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Featured: Tom Segura, Chris Distefano, Jeff Foxworthy, Eddie Izzard, Pap Johnson, Mark Proksch, Harvey Guillen, Kristin Schaal

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s 50-pound weight loss and fitness routine while touring
• Chris Distefano’s parenting strategies for managing chaotic mornings with three kids
• Jeff Foxworthy on the therapeutic value of comedy and gratitude for performing
• Eddie Izzard announces autumn tour with remixed greatest hits from 35-year career
• Kill Rock Stars relaunches comedy label with Pap Johnson album release
• Mark Proksch discusses pay disparity between streaming shows and guest appearances on The Office

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mac with your Daily Company News. Tom Sagoura caught up with Muscle and Fitness and they talked workouts. Tom said, I was two hundred and fifty five pounds the special. I say it was two hundred forty five pounds, but I’m lying.

I was two fifty five. The truth is, I don’t think it was actually very cool, but I was just kind of going along with it. I was thirty four when that was happening. It’s not a good thing, and I was completely sedentary at that time. If you go back and watch his specials in twenty sixteen’s mostly Stories, you’ll notice that he appears a little fitter.

His shoulders look broader than in twenty eighteen. Disgraceful, he revealed he had lost more than fifty pounds. Sigura said, everybody has their own number that’s permissible, where like after that their alarms go off. The thing that I’ve learned is there’s no end number, and that’s what took me a long time to figure out. Even now I’m in the two hundred pound range, like I kind of fluctuated, say between one nine eight and two oh five.

You don’t get to a number and go We’re done. It’s a constant thing. As cliched as it sounds, it’s literally a lifestyle. Part of the problem was the schedule, often doing two shows in a single day. You’d find he and his crew reading junk food late at night.

Now they try to eat between shows rather than eat in the middle of the night. It’s a very four departure from the way we used to do it. He suggests washing out for super coffees. They’re like, man, I love this chocolate squirreled thing with like caramel and I don’t know something else in it. And it’s just like, wow, it’s so crazy.

What’s in it? And they’re like, yeah, that’s how I get my day started. And I’m like, holy cow, man, it’s like you eat a whole cake. Here’s Sigoura’s training split. While on tour, Monday, we do chest and back Tuesday forty five to sixty minutes exercise bike for cardio.

Wednesday heavy day legs, back and arms, squats, deadlifts Thursday, forty five to sixty minute jogger exercise bike, Friday arms core and mobility Saturday light cardio. When he’s home, he has his own gym set up with a pellets on dumbbells and kettlebells and a wall mounted tonal resistant machine. Of course, says I love it. Fatherly focused on Christa Stephano the Parents. Recently on his podcast Chrissy Kaos, the Stephanote talked about the half weekday mornings that come with having three kids.

We have the twelve year old waking up, lady’s gonna miss the bus. We have him, my eight year old waking up right on time. She doesn’t want to do anything, she doesn’t want to do her hair, she doesn’t want to eat. Then we have the two year old waking up who’s just being too a crazy, drunk, lunatic person yelling, screaming, wants to be held, wants to be put on the floor, and she bites. There’s a lot of chaos going on.

We start yelling at each other. You only get the kids spreading on the bus. It always turns negative, sending him out in the world on the bus. He realized responding to chaos with chaos wasn’t going to get a positive reaction. It said, hey, let’s use these moments of crisis to show the children how you react.

Her in a crisis because with children, they can’t really communicate. Their behavior is the language. How they’re behaving is what they’re telling you. So I’m like, Okay, they’re behaving in a way that maybe they’re hungry, maybe they have to use the bathroom, maybe they’re scared because they have a test. Whatever.

But he admits sometimes it doesn’t work. He said, for some reason today when I woke up, I was like f everything, and I went just back to doing what I did last month and went back to the old me. Jeff Foxworthy said, somebody asked him, what do you think about before you walk out on stage? And Jeff said, I’m always kind of reminding myself, Okay, everybody you’re looking at is going through something a physical struggle, a financial struggle, and emotional struggle. And so my whole life has just been be nice to people, be kind of people, because you don’t know their story, you don’t know what they’re dealing with.

I don’t think laughter makes people struggles go away, but laughter is like the release valve that keeps the boiler from exploding. Now, as much as any time in my career, I have more people coming back after show and going, oh my gosh, I can’t remember the last time I laugh like that, which for comics like the ultimate compliment, because you know, for just a little bit, you made them forget about all the bad stuff, you know, just for a little bit so correct or incorrect. I think it’s almost therapeutic these days. He found the two year pandemic break weird for me. I didn’t get up on stage for almost two years, and I just missed it every week.

I think my wife missed me doing it. After a while, She’s like, don’t we have somewhere to go to do a show. I’ve learned to still be very grateful to be doing it since we’ve been back, because I still love it. I mean, I always think I’m the luckiest guy in the world because I’ve made a living doing something I would have done for free. I just kept my mouth shut when they offer to pay me.

I can’t imagine not doing it. I know I probably don’t have many years left to do it, so I’m gonna shaate them while I’ve got them. Susie Eddie Azzard has announced an autumn tour offering revamped versions of the greatest hits of her thirty five years stand up career. Zard will revisit routines like Darth Vader and mister Stephen in the Death Star Canteen, the Monkey and the Tree from French Lessons, and the Pair that Never seemed to ripen Zord said, in the first thirty five years of my stand up career, I came up with many weird and crazy comedy stories. The ones I liked the best will be in my twenty twenty three live remixed tour.

Legendary punk rock label Kill rock Stars has announced the relaunch of Kill rock Stars comedy. Pap Johnson’s album Simeless will come out Friday, August eleventh. Kill rock Stars has previously released albums by folks like w Kmanbell, Cameron Esposito, Harry Knobolo, Kurt Brunoller, Ian Carmel, Emily Heller, and Moore. That’s a great list, one of the suits over there says, Kill rock Stars is comedy. We started as a spoken word label and expanding to comedy was a natural move.

Comedy is the new punk rock and this excellent, hilarious Pap Johnson release marks the official reboot of our comedy program On Sinless. Oakland native Pap Johnson shares with you his uniquely hilarious perspective on life, death, race, social grace’s parenting, sex, relationships, and more. What We Do in the Shadows is back and Mark Proach, who plays the Energy Vampire well. He says, despite the series getting awards and nominations, he still makes more money off with his limited run on the Office than he does on a series that he’s in every episode of for five years. He told The Ramp, I make more from one season of guest starring on the Office than I made for every season of Shadows combined.

He’s been in over forty episodes of What We Do in the Shadows as Colin Robinson, the Energy Vampire. On the Office, he played Nate for nineteen episodes. Two of his co stars, Howrvey Gee and Kristin Shall, have echoed his concerns, emphasizing how actors are treated pretty poorly. Kristen said they don’t make enough money to have a living. The residuals on streaming are almost non existent, if at all.

I’ve definitely noticed it from doing voice over work in different things. If it’s a streamer, you get paid for the day, even if it’s a hit show. That’s not how people can make a living, and they shouldn’t have to. Kristen Shall described the current audition process, which requires performers to put themselves on tape like twenty times. She called it a full time job.

This started during COVID when everyone was social distancing. I know personally he’s some artists fund It’s just easier to do it from home. But then you get to do twenty revisions. Kristen said, just consider the norm because actors will do it. 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 started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming 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. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, of York is getting ready to celebrate the thirty first Lucille Ball Festival August two through the sixth.

Pretty Good headliners too Gabriel Iglesias August third, Taylor Tomlinson August fourth. This year the festival’s comedy late night events at the Tropicana Club above the Lucy Desi Museum. That’s all fun. We’ll feature a variety of comedians performing new and edgier material. Free screening of classic I Love Lucy episodes on the outdoor jumbo screens, Lucytown tours and Lucy Legacy tribute events.

All the information on Comedy center dot org. Slash Festival. The New York Times profiled Comedy Bites. Who’s a group of comedians who call themselves an AI comedy collective. They’re going to perform at Crystal Lake that’s a barn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on July nineteenth.

What’s the format of the show. This is a lot of fun. In Round one, humans roast machines, machines roast humans. Round two humans verse specific AI celebrity and vice versa. Round three human versus an AI version of the human himself or herself.

One of the founders, Aaron Staple, said, I’m proud to say I successfully beat the AI. All three rounds. Battling myself was actually the hardest. The celebrity guest I had was Elizabeth Holmes. I work and tech myself during the day and kind of obsessed over the whole Theano story.

So it was really fun to be able to battle. Why was it hard to battle yourself? It got more personal than I thought, not in a bad way, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so pointed. There was a lot of like, your code isn’t even that good, and I’m like, oh man, that was spicy. And from the mirror a list of some license plates that have been deemed too rude or too controversial for your personalized plate.

I’ll read the number letter combinations and you can figure out what they are. All of these have seventy three as placeholders in the middle of it. Factor that in as you listen to me, read you alpha numeric combinations, So on the band list or as seventy three h O, L B U seventy three SHT and EA seventy three tc K. That last one made Johnny mc laugh. You cannot have EA seventy three poo and you cannot have t T seventy three TTS.

That is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on APPA, podcast, Spotify, ut, 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 Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

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

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Featured: Mark Normand, Amy Schumer, Chris D’Elia, Dane Cook, Ellen DeGeneres, Carlos Mencia, Andy Kaufman, Diablo Cody

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand’s Netflix special ‘Soup to Nuts’ releasing July 25
• Mark Normand on comedy influences and his path to stand-up
• Mark Normand discusses dark comedy and cancel culture pushback
• Ars Amada’s new comedy special ‘The First Woman’ releasing August 15
• Chris D’Elia and other comedians joining Threads social media platform
• Chris D’Elia’s accusations of emotional abuse and predatory behavior
• Dane Cook’s reputation issues including plagiarism accusations and age-gap relationship
• Andy Kaufman documentary in development directed by Clay Tweel
• Amy Schumer’s scrapped Barbie movie script with feminist angle

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The Shark Deck Hey Man. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Variety caught up with Mark Norman. He’s got a special coming to Netflix July twenty fifth. It’s called Soup to Nuts. Listen to this setup.

Since he was a kid, Mark Norman knew he was interested in comedy, but once his mother dulled out VHSS tapes of the Marks Brothers, Mark Norman’s mom did that, Yeah, it became an integral part of his life. After watching it, he soon discovered comedians, films, shows and specials from the past, all due to his mom. Mark said, I thought, this is great. It’s all jokes, it’s hilarious, still holds up. Then I went into a deep dive where you’re find Seinfeld, Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Edny Murphy not quite the Marks Brothers there, and then it was my whole world.

Mark said, I’m horrible at everything else, and I always love stand up. I always looked at Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor like being an astronaut. So I was terrified of it. But I was so utterless and broken at zero prospects that decided scart, I’ll try and open mic, and then I was hooked. I’m such a woe.

I’d go to open mics to watch. I was too scared to go on. I’d go to open mics and sign up and bail. I wouldn’t even go on. One day, I drove to Lafayette, Louisiana, got really drunk and went on there.

We went pretty well, and then I blacked out. They asked him the off Limits cancelation co Eston a lot of interviews, do Mark said, my attention is not to offend anybody, but I think dark stuff is funny. That’s why it’s so hard and frustrating when people get upset or offended, and they’re a lot to be offended, but you’re like, oh, I’m meant to bring a happy light to this. I didn’t mean to hurt anybody. I also think we’ve gotten this weird, almost a Pavlovian response to certain words.

It’s like you make a suicide joke and nobody cares, but you make a gage joke and they’re like, hey, they’re both jokes. I don’t know why you’re okay with me killing myself. I think we pick and choose weird stuff. It’s interesting, but I think it’s almost been conditioned us like, oh, this is bad, but this is okay. Well they’re both bad if you’re gonna get mad, get mad about all of it.

So ars Amada has a new comedy special. It’s titled The First Woman. It’ll be released via eight hundred Pound Gorilla on August fifteenth. It’ll show up on YouTube August twenty ninth. By the way, eight hundred Pound Gorilla bought website the Laugh Button.

They are really making a splash and comedy. They’re going for it. That’s good. They put out a lot of good stuff. The First Woman was taped at Union Stage in Washington, DC.

The one hour show sees am to disgust, gamming scam by dates, doing self stuff in cars, and being visited by witches in her sleep. Wasn’t expecting that middle part there. Rolling Stone caught my eye with the headline disgraced comedians are looking for a second chance on threads. All right, who were the disgraced comedians? And there’s a picture of two comedians, one of them Chris Delia, all right, he has been somewhat disgraced and Dane Cook.

And I’m like why Dane Cook? Dan Cook isn’t disgrace. Stay with me. We’ll get to that, but first, Chris Dalia posted on threads Okay, I’m on threads, and he followed up his first post with a link to his website, writing some toor dates rolling Stone reminds us and a recent rolling Stone report, ten women came forward to accuse Delia of emotional abuse and sexually predatory behaviors. Some were teenagers when they allegedly had unsettling encounters with the comedian rights rolling Stone.

The FBI has conducted in interviews with his accusers, but Dalia continues to deny their claims. Rolling Stone continues. Two stand up comedians who made it big and TV but saw their careers take a hit. They’re on threads. They are Ellen DeGeneres and Carlos Smancio.

Okay, Ella and staff, that’s a bad things say about her? Carlos Smancia and joke thief for right, we know about those okay Mencia started on threads writing hopefully this isn’t as toxic as Twitter. He also promoted upcoming shows and TV appearances. Ellen quickly amassed one point five million followers on threads. She declared threats to be gay Twitter.

And here’s where I’m confused about Dean Cook and disgraced being in the same sentence. I don’t get it. Rolling Stone rights, but no embattled comedian has embraced Threads with the same gusto as Dan Cook and a lister of the mid Auts who sold that Arenas and what double Platinum with his two thousand and five live album retaliation between some Hollywood flops okay fair on stage, misogyny’s comedy, tasteless comments about a mass shooting I Don’t Remember that, and his own plagiarism scandal. Critics believe he stole material from Louis C. K.

Brogan has accused him of joke theft as well. Cook did his iffy reputation no Favors last summer when, at the age of fifty, he revealed he was engaged to his twenty three year old girlfriend Kelsey after five years of dating. Injinets, Lewis quickly figured out that Cook and non Taylor, since she was as young as seventeen and attending Cook’s game nights, which were frequented by underage girls as well as adults. That timeline and the eyebrow raising gap between Cook and Taylor at Twitter uses branding him a groomer, writes Rolling Stone on Threads. However, Cook is quite at home alternating between jokes, show his stories, and attempts at inspirational life advice.

Dane wrote, everyone deserves to be treated like an equal. Maybe your sole purpose in this life is knots to have one, but many at many times, with many others. Eight hundred band Guerrilla News formerly Left Button tells us about an Andy Kaufmann documentary That’s Great. Clay Tweel will direct the new documentary that will examine Calvin’s life and career. The documentary comes from Campfire Films in association with David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks production.

That’s Great. Andy’s nephew, Tyler, said, my uncle Andy was a comic genius who continues to inspire artists around the world. There’s never been anybody like him, and there never will be. He delighted and provoked and was just as comfortable creating anger and confusion as laughter. He made indelible impressions.

His work is as vibrant today as ever, and we’re thrilled to join this filmmaking team and bringing viewers a very intimate and comprehensive look into his life and career. Director Tweel said, I’ve always loved Andy because he was able to elicit such emotional reactions to his performances by using both appointed and the absurd to keep his audience off balance. I had an opportunity when we were at Serious we were going to do Andy Kaufman town hall. So Sirius XM, I think they still do it. We would do these town halls.

You’d have an artist up. I remember one time we had Henry Winkler and then Bruno Mars came by. That was pretty cool. Say you’d have an artist up and you’d have an audience up. So we were going to announce one that Andy Kaufman was going to do one, and Michael Kaufman, his brother who was in charge of the estate at the time, was willing to give us quotes from Andy saying that he was going to make this his return.

So we were going to do this thing. I had this idea that would ask Kristin schla hosted and we would just see what happens and see if we got some press out of it. And the bosses just did get it. That’s just there’s so many stories of things I wanted to do that nobody got anyway. The doc is being done with the Andy Kaufman estate, who’s given access to materials never before seen, such as private recordings.

Very cool. A lot of buzz about the Barbie movie, Well, Diablo Cody said, the Barbie movie that would have starred Amy Schumer was trying to have a girl boss feminists twist. She told the Hollywood Reporter the idea of an anti Barbie made a lot of sense given the feminist rhetoric of ten years ago. I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is. In the Scrapped Barbie script, Amy Schumer would have pooed the bed because executives wanted an anti Barbie narrative.

Diablo said, I think I know why she crapped the bed. When I was hired for this, I don’t think that the culture had not embraced the fem or the bimbo as valid feminist archetypes. Yet, if you look up Barbie on TikTok, you’ll find this wonderful subculture that celebrates the feminine. But in twenty fourteen, taking the skinny blonde, white doll, and making her into a heroin was a tall order. There was pressure to deliver the dramatic equivalent of matthe is hard.

I didn’t really have the freedom then to write something that was faithful to the iconography. They wanted a girl boss feminist twist on Barbie, and I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is. I made several swings at IP with Barbie and Powerpuff Girls, and I take full responsibility for the failures of those attempts because I do have a specific voice in point of view and I haven’t figured out how to modulate it. I mean, nobody wants to delve deeper into the lord mythos of Hungry Hungry Hippos. 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 Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz the glamor of 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 from DC is two weeks dozens of new shows. What to expect at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival.

Taking over four stages in an office building in Georgetown through j twenty third, the festival will present more than forty shows that are uniquely fringed the annual festivals. In its sixteenth inneration, bringing together roughly three hundred artists from the DC area and around the country, Capital Fringe founder Julianne Brienzas said, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Fresh Squeeze Lemonade will be available at multiple venues. DC Fringe has some of the highlights. They include ten Principles.

Here’s something you might not know. They’re a ton of Burning Man enthusiasts in the DC area. They’ve even got their own Facebook group, and we’ll hear true stories from some of the locals who’ve made the trek to the Nevada Desert to experience a full fledge thriving temporarily metropolis. That show runs every night. Lauren Hans’s solo comedy is called The Holy Oh, in which main character Vera contemplates becoming a nun, although she’s never considered celibsy to be one of her virtues.

That’s night through the sixteenth. Charlie Ross’s comedy in Magic a Magician never reveals the secrets, but this one instead shows off his ability to do tricks while telling revealing jokes. July fifteenth through the twenty third. Hey Pamela, Yes Pamela is a partly improvised two person play from Pamela Lehigh. It’s listed as a comedy, but DC has says it could be described as a thriller since one of the performers is given the script just twenty four hours ahead of each show.

Big Dad Energy, Kansas City based comedian Jimmie Campbell combined stand up and musical comedy to explain the confusing experiences of getting married in his forties and realizing he’ll never be a parent. That runs through the twenty third. This Is What You Look Like DC comedy troupe described as societal outcasts repaired to cringe as they dismantle your thoughts on everything from capitalism to Taylor Swift July twenty through the twenty third Who did it Well? If you’re a fan of detective games like Hunter Killer, this interactive comedies right up your ally. This improvised murder mystery allows the audience to set up the crime scene that one runs through July twenty second, and that it’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 vote of Argentines soccer phenomenon. Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime.

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Featured: Carol Burnett, Trevor Noah, Wanda Sykes, John Oliver, Bill Hader, Christina Applegate, Quinta Brunson, Megan Rapinoe, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Bert Kreischer, Gilbert Gottfried

What’s in This Episode

• 2023 Emmy nominations for comedy specials and variety shows
• Megan Rapinoe criticizes Dave Chappelle’s trans jokes in Time magazine interview
• New York Comedy Festival expands to 10 days with major headliners including Bill Burr at MSG
• Bert Kreischer working on multiple projects including indie film and TV deal
• Gilbert Gottfried’s secret talent as artist and cartoonist revealed in daughter’s short film

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Busy one. Today, let’s start with the Emmy nominations. Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded the nominees Carol Burnett’s Ninety Years of Laughter, John Maliney for Baby Jay, Lizzo’s Live and Concert, Norman Lear One Hundred Years of Music, Trevor Noah’s I Wish You Would, Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer, Hm, I don’t have to give It’s Carol Burnett. There the comedy specials mentioned, I didn’t love any of them, Trevor being the best of them.

Okay. Outstanding Variety Talk Series Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kim Alive, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Problem with John Stewart. I suspect Trevor Noah will get it as a farewell gift and well earned. Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Only three up for nominations, A Black Lady Sketch Show Last Week, Tonight with John Oliver, and Saturday Night Live, which had a pretty poor season.

I think Oliver will take it there. Outstanding Variety Special Live super Bowl Halftime Elton john the Oscars Tony Awards. While you mentioned it, Johnny Mac Chris Rock’s selective outrage in that category. Interesting. I don’t know how to handicap that category at all.

Best Comedy Actor, Bill Hayter for Barry, Jason Siegel for Shrinking Martin, Short Only Murders, Jason Sadakis, Ted Lasso, Jeremy Allen White for The Bear. Interesting in nomination as a Comedic actor there, hm, I think Bill Hayter kind of crushed it. This season we’ll see Best Comedy Actress Christina Appligate Dead to Me, Rachel Brosnahan and Missus Mazel, Quinta Brunson Abbott, Elementary Natasha Leone, Poker Faced Jenna Ortega Wednesday. I could see Natasha taking it. People seem to really like that one.

Kamalan Gianni gets an Emmy nomination for Lead Limited Slash Movie Actor for Welcome to Chippendale’s Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and nominees Anthony Karagan for Barry, Phil Dunster, Ted Lasso, Bred Goldstein, Ted Lasso, James Morriston for Jury Duty Interesting Abon Moss Backer Rock for The Bear, Tyler James Williams for Abbott, Henry Winkler for Barry. People like Britt Coldstein Alta could see him taking it again. Supporting Actress in a comedy series Alex Bornstein for Missus Mazel, who had a berry for the bear she could win, Janelle James Abbott Elementary Shirley Ralph Abbott’s Juno temple ted Lasso, Hannah Waddingham ted Lasso. They’re splitting the vote there. Jessica Williams for Shrinking and Outstanding Animated program.

The nominees are The Simpsons, Rick and Morty, Kennedy Tartakowski’s Primal Entergalactic and Bob’s Burger’s Two questions. Have you ever seen bobs Bergers? The answers no. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen bobs Bergers? The answers no, But the Academy will probably give it an Emmy who knows soccer Star and Megan Rapino taking some shots at Dave Schappelle.

She did a big interview with Time magazine. The Women’s World Cup is coming up, by the way, if you like the soccer. Mark Francis and I have teamed up on another podcast because we don’t have enough to do this. One is called the messy effect. So what we’re doing is we’re talking about Messi’s effect on coming to play soccer for MLS.

We’re not doing soccer nows. We’re talking about fashion and money and TV ratings and the prey they’re having this weekend. So the messy effect reever you get your shows. But Megan Rapino said, I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it’s verbal or otherwise, against trans people.

Megan is frustrated with policies targeting transgender athletes, saying it’s particularly frustrating when women’s sports is weaponized. Oh now we care about fairness. Now we care about women’s sports. That’s totaled bs and show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans and sports. It’s just not happening.

Dave Chappelle has not yet commented on Megan’s comments.

Also a big story the New York Comedy Festival.

They put out their initial list of shows a New York Comedy Festival and November third through the twelfth, it is bigger this year. It has expanded from seven nights to ten days. Listen to the headliners David Sell, Bill Burr, Nicole Bayer, Jimmy Carr, Margaret Show, Tim Dillon, The Giggly Squad, Alana Glazer, Brett Goldstein, Nate Jackson, Anthony Jesseneck, Mattee Lane, Sam Morrel, Nick Mullen, Adam Freedlan Osco at Coska, Pod Meats, World Done Rawlings, Jeff Ross, Robin Shaw, Daniel Sloss, and Michelle Wolf. That is a fantastic lineup. Carolyn Hirsch, founder of the New York Comedy Festival, said, We’re very excited to bring the best comedians from merging talent, to establish headliners from across the country, etcetera, ETCETERA quick look at the initial lineup.

Friday, November third, seven o’clock Daniel Sloss, eight o’clock Take a Banana for a Ride. That’s a one man show by Jeff Ross. Saturday the fourth, Jeff Ross again, Alana Glazer at Bam, Sam Marill at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Sunday the fifth. I’m hoping to run the marathon that day, so no comedy for me that day or the night before Jeff Ross again and the Robin Shaw Experience at town Hall two days off and then Wednesday of the eighth Margaret Show at town Hall, Nick Mullen and Adam Friedland at town Hall.

Thursday the Ninth Pod meets World of town Hall. Donnel Rawlings at the hard Rock, Jimmy Carr at Carnegie Hall. I might have to go do that one, Giggli Squad at Beacon Theater, and Nate Jackson at nine forty five. I’m not sure where he’s playing. Friday the tenth, Donnelle Rawlings at the hard Rock, Brett Goldstein at the Beacon Theater, Jesselynik at Carnegie Hall, Michelle Wolf at town Hall, Bill Burr at Madison Square Garden, and that being the main Madison Square Garden, not the theater at Nicoll.

Bayer at the Apollo, David Tell and Friends at town Hall, Tim Dillon Carnegie Hall Wow. Saturday eleventh, Otsco at town Hall, Donelle at the hard Rock, and mattel Lane’s Al Dente Tour at Carnegie Hall. Bert Kreischer is up to something. This from the Las Vegas Weekly Review. Apparently Bert is working on a few projects all on hold because of the writer strike.

He says, they’re all exciting for very different reasons. I can’t really talk about any of them, but one is an indie project, one is with a really big dude who reached out the day in my film premiered and said I want to do a movie with you, and one is with my best friend. Presumably that’s the Tom Siguarre project, and the TV project is going to be a blast. Did you know Gilbert Godfried could draw? Sixteen year old Lily Godfried is the narrator of the Secret Talent of Gilbert Godfrey, a new short film that she also wrote and directed.

Lily says he probably knew my dad Gilbert Godfried as the famous comedian actor, but nobody knew he was also a really talented artist. As a kid, Gilbert’s earlier report cards were littered with complaints from teachers who complained about his lack of effort and his quiet, introverted personality. Yeah, in real life, that’s what Gilbert was like, very soft spoken man in real life. But one teacher recognized Gilbert had a gift for arts, cartooning in particular, and advised the family and encouraged the emerging talent. Grahama signed him up for art classes, where he learned to make masks and puppets that populated shows he put on for his family.

Gilbert dropped out of school at age fifteen, Torn between a career and stand up and art. He spent his day’s drawing and his nights on stage. His sister Karen said, here’s what I sometimes think about Gilbert. People say the left part of the brain is more suited to mathematics and the writers are creative side. Well, Gilbert’s right must have been huge because he had all that creative energy.

Cartoonist Drew Friedman describes Gilbert’s artwork as insane, twisted, sweet and beautiful and vile fevered. Gilbert’s father was a bit taken back by the sexual limergy that sometimes showed up in the drawings. 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 and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. Tigna Sorrow will headline the twenty twenty three Rochester Fringe Festival. This is September sixteenth, Shall be there. Festival producer Erica Fee said, I’m absolutely thrilled to announced Tignatoro as our comedy headliner.

Tig is an absolute comedy legend, and I know that Rochester will show her in enthusiastic welcome. That reminds me to take a look at the boom Chicago comedy festivals. That in Chicago, Johnny mc No, it’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. Let’s see tonight at seven Music Improv Spectacular seven thirty, The Dutch Comedy All Stars, nine o’clock, The Shuman Show.

What’s that? No information when I click it? It’s just this Shuman Show, all right? And at nine thirty The United Nations of Comedy. Friday seven o’clock Stay Jam, a musical improv solo show seven thirty Best of La Comedy Stand Up nine o’clock, The Headliners, nine thirty Improv Adventure, eleven o’clock, the naughtily titled kunnelinga Show Snatch Game Edition.

All right, that sounds naughty. Nocturnal caught up with Osco at Katsa about the deodorant show she did that I told you about. It was that a week or two ago? It’s been a minute anyway. Osco apparently got paid by the Deodora Comedy to do a comedy show.

Osco said, yeah. I talked about how I was the seconds Asian American female to have a stand up special on HBO, and the first one was market Show who still had arm pits stains on her clothes in the special. It’s still there if you want to go back and watch it. I talked about how it took twenty two years for the second person me to get a special. So you know, it’s little hurdles like that that aren’t blatant in your face.

You go, okay, society still catching up. How long did it take Osco to come up with material for deodorant special? It took me a few days. You know, usually you tour an hour of stand up touring right now, with an hour of stand up a new hour after my special, but usually it takes months, sometimes like a year to develop an hour. It was a forty five minutes set about stories of sweat and puberty, going through changes and antipersprint.

I did that in like three days. I wouldn’t say it was the best stuff, and like I could just put it out as a special tomorrow. So ideally I’d like to be able to work on a longer But because I was able to be more personal about the stories, like embarrassing stories of sweat or embarrassing stories of me trying to cover up my order when I was growing up in the American Girl book I taught to teach me about this stuff. But because it was personal stories, I think it came quicker than say, just talking science. And the science was really fascinating behind y’d earned products that also helps, Like I didn’t know about the milky colored sweat.

I was like, gosh, the things we go through as people with bodies. So yeah, it wasn’t too hard to come up with material for it. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. Smash like button, tell a friend 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 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

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Featured: Tom Segura, Kevin Hart, Nimesh Patel, Jimmy O. Yang, Theo Von, Roseanne Barr, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, Matt Rife, Jamie Foxx, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s ‘Sledgehammer’ ranked best special of 2023
• Kevin Hart’s ‘Reality Check’ special review
• Theo Von’s podcast episode with Roseanne Barr removed from YouTube for Holocaust jokes
• Elon Musk defends comedy on Twitter platform
• Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI over ChatGPT copyright infringement
• Matt Rife dating ‘Emily in Paris’ actress Jessica Lord
• Jamie Foxx spotted on Chicago River boat after health scare
• Kevin Hart reviving ‘Comic View’ with Mike Abs as host
• Chelsea Handler works as bartender at Bruce Springsteen London concert

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah tweets Threads versus Twitter. I’m on threads for the same reason I support King Kong. Sometimes you just need another monster to keep tweet Zilla in check. Hmm.

I watched a bunch of comedy specials. I know, right, Let’s start with Tom Sagora Sledgehammer best special of the year. His stage presence is great, the materials great, his pacing is great. A couple of laugh out louds love it. That’s number one.

I’ll redo the rankings in a second. Kevin Harts, what’s that one called reality check? I wasn’t feeling it. I think a lot of people will really enjoy it. I felt Kevin’s body language was selling the material, and it’s interesting.

I was listening to an interview with the Loudons of Bodin where he was talking about on one of his recent specials, he just wanted to get back to standing in front of a microphone and not selling the jokes with his body language. And I listened to the interview after I watched Kevin. When I watched Kevin, I think Friday Night, I was like, I don’t know what’s wrong here. I’m just it just felt off to me.

And then when I heard that interview, I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Kevin selli…

I just felt like the laughs outweighed the material. Like I said, a lot of people are going to like that special it’s on Peacock. I wasn’t feeling it. I did enjoy Nimesh Patel’s Lucky Lefty. That one’s on YouTube.

Was really digging that. It got a little long because it’s single topic about its testicular cancer. So after a while I just wanted to do something else, but that one’s really good. And Jimmy O Yang’s Special guess how much that’s on Amazon. I like that a lot.

Now this is personal taste. It is not the funniest special you’ve ever seen, but it was really good company, really easy on the ears. I just enjoyed watching, and I liked Jimmy a lot. I’d laughed out loud a few times, but I’m not going to tell you a pound for pound it’s the best special I’ve ever seen, but I really liked it. But Tom Segura is number one.

So here on the fly, let me update my comedy rankings for twenty twenty three. Let’s see the Sagoora takes over the one spot, knocking Kyle Kanine down to two. I’m typing into my document as I do this. Nate BERGATSI number three. Jay McBride was really good.

Jim Jeffries Horry is better than any of these that I talked about. Chris Rock special roast of mister Peanut. Okay, I’m going to put Jimmy O. Yang’s guess how much ahead of the roast of mister Peanut, which now falls to nine. Big Jay Okerson now at ten.

Nimesh is better than Sarah, so he’s now the eleven that makes Sarah fall to twelve. John Early falls to thirteen. Not adding to the list, Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart joined some big hitters, Amy Schumer, John Malaney, Lewis Black, Hannah Gasby, Mark Marin, Andrew Santino, Bert Kraisher, Greg Warren, and Kevin Hart not on my best of lists. Just one dude in the basement.

Your experience may vary. From the Independent comedian Scott Thompson, you know him as Carrot Top. He alleged that he was on board the American Airlines flight where a woman appeared to accuse a fellow traveler of being knots real, and Carrot Top says the incident may have been caused by a lost earbud. There’s a viral video a woman can be seen walking down the aisle of a full flight while screaming about her reasons for getting off the plane. She says, I’m telling you I’m getting the f off, and there’s a reason I’m getting the f off, and everyone can either believe it or not believe it.

I don’t give to you us what I’m telling you right now that mffort back there is not real. A spokesperson for American Airlines said American Airlines flight one thousand nine let service from Dallas Fort Worth two Orlando, returned to the gate due to a disruptive customer. The flight was met at the gate by local law enforcement and the customer was removed from the flights. Carrot Top posted the now viral video with the caption my flight, this is on my airplane. He then turned the camera towards himself and said this is why wall sitting here and effing Dallas now because she lost her earbud.

Karrots Hop did update us and said, hi everyone just want to let you know I’m made it home. I give my hats off to everyone at American Airlines for how they handled that situation with that nut job, but just lost her mind in front of the whole plane. Five hours later, we’re here in Orlando. He expressed his hope that the woman in question was having a relaxing evening behind bars in Dallas, Texas. Hope you enjoyed your little stunt.

THEO Vaughan’s podcast this past weekend had an episode removed from YouTube. That was the Rosanne bar episode that I told you about maybe a week ago. Roseanne had made some Holocaust jokes. YouTube said the comments violate its content policies. Quote this video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.

Vaughan responded and said, my podcast with Rosanne was removed from another platform, so I wanted to be able to live somewhere, and he posted it on Twitter. It got more than seventy million views. Seventy million views on Twitter. Elon Musk commented said comedy is legal on this platform. Vaughan had earlier said a clip was taken out of a long sarcastic ranch she had during our chat, can we not recognize sarcasm anymore?

Sarah Silverman is suing the company behind chat GPTT. The plaintiffs alleged that, when prompted, chat gpt will produce a summary of their works. They claimed this is copyright infringement and that they did not get sent to their books being fed to chat gpt. That will be interesting. Chelsea Handler had a new gig.

She was a bartender at the Springsteen concert in London. She posted a video on her Insta She was pouring a cocktail on dancing to Springsteen, who can be seen performing and huge monitors behind her. She also held out a cup that said tips for Chelsea. Kevin Hard is bringing back Beet’s Comic View. This version will be hosted by Mike Abs.

New episodes featuring Tommy Davidsons, to Kara Williams, Tony t Roberts, reach A Webb, DC, Young Fly, and rapper t I will make his televised stand up comedy debut. Kevin Hart said, I’m thrilled a partner with Beet for the return of Comic View. Having hosted Comic View in the past, I understand firsthand the incredible platform this franchise offers for comedians to showcase their talents on a national stage, and I’m excited to continue that tradition. Let’s stop off on gossip corner. Matt Rife, he got a big profile in the New York Times.

We’ll talk about that on the weekend. While he apparently has moved on from his fling with actress Lucy Hale, matt Rife now connected to find me in Paris actress Jessica Lord. This, according to page six. Page six says that matt Rife is smitten, pulling out all the stops to see her, admitst his career taking off, even though he’s on a busy tour. Any downtime he has, he spends with Jessica Lord, even if he takes long car rides for just a short period of time together.

My former co worker Jamie Fox looks like he’s doing okay. This is what I’ve been waiting for. TMZ has published footage of Jamie Fox waving while on a boat on the Chicago River. A source close to Jamie and his camp tells people, Jamie’s doing great. He’s taking it easy.

He’s not really having any visitors or anything like that. But he’s doing really well. Good to see him out and about. John Mulaney shared a tribute to Olivia Month on her forty third birthday and on his institch on captioned, thank you for another year of laughing like dummies, parenting like teenagers, and always looking for your glasses. They’re in your lap just for laughs.

Montreal has announced some more shows James Davis, you know him from his show Hood Adjacent, which was on Comedy Central and twenty seventeen. They’ve also added late Night down Under It Off JFL a night of Ozzie and Kiwie comedians. That’s Cool. The Nasty Show is Back, hosted by Mike Wardo, will feature Donnel Rowling, Steptlev, Adrian Appalucci, Jeffrey Asmus and Dino Archie. I’m actually scheduled to speak with Adrian today, so I’ll share that with you in an upcoming days Just for the Culture is Back, formerly known as The Ethnic Show, hosted by Alonzo Bowden.

I’m also speaking to Alonzo today. That’ll feature Zorna garg John Marcos SERRESI who I’m talking to I think tomorrow, Joel Nicole, Johnson, Judy Gould, Arthur Simeon and Malik Ellasal.

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Meanwhile, a new comedy festival, the laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival, wil…

This new comedy festival will bring over twenty five comedians from across the country for a four day event featuring six stand up comedy showcases, each headline by a nationally touring comedian at Best of the Fest Showcase, and an open Mike. Headliners for the inaugural festival include Ben Roy, John Novasad Jane Burris, Jocelyn Sharp, aj Finney, and Neil Rubinstein. The festival will also feature some of Colorado’s finest up and coming comedians along with comedians from across the country. Laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival August third through the sixth in downtown Loveland, Colorado. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jackie Martling, Howard Stern, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett

What’s in This Episode

• Jackie Martling documentary ‘Joke Man’ releasing July 18th
• Jackie Martling’s song ‘Thinking About You’ and its various versions
• Jackie Martling’s song nominated for AVN Award in adult film
• Jackie Martling’s experiences at AVN Awards in Las Vegas
• Howard Stern Show history and Jackie’s time on the show
• Jackie Martling’s music career and songwriting

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck something a little different today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today is a forty minute interview with Jackie the Jokeman Martling why he’s got that new documentary. It’s called joke Man. It’s out on July eighteenth, And I reached out to Jackie and he got back to me within ninety seconds.

It said yeah, sure, I’ll do it, So we did it here. I could have talked to him forever. I had so many questions left over. He’s such a good guy. Even before I could send him to thank you email, he had reached out to me in text and thanked me.

I hope to have him on again because there’s so much I didn’t get to. So I’m gonna jump right in here. I will warn you it’s a little naughtier than usual. Some of the language, some of the topics, a little naughtier than usual. So if you usually listen to Daily Comedy News with your five year old, maybe not today.

Nothing too bad, but not today. Joke Man out July eighteenth on Apple, iTunes and Amazon. Go to jokemanmovie dot com for the latest information jokemanmovie dot com. Here’s my interview with Jackie to joke man Martling. When you agreed to do this, I’m like, you know, I’m not gonna be like, hey, tell me about the show.

What else can I ask him about? I started thinking about your music. I gotta tell you, I’m not just feeding your line. That thinking about you song. Even before I watched the doc, I remember it that existed.

I’ve been walking around for five six days humming that. I was doing the yard work this morning, and I’m like Dunn and then and then that thing is canchy. Why did you do a clean version and give it to like Jimmy Buffett. It is. It’s just such a wonderful thing, the way it came about and everything.

Actually for the kid’s version called Saturday. But I’ve been meanning to go in and record it because instead of I’m a smoke because you can say you’re smoking pot. Now sure you know what I mean, So I can say I’m smoking pot, I’ve got my cocktail, which is which is perfect. But then the song just goes so far into the rabbit hole. But it doesn’t have to.

Oh, it could just be silly things, you know. I’m on the lawn, pick up my nose. I’m thinking about you. It doesn’t have me dirty. Yeah, So we’ll take your compliment and I will take it to the bank.

That’s what I was trying to get a songwriter’s credit. I was thinking, I’ve got my phone out, so when you get the Grammy, I get a piece. There you go. That song was up for an avy And Award. My buddy Eric Middleman was editing a porn film for this very good friend of his.

Her husband edited all the cartoons and pictures for Hustler magazine for twenty five years and he passed away and left her a lot of money and her one desire. Erica McClaine was the direct a porn movie, and she directed a porn movie called Pink Pigs or whatever it was, and he was editing it and I went out to visit him and he said, I’m editing this Eric’s porn movie and I’m running the credits. Can I run your song on the credits? And like, of course, so we put her on there and the thing gets nominated for an av En Award. And I find out that the guy who was in charge of that is what’s his name’s brother either Richie Kannada or the other.

One of the members of the Billy Joel bar and I said, that’s so great, and then we went out to the awards show. It turns out it was one of seventeen nominations and it’s one of those awards that they don’t give at the awards show. It’s like a technical award in that genre. So they gave out the award in the afternoon. Of course it didn’t win, but it was Yeah.

I got the guy’s names. They’s such a good friend. It was his brother. I said, I can’t believe he used my song. He said, Jackie, I heard that song.

I put it in. I had no idea it was written by you. He said, I just liked the song so much, which is very flattering. Well, of course it didn’t win, but being nominated for an AVM Award and nobody has to know the detail. So I found myself.

That’s the Adult Video News if I’m remembering AVN Awards. I found myself in Vegas at those awards one year. But serious, they got you doing all kinds of things. We’re out there, we’re broadcasting it, and we had a big round table and everybody’s getting up there and it’s the nominees for whatever disgusting combination you want to come on. Unbelievable.

The titles of the movies had all those great puns take a real movie and make it dirty. They’re getting up there, they’re taking it seriously. So anyway, they give us a gift and I go back to the hotel room and I open it up and it’s a glass fallast. I’m trying to keep it clean, and I’m like, and I’m like, what am I gonna do with this thing? I’m like, I’m not bringing it home.

I’m not bringing it on the plane. There’s a very obvious answer to that. I went to Ours Awards a couple of times, and of course all those porn fans are you Howard Stern fans? And I was with I don’t know, one of the a couple of our higher ups. And because it was started when it was a pamphlets, when the AVN News, the Adult Video News was a pamphlet, they came on The Stern Show like nineteen eighty six and Howard made fun of pull what’s his name, because you’re an idiot.

You’re an idiot. And five years later he’s a multi zillionaire with this huge award show. But we’re walking down and the red carpet wound all the way around the Venetian. It was huge, and the fans were like six or eight deep the whole length. I’m like, now these I thought Stern show fans would these people?

And of course they all know I wasn’t a Jaggie. That was the amazing thing was we went in and the awards are interminable. It must have been four hours. I want to thank Mother and Jesus for this triple at no like crazy, And when we left, those people were all still there. When we walked back down the red carpet, I’m like, now that is some fans.

Holy mackel, I like that packed some punch. Those Avian Award full red carpet. The year I went, the house band was smash Mouth, actual smash mouth, Like they’re not messing around. No, if Paul Fish bind, Paul fishbind. He just it was red hot, so long I got it.

He’s probably still red hot. I won a couple of years. Oh it’s so funny because there was this really pretty girl. My friend Toby Ludwig came with me and we’re looking around and we found out we weren’t going to be far of the awards. If we win, we’re not even going to know it.

And so we’re staying around though, with all the stars or whatever. Kimperton and I start talking to this girls. She’s so cute and I had somebody to take my picture with her with the iPhone, but I don’t know from porn. And I go home and I show it to Ian, my partner on Jackie’s jok On. I’m serious.

I said, look at this pretty girl I met at the awards. He goes, are you a kid? He said, that’s the world’s most famous squirter. I’m like, how would you know that? How the hell would you know that?

Oh? I can’t. I can’t think that’s dirty, because if you know what that is, that’s your own fault. It could be a water pistol. That doesn’t mean somebody’s the world’s second most famous.

Well, I just wanted to talk to you about music and the Porn Awards. It makes your time, and all right, that’s all right, all right to this documentary. I saw it. It’s amazing. Now you’ve been working on this for a while because both Norman Gilbert are in it.

What’s the origin of this, and so I do this podcast and so left serious. I’ve been doing this particular podcast four years now, and every day I Google comedy and I’ve got news alerts. I hadn’t seen a thing about this till you actually announced it. That’s neither here nor there. But how long has this been going on?

For a long time? When it first got off the show, there’s a couple of people interested in doing it, and then they fell to the wayside, and then some other people were doing it, and my friend Tom did a weird version of it, but it wasn’t really documentary. It was like almost like an episode to what could have been a longer show. And I think it was really it was the greatest twenty minutes in the world, but I don’t know what four And then these other guys started it, and then Ian s and he said, this isn’t it because the whole thrust of what they were doing was all about Jackie, how big he was and how great he was.

And then like an idiot, he walked away from the Stern Show and he said, that’…

He said, that’s one of his stories, and he wanted to make it about jokes and how that’s what I do. And of course the reason people know me is from the Stern Show, and that’s what got me rich and famous in quotes, of course, But it wasn’t my life’s flood and he started working on it. But it just takes a long time to take people and find them and track them down.

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And then and then the pandemic, of course, throw a monkey wrench into everyth…

And then Netflix showed some interest. They weren’t going to buy it, but they’re going to put it on Netflix, which is a big deal.

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And then, of course, just when they were thinking about doing it, I don’t kno…

If that doesn’t tell the tale of my career. But the funniest story is that already Lying agreed and he wanted to be in it, and he just couldn’t match up with him.

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And then already wound up in the hospital and wound up in jail, and wound up …

But it took so long to do the documentary that he was cleaned up and out and back in good shape. So we even could go and interview, which is a happy accident, and he’s one of the best things in the documentary, so I love him for that. And it just took It just has taken a real long time, and then getting a distributor, and then even once you have a distributor, it’s another six months. I’m like, Ian, I only have one request. Can we please put this out before I die.

I’m no kid, I’m fifty three years old. I haven’t got that much time left fifty three. I’m fifty three and I listen to you when I was ten, so I’m all right, put your hands away. Hilarious. Scott just thrilled.

It’s coming out July eighteen, and I’m very excited and just got a link for the pre order and the interest is so great. It’s so funny, John, because I left that show so long ago, Like, and I just got a couple today. I got an email from a guy in England and he said, Hey, it’s great to hear about you and your documentary. I’m from England and I’m forty years old and I discovered the Howard Stern Show about ten years ago. For years in the nineties with you on them are my absolute favorite.

I can’t wait to see the documentary, and you know a lot of people that are weren’t even around when I was on the show. They find out about the show, and then they go back and look at the shows from the nineties and they’re so complimentary, which is great because it’s not just the seventy five year olds that we’re listening in nineteen you know, and all the people that listen back then night they all left jobs now, you know, in the nineteen ninety two they were driving peaks of delivery charts. Now they own businesses, say they don’t have to sneeze when it comes to, you know, buying a movie or chipping in for this or that, and people are the most common thing people say to me is I owe you. You made me laugh in my roughness of times. You got me through my divorce, you got me through a tough job, you got me through college, and thank you for all the laughs.

I’m like, all the thanks. That’s all I need is the thanks. They say, Oh, my favorite is it. You must get tired of hearing this, but thanks for all the last I said, if you if I ever get tired of hearing that put a bullet in my head. I will never get tired of hearing.

That’s the nicest thing you could say. Those years were so good. I’m a powerless I happen to be listening to NBC when Howard took over afternoon for the New York run. I was there. I’m a high schooler, I’m commuting.

I’ll give you my hot take, and then I’ll give you probably the answer in my heart. The answer my heart is, I think the peak years and you talk about it in the dock, are that range where the puppets were around And maybe it peaked with the recreation of the al Michael’s bob a booy call. You know, maybe that stretched there with Billy in it. But my hot take, and I’m gonna blame you, I think the show peaked five seconds before bab a booy I think it was funnier when Garry would walk in and Fred would hit that Italian theme one percent of the time, all the time, every time, and I missed it. What you’re saying is the bab a Booye took the work, took the creativity out of breaking Gary’s bulls.

It was always like a look at Gary’s ass, or you look at those teeth and it just became Bubba Buoye and it was like a short cut to the laugh. But I don’t agree that that’s that might have been where it peeped, but it stayed in the plateau, I’d say, for like eighty seven to all the way till when I left. It just felt like it got hotter and hotter, or at least in my mind, because we just kept adding stations and all the gigs I did, and my price just went up and up, and I was turning stuff down and it just was so much fun. I didn’t leave because I was unhappy. I left because I thought it was gonna die if you work all day, all week, getting up at four thirty in the morning for five days, and all of a sudden, it’s Friday and it’s time to go rest and they’re waving what was to me stupid money to come to Denver or come to Dallas or come to Chicago.

I could I work too many jobs for one hundred three hundred bucks to turn down that crazy money. So I’d get on the plane, I’d go to the show Friday and Saturday and god knows where, and then fly home and start again on Monday morning. And ragged is not the proper word, but it was a happy rag. It was like it was fantastic, And once I sat in that chair and had a couple of coffee, yard was good to go. Five hours Boo Pal, funny Pal.

Of course, on the drive home the caffeine or and I walk in and the first person I’d see when I walked into my house, I’d bite him, whether it was the cat or the door of my wire. I produced John Gambling Show in the early nineties, So first of all, I’m producing him thinking three minutes ago, I was listening to you guys making fun of him. But but the hours just it kills you. You’re constantly tired. I’m in my early twenties.

My friends want to hang out by one in the morning on a Friday night when it should be peak party, and I’m ready to kill somebody to split a cab and go home to bed.

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And then it’s suddenly it’s Sunday and three in the afternoon.

You’re like, oh, I gotta start going to bed already. It’s awful, John. I do the show all week. Then we got a TV show, so we have another whole show to come up with, and then I’m flying to God knows where to do a gig. But of course if I show up in Chicago and go out and do a gig at the Chicago Theater with the old VIC, it’s so much fun with that radio station.

They’re paying me a fortune, but they want some bang for their buck. So I didn’t have a choice but to go out and party with them at the strip club or at the party, or I mean at the bar. And it was great fun. But you talk about using toothpicks to keep your eyes open, you know, his naked girls running around and endless spools and everybody wants to jump on your lap, and like you’re saying, I’m looking to see if there’s a play a dark corner where I could down. But it was great, and people like, how dare you complained about that?

I’m not complaining, but I’m really setting the center real for what it was really like. It was so great, so great, Now, why didn’t you jump on another show? Is it just you were at the peak of the mountains. I was never asked. And it’s so funny because everybody listened to a Stern show and they all loved the Stern Show and thought it was so funny and so many people knew how much I had to do with making Howard funny.

I got no offers from anyone. The one offer I got was from Anti Comedy. I wanted to give me maybe a show, but I forget how long you after It was a while after that just there was no interest. Now whether Don buckwelled, Howard’s agent had told the world that I was impossible. They always talked about on the air how hard it was to work with me was on how nobody liked me, and me while I was the favorite with all the sales girls and all the sales people a minute.

Yeah, when I walked into their office, they all loved it was They’re always laughing and having fun. But Howard made it sound like I was a real dick on which I absolutely not and wasn’t. But you still I’ve never asked, I was never asked. You stole my next question that I did want to ask you if you thought that perception of the Jackie character had led over to real life, Because you know, I know everybody loves it in the dark. People love you in real life.

ILL love you. This audience should know. I emailed you. You got back to me in ninety seconds. I’m nothing to you.

You’re just you’re doing me a favor. Here, nicest work. I lived for this, and I don’t understand it, because you’d think even just to have me in the room. If you’ve got a writer’s room with eight guys work and just have me, they’re breaking balls. I sat in one writer’s you.

That’s when we sat around reading the reading the script the Private Parts, and my one head lived that day. Wound up being the funniest line in the movie. The sloppy pussy line was the funniest line in the stupid Private Parts movie. And that was just something I threw in at the table read because it was so boring. So I just said that, and everybody cracked up.

There’s a whole story, and then I wound up. I didn’t even use it in the movie because they had nobody said anything.

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And then they said cut, and the guy came over and literally whispered in my e…

Why don’t you try that line? It’s like, all right, but god fulfid me say it out loud so as somebody to have any idea. It was my idea and wound up being killer sitting around at the table with guys that are writing a sitcom or a movie. You only have to contribute two or three things like that that may get worth people’s wild have you sitting there? But I never got asked, and I don’t know why.

I really don’t. It’s weird because even if you were a pain in the neck, which you are not, we both know talent wins out like he’s a pain, but he’s killing We got the number one show with deal with them. It’s not like that doesn’t go on. Well. Everybody knows that you put up with anything to get a couple extra laffs or a great idea.

But that’s one of the great quizzes. People say, why didn’t you have something lined up? I said, number one. I didn’t have any attention on leaving because I didn’t ask for so much money. I thought it would stop them in their tracks, like you know, well new But I wasn’t out looking for the next place to get up at four o’clock in the morning.

I’ll tell you that, God forbid, I hadn’t been offered that, thank God. But that’s all interesting in the way it works out. I left my job, got divorced, quit drinking and moved into a house all by myself on the water, all four at the same time. And they say, if you do any one of them, you shouldn’t change anything else in your life because it’s going to be such an adjustment. So I’ll tell you a little bit of a little roof.

For a while, it was a Frockney road. Are you make doing you get through? It’s just been wonderful? All right? Thanks for the segue there.

You just dropped into Rodney. I had no idea that you worked with him. I learned it from the dock. What was that guy like? So that’s a guy that had success pretty late in life, and from what I’m gathering, got the success and enjoyed it to its fullest.

Is that what I’m getting. Yeah, he didn’t ride away. I got to send you my book. If you haven’t read my book, you will love my book. The whole story about how I met Rodney and how I wound up with them is one of the best things in the book.

And we got hooked up and I went away with him for two weeks in nineteen eighty And to this day when I’m talking about it, I still think of things that I forgot happened. It was spectacular and we just had such a good time. It was a week in Fort Lauderdale. He wasn’t even working. He was just down there on vacation with his daughter and her girlfriend.

And then his son showed up, and then we flew to Las Vegas and the headline for a week with Paul Williams at the Aladdin, and it was just storybook, storybook. It’s nineteen eighty. I’ve been doing comedy for a year. It was, but I sold him what he said was the best best show. Can’t even never gave me, you know, of course, I look, it was just I will email you that chapter, especial.

I’ll email you a couple of Rodney chapters because all the Rodney’s stories are just so fun they’re all true. And he wasn’t necessarily that funny, just his attitude. When I first went to pick him up to take his doughter to the airport, I said to him, listen, boys, you got to understand every time you open your mouth, I’m gonna laugh because it’s funny whatever, whatever you know, And that’s all it takes. You know, you get that characters like everything is so down trodden, and blah blah blah.

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And then when I was with him, he had just done Caddyshack, but it wasn’t out …

But he was at the point where he was starting to get really well known. Because I don’t know if you’re all enough to remember, but he was in these middle light commercials with every sports star, baseball players, basketball players, fighters, football players, they were all in the middle light commercials and Rodney. It was whatever athletes and Rodney, and they played him every five seconds, and he said, hiked him. Believe it. You know how you said to Mark, you know or I’m a Carson.

Nobody knew me. Now it’s like, hey, Ron, they don’t know me. And all of a sudden, he’s feeling like it’s coming on strong and he literally I sweated. God. He said to me, yeah, it’s a little late.

What am I gonna do? Him fifty eight years old? Where I got two years left? I said, what’s wrong with you? I said, no, there’s nobody in better health than you two years left.

You’re an idiot. I would yell at him. We oh, he said well, what do you know Gray, fun performance style? You laugh at your own jokes. Can you walk me through the performance aspect of that?

Why are you doing it? What is it for the audience? There is no performance, There is no there’s no calculation to that. If there is a calculation to that, it’s something that just wound up being so part of me forever. I was always the guy at the bar or the party telling jokes, and I’ve always thought the jokes are so funny, and I really jokes I told a thousand times.

I still think they’re funny and they make me giggle, and sometimes I’m thinking about who told me. But when I worked at a country club here on Long Island, the Piping Rock Club, the most blue blood club in the world, there was a Dutch salad man named Jake, and I was the headbust boy. So I did nothing except yell at the other guys to get to work. And I would stand there and tell this guy Jake to joke after joke, and he would stand there like a wooden Indian. If I’m allowed to say that, he would just stand there and maybe smile, and I would.

The more he didn’t laugh, the harder I laugh. Because I’m going back and trying to figure out where the whole thing emanated from the genesis. And I would always laugh.

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And then when I told jokes at the bar, I was usually half sauce and I’d laugh…

But it wasn’t like, let me laugh at my jokes and maybe that’ll help. It had nothing to do with it. I laughed at him because they were funny. In the very beginning, when I’d only been doing comedy, I always told jokes in my bands. But I’m doing comedy and telling jokes and laughing at myself.

So we’re down at the comic ship of Fort Lauderdale. It’s funny. I just had this guy, Bill McCarty on our podcast this week, and I was at Bill McCarty and Mike Brown’s like three or four or five comics, and we’re so long ago that there was actually a television in the comedy condo those days. There hadn’t been a television or a phone in a comedy condo for forty years. We’re watching TV and it was like Red skelton seventy fifth birthday show.

And I used to sit there and watch Red Skelton with my mother, and she used to watch me laugh at Red Skelton because I got such a kick out of him. And we’re sitting there and he’s standing at the microphone and he’s telling jokes and he’s waggling his arms and he’s laughing, having a time of his life. I can still remember Bill McCarty turned. He said, Martlin, that’s you, I said, but not consciously. He does.

I do it the way he doesn’t. He does it the way I never looked at Red Skelton said, hey, that looks like and if you laugh at yourself. No, it’s just something I’ve always done. I’ve gotten in trouble with it. People that’s like such crap like Howard.

Howard would do anything to not let me get two out of control. So if somebody said, Jackie, tell this joke and tell that joke. I start to tell a joke, and I always start to giggle because it’s inherent to the way I performed the jokes. And I see, Robin, there’s the tell, there’s the tell, there’s the juice to get it, you know, like shut up, But this is the way I do it. I say, look at Rodney pulling on his tie.

I think that’s gonna help shut up. But it was always just so fun to just tell him be silly. But in the world of comedy, I don’t I call myself a joke teller. I’m not a stand up comedian and I’m really not. I’m not I started out doing that, but I said my family was rough and my father cheated a bay that you know, who cares about that crap?

And I just love the jokes. But in the world of stand up comedy, there are two iron clad rules, and they are you don’t tell old jokes. Well, oh, I hate the expression old jokes, because every joke is new until you hear it. Then it’s an old joke, which goes which pertains to every single person for every joke. If I tell you a joke and you haven’t heard it, it’s a new joke, and once you’ve heard it, it’s an old joke and people, if you think about it, of course that makes sense.

But in comedy stamp comedy, you don’t tell jokes and you don’t laugh at yourself. Those are the two ironclad rules of standom comedy. And that’s all I do is tell jokes of laugh at myself. They want to secure me. But I’m like, you know what, enough people come up to you and say, that’s the hardest I’ve left for an hour in my life.

That’s all I need. That’s all. I’m not trying to educate people or given anything. Well, people say you didn’t write that stuff, you didn’t write. I’m like, when you’ve got to see somebody do Hamlet, do you in the middle of the thing, you stand up and say you didn’t write this crap and they’re performing.

It’s a performance either they’re good editor, they at you. Just try to relax and enjoy it. Let’s sit back and laugh a little. I love the ratitatesat like I’m a big Bob Hope fan. I know everybody gives them garbage because of the last twenty five years, but you know, if you look at Hope in his prime getting up, I could listen to a sixty year old joke.

Hey, it’s great to be here at the Cleveland Air Base. You know, general jokes is so cheap. I get it. I don’t need to know where the general is. Ratitat and then hit mug for the camera and pull a laugh out of here.

It works. It’s good, Hey, Bob Hope is Woody Allen’s favorite comedian. And people first hear that, they’re like, that’s ridiculous. No, it’s not. The guy gets right to the joke and gets the lab.

Well, that’s the whole idea. People come up and tell me how a little old lady will come up and say, that’s the one of the show I ever saw that makes my week. Yeah, you talk about in the Dock about stripping the jokes back, and it got me thinking about I used to call it when I’d go to a million shows back in the serious days. I used to call it the comedy matrix. I remember sitting there one night.

It might have been pattent, it might have been possane, but I was sitting there with one of the hosts, and I felt like I could see the matrix. I’m like, all right, premise, he exaggerated it called back, and I’m like, it was like in grammar school when you’d graph a sentence. I could see the whole thing. So I appreciate I appreciate it. When you started talking about just stripping the joke down, let’s get in.

I don’t know what I said in the Doctor wanted anything I talk about in my book then that I hated. I wrote the Penthouse joke page for twenty years and they were great, and I used to put all my friend’s names in it. They always got a kick out of it. Instead of a guy went into a bar, Linnarbini walks into a bar. But the playboy jokes was so annoying because they’d say, the pretty young blonde sauntered into the bar and mose eat onto a bar stool and slowly took out a cigarette.

And I’m like, a girl walked into a bar. That’s all you need. Or maybe a girl walked into a bar because you need that, you know what I mean, Like, you just cut off all the garbage and get right to it. But so many people say to me, I can’t believe I’m out there laughing at a joke, and I’m in the middle of laughing at the joke, and I’m like, Jesus Christ, I’ve heard him till at five times they don’t even realize. But if they’re already laughing, it’s too late, right Yeah, Hop fine, that’s a compliment.

Hope would say, you know, I’ll do six jokes a minute, and maybe one of them a land that’s great. But which is fine? Hey, Nicky Merrill, nick and Nell only got to hit one out of every three time. Well that’s how it works. Jump in here with a quick break.

Joke Man on most platforms iTunes, Amazon, Where do you ever get your stuff? July eighteenth. More from my conversation with Jackie to joke Man Martling his documentary joke Man, It’s fantastic. I’ve seen it. You want to see it.

It’s on most platforms July eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Jokemanmovie dot com for more information. I want to ask you about some people. What was Sam Kinison really like? Sam Kinnison was a great guy.

He was really out of control. People get mad at me, but he in real life was not funny, not even a little bit funny, but a real nice guy. Couldn’t been sweeter. He knew what he was doing, and he was so good to me. You know.

He found out I was taking my wife to dinner and he made me take a couple hundred dollars he put in my pocket, wouldn’t take no for an answer, and he had me come open for him at Westbury Music Fair and he already had three opening acts. I was the fourth opening act, and that was the famous night when he got so screwed up in between shows that he walked around the circles and eighty percent of the people left and demanded their money back. But he just he couldn’t have been more fun because he was so out of control. One of the greatest moments on The Starn Show ever. We were sitting there six in the morning, the show had just started, and boomed through the door comes Sam Kennison, Pat McCormick, the Kiddie Show guy, what’s his name?

Jack Riley from The New Heart Show and The Kiddie Show, Chuck mccahn. Okay, so, Pat McCormick, Chuck McCann, Penn Jack Riley, and Kennison. He got done with a set or something at the comedy store or else he saw the guys said, he listen, is boring.

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Let’s get to my jet.

Let’s go get with a certain show. And they just flew in his jet to New York and came pilot into the Starn Show drunk and stone and I’m sitting there next to friend and behind us, I got the Mount Rushmore a comedy. It was just it was so real. I have no idea if it was funny. But if you if you were in that room, like Fred and I are looked at each other.

The cross on the league, Now that’s that is the definition of wild. And he was so funny. He was a terrific guy. How’d you get hooked up with Willie Nelson? He’s my mom’s favorite world but it goes see him in August.

He is such a delight. I worked in recording study. I always like to tell the story because it’s interesting. I worked in a recording studio in the seven and these and a band named Zebra. Did you ever hear that?

Yeah, So Zebra did a lockout where they locked the studio for two weeks and so they could record their album. So they were the only clients for two weeks. It’s right at Thanksgiving time, so I brought Randy Jackson, the lead guitar player. I actually brought him holding to my house because I said, you’re not going to New Orleans for Thanksgiving? You coming to my house.

He came to my house Thanksgiving dinner, and we’re all really good friends.

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And then that’s nineteen seventy six or something, so cut the Howard.

Many decades later, I get an email Jackie. This is Felix from Zebra. I don’t know if you remember me. And I wrote back and said, I spent two weeks up your buck. What do you mean do I remember you?

And he wrote back to you like country music, and I’m like, yeah, I like everything goes to listen my girlfriend it’s his wife. Now. My girlfriend is a massus and she does the Jets and the Giants and Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson and Willie’s working tonight down at Webster Hall. To want to come see him, but we’re on the guest list, so I hadn’t seen this guy in twenty five or thirty years. I mean, n’t we have a beer like it was yesterday.

We go to see Willie at Webster Hall. On we’re upstairs. I don’t know if you know. The players men’s room is in the basement, so if you’ve got to take a leak, we’re talking about three flights upstairs. I’m already so loaded.

I didn’t know all the time it is, but Willie’s been going for a couple of hours and it doesn’t look like he’s ever going to stop. And I go down all those flights that take a leak, and I’m on my way back up, and I’m like, you know what, if I go back up there, I’m gonna wind up on the bus with Willie. I’m not gonna sleep or I’ll probably miss the show. I’ll get in so much trouble. And I made the call to blow off getting high with Willie Nelson and took the cab back to my apartment.

I wanted to kill myself. A couple of weeks later, Felix Phelix Hanniman, the bass player and keyboard places listen, We’re gonna try again. Willie’s at the Westbury Music Fair, and he really wants you to come. Because when Willie was on the show, I always got these guys addresses, and I had Grillo get me his address or his company, and I sent all my CDs and all my joke books and everything to his company. So they put him on the bus and Gator the bus drive.

They all loved all my jokes, so I was their friend already. So Willie wants us to come. So it’s me and my wife, Felix and his wife, Lisa, the masseuse, and two of the New York giants, and we’re walking around the catacombs of Westbury looking for a place to get stone and then the show is over. And Willie used to sign whatever. If there’s three hundred people outside his bus, he would sign stuff for everybody.

First he’d go to the bus, get a little stone, and relax a little. And we went out there and they looked out the bus store and said, Jackie, come on, you guys, Lisa, come on and me and Nancy and Lisa and Felix and these two giants I think they were in season, I remember. And we’re in Willie’s trailer is bus which is a minute. So I’m sitting at this little for Mike a table across Who’s to me a god And I said this is something you will believe this, but there’s a true story. I said, well, I got some great homegrown.

He said, let’s spark it up. So I took out a great big joint of homegrown and Willie start, I sweaty john on my mother. He starts looking for a match. And I said, Willie, I’m flabby, assid. You’ve been on this bus for fifty years and you’ve been smoking pot for seventy years, and you’re actually looking for match.

It was just I’m giggling, so all these little drawers like a rock and roll bust. I pull open a drawer and there’s a copy of my CD Hot Dogs and Doughnuts, and I’m telling you my heart leap. I was so excited. I took it out of the draw and it was still in the plastic at that time, and I said, Willie, this just went from being my favorite story to my least favorite story because I know I’m gonna always tell it. It’s always going to have this ending.

And then we got a man. Then we just smoked pot.

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And then a couple of weeks later there was one of these things you probably k…

Sony was doing a thing where it’d be an artist and you could email an idea or calling an idea or send a letter and they would take requests. And it was one night it was Doctor John and Willie Nelson, and I knew the girls from Sony. And all of a sudden, it’s two or three weeks later and I’m in the bless again across from will He goes, what are you doing here? Again? Was I don’t know?

I guess I didn’t know people. And we’ve been very tight since, said now. We exchanged jokes by email, like every couple of weeks, I send the most disgusting jokes and I say, is that okay? I said that one, then they’ll send back one it’s even worse. And he’s just I was on stage with them at Radio City.

You know. It’s just a thrill to know the guy. Just a thrill to know the guy. That’s awesome. Thank you so much for your time.

We’re gonna get kicked off. Like I said, I’m cheap. I was like, I’m the forty minutes for I got five million more for you. The doc is fantastic. I love you.

I love you for saying that. And listen, why don’t we do this again when it’s actually when you can actually orderate or something like that. And listen, I’m here if you need me. Just let me know. Somebody Castle’s call out and take Jackie.

I got a spot. I’m always ready, Jock. You’re always good to me. I appreciate. I’ll take you up on that.

I got twenty questions I didn’t get to. But I love you, man. Thank you so much for doing this my pleasure. Thank you, and again I can’t thank him enough. You know, we crossed the halls.

It’s serious. And he’d come on the Raw Dog channel a bunch of times, so I know him a little bit, but we’re not like tight. He did me a favor here, and you can hear how much time he gave me. And seriously, I could have gone another hour with him. I had so many questions.

I wanted to ask him about Gilbert, and I wanted to ask him about David Brenner. You know, you may have noticed that I didn’t talk much. I studied Johnny Carson growing up, and the secrets to Carson was he knew when he had a good guest, shut up and let the guests tell stories. So me laughing over Jackie, you’re going uh huh, uh huh, just let the guy rip. You heard him, He told great story.

So that’s why I was kind of quiet. We were on Zoom, and you know, I was smiling and nodding, but I just kept my mouth shut. Don’t step on the jokes. Let the funny people be funny is one of the tricks of the trade. Jackie, Thank you so much again.

Everybody jokeman iTunes, Amazon, wherever you get your stuff. July eighteenth, it is out more information at jokemanmovie dot com. Now, one thing I didn’t talk about in the interview with him, he addresses it directly in the documentary is you do not see any of the people from the Howard Stern Show. Billy Weston already Lang up here, but no Howard, no Robin, no Fred, no Gary. It’s weird.

He addresses it during the show. I suspect everybody else was afraid to lose a well paying gig. And why Howard didn’t do it. You’d have to ask Howard. And that’s your comedy news for today, Jackie.

Thank you so much. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube if you’re a drive by listener today because he saw Jackie was on welcome. This is an a typical one, but usually about ten minutes of comedy headline news every day. Thank you for listening. See tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Mick Jagger, Jimmy O. Yang, Eliza Shlesinger, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Ron White, Andrew Schultz, Hari Kondabolu, John Cleese

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s Mick Jagger SNL joke rejection on Hot Ones
• BTS Army backlash against Jimmy O. Yang’s comedy special jokes
• Eliza Shlesinger performing new material in Hawaii
• Jeff Foxworthy discussing Blue Collar Comedy Tour revival
• Andrew Schultz UK and Ireland autumn tour dates
• Hari Kondabolu on becoming a father and comedy career changes
• John Cleese adapting Life of Brian for stage, cutting final song

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. John Mulaney was on Hot Ones. As the podcast were eating increasingly hot spicy wings. He was asked by host Shaun Evans what the worst reaction he ever got from a celebrity host on a sketch mulaney had pitched when writing for SNL.

The answer Mick Jagger. Mulaney had a joke. I think this is fantastic. Hey, everybody on Mick Jagger, So mothers lock up your daughters or should I say daughters lock up your mother’s. That is hilarious, mullaney said.

Mick listened and he went, nah, I don’t like that. But Mlandy says, I remember I made Seth Meyers read that one. That’s a great joke. Mulaney said, I’m very confident there’s a profound difference between knowing you’re hearing a joke from a person and knowing you’re hearing it from AI. I took the challenge and I asked the Late Bot to come up with some stuff involving Mick Jagger, and they were all terrible except for this one, which is passable and not very good.

Late Bot says Mick Jagger once tried to hit on my mother, but she told them you can’t always get what you want. Hack. The BTS army is mad at Jimmy Oh Yang. His special has been out on Amazon for a while. I gotta watch that as well.

It’s called Guess how Much, and he starts joking about BTS, and the joke starts with Yang seemingly praising BTS in their extensive reach in the US, and he says, I love my BTS man. Even white people know BTS. Now, that’s progress.

And then he jokes about how once a fifteen year old white kid tried to introd…

I didn’t want to say it. I couldn’t say it as an Asian person, but they all just look like me with pink hair. He ends at jokes saying I could turn this whole show into a BTS concert right now. He points to himself and goes, this is Jimmy. Then he takes off his glasses and he goes, and this is jim in right here.

You don’t know, sounds funny even me telling it, right it’s a forty second clip, and the BTS fans are not happy. They’ve expressed disappointment in Yang resorting to cracking jokes using harmful stereotypes against Asians created mostly by the West, despite being a Chinese American artist himself. Eliza’s lessenger is playing Hawaii at the end of the month, one show in Oahu, the other on Maoi Nun bad Eliza, but she was making fun of Hawaii’s traffic. It said, Hey, when you get your tickets, start making a way to the theater early, because if somebody gets a flat, you’re all screwed. She says, I have been Hawaiian awhile, so I’m not doing any material that you saw on Hot Forever, my last Netflix special.

This is brand new. This is what we’re working towards, a new special, and you guys are the first ones that get to see it. So it’s a good time. Maui, July twenty seventh, Honolulu, July twenty eight Jeff Foxworthy talked to the Branson Tri Lake News, which is your home for comedy news, about the Blue Collar tour, and Jeff said, I enjoyed most of it. That was the most fun thing i’d ever done.

A few years ago, I had said, and Ron’s kind of the one that’s not as gung hood as the rest of us. I said, Hey, come on, Ron, it was so much fun. Let’s do it one more time. Ron said, I can’t write thirty minutes of clean material, and I said you can. We did three Blue Collar tours and he did it for that and he said, all right, I’m too lazy to write thirty minutes of clean material.

Jeff said, if I had one more thing i’d like to do before I hang up my cleats, that would be it. I’d like to do it one more time. When I hang up with you, I’m texting Ron that come on, man, let’s do it one more time. Jeff was about to do a show with Larry with a Cable Guy, and he was looking forward to it. He said, I hadn’t worked with Larry in almost a year.

I’m really looking forward to it. When we were doing Blue Collar, he’d be out there on the stools. He was like the Tim Conway of the Carol Burnett Show. All he wanted to do is make me laugh, so we would go off on tangents. I know if I looked at him I was going to start laughing, so I just stared down at the floor, and Ron would consistently lean over and go, just look at him, just look at him, and I’d go, hell, no, I’m not looking at him.

Because I look at him, I’ll laugh. And that’s what he wants me to do. I have talked many times on this podcast of working with the blue collar guys, all great guys. Even more great is Jeff, and even more and more and more great is Larry. They are wonderful people.

Billing balls listening right now, going you bastard, I’ve done favors for you. Bills also cool. I know Ron the least. Although when I met Ron and he found out I was the guy who was scheduling records on serious he thanked me for the royalty checks he was getting. They were quite significant.

He shared the number with me and I was like, m you’re welcome, buddy. Andrew Schultz will be touring the UK and Ireland this autumn double on October twelfth, Glasgow October thirteenth, Manchester October fifteenth and the Royal Albert Hall October nineteenth. Will find out how many holes it takes to phill it Hari Kannibolu spoke to exclaim and said, I’m a dad now, so clearly there’s a lot going on. There’s nothing to do with my career. There was a time when I lived and died off my thoughts and feelings, and I realized they’re not as important as they thought they were.

After the child was born. It’s like, you know, those are all second to the million out of things this child requires the best part of it Selfishly is I’ve tried to find ways for years to minimize self. Isn’t that like the goal of Buddhism and all it required was not meditation but a child.

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And now the self is so small, The self is a conduits and making sure my kid i…

That’s one big epiphany I had. I never added inkling, and now I’m like, I’ll do whatever you need me to do too. If my child wants to get into the arts and particularly stand up, I will not be nice about it. This is not something I wish on my child, and in some weird way, I feel like I want what my parents wanted for me for him. Go into something with a stable income where you can have a family, have more energy.

Don’t do what I did. I’ve a joke on the specialty. You realize how hard your grandparents had to work. Don’t waste this opportunity. With their generation, they had this large immigrant community, So the safety net is even bigger than you think.

The community to make sure you’re okay. They’ll never forget that you were in peril. Not I’ll be brought up for generations, but in this generation, I want to have the same level of immigrant safety net. It goes down with me. Johnny Mac, you never talk about John Clees.

I know right. John was talking to The Daily Mail. He’s working on the stage adaptation of Life of Brian. He’s actually cutting the final scene from the movie. That is the scene where they sing always look on the bright Side of life and says, nobody’s going to be shocked now to see people singing while on a crucifix.

People thought it was hilarious, they screamed with laughter. Well, nobody’s going to be shocked now. That joke is forty years old. Clees assured The Mail that the film’s transphobic Loretta scene would remain in the show, despite very experienced actors telling him he wasn’t able to do it. In the original movie, the Loretta scene features a character played by Eric Idol who has to be called Loretta and voices longing to bear a child.

Cles’s character in the scene dismisses the request as ridiculous. Others who have pushed back on the show are other Pythons and may Eric Idol expressed his support for the project by tweeting he has nothing at all to do with it, adding apparently Cleice has cut the song. Of course. Clie shot back, saying Idol is very keen. He used the song because he gets all the royalties from it.

Michael Palin try to offer Clee some feedback that Cleese didn’t take. Clie said, Michael, and I liked the first half of the new script, but was dubious about the changes that I had made in the second half. Klice wants to challenge people by doing the unexpected. For example, he wants to ensure the integrity of the project by making sure a marginalized group he and his weird friends have an outsized interest in is subject to Hackney jokes and stereotypes. The Daily Mail writes, no one could have predicted that the guy who spent the last few years complaining about wokeness and defending JK.

Rowling would do something like this unpredictable. High Times asked Nimish Patil, what’s been thrown at you on stage? Names said in Phoenix, the fire alarm went off for about ten or fifteen minutes into my set. Wasn’t a typical fire alarm. It was the mall’s fire alarm, loud as hell for about seven minutes.

I had to navigate the situation with an uncertainty. I didn’t know if it was a real fire and known from the club was communicating. Eventually someone said it was a false alarm. But those seven or eight minutes were completely unexpected. I’d never expected anything like that.

I had to hold the audience’s attention to keep them engaged. Fortunately, everyone had a great time and no one was hurt. It was a unique learning experience, great story, But the question was what’s been thrown at you on stage? I thought your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, Smashed Alike, See to Worrow

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Featured: John Cleese, Romesh Ranganathan, Harly Konnabulu, John Mulaney, Mark Marin, Josh Johnson, Brad Wenzel, Emma Arnold, Wanda Sykes, John Early, Ali Sadik, Monique, May Martin, Kyle Kinane

What’s in This Episode

• John Cleese interview on cancel culture and importance of diverse conversations
• John Cleese discusses Bond films and global audience considerations in filmmaking
• The Bear season 2 on Hulu and weekly vs. all-at-once release strategy
• Romesh Ranganathan directs The Bear episode, studies at Noma restaurant
• Harly Konnabulu reflects on Unfrosted documentary and representation controversy
• Paste Magazine’s top 10 comedy specials of 2023 so far
• Vulture’s ranked list of best comedy specials of 2023

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The Shark deck me man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Is the South China Morning Post? Say it with me, it’s your home for comedy news. They were talking to John Clees. You remember that I mentioned yesterday?

Well there was more to that article. Why is Klees still working? John addressed that. He said, I have a look at the figures of my third divorce, but they’re like surely by now, Alice, his American ex spouse of sixteen years, has been paid off. John said, not really, have you ever paid anybody twenty million dollars?

It’s not the matter of an overnight success. I’m living in an eleven thousand square foot property in London. When I divorced, I had five properties. Switching topics, John said, the only thing I know is that in any interview I do now, even if it’s about the sexual meeting habits of a lemur, cancel culture will come up with the next few minutes. I think there are more important things than cancel culture, and if I keep feeding it by talking about it, we’re gonna forget about the important things.

If people ask, do you think it’s okay for people to shout nasty things at each other. The answer is no. I agree, it’s not okay. But the question is what do we do about it? Do we try and legislate to make people be better human beings?

Because that’s been trying the past by other forms of Puritans. It hasn’t worked out very well. Klees talked about his time in Jeames Bond and said, you know, they’re caught up in a world we’re the Only thing that matters is each film makes more money than the last one. And if you discover that the audience for Bond films is in the Philippines and Indonesia and South Korea, then there’s not much point in putting humor in that’s only going to be appreciated by an audience that speaks English, and I think that’s sad. Did you watch this season of The Bear?

It was fantastic Now. I think Hulu lost out on a lot of buzz by just dropping it all at once. I think that could have had a lot of sustained conversation around it this season, especially if they had put it out weekly. In that sixth episode with John Mulaney and it, it could have been a lot of talk around it. I did not know romy Yusef directed the fourth episode of The Bear this season.

That’s the episode Honeydew, in which Marcus makes a trip to Copenhagen. While prepping for the episode, Usf and Lionel Boys, who plays Marcus, studied at Noma, largely considered to be the best restaurant in the world. Romy tell GQ, I kept telling everybody at Noma I’d worked at a restaurant before, which I had, but I had worked at Panera Bread when I was sixteen. It was just really funny to be a Noman talk about working at Panera. Will Poulzer, who guest starred in the episode, said I heard him tell these five people that he worked at Panera Bread.

Over the course of our two days shoot. Exclaim, a cool Canadian website, caught up with Harty Konnabulu and he said the problem with Upoo and it’s ensuing controversy of a race and representation was a dividing line in his career. He doesn’t hesitate when he feels if his life, working and otherwise has been altered by the film and its reception. Her he said, I did. It’s frustrating, but the reality is what my career was before and after it is completely different.

Before that, I was certainly less known. I did fine in the comedy world. But and I’m yawning while I’m talking about this because I’m bored of the topic. For the people who knew my stand up, doing the documentary wouldn’t have surprised them that I’d do something like that. My stand up is more aggressive and brutal than what the documentary was.

That’s a pop culture documentary about a cartoon character, but it doesn’t delve into the depth of racism like a warmly I’d want to. Certainly wasn’t the documentary I intended to make either. I wanted to make something where I wasn’t the central figure in it. I wanted to be about the history of that accent, but also the history of minstrelsy in this country and the hazing process that people of color have to go through. And I wanted it to be a bunch of interviews cut together with me maybe doing a voiceover.

But once you sell it to a cable network, that’s not going to work. It’s a different vehicle. It’s certainly got watered down for what I wanted to do, and it was still an interesting process for me to go through. But it certainly wasn’t interesting in terms of the content. Wow, it’s not complicated.

The idea of having approved to people that this character is racist and has racial overtones, It’s obvious. The idea that I had to prove that in the film was almost insulting in a way if you actually grew up with it. Why does this need to be proven? Just listen to the character. The Simpsons didn’t really do anything with the character and kind of just hid from it.

It’s frustrating because people tell me I wanted to kill this character, which I don’t give a hoot about the character. Nobody will watches The Simpsons anyways, what I thought till I realized around the world they still do because I get death threats in Spanish and Portuguese. Now Paced magazine and did there ten best comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far, and I thought I’d click on it. I’m looking at this for the first time as I record, because I like to react to these. Let’s see who paste has on there.

Number ten. Mark Marin from Bleak to Dark. I like Marin a lot, been into his podcast a lot lately. I did not love this particular special. Number nine, Josh Johnson’s up Here Killing Myself.

I haven’t seen this one Paste Rights. New York based comedian Josh Johnson describes growing up poor with candor and of course, humor. During the first part of up Here Killing Myself. Whether recounting his seamless bag as family serial came from where the questionable quality of their local pharmacy, He paints an effective picture his turner phrase, his conversational yet inventive, elevating stories that were ready funny to begin with. Number eight, Brad Wenzel’s a joke joke joke.

I’m not familiar with this one. Let’s see joke joke joke is just that, a succession of hilarious bits without any seguys, Wenzel’s good nature laughter acting as the glue that holds it all together. The special’s forty minute length is just right for Wenzel’s type of comedy. Not overstaying it’s welcome, we’re leaving us feeling short changed. I’m gonna add that to my must watch list.

Number seven John Mulaney’s Baby Jay I didn’t love it, it was okay. Number six and eight Bergassi’s Hello World. I think that’s one of the best of the year. Five May Martin’s Sap not the target audience there. I didn’t enjoy it, didn’t make it through.

Number four Emma Arnold’s Myself. I haven’t seen this one. Paste Rights. Sometimes you can watch a comedy special and I just want to wrap it around yourself like a warm blanket. She takes to the stage with the ease and joy of someone who loves what they do.

Myself is thoroughly hilarious and disproves the tired thinking that artists must suffer to make something great. She jokes she should just quit comedy now that she’s so happy. All right, I’m gonna add that to my list. Two Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer.

I don’t think I have checked that in. Well, I know I haven’t checked it out. I don’t remember why. Number two Harry Knobolo’s Vacation Baby. I like that special lots, although I like Nate’s better, and they have number one John Earle’s now more than ever.

I know people are buzzing about that one. I think it’s for a younger crowd than me. I do have a few gray hairs, and I watched it and I was like, is this brilliant? Is this horrible? And I couldn’t tell.

Vulture has their list. Let’s take a look. This was updated on June twenty seven. There’s are listed from newest to oldest. They have John Early all right, Ali Sadik’s The Domino Effect Part two Loss, John Mulaney, Monique’s my name is Monique May Martin sap again.

Kyle Knaine Shocks and Struts. That is, at the time of this recording my number one of the year. Marlon Wayne’s God Loves Me. I try that one and I lasted I don’t know five minutes, and Mark Marrin’s from Bleak to Dark. I already addressed that one.

I’m actually recording this on July fourth. Why Johnny Mac Well, it started to poor rain and I had this script already and I’m like, might as well go down and record it. So my plan here on July fourth, two weeks ago to you is actually to watch Tom Sigourt tonight. I suspect that’s going to make my best of list. I’m really excited about it, and I might check out some of the others, but prior to recording those, here’s my list.

Kyle Kana Nabrigassy, Jay McBride, Daddy’s Girl, Jim Jeffries. That was on Amazon back in February, Hary Conabolo, Chris Rock. Remember that that was a big deal. Nobody talks about it. The roast of Mister Peanut, which everybody looks at me like I’m crazy, and then they take my advice and they watch it.

You’ll find out on YouTube. Watch the full fifteen minute roast of mister Peanut. It’s really good. Big Jay Okerson, Sarah Silverman, and I have John Narrowley on my list. Okay, I have him at number ten.

But like I said, I’m planning on watching Sigora later today and you’ve probably heard me talk about it in the last two weeks, and that I’ll probably make the list as well. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, smash All like button See tomorrow.

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Featured: Fortune Feemster, Chelsea Handler, Abbi Glazer, John Cleese, Rob Reiner, Robin Tran

What’s in This Episode

• Fortune Feemster LA Times profile and career breakthrough
• Abbi Glazer returns to stand-up after Broad City
• John Cleese on King Charles coronation and Fawlty Towers reboot plans
• Robin Tran essay: Are comedy podcasts bad for stand-up?
• Oversaturation of comedian podcasts and its impact on comedy as art form

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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The La Times profiled Fortune Feemster and Chelsea Handler loves her. Chelsea said, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who met Fortune and didn’t just love her. That’s what’s so great about her.

She kind of breaks through any sort of right or left politics, any sort of divisiveness, and she’s just a pure bundle of joy. Feamster was a writer on Chelsea Lately and It’s a mutual love fest. Feemster says Chelsea was putting people on TV that nobody else was putting on TV and not really caring if you fit the mold of who should be on TV. She was the first person who gave me the yes when everybody else was telling me no. Stand up allowed Fortune to cut through all the red tape and just show people who she is.

She said. While the industry was kind of like, we’re not sure about you, people watching me were like, oh, we can relate to you. You’re like one of us. You’re not some fancy person, You’re not like some supermodel. She left says, thanks a lot.

I always seem to connect with audiences before the industry really know what to do with me. She tried out for SNL twice, said you walk down that hall and your nerves it through the roof, and you get on the stage and your whole career flashes before your eyes. She did not make the cut and says I’m a believer if things happen for a reason. I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s what i’d tell myself, and it makes me feel better. There was a time in my career when I was getting a lot of people telling me they liked me, thought it was funny.

They didn’t know what to do with me. It was before being different was celebrated. Now it’s like, oh, we want everybody to be unique. The Charleston City Paper profiled a lot of Glazer. When Broad City ended in twenty nineteen, Glazer was inspired to return to her roots and stand up.

Her first comedy special, The Planet Is Burning, took on subjects like homophobes and Nazis and the patriarchy. Alana says, the thing I actually don’t like about The Planet Is Burning is that I talk about my perspective from a little bit outside of me. The news special is a bit more about my experience in my body. I see the world through a lens of a queer Jewish woman’s experience. So that’s inherently political.

This tour will be less about politics and more about the things I love talking about, like sex, drugs in and how it feels to be alive right now? Did you think I was gonna say, rock and roll? The South China Morning Post it is your own for Comedy News, and they spoke with John Cleese. He watched the coronation of King Charles and said, I watched her about five seconds and I just started to laugh uncontrollably. I mean, like really laugh, like remember when you were a teenager and you’d laugh until it hurts.

He thought it was a scene so ridiculous he might have dreamt it up himself for Monty Python. All these people in silly costumes behaving as if something serious was going on. I just thought it was hilarious. Hey, John, since you liked the Royal Family, wanted you to check out Palace Intrigue. That’s a daily podcast about the Royal Family.

I’m the writer on it and you might have some similar thoughts there, John Clees, check it out Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows all right, what’s going on with Faulty Towers? Man? Are we doing this or not? John said, for forty years his answer was I don’t see how it could possibly be a success. However, he was wined and dined by a US producer and his mind was changed over the course of a single dinner.

However, tapped the brakes. John says, at present, there’s no script, no concept, no location, and no characters apart from Basil. Yeah, that doesn’t sound very developed at all. Klees’s first wife, co writer and co star Connie Booth, is notably not involved. John says it’ll probably be set in the Caribbean.

We don’t have an idea yet. We have half an idea. The trouble is one of the producers wanted to proote himself a little bit and sent out a press release without warning anyone, and suddenly everyone got excited over something that hardly exists. I see what happened there. I’m sorry, John, that’s annoying because now you have to answer questions.

But you know who’s working on this thing, Rob Reiner, and Klees regards Reiner as among the only two or three people who know more about comedy than he does. Wow, he he admits, that’s a very arrogant thing to say. Who were the others? Steve Martin, Susie, Eddie Azzard and Frank Oz from short All Robin Tran says podcasts are bad for a stand up Hey, I don’t know about that, and well let’s see what Robin says. Robin writes, as much as I used to love podcasts, I think the oversaturation of comedians podcasts in the past few years has been bad for stand up comedies and art form.

I’m not talking about all or even most comedians, merely a group of some of the top names. We are mostly famous from their podcasts rather than their actual stand up I wonder who she means there. I could speculate, and this is from Orto, which is a British site, so it’s probably not big American names my guests. Who knows she writes technology. It’s gotten to the point where anybody can easily broadcast their thoughts and put them on the Internet.

I hate those people sitting in their basement drinking a nice coffee, reading news stories to people losers. In fact, during the hyde of pandemic, Amazon actually sold out of podcast equipment. There were two things they ran out during COVID podcast equipment and toilet paper. Now these comedian podcasters can do what they’ve always dreamed of, which is get paid simply for having thoughts, talking and existing. They can get together with other comedian podcasters where they just talk to each other, so the listeners at home can feel like they’re part of their friend group.

You know, that was the whole Earwolf midrole thing, like fifteen years ago. How long has it been twenty years ago? Now? You know, it was like they were like seven comedians and they would just all go on each other’s podcast. Now, I was working at a company you’ve heard of that I’ve mentioned, and I was like, you know, we got to tap into this la scene, and an executive didn’t heed my warning.

I digress. It’s and I’m convinced some of these comedians are moreged in glamorizing the lifestyle of a comedian rather than actually being a comedian. They can hype each other up, exaggerating each other’s importances, and talk about stand up comedy being the purest and only true form of expression, and through repetition, over the course of hundreds of hours of podcasting, it seeps on the consciousness of their fans and eventually seeps in of the culture. Now I’m wondering if she means the Austin Crew. When stand up comedy is presented as the sacred profession one is the beyond reproach or criticism, these comedians become unsugeable how many times if we were the comedians are modern day philosophers and the last bashets of free speech.

And when comedians can present themselves in this light, then their fans are along for the rod, gets swept up in the hype without even having to hear a single joke from them. And after years of comedians going unchecked and uncriticized, they have free reign to sell ads. It’s not the comedians should never sell out, but it used to be frowned upon for somebody to be money hungry rather than caring about artistic integrity. Now it’s the complete opposite. Do the monumental influx of comedian podcasts.

It’s no longer a shameful thing to sell out. Not only that, it’s now encouraged to sell out, it’s encouraged to make as much money as you possibly can. And if you even deer criticize this greedy nature of a lot of comedians have been developing. You’ll be slated for being weak and naive because you aren’t joining on on this money making scheme where the actual stand up becomes secondary. This thing is quite long.

I’ll skip to the end. Even their own fans have started to figure this out. There have been several podcasters comedy specials where their fans will say, his stand up isn’t very funny, but I love his podcast and was great to see him live. Oh. I can think of at least two people who have big podcasts that had terrible specials recently.

I’m not going to say their names. Robin Tran is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with her stand up showcase Don’t Look at Me. She does not have a podcast. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

Except Robin, who probably isn’t listening anyway. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Bowen Yang, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Mark Normand, Tiffany Haddish, Big Jay Oakerson, Chad Daniels, Rascal Flatts, Rosebud Baker, Hannibal Buress, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Bowen Yang steps back from Las Culturistas podcast due to depersonalization
• Tom Segura’s Sledgehammer special review — called one of the best of the decade
• Bert Kreischer’s Fully Loaded tour with multiple comedians
• Rascal Flatts discusses cancer diagnosis and incorporating it into comedy
• Rascal Flatts kicked off stage at Columbia University in 2018 for controversial joke
• Jeff Foxworthy performing at Black Ops Amp in the Ozarks — discusses comedy writing and arrowhead hunting

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Boone Yang is taking a step back from his podcast Lost Culturestas to prioritize his mental health. Boone announced taking a very short break. Bad bouts of depersonalization are effing me up so bad, but I’m trying my best to get better.

Please take care be soon. He posted that on Instagram. Depersonalization is a term you might not be familiar with. The Mayo Clinic calls it a psychological condition in which a person regularly feels that they’re having an out of body experience and that their surroundings are not real. Ready, stead Cut watched Tom Segura’s new special and they loved it.

They called it one of the best of the decade. Wow, minor ish spoilers here. I’ll take a pregnant pause give you a second, but not too bad. They’re right. He opens up by asking if they’ll stop taking down Confederate statues.

He follows that up with a bit about meeting a supermodel and how they are equally as freak as a seven footer because they’re unbelievably good looking in person. Sagura has the perfect way of interest, finding his jokes, creating some incredibly funny callbacks. What made it even better was how he incorporated jokes about his father’s final words and to later jokes about his kids. They’re right. There’s something about Sigora’s body language that makes his jokes that much funnier.

It’s not outlandish or over the top, but quite subtle, just enough to add a little oomph on the joke to get it over the top. Another thing is the deadpan look on his face through some of his raunchier jokes, and it’s perfect. Very few comics anymore. Get on the stage, tell jokes, make you laugh, and get off the stage. Tom sagoora Sledgehammer is a masterclass of storytelling from one of the best comedians in the game.

Punchline after punchline will have you in tears laughing at Segoora’s incredibly dark jokes. It’s one of the best stand up specials of not just this year, but this decade. Wow are you in New Orleans? Head over to the Smoothie Center and see Bert Kreisher, Mark Norman, Tiffany Hattish, Big Jay Ogerson, Chad Daniels, Raff Barbosa and Rosebud Baker. Wow, what’s this, Johnny Mac.

It’s Bert Kreisher’s fully loaded tour. Mark Norman said, it’s a party on the bus. He sleep on the bus with comedians their activities. I woke up one morning and there was a slipping slide. It was Jackson, Mississippi.

They had no water in the city. But we’re here to play a dunking contest. Norman says that dividing the torn is several short stints made it survival. He says it’s only a couple of days at a time, Otherwise you’d die of alcohol poisoning. He meshed Pitzel tell the Last Laugh podcast he knew immediately after he got his cancer diagnosis that he’d be talking about it on stage.

He said, the night I went to the hospital, I knew it was going to be something. Having done comedy now for almost fourteen years, you get an understanding of when something’s happening to you that you should be taking notes about. I knew right away that something was happening it was gonna be fun to talk about. I did not know it was going to turn into a forty five minute thing. The Great Hannibal Burris once told me you got to talk about it right when it happens.

You gotta get on stage right away, even if you don’t have stuff written. Just get on stage right away. But sell one up at the comedy sellers all the audience. What happened. It helped that by the time he started joking about it, he was ready cancer free.

Before he got cancer, His biggest claim to fame was getting kicked off stage in the middle of a stand up set at Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance in twenty eighteen. He said, about twenty minutes in, I said something that some of them found a bit offensive, which at the time I’d never found offensive, and I still don’t find offensive. And I think if he asked those organizers if they find it offensive now, I think they may have changed their tune. But they came on stage, kick me off and cut my mic after asking me to make some closing remarks. The joke that got him in trouble, I Know You’re wondering, was premised on the idea that no one would choose to be gay if they were already black.

His joke, nobody’s doubling down on a hardship. No black dude ever wakes up, looks in the mirror and says, you know what, this black stuff too easy. I’m gonna put on a Madonna Halter top some Jordan’s and make some Indian dudes really uncomfortable. He got some awkward chuckles from the audience, but then the events organizers walked on stage and accused him of being disrespectful. Betel says, I could see why you would kind of take it of as offensive, but it’s not at all.

The most offensive part is the tag where I say that the only person who chooses to be gay every day is Mike Pence. That’s homophobic in a way, right. That’s me kind of outing someone who may or may not be gay, and I’m making fun of him. That I know is offensive. That’s not what you took umbrage with.

That part got a much bigger laugh. Are you in the Ozarks Well? Jeff Foxworthy’s at the Black Ope amp in the Lampy tonight seven third the Good Old Days Tour. Jeff said, that’s one of my favorite parts of the country. I always enjoy coming there and I have good shows there.

It’s one of those places where, let me think of the right way to phrase this, I don’t have to worry as much about what I say because I know me and my audience are on the same page from my whole career. Because I’m not mean spirited. I just wrote with the idea of making people laugh because I would always do a lot of women always do this and men do that. And well then I started getting emails from people going, well, I’m a woman and I don’t do that, and I’m a man, I don’t do that. So I’m like, all right, I’ll change it too.

I do this, and my wife does that. And I just kind of got to the point where I thought, when you’re having to edit yourself all the time, because the comics supposed to be a truth teller. We’re supposed to look at things that we do in society and kind of holdled up to people and go, why do we say this or why do we do that? I just kind of reach a point where I’m not out to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I don’t care. I’m just gonna try and be funny and not worry about it.

Another reason he enjoys the ozarks, He says, most people don’t know this about me, but one of my hobbies when I’m not working is looking for arrowheads. That area through the ozarks there is one of the best places in the country to look for them. I don’t want to buy them, I just like to find them much. I didn’t know that. Jeff, all right, what’s the show, he says.

I try to do about ninety minutes. I’m going to do maybe half an hour of whatever was the last special I did, and then a half hour of new stuff, and then a half hour of something older than people really like and request. I figure, if I do it like that, maybe everybody leaves happy. You know. I try to do a third, a third and a third, and some nights it goes a different way.

You know. Somebody will brings something up and you live down a path. But when I walk out there, it’s kind of where in my mind I’m gonna go. I like music, and I always tell my music friends. Art things are totally different, because if you’ve write four hits, you can play it so you’re ninety because people drive a long way to hear those four hits.

Whereas with a comic, especially in the early days, if you did a special or something like that, people would say that’s funny. But I’ve already seen that material. I want to see something new, So you’re always trying to write new stuff. My brain doesn’t hold but ninety minutes at a time. So whatever the old stuff was, I just flushed it.

But then out if people come up and going, hey, would you please tell the thing about the time you saw your grandmother naked? And I’d go, how does that start? Because I can’t recall. But now I’ve come to appreciate that older stuff because not everybody’s seen it, especially if they hadn’t seen you in concert before or something. The Boom Chicago Comedy Festival.

No it’s not in Chicago, it’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. It’s a night seth Myers wasn’t sold out yet when I recorded this. There were ten tickets left. You could maybe still get in shot of improv at nine thirty.

Let’s take a look at the weekend Tomorrow Night at seven o’clock thirty year Anniversary show, the two thousands nine o’clock thirty year Anniversary Show nineties edition. One ticket left for that one Sunday’s show six o’clock comedy Stuck in the damn eight o’clock The Ladies of Boom Chicago Veil Daily was very excited that Tom Cotter was coming to town. They said his style, inspired by vaudeville, includes innuendos, puns, and double entendres. When he writes his jokes, it’s like a Rubik’s Cube. Teams revolve around family life with three sons, self deprecating jokes like how short, broken, pasty white he is, and that’s such a politics.

Though these days he finds himself gingerly while seeing in political jokes of the preamble at a Shore’s audiences, he split right down the middle. And this won’t be a lecture. Tom says, well does have fun. You can always find the levity somewhere and people want to laugh.

And then here’s a line that just makes me grown.

If laughter is the best medicine, I yearned to be drugged. Hold on, I have to go throw up in red garbage kin in the corner. There catter guarantees laughter. As he packs two hours of material, it’s a sixty minutes. I promised them I’ll be funny, and he adds he loves to chat with audience members after the show, so stop by and say hi if you see him in the lobby.

And here’s one that jumped out at me from an interview with Jamilie Maddox. He was talking about comedians and he said, watching comedians like Doug Stanhope really makes me happy because it’s like an older comedian Doug Stanhope. It’s like an older comedian that’s still like really funny. And this is where my head explodes. An older comedian like Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny.

I don’t think of talking as old at all, but this made me realize I’ve been a comedy adjacent for a few decades now. It’s been more than a minute. And when I first met Doug Stanhope, he was young guy and I looked it up. Doug is now fifty six. Anyway, Jamilie said, when you see an older comedian, like ancient Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny somehow, because you see a lot of them like falling apart.

All right, I guess I gotta go take a nap. That you’re how many news for Today? Follow the show free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Mark Normand, Joel McHale, Graham Norton, Seth Meyers, Ryan Seacrest

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart releases ‘Reality Check’ special on Peacock
• Mark Normand’s ‘Soup to Nuts’ Netflix special July 25th
• Mark Normand’s Australia and New Zealand comedy tour experience
• Klondike bar and Joel McHale hometown challenge road trip
• Go Otsko sponsors comedy special about women’s deodorant habits
• Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam with Seth Meyers
• Graham Norton to host UK version of Wheel of Fortune on ITV in 2024

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Kevin harn is back. Baby, He’s got a brand new stand up special. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. This one is on Peacock Now.

Normally I’d get in a caddie remark here about now. No one’s going to see it, But even I have Peacock now because they gave me, like, I don’t know, seven years for thirty cents with some kind of deal like that. I might be exaggerating, but even I have Peacock Now. The new special is called reality Check, and Kevin hard is quote funny as ever as he processes his growing family fame mentions on black, Twitter and more. Mark Norman does a new special coming out.

I hadn’t realized this. This was in Nola dot Com Soup to Nuts Netflix, July twenty fifth. He’s out on tour with Bert Kreisher and they’re playing New Orleans. I think this weekend. Norman is just back from three weeks in Australia and New Zealand, and he said they love comedy and podcast We’re huge over there.

He enjoyed getting to be a foreigner and a novelty for change. He posted some of his interactions with audiences on his Instagram. In Australia, he agreed to do a showy drinking a beer at a sneaker sassed on stage by someone in the crowd. He says, it’s a whole different world over there. They don’t have as much guilt.

It’s a bunch of honkys who are drunken partying. They throw drugs on stage, they say horrible slurs. It was a blast. Seeps and Nuts on Netflix, July twenty fifth. Then he’ll do his own tour in August, including another New Orleans show in November.

From Drugstore News dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Here’s one of those press release promotion things that your comedy host will take the bait on. Because Klondike has partnered with Joel McHale for a road trip challenge. Okay, Klondike, you got your freemention, what’s the deal? Joe McHale is inviting fans to show off what they would do for a Klondike Again, you got your freemention, You got me to challenge fans around the nation.

Klondike is embarking on a road trip, popping up in three Wow, three whole US cities three, three, and I already mentioned your product four times three cities to find the most creative hometown three and reward them with their very own summer block party and the chance to be featured on a Klondike Bar limited edition packaging. Now through July sixteenth, Klondike is visiting New York City, Austin, and Pittsburgh. Visit the Klondike What would you Do challenge mobile and show off your hometown pride. I’m from New York City. We don’t do hometown pride.

We’re just like, Hey, we’re New Yorkers. Leave us alone. Get out of here. Where are you from? Go away?

You’re in my way. Walk faster. We don’t. We don’t do home We’re not gonna like have the like, Hey, golly gee, you’re so proud of New York City. That’s not how we roll Klondike.

Get out of town. You’re blocking the sidewalk. Move you don’t know how to get on a subway. To complete a what would you do for a Klondike Hometown Edition challenge, you have to include four plus of your family members, friends, or neighbors, post a video on Instagram with a hashtag. Klondike can pay for that hashtag mentioned tagging and following Klondike bar to enter Creativity and out of the box thinking is encouraged to prove why here are the number one hometown and you’ll be judged on I’m just thinking New York City.

We’re just gonna make a video and be like, hey, go as yourself something like that. Group participate, exemplify a sense of community and include at least four total participants. Creativity showcases out of the box thinking, originality, and unique ideas. The Klondike Spirit incorporates Klondike brand identity, including what would you do product brand colors a polar Bear. So if you’re in Austin, you’re already missed it.

Sorry, Pittsburgh. Sunday July nine, from one thirty to seven thirty go to Market Square downtown and in New York City Union Square where New Yorkers don’t actually go. Sunday July sixteenth, from eleven to seven, the challengers will be judged by the Klondike team and Joel McHale. One winner will receive a personalized shout out video from Joel for their hometown. So it’s Joel mchaeal going you go get him New York City, you’ll get an exclusive block party.

I hope Joel’s got connections with the NYPD because I don’t know how You’re getting a permit, Joel, And you’ll be featured on Limit Edition in Klondike Bar packaging. Joel McHale said, you know what Klondike and I have in common? No, Joel, I don’t. We’re both challengers at heart, and we both love to celebrate fun and spontane these acts of silius. So when Klondike told me they were challenging hometowns again, all three of them, Austin, Pittsburgh, and New York City, to prove who’s number one.

Hey, if you’re on the West coast, too bad. I couldn’t wait to get involved. I’m excited to see what people all over the country will do for a Klondike. By all over the country, we mean that obscure place, New York City, Austin, and Pittsburgh. I’ve been a longtime fan of the brand, and now I get to judge the Klondike hometown contest.

How sweet is that? Hey, Joel, will you do this contest for us? I don’t know where is it? New York? All right?

I’m already there Austin. Yeah, okay, I can do Rogan show all. I’m in town and Pittsburgh because that’s where our company headquarters is in. The CEO wants a picture of you and we’ll pay you. That’s what’s going on here.

Meanwhile, at gigs A gig Otsko Akoska headlines deodorant companies, they’re not getting the freementioned deodorant Companies special for a last laugh over sweaty pits, Go did a sponsor named comedy special at Chelsea Table and Stage last week. It was a candid versation about women’s deodorant habits, highlighting the links women will go to cover up pit stains and mask odor. Otsco and Deodorant Company brought women together for an exclusive comedy special to learn about their shared experiences of sweatnodor failures. Otsco got paid and gave this quote as a stand up comedian. Spotlight literally turns up the heat most nights.

I’m on stage for an hour unto bright lights, and my ego loves it, but my Bonnie and armpit struggle. That’s why I’m so glad the deodor Company shows me to He’ll educate about sweatnodor protection. Not because I smell, but because I used to before I found deodorant product. This stuff works. Are you in Amsterdam?

Are you’re at the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival. No, the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival is not in Chicago. It’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. There’s a club called Boom Chicago.

Told you about this a week ago. All right, who’s playing tonight? Seth Myers sold out? Tomorrow night Seth Meyers sold out.

Also, Shot of Improv sold out.

This festival is happening, baby. There’s a new host of Wheel of Fortune. Hey, hey, I see what you’re doing there. You’re like John. We know Ryan Seacrest has taken over a real of Fortune.

That news is like two weeks old. That’s not what I’m here to talk about. UK Wheel of Fortune. Graham Norton will host a UK version of the classic games show. The series will air on ITV one and ITVX in twenty twenty four.

There was a previous Wheel of Fortune that ran from nineteen eighty eight to two thousand and one. Graham said, I’m beyond excited to be bringing such an iconic American show to a New British audience. My first ever TV job was a game show on ITV, so this feels like coming full circle. You might even call it a wheel. My question, is there a Z that’s your comedy news for today?

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