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Featured: Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Andy Cohen, Maria Bamford, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Hannah Berner, Curtis Kunner, Zarna Garg

What’s in This Episode

• Amy Schumer’s new special review and ranking
• DCN Best of 2023 comedy specials list update
• Amy Schumer discusses Ozempic use on Andy Cohen
• Maria Bamford memoir announcement for September 2023
• Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch 2023 list
• Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle spotted together in Soho

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. All right. I watched Amy Schumer’s special, and as I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, it was weird to me. It felt like a low energy workout.

If you’re not familiar with the comedy term workout, that’s when you go to a club and you try some new jokes. It felt like a club set. It didn’t feel big. It didn’t feel like a theater special, even though she’s in a theater. And I caught some grief on Facebook.

I kind of Cattley said, I’m sure the seven figure check means she doesn’t care that. I’m not loving it. It’s not bad, it’s just there. I had it on It’s like, okay, but it just did not feel like a big time special. I lasted twelve minutes and then she did a joke where she had a bottle of water and started spilling it.

That was during the part about the blind guy, and I was just kind of like. Travis is a friend of the pod and part of the Daily Comedy News podcast group. He wrote, I watched it. It wasn’t horrible, not a complete wasted time, but also nothing anyone needs to see. I think Travis nailed it just there.

So I said life is too short and I needed to do something else. What did I do? I watched Sarah Silverman’s special that’s on Max, the former HBO Max kind of enjoyed. It wasn’t amazing, but I hung out for an hour and Sarah was consistently entertaining while I also played on my phone. But she had me interested and laughing a few times, So that special’s not bad at all, which leads us to the updated twenty twenty three comedy rankings.

Haven’t done this in a while because I haven’t watched a special in a minute, all right. Currently, the funniest thing of twenty twenty three is Kunk on Earth. You’ll find out on Netflix. You should watch that. But aside from that, for stand up specials, here we go.

Number one Kyle Kinane, that’s on YouTube. Number two Naper Gatsi’s Hello World that’s on Amazon. Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl Doing This, Remember I think that’s on YouTube. Jim Jeffrey’s special on Amazon is number four. Hory Conobolus is really good.

That’s on YouTube. Chris Rock, Remember Chris Rock did a live special on Netflix. Is kind of a big deal. That’s number six, Number seven, the Roast of Mister Peanut. I know you’re like, what what kind of podcast is us?

Go on YouTube watch the full, like fifteen minute roast of mister Peanut. It’s pretty good. Big Jayogerson at number eight and a new entry on the list at number nine, Sarah Silverman not on the list, Amy Schumer’s a new special, John Malini’s special, Lewis Black, Hannah Gaspy, Mark Marin, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreisher, and Greg Warren. All Right, so I’m not just throwing anybody with a special on the list. Those are some heavy hitters who will not be on the best of lists.

I also have a category called it did not see Roseanne’s specialism that one. I’m not boycotting it. I just don’t have the Fox Nation service.

Speaking of Amy Schumer a few minutes ago, I didn’t plan this segway well eno…

Amy is not holding back when it comes to celebrities and diet trends. She was on Andy Cohen and they were wondering which celebrities have used oh zempic, that’s the type two diabetes drug for weight loss. Amy said, like a year ago, I tried it and said she was one of those people that felt so sick that she couldn’t play with her son. She telled any Cohen, everybody’s been lying saying, oh, smaller portions like shut the f up, youurono zempic and one of those things where you got work done. Just stop be real with these people.

When I got LiPo, I said, I got LiPo. I have a story for tomorrow’s podcast scheduled. Someone wrote an article under the headline why do people hate Amy Schumer? And as I was researching it, if you want a little tease of what I’m going to get into tomorrow, google Amy Schumer twenty fourteen Gloria Awards. I was quite surprised at what I found and tomorrow show is going to be a little on the PG side, So leave the kids at home.

Maria Bamford will have a new book out on September fifth. It’s called Sure I’ll Join Your Cult, A Memoir of mental illness and the Quest of belong Anywhere. The official description on the book website from Weird a scary and genius stand up comedian Maria Bamford a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid systems. From Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to Suzuki Violent Training to Richard simmons twelve step Programs with sincerity and transparency. She recounts every anonymous fellowship she’s joined, including but not limited to, debtors, Anonymous, sex and Love Addicts, Anonymous and overeaters, Anonymous Sure I’ll join your cults.

September fifth, from Maria Bamford, Variety announced its annual list of ten comics to watch. These honorees will be celebrated at Just for Laughs in Montreal. Some of the past names Pat Oswaldamis Shumer, Tiffany Hatish, Taylor Thominson, Sam Jay Haas and Minhaj, Nate Brigatsy, Beat Davidson, Roywood Junior. Not too shabby, right, all right, here is the class of twenty twenty three, And if you listen to the podcast every day, a lot of these names are going to be known to you, which is neither here nor there. I just thought it was interesting as I went down a lot of years, I look at the list and I’m like, I don’t know who that is, but this time around, yeah, I’m pretty familiar with a bunch of them all right, in alphabetical order by last name.

Hannah Burner. Berner’s videos, including her viral Hannah on the Street segments, have a mass the nine hundred million views on TikTok Alone Curtis Kunner. He has a popular YouTube channel boasting over four million subscribers. He has filmed his first hour special in Toronto. Zarna Garg was the winner of Kevin Hart’s comedy competition Lift Comics.

Garg has a special out on Amazon called One at Avilion. Ian Lara currently developing a scripted comedy with Chelsea Handler’s production company. His HBO special Romantic Comedy is currently streaming on Max. Joan McNally is the co host of the podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me Leanne Morgan, Yet her name has been coming up a lot recently. Her Netflix special on every Woman premiered in April.

Nimish Petz Hill has written for Saturday Night Live. He self released his special Lucky Lefty, about being diagnosed with testicular cancer. Sarah Sherman seems too famous to me to be on this list. You know Sarah. She’s been on Saturday Night Live for two years.

Brian Simpson host of the podcast BS with Brian Simpson. He has appeared on Netflix’s The Stand Ups and Sabrina Woo. She was a writer on the Disney series Zugi Commahola. You know that’s the new version of Dougie Hawser. She will next be seen in the ensemble comedy joy Ride.

Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle spotted taking a stroll together in casual style. This from one of the British papers. They were out in Soho, with Dave Chappelle putting his bulging biceps on display and a black tank top. Chapelle also wore tan trousers and white sneakers.

Rock kept it simple in a plain black T shirt, black cargo pants and white Nike sneakers. Chappelle accessorized with sunglasses, necklace and silver bracelet and puffed on a cigarette while walking with his friend Chris Rock. If you like what I do here, you can buy me a coffee and buy me a cooffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News here’s one right now. Oh, I didn’t notice the National Donuts chain has put the word iced on their plastic cup. That’s new.

So what you do is you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You throw a couple of bucks in the tip show. I will take your money and I’ll go in the morning like I always do, and I’ll go to the National Don’t a chaine. I’ll pick up my large ice cough reading the sticker here four caramel swooll and four skim and I’ll walk over the shelf and they’ll be a tray there and they’ll say John M. Today, I was number of fourteen eighty one.

And I will take it and I will shout you out on the show. So buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News from Newsleader dot com. The Rife Effect. How Blue Room Comedy Club has dealt with the Matt Rife mayhem. Lot of hype on Matt Rife right now He’s the It’s comic right now, Newsleader rights.

Like most small to midsize market, Springfield often attracts two types of touring entertainers, up and comers and fading stars. TikTok. Famous comedian Matt Rife is one of the anomalies. He just did four sold out shows at the Blue Room comedy Club that’s part of his one hundred and fifteen date world tour. Apparently, thousands of people are on a waiting list for a recently announced Washington, DC show by Matt Rife.

Wow Newsleader Rights. With just twenty four hours to prepare for the presale, fans from around the world flooded ticketmasters sites for tickets, creating pre sale pandemomium. Many compared to the announcement of Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour hype much are we putting Matt Rife up against Taylor Swift? Yeah? Okay.

The owner of the Blue Room, Chris Rochelle, said it’s sold out within twenty four hours of us announcing he was coming, announced Taylor Swift is coming. It will last twenty four hours. Chris said, it’s a cultural phenomenon. This kid is the faced voice of comedy right now. He’s cracked the code and figured out how to get popular.

Tickets to see Rife at the Blue Room was two hundred and sea Club one for forty bucks. Richie said some fans were willing to pay up to five hundred if he would do anything to come up with a ticket, he declined. Rochelle said multiple people have claimed to have been ripped off by ticket sellers claiming to have rife tickets. One woman said she spent three hundred dollars on a scam. Rochelle said Blue Room doesn’t use outside ticket vendors.

Someone’s trying to sell you a ticket, don’t buy it, all right. This next story I sat on for a few days because I had other things to talk about earlier in the week, and I had it scheduled for today, and then I see an update. Let me tell you the original one. This is from The New York Times a few days back. At the Comedy Seller Manhattan this spring, stand up comedian Joscelyn Chia performed a routine that Sheet included in her sets from more than a year about the historical animosity between Singapore and its neighbor Malaysia.

But when shea and the club posted a clip from her April seventh sets to TikTok and Instagram with some backlash. The eighty nine second video showed the comedian bantering with an audience member who vounces here that he’s Malaysian, and it concluded with Chia making light of the twenty four disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight three seventy two, thirty nine people on board. Angry Malaysians flooded the comments sections on Chia’s social media accounts. The comedy seller received four thousand one star reviews on Google almost overnight. TikTok removed a clip of the joke from Che’s account, flagging at his hateful behavior.

Even Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs weighed in, condemning Chia and apologizing for her horrendous comments in a tweet, noting she certainly does not speak for Singaporeans. In this Time’s article, Chia said, I’m in no way canceled in America in any sense of the word. Now people want to come see me. Let’s dive in on the materials, an extended bit. Apparently some history here that I’m under educated on.

In nineteen sixty five, the city state was expelled from Malaysia. She had jokes. But then forty years later we became a first World country, and you guys in Malaysia, what are you now? Still a developing country? Aw She then likens the nineteen sixty five scenario to a breakup.

She imagines Malaysia trying to woosing a poor back and explaining that hasn’t visited recently because my airplanes cannot fly. Then she added to laughter, what Malaysian Airlines going missing? Not funny. Following the backlash, she removed the clip at the comedy seller’s request. Hmm, that’s interesting.

Comedy seller then reposted it’s to TikTok without the club’s logo. That’s when TikTok removed it. She said, I don’t want the haters to think they’d won and got me to back down. Audience as the comedy sellers see the best comedians and they love it, so how can I be embarrassed by it? Fast forward to Wednesday from the Guardian, Malaysian police we’ll seek Interpol’s help to track down a US based comedian who mocked the country and joked about the missing Asia Airlines flight MH three seventy.

Don’t skim over that. Malaysian police will seek Interpol’s help. What Jocelyn Chia will be investigated under the country’s laws relating to insulting speech and defensive or obscene online content. The police chief was quoted as saying the police would ask Interpol for assistance in finding out her full identity and whereabouts. The BBC adds that Interpol can issue a red notice, you know, like the Netflix movie, asking law enforcement in member countries to locate and provisionally arrest those who are facing either criminal prosecution or a jail term before they’re extradited.

You’re curious. Malaysia and the US have an extradition treaty. Wow. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Mark Marin, Amy Schumer, Alec Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin, Pete Davidson, MrBeast

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Marin HBO special ‘From Bleak to Dark’ and Netflix vs HBO quality debate
• Amy Schumer Netflix special ‘Emergency Contact’ reviews
• Amy Schumer’s Hilaria Baldwin impression and the Spain authenticity controversy
• Amy Schumer’s banned Oscars joke about Alec Baldwin
• Pete Davidson appearance in MrBeast yacht video
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News downloads up this week. If you’re a new listener, welcome and thank you. Mark Marin spoke to Awards Radar dot Com and they talked about his recent special, From Bleak to Dark. That special was about the death of Mark’s girlfriend Lynn Shelton. Awards Radar dot Com said it feels weird to say because the nature of the stand up, but I enjoyed From Bleak to Dark, and Marin fielded that perfectly.

He said, I wanted people to enjoy it. It’s not weird to say. What’s the alternative to people say it’s terrible and really made me sad. They asked Mark if having the special on HBO is supposed to say Netflix made it special. Marin said, it really did.

Actually, despite what anybody says, I think the Netflix model has done more damage than good in terms of quality and stand up in a way that there are many things on there that you can’t find. I did two or three specials for Netflix within a week. It becomes difficult to find something on that platform. Whatever the algorithm honors is who gets the big cash and who’s put in a position to do more and more specials. In a matter of the quality HBO and I was coming up was not unlike a Letterman slot.

It was really the Holy Grail. It meant something and I was so honored in some weird way. It’s almost like a childhood bucket list to do things like an HBO special.

And also it’s a better place to be.

I got tremendous support from HBO, and they curate their content and there were great shows on there. It sounds like you didn’t enjoy his relationship with Netflix. Marin said, I think most of my audience are people who would engage with what I do, or HBO viewers. So for a number of reasons, it was a tremendously exciting thing to have an HBO hour. Which one of us is going to tell Marin about the whole Max thing.

With Netflix, you don’t even know what’s on there, But HBO is a brand does maintain its integrity to a degree.

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Speaking of Netflix specials, Amy Schumer’s is out.

I have not watched it yet, maybe tonight. I did watch the first two episodes of season sixteen of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Fantastic, really enjoyable. Some LLL’s from Johnny Max sitting in the basement on the big screen. It occurred to me as I was driving to the National Donuts chain this morning.

Remember yesterday I said it was weird that Netflix had put the clip out of the special just the day before. Then I thought about it more as I was listening back to myself, Do you do that because you have a huge ego? No, I do that for quality control. Every now and then I make a mistake and I try and catch it before y’all catch it, make it quick, edit and repost the show. Anyway, it occurred to me that I didn’t see any reviews of Amy Schumer special day of which suggests that screeners didn’t go out And that makes me curious because usually when they’re excited about something, they put it in front of everybody.

For example, Paramount Plus is very excited about the upcoming season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and I’ve only seen great reviews for that. But I didn’t see anything about Amy in advance, and that’s weird. Anyway, it’s out now, so USA Today watched it and said Amy Schumer isn’t here to make friends in her Netflix special. I guess I should put out a spoiler’s warning here. USA Today rights spoilers in emergency contact.

The comic declares her liposection to be the laziest thing she’s ever done. She makes fun of herself for stuffing her face with fillers and turning into a laser treatment that render her skin blood red, only to look exactly the same. But and we’ll see this in a couple of reviews. It seems people really like the section about Alec and Hilaria Baldwin. Amy says, do you guys know who Hilaria Baldwin is?

I’m saying it wrong, I’m sorry, then says the woman’s name in any Spanish accent. Amy tells a story about meeting Hilaria backstage at SNL and Hilaria says she’s from Espania with a very thick Spanish accent. Amy continues, they have a von trop amount of children, and they’ve named them all I’m not sure, but very Spanish names like Hammone, Croquetta, and Flamenco. That’s a good joke, and all this would be fine and beautiful except that Hilaria from Espania is actually Hillary from Boston. This woman is in no way Spanish.

Her parents are not from Spain. No one in her life is from Spain. You’re going, what did you just think? I was doing a really racist Spanish impression. So I’m not trying to bully a sociopath.

I have a point, Okay. I think what happened is she went to Spain, and I’ve been lucky enough to go to Spain. Some of you been it’s great, right, don’t you love it? I loved it too, But Hillary from Boston loved it. Now USA Today goes out of their way to point out Hilaria born Hilary Thomas apologized in February twenty twenty one on Instagram for lack of transparency about her upbringing and giving the impressions she was Spanish.

I had no idea about any of this. This is hilarious, Amy says. My point is that all evidence points to this woman ever since she met her husband as straight up pretended to me from Spain and her husband shot someone. Shooting someone’s not funny, Johnny Mac, But the joke is funny. It’s a comedy podcast.

You understand comedy. It was a good joke. Variety also focused in on the Hillaria from spain part Amy says, my point is that neither of them give an f Amy then talked about the joke she was not allowed to make during the Oscars. Amy says, I want to preface these Oscar jokes by saying that my lawyer said not to say these. Don’t tell anybody, don’t get mad at me.

Don’t look up as the name of a movie, more like, don’t look down the barrel of Alec Baldwin’s shotgun. That is a hack joke. Amy, Wow, that’s not good. That should be cut for being terrible. Hack hack hack hack hack.

The Daily Beast right Samy, Schumer mocks the idea that it’s dangerous to be a comedian right now. Amy jokes, when they ask me, I’m like, yes, I’m on the front lines every night. My people are like me, We’re tired. Nobody’s tackling anybody. We’re all too tired.

The Daily Beasts take Emergency Contact is a mixed bag. One minute, Schumer is invoking and honestly kind of riffing on Chappelle, and moments later she’ll delivery skating punchline about our healthcare systems utter lack of interest in conditions that affect only women. Schumer’s brash charisma shines through each knowing grin and comical palt like the one she puts on as she mimics a man who doesn’t want to swallow a pill. Similarly to John Mulaney, who opened his most recent Netflix special by picking out a young audience member blah blah blah, Schumer selects a twenty seven year old named the Libby, who shall occasionally tease with the horrors of aging. At the same time, some of Schumer’s material can feel dated, either the spiritually or is a cultural reference.

For instance, viewers arrived at the Chapelle discussion through a story about Schumer’s visit to the home of a secret blind millionaire, meaning he’s blind, but as somebody explains Schumer, everyone around him acts like it’s not happening. I’m like, you can be that rich that you’re just not blind. Unsurprisingly, the best material and emergency contact is all personal, like when Schumer jokingly compares herself to Libby, perhaps as an analog for her younger self. In those moments she’s undeniable, it’s hard to fathom why she’d waste precious time on anything else interesting. Maybe I’ll watch that tonight.

Pete Davidson has shocked fans after making a surprise appearance in the latest viral video from Mister Beasts This from the Sun. Do you know? Mister Beast YouTuber known for his philanthropy, often giving thousands of dollars away to his fans and strangers. He has more than one hundred and fifty million subscribers on YouTube and over forty billion views. In a recent video of mister Beast decided to document he and his friends living for day on yachts of various worth, starting at just one dollar and going up increments to one billion dollars.

One of the yachts was worth fifty million. The magaship is two hundred feet long, four stories high, can hold over two hundred people, and comes up with a twenty person crew, apparently Pete Davidson’s. In this video, another yacht pulls up, Mister Beast tries to wave a friendly hello. One of the partiers on the other yacht mooned Pete Davidson and pals. Mister Pete said, I was waving and him and he showed me his butt.

Pete said, that’s going to be someone’s dad one day. Eventually the to me boats slowed down to create some distance. Beat said, where are they going? Are they backing away from us? Are we just that good?

Hank Azaria spoke to NPR’s code Switch about the whole ap poo thing, and he said, I think that’s a good example of how a really uncomfortable conversation could turn into a really productive one. He said, if he had any doubts about a poo being problematic, a racist attack and a store clerk where the assailants held up who changed his mind? He said, a pooh had become a slur. Now. Azaria doesn’t voice any non white characters on The Simpsons at all.

He said, there’s no public outcry over the other characters he dropped, and they weren’t considered stereotypical or harmful in any way. But I realized, if nothing else, why am I taking the job away from an actor of color with so much less opportunity than I have. Paul A Poundstone was on the Laugh last podcast. She talked about her own podcast and said, quite correctly, the podcasting world is very much like the economy as a whole. There’s the one percent and then there’s the rest of us.

Who are wrestling with whether or not we should still be doing it. Paula says, I fall into the latter category. Sadly, nice story here with some good coming from some bad. A Canadian comedy grant has been established in the memory of the late Nick Nemeroff. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced the creation of Misdirect the Nick Nemerov Comedy Grant.

It would be awarded to emerging Canadian comedians who embodied the spirit of his namesake. I wasn’t hip to Nick’s comedy until he passed away, and I’ve been playing in a lot on my show on Live One, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. He was fantastic. The grant seeks to nurturally amplify the next generation of comedic voices by providing a cash prize of up to ten thousand dollars Canadian to the winning comedian, intended to be utilized for their next TV special, album or other comedy related project. Lewis Calabro, VP of Programming and Awards for the Canadian Academy, said Nick Nemeroff was a groundbreaking comedian on the precipice of greatness and that’s our hope that this grant will serve as a sign of encouragement and reinforcement for the next generation of innovative, fresh and creative Canadian comedians were pushing boundaries.

Nick’s parents said Nick’s comedic legacy as one of perseverance, commitment, and generosity that will forever be grieving his passing. We are credibly proud to honor his qualities through this grant, providing up and coming comics a chance to pursue their dream with the same fever Nick was known for. Nick passed away June twenty seventh of last year, age thirty two. The Only Times wrote another article about the Austin comedy scene. I shared one of those with you on yesterday’s podcast.

Today, they spoke to specific comedians and club owners. David Lucas, you know him headlining the LA comedy scene these days. He said, the thing that I love about the Austin comedy scene right now is that there are no agencies or studios out there. Well, if you keep writing articles in the La Times, give it five minutes, buddy, they’re gonna be all over you guys. Lucas said, My focus ain’t checking and Chivy to be seen by Netflix or HBO.

It’s pure comedy. I’m gonna get a place where it’s pure comedy. You get to see some of the best stuff. David, Yeah, sure. But I imagine if I tell you, hey, somebody on the back is from Netflix and they’re considering you for special suddenly you’ll be like, Oh, I love Netflix.

Come on, you’re all in it for the money. I’m in it for the money. I’m not recording a podcast as a board stop. Dean Stanfield, comedian said Austin was more free to say anything you want from a comedy perspective, but these days it’s bottlednet. Used to be you could get away with saying anything because there’s nothing to lose.

No one’s careers were on the line. But now there’s more people coming in, so there’s more pressure. Like, you say something wrong, what was the start of your career could end just as easily. It’s still a lot more free than LA’s comedy scene, I think. David Lucas said, the comedy Mothership is changing the game.

That’s Joe Rogan’s club. Never in the world as a comedy club been made by a comedian taking suggestions from comedians and been built four comedians. The Comedy Mothership even offers comedians healthcare. Joe Rogan made this club so the comedians can work in town and pay their rent and take care of their business. When you start working at the Comedy Mothership, it’s like, damn, is this what fairness looks like.

Taylor Dowdy, is the GM of the Velveta Room and also a comedian, said, as a comic, I think somebody like Rogan opening Mothership is kind of a blessing. What else could he ask for? Really? You always heard legendary stories of the Comedy Store. But who’s got the time and money to fly out to LA and try to get on stage there?

It’s nearly impossible. Now in Austin, it’s basically right down the street. Brian Redband, comedian and co owner of the Sunset Strip Comedy Club. I liked that name a lot, he said. After I invested in Sunset, I realized, Oh, I gotta tell Rogan about this.

I’m opening a club right next to him. I still work for Joe full time, and this is probably a bad idea. Maybe I could get fired for this, but I kind of fell into it because I love the other owners in the comedy club. They made the fact that it was a historic building. It just screams classic comedy club.

It’s like a playground for comics. I’m sure it was really uncomfortable to tell Joe I got really drunk at his club. He’s a bar called Mitsy’s, named after Mitsy. Sure. I was hanging out with him on the opening night the Mothership and I said, hey, Joe, I got something to tell you, so glad I was drunk When I told him.

His reaction was like, are you evan kidding? That’s awesome?

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And now we joke about it all the time, me and Rogan.

We’re not doing this for the money, right yea meat either just recorded podcasts supporting the basement. I’m sure some other club owners are, but I don’t give a crap about money. I did this more as an investment in a comedy into the city. We’ve talked so many people in the living here. This is the best place to live.

Now we’re just blowing it up. Comedian bach Zoom and Eguly said, I personally don’t see the growth of the Austin comedy scene as a bad thing, especially because Caps City Comedy Club is not the only gatekeeper anymore. Before as a comedian, if you had a beef with Caps City, then you weren’t doing Moontower Comedy Festival, which the club is affiliated with. And when south By Southwest came up with his own comedy conference, he had to pick either Moodtower or south By. As a comic, he couldn’t perform it both.

So, coming out of the pandemic, if a booming scene where you have a lot of new people running things, So comedians took it upon themselves and run their own shows. The industry here is now run by comics and there’s more stage time for everybody. It’s like a big high school, but at least it’s decentralized. And as we learned today, nobody’s doing this for the money. No one, me neither.

So you know what, don’t follow the show, don’t download it, don’t follow me on Apple, don’t follow Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, don’t smash the like button. We’re all just in this for the fun and the love of comedy. Nobody’s trying to make a buck. Really, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Amy Schumer, Pete Davidson, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Ricky Gervais, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Judd Apatow, Stephen Caballero Jr., Rob Schneider, Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Amy Schumer’s Netflix special ‘Emergency Contact’ release
• Pete Davidson’s career breakthrough through Amy Schumer and Bill Burr
• Pete Davidson’s role in new Transformers movie as Mirage
• Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan announce four-arena tour
• Rob Schneider special ‘Woke Up in America’ on Fox Nation
• Ricky Gervais debunks security increase claims on Twitter
• LA comedians moving to Austin comedy scene

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Amy Schumer’s specials out on Netflix today now a little strange. On Monday, Netflix released a clip which is kind of tight to airtime. I don’t know what to make of that. Part of me is wondering if they find there’s no buzz on Amy’s special, maybe they have social media and metrics that’s showing that.

I just don’t know why you do it. The day before her special is called Amy Schumer Emergency Contact all right, So when the clips, she tells her husband she has no idea what name to put on the emergency contact form. Get it. She calls Jennifer Lawrence, who gives her the cold shoulder. I guess maybe here we’re just showing off that Amy’s famous friends.

I think that’s what we’re doing here. Lawrence says, we were like barely friends ten years ago. How’d you get this number? I don’t want to get back? And such, good luck with your health issue.

Then she calls Chris Rock and these are all video calls too, because you know that’s what everybody does. Everybody facetimes. Nobody uses the phone, is phone or text? Right? Did you do FaceTime?

We hear from Chris Rock next. Let’s listen, all right, I’m Chris Rock. Yeah, I wanted to ask you if I could list you as my emergency contact. Absolutely, really, you should call me if anything goals Rock, Like Harvey kite Tell and Pulp Fiction, people are going to be rooting for your death. Amy hangs up on Rock and then connects with Judd Apatau, who’s very eager to be the one to pull the plug on her.

Sam Rockwell says he’ll get back to her after she asked him to raise her husband and child in the event of her death. Other famous friends showing off here Selenaomanz, Larry david want To, Pykes, Michael Cha, Michael Sarah, a toddler, and a Chihuahua. Emergency contact with Shout at the Orpheum Theater in La. It’s Amy’s third Netflix special. You will find it on your Netflix today.

Meanwhile, Amy told people she thinks Pete Davidson’s career might have been a train wreck without her. This is a little tongue in cheek, Amy said, I do take full credit for Pete Davidson’s success. Pete had a role in in Amy’s twenty fifteen movie train Wreck, Pete played a patient of Bill Hayter’s hater liked Pete’s before want so much that Hayter recommended him to Saturday Night Live. Amy said he was one of those He was like nineteen or eighteen or something, and absolutely I was like, this kid’s going to be a star. She said she had the same premonition about Michael Chay like, I was like, you meet these people and they’re just living far out in Queens, sharing a room with having lots of roommates.

You’re like, okay, but you’re gonna be big some day. Pete Davidson previously has given Amy Schumer credit. He told Kevin Hart recently, I got very lucky. I was doing stand up for like three four years in the city and I met Amy Schumer and she let me open for her on the road for a little bit, and she was like, I’m doing this movie train Wreck, I’ll see if I can get you a partner. Pete Matt Hayter and appletown while doing his cameo, and then I got home the next day my agent called me and said Bill Hayter recommended you for SNL, And I was like, why that f would he do that.

I was terrified. Pete didn’t think it’d be a fit for the show because I don’t really do characters or anything like that. So I guess maybe I could be a writer or something. Pete was on SNL for eight seasons. He said, I figured, since I’m a stand up, I’ll just try my stand up in personal bits on weekend updates myself, and I’m glad I did.

Pete Davidson is one of the stars of the new Transformers movie. He’s Mirage. Stephen Cable Junior is the director of the movie and said Mirage was always going to be a cocky, wise cracker. I wanted Mirage to do the comedic tone I was diving into here, and Pete really delivered. He talked about a naughty line from the movie, slightish spoiler coming up and some naughtiness.

If you’re listening with the kids today, maybe it pause. The original line for Mirage was work friends. After all we’ve been through. Cable says that was cute, but Pete was giving it all these other reactions, and Pete being Pete, he throughout the line work friends, but you’ve been inside me and we just cried laughing. That was it.

That’s the line. I’ll be honest. There were moments where the student didn’t want to keep that joke in the movie, but we screened it and that line got the loudest laugh in the theater. We’re like, we gotta keep it now. If we hadn’t screened it, that joke probably would have been cut.

Pete attended the premiere of Transformers last week. What did he wear? An electric blue Vilord track suit spray painted with a rudimentary image of an autobot character. The complete sweatsuit, made by La Brand Polite Worldwide, retails on around eight hundred dollars. When Twitter user said, you know you’re rich when you go out and what’s suit to a public event?

And the big news of the day, Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan are touring together a four arena tour, both of them one bill pretty good. You want to know the dates? I’m sure you do. November third, Chase Center, San Francisco, the next day at the Kia Forem in La Friday November tenth in Chicago, Saturday November eleventh in Saint Louis. I gotta imagine if they’re doing four, they’re gonna do a lot more right, they’re gonna sell out.

Deadline says there’s no details on which comedian will go first or if they’ll tread slots, so all right on paper. Sorry, Jim’s got open for Cherry. Jim, you’re gonna be in the Comedy Hall of Fame, but Jerry’s going to be in the elite wing of the Comedy Hall of Fame. Great show. I would highly recommend anybody if you can go see Gaffigan and Seinfeld one night.

Yeah, you absolutely got to do that. Even having seen Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld on back to back nights in the same exact theater, I wouldn’t want to follow Jerry Seinfeld. I think Jim Gaffigan should just kiss the ring, go first and do a long set, and then go hang out in the back and drink coffee or beer or whatever you do, and just let Jerry close the night. I’m thinking back Sammy Hagar and David Lye Roth toured together in the early two thousands. I think it was they would flip flop every night who would go last, But like same thing, and I’m a big Van Halen fan, I would think Dave should go second.

There but they would trade back and forth. Seinfeld said, Jim and I met doing comedians and cars getting coffee, and I’ve been talking about doing this for years. We finally made the schedules workout. Can’t wait. Jim Gaffigan said, I’m so excited to help out this unknown, up and coming comedian, maybe never heard of.

I know it’ll be an amazing bunch of shows. Rob Schneider is getting a new special, this one on Fox Nation. They’re all in a comedy. Now. Remember they did the Rosanne one and they did one other, right, what was the other one?

I can’t remember. Rob Schneider woke up in America June eighteenth, Hey, that’s this weekend. Rob Schneider woke up in America, filmed in front of a live audience. Well, yeah, so of course it’s a live one, and so the Tampa Theater in Tampa. Hey, John, Hey, pre read the copy, John b.

Whoever wrote the copy, write better copy. Rob Schneider will weigh in on the culture wars and wokeness. No way, he really on a Fox sped all right, shut up. The UFOs filming a movie with Donald Trump and other topics. Ricky Gervaise was on Twitter, he quoted a tweet that said Ricky Gervais is a massively increasing security for his upcoming tour after death threats over his anti woke gags.

Ricky wrote, one, have an increased security. Two my tour started a year ago. Three haven’t add any death threats. Apart from that, this story spot on good article in the l eight Times titled hell LA helped detonate the explosion of the Austin comedy scene. Yes, this comes back to Joe Rogan.

Bert Kreischer said, not only have a lot of people moved down there are comics from LA are calling in avails there. They’re just going to Austin to do two or three spots during the week. Rogan’s created the comedy store down there. It’s really impressive. David Lucas quotes a major name in the LA stand up scene unquote started headlining less than a year ago.

Really, David Lucas, major name started headlining less than a year ago. Let’s look up David Lucas. All right. David Lucas’s website says David Lucas is known for his appearances on kil Tony’s a regular and for performing with comics like Joe Rogan, Luis c Ka, and Tony Hinchcliff. Okay, I haven’t been in LA in a year, and I haven’t been in an LA comedy club in over a year, so perhaps David Lucas is a major name in the LA stand up scene.

Anyway. He started headlining less than a year ago and is steadily selling out venues around the country. After building his fan base in Austin. A regular roastmaster on Kill Tony, which is a fantastic podcast. You should listen to it, Lucas is getting a savage humor viewed by millions on YouTube every week.

Lucas, a former door guy at the Comedy Store, says the Austin fans, who weren’t used to LA’s caliber of comedy immediately showed him love. Lucas said, my first impression of Austin was that these mfers ain’t seen stuff. It was like getting a virgin woman. So whatever they see is amazing, he said. He sold out three shows in January of twenty twenty one, despite the pandemic.

I was like, why I expected at fifty people there. Sure, Austin had a comedy scene, but they had never had a comedy scene like what we got. A major shift began in April of twenty one when the owners of the closed New York Creek in the Cave reopened in Austin. I remember that, and that was it just seemed bizarre. It was like the comedy equivalent of the Dodgers moving to Brooklyn.

I guess, and it worked the only time, says It became the hangout for Austin comics, who gather in a back outdoor section that has a stage as well as picnic tables and food trucks. The club has been known to take risks and programming unconventional shows like Bananaphone, where comics get one minute to perform before getting heckled by the crowd and the hosts. Austin has had an influx of LA comics, many of whom were trying to escape what they deemed as a politically correct coastal audience in LA. With this influx came a political shift from liberal to libertarian. Austin comedi and Chris Hill said personally, I’m tired of the trans jokes.

Can we get another topic please? You can be edging about other things too. A lot of it is hate speech. Mast’s comedy comedian Ariel Isaac Norman said, I know people are complaining a lot about the California people coming here, but our city’s becoming hotter. So you win some, you lose some.

What are you gonna do? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcasts or Spotify for on YouTube, smash that like button? Will you see tomorrow? All right?

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Featured: Karen Morgan, Maxim Batty, Nicole, Shamar Alien, Andy Richter, Christina Chung, H. Jon Benjamin, Felicia Day, Wayne Brady, Patton Oswalt, Kevin Carter, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, John Early

What’s in This Episode

• Karen Morgan’s Generation Z roast sparks backlash and viral Gen Z counterattacks
• The Novelizers podcast: Star Trek Wrath of Khan novelization audio comedy series
• Seth Meyers and John Oliver tour announcement at NYC Beacon Theatre
• John Early HBO Max special ‘Now More Than Ever’ premiering June 17

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny mac with your Daily Comedy News. I love this first one. Karen Morgan talked about some of the differences between Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and boomers in her latest stand up, but some people from gen Z get kind of sicks off at her. Morgan said, gen Z doesn’t how to write a check, they don’t know how to address an envelope, they don’t how to read cursive, they don’t how to read a paper map.

They can’t get anywhere unless there’s a GPS app on their phone. All I’m saying is, if gen Z takes over the world, it’s gonna be pretty easy to get it back, all right. Not the most clever material, not the most scathing material, but people did not react well. Content creator maxim Batty posted a response to morgan set that was viewed over ten million times. Maxim Batty said, bank transfers and emails are both faster than offline versions, and we’re trying to save the turtles by less paper waste.

Why are you people laughing. You’re a mother, You’re supposed to teach us these things. It’s your fault we don’t know it, and you’re laughing. At us all righty. Some gen Zers defended themselves in the comments.

One said probably asked her kids to set up her phone? Who seeing who? Another another comments could she even open a pdf? Or? How about this one?

Bro? Can she take a screenshot? Who? You gen Zers? And you’re hecklers?

Wow? Ouch? Here’s one more? Okay, change the TV from HDMI? Want to HDMI too?

Whoo yo, gen Z, relax, these are vicious. Gen Z’s not gonna do well. In Roast battle Man, a TikToker named Nicole made her own video saying boomers don’t know how to draft an email, or pay their bill online or save a pdf. That’s a lot of bold talk coming from somebody who probably still lists typing as a skill on their resume. Hey, we’re on LinkedIn.

We don’t have resumes. Creator Shamar Alien asked, well, do you know a hunt for your own food or churn butter? Why are you so scared to move on with the times? Are you still making your own food on an open fire outside because you refuse to use a stove? Is it too modern for you?

Who needs to know how to balance a checkbook? Boyen Morgan’s going to tick everybody off. She says of the silent generation, those born between nineteen twenty and forty, they’re scared of the microwave. She took a shot at the boomers, saying they perfected smoking and that everybody’s mad at millennials for avocado toast. Her summary, here’s all you need to know about gen X.

We don’t care. Oh that’s fun. I mentioned recently that I love The Wrath of Khan. Well, a new podcast I’m excited about, except for maybe one point. The Novelizers.

It’s a new podcast series that tests comedy writers to write chapters in a novelization of a movie. Season one takes on Star Trek to the Wrath of Khan. Well, that’s pretty cool. That’s in your wheehouse, John, Why are you not that excited about it? Andy Richter, who sit and I mean going back to honestly, was it N two when the Late Night shuffles happened and Andy Richter was Conan’s sidekick and Conan kind of took off after Andy left, and then Conan the Night Show and brought Andy Beck and that didn’t work out, and I don’t know.

Richter says The Novelizers is by far the best popular film turned into a novel, and then turned it into an audio play podcast that I’ve ever hosted. The Wrath of Khan is a perfect subject for the first season of the Novelizers because it is well loved, indelibly imprinted on our collective consciousness, and also deeply silly and ripe for comedy. Each episode includes two chapters from the movie, with each adapting a key scene, each one written by a different writer. Each chapter has a different narrator. The first is narrated by Christina Chung, who plays a descendant of Connunian sing on Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

Don’t start me on that one. I could do two hours on my Star Trek podcast that I haven’t created yet. Why that was a terrible idea. The character is fantastic, except the character is Khan’s niece for some reason. Look, I already went into the Die tribe.

You don’t care. The second chapter from the first episode narrated by h John Benjamin us known for something called Bob’s Burgers. Yeah, all right, so this is part of the Bob’s Burgers conspiracy. John, what are you talking about? Two questions for you, dear listener.

First, have you ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers. You haven’t. Second, have you ever met anyone who’s seen bobs Burgers? You haven’t. I know there’s merch, I know there’s promos.

I know you hear Joe Buck talking about it during football games, But have you ever actually watched Bob’s Burgers? No? John Benjamin Off is part of the hoax and h John Benjamin also the star of the really terrible Star Trek short Trek The Trouble with Edward Again. I might have to start a Star Trek podcast and just go off in this stuff. You don’t care.

Other narrators Felicia Day, Wayne Brady, and Patton Oswalt. That’s pretty cool. Each episode features fake behind the scenes interviews by Kevin Carter, including ones with the Slug Consultant and William Shatner’s Body Double Season one ten episodes. I think two episodes were already available when I grabbed it on my app. Hey, if you’re missing late night well SETH Meyers and John Oliver will tour together.

They’ll play New York City’s Beacon Feeder on August seventeenth. John Oliver’s TV show has been off the air since April thirtieth, seth Meyers his last at a new episode on May first, starting to see a lot of press for John Earle’s upcoming special that’ll be out on Max they former HBO Max. On June seventeenth, The Cut did a pretty lengthy profile with John Early and saying John is best known from Search Party, which brought him enough stability to buy a house, but not to become a household name, and a bunch of near misses. A Hulu series which he worked on for years, which came to nothing. A John and Cap Berlant web series five five five was a weird, wonderful cult hits but only available on Vimeo.

Now Here, he comes with the full force of HBO behind him, an amplified queer voice. Amplified Early said, I’ve been in the shower and found myself defending the special that hasn’t come out. I’ve completely fabricated tweets of fake people who don’t exist, who have problems with certain elements in my special. I’ve been in a constant dialogue with them. The Cut rights the imaginary critics will find plenty to debate.

The special now, more than ever, leads into a vicious anthropology of millennial Moore’s Early is at his best, a comedian of manners whose particular bugbears are cliche, one being I don’t know how to do my taxes, but I do know how to be a badass. Time and again, Early interrupts himself to break in a song accompanied by a bandoned pair of backup singers. Early lunches and it covers including tweets, Oops, Britney Spears, Overprotected, and the Dolly parton Linda Ronstadt Emmy Lou Harris. After the gold Rush, Early says, this is the first time I kind of funny let myself just be a cabaret artist, which is secretly what I’ve always wanted to do. On some level, I do think the sum total of it is the closest to my actual personality, which is part of why I was so terrified to do this now more than ever.

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What Yes? This from Deadline back in twenty thirteen. Deadline has learned in twenty thirteen that Larry Charles, the filmmaker behind movies such as Borat, has been hired to director the Sam Kinison feature Josh Gadd from the Book of Mormon. He was going to play Sam Kinison Yeah Yeah, based on the book by Bill Kinnison, Sam’s brother. The film was going to be titled Kinnison and would begin in the early eighties as Sam broke away from the family business of pentecolist still preaching, moved to Hollywood where he could start his career in stand up.

The success ended up getting to him and he fell deep into the world of drugs and alcohol. He was able to clean up his acts, but his potential field career was cut short in nineteen ninety two when his car was struck head on by a drunk driver. Producer David Permit said in the statement ten years ago, there was nothing conventional about Sam Kinison. Neither will be the cinematic interpretation of his life. Larry chur Else is the perfect director to bring Rich Wilkie’s incredible script to screen, and Josh Gad’s tremendous ability to morph into a role will bring great depth to Kinnison’s larger than life PERSONA.

Wonder whatever happened to that movie? Can we bring that back? And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you’re on YouTube, smash that like button.

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Featured: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Adam Sandler, Pete Davidson, Rob Riggle, Andrew Schultz, Leslie Jones, Jonathan Van Ness, Jim Norton

What’s in This Episode

• Is Elaine Benes canonically attractive in Seinfeld
• Pete Davidson wearing Uggs influenced by Adam Sandler
• Just for Laughs Festival Toronto 2023 lineup announcement
• Fireball Dragon Reserve bourbon partnership with Rob Riggle
• LA comedy scene pay rates and working comedian earnings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: John Early, Taylor Swift, Joel McHale, Brett Goldstein, Pa O’Dwyer, Tom Segura, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tom Papa, Joe Rogan, Ari Shaffir, Samantha Bee

What’s in This Episode

• John Early collaborates with Taylor Swift on music video
• Community movie delayed due to writer strike
• Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein performs standup in San Diego
• Pa O’Dwyer and Tom Segura do strongman workout video
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus discusses Seinfeld apartment staging on Hot Ones
• Tom Papa reflects on 1980s New York comedy scene in new book
• Samantha Bee launches new podcast ‘Choice Words’
• Joe Rogan criticizes Tiger Woods’ handlers after Ari Shaffir encounter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Peta, Kim Kardashian, Ted Lasso cast, Brendan Hunt, Taylor Tomlinson

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson vs. Peta billboard war over animal rescue
• Pete Davidson’s cancelled Raleigh shows due to forest fires
• Kim Kardashian addresses Pete Davidson reunion rumors
• Ted Lasso spinoff possibilities and Coach Beard Reddit AMA
• Ted Lasso finale plot decisions and character relationships
• Taylor Tomlinson on stand-up comedy arena tour boom

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

Meanwhile, Pete Davidson taking on Peta.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Chris Rock, Hannibal Burress, Jamie Foxx, Jim Norton, Matt Rife, Pat Cooper

What’s in This Episode

• Late night writers strike and forest fire smoke jokes
• Pete Davidson Times Square billboard plan
• Pete Davidson Las Vegas bachelor party weekend
• Chris Rock peeping tom incident on fire escape
• Hannibal Burress bowling passion and new music
• Jamie Foxx hospitalization and rehabilitation center update
• Jim Norton Gutfeld appearance on Bud Light controversy
• Pat Cooper death at 93
• Matt Rife tour announcement and social media facts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, Lorne Michaels, Louis C.K., Matt Rife, Horatio Sands, Jim Breuer, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson vs. PETA puppy mill controversy
• Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s ferry purchase
• Lorne Michaels SNL culture book by Maureen Ryan
• Louis C.K. Me Too documentary canceled at Showtime
• Matt Rife announces Problem Mattic Tour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And you know what, more often than not, something about McDonald’s. Can’t explain why. I’ll bring you a range of stories that will leave you feeling hopeful and optimistics. Start your day in a positive note. The number five good news stories.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, The Roots, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, Mike Biggs, Pat Barker

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart perform at The Roots Picnic in Philadelphia
• Chappelle’s observational comedy and Stewart’s routine on gun control vs. cat adoption
• Joe Rogan discusses Bud Light crisis with Shane Gillis and Ari Shaffir
• Mike Biggs Working It Out Tour features live comedy material workshopping
• Roast Battle League tournament between Los Angeles and Tokyo competitors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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