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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Brad Garrett, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, Brett Goldstein, Nick Muhammed, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel’s Project ALS fundraiser in Las Vegas on May 26th
• Dave Chappelle’s development plans for Yellow Springs and Antioch College
• Jim Gaffigan discusses his preference for blue pens in The New York Times
• Brad Garrett on filming Buck Gisses with Pete Davidson
• Lewis Black discusses delays in releasing his comedy special
• Brett Goldstein touring stand-up at Orpheum Theater in San Francisco
• Nick Muhammed touring with alter ego character Mister Swallow

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Late Bots some jokes about me try and open my pool, and yeah, I had to cancel my pool party over the weekend because my pool was so green. It looked like the swamp thing had taken up residence and there was so green I felt like I was swimming in a giant margarita. My pool is so green, I’m starting to think it’s a secret hideout for Ninja turtles. I asked my pool guy what was wrong with the pool, and he said, you know that’s saying the grass is always greener on the other side. Well, in your case, it’s the pool.

I don’t need to buy a green screen from my videos. I could just use my pool. Jimmy Kimmel, he’s not telling any late night jokes because of the writer’s drake, but he’s doing a fundraiser for Project Als. This will be May twenty six. I’ll be at Taylor Swift humble brag.

Yeah, the May twenty six show, not the Taylor Swift concert. That one’s in New Jersey. The Kimmel’s show will be in Las Vegas at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Ross and Nick kroll I have already been announced. They also promise special surprise guests. Kimmell said, my first charitable memories of Las Vegas were the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

That made a big impact on me because my dad loved the telethon. Dude, mine too. My dad worked nights, so he’d get home, you know, in the middle of the night and want to watch TV. But this was back in the day when TV would sign off at like midnight one I am remember National Anthem would come on, then the test bars and sometimes it would go straight to static. Are you old enough to remember when I’m talking about?

Yeah, So he loved the telethon, if for no other reason it was on all night, it was something to actually watch. Kimbell said he would watch the telethon in its entirety, and I didn’t even go see it live. I got really fascinated by the final years of that telethon. So it was one thing in the seventies maybe early eighties, when Jerry Lewis could call in favors and he’d have like, actually Frank Sinatra, But by the end it was comedians that like really weren’t that good. I did see Ralphie May on that telethon.

Ralphie was great. I miss Ralphie. Was such a good comedian and I got to hang out with him a handful of times. Really really good person. Somewhere in the feed if you want to look for Ralphie May stories.

I just talked about Ralphie for a full episode about a year ago, if you want to check that out. Kimmel said about Las Vegas, there’s so many other things to talk about when it comes to Las Vegas. People don’t think about the fact that we have hospitals and churches and people actually care about the community. Dave Chappelle cares about his community. One of his Repstoled Bloomberg.

With the decline of Antioch College several years ago, Yellow Springs lost its cultural anchor. Speaking on behalf of Chappelle, my interest has always been in restoring the cultural and creative economy Antioch helped to foster and which made Yellow Springs a haven for art, music culture in academia. Dave continues to go back and forth with the town council for his development ideas. Jim Gaffigan tells The New York Times about blue pens, he said, I like the stable ZOPI flow. What’s amazing about that pen?

Because they work great, then they eventually explode in your hand. I use it for editing. I don’t know how people can write with a black pen. If you’ve printed out something, you put black notes on it, you’re gonna miss him. It has to be blue.

The headline from The Daily Beast Brad Garrett saying I can’t believe I’m having sex with Pete Davidson. Yeah, that’ll get your attention. Spoilers for Buck GISs. Seeing one of the plots, Pete Davidson finds out his grandfather played by Joe Peshi’s dying of cancer, so he plans out a boy’s night to cheer Joe up. In Pete’s mind, that translates to book a fancy hotel room and hire a lady.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more for his grandpa and I have a good time. Nudge and nudge you know what I mean. Grandpa figures out Pete’s plan immediately, and the second the lady arrives he calls it off. I don’t want to totally spoil the plot, but Brad Garrett’s character gets involved and Pete Davidson has to help him with hip movements. Use your imagination, Okay, Moving on, Garrett said, I was able to read a couple of scripts beforehand.

It was so autobiographical. Of course, there are heightened theatrical scenes, but Pete Davidson was just swinging so wide, even in the comedy. But when I saw we were able to see the struggles that he really goes through on a daily basis, I thought, Wow, this is really very unique, very original. Rides that line without sounding cliche of the common in the tragedy he’s still dealing with. I think he could see by the people that jumped on the show to join him, the sport he has in the entertainment community, and how he’s really admired for being very open about the stuff that a lot of a struggle with.

I’m a recovering alcoholic at his past twenty six years of sobriety, so I really admire him. I think it’s so bored that we see people that we care about, who were in entertainment running part of life, that can be open about their struggles, which is ongoing for all of us. We all have certain degrees of suffering, depression, trauma, and addiction to varying degrees just part of the human makeup. And he’s really one of the first tackle lists, not only in the public form but in a creative form. Lewis Black spoke to laugh Button about the struggle of filming a comedy special May fifteenth of a last year, not yesterday last year, and it only coming out recently, and he said, yeah, it took longer to get it up and we had to wait.

Meanwhile, all the streaming services were in chaos and still are. It ended up taking us a long time to get it out there, but it’s certainly no different. I would have liked it to come out sooner because it would have just worked better. But I think it works fine. There’s a sense of which people feel like they’re over this.

Meeting the p they could tell me all they want. The way things are in the country at this point in time, you don’t know people are over this, and people are still mentally wobbling, and there’s still a residue of anger about everything because they were locked up. You got a whole group people want to ban books.

Meanwhile, their kids can’t read anymore.

What’s the matter with you. He explains what happens is you do the special, then two weeks later you go, oh, I should have said this instead, you start to drop things that were in the special when you do your act. But then there’s things in specially hold on too. I started doing the bit about the audience and they’ll shut the f up opening and I’m holding on to it. That’ll go away in time.

But two weeks after I’m done with the special and you’re in the middle of doing something you’ve done before, you go, oh, I left out all this that could have been said. That would have been great, and you could do that and never do a special, But you just get up and get it out there and move on. This special was about telling the story of myself on the pandemic of what I was witnessing. There was no way to put other stuff in it. As a matter of fact, things that weren’t put in it are now going to be in the next special.

It’s funny because people used to say, oh, you’re doing all the political stuff. It’s not evergreen. You can’t put it on again in and again and again. It’s like, well, it is evergreen, because stupidity is evergreen. Brett Goldstein, and he’s out touring his stand up comedy.

It’s a one man comedy show. He’s at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco tonight through Thursday.

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Meanwhile, Nick Muhammed, he plays Nick on ted Lasso, He’s also touring.

He has an alter ego named mister Swallow, who’s an off kilter lifestyle guru. He’s played the character for over a decade. Mohammed said, I can’t wait to unleash Mistress Swallow on us audiences. Frankly, the character has a bit of a nightmare. So this one off show could go one of three ways, two of which don’t even bear thinking about.

But in all seriousness, it’ll be an absolute honor to play New York’s wonderful town Hall. I couldn’t be more excited and terrified. June second, New York citytown Hall great Venue. Comedian Russ and Noble apparently used to own a tank. He used to drive it for fun and display it at military shows.

But he got into it with his neighbor and pointed the gun turret at the guy’s house. He said, he’s a property developer and he’s a bit of a jerk. He was arguing over where the fence line was. So I just pointed the tank at his house and my wife went, have you pointed the tank at his house? And I went, do you think that comes across as a bit passive aggressive?

And she said, it’s not passive aggressive. It’s the most aggressive thing you can do. You’ve literally declared war on the guy. Noble says, this is the same guy who threatened to block the access road, and I pointed out to him that whenever he decides to block that road, I’ll go over the top with it. But what you like there and I’ll literally move it.

There’s a band in the UK not really sure how you pronounced their name. I’m going to say Koonts ku in t s. It’s Koons, right, yeah, sure it is John Anyway, the Koonts have racked up another top ten hit, but didn’t get any play on Radio one. Apparently Radio one thinks their name is a little naughty, so I’m saying Koons. Their anti royal anthem called Scrap the Monarchy, entered the top forty at number nine.

They actually changed the name of their band to try and get some airplay for Scrap the Monarchy. This time they went by the Crown Jewels crowned with a K jewel to z at the end. The band has had a few top ten singles in the past, one of which was called Boris Johnson is a two Nasty Words in a row a leaf that alone. Another one called Boris Johnson is still a two Nasty Words in the row, and the third called f the Tories. The individual members of the band also changed their pseudonyms to be more respectable.

Lead singer Kunt went by k Royal for this one. Guitarist churse Hole has become windsor Castle, Bassist Rubbert Johnny is now Regal Johnny, and drummer f Sticks is now Flagsticks. They launched a single said scrap the Monarchy conclains no explatives, So unless having an opposing point of views now outlaw, there’s no reason it can’t be covered in the mainstream press. Blade on the radio and announced on BBC Radio One at the Dubai Comedy Festival today. Jimmy Carr.

I love Jimmy. He’s touring, he’s playing Philadelphia. Ish. I think this fall and that’s as close as it’s coming to where I live. I might have to get down there and see Jimmy.

I really like seeing Jimmy. Hopefully he’s at Montreal again. I could just do that. Yeah, John, that makes sense. Drive seven hours to Montreal.

Why would you drive an hour forty five to Philly when you could drive to Montreal. I don’t know. Well, if I judge Montreal, there’s a comedy festival. Plus it’s Montreal. No offense.

Philadelphia, Actually, Philadelphia is pretty cool. To ever tell you why I started running the first place. Okay, quick story. So I’m thirty nine years old. I’m at flag football and I’ve got chest pains and I go, it’s not going away, and I’m like, hm, gotta be smart here.

Heaven forbid, this is something terrible. So I actually went to the er. And when you’re sitting there with electrodes strapped to your chest, it makes you reconsider things. So I’m like, I have to get my act together, drops and wait, and I started running right after that. But the part of the story I didn’t tell you back to Philadelphia is oh, I had been in Philly the day before and had I don’t know, three cheese steaks.

It was just hard burn. But anyway got me motivated.

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And now I’ve run many half marathons and one full marathon.

Jimmy Carr in Dubai spoke to Time Out Dubai and they asked him to describe Dubai in one word, and Jimmy said one, Well, Dubai, you just use the name. That’s the whole point of names. What’s your favorite place in Dubai, Jimmy said, I’m a bit of a foodie. I like eating well and some of the best restaurants in the world have come to Dubai. It’s fabulous.

You were supposed to name specific places, Jimmy, he says, I say my audiences come and find me. Yeah, there are some people who drive seven hours to montral Apparently there are people who like Edge of Humor everywhere in the world. When I go on tour, they come see the show, and that’s fantastic. It does mean that I very rarely go to a place and think, oh, they seem really uptight. There’s something about an expat community as well.

With people living away from home. There’s more of a sense when they come out of them wanting to see something live because they want to feel part of a tribe, and there’s a lot of British people living in Dubai. There were a lot of people from all over the world living in Dubai. So British people, Americans, Canadians that come to see me, they feel like, ah, these are their people. Time out du buy.

Then follow that up with what’s the weirdest thing in your fridge? Okay, Jimmy said, I’d have to ask my chef, all right. It was the name of your childhood bet Suty, his first dog. Jimmy. If you could trade lives as someone who would be Jimmy said, I would not trade lives.

I’ve got a theory of jealousy. I think jealousy is a poisonous thing. Knowing what you want is a big important part of life. Wanting someone else’s life, I’ve got a holistic view of jealousy. Why would you want to swap lives with someone?

You can’t just have their career, their status or whatever. You gotta want to have the whole baggage. His show is two hundred Dubai currencies, John, Why don’t you look it up because that’s no fun. So whatever DHS two hundred is, that’s so much it’ll cost you to see Jimmy Carr at the Dubai Opera tonight at six pm a local Dubai time. The Boston Comedy Festival in Geared Todd Berry is there.

Todd described as a master of dry wit who is as clever with written material as he is with CrowdWork. Twenty five to thirty five U s dollars at the City Winery, New Zealand Comedy Festival, back after a day off Kura Forresters show is called here. If you need, let’s take a listen. And for me now, I’m all just about unconductional love, positive vibes and not getting myself into any pt drama. And on that note, I just want to say to all of you Pitcher’s at Patni Warehouse and the car park judging me when I walk and I can see you, and I know it’s just because you are jealous of my new positive aura.

And when you call me a homewreaker of Craig and Allison’s home shout out, I know it’s just because you are jealous of me and Craig’s new can shop. All right, I mean kind okay, a little slow there in the same thing, I’ll keep pointing out they’re picking these clips, not me. So that’s the clip that Career chose to go with.

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Meanwhile, it’s Sydney Mitchell Coombs as a show with a very naughty, naughty…

Can’t even say what the last word is. This bit is called I can’t stand a post porn regret. I haven’t listened to me yet, and why don’t have a feeling I’m about to tell you that I couldn’t play it. Let’s see what happens should There’s this thing that country people do with any regional folk in the house tonight. Because I’m a farm boy myself.

I grew up in the bush. And there’s this thing they do when they walk up to your front door instead of physically knocking, and they just go knock knock, knock knock, or maybe they’re driving and they’ll one down the window and go beep beep, like just do the thing, don’t announce the thing. But guess what, that apple did not fall far from the tree, because I’d do it too. You can take the boy out of the country, but you should have seen me when I first went to New York went and saw Weeke It on Broadway. Oh standing ovation, I’m just there like clack clack clack clack clack clack.

All right, at least it was clean. Kind of saw the joke coming, didn’t you. Yeah, that your company needs for today? File’s show for free on Apple podcast, Butterfy YouTube, wherever you get your shows, See you tomorrow. Who does like vacations?

Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi? I’m Johnny Mac. My podcast is called Travel is Back.

Travel is Back is travel for regular people. Hop in the car with like coach views or miles. We eat at normal places, we stay at normal places. So what I do is I hop in the car and I grab my portable recorder and I go somewhere. Season three kicks off of the road trip to Key West.

You can check out the back catalog. There are popular episodes covered Chicago, Nashville, Vancouver, Seattle, a whole bunch more Travel is Back road trips or regular people. Follow show on Apple podcast or wherever you get your shows. These are quick, these are casual, and it’s for regular people like you. Travel is Back

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Featured: Chrissy Mayor, John Stewart, Bill Burr, Conan O’Brien, Kenan Thompson, John Cleese, Sarah Silverman, Kara Wood

What’s in This Episode

• Chrissy Mayor Dylan Mulvaney joke causes audience walkout at Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub
• John Stewart critiques CNN’s Trump town hall coverage
• Bill Burr jokes about Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau’s hairstyle
• Conan O’Brien declines selfie request from fan at podcast upfronts
• Kenan Thompson visits Newark high school with Stanley Cup
• John Cleese touring Australia with afterlife-themed comedy show
• Sarah Silverman announces father’s death on Instagram
• Kara Wood’s book ‘The Power of the Streak’ about exercise consistency

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck Shnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from the Late Bot Late BoNT did a good jomp today. Hey, happy day after Mother’s Day. Today’s the day when all the moms gets relaxed but their feet Never mind, Hey mom, what’s for breakfast? Yesterday was all about celebrating moms. Today is about apologizing for not doing enough.

I hope everybody had a great Mother’s Day. But if you didn’t call your mom, don’t worry. She’ll let you know about it for the next three and sixty four days. The day after Mother’s Day is like a hangover after a really good party. You wake up and think, wait, did I really spend that much money on flowers?

That was all the ai? Those were pretty good, right? All right? We had a kerfluffle at a comedy club, but Chrissy Mayor is on stage at the Hyena’s Comedy Nightclub. Mayor took a shot at Dylan mulvaney for not having top or bottom surgery a year after his transition.

Mayor joke that she would find the largest male genitalia to add to her body if she were transitioning to a man. So she questioned what mulvaney was waiting for her joke three hundred and sixty five days, like, why has it been a year of girlhood and still no boobs? That’s day one, okay. If I’m transitioning to a dude, day one, I’m getting a large japentage. I’m getting the biggest one you can find.

Like going to the back room, get me something black, Okay, I have something approve here? Why no boobs for Dylan? I don’t understand. An audience members shouted out because he’s a man. Mayor nodded in agreements.

Another person in the crowd said no, she’s a woman. Mayor said, oh, we have one of those. Tensions escalated from there. Some offended patrons got up and left the show. One yelled fu transphobe.

As defended members exited the building, Mayor took a shot at their wait and said, make sure she gets home. I don’t want those women to get a harpooned in the neck on the way to their cars. Worried about their safety. There’s poachers out there. They’re gonna want their tusks.

Via Twitter, Mayor said audience members complained in management before knocking over her merchandise table. Mayor tweets just fy these women and put women in quotes for some reason, when straights and management to complain and then proceeded to stampede a parentheses knock over my merch table. This is the conflict when it comes to comedy and leftists. It’s not just compatible. Reactions to her tweet were mixed.

One wrote that Mayor confuses nasty hate with comedy. John Stewart questioned CNN for having former President Trump on the other day, and John tweeted deared TV. The problem with the Trump town hall wasn’t platforming or a fragile, silent audience unable to be exposed to newsworthy opinions antithetical to their own. The problem was an event that was clearly negotiated a Trump’s approval and owed to access. Stewart wrote from the perspective of CNN saying, we promise good, sir, we are no longer fake news an enemy of the people.

Let us prove to you we are fair and good and we will do this however you would like, just come back. Bill Burt tweeted about New York and Knicks head coach Tom at Tibado. The coach doesn’t have the most full head of hair. Bliber, who has chosen a shave clean himself, says, I respect that the Knicks coach still puts product in his hair. Conan O’Brien was at the podcast upfronts and told this story.

Said, I was heading to dinner and this woman stopped me on the street and she talked to me about how much she liked the podcast. Well, it’s pretty cool, Conan Great. Conan says, would you like a selfie? And she said no, I’m good. Codan’s like, are you sure you don’t want a selfie?

And she said, Wow, you’re just as needy as you are on the podcast from NHL dot com You’re Home for Comedy News. Actor Keenan Thompson using the word actor here because he played Russ Tyler in the Mighty Ducks movie series. That’s right. Keenan Thompson visited East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey to talk to student athletes about hockey teams. After Thompson spoke with the students, Howie Borrow, one of the keepers of the Stanley Cup, brought out the Stanley Cup.

Thompson said, how we brought the cup to show you guys, it’s attainable. If you dream it and pursue it, you never know your name could be etched on this cup as well. John Clees is touring Australia. His show is about his experiences in the afterlife and what the audience can expect when they get there. While he’s down there, he’s going to film a roast in Melbourne that will air on the seven channel in Australia.

That should be fun. I hope they air that here. As for his current tour, he said, I’ve seen enough evidence that something goes on, certainly for some people after they die. Awkward segue here by your host who didn’t plant things out. Sarah Silverman shared that her father has passed away.

Sarah went on Instagram May eleventh and shared some family photos and wrote, my best pal schluppy. My dad died last night. All the sisters and grandkids surrounded him with love and singing and very dark, effed up jokes the final week, but ultimately he wanted to be with his love Janice, who we lost last Monday. He always said he was the richest man in the world because of his family, and he was. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you.

By the Power of the Streak. Kara Wood has this really cool, easy to read book that answers the age old question of how to stay consistent with exercise and keep motivated over time. If you struggle with working out regularly, if you only started exercise to be back to where you once started a couple of weeks, you need to check out this book. I am a big fan of regularly exercising, because what happens if your body starts to feel better, Like now that I’m getting out there and running more regularly, what used to be a struggle becomes an easy run. So he had a little more distance, start to feel better, lungs are working good, got a little more room in the belt.

Kara has kept a running streak for twelve years. Those twelve years included having a career, two kids. She’s a wife and a mother. Hope you had a nice mother. Stay there, Kara Wood, in the Power of the Streak.

She shares the secrets of having the drive to exercise no matter why. Her story is funny, relatable, and inspiring. If you buy the book, a percentage of the royalties is donated to the Special Olympics. That’s very cool. The Power of the Streak by Kara would available in all formats on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Kara also invites you to sign up for the free sub stack, which is called knock it Off. The most recent post there is called from Us to You, a love letter to all mothering figures. Those include biological mothers, inherited mothers see the Bigger Picture, mothers, moms who make you laugh, moms who are liberal with spending, moms who walk and talk after dinner, moms who make you pee with text responses, and a bunch of others. I won’t the whole article here. So you’re going to go to the knock It Off substack and you’re going to buy the Power of the Streak.

John, you didn’t talk about it much. You worked out this weekend. Sticking with today’s theme, let me just play all my cards up. My uncle passed away last week, so Thursday and Friday was week and funeral. Yes, Karen, I’m working a funeral into your advertisement, and along with that becomes moving around all the various podcasts that I work on.

So I’m recording this one on Sunday morning. It is a beautiful Sunday morning. Normally I would have taken today and gone out for a long run. But then you wouldn’t have any podcast on Monday and you’d be sad. Boy, that was passive aggressive.

But this week I’m going to get back on it because I am signed up for the New York City Marathon and at some point you can’t be like, well, I probably should have trained. I’ll just gut out this twenty six point two. You cannot gut out twenty six point two. The Power of the Streak Amazon, Barns and Noble Online is an audiobook to do it. I did find a few minutes to watch Hannah Gadsby’s new special, It’s fine.

I feel like I’m in this bad run of every special now. I’m just like, Ah’s okay, so I’m hoping one comes along that just really tickles my brain. It was a nice company. I don’t think I laughed at all, and I’m not saying that to like hate on the special. Like I said, it was a nice company.

It was charming. I enjoy Hannah, but it didn’t light up the parts of my brain they go, oh, this is really amazing. So it’s fine. Hannah spoke to people and they asked where they find inspiration, Hannah says, well, I go to my life where I make lots of mistakes and embarrassment. It’s an embarrassment of riches.

I leave a trail of comedy in my wake. It’s not comedy necessarily in the moment, but that’s part of what I do, repackage on my woes. In the past, I haven’t repackaged it. I said, here’s my woe, ha ha. But this is repackaging it.

It’s more lighthearted. But I always begin with a story that I know is funny and then build it out from there. It’s a fairly authentic show, being exactly who I want to be and who I am. I feel like I’m in the moment. Doing a show that is positive is not as easy as he had to imagine.

It’s much easier to be miserable. So this really did push my skills to the limits. Creative show that is not smug, that’s relatable, but also sharing a real sense of joy. Hannah spoke about not interacting with their fans and explained, I don’t interact a great deal with my fans. I’m on the spectrum and I find that overwhelming.

But I do love my fan base. They’re very respectful and I do get a lot of feedback, particularly from people on the spectrum. That feels great for me because I don’t think there’s a lot of people on the spectrum being autistic talking about being autistic, and it’s kind of territory, so I really like that I’m able to offer a bit of solace around the traps. Note to yourself, if you have a podcast, use black font for whatever reason. My script today is in blue and I could barely read it.

At the Dubai Comedy Festival, Irish comedian Dara O’Brien, if you are in Dubai, thanks for listening, and you can expect a mix of stories, one liners and more. Time out Dubai warns you if you’re sitting in the front row, watch out. He does mess with the audience.

Also there today osco at Kotska, Beth Selling and Rachel Feinstein.

That’s a heck of a show Dubai. You can get in for one hundred and seventy five Dubai currency units. I don’t know what d S is, but for one hundred and seventy five of those you could see these three comedians take on real life experiences with a hilarious twist. That’s a really good show. Monday, the New Zealand Comedy Festival is off, saying he has a couple of shows from people you’ve heard of, Joe like It and Dylan Morin.

Here’s a crossover story from the Palace Intrigue podcast. That’s the podcast about the British Royal family. I’m the writer and one of the listeners, Becky It, said hey, did you see the story? You should share it? And I’m like, oh, I definitely saw it.

So with Becky’s encouragement, I will share it on the comedy podcast. Did you see the guy at King Charles Coronation? He had shaggy hair, big mustache, sunglasses. Some people thought he was a jewel thief in disguise. Others thought he was a jewel thief in disguise named Megan Markle.

He is not. He is Sir Carl Jenkins. Enough people accused him of being Megan Markle in disguise that he had to put out a statement saying I look like this all the time. I’ve had the must since I was eighteen years old. It was very trendy then, so that’s me.

Nothing sinister or surprising about it at all, and people pointed it out that’s exactly what a jewel thief and disguise would say.

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Also another random one, Dame Judy Dench.

You know her. She played m in a bunch of the James Bond movies. The police visited her and accused her of stealing a deer. She’s eighty eight years old. She explained to the cops.

I had come from the theater. Suddenly in front of us, a deer shout out of the park. We stopped and with enormous difficulty, we got the deer back into the park. The next day the police came and said, we hear you were stealing a deer. Seems unlikely.

Not your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. See tomorrow.

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All right, here’s the pitch.

Five stories. They’re all good news. It’s called five good News Stories. No negative news, just kid news. Nice easy way to start your day, hopefully a smile.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. So you get the premise. There’s live stories and they’re all good news. So the number five Good News Stories five good news stories. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Pauly Shore, Mitzi Shore, Mark Marin, Maria Bamford, Stephen Wright, Jim Gaffigan, Adam Sandler, David Mitchell, Josie Long, Jessica Fostaque, Hattie Ashdown, Heres Khan

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan discusses stress of owning a comedy club and managing lineups
• Stephen Wright releases debut novel ‘Harold’ about a third-grade boy in 1965 Massachusetts
• Adam Sandler’s new Netflix film ‘My Bat Mitzvah’ releasing August 25th
• David Mitchell’s ‘Outsiders’ renewed for third season on UK’s Dave channel
• Female comedians balancing motherhood with touring and comedy careers
• Funny Mummies podcast explores experiences of comedians who are mothers
• Heres Khan performing at Dubai Comedy Festival

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Late Bod. Happy Mother’s Day. It’s the one day of the year where we all pretend we’re going to clean out our rooms and do the dishes without being asked. Happy Mother’s Day, everybody. It’s that special day where we celebrate the women who brought us into the world and made sure we didn’t burn down the house with our experiments in the kitchen.

On Mother’s Day, we honor the women who taught us the meaning of unconditional love, patience, and had a guilt trip our siblings into doing chores. On Mother’s Day, we celebrate the women who gave us life, who made us who we are, and who still remind us we’re a jacket when it’s cold outside. Last week on the Joe Rogan Experience, Joe was speaking to poly Shure Pauly Shore’s mom, Mitzi Shore owned the legendary Comedy store. They started talking about owning a comedy club. Joe said, I’d always tell people be nice to comedy club owners because you don’t want to be one.

He says. The biggest stress of the new club has been wrangling lineups. Joe said, I had to talk with myself about it, like, do you really want to take this on? You don’t want to be some person hoping that this guy shows up that he wasn’t doing coke last night and he’s not a two day bender. He misses his flight or he didn’t sleep.

There are so many factors dealing with your livelihood. If you’re a club owner, people get too drunk, they’re crazy, they do this, they wreck the hotel room, and you’re constantly putting out fires. Mark Marrin told Casey RW. I recently worked with Maria Bamford up in Canada. We were in the same venue.

I’ve known her forever and I’ve always sung her praises. But she’s still working at the top of her game, and it’s a game that no one else can play. It’s deep, It covers everything in a way that’s just totally inspired and unique, to the point where you watch her and I’m like, why am I even doing comedy. Stephen Wright put out a novel. It’s called Harold.

The Washington Post took a look. Harold is the title character. He’s a seven year old boy attending his third grade class in suburban Massachusetts in nineteen sixty five. Harold’s teacher is reminding him to remember his upcoming assignments. But he’s the kind of kid who isn’t going to get boxed in by assignments.

He’s smart, but psychically entirely off the grid. Stephen Wright explains he did more thinking than someone his age, or any age. The book collects many of Harold’s thoughts, which are very Stephen Rtsian. For example, wouldn’t it be great if he had a pair of glass bottom shoes that he could wear on the glass bottom boat with no socks on it, so if fish looked up, they could, for the first time in their lives see bare feet that weren’t in the water. Harold wondered if bird angels would have four wings or one more, and being in love was like being on a seesaw where one side contained nitro glycerin Washington Post says, Stephen writes reading of the Harold audiobook is much like a stand up deliberate dead band and levin just a bit by his thick Boston accent.

Jim Gaffigan tilled cracked with stand up comedy. There was a moment when I started headlining where before the show I’d be in the backstage erry watching the show and people would be looking past me. They didn’t even know his headlining. Then after the show when they saw me, they’d be like, oh my gosh. And I was like, wow, it’s really interesting.

People treat you differently, but they’re impressed by the show. It’s not me. I was the guy on stage that was saying some funny things with the microphone. It’s not me. But eventually I started thinking, well it was me.

Hey, great news. Another Adam Sailor movie. That’s what the world needs. This one co stars Adina Menzel. It’s called My bat Mitzvah, coming to Netflix August twenty fifth.

So you want to take that last week of the summer off and stay home and watch this thing. In My bat Mitzvah Stacey and Lydia or BFFs, you’ve always dreamed about having epic bat Mitzvah’s okay cool, but things start to go comically awry when a popular boy in middle school drama threaten their friendship and their right of passage. Now listen to this cast. Not only does it start Adam Sandler, but it also features Jackie Sandler. Sadie Sandler and Sunny Sandler m Meanwhile, in the UK TV channel Dave has ordered a third season of David Mitchell’s Outsiders.

I’ve been watching a lot of Mitchell and Webb lately. I went looking for clips one night and now YouTube keeps putting them in front of me, and people have made these compilations of like here’s all the good clips from season three. I’m not sure how that works from a legals perspective, like yeah, like, okay, you just took clips and put it together for an hour and you get the adder of it. I’m not sure how that works. Mitchell and Webb is fantastic.

If you’ve never seen it, why don’t you type Mitchell and Webb into your YouTube anyway? And Outsiders a six part series. Comedians have to demonstrate their survival ability and a number of challenges. These are jokingly contrived to test whether they had the skills to form a new society in the wild. Mitchell said how brilliant that David Mitchell’s Outsiders is coming back for a third series and that I get the chance to put more comedians through their survival paces.

I can’t wait to see them fly around in the outdoors in a way that is both hilarious to watch and carries with it at the darker truth that should society collapse, most of us are in for long, agonizing deaths. Plus they’ll be lovely cutaway shots of wildlife, which you don’t get in any other panel show. I was hoping to do more for Mother’s Day. I didn’t really see too much. Here’s one from The Gordian.

The headlined the comics Motherhood that Can’t Stop. Josie Long said, before I had kids, I swam in an ocean of time. I did a lot of touring, was away for long periods. If I wanted, I could write all night. I slept in all the time.

When I started in comedy, I was on the sharp end of a lot of sex and stuff. I was told over and over that women’s bodies are disgusting and women’s experiences are niche. So it was wonderfully liberating to do a story about childbirth. Jessica Fostaque as a seven year old son. She recalls what things were like when she was pregnant.

She said it was fifty fifty whether a woman in comedy went public about a pregnancy. I watched my elders hide theirs and panic. Then I watched a few brave women smash through that. There’s a podcast. It’s called Funny Mummies Mummies you know like Egyptian or how the Brits say, mom mummies, Funny Mummies.

It gives comedians to space to discuss these issues. It is hosted by Hattie Ashdown, who’s a comic. Hattie says it’s about mums in comedy being open and honest and not feeling like you’ve got to lie or hide that you’ve had kids. I wanted to find out how comedian mums juggle it all. She believes gigging is not a level playing field as it’s assumed that female comedians are responsible for their childcare.

She says male comics are booked over female comics. We need more Dad saying I’ve got to work out a babysitter in Chicago tonight at Zenies, and recently i posted a photo of myself across the street from Zeni’s having nothing to do with this The Bad Moms of Comedy MMZ or playing at Zini’s tonight at seven. I wanted to find out more about the bad Moms with a Z of Comedy. Hey Bad moms, you gotta update your web game. I couldn’t even figure out your names.

I figured out one of the moms, couldn’t figure out the rest. No details, don’t know what the show is about, don’t know who you are? Come on, step it up. I want to support you. Are you heading to the Dubai Comedy Festival?

Well goods? Here Khan is playing there today is a Here is one of India’s new generation of stand up comedians and YouTubers. He won Comedy Central’s India’s Best stand Up Comedian. He’s even the co host of a comedy news channel. Wait, so he’s the Indian me but funny, okay cool?

I like this guy. By the way, the show’s in Hindi and this next story I saw in the La Times really compelling. We’re gonna go on a Ryan he Orzo buckle up. Kyle Ayers came up with a show called boast Rattle. I did not misspeak boast Rattle.

It’s a head to head compliment base take on roast battle, So instead of ripping each other, you compliment each other. Crowd members get to vote up to two times per person in each round, and winning names get added to a Championship bout to battle for the belt of Flowers. Before kicking off Boast Rattle, Ayer’s pauses to set a complimentary mood. He said, going to get into the bosting spirit and talk to you guys about a brain disease I have called trigeminal neuralgia. It’s like a nerve exploded to the base of my brain stem and a lot of negative about it.

But I was trying to think of the good parts of having a degenerator of brain disease. He unveils a keynote presentation called Kyle Boasts his t N. In the presentation, it said, it’s called suicide disease might sound like a negative, but it’s only called that because it is the highest rate of suicide of any medical ailments. Other slides include I was dead for ten minutes, cool scars, and I win Chronic pain support groups. La Times writes.

By the second round of Boast Rattle, Air sits on stage right next to judge Guy Brainham while two contestants begin complimenting each other. Here’s jaw works up and down and side to side. He massages the right side of his head his eyebrows. Raisin pain after the show, he can barely talk. That night was the first time he addressed his ten on stage, and he’s happy with how it went.

Producer Katherine Swope said, it’s amazing to see the response. It’s easy to write jokes about dating or bad boss, but it takes a special alchemy to make light of something as dark and serious as his brain condition. Back in Brooklyn at Spike Hill, Airs ran Game Night, a comedy show. Comedians on stage played everything from Monopoly to mad libs to family feud. People that worked with him back then talked about we be spelling Bee spelled like the insect.

We be spelling a drunken spelling Bee meets fundraising events that happened back at the knitting factory, and they said he was always the smartest guy in the room. He’s so witty about creating concepts and brainstorming ideas and being able to execute everything. He also began noticing in his headaches back then. Doctors thought the pain was something dental dentists couldn’t find anything. Long comedy sets made him tick and switch.

The pain could make him pass out lights and wind to hurt. At its worst. Tiene keeps airs away from comedy and from people altogether, from months at a time. He says, it’s very interruptive. It’s spending a lot of time in the kitchen floor, keeled over and crying and freaking out.

One doctor scan finally found something. It was determined to be non cancerous. That was the end of the diagnosis. He was in an out of vergent care. One of his friends said, I’ve seen him five minutes before he goes on crying the pain is so bad.

Then he wipes the tears off his eyes, took a big breath with a smile on his face and crushed it. He comes off stage and he’s so weak, but he doesn’t show it on stage. He’s a true professional. Reminds me of any Calfvin going through cancer and doing his last shows, or Bill Hicks having cancer but still puffing cigarettes and talking smack. Doctors finally entertain the possibility of t n ayers.

Was told it’s a rear disorder occurring mostly in elderly women. As he describes it, it’s an improperly functioning cranial nerve triggers pain receptors and his brainstem to feel like I’m getting stabbed and electrocuted at the same time and the right side of my face, he said, channeling his darkest challenges in a positive art would create his most personal and challenging material to date. You want to find it through line and something that’s not just like me being sad, talking about sad stuff and riffing off it. When the pendulum of my mental state swings towards optimistic, I see a show, I think there’s something too it. Eventually when it swings back in the other direction.

Now, I don’t think I’ll be around when this would be developed show. If this is life every day, Wow, that just sounds awful. Kyle Airs, I wish you well. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, Happy Mother’s Day, See tomorrow.

All right, here’s the pitch. Five stories. They’re all good news. It’s called five good news Stories. No negative news, just kid news.

Nice easy way to start your day. Hopefully smile. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. So you get the premise. There’s five stories and they’re all good news.

So the number five good news stories. Five good news Stories. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Bobcat Goldthwait, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Heidecker, Bridget Everett, Sam Morril, Chris Rock, Mark Marin, Casey RW, Nate Burgatty, Pikachu, Fergus Neil, Mary Tyler Moore

What’s in This Episode

• Bobcat Goldthwait and Jerry Seinfeld feud reignited
• Bobcat discusses comedy career on Office Hours Live podcast
• Sam Morril on theater vs. comedy club audiences
• Mark Marin praises Nate Burgatty’s new special despite political differences
• Japanese comedian Pikachu serves as police chief for a day
• Australian comedian Fergus Neil encourages lettuce theft to protest inflation
• HBO documentary Being Mary Tyler Moore premiering May 26

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. Let’s try this. I asked the Late Bot to come up with a David Letterman style top ten list for ways to start your podcast when you don’t have a better idea. Number ten. Begin your podcast with a ten minute ran about how you can’t believe you have to come up with a new idea.

Number nine. Start with a lengthy discussion about the weather. Everybody loves hearing about how hot at his outside. Number eight. Open with a list of all the things you don’t want to talk about on your podcast.

Number seven. Kick off your podcast with a dramatic reading of your grocery. List six. Start with a five minute monologue about your mood swings. Number five.

Begin your podcast by reading your horoscope. Nothing says entertainment like a vague prediction about the future. Number four. Open with excuses as to why you don’t have a better opening. Number three.

Start with a joke that falls flatt and then spend the next ten minutes trying to explain why it was funny. Number two begin with a dramatic reading of your own tweets. And the number one way to kick off your podcast when you don’t have any ideas kick off your podcast with a top ten list of idea is to start off your podcast. Thank you late bought. I hadn’t missed this one, but it’s always a popular topic.

I do repurpose the podcast as a YouTube video. Note by video, I mean static image of a wave. But you can listen to the podcast on YouTube. Did I explain that right? You know what I’m talking about.

And the most popular thing I ever boasted was the bizarre war between Jerry Seinfeld and Bobcat Goldthwaite. Maybe I’ll rerun that someday, but I had missed this one. Bobcat went on Tim Hidecker’s podcast, which is called Office Hours Lives. He discussed his comedy in film career, and then a Seinfeld impersonator calling into crack jokes about the cast of Seinfeld and about Bobcat. Heidecker used the bit to ask Bobcat about Jerry, who reignited their beefback in twenty nineteen when Jerry extensively complained about Bobcat on an episode of Comedians and Cars Getting Coffee, whereas Bobcat calls the show millionaires bitching about their diamond shoes being too tight.

Bobcat said, it was so long ago. I was on our cineo. That’s where this whole thing started. I thought we were good because I was friendly with his manager. But maybe I own an apology whatever.

Tim Heidecker played a clip of Goldweight calling Seinfeld a quote spooky, weird scientologist guy banging teenage girls at the time, Jerry Seinfeld. Now people have forgotten this, this happened. I was there. I lived it. At the time.

Jerry Seinfeld was dating Shoshana Lonstein. He allegedly met her when he was thirty eight and she was seventeen. Seinfeld apparently never forgot Bobcat shots, calling Bobcat not funny and criticizing his stupid effing voice. He did that in a lengthy rant on Comedians and Cars with Bridget Everett, who’s a friend of Bobcat. Bobcat said, I was like, Seinfeld finally has an opinion about something and it’s me Also, like, why do I bug him for this log?

I don’t even think it’s about the jokes I made. I think I just didn’t fit into what his idea of comedy is. Him calling me out was like the old West, you know, and I’ve got my forty fives on the wall. I’m retired, and he’s like, Goldfarm, come on out. He fires first, and it’s like, that’s why he does that dumb character.

That’s the only way he can make people laugh. And I just dodge his bullet and I fire back. Your biggest talent is being Larry David’s friend Boom.

Now here’s some great news.

I just took out my podcast app to tell you what episode to listen to. This is episode two three three of Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker, and it was the January fifth episode. But as I pulled out my app to grab it for myself, I didn’t realize the newest episode from ten days ago. Now, episode two forty eight also has Bobcat Goldthwaite, so plenty for you to listen to. There some more jokes from Bobcat I hear the new season if your show is going to be called old comedians and vans handing out candy on playgrounds.

Sam Morrel’s booked to Forbes and said theaters are so much easier than clubs. It’s actually something Chris Rock said to me. There’s something about velvety seats just makes them behave better. When it’s a prizier ticket and bigger venue. I think you’re taken more seriously.

I have all these memories of performing in comedy clubs where I couldn’t fill the room that just give out free tickets. The crowd doesn’t respect you. There’s no investment. You have to prove yourself to that crowd. With every joke.

I’d be killing it for twenty minutes and then one bomb and they’re like, he sucks. Now. I have people that are listening Mark marin’spop to Casey RW about Nate Burggatsy and said, I watched Nate’s new special and he used to open for me. I remember the first time I saw him. I watched him three or four times at a comedy festival.

I’m like, does anybody know who this kid is? Because he’s got a style that’s totally unique. But the funny thing is he and I politically and spiritually are very different. He’s Southern, he’s Christian. He definitely doesn’t have the politics I have.

But we’re friends and I truly love his comedy. We couldn’t be more different. He’s clean, on the opposite of Nate. He opened for me at Carnegie Hall. But it’s so funny because I watched his newest special and I swear to God I find him inspiring.

But I texted him and I was like, look, I know we think differently about things and we’re spiritually different, but I love you man, and I thought your special was great. And he texted back, I pray for you every day. I love you two men. I miss you. I hope we can hang out again.

Japanese comedian singer Pikazaro you know him. He’s got his comical hit song ppap Remember that one? Yeah? Well. He served as the chief of the Metropolitan Police Departments Azabu Police Station for a day this week.

He even participated in a traffic safety show. Pikataro was clad in his renowned Leopard Prince suit you know the one he wrote, in a convertible and he paraded along to performance by a local high school old brass band. He waves a residence, gathered along the street and promoted traffic safety.

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Meanwhile, at Australian comedian he’s in trouble for urging shoppers to stea…

Fergus Neil encouraged Australians to steal ahead of lettuce as the cost of living pressures are felt across the country. He went on social media and claimed that inflation is used by the Woolworths chain. Yeah, there’s still a chain called Woolworths. If you’re old, you remember the United States one. It has nothing to do with that.

I looked it up when I was down there and I was like Woolworths anyway. Neil Fergus claimed that inflation he’s used by Woolwortz as a smokescreen increased prices and company profits rather than easily absorbing the cost of supply chain issues. He wrote, next time you’re at Woolworths, do your Australian duty and steal a gush darn lettuce. Some people on social media complain. One said stealing from supermarkets results in increased prices for all shoppers to cover the supermarkets losses.

The Daily Mail Australia asked Fergus what he thought about the backlash, and he said, let them eat lettuce. Hey, this is cool. HBO has a thing coming out called Being Mary Tyler Moore. It chronicles Mary Tyler Moore as a storied career spanning sixty years. It weaves Moore’s personal narrative with the beats of her professional accomplishments.

The film highlights are groundbreaking roles in the indelible impact she had on generations of women who came after her. I love Mary Tyler Moore. I’m looking forward to this one. Although they’re being at May twenty six, whereas Johnny Mac May twenty six, Johnny Mac has Taylor Swift tickets. Paldtin Nickerson said, one of the nice things about comedies they were unconventional pass but ultimately the only way to get good at comedies to do comedy.

I’m not talking about getting popular, or selling tickets or having TikTok followers. All those things are important in this game, but to truly get good at stand up comedy, it is to do it over and over again. You get little winds along the way, you get your first paid gigs, someone takes you on the road than your headline for the first time. I’d say the biggest one for me was the first time I went on TV. Kevin Hart had a show on Comedy Central called Kevin Hart Presents Heart of the City, which featured up in comers.

I did a showcase for it, but I didn’t think I was gonna get it. I kind of washed out on my memory. Then I got a call from the producer telling me, hey, you got it, and that was overwhelming and very validating. When someone puts you on TV makes it feel like it’s a little less a hobby or some empty pipe dream. Okay.

Dustin Nickerson, what’s her creative process when it comes to writing new material? He said, it’s different for every comic. I’ve never found anyone who’s remotely similar, exactly the same. Someone like Mark Marin works out of stuff on stage, maybe as an idea, and then he finds it on stage. Then there’s a guy like Tom Papa.

He’s writing jokes in a notebook. I knew people who write scripts. I’m usually somewhere in between. For me, everything starts with the genesis of something funny. Do I find something funny about the topic or that idea about that experience.

Then I start talking through. I start saying it out loud. I’ll talk to my wife about it, I’ll talk to other comics about it. I don’t physically write it down very often, but I sometimes make a little note side I don’t forget the idea. Then I go over it and over it in my head at the New Zealand Comedy Festival on Sundays somewhat of a light show the Comedy Fest All Stars or at the Church Hill Jester promises fresh comedy every time.

Let me click on what this is gestures a show where we put our newbies on stage with some of our old hands. It’s a hilarious comedy show in the style of whose line is in anyway? That’s fun? And here’s a show by Karen from Finance called Dating Time. Karen from Finance is headed for the lock up and her workers Frank the CEO and Amanda from Reception could not be happier.

The way they jeer is a downright criminal. Will Karen from Finance prove her innocence or will she walk free? By the way, did you know the British countries all put the weekend at the end of the week on the calendar, like you know, an American calendar goes Sunday, Monday Tuesday, and all the British ones New Zealand Australia have at the end of the week Saturday then Sunday, so when you look, the week starts with Monday, and oh believe me, it messes me up every time I click on it. But when you think about it, it is called the week End. It makes sense.

I think they’re right. Good luck convincing everyone over here to change that. One of the shows you can see, it’s Sydney on Sunday, Brett Blake’s Dog Act and they have a clip. But the bad news is I clicked on it and he’s talking about a sex shop. I couldn’t make enough edits to share it with you.

It was funny. Brett Blake’s Dog Act. Guy Williams was called comedy plus time equals tragedy. Let’s see if this one’s a little more clean. You know.

COVID nineteen has been a real roller coaster for all of New Zealand, and considering we only have one roller coaster in New Zealand, it’s actually been a real treat, to be honest, it’s been a real wild rise. This is honestly the best job in the world. I love this so much, you know, because it can’t go wrong. People is like Guy, what if no one laughs? People pay at the starter show, not the end, and people like Guy.

Imagine doing an entire one hour show and getting no last the entire show. I don’t have to imagine that. I did that in christ Churts last week. I’m a mediocre white man. I can talk confidently for an hour with no laughs.

I just pretend I’m doing a podcast. Hey, podcast joke, that’s mean, all right? He was fun. I had a clip out a couple of naughty words there, but you got to gist he was fun. What are you saying people can go for like thirteen minutes on a pod and that’d be funny at all.

I don’t know. I’m going home. Then follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. I don’t know. Maybe I won’t even come back tomorrow.

If that’s how you feel. Who doesn’t like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac.

My podcast is called Travel Is Back. Travel is Back is travel for regular people. We hop in the car with like coach fews or miles. We eat in normal places, we stay at normal places. So what I do is I hop in the car, and I grab my portable recorder and I go somewhere.

Season three kicks off of a road trip to Key West. You can check out the back catalog. There are popular episodes covered Chicago, Nashville, Vancouver, Seattle, a whole bunch more. Travel Is Back road trips or regular people follow the show on Apple podcast or wherever you get your shows. These are quick, these are casual, and it’s for regular people like you.

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Featured: Wanda Sykes, Jessica Curson, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Larry David, Joe List, Brian Kylie

What’s in This Episode

• Late Bot AI-generated jokes for Late Night
• Wanda Sykes Netflix special ‘I’m an Entertainer’ May 23rd
• Jessica Curson crowdwork comedy and YouTube special strategy
• The Seinfeld Curse debunked by Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Larry David
• Joe List wins Comedian of the Year at Boston Comedy Festival
• Changing comedy industry landscape: social media vs traditional TV deals

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 Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I had mentioned the other day that I was working with the late Bot, and late Bot went on its own and wrote some jokes. I didn’t even ask it to write jokes. But since late Night is off, let’s see what the late bot has for us. I just read that a new study shows that most people who go to the gym don’t actually use the equipment.

In other words, they pay money to pretend they’re going to work out. It’s like going to a tailor swift concert pretending you’re not there for the songs. I’m not sure what that joke reads, but if Kimble told it, you’d laugh. Did you hear about the new iPhone app that helps you find the nearest public restroom. Finally, a way to find relief from both your bladder and you’re crippling addiction to technology.

I wonder why the late bot pick that is a topic. One more and I could see this being a fallon joke. I saw that Amazon is now offering one day shipping on some products. Yeah, because apparently waiting a whole two days for your avocado slicer just isn’t fast enough anymore. All Right, thank you computer.

Let’s go to professional committyans. Wanda Sykes has a new special coming to Netflix May twenty third. I have pre listened to the trailer and I liked to lot. Here it’s your turn to listen. We’ve had a pandemic and insurrection.

Rovie Way got overturned. Kanye’s black ass wearing a White Lives Mada T shirt. I think I’m gonna call this special here comes Jesus. Black people were watching January sixth, like, what in the Wakanda forever is going on here? I mean they were just climbing up the walls.

It looked like a zombie heard, you know, like Julianni bit all over them. They were just confected. Say, you know, I can’t tell you how many Drags shows I’ve been since that. They ran out of hot chairs and boost the seats. You know, my kids asking me once, I say, ask me if they could eat them batists before they go to bed so they could sleep in.

That sounds really promising. We’ll see how far up the Johnny Mac at twenty twenty three list this want a psych special makes it. It’s called I’m an Entertainer. Filmed at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia back in February. The Pressure, he says, the special tackles the challenges of raising gen Z teens and the dilemmas of being a liberal and a hypercharge political climate.

Wanta psychs I’m an Entertainer, Netflix, May twenty third, Jessica Curson. She’s at the Njpackt Theater tonight. This from njarts dot com. Jessica describes her stand up as you don’t have to think a lot. I’m really an entertainer.

It’s very old school. I feel like people just want to see a show now and not have to think so much. They have short attention spans. I don’t talk about heavy subjects like politics or what’s going on the news. I don’t bring up anything that divides people.

Ever, I’m self deprecating. I do a lot of characters, which people love, and it’s more of a high energy kind of show. It’s fast paced, you’re constantly on your feet. I do a lot of crowd work, which I’m known for, and people love that. It’s not just one kind of style.

I do all different voices. The mail comics will always say I don’t see you as a female comic. I see you as a comic. That’s an interesting backhanded compliment. Jessica says, I don’t stick to female centered things at all.

I don’t bash men, I don’t talk about women’s problems. I purposely appeal to men and women. A lot of times guys will come to my shows without their wives or girlfriends, which is very rare for a female comedian. She says, crowd work is hard, but I love it. Some comics would never do it because it’s just not part of what they do, and then there are comics starting out who do it and they’re horrible at it.

Yeah, if you’ve ever gone on YouTube, there’s so much bad CrowdWork or comedian slams, heckler nonsense. Anyway, Jessica says, some comics do it, and we’re very good at it because we’ve done it for so many years and people want to see us do it. There’s some people who are brilliant. It’s sitting down and writing a joke that’s not my thing. Where some of my friends can do that and they wish they could do what I do.

Jessica talked about the changing times in comedy and said when I started out, it was towards the end of this. But if you got the Tonight Show, that was it. You made it. If you’ve got a sitcom, you’re a star. She says, I’ve done The Tonight Show three times and it’s like it’s a good clip to get other work.

But the fact that I have almost five hundred thousand followers on TikTok and YouTube is enormous. It’s everything in your career now. You have to have numbers on social media or else you’re not going to go anywhere. I mean, unless you get a big break somewhere. But it’s the only way to get people to come to your shows.

Before it was television. She’s going to sell for release her new special. She said, Yeah, I’m doing a CrowdWork special and I’m not even trying to sell it. I’m putting it up on YouTube, which is crazy. Years ago, even five years ago, I would immediately try to sell it to Netflix or Amazon or Apple.

And I have like the biggest comedy manager in the business. The fact that I’m not even trying to sell it tells you everything. I’m putting it up on YouTube because I’ll get more out of it because of the fans, and because every comic will push it for me, like bur Kraizer, Joe Rogan, Whitney Cummings. Everyone will say, watch Jessica Special, and with all that sport, I don’t need to put it on TV. It’ll get millions of views, like when you put it on Netflix in one of those channels.

You don’t even know, like you have no idea even if it’s popular or not. You know what is popular? Jessica the eight figure checks. Some comedians were kidding, so I hear you, I hear you, But let’s not act like if Netflix went, hey, gar eighteen seven figures you in, You’re gonna say no, come on, Julia. Louis Dreyfuss talked about the seinfeld curse.

What’s that Well, some people thought there was a curse related to having been a star of the Seinfeldt sitcom For example, Julia sitcom Watching Ellie didn’t do so well, Michael Richards The Michael Richard Show did not do well, and Jason Alexander had Bob Patterson and Listen Up. Those didn’t do well, And Julia said it was invented by the media. They thought it was clever. You don’t need me to prove it wrong. It’s ridiculous.

It made no sense. I was amazed that it had legs. It was so maronic. I don’t know what else to say. Larry David called the curse the most idiotic notion back in two thousand and nine, and he’s had a pretty good thirteen years since.

Larry back in oh nine said, are you crazy? It’s so annoying to hear something like that. There’s no curse. It’s crazy. So there were two TV shows attempt that didn’t work.

Big deal, How many TV shows work? Then they pointed out Jason Alexander was doing commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Larry said, he’s entitled to make a living, but a curse, that’s absurd. Joe List will receive the Comedian of the Year award next week at the Boston Comedy Festival. Joe told the Boston Globe.

I remember the Boston Comedy Festival started in two thousand, right around the same time I started, So it had a special meeting to me. I remember as a teenager being like, oh my god, we have our own festival. That’s crazy. Joe has a special coming out on YouTube this summer. It’s called Enough for Everyone.

He also has filmed a documentary about his film, one time Boston comic Tom Dustin, who now owns a comedy club in Key West, that is titled Too Funny to Hate that’ll be released this fall. Joe’s excited that he doesn’t have to compete in the stand up contest this year at Boston. He says his resume speaks for itself. It’s definitely a different vibe. It’s nice to know I’m going there to win something as opposed to trying to earn my win.

Definitely a lot less stress and anxiety this time. Brian Kylie, who wrote for Conan O’Brien for twenty seven years. He’s also picking up an award. He’d been doing stand up for about a decade when he hooked up with Conan, and now he’s touring again for the first time in thirty years. He says, I’m just doing stand up and I forgot how hard it is.

I mean, I’ve been doing stand up all long, but I didn’t have to go on the road for twenty eight years. I was lucky. I have to work with such funny people for so long, and now I’m spending so much time by myself. I’m not making myself laugh as much as I should be. I need to step it up.

This one surprises me. Fox has picked up a second season of Joe mccale’s Animal Control. I like Joe McHale a lot, and I watched two episodes of Animal Control and I was like, all right, if you have not seen Animal Control. Joe mccale plays Frank Shawn, opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college, but it’s still the most well reread person in the room. A former cop, Frank tried to expose corruption in his department, but his efforts got him fired, which may explain why he’s so cynical and curmudgeon le.

Plus, he’s played by Joe mccale, and that’s what Joel does. All right, Maybe I’ll have to catch up on that one. I think that shows up on Hulu as well. I know my DVR caught it. I see it sometimes.

All right, I’ll catch up on that one. Macpacker Andy Samberg his show dig Man got picked up by Comedy Central for a second season. That also surprised me, other than hey, dig Man is coming out. I didn’t see any buzz at all about that. Did anyone watch that.

Maybe it’s the bombs burger of Andy Sandberg. H I don’t want to get into that. Today, the Fringe Festival has announced another fifteen hundred ninety six shows going on sale. That brings up the total number of shows to over three thousand, eleven hundred of those or comedy shows. Looks like the Fringe will have more shows than last year.

Last year’s figure was thirty three hundred and eighty five shows. Are you in Dubai at the Dubai Comedy Festival? If you are, go see Sushi Mango tonight, the Australian comedy trio made up of Joe and Carlo Salenttieri and Andrew Manfrey. They’ll be in Dubai with their wildly successful Off the Boat Tour. Their online videos of amassed hundreds of millions of views.

Their characters from their video skits have gone from their parents’ garage to TV screens across Australia. I mean give you a quick taste of them. Here’s a video from six years ago titled Things Ethnic Dance Say. Things Ethnic Dance Says for you? No like this house?

Get we pay cash? How much cash? How much do you give me the oneful cash. All right, I clip right there. What I didn’t submit you to was a fart joke, just fort noise.

We don’t need to do that, all right. That’s sushi Mango. If you want to fly all the way to Dubai to see that. Let’s see what New Zealand is up to. I’ve been getting good results from them.

One show on Saturdays called Becky Umber’s Big Bad Back and the Three Little Pigs. The Big Bad Back is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down. In her debut solo show, she takes us on a whimsical journey through her laughable life as she encounters everything from three blind fish to three little pigs. All right, I’m intrigued. Let’s listen to this guy recently became an adult.

Some people Saturday Night sooner I’m twenty six, you able to lad the nib and now that I’m here, If I’m honest, I hide it. It’s horrible dens out. There’s no take backs. My main grant with it is a I’ve just I’ve had to go to work so many times now, honestly almost every week. It’s relentless.

But I like it’s just it’s quite hard. It tunes out. And see I thought I was getting the hang of it, which your tunes out is exactly when you’re not getting the hang of it. See. It been a few weeks and it got about mid day and I wasn’t freaking out.

Although I’ve nailed this, well, this is great. I can relax.

And then things took a too relax, too much farted in a meeting.

All right, I want to like to slow start fart chokes, back to back fur chokes. Not a fan of fark chokes. But here’s the thing. So, like, this is the clip being showcased. So you’re you’re getting random people like me and you and we’re going, oh, let me check out this show, and you’re hitting play, and that’s the clip that’s being showcased.

Right, we could have picked anything, and we’re picking that clip. So I don’t know.

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All right, let’s see what this Sydney Comedy Festivals up to you.

On Saturday, Beck Charlwood, her show was called good Funny. Let’s listen. I’ll level with you. I didn’t intentionally go for all the guys, right. What happens, right is I have one deal breaker and it cuts out every man under the age of twenty five?

Where am I under twenty five year old? Men in the room, give me a woop? All right, what’s your name? See if you pass this swanbo My one deal breaker to date me, right is that you have to own a bed frame. You got one this year.

I give it up for bar. I was sick of going home with beautiful smooth men like Bow, you know, just being greeted with a disgusting sponge on the grounds. No top sheet, no hopes, no treats, when these idiots will just be like you won’t get dust much unclamidia, So no, thank you already have one of those. See that was fun. She made a lot of the edits that you’d just heard.

But I think that’s good right for the point I just point out on the previous club like, let’s get right to it, doy like you. Yes, I clicked on your thing. You were funny, Beck Churwood. She’s at the Nmore Theater, twenty nine Australian Dollars show, fifteen years old and up. If you happen to be in Sydney, and that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, In Nursey Asselman, Joe List, Brian Kylie, Topper Carew, Chase Stokes, Pete Davidson, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Sharif Homsy, Melanie Bracewell, Barney Duncan

What’s in This Episode

• Concordia University offers Dave Chappelle course
• Boston Comedy Festival 2023 competition and awards
• Chase Stokes discusses relationship with Pete Davidson
• Beetlejuice 2 movie announcement for September 2024
• Syrian stand-up comedy troupe performs in Damascus
• New Zealand Comedy Festival performances

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Company News. Montreal’s Concordia University, it’s going to offer a course that’s just about Dave Chapelle well late Nights on Strikes. So I asked the late Bots to write some jokes about this one, and late Bott says the syllabus probably includes topics like the art of saying offensive things and getting away with it, and how to quit your own TV show and still come out on top. The Chapelle courus explores his role as a social commentator with lectures on topics like raise politics, cancel culture, and if any students try to cancel the course for being too controversial, you get an f for missing the entire point the actual story. Rapper and professor yes In Nursey Asselman will lead the course.

He previously taught a Kanye West course. Nursey said, I’m writing my syllabus right now and from what Dave in the community around him gave me. I’m gonna kind of celebrate that at the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop as a community. So we’re gonna go through Chappelle’s show, We’re gonna watch some of his episodes, I’m gonna do a Black Star class. I’m gonna do with the roots class.

I’m going to do an Erica Badu class Silquarian’s ass and just talk about the juxtaposition of the responsibility of comedy and music and then the consumption of black performance and what does it mean in North America. I’m going to ask people from the community, the friends of mine that I made in the community, to possibly come and maybe we’ll get Dave. Maybe Dave will come, maybe you won’t. But that’s not really why I’m doing it. The Boston Comedy Festival next week May sixteen, through the twentieth pretty good lineup.

The centerpiece of the Boston Comedy Festival is the Stand Up Comedy Competition. That’s a contest to discover new and emergent comedians from around the world. The organizers say, from a field of hundreds of hopeful comedians, forty eight contestants have been chosen to perform at the festival. That field will be narrowed down over the five day festival, with eight comedians competing to receive a cash prize and perform on the main stage. If I remember correctly, I was asked to judge that a million years ago.

I couldn’t go up to Boston for it, but I think I was asked to do this once, a long time ago. In addition to the stand up comedy competition, the festival will be presenting awards to their twenty twenty three honorees, Comedian of the Year, Joe List, Lifetime Achievement honoree Brian Kylie. Kylie is a longtime Conan writer and TV Award honoree. Topper Carew Google tells me Colin Anthony Topper Carus an American film director screenwriting producer, best known for such films as Talking Dirty, after Dark and DC Cab. He’s the creator of the TV series Martin.

Some of your headliners Todd Barry, Emo Phillips, Zach Sherwin, Corey Rodriguez, Shane Moss, Ron and Hirshberg, Bethany Van Delft, Mike Kaplan, Karen Morgan, Emily Riskowski, Aaron McGuire, two, Key Kavanaugh, Will Noon and Jimmy Cash and Orlando Baxter. Information at Boston Comedyfest dot com quick stop at Gossip Corner, Chase sweet Wonder is talking about boyfriend Pete Davidson. She said, Pete and I became fast friends on Bodies That’s a movie. It was just clear that we could work together super well. He’s such a pro and acting with him is my favorite thing.

We talked about everything, and we’re very open with each other about everything, and it feels like what’s happening in our relationship is very sacred. As for the media, like me paying attention, she said, the first initial shock was super disorienting, but after that it becomes it’s like a video game. Feels like another weird player came into the video game. I feel like I’m still on my own path. My life hasn’t changed that much.

Pete said, she’s the best actress. She’s gonna crush. She’s got a lot of cool stuff going on. I had a blast working with her. From Variety, Pay Attention.

Warner Brothers has announced that Beetlejuice Too will be released on the big screen September six, twenty twenty four. Not much is known about the follow up to the nineteen eighty eight film about a pesky poltergeist, but Michael Keaton returns as Beetlejuice and Winona Writer as Lydia Dietz. Wait for it, Beetlejuice from Al Jazeera You’re home for comedy news. Sharif Holmesy looks out at his audience and a dimly lit Damascus cafe as he describes the ideal man in war battered Syria, an eligible bachelor with attractive supplies of fuel and electricity. His joke marry me, I have a bright future, thousand liters of petrol, solar panels to generate electricity, and three gas canisters.

Homesy is a member of Steria Serious first stand up comedy troup, whose members perform every week telling jokes about daily struggles like power cuts and fuel shortages. To late in the mood for locals despondent after twelve years of war, Homsy says the audience prefers to laugh and forget the problems they can’t solve. Let’s take a look at the New Zealand to Comedy Festival. Melanie Breesewells show is called Forget Me Nuts. This show is about desperately trying to be remembered, love and eggs.

Let’s listen. Hey, little update on my relationship status. Guys. I’ve just moved to this new flat and there’s quite a thin wall between my room and my flatmate’s room. All right, And one morning my flatmate had came up to me and was like, hey, were you hooking up last night?

I think I heard kissing, and I had to explain to her that I was just trying to eat a Kiwi fruit without a spoon. So me and the kiwie fruit are getting pretty serious. That’s great. Does they don’t have any kids in the room? Make some noise?

Nice? You’re so excited. I don’t have any kids? Well that I know? All all right, that was fun.

Now let me point out there. She obviously opened with the Kiwi line that she knows works, and then we’re not even a minute of the set at an abrupt left turn into hey, anybody have kids? So she’s chucking jokes. I’m not sure that that’s a really thought outset. They’re funny, but you know, I’m a comedy snob sitting on my basement recording a podcast like a loser, So I noticed these things.

So you know, you go see Milliani brace well, and you go, I had a great time. I left, and then the snob in the back like me, is like, all right, that was kind of awkward. Why you did one joke and you switched gears. I did like her. Though Barney Duncan’s show is called just Jokes Jolks The New Zealand.

Harold said, Barney is bound for future at ward Glory. You’ll struggle to stop laughing. Wow. Ready to tell you about a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Do you know that there is one of these things?

Yeah, there’s a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Okay, you go home, you look it up on yahoo dot com. It’s incredible. I just wonder what the butterflies are saying to the turtles to make them cry. Hey, turtle, turtle, turtle.

Hey. I was just hanging out with Raphael and Michelangelo and and they were talking about how much they hated you. All right, Can I tell you I’m laughing my hat off here in the basement. You’re not seeing the visuals obviously. When he’s doing the butterfly, he’s flapping his arms almost at wings, flapping his arms like a butterfly would, which adds to the humor.

And when he’s the turtle, he has a shirt pulled over most of his head, you know, like a turtle might. It’s very funny. So if I compare those two, most people are going to prefer the first one and be like, yeah, she’s shucked some jokes real quick. The second one took a long time to build. But the anticipation and the crafting of the joke and wherever he went out of his way to say on Yahoo dot Com as opposed to just saying, look it up, hilarious.

I’m sitting here with a big smile on my face appreciating the build. Now, that was a long way to go for one joke that wasn’t even that hilarious. But I found the latter way more entertaining, and that’s why I’m a comedy snob. Hacks writer Joe Mandy spoke to Chortle about his favorite comedy things. His favorites include The night Man Cometh from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

I have to stop my brain now. If I start singing the night Man’s song and then my brain’s already starting to do it, I’m gonna be spending the weekend. It’s too late. I’m gonna be spending the weekend going day man. Ah, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is one of Joe Manday’s favorite television shows, Night Man Ah, but the final episode of season four, The Night Man Cometh.

You have any idea what I’m talking about? If you don’t go watch It’s always sunny in Philadelphia season four, The Night Man Cometh. I think Sunny is on Hulu. Joe says, I’ve probably seen it fifty times and it makes me laugh out loud. I agree.

He also likes Mister Show with Bob and David. He calls them his comedy bible growing up. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were light years ahead when they made it. The sketches are so funny and executed so well that it’s honestly kind of infuriating to watch sometimes.

And then he said, can’t Williams The Pimp Chronicles of Part one?

Can’t Williams is on my Mount Rushmore of comedy? That fried my brain? And I’m like, huh, the Mount Rushmore of comedy. So if we were going to do the Mount Rushimore of comedy, I have to ask you where we’re starting. I think we’re gonna start with maybe Lenny Bruce and quote unquote modern stand up.

Otherwise there’s a lot of people through history who might have been funny. You know, there was this guy Shakespeare. He wrote seventeen comedies. Is he on the Mount Rushmore? I don’t know.

So let’s just make it easy and I don’t know. Cut the list down to stand up comedians, and how Ford in time do you want to go? Because all right, Carlin Bryor, you have two spots left. I want to put Bob Hope up there. I know, people just judge Bob when he was eighty five years old.

Go back and watch the young Bob Hope, watch those movies, watch him do his radio show. He was great. And how about Johnny Carson doing a monologue, you know, four nights a week for thirty years, give or take some vacation days. You’re gonna put a Carson up there?

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And now everyone’s mad at me because I don’t have any women up on Mount Rushm…

And all right, you want to put Lucy up there? If we’re gonna do stand up? Do you want to put Joan Rivers up there? You gotta tell me Joan Rivers is better than Johnny Carson. And to head, I don’t know about that.

We could argue Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Go ahead, something to think about. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. If you know what I’m talking about, it’s stuck in your right now.

If you don’t go watch, it’s always studied Philadelphia. End of season four. The Night Man, Come at see tomorrow, Damn damon. Fights are of the night Man, Champion of the Sasun. You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone.

The day Man that’s hit man. Oh, I love the nights Man. Oh, get out of the Sun. O, master of Karazi attendship for everyone. Day then damn, oh, look at the fights of the night Man, Champion of the Sun.

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Featured: Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Joey Diaz, Tony Hinchcliff, Fahim Anwar

What’s in This Episode

• Hannah Gadsby explains why she didn’t mention Dave Chappelle in her special
• Nate Bargatze’s PSA on correct pronunciation of Gila monsters
• Joe Rogan’s Comedy Club (The Mothership) vision for Austin comedy
• Late Night writers strike and AI-generated comedy bits
• Joe Rogan’s club mission and approach to edgy material

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late night off. Because of the writer’s strike, I’ve been training the late Bot. Today, late Bot wrote some jokes for me. I didn’t even ask it to write jokes. We’ll do those ones tomorrow because today late Bot has a bit for us.

You’re ready. My next guest is from Georgia. He’s wearing a purple robe and a crown. He’s a cheesy mustache and was recently named Monarch of the Realm. Please welcome mister Jeff Charlesworthy.

Jeff Charlesworthy, everybody. If people bow down to you when you enter a room, and it’s not just because you’re short, you might be the King of England. If your crown is even bigger than this mustache, you might be the King of England. If you’ve ever referred to your town as my kingdom, you might be the King of England. If your mom got you your job, you might be the King of England.

And if you’ve ever been addressed as your majesty and you didn’t correct the person, you might be the King of England. Not bed late bass me Brigatsy took some time to share some important information about a popular lizard species. Let’s listen. Hey, what’s up. I’m stand up comedian Nate bar getsy and I’m here on behalf of all the her pathologists that get upset when you say HeLa monster.

Instead it HeLa monster. It is pronounced HeLa monster. Even though it’s called g i La, it’s pronounced HeLa monster. This is a serious thing. We got one idea, and yeah, just don’t mispronounce it.

Yeah. The folks at the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary visited Nate at his rental house over the weekend in Lancaster County. Jesse Rothacker of the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary not only corrected Nates. He explained that a Heila monster is not poisonous as is commonly assumed. That’s good, but he explained that the Heila monster is venomous.

Nate said, that’s way worse. Jesse went on to explained, look, if the HeLa monster bites you, you won’t die, but you’re gonna want to die. Variety interviewed Hannah Gatsby and said, hey, you didn’t mention Dave Chappelle and this reason special. Did you purposely leave him out home? Hannah said first starteds boring.

There was a time in the tour when it was certainly in front of my mind, and then it quickly receded. My audience likes me because they don’t like the usual toxic perspective, And to talk about him, would it be center his conversation. I just don’t want that voice to be dictating how I approached my work. I didn’t think he said anything that I was interested in. That’s what I would have had a dude.

In order to talk about Dave Chappelle, I’d have to begin with Dave Chappelle, and I don’t want to. I’m a gender queer, autistic, vagina wielding white person. There could be a really interesting conversation between us, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t think there’s good faith on his part. He’s done three specials grinding down the same points without any change in nuance, So I think he’s on his track.

Good on him. That’s not my track, and I’m not going to go out of my weight to engage with that. And I think there’s something also quite political about a queer gender performer expressing joy on stage. Well, would you be open to having a conversation with Dave Chappelle, and I said, apparently I have to do it on his churn. So no, I just think it’s a toxic place.

I don’t think he’s open. I don’t think it’s constructive. There’s so much cruelty going on, and we both represent communities that are experienced in that cruelty, and I don’t want to stand in direct opposition of that. There’s nuance and there’s intersectionality at play here, but he’s not engaging in that yet, and I’m not going to make him. I’m not also going to be drawn in on his terms.

I do think conversations at a point where we’re not listening to people with lived experience anymore. We’re listening to people who have really hostile, reactive views, and it’s caught up in a moral panic, which also has a very very strong right wing online presence that’s stirring up the debate, and it’s fairly acknowledged. I want to come from a more constructive point of view, Like, I’m gender queer, I have a life. It doesn’t revolve around trying to justify my experience. Variety asked, all right, well, how do you feel about Netflix and its stance as a home for comedians.

With these varying opinions, Anna said, if you want to change the conversation, you still have to be part of the conversation. So that’s what really informed me. We keep trying with this relationship. Part of it is I have the second special that we’re working on now, or I’m creating a lineup of fairly new gender queer performers from around the world, trying to break it out of the American centric idea. You know, everyone around the world as a humor and I’m trying to do something constructive, trying to create more content.

It doesn’t sit easily all the time. But like I said, if you want to change the conversation, you really do have to step into the murky waters, don’t you. The Free Press had a really good article titled can Joe Rogan make Austin the Comedy Capital of America. The writer went to see Joe. Joe’s up on stage drifting on getting COVID and says, imagine if I died, I talk so much stuff about the virus.

Part of Joe set ragged on the notion that men can get pregnant, and that got vigorous nodding and cheers. The writer says she wasn’t allowed to photograph or record Rogan. Were the four other comics who performed. That way they could try out new material without risking online backlash. She writes that gave them the freedom to follow Rogan’s free range footsteps, which they did to the delight of the crowd, with jokes about subjects like Leah Thomas, the Ivy League swimmer who took home an NCAA title as a trans woman, thongs, guns, and abortion.

They meet up in the green room between the seven thirty and ten thirty shows. Rogan says, hey, with the grip of someone who is a double Brazilian Jiu jitsu black belt. She asked if his comedy club has a mission. Joe says, yeah, it’s there on the wall. He points to a sign.

The sign says get it together, bitch. He explains, you’d be backstage getting ready to go, and Joey Diaz, who, by the way, some people have met Joey Daz in real life and found them to be the worst person on the planet. Your experience may vary, and Joey Das would be like, get it together, bitch, shock these mffors, and they’d starts shaking and moving around, and you’re like, all right, let’s go. Rogan says, the kind of comics he’s putting up aren’t the type that’s afraid to touch quotes third rail stand up, and that’s what he lives for. When people do risky subjects is my favorite stuff.

We don’t do it as an alternative to comedy. We do it because that is comedy, Rogan says. The Mothership is his take on LA’s Comedy Store, the club known for launching the likes of Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Robin Williams. His vision is to build up a club is set up for comedians with a strong open mic program that won’t throw performers under the bus for their material. Rogan says, we’re just trying to make it a great creative space for stand up, almost like a laboratory, like the best place to develop material.

The article says it doesn’t hurt that Rogan pays well. By all accounts Derek post In, a former comedy store Dorman turns comic says, I’m rich now I have whole foods money. Rogan says, the more the new people kill the more that people that are above them get better, and we all get better. Iron sharpens iron in comedy when you’re around all these killers, it’s like everybody gets better. On that particular night, the comedians were fahim Anwar, Tony Hinchcliff, who Kill Tony, which if you haven’t check out Kill Tony, please do on YouTuber or podcast.

It’s pretty fantastic. Hinchcliff counts of the Comedy Store and the Comedy Seller in New York is the best clubs in the world except for the audience. He says, krassy you get come from the cities they’re in, and New York is insanely liberal and La has gotten insanely liberal. Hinchcliff says the Comedy Store used to be considered the darker edge of your club in the country until the Mothership was built. On War chimes in, people kind of know what they’re getting into when they walk through the doors of the Comedy Mothership.

Rogan’s rule, be funny, that’s it. And if we could be funny with some stuff that you don’t think should be funny, then that’s wonderful. Let’s explore this, Let’s find out what is that what’s going on here? What’s up with the subject that everybody’s scared of? A cult?

You know, when you start believing things that you inherently know aren’t true, but you say them and repeat them because the cult wants you to do it. This is something you can exploit in stand up comedy, and that’s what stand up comedy is all about. It’s all about that. And it was time to go, and Rogan said, we’ve got to kick you out. It’s almost show time.

I guess this is good news, you know, Please don’t destroy. They do the prerecorded sketches on Saturday Night Live kind of carried the season. I’ll give Bowen, Yang Chay and Joe some credit there too, but I think please don’t destroy. At the most hits well, they are untitled movie. It was gonna come out in theaters now it’s going straight to Peacock.

It’ll be out in November seventeenth. The movie centers on three childhood friends who live and work together and question where their lives are headed, if anywhere at all. Completely ill equipped and out of their element, they set off to find a lost treasure roomor to be buried in their local mountains. Peacock November seventeenth. I don’t like this next item either, The Bear on FX.

Did you watch The Bear? It’s fantastic. Why you upset John? Because they’re releasing all ten episodes at once streamers. Will you stop doing that?

All right? I’m getting on my soapbox. Let me climb up here on the soapbox one. Stop releasing things at three am Eastern. It’s gone awful annoying to wake up and have to avoid the Internet all day so I don’t find out what the mandalorian did.

Release stuff at nine pm Eastern. Succession. You know the show everybody’s talking about. We all watch it at the same time. So stop at the three am two stop with the dump same thing, succession.

If they’d put out all eight episodes at once, some of you be on episode two. Some of us would be like, wait, I found out on the internet. That’s such a thing happened to so and so that’s annoying. Stop with that anyway. FX is releasing all ten episodes of The Bear on Thursday, June twenty second.

That way, there will be no buzz about the show. And like cousin Keith, he watches everything in one second, so he’ll be home and he’ll text me, hey, did you watch all ten episodes of The Barriet? I’ll be like no, I was recording a podcast, which is a ridiculous conversation if you think about it. Season two of The Bear follows Carmen as they work to transform their grimmy sandwich joint into a next level spot. As they strip the restaurant downwards bones, the crew undertakes transformational journeys to their own, each forced to confront the past and reckon with who they want to be in the future.

The only thing harder than running a restaurant is opening a new one. Anyway, The Bear is fantastic. If you haven’t seen season one, watch it and you can binge it if you want. We all watched it last year, but this season two binge thing. All right, John, we get the point.

Shut up. Kevin James is going to start in a new action comedy, Guns Up. Kevin James will play. This is gonna shock you. Are you ready for this?

You’re not gonna believe it. Kevin James is going to play an ex cop I know right, And not only is an ex cop, he’s a family man. I know right. Kevin James x cop family man moonlights as a mob henchman. See he didn’t see that coming.

When a job goes horribly wrong and both of his world’s collide, he has one night to get his family out of the city. It’s a Kevin James movie. I mean, it’s gonna be Adam Sandler quality, right, can’t wait. Tony Danza reunited with his taxi costars. He shared a photo on Instagram.

He was having drinks with Carol Kane, Christopher Lloyd, and jud Hirsch. I was kind of hoping Andy Kaufman would show up and reveal the whole thing was a hoax. Would that not be epic? Like forty years later? Psych?

Oh my god. I still kind of hope Andy Kaufman is doing that somewhere. Tony Danza captured the photo. Love these people so much, and hey, I want to apologize if I got all hyped about the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and you hopped on a plane and you flew down there because you’re like, you know, I love daily communities. Johnny Max said, this show is really good.

Let me get down there. I want to see some shows because Tuesday nights shows were canceled. Yeah, all the festivals canceled Tuesday night, so I’m sorry if you flew all away there, Hey, go see some scenery. It’s pretty. You know you didn’t have to fly home Wednesday morning.

You cut a hung around why they canceled the festival. Severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and gale force winds last of the country roads were flooded across Auckland. Motorists urge to avoid traveling. Around three o’clock a local time, the comedy festival released a statement on Facebook and insta and said We’re devastated to cancel the comedian shows on the opening night of the first week of the twenty twenty three New Zealand International Comedy Festival in Auckland. We’re looking forward to shows going ahead as planned from tomorrow.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, John, you’re not gonna tell us who’s news going tomorrow? No, I feel bad if you fly all the way there and they cancel the show, So I’m not doing that today, Apples, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No?

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Pete Davidson, Hannah Gadsby, Chris Rock, Chelsea Handler, John Stewart, Gabe Iglesias, Taylor Tomlinson, Eric Andre, The Impractical Jokers, Mark Marin, Rodney Dangerfield

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle planning 15 more summer outdoor shows in Yellow Springs Ohio
• Pete Davidson surprise CGI cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
• Hannah Gadsby’s new Netflix special Something Special review
• Lucia Ball Comedy Festival headliners announced
• Impractical Jokers and Eric Andre comedy cruise to Bahamas
• Mark Marin reflects on classic comedians and comedy history

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night on strike because of the writers. So we have late bots who said, hey, did you see King Charles was on American Idol. Yeah, it’s like the British Invasion, but instead of the Beatles, we get a balding, middle aged monarch King Charles on American idols, like if Queen Elizabeth decided to go on the Kardashians. It’s just weird.

Now. The last one’s not really a joke, but I could see Kimmel saying that I’ve been tweaking the late bot and telling it to get more sarcastic, more letterman. So we’ll see what it spits out in the upcoming days and perhaps months. Over the weekend, I powerwashing and I was looking for a late bot topics. I threw in powerwashing and it spit this out.

Hey. I saw a power washing company slogan that said we’ll blast away any dirt. Apparently they never met my ex. I like that one so much. I tried powerwashing my car, but I ended up stripping the paint off.

Now it looks like a middle aged man going through a midlife crisis. I could see Kimmel with that too. I saw a powerwashing company with the slogan we’ll make it look like new. Yeah, if your definition of new is missing a few shingles and covered in dirt. Hannah Gadsby’s new specials out today on Netflix.

It’s called Something Special. I will discuss that in the second half of the podcast, if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle has announced fifteen more summer comedy shows and …

I love looking at all the small town legally stuff that goes on the board of Zoning met and it gave Dave approval by vote for to nothing. Steve Wiig is the owner of the Wiig Pavilion, a rural property in Yellow Springs where Dave Chappelle has performed cornfield shows the past three summers. Guests have included Ali Wan, Chris Rock, Chelsea Handler, John Mayer, David Letterman, Second Mention of the Day, John Stewart, and Moore. According to the request, mister Chappelle and his team would like the opportunity to conduct a limited run of additional shows this summer between June first on October eight to further highlight the success and national recognition of these events in our community. While mister Chappelle could be conducting shows at mass theaters around the world, he’d like to conduct this string of shows to their honor his community.

Weirig said. Chappelle draws crowds from all over the country, and those diverse attendees shop local and lodge near the village. The shows also employ local law enforcement, security, food vendors, production crews, and more. In the application, Werig said, it’s a humorous rest bite in the open field surrounded by native Ohio woodlands. Patrons often cite the peacefulness of the surroundings and the chance for a good laugh as an experience that positively impacts their mental health.

According to the permit, shows that we limited to a thousand ticket holders and only two hundred cars can be parked at the property. Shows will not be held on Sunday unless it’s a holiday weekend, and no more than three shows will be presented in a single week. Spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy three. I’ll give you a second here if you want to hit thirty second skip, I’ll do the story quick, alright. Hit skip if you haven’t here it goes.

You know who’s in The Guardians three? Pete Davidson, Yes, the spoiler. Pete Davidson’s character appears. Towards the end of the film, the Guardians release a bunch of animals from their cages. We see a vaguely humanoid blob of unsightly mutated matter, Flectic, thanks his liberator as he makes his way off the spaceship.

Flectic voiced by Pete Davidson, rendered in CGI. Lucia Ball Comedy Festival Upstate Jamestown, New York, August two through the sixth. They’ve announced the headliners. Gabe Iglesias and Taylor Thomason will be your headliners. That’s pretty good.

Meanwhile, The Impractical Jokers and Eric Andre are teaming up for a comedy cruise, this one next January, to go from Miami to the Bahamas and back. The cruise will feature stand up comedy, live music, podcasts, exclusive panels, karaoke, and of course, NonStop warm weather Shenanigans report support. Here are some of the events lip Sync Battle with Eric and the Jokers, Gung Show with Eric Andre, Live Space Monkeys podcast, Beer Pong and Poker, and the Belly Flop contest judged by Salvolcano. That is awesome. Presale access available now if you want to sign up.

Mark Marrin spoke to KCYRW and lately, as I get older as a comic, and I realized I been doing this most of my life, I really found myself sometimes just sitting at home and watching old comedy clips, I mean really old, like Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, these were the guys when I was a kid with my grandmother and my grandfather, I’d be sitting in their house and they’d be telling me about what they thought was funny. My grandmother loved Don Rickles, love Buddy Hackett. My grandfather was more of a slapstick guy. But it really informed who I was. And when I was a little kid, probably ten or eleven, i’d watch comics on TV.

I’d see Jackie Vernon, it must have been on Dean Martin shows, and I thought it was the funniest guy in the world. To the point where my parents and I must have been eleven or twelve, they knew I loved this guy. They brought me to a nightclub at the Hilton in Albertquerque because Jackie Vernon was playing. I sat right up on front. I was the only kid in the place.

They let my parents bring me in. I’m sitting there five feet from Jackie vernon this heavy set, sweaty guy. I thought it was genius. I thought it was hilarious. For some reason, lately, I’ve been watching when I want to feel better, really reflect on what comedy used to be.

It took me a long time to appreciate this guy, because I don’t think as a kid, I really registered Rodney Dangerfield all that much. But I love watching Rodney on Carson the old stuff, because Rodney not doing well was the greatest thing in the world, where he’d be like, are you sure this is the right Mike. Hannah Gatsby’s new special is out on Netflix today spoilers coming up. Cracked said Hannah is going about it all backwards. After all, their first special, Nanette, was the one where they quit comedy.

Usually quitting comes last, but resigning from the job wasn’t the only thing inverted about Nanette. Gatsby used a comedy special to take comedy to task, pulling apart the very fabric of self deprecating humor. They decided it’s not humility it’s humiliation. Gadsby seems to be following the career trajectory of many of our biggest comedians, Robin Williams, George Carlin, taking Nataro, Chris Rock, but doing it in reverse. Most comedy career arcs go something like this comedian breaks onto the scene with hilarious jokes, bits and characters.

Something gets on the way the trials of success, personal tragedy, self destructive behavior, and the routine’s take on a darker tone. Maybe the comedy becomes more contemplative and less punchline driven, like with Nazaro own Williams. Maybe the jokes get more pointed and political like they did with Rock and Carlan, it gets more honest as goofy exteriors appealed away to reveal the tearful onion chows inside. The anger into spare that drove Ninette are gone, replaced with lines like I do want to acknowledge that the world is ending. The thing is I don’t think I could solve it, not tonight, not that’s I’m allocated, So I’m just going to ignore it instead.

Hannah promises to give us an hour of feeling good. I’ve dragged you through a bit of my stuff over the years. It’s time for some payoff, The Wall Street Journal wrote, My viewing companion remarked that Hannah Gatsby has gone soft, and it’s not an inaccurate observation or a happy one. Among the things that made Nanette such a sensation was the way Gatsby, who uses they as a pronoun, operated as a biting social critic as well as a stand up comic. Even while disavowing stand up comedy.

They could also operate as a spoken word magician in Douglas, and I personally like Douglas better than Ninette. In Douglas, for instance, Gatsby told you what was going to happen, showed their cards up front, and you were still amazed when the Queen of Hearts popped out of the deck. It was performance art in many ways, but unlike much within that genre, both profound and profoundly entertaining. Gatsby opened Something Special with a few good show because I owe you one. With the announcement that they’ve gotten married, it should be a warning shot.

The source of full blooded art is heartbreak, not happiness. Much of Something Special is devoted to wedded bliss, but Gadsby’s feigned dismay at the fuss that straight people make about weddings. Gatsby says, I had no idea. The Wall Street Journal says really to pretend otherwise feels phony, which Gadsby has never been. The problems seem rooted in distrust of the material.

Where Gadsby should be deadpan, the performer’s eniting butt and appreciative grin accompanies each gagline, not waiting for the expected laugh, and thus extorting the audience into giving one up. Interesting review there. I’m not sure what to make of the last part I’m reading it. I’m tempted a panic, but then I remember Bob Open Johnny Carson mugged for the camera and got a laugh all the time, so maybe it’s not bad. I’ll have to see it for myself.

Had a Gasby something special on Netflix from the spinoff eight shows you should see at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Let’s skim through this quickly. Live Parkers shows called Werewolves, Vampires, and Harry Style. That’s a great name. Her debut hour promised to reveal her most intimate fangirl fantasies through a blend of sketch clown and stage challenge dance.

Sounds like a good time. Janey Henry’s show is called Crush Season. Expect infectious energy, endless flirting, and a big serve of social and political commentary buried beneath all the sweetness and smiles. Ruby Ester’s show is called Ruby Ester Comedy. Fester Love It.

She’s goofy and introspective, tells Vinet’s about her family life, which can seem on the verge of meandering until she brings you into an ingeniously plotted conclusion. Samina Zeira’s show is called Immigrunting. That’s funny, This’s been off, writes Zemina Zia is a straight up legend. Her show Tea with Terrorists had to run in Auckland. She knows when to stab the knife, where to twist it, and where to pull it out from maximum effect.

Her new hour, Immigrunting, sees her sharing more stories from her wild life and her struggle to convince Immigration New Zealand that she is in fact a human. Wow. Ray O’Leary, everything funny, all the time, always not quite sure what this show’s about. It’s a great picture of his dog, and I like this dog a lot, but they write with his plain grease suit and slow drawling delivery, it’s confronting how assuredly O’Leary can deliver a punchline and get a big laugh. They have on their list Bobby Woods.

If you met my mum, you’d understand told you about that one in the pro lapse Cow Yesterday Kurat he owena Hoha guy. The blurb promises a unique sense of humor that’s silly, a little bit dorky, and a little bit eft up. And the final one on the spinoff’s list, Jeemes Moostapic into the multimedia verse, still harnessing the hilariously shoddy editing skills and the relentless obsession with New Zealand popular culture that he had way back in his YouTube days. It was mustopics deployment of a certain family member throughout the show that really brought the house down. I’m not going to say anything more.

You’ve just got to see it. So all right, he’s at the Basement Theater in Auckland, May tenth, the thirteenth, So you better get on a plane. And that is your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast. Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show as I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Monique, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatsky, Jay McBride, Jim Jeffries, Horry Conabollo, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Theo Von, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Kieran Culkin

What’s in This Episode

• Writer Strike Impact on Late Night TV Production
• ChatGPT-Generated Comedy Jokes About King’s Coronation
• Comedy Central Guest Host Strategy for The Daily Show
• Pete Davidson Supports Writers on Picket Lines with Food
• Vulture’s Best Comedy Specials of 2023 List Critique
• Johnny Mac’s Personal Top Comedy Specials of 2023
• SNL Season Finale Cancelled Due to Writer Strike
• Dave Chappelle Real Estate Acquisitions in Yellow Springs Ohio

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Full Transcript

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The Shark deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy name as late night is dark due to the writer strike, but we have late bought, and the late bots says, hey, did you see the King’s Coronation? I saw the King’s coronation portrait. It looks like he’s already preparing for his next job as a villain in a Disney movie. I heard the coronation took weeks of planning.

In preparation, It’s like planning a wedding, but with more swords and less open bars. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling these jokes. The chat bot wrote them. I could see these happening. The coronation was so grand.

Even the pigeons on the street were wearing top hats and monocles. Queen Camilla got a new hat for the coronation. It was so big it could double as a parachute in case of emergency. Those aren’t bad, and those were written by the chat chief pt not bad. I was thinking, do you think maybe one of the reasons I’m serious here that Comedy Central didn’t hire a new host for the daily shows because they knew the writer strike was coming.

So hear me out. Anytime you change hosts on one of these late night shows, it takes the new host a little bit to find their feet. And you know, it’s only May eighth. If he had brought somebody in at the beginning of the year, they would have had what counts on his fingers trainer fareymore shape for four months to kind of get in there.

And then if you have a six month strike and you come back in twenty four and …

Plus presumably, and I’m not an expert in contracts, you’d be paying this host to not host the Daily Show because you’re not producing it because of the writers. So maybe Comedy Central was doing that, and now the guest host thing makes a lot of sense to me. What do you think? Yes, maybe Pete Davidson was showing his support for the writers. He brought some pizza pies.

Why did I say pizza pie? I’m leaving that in. Where are you from, John, You’re from New York? What do you mean pizza pies? I’m leaving it in because sometimes I hate myself.

Pete Davidson brought some pizza from Spomoni Gardens. To delighted writers on the picket lines in Brooklyn. He was asked, hate Pete Davidson, why you dropping off food, and Pete Davidson said, got usport the writers. No shows without the writers. Man.

So, as I was putting together the show on Sunday morning, I clicked on this and I really didn’t react to it well, and I thought i’d go back and read it live. I don’t want to come across as a negative Nancy. Sorry Nancy, but I just didn’t agree with it at all. From Vulture, the Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three so far, by Katherine Van Aaron Donk, who does a great job over at Vulture. Enjoy her stuff.

We will agree to disagree. But here’s the list. I remind you comedy subjective. Katherine may like what she likes. I like what I like, You like what you like.

But I looked at this list and I was like yeah. The article notes all specials are listed from newest to oldest, beginning with John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. I don’t even have this on my twenty twenty three list. Look, we all love John Mulaney charismatic, funny, great body of work, but I watched that new special and it felt performative. Maybe I’m just too familiar with the material because I do this every day, and I read about it and I feel like I had kind of heard it, but I was just watching and I was like, all right, it felt like a Colin Quinn or a Micro Bigley, a one man show more than a stand up special.

And it just didn’t grab me. Not on my list. Next up, Monique. I read you an article last week that was describing Monique Special as nothing but horrible. That person who wrote the thing last week had nothing good to say about this thing.

May Martin Special, same thing. I watched it. It didn’t grab me. Fourth on the Listen, we’re doing this by reverse release order. Kyle Canaan’s Shocks and Struts of that actually I have at number one right now, so we agree there.

You’ll find that one on YouTube. I highly recommend you watch it. Marlon Wayain’s God Loves Me another one of those specials that I got, I don’t know, four minutes into and I was like, hey, not grabbing me. Am I that much of a comedy snob? At this point?

Mark Marrin’s From Bleak to Dark, Same thing, I don’t have it on my list. It’s fine, it’s fine, Mark Marrin, but it didn’t do one thing for me. So that’s the Vulture list and I just have I just lost it. So here’s my list. Number one Kyle Cana, Number two Nate Bergatsy is fantastic.

Why is that not on your list? Katherine Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl. You’ll find that on YouTube. Wonderful Jim Jeffries on Amazon came out in February. Wonderful.

Horry Conabollo special, really strong, especially the first two thirds that’s on YouTube. Chris Rock. Remember Chris Rock had a special Vulture. I’m not gonna mention it. No, okay, you can make fun of me in the schooly yard for number seven, the Roast of mister Peanut.

I’m telling you, and probably every time I mentioned it, you’re like, he’s crazy. Go on YouTube and find the full version of the Roast of mister Peanut. The full version, not the thirty second commercial, the full version. Watch the Roast of mister Peanut. And number eight in this will probably get knocked way down the list as more specials come out.

Big Jokerson I put on my list, It kept me nice company not on my List, Melaney Lewis, black Mark Marin Andrew Santino special, Bert Kreischer’s special Not on My List, and the Greg Warren and special from last week. Again, that one really turned me off. What do I know, it wouldn’t surprise me. Some people seem to agree that possibly, perhaps maybe who knows I wasn’t in the room, could have been. They added some laughter to it, and it really turned me off to it.

All Right, Am I just cranky? Have I lost touch here? Should I just stop the podcast and never do it again? The funniest thing of the year, by the way, is Kunk on Earth on YouTube Watch Kunk on Earth wonderful. We lost some good stuff because of this writer strike Kieran Culkin from Succession.

He was going to host Saturday Night Live this upcoming weekend and for the season finale, the Foo Fighters would have been the musical guest. So now that the seasons in the bag, I’m going to rate it as one of the worst SNL seasons of all time. And I’ve liked the last It’s been a good run, like since Kate McKinnon came on, and I know she has been on the last couple of years. It was a really really good run basically from the start of I guess Trump running is when they hit their groove until this season was just awful, like really bad. Am I just cranky today?

Should I not do a podcast anymore? Have a completely lost touch? What’s going on? John? I don’t know?

It’s the topics. Here’s the headline, Yellow Springs versus Dave Chappelle neighbors slam Trump like comedian for buying properties amid shortage. This from the website meaw meaww dot com. Okay, you’re not familiar with meow or perhaps hosting a podcast, and not even entirely sure that that’s how they pronounced their website. They right, It’s not difficult to locate America’s most isolated comedian.

Like any other Yellow Springs, Ohio citizen, Dave Chappelle goes out in the city center, buys coffee and shops in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding the multimillionaire comedian’s real estate acquisitions. Dave Chappelle has been compared to Donald Trump by at least one citizen of his Ohio hometown for his propensity to incite hostility. This comes after Chappelle started purchasing land in the thirty seven hundred person town in twenty twenty. Today he owns twenty structures, including homes, businesses, and old fire station and a former school. Residents are fiercely divided over whether or not he’s operating in the best interests of the community.

Meo writes off the record, Locals of a variety of ages and racial backgrounds claim that Chapelle is a force that’s churning us into the place that we’re all trying to stay away from. Another citizen said, Dave’s gotta be the biggest contentious thing that I’ve ever seen. Put neighbor against neighbor. If you close ranks and then decimate anybody that speaks against an idea you have, then how does that inform community or build community, or has that save a community. One of Chappelle’s most recent acquisitions is a former fire station, which he plans to convert into a comedy club.

He also paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the historic Union School House, with the intention of converting the eighteen seventy two structure into the headquarters of neighborhood radio station WYSO. I don’t live there. Why is that bad? I don’t know if you’re local. I’m happy to be getting more educated on this.

To me, it sounds like a guy is taking old buildings and turning them into thriving businesses. Again, I may be under educated on this. Back in twenty twenty, Day was on SNL and he joked about how his time in Yellow Springs would go to Dave’s joke, Honey, come quick, come quick. The guy from the gross stores on TV. Chappelle then changed his gears and says, no, you big dummy.

The guy from TV’s at the grocery store. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Edmonton. Nice lineup, they’ve announced some names. You’re ready for these names? Edmonton July fourteenth and Sunday the sixteenth.

The first night, the headliner Theo Vaughan.

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Also at the festival, Sam Morrel.

And on Sunday your headliner at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, Bill Burr. Interesting note from the AV Club Jury Duty. If you watched Jury Duty, it’s on free V. When you can’t figure out how to get free V, just go on Amazon Prime and they’ll stick it under your nose. The creators of Jury Duty are going to submit it not as a reality show, but in the scripted comedy category.

Now, what makes that extra interesting is that Ronald Gladden, the guy that didn’t know it wasn’t real Jury Duty, he could get submitted for a comedy performance. He didn’t know he was giving. This next topic little ikey and probably a little sensitive, especially in the States due to some recent news time opics shootings involved here. So I’ll give you a beat to click off the podcast if you’re not in the mood for this. From the Manchester Evening News, Britain’s Got Talent comedian slammed over jokes about shooting his daughter.

Comedian Marcus Birdman joked, kids are the biggest source of joy you’ll ever have. Trouble is, they tend to ruin every other source of joy overhead. All right, good premise, reasonable, he continues. I hear other parents say I’d take a bullet from my child. Would you would take a bullet from my child, put it in the garden and shoot her?

That did not go over well, nor did a joke about being a two time a stroke survivor. Marcus said a couple of years ago. I had a stroke. That’s what happened. People don’t always believe me.

I perhaps don’t look like a stroke survivor to you, what you feel I appreciate is I’m twenty three. Marcus explains he’s done a lot of work with the Stroke Association. Said you’d think as a two time stroke survivor, I’d be able to make jokes about surviving strokes to other stroke survivors. Nope. At one point someone stood up and went stroke victims and feelings too, mate, and I went, I know, but only down half the side of their bodies.

Some on social media did not react well. One tweeted after me, joking about shooting kids is not comedy. A different person tweeted, jokes about strokes are not funny. My dad had one, was paralyzed on his right side, was confined a wheelchair. You should be ashamed.

Judge Alicia Dixon said everything you said tonight on stage, I hold at I’m glad I’m wearing my big knickers. Hanasoi dot Com sent somebody to one of the showcase shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival. They write, we were promised the best up and comers from Australia and around the world. Mc mickey Bartlett had some astute observations about Sydney characters, particularly businessman on scooters and King Street crackheads. Jesse Fuchs kicked us off.

She gave us a lot to think about. No details there other than that. Helen Bauer kept the cringe humor going or CrowdWork was right us and no men were safe from her confident charm despite the US accent. Moses Storm gave us an honest and daring look into his childhood. I’m not sure what the problem with the USX and is Fresh face Olga Kotch.

Her quick wit was almost Aubrey Plaza esque and she had a big presence. She effortlessly carved out her niche between her self deprecating humor and cool girl vibe. She gave us and ernest looking into her dating life and assortest that if we like bisexuals, will like her show Just Friends. Arguably to start of the night, Alfie Brown, his UK accent compounds his dark humor and his delivery just flows. The highlight was his entry on the stage where he spotted somebody eating a crisp in the front row.

He then proceeded to narrate that excruciating awkwardness of eating a crunchy food in a quiet space, extracting it out of the foil pocket, moistening it on the roof of your tongue, and subsequently regretting the whole experience. If you’re a comedy newbie, you’re indecisive about who you want to see. The festivals showcases the perfect way to sample a variety of little tasters. I agree. The Sydney Comedy Festival is dark on Tuesday.

New Zealand’s International Comedy Festival has some shows including Ann Edmonds Why is my Bag all wet? I remember talking about her at Melbourne. Bobby wood show is called if you met My Mom You’d understand and as a great picture of him and his dog looking grimpy, and yes, his dog looks grumpy, so I’m clicking on this. Bobby Wood is one of those rare comedic gems untarnished by the modern excesses of high speed internet, package meet and introspection. His show includes the damaging downstream effects of witnessing your mother forcibly restore a proleps Cow Award winning grass Fed stand up Bring Him voted best Newcomer at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in twenty twenty one.

Get out on top, John, that’s your commedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See at a worrow.

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Five stories. They’re all good news. It’s called five good News Stories. No negative news, just good news. Nice, easy way to start your day.

Hopefully smile. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. So you get the premise. There’s five stories and they’re all good news. So the number five good news Stories.

Five good news Stories. Follow the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Dusty Slay, Dustin Nickerson, Nate Bargatze, Brett Goldstein, Harry Connabel, Jason Segel

What’s in This Episode

• Dusty Slay returns to Blue Room Comedy Club in Springfield
• Dustin Nickerson’s golf story with Nate Bargatze at Circling Raven course in Idaho
• Brett Goldstein discovers Muppets Magazine and its celebrity interviews
• Harry Connabel discusses growing up in Queens and New York vs LA comedy scenes

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. I am running out of time to come up with a birthday president idea from my wife from the Late Bot. Buying a birthday president for your wife is like trying to solve a rubekscube blindfolded. You have no idea what you’re doing, and you just hope it turns out okay in the end. I asked my wife what she wanted for a birthday, and she said nothing.

I have everything I need, Yamp, and she always says that to me too, So I got her a box of nothing. She was not abused. Dusty Slay is at the Blue Room Comedy Club today and tomorrow. He’s loyal because they used to book him when he wasn’t as famous as he is now. Back in twenty sixteen, he played the Blue Room.

It was then known as Billiards because it was a pool hall. Dusty and the owner, Chris hit the streets trying to recruit a Springfield audience by asking patrons want to catch a comedy show for free. That didn’t go so well. A homeless man took up the offer, but he didn’t even bother to stick around. Dusty said there weren’t many people and was the first time the Blue Room was doing Sunday shows.

It was so new that many things weren’t even set up yet. Now Dusty is I don’t know if he’s big time, but he’s definitely medium time. And Chris, the owner, says, it’s kind of sad because this may be the last time we get Dusty for a long time. Now. When Dusty comes to Springfield, he’s placed at the Hotel Vandervoort, the city’s only triple A four diamond rated hotel.

Dusty said, it’s a nice place, kind of illuminati looking. I like to go to a bass bro when I’m in town, walk to mudhouse to coffee and a record store. Dustin Nickerson told a story about playing golf with Nate bergantcy this from the Athletic. This is great. Dustin said, we played this place in Idaho called Circling Raven just to this day, one of the most incredible courses I’ve played.

I’m nervous because Nate’s spending a lot of money to have me out there. We went to the driving range first on a kid. You not, it looks like I’ve never played golf before in my life. Like, I’ve never tried anything athletically before. I’m shanking the ball.

I’m missing the ball one time. I missed the ball three times. Time out. Maybe once a month I’ll head over to top golf with the boys. Boy the last time I went, I was mis see.

I was just I couldn’t even hit the ball. I don’t mean I couldn’t hit the ball, well, I mean I couldn’t hit the ball. It was embarrassing. Luckily, my friends were cool, and they probably wait until I left to make fun of me. Dustin said, I’m missing the ball one time.

I missed the ball three times, only three. Stop braining, bro. It’s like when you bring a little kid out golfing and you’re going eight feet at a time. I think Nate seeing all this was so so bad. And so the first hole we get up there and I hit it two hundred and ten yards in the middle of the fairway.

The next SHOT’s about one hundred ten hundred fifteen yards and it gets within five feet of the pin. I burdie the first hole and has a reverse effect on Nate, who says, why’d you play so bad? Are you trying to hustle me? Dustin shot in the lower nineties, He says, for that course, very good. I’d like to think it was like angels in the outfield.

They straightened my swing on that first hole. That allowed me to relax the rest of the game.

And now I can still work with Nate, thank god.

Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety about the Muppets, and he said there’s a lot of great stuff in the Muppets. They asked him, did he ever subscribe to Muppet Magazine as a kid? Brett said, no, I didn’t know there was a thing. Now I feel ashamed to see some issues. Yes, please, the writer said, for decades, I’ve held on the copies of Muppet Magazine.

It was a monthly magazine that really existed and featured Kermit as editor in chief. I don’t know how to break it to the writer here. It probably wasn’t actually Kermit, because there is no Kermit. Statler and Waldorf wrote about movies and TV, Miss Piggy pend and advice column. This sounds amazing and one issue Fozzy Bear interviewed Henry Winkler.

Oop Google time, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Fozzy Bear, Henry Winkler, Please come up, Please come up, Please, come up, rats, I just didn’t edit there and spared you. My internet search, I saw it definitely happened. I have seen covers of its. People have been selling this on eBay. So on the cover we see a young looking Henry Winkler with his hair growing out.

This from nineteen eighty three, so it’s got very nineteen eighty three part in the middle of hair. He’s wearing a red sweater as if he’s mister Rogers. Fozzy of the Bear is hanging over his left shoulder, and Kermit on Winkler’s right. Boy, I would love to redo that article, but I can’t find it interesting. My Internet search a lot of Japanese links to Muppet Magazine with Henry Winkler anyway.

The writer shows Muppet Magazine to Brett Goldstein, who goes, whoa, whoa. This is quality stuff, solid, thoughtful, subversive, funny. This is why you’re here. The Muppets brought us together. Goldstein says he would love to do something more with the Muppets, and Jason Siegel wants to see him do that.

I gotta try and connect with Harry Connabel, who he talks about queens a lot and from the parts of Queens. He talks about. I suspect he probably grew up right around we were in Queens that I grew up. Although Harry is younger. How old is Harry?

He’s forty, so I am thirteen years older than him. We might have lived in the neighborhood at the same time. Yeah, Harry Connabolo grew up in Jackson Heights, Floral Park and then Jamaica. I’m from Jackson Heights. It’s probably a twenty year old version of me walking past Harry when he was a little kid.

Yeah. Here I see on Instagram a reunion in Jackson Heights, Queens. Oh, I gotta get this guy on all right. I gotta reach out to him for sure. Y’all who asked him, Harri, how do you think growing up in New York City has informed your comedy?

And he says, I see the way people talk about what they fear the country is going to become with multiple languages and a mix of different races. All they’re describing is where I grew up. That’s what Queen’s New York is. That’s what New York City is. It’s every language, every culture, every mix.

If you’ve been being so it’s frustrating because it’s like you like to visit, but you don’t like to stay. That’s what I’m hearing. You like to come here and look, but you don’t want to live in it. It’s such a beautiful place to grow up. It’s not to say it’s perfect and there isn’t racism or homophobia or all the stuff that comes with any place, but everyone’s represented here and present away that you don’t get in other parts of the world.

I feel really privileged, and I feel like it colored my view are he had as the comedy scene in New York compared to LA, and he says, I think New York is a stand up city. There’s so many shows in New York and there’s a tradition of it. Not to say there aren’t great comics who come out of LA, and the LA scene isn’t a healthy one, but I feel like New York you get your butt kicked there and you become a better comic. And I don’t know if that’s the same for LA. I know with New York you go through fire, you become tougher, you come sharper.

I think you see where the bar is when you’re on the road, having started in New York. The road feels so much easier because even through one of the hardest places to play, LA has a great scene. Laurgo’s incredible. You see beat tradition. Obviously, it’s a great all scene there.

It really has a great history, and there’ve been great comics that have come out. You’ll see more comics in LA. You clearly just want to be on TV and do acting work, and they build a material for the purpose of that, which, look, that’s the way to do it. But New York is New York. I’ll jump in.

Yeah. I always felt like the New York City comedians, if they were banned, they’re like the Rolling Stones. I get the Rolling Stones are British, so the analogy is a little flawed, but like you know, the Rolling Stones, we’re gritty rock band. We got a great drummer, our guitarist, a smoking cigarette, and our singer. Yeah, I don’t know what his deal is, but boy, he’s really talented.

Whereas the LA comedy scene, I always felt like, is Devo really good, really entertaining, just not doing what the Rolling Stones are doing? Did I explain that, Well, no, you didn’t. John Harry, do you have a favorite city or venue to perform in. He’s says, it’s either Seattle or Oakland. I recorded in my first album in Oakland.

It feels like Oakland audiences are as smart at San Francisco audiences, except they’re more expressive. It isn’t just like, oh, I get the joke, It’s like I feel the joke. It has resonated with me on more than just one level, and I’m gonna let you hear it. That’s incredible. I started in Seattle, so I always have a loyalty due to that city, and the Neptune Theater is one of my favorite places to play, A beautiful theater where I recorded in my first Netflix special, and that is, without a doubt, one of my favorite venues.

If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I don’t know if you can tell my voice is giving out. Why I recorded Friday, Saturday, and Sunday back to back to back, and yeah, usually when I get around a third one, my voice gives out. So I need a drink and I don’t have a coffee, even though Kara Wood and Becky bought me six coffees this week.

You think I’ll bring one down the studio now, but I have this bottle of water here. I’m gonna take a sip that hit the spot. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Rich Schneider wrote about Chard Belzer for Vulture and said Richard was admired and respected by so many of us, a true comics comic, but that crown could be crushing Outrage wasn’t the marketing tool and brand it has become today, But it made Richard a legend while he was still in his thirties and broke.

I heard where he grew tired of watching lesser comics swim like dolphins while he was fighting the undertow. Whatever the reason, the bells made a strategic shift in his nineteen eighty six HBO special Richard Belzer in concert, and he decided to play nice as crowd work was easy going, even friendly. He showed vulnerability, and it needs to connect with material about his abuse of childhood and a violent encounter with an idiotic Hulk Hogan. Richard still wore the tinted glasses for the crowd work, but they came off for the rest of the performance. He even dropped his standard black suit, white shirt and tie for a sweater and from Forbes the premise phone free policies like Dave Chappelle’s opened the door for better comedy.

Yeah, m Gnome Jorman. He owns the Comedy Seller and says his club’s no cell phone policy was implemented about a year and a half before COVID. He said, Chappelle started doing it, and I had a feeling was to become an industry standard, and I try to get ahead of it. But it didn’t become an industry standard, Thank goodness. He says, many comics we should had.

If you go to the seller, you’re given a padded envelope for your phone and smart watch devices are sealed in the envelopes. Customers keep them in their possession during the shows. It may be a nuisance, but it hasn’t hurt business. Gnome says, we don’t get complaints about it. I don’t think they love it, but they’re aware of it before they get there.

Very few people are surprised by it. Judy Gould tells a story about being on stage at The Fat Black Pussycat about ten minutes twelve minutes in, I’m thinking, Wow, What a great audience. Everyone’s so engaged, and I looked around and realized, Oh, it’s because they don’t have phones. And I almost started crying because it was like the old days where the audience was a unit, where everybody was there for the same reason. They came there to laugh.

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