know Montreal, everybody seems a little more chill. Yeah, I think there wasn’t time. I mean everything’s also become more chill. Like, listen, you could do great at JNFL, It’s it’s not gonna give you more success than having five million TikTok followers.

There used to be a day, I think, where someone could be like, you’re gonna be a movie star. Stephen Sgal became a movie star because he was a famous agents tight she instructor. There’s no one has that time anymore, and I think because of that, we get to be a little bit more human. We don’t have to be terrified. I still think there’s a couple of people that have they walked in the room I’d be like, so good to talk to you, booker of Dallas Comedy Club.

Ari Emmanuel’s over there. I’m gonna go seehah. But for the most part, I think jfl uh, my my girlfriends would be in the industry side, and I think it’s a nice opportunity for all those guys to get a couple of drinks and have a good time. Yeah, and that makes it fun. Perfect buddy.

So in preparation for having you or any guest on, you know, I jump on the Google machine to see if there’s the latest article whatever, And I was just laughing at the descriptions attached to you. Observational comedian. Okay, fair, you’re not a pro comic. Sometimes you’re a Jewish comedian. Sometimes you’re Jewish Italian comedian.

Sometimes you’re an Italian comedian, which brings us to just for their culture. And I also was laughing with this with Alonso yesterday. And they always put parentheses formally the ethnic show, and I get why you don’t want it to be the ethnic show anymore. They always put it the reminder, formally the ethnic show. So what team are you playing for?

Does it matter? You’re going up and going on I’m the Italian guy. Tonight, I’m playing for it call at the Ethnic show again. I’m gonna be complaining about that for the whole set. I’m gonna say, what app when this cancel culture?

That’s it? So that’s my team, all right. I listen, Dad, Italian. Mom’s Jewish. Well, my girlfriend is super Jewish.

He’s robe commad, which is a branch of considered them. So I’m being told in that direction. I got a lot of Jewish material. It’s really girlfriend material, but I disguised them as Jewish material. And and uh, you could expect a lot of Jewish jokes, a lot of a lot of you know, I’m very interested in Jewish the way people viewer the Jews right now.

You got you got people saying we run Hollywood. You got you got some people saying we’re we’re all in this power. But then other people who don’t think, who don’t like this at all. It’s a very rich comedic identity. And I wasn’t raised very Jewish, but modern society has imposed the fact that I am a Jew into my life and I want to explore that.

That’s where I get my comedic juices flowing. And I’m very excited to uh that a little bit talently. But you know, the Italian supply proved my gesture. I think that’s where my Italian side really comes to shine. And as I scrolled down a page two of Google the Texas newspapers, it was like three in a row, Jeff Goldblum impressionist.

That is the other thing that we’re apparently tagging you with yours. You know, the Jeff Goldblum guy. You know, I I sported at I did it in the movie. Bl Crystal did a movie called Here Today and I played like an SNL cast member type guy at it. And in the movie I did the impression and I said, you know what, I’m going to retire this impression.

I used to do cameos as Jeff Goldblum.

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And then I was like, no, no, you don’t want to be the Jeff Goldblum guy.

And no matter where I go though, that’s that’s the people put that in the bio and and then they asked, and I go, okay, then move on, move on with my life. But you know, if if if someone buys a piece of merge from me and as I’ll give it to him nice. You mentioned you’re a theater kid. My daughter just graduated Northwestern as a theater kid, and I congratulation. Very good college, very nice.

I’m mad at her. I just saw they announced a new Chicago comedy festival. I sent her a text an hour ago, why aren’t you still in Chicago? Because I could have crashed her place. I was on her for the whole four years, and she didn’t want to hear anymore.

I kept going second city, second city, Second city, second city. What I’m like, because you’re the pretty girl who can sing, and you’re fun. You’re like gold. So I’d love to know more about your musical theater experience. Of course, that’s so sweet to have a parent that involved.

I can’t even imagine. I don’t even know if my parents knew what I went to COGS for all right, so it’s very sweet that you are that that involved. I mean, I wanted to be a music computer kid. I believed in the system back then. I thought I would go to college.

From college, I get an agent and start working steadily. I think I didn’t have the chops to be a real professional singer. And that’s hard to realize until you moved somewhere like New York and I remember auditioning to be a non huge member of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and we waited for three or four hours to see sixteen bars in a room and a crappy rehearsal space, and I remember, and the walls are portent, so I had to listen to everyone’s audition and by the time I got up to me, I said, you know what, there’s zero chance I am getting this. And I decided so each Wow, it’s because I knew. I just you don’t know that when you’re younger, do you think maybe I’ll be a great singer?

And I think college is here are pretty scammy. I don’t think they could give you your money’s worth, but they don’t. They don’t prepare you for the world. And it’s hard to predict the world. TikTok would determine who gets cast as leads and movies.

Right now, I mean that that’s a new world. But I ultimately I pursued singing. I pursued acting. I had a little bit of success here and there, but it didn’t really feel like it clicked until I wrote a straight play for myself where I talked to the audience a lot, and I had a friend who was like, that’s you should do that part. And I always dreamed about stand up and I ended up getting into this very horrible, horrible copy called LLL, which which I swore I never work again.

And then I found myself there last night and Mike did not work, of course, but it was doing every check spot there for like a year and a half that I fell in love. And I said, you know what this is when I like, I like to be able to perform. I don’t like to be fully scripted. I like to be in the moment. I like to make decisions myself, and I like that cotstick feedback to let me know how I’m doing beat by beat.

So you’re like one of these guys that’s going to have the big Netflix special and then Lauren’s going to take a liking to you when you’re going to go on SNL and destroy because you can do the other things. I mean, look, I hope so because I’m a debt so let’s hope that plan goes exactly as you said. That is that is planned a DNC. All right, I’ll call Lauren after this. Young what young guys are out there that might be off my radar?

As I sit here in the basement not attending Montreal. Who are you in too? I mean people that I would consider like in my class. Jeffrey Asmus, who’s going to be doing the Dirty Show on JFL, is one of my favorite comets to watch as an amazing writer. Jay shred it.

Good buddy, he’s doing j Carrozzo. He’s fantastic. You know he’s not a young guy. But Jessel Nick will always be my favorite personally. And oh I just my girlfriend’s client, full disclogner.

But Tita Fribble very good comedian, just a comedy cecil sets a. Tina Fribble is fantastic, good plug and very smart. Is that good, honey? Is that enough for you to do three more clients? Okay, she’s good.

John Marco also headlines Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five. John Marco is awesome. Love that guy. I saw him at New Faces last year. He crushed it and I really enjoyed speaking with him.

He’ll do his own headlining show at Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five, and another one at the I Always dumb it down Place des Arts. There’s probably a French way to say that, but that’s on July twenty eighth. John Marcos Serresi one of last year’s new faces and on my list a comedian to watch. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows, and hey, support the shark Deck Network.

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Featured: Alonzo Bodden, Jackie the Jokeman, Maria Bamford, Rainn Wilson, Mark Normand, Jimmy Kimmel, Lindsay Glazier, Jeff Sevillico

What’s in This Episode

• Jokeman documentary release on iTunes and Amazon
• Maria Bamford’s new album ‘Crowd Pleaser’ and comedy style
• Rainn Wilson’s struggles with ambition during The Office years
• Mark Normand’s approach to comedy topics and clean material
• Mark Normand’s path to Netflix special success
• Las Vegas comedy renaissance and club scene
• Jeff Sevillico’s new Dry Bar Comedy special ‘Comedy in Action’
• JFL Montreal comedy festival kickoff

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jokeman, the documentary with Jackie the Jokeman is out today on iTunes and Amazon. Go to chokemanmovie dot com for more information and if you missed it on the July eleventh episode of this podcast, Jackie and I spoke for about forty minutes on today’s podcast an interview with Alonzo Bowden and I really really enjoyed, so we’ll do that in the second half. If you came for Alonso because you saw him in the episode Tunnel, that’ll be at the end of today’s podcast. Maria Bamford’s got a new album.

It’s called Crowd Pleaser. Light spoilers here cracked it tells us. The album kicks off with Maria ingratiating herself to her Chicago comedy club audience, rattling off local references designed into her to the crowd. Hot dog wind, pizza, architecture, improv. Come on, everybody.

It’s a third away bit of goofy meta comedy that deconstructs hackey crowd work, somehow poking fund at both herself in America’s second city. Before she even gets started, A lot of The material likely echo what we’ll find in Sure I’ll Join Your Cult. It’s one of her other albums. There are bits about the rigidity and sometimes ridiculousness of twelve Step programs, several of which she’s been a not so great member. The group’s insistence on anonymity and privacy doesn’t come easily to Bamford.

She jokes, nothing says safety more than secrets. Rain Wilson was on with Bill Maher on his pod and an interesting answer from Rain. He said, when I was in the office, I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough. I’m realizing now, like I’m on a show, I mean nominated every year, making lots of money, working with Steve Carell and Jenni Fisher and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors. I’m on one of the great TV shows.

People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it. I was thinking about why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or next Will Ferrell? How Come I can’t have a movie career.

Why don’t I have a development deal. When I was on the office, I was clutching and grasping at her. I mean I was making a hundred thousands, I wanted millions, and I was a TV star, but I wanted to be a movie star. Was never enough. Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and never enough has helped us as a species.

Friday asked Mark Norman if there are any topics that he stays away from. Mark said, not really. I just stay away from being totally mean to a group. It’s still got to be a joke. It’s still gotta be a punchline.

I think you can make jokes with any group, but if it’s just totally negative and hurtful, I don’t think it’s well crafted. It’s not really about the topic. To me, it’s about the way you go about it. Ride asked him about clean material, and Mark Norman said, I think clean material is important because it’s good for work. Some people won’t listen to dirty comics the same way they won’t watch dark R rated movies.

It’s good to have and people say, oh, I’m so funny, and I’m like, are you funny enough to write a clean joke about dogs or Thanksgiving? Because it’s actually really challenging. So even if you don’t like clean material. I’d recommend challenging yourself to try, and it’s really hard and it’s a good exercise. Anybody can make a million Penish jokes, but if you can really get a clean one out there, then that’s just another feather in your cap.

Seinfeld was a really good lesson because he’s a huge hero of mine. He is a certain way he wants a show, and it’s his show and I’m happy to be on it, so you have to adapt to his rules. Friday asked Mark how he connect with Netflix for a Soup to Nuts That’s coming special, and Mark said, ten years of grinding. Then I got a Comedy Central special, and I got a half hour special and an hour then Comedy Central fills it out as technology changes and here comes as Netflix thing, and then it’s the new HBO. So you go, well, I’d love to get to Netflix, but I’m nobody, so you gotta do the YouTube route just to prove yourself.

And then through that I did well. So then Netflix was like, hey, we’ll give you a half hour just to test you again. I did a half hour, which was tough because in the middle of a pandemic, was hard to put it together, but we pulled it off. Then I got the hour. Eventually that half hour did well enough, it helped ticket sales.

So I hit the road like a psycho, like a wild man. I was doing all these weird cities in the middle of the country. Just going out there with nothing in an hour was always like the carrot on the stick, like I don’t want to write today. Well, you might get an hour one day on Netflix, so keep going and suck it up. So there are a bunch of stuff together and pulled it off.

And then when I heard I was getting an hour, I really doubled down. I had to owne it, tweak it, and pull it out. He said, when you get a Netflix show, it’s a little disbelief. It’s one of those weird things, like when you’re seventeen you’re into a girl and your friend goes, hey, she actually likes you back, and you’re like, get out of here. I couldn’t believe it.

The Las Vegas Weekly did a puff piece about Las Vegas comedy. They’d talked to a couple names here, and Jimmy Kimmel, who grew up in Las Vegas, said, you think back to the olden days with Teen Martin and Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Junior and Joey Bishop. This was the place he wanted to be if you wore a comic. Now it is again. Coincidentally, Jimmy Kimmel has his own club in Las Vegas.

Jimmy said, I think there was a stigma attached to performing in Vegas. I don’t know what the reason was, but it doesn’t exist anymore. Comics realize it’s a way to be on the road. When you’re not on the road, you could have an entirely different audience every night Las Vega. And Lindsay Glazier is a stand up comic, and Lindsay agrees, saying, some nights you’ve got twenty cowboys from Montana and the audience with fifty people from New York, a bachelorette party, a wedding party, and four Michael Jackson impersonators.

Apparently Vegas comedies leveled up weekly. Late night’s show The Dirty happened at twelve thirty at the South Point Showroom that just celebrated its tenth anniversary. Don’t Tell Comedy delivers pop up shows around town. Glazier says in Vegas because of the level of comedy here, you have to pretty much do your a material all the time in the clubs. She likes the club Wise guys.

It’s one of the only places that has open mics on Tuesday and Wednesday where you can develop new material in front of real audiences. Glazier says, people are like comics, only have to work one hour day. Says No. We actually write our bits, then we do with social media, and then we send out fifty million booking emails. We do all that and then we go on stage for an hour.

Jeff Sevillico as a new special out on Dry Bar. It’s called Comedy in Action. Speaking in Vegas. He was named Best of Las Vegas by the Las Vegas Review Journal three years in a row, Entertainer of the Year by Vegas Inc. And the Totals Vegas Guide had him on top ten things to Do in Vegas, which is fascinating because think of some of the other nine things you might do.

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Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you A podcast Just for Last Montreal starts to kick off tonight two shows Just for the Culture at seven o’clock and The Nasty Show at nine thirty. Just for the Culture features a diverse lineup of comedians from various cultural backgrounds and experiences. Your host is Alonso Boden. You’re gonna hear my interview with him in just a second. Just for the Culture an all killer, no filler night of comedy from some of the biggest multi cultural acts in North America.

Here’s Alonso. I wanted to talk to you about Queens. I’m from Jackson Heights. You lived at Saint Alban’s and you went to Aviation High School. Yes, I want to guess on that commute.

Is that a bus to Jamaica, F trainee train transferred seventy fourth or what did you do? That’s a long haul. Yeah, you take the ear DF. You transfer at Roosevelt I think it was Roosevelt Heights where you transferred to the seven. Yeah, seventy four yea, yeah, then you take the seven to thirty third.

So yeah, I was a commuter. Actually, in my senior year a lot of times I rode my bicycle. I rode up up Queens Boulevard from Saint Albans to That’s a hike. I mean the part was an hour fifteen. I’m sure I was one of those bicycle nuts back in the day in New York.

You know, we used to ride through Manhattan with our whistles and stuff like that. Yeah, I was one of those guys. So it would take about I’m trying to remember it. I’ve been a long time ago, but about forty forty five minutes to ride to school. So that’s not a bad ride down Queens Boulevard.

I mean, I mean, now you’ve got proper bike lanes and be a breeze. Yeah, now it would be uh well, I don’t know it was. It was fun. Then you know, you have bike lanes now, but then you have people hating the bike lanes and trying to keep you in the bike lane. So I don’t know which is more dangerous, not having a bike lane and being aware of it or having a bike lane and people want to kill you.

So I like the bike lane. The issue with the bike lane is it pushed the curbside parking out further. So if you’re driving a car, you could pull up to a corner and you have to like stick your neck out and look, you know, way deep. But Montreal they’ve got their bike game together. They’ve got proper bike lanes.

Yeah, because they’re used to it. You know. It’s like, I don’t know, if you ever been to Portland. You have been to Portland, No better watch out when they have green bike lanes. Those bikes don’t stop.

Those bikes will take you out. Because you know, there’s a lot of bike commuters and bike riders and Montreal is the same way. Plus Montreal, they’re they’re Canadians. They’re just nicer. You know.

They don’t wake up saying who can I run over today? In New York, it’s like, all right, I’m gonna get somebody. You know, it’s a different since we jumped over to Montreal. I saw some interview somewhere you quoting on and I agree with you the nice looking ladies in Montreal. The first time I went up there, I noticed that women who were more mature were really taking care of themselves.

There are some nice looking women up if you go walking around Mount Royal, they take care of themselves up there. It’s they are beautiful. The women of Montreal are absolutely beautiful. I used to joke that, you know, everybody wanted to go to strip clubs. I’m like, it’s redundant.

Just walk around, just walk around. There are stunningly beautiful women wearing you know, sexy outfits, and this is that. It’s no, it’s really great. And a friend who lives there, he told me, he said, listen, they’re wearing a coat nine months out of the year, so when they get to take that coat off, they’re going for it. And I like, thank you, Thank you, Montreal.

You’re a beautiful city. That makes sense because I only go there in July. I used to say the same thing. People would tell me how cold Chicago was, and I’d be out there when JFL had the Chicago Fest, which I think was June. I’m like Chicago and June’s pretty great.

Yeah, I’ve been to Chicago in January. I’ve been to Montreal in the winter, but by far the winner is Winnipeg. Winnipeg is so cold that Canadians don’t go to Winnipeg. Canadians like, the hell’s wrong with you? Why would you go there?

The thing I find fascinating with Montreal is it’s this mix of pseudo Europe nineteen seventy six is version of the future, like that’s a good place to shoot your sci fi movie by some of those projects, and then the I don’t care, we’re going to have a porn shop next to a four star restaurant. Well, I always say that, you know, Montreal is a combination of European style, right, nice Canadian people who they’re nice to us. Apparently the French Canadians are not nice to other Canadians, but they’re very nice to us. As visitors and the convenience of the United States. So it’s really just a great city.

Yeah, it does have different parts that look different ways. I love Old Montreal. I could walk around Old Montreal all day, every day and just soak it up. It just feels like you’re in Europe. Yeah, it’s a great city, all right.

So you’re doing Montreal. You’re hosting just for the culture. We’re calling it formally known as the Ethnic Show, and that’s been in the press release for maybe ten fifteen years now, formally known as the Ethnic Show. So like, I get why they wanted to change the name, but then they keep bringing up formally known as the Ethnic Show, and I don’t understand it. I don’t know what just for the culture is.

I get why they’re moving away from it, but what is just for the culture. So, you know, this is what’s really funny, and this is how old time I am. At the festival, Damarera and I were joking about when each culture had its own show. Okay, there was a time at the festival where you had like the Uptown Show was culture and the Wise Guys Show was Italian, and I forget the name, but they had a Jewish we used to each have our own and then they put them all together and they called it the Ethnic Show. And from what I understand, there was some politician that was using the term ethnic derogatory.

He was like, I didn’t get elected because the ethnics voted for this or the ethnic that. And that’s when they said, Okay, we got to change it to for the culture. So now instead of each making fun of each ethnicity, we make fun of each culture, which is much more proper formerly known as but that was always a thing chocolates Sundays or Asian invasions. Yeah, I guess you don’t see as much of that now, but that was always a thing. Yeah, you don’t see it as much, but it still exists and it’s still you know, here’s the thing I love about comics with different cultures.

They make fun of their own culture. That’s what’s great about it. And listen, I’ve learned more about the Jewish culture from Jewish comedians then I ever could any other way, because they make fun of every Jewish holiday and every you know, custom and this and that. It’s apparently now you’re gonna be surprised here this John, but apparently Asian parents did not want their kids to be comics, because Asian comics always remind me of that, you know, And yeah, it’s it’s great though, It’s it’s really fun because everyone has fun with their own culture, and as you know, comedians, we have a ball with it. We laugh at each other, we laugh at ours.

If a comedian’s ever not laughing at you, if we’re not picking on you, then you get nervous. Then you’re like, wow, they really don’t like they didn’t insult me at all. You know. So when you’re up there this year, you’re hosting, it’s a pretty big room, real event. I’m trying to figure out how to phrase this.

I’ll try and use an athlete’s terms. So last year when I was up in New Faces watching Pete Holmes seen Pete a million times, and I felt like he was and I don’t mean this in a negative way, I felt like he was throwing seventy eighty percent, like it was the All Star Game, Like, you know, i could fire back and go one hundred and five, but I’m just gonna hang out a little bit and feel the crowd and use my anus material. Again, I don’t mean that as a dig I just felt like he’s deliberately, deliberately not going to his top. Oh no, I’ll swing for the fences. But when you’re the host, it’s not all about material, like I’m When I do material, I’m gonna do my great material, but I’m gonna welcome them.

I’m gonna joke with people in the crowd. I’m going to try to keep the show moving. So that’s the kind of thing. Where As a host. Jay Leno, who you know, has hosted a show or two for a little while, he told me he said, always remember your guests the star.

That was good advice to me. Your guest is a star. So my part of my job is to set up the comics so that they look good and make it about them. Make it about each comic that I introduce. It’s not all about me.

But when i’m when i’m joking, I’m gonna joke. Not a funny thing. With new faces. Now I’ve hosted it and I’ve been a new face, they’re almost worried that you’ll be too funny. They’re like, wait a minute, I’m a rookie, You’re Pete Holmes.

If you pull out your a material, I’m gonna so you know, so so when you when you host new faces, you’re really trying to be encouraging because they are, you know, various points in their career, but relatively new. Just for the culture. It’s like, ah, you’re good enough, I can make fun of you, all right, Yeah, thanks, that that makes that makes a lot of sense to me. You’re doing I’m trying to keep my eye on you. Nuts scrowed down on my notes.

Here are you doing any of the galas? And I’m a New Yorker I always want to see gala. No, this year, I’m not doing a gala. You know. I’m always on the bench if somebody, you know, breaks a leg, I’m ready to jump in.

But no, this this year is about for the culture.

And then I always pick up a few guest spots on shows while I’m there.

You know, they tell me I’m part of the furniture of Montreal. Now I guess i am. I’ve been to the festival a few times. I was listening to some of your other interviews. I think you were on with George Lopez when this came up, but might have been Papa.

Maybe it was Papa, but the point was, and your interview was from a few months back, but it related to you. I recently watched a special by I’m Not Here to Tear Anyone down, and I was watching it and I’m like, I think the comedian’s body language is pulling the material up a little bit. And I heard you. I can’t remember it was Tom or with George, and you talked about wanting to just strip it down and have a microphone and a stool and let the work speak for itself rather than mugging for the camera using the body work. Can you can you talk to that a little bit?

Yeah, so well that’s Tom style. Actually it’s George. We’re the monologists, right, we stand it to microphone and talk. Other comics have huge energy. They’re jumping around on stage, they’re doing this and that, and the physicality brings more to their material.

There are some comics that without the physicality, the material would be a recital. And I mean Tom. If Tom moves through feet in a one hour show, that’s a long walk for him. Tom would literally just stand at the mic and talk. And I love that.

I love that, And yeah, that’s how that’s kind of how I came up, you know. And the other thing is I’m a big guy, all right, sixty three over two fifty. If I’m jumping around on the stage, the front rows pretty nervous. The front rows like, can you just take it down to not we don’t need you stage diving, you know. So there’s that, but it’s just different styles.

And I came up in the monologist style where you stood there and talk. I mean, Steven Wright. Now you talk about someone who didn’t move, whose words, you know, commanded the room. I mean that was it. So yeah, I’m a big Bob Hope fan, and I know the last twenty five years of Hope’s career get dragged through the mud for some of the NBC specials.

But I go back and listen to that older stuff where he’s just quick and ratitat’s hat and it could be sixty year old material, be like, hey, we’re at the Cleveland Air Force Base. You know, General Johnson is really cheap and they’ll mug a little bit and don’t get a laugh at me. I don’t know who the general was, but it’s just that art of comedy and knowing how to perform and do it. I think it was great. Well, I think you every comic learns their own material and their own style.

You know what I mean, Like if I’m trying to do if I’m trying to do Bobby Lee and ain’t gonna work, ain’t gonna work. Bobby Lee does Bobby Lee. I can’t do Bobby Lee and Bobby Lee’s not gonna do me. You know, it’s so you develop that And yeah, bugging after the joke was part of Bob Hope’s thing, you know. And listen, I love the old Pros.

You know, when people talk about one of the Old Pros not being funny, it’s like, well, you’re judging him or her like they walked out on stage today. I mean you got to understand at that time, that’s what they were doing. That’s what they were talking about. And these people were brilliantly funny.

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And then you have the other thing, the cancel culture, which, by the way, if …

So if it’s in any way you can help me get canceled doing this interview, I would appreciate it. But if you’re gonna judge a joke from from you know, nineteen eighty three, like Eddie Murphy said, you know, if he did raw. Today, it wouldn’t be the same language. But in nineteen eighty two, eighty three, whenever that came out, it was brilliant and it was funny. And here’s the thing, everyone knew he didn’t mean it, you know.

It’s it’s like, yeah, oh, Eddie Murphy hates gay people. No he doesn’t. No, Eddie Murphy doesn’t hate anybody. There were jokes jokes at the time, so I don’t buy into all of that judgment on old comics and old pros. And was there some mugging and hamming it up with Jack Benny every joke, Right after every joke, he just stopped and gave you that sarcastic look.

You know, that was part of the joke. Rodney Dangerfield, he never tightened his tie, right, it was always at It was always with the tie. It’s it’s what they do. It’s mannerisms. It’s great.

Any young guys out there these days that might be off my radar sitting here in the basement, that you’re a man, it’s uh. You know, I see a lot of young comics. I don’t remember all the names of everybody. I love Mal Hall, Liz Merely, Liz is fantastic young woman out of New York. But there’s honestly, I couldn’t do justice because I don’t remember names.

But there there’s a lot of young comics and I like what they’re doing. And it’s a different, different generation, right, different vibes. So they’re doing a lot of social media and sketches and stuff like that beyond these besides stand up, so you know, good for them. I mean it’s it’s again, different generation, different vibe. As a veteran, do you lose your mind when you see somebody who’s been doing it for three minutes has three hundred seventy five trillion TikTok views for one joke?

There is you know, you know what it’s become. And you’re old enough to remember the eight John remember one hit wonders, Yeah, there are now there are now one bit wonders that you can do. But it’s one bit one. They have a joke and or a bit or something on YouTube or TikTok or whatever, and you know, a billion people see it and a billion people love it, and then they get on stage and it’s like, okay, there’s a lot of filler until they get to that joke. I don’t really have time to get mad about it, you know, even with me like my I have a social person who helps with social media, and she’ll si, wow, you got two million views on that bit, and I’m like, okay, now get me in an arena and have all two million people show up here.

Right. But you talk about the one hit wonders. You know, somebody like yourself or Georgia Pop or a lot of these people we’ve talked about. I could wake up out of bed and go, hey, don’t worry about why I did you do forty minutes? Right now?

You got it. One of the things on your resume’s last comics standing that was that show came along when I used to run series XM comedy, and you know, people would come up to me and be like, hey, you ought to play so and so they killed on TV last night, and I’d be like, that person has five seconds of material and that’s what they put in the special. And you know, a lot of yourself one of them. You know, people came out of that show and have had really great careers, but there were a lot of people that had one joke two jokes. I teach a college class and I’m not a comedian at all, case you can’t tell, I will illustrate to the students that, you know, I can say something really vulgar about punching someone in a body part, and I’ll get a laugh out of the class.

And I’m like, I didn’t even set that up. I just said something shocking, you know, So I made you laugh for three seconds. But I’m not a comic. Yeah, well, last comic was interested. So the first year, the first season, they had a rule like, you couldn’t have done a comedy special, and I don’t think you couldn’t have done it Tonight Show.

And they had a lot of beginners, and what they found out was, you know, if you’ve been doing comedy too three years, you’re not ready for TV yet. You’re certainly not ready for a sustained act.

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And then some of the winners or you know, they went on tour and it was like, …

So when we did it, we were all headliners. We were all veterans. I think the newest comic we had had been doing it for like eight years, so we were ready, you know. And the other thing I learned was you’re always writing. You know, George Wallace was one of my mentors and heroes.

You will never see him without that yellow pad. I explained to him. We use computers and tablets now, but you know, you got he’s an old man. But no, he always had the yellow pad. He was always writing.

The guys who taught me this, they were like, man, you gotta be writing all the time because you want to stay relevant. You don’t want to be you know, it’s twenty twenty three. If you still have a VCR joke, you’re probably not going to get much work. Yeah, yet we know the light flashes twelve. That’s very funny.

So what do you actually use yourself? No pad on a phone. Yeah. I shifted over from notebooks to using notes on my phone and on my tablet, my mini tablet, which I carry all the time. And the reason is writing it out.

Physically writing it imprints it on the memory. So that was always great because it trained my mind to remember the joke. But the nice thing about the digital notes is it’s easy to file, categorize, and find stuff because all you got to do is put in a word, you know, like if I put in jfl and just for last all of my just for last sets come up, so I’m like, oh, okay, I can’t do this. I did that joke or you know, blah blah blah. So that kind of stuff.

That’s why the digital stuff makes it easier for me, because I was never one to listen. Some comics would have index cards and they would file them and they would have their you know, these are my jokes about travel, these are my jokes about being married. These are my And I was like, man, I’m not that I’m not that organized. I’ll just write some new ones. If I got to I can’t be looking at up.

I’ll just write some new ones and let’s hope this works. So do the new ones. They’re in a documents and then you know, at some point, I guess what, you’re pretty sticking together in new set? Are you looking at that and going okay, let me sequence this? This this call back go working now.

I date the sets and then I’ll have like new jokes. I’ll have a thing I call random ideas and stuff like that, and I’ll pull from that.

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And then sometimes I’ll be going through sets and I’ll see it a joke from you…

Let me bring that one back, and then I’ll start doing it again, and then it’ll change some doing it now just you know, because it’s running through my mind differently. The funniest thing to me is when a fan remembers a bit that I have no idea what they’re talking about. Wow, I’ll never forget. Somebody said, man, I love your tank bit, and I was like, I have no idea what the tank bit is. If you start it, I’ll remember it.

But now I’m you know, my favorite joke is always the newest one I’m working on. So it’s funny with fans even. You know, in a radio career, you’ll meet a listener and they’ll be like, hey, how’s your cat Fluffy? And you’re like, how do you know what cat’s name is? Fluffy?

And the answer is because you mentioned the cat once in nineteen ninety eight at six in the morning. And fans just latch on the stuff it is. It’s amazing and it’s fantastic. But I do it too. You know, a lot of comics we know each other by material.

We you know, it’s like do you know blah blah blah, And it’s like who and he does the thing about the cat drive in a car and you’re like, oh, yeah, I know that guy. You know, we remember that.

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And then the guys who I watched coming up Damarea, George Wallace, George Lop…

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Featured: Matt Rife, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Harrison Ford, Conan O’Brien, Heidi Gardner, Jamarco Serezi

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s mentorship session with Dave Chappelle in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Jim Gaffigan YouTube short joking about Mount Rushmore and Lakota sacred land
• Harrison Ford roasts Conan O’Brien on podcast about Han Solo research notes
• JFL awards announcements including Bert Kreischer Stand Up Comedian of the Year
• Inaugural Chicago 312 Comedy Festival launching November 1-4
• Jamarco Serezi on incorporating crowd work and theater background into comedy
• Gabriel Iglesias cancels Augusta show due to scheduling conflict

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News that the SPS. The other night, Chief star Travis Kelsey was up there with Heidi Gartner, you know her from Saturday Night Live, and Gardner made the following joke, I got kicked out of Chris Paul’s birthday party because I wasn’t invited. Camera cuts to Chris Paul. He has no idea what she’s talking about. That was a little weird.

Last week, a clip from the nineteen ninety eight SPS circulated on Twitter. The clip featured the Heisman Trophy winner that year, Charles Woodson. Nor McDonald gave the monologue and he said, there’s Charles Woodson. How about that he became the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. Congratulations Charles.

That’s something no one ever can take away from you, unless you kill your wife and waiter. The New York Times had profiled Matt Rife. Matt talked about a recent career highlight that was performing in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with Dave Chappelle and said, we just smoked and talked for like four hours, and he gave me thirty years worth of advice. Chappelle emphasized the important staying true to yourself and not adhere to industry your network standards. Even today, fighting cancel culture with every show he does.

I’d just admire him for that so much. Jim Gaffigan put out a YouTube short joking about the origins of Mount Rushmore. He said, last spring break, we went to Mount Rushmore. That’s the most applause. Mount Rushmore’s gun And I feel sorry for Mount Rushmore.

People used to go there on their honeymoon. Now I bring up Mount Rushmore and people look at me like I’m talking about a TV show that was canceled ten years ago. Is it’s still going on? Yeah, it’s a mountain. It’s still going on.

You know what. It’s beautiful. Jim continued, And the Black Hills of South Dakota are sacred to the Lakota Indians, and out of respect, our government car four white guys in one of the mountains. Another gift you guys. These guys were all about freedom, especially the two guys that own sleeves.

Gabriel Iglesias has canceled his show at SRP Park in Augusta that was scheduled for August sixteenth. The reason given scheduling conflict. That’s always interesting to me. John Marco Serezi. I’ll have an interview with him on the podcast this week.

He’s up at JFL, which kicks off tomorrow. Jamarco said, I was always at theater kid. I went to college from musical theater. I do a lot of clubs in New York. That’s kind of where I grew up as a comic.

And you’re at these stages that are a couple of bricks thrown together and you’re elevated half an inch off the stage. And being at JFL and being at these big, massive theaters, Suddenly all these dance classes that I took in, all the thousands of dollars that amounted to nothing in my acting career, suddenly, oh, I finally for him to move. When I got on the stage at JFL, I thought, oh, this is where I can shine. This is where I can’t be too much. And I plan to really test that theory this year.

He’ll be on the for the Culture Show, and given his heritage listed as Jewish Italian, bad Feeling asked him who he’s representing. Trenmarco said, I’ve yet to hear from JFL on which side. They want me to talk up more, but I’ll do whatever they want. I probably have more Jewish materially because right now it’s a contentious time. I was in Houston and I said I’m Jewish.

Someone in the audience went yuck, wow. But the joke’s on him because that’s Hebrew for a great job. I think that’s probably the side that’s going to come out the most. Trenmarco talked about incorporating more crowd work into his sets, and he said, I think originally I leaned and because you know, it’s a very weird time to be a comedian. You have to have constant output because you don’t necessarily want to put out all your material.

And I think I saw one or two shows where I saw an audience member whisper a punchline to their friend, and I said, all right, that’s it. No more posting my current material online. I’m just leaving in the crowd work. And it was hard at first because the reason I became a stand up comedian was because in conversations I like to be the only one talking. But I found it just keeps me in the moment, you know, I get bored doing the same joke every time when you’re talking to some when you feel alive, because it could go south.

You know, I might say to someone, oh, your parents are divorced, and they’ll go my dad killed my mom. Then I have to think, how do I make this funny? How do I stay on the edge. And that keeps you feeling alive, that keeps you feeling scared in a good way. So I really do enjoy mixing it in when I feel like I’m ready to take the risk just for laughs announced a bunch of new shows.

Just In Rin Wilson added as an award recipient. He’ll win the Comedy Impact Award. Some of the other recipients, Quentin Brunson is the Comedy Person of the Year, presented by romy Yusef. Bert Kreisher is the Stand Up Comedian of the Year, presented by Neil Brennan. Ronny Chieng is the Breakout Comedy Star of the Year, presented by Rashid Baduri.

May Martin is your Rising Comedy Star of the Year, presented by Carolyn Taylor. JFL also announced Surrounded an electrifying comedy show where the audience is the material. Today’s best comedians take the stage with nothing more than the Mike and their wit, turning everyday interactions into memorable punch lines. With no script or pre planned jokes, we guarantee a night of hilarious improvisation, one of a kind of moments, and a various laughter and a new Chicago comedy festival got announced. It’s the inaugural three twelve Comedy Festival.

The initial lineup includes Napri Gatzy, Nicole Bayer, Jeff Ross, Russell Peters, Ari Shaffier, Dan Cummins, John Christ, Craig Robinson, Chad Daniels, and Jamie Lizzau. The festival will run November first through the fourth, so that somewhat overlaps with the New York Comedy Festival. That is interesting. Nate Brigatzy’s at the Chicago Theater November third through the fifth, Russell Peters at the Rosemont on November fourth, John Christ at rialto Square on the third, Ari’s at the VIC on November fourth, Nicole Bayer on the third at Riviera, Jeff Ross Park West November first, Craig Robinson November fourth, Park West, dand Commins at the VIC November third. Chad Daniels November two through the four at the improv and Jamie Lizzau at Zenie Chicago and Zenie’s Rosemond.

On the third and the fourth, Harrison Ford was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast and gave Conan the Business a little bit. They were playfully arguing about Harrison Ford’s ancestry, which led Conan to consult some info he had jotted down prior to the interview. Conan said, I refer to you to this piece of paper right here says born and raised in Chicago to an Irish German father. Harrison leaned over to take a look at Conan’s notes and then interrupted Conan and Harrison pointed out the notes included a reminder that Ford played Han Solo in Indiana Jones. Harrison said, well, if that’s the quality of your research, and I imagine it is, because right there it says Harrison Ford, and you had to write Han Solo.

You can’t remember that. Conan said, no, I can’t. I can’t remember Han Solo. I wrote it down because I heard you were in some of the Star Wars films, and this was news to me because I’ve seen those films and I don’t exactly think that you pop. I’m sorry, I mean, I remember Chewbacca, I remember the bad guy with the black helmet, and then there’s some people.

Harrison then said, how come you’re still not on TV? Conan shot back. He came on my show many times on the late night show, and over the years, people would say, who’s one of your favorite guests, and I would say Harrison Ford because he’s so funny. You’re so hilariously funny, and you toss me around like a rag doll on those shows, and there’s some of my favorite segments of all time. You are hilarious man, and I always love being around you.

Nocturnal caught up with Otsko at Katza nast her If you were not a comedian, why did I almost lip in a Mitch headbook there? If you are not a comedian, is there not fashion? I think it’d be well suited for Otsco said, ah, I have no other skills. I’ve been notoriously fired from every other job I’ve had. What’s the closest thing new comedian?

I did study psychology a little bit too, but that’s scary. Like imagine you show up to your session and the chair turns around and it’s me, Hi, I’m your therapist and that your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, smash the light button. Huh see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Nimesh Patel, Harry Conabelo, Alison Spittle, Sachen Kumarandran, Finjiwe, Nika Burns

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s viral rise from 70 tickets to 600,000 sold-out tickets after crowd work video
• New York Times profile on Matt Rife’s looks versus comedic talent in comedy world
• Nimesh Patel on learning from both bombing and killing on stage
• Harry Conabelo’s unconventional lifestyle: never smoked weed, can’t drive or swim
• Edinburgh Fringe comedians discuss cancel culture and comedy boundaries
• Sachen Kumarandran’s experience making fun of rugby at a rugby club dinner
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival secures new sponsors after Dave TV pulled support
• BBC Radio 4 announces new comedy shows for Friday night lineup

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. The New York Times did a long profile of Matt Rife, and they wrote, after eleven years and clubs, Matt Rife was selling around seventy tickets per show. He wasn’t even a big enough name last summer to get an invitation to just for laughs in Montreal. He decided to go anyway.

He said, last July, I was in Montreal for a festival I wasn’t invited to. I had to fly myself out, put myself up for no pay. I was sitting there at dinner with my friend and my manager, and I was going to post a video of crowd work. I was watching it and I was like, this is so stupid. What am I even doing this?

The video in question was Matt in Phoenix going back and forth with a female audience member who said she had broken up with her boyfriend because, as she put it, he didn’t do anything when he came home from his job. During the exchange, we find out the woman’s ex was an emergency room worker, and Matt said, oh, I’m sorry you broke up with a hero. That got a lot of laughs. Rife posted the video it got twenty million views in two or three days. Matt says it became this massive chain reaction and explosion of an audience.

From then on, every video I posted went viral. He announced his problematic world tour last month. He sold out two hundred and sixty dates in North America, Europe and Australian forty eight hours, six hundred thousand tickets in all wow, some resale tickets going for five hundred dollars two Taylor Swift Times ran right at it, though, and wrote despite the countless hours he spent at the mike, his popularity may have as much to do with his cheekbones as his comedic chops. Tall and strikingly handsome, with blue eyes at chills of jawline and full lips, Rife is something rare in the comedy world. A heart throb, he has played his looks to his advantage.

A black and white, glossy photograph on his website shows him shirtless and tattooed and a bad boy pose. His hair is always artfully tasseled, like that of a boy band member. He wears rolled of t shirts on stage that show off his tone biceps. His fans tend to be young and female. I asked my daughter as if they knew who he was, they knew who he was.

The Time says his club dates are often more Magic Mike than Comedy Central presents. He titled his first YouTube special Only Fans because people were searching Matt Rife Only Fans on the internet. That show got eight and a half million views. Rife said his sex appeal, like his career surge, is relatively new. He describes himself as a late bloomerd.

Photos from me a few years ago show a gangly looking youth whose strong jaw, high cheekbones, and jaggersesque lips had yet to coalesce into a pleasing hole. Rights The Times, Rife said, I was luckily for so long. I spent the first twenty two years of my life building a personality for what you think I need to be Funny now sounds a cool guy. He’s self aware. That’s nice.

Nimesh Patel talked to High Times, your home for comedy. He was about bombing. Nimesh said bombing knights are often talked about because they teach you a lot, but killing it on stage could be just as informative. When you’re in the zone and everything’s clicking. It gives you a surge of confidence.

You learn how to capture that momentum and use it to your advantage, like during a new tags or tweaking jokes on the spot. It’s about harnessing that energy and being able to replicate it even on nights when you’re not killing. Having the confidence to try new things, explore different angles comes from those successful moments on stage. So there are valuable lessons to be learned from both bombing and killing. Harry Conabolo was on with John Marcos Serresi on his podcast, and I found this fascinating.

I gotta get Horry on because Harry and I both grew up in the same neighborhood and Queens. I’d just find him very interesting. He said, I’ve never smoked weed. I’ve never wow. I’m a square, old school square to me.

That’s fascinating for comedian. Harry said, I felt I was always a quote unquote good boy, you know, but at the same time, just the idea of losing control in any way always made me feel uncomfortable. And I don’t think I ever had friends with the type that would be adventurous. I made a TV pilot, where I do things I’ve never done before for the first time. The other episodes were going to be swimming and driving.

I haven’t done a lot of things. I can’t swim, I can’t drive. I’ve never been on a roller coaster. I’ve never done yoga. I’ve never been to a strip club.

I’ve never smoked weed. Stand up is one of the few things I know how to do, to be perfectly honest. The Harold Scotland asked some comedians performing at the Edinburgh Fringe about cancel culture. Alison Spittle said culture wars are for people too much time on their hands and grifters. Comics wine about free speech because they can’t use slurs without being called out.

I don’t believe in culture war. People want tolerance, some want nothing to change. What are they protecting top gear using the word gay negatively? It’s passe society changes. Sachen Kumarandran says, I was recently booked for a rugby club dinner armed with zingers.

I look forward to in good humor roasting the sport. One audience member elected to on stage grabbed me and threatened to throw me out. Fortunately de escalated. There’s some old proverb about a single snowflake causing an avalanche. This one could have people objecting to me.

Saying anything is incredibly rare. When it has occurred, it’s predominantly middle aged men. So comedy demonstrates the representations of culture war, populist archetypes of who’s offended often aren’t true. In my experience, making fun of rugby is statistically the most offensive topic. Comedian Finjiwe said comedy is best friends with tragedy.

When used right, it’s the greatest tool for progressive change. Humor challenges people to address social issues. Coming from South Africa, comedy played a big role in addressing issues politics failed to address my comedy. Rule number one, if you can’t say it in front of the person you’re talking about, don’t say it. Rule two.

If it’s not your lived experience, don’t decide how people who lived it should feel. Your comedians not judges. When a parteid censorship ended, South African freedom of speech turned to new leaf, comedy is one of the main things uniting us. Where Rich and Port laughed together, Comedy is cheaper than therapy, but as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine, except when you have diarrhea. Good news for the Fringe Fest.

Of all the Gordian reports. They were under some financial worries. Their previous sponsor, a TV channel Dave, pulled out, but they have new backers, Sky TV and DLT Entertainment, and the Victoria Wood Foundation wrote some checks. They’ll sponsor Best Show, Best Newcomer and Panel Prize awards. Nika Burns is the director of the Fringe It says I cannot thank them enough for responding so swiftly and decisively in the true spirit of Fringe.

Burns has been running the awards since nineteen eighty four, when Obscure California called the Brass Band one and We’re never heard of again. The BBC announced some news shows to air on Radio four. These will air Fridays at six thirty, which in the States would be just an awful time to air anything. Maybe these will also live on the BBC APP. I imagine, I assume, I hope They’ll air on Friday evenings from July twenty eight to September one.

BBC suit says these specials will be broadcast in Radio force, popular Friday night comedy slot between the series of Dead Ringers and the news Quiz. Here are the shows. First up, the Newsmakers Rachel Paris will deliver her views on the new week’s news and then talk to the people at the center of those stories, all of whom are fictional and played by comedians. Number two, What Are You Talking About? Host Reyes James is joined by a gaggle of comedy’s fastest rising stars.

They’ll look at the news and ask why, how come and why though. Number three is Dom Jolly Breaks the News. Dom will host a mashup of Frank calls, interviews, and features. Tom is serious about tackling the act news of the week. He just wonders whether approaching it from a slightly different angle might give us some orange staying answer.

Fourth, the United Nations of News Rhea Lena leads up a crack team of comics from around the globe. Parts of the globe include Malawi, Spain, and Australia. Katherine Bohart show is called tl DRS in Too Long, Didn’t Read. She and her team will be digging deep into one big story that’s making the news that sounds little. John oliver Ish and The Naked Week host Andrew Hunter Murray strips away the filmsy covering in Jeer and not only the big stories, but also the way in which the news itself is packaged and presented.

And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, smash like button. Follow the shows. Do all that tell a friend See tomorrow