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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with a rapid reaction to the Chris Rock Special. It is eleven seventeen PM and I just turned off the postgame show. This will be a little less focused than a normal podcast because I’m not really working off a script. I do have some light notes and I’m just sharing my thoughts.

What’s going through my mind now is You’ve heard me talk in the past about the hypothetical return of Eddie Murphy to stand up, and I think this is a good warning to Eddie that nothing could ever lead up to the hype. I’m coming away from a Chris Rock special that probably is perfectly fine. It’s definitely not his best work, but because of the anticipation for a year, what’s Chris Rock going to say about Will Smith? And for Chris to not get to that material to an hour in, I think that was a mistake. And I say that, and I mentioned this on Twitter.

I say that realizing Chris Rock is one of the all time greats and I’m an idiot in the basement recording a podcast. So yeah, Chris Rock knows a lot more about comedy than I do. But just as if you were, I’m like, get to it, get to get to it, and he buried it, and I think the energy was out of the room. So just now I was sticking around for the post game and I’m like, oh, this is gonna be a tough set up, and they immediately threw it to Kareem Abdul Jabbar for his take, and I was like, dude, it’s quarter after eleven. I’m tired.

I no longer care. I’ll let me go through my notes here and I’ll handle this in chronological order as I wrote things down. So about nine seventeen or so, I went to Netflix. I went to the waiting room and it said the special would load, and then it hadn’t buy, like nine thirty three. I’m like, hmm, so I had to exit and go back in.

And because of that, I missed the first three minutes of Ronny Chieng. Other than that, you know, a little stuttering here and there, the Netflix tech was pretty good. I’m sure there’s a way they can figure out how to make sure the room actually loads if you get there too early, but whatever. Fine. So when I got there, Ronny Chieng was already in the middle of his set and he was joking about Netflix’s innovation of doing comedy on Saturday Night Live, which got a good laugh out of me, and he pointed out it was comedy on Saturday Night Live with Chris Rock, David Spade, and Dana Carvey.

Pretty good observation there, nice spot for Ronny Chieng, pretty high visibility. I thought he was pretty good. Deon Cole was your DJ. Dion had nothing to say. I don’t know why he was there, but okay, fine.

Then they threw it to Spade and Carvey to tease the postgame show, David Spade doing most of the talking. Carvey had his back to the camera, which telegraph that he was probably setting up some sort of bit what’s going to happen when he turns around? And Carvey did a really awful hack Joe Biden. It was bad. I’ll read you my notes on myself verbatim.

Carvey doing an awfully hack Biden. Geez.

And then the part that annoyed me in the pregame show was remember all week I…

It was just really lame b roll. Amy Schumer’s part was filmed on the street, as if like somebody found her on the street and had a flipcam and was like, Amy’s about Chris Rock for five seconds, and she did Paul McCartney I think was on a total of three seconds. It said something like Chris Rock’s really funny, hey, and that was it. Like, as I mentioned during the week, I worked at a place that lived and died. By the press release, I get the press release and Netflix, congratulations, your press release said, featuring Amy Schumer, Jerry he signed, called Paul McCartney, Matthew McConaughey, and whoever else she got in there, and I took the bait.

But boy, as a viewer, lame. Ronny Chieng mentioned that the Netflix is a Joe Comedy festival. We’ll take place May second to the twelfth. I think that was an announcement. I don’t recall doing a story telling you about the festival returning, so that’s good news.

He didn’t mention who would be playing there, but there were a bunch of recognizable comedians in the crowd, so who knows. I’m sure we’ll have something in the next few days that we can talk about. I’m still on the pregame show, here JB. Smooth happened. He was funny enough.

He off and gets by on energy. His bit was a bit forced, but it was fine. Leslie Jones then came out to do some stand up. Oh. At one point they threw it to Jeff Ross, who opened for Chris Rock.

I wish they had just shown Jeff Ross warming up the audience. That would have been better than the pregame show. Anyway, Leslie got up did some stand up, and it felt like she was playing to the room. Her material was a little inside baseball. I never got to mention, like I said at the top, this is a little more free form than I usually do.

The pregame show sounded like it was to a room of about eight people, like the audience wasn’t reacting. At the end of the half hour pregame, it was revealed that the audience was mostly comics. That explains that comics aren’t going to laugh at other comics. They’re going to sit in the back and go like, oh, that was really good, or even hate on whoever’s on stage. So that made sense, but it made the room sound dead.

Anyway, Leslie got up and she kind of repeated the SNL joke about it being comedy on Saturday Night Live. I guess she didn’t know Ronnie did it and her version wasn’t as good, so that landed flat.

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And then finally it was ten o’clock and time for Chris Rock to come on.

At that point, I tweeted, this is fun. Feels like an event, like it really felt like old time TV or like a sporting event where we’re all watching the same thing at the same time, and it felt big. So out comes Rock? Do we get kay? Early, I flagged a couple of jokes.

One was about r Kelly and Michael Jackson Chris’s punchline along the lines of same crime. One of them has better songs that get a good laugh out of me. Then he did a chunk on Elon Musk and I thought that chunk was really good. Next thing, I wrote down what’s up with Chris Rocks shoes? And I googled.

He’s five ten, so it’s not like he’s short. Why the two inch three inch lifts on the shoes? Why does he need to look taller on camera? I just that was catching my eye, and I’ll point out if I’m focused on your shoes. The comedy’s not on point right because I’m not.

I’m like my mind is drifting. Then he went into a really strong chunk about Megan Markle, and I think this might have actually been the strongest part of the night. A good line about the British Royal family calling them the og racists, calling them the sugar Hill Gang of racism. That got a good laugh out of me. My notes on myself.

There was the Megan Markle chunk was when Chris Rock found his groove. I compared it to a baseball starting pitcher finding his good stuff in the third inning and now cruising in a good way. First ten minutes or so. I don’t think Chris was totally in his rhythm, but for the Megan part, yeah, he was rolling.

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And then the special started to fall apart, and I wrote, is there a clause in…

Like they weren’t that good? And I don’t know, It’s like you’re just waving a flag now to get people to react. Especially the combination of doing transgender jokes on Netflix. I don’t think it was worth going there. I don’t think it paid off.

At ten thirty four, I wrote, Chris has waited way too long to get to will Smith and he’ll need a killer closer or this will be a letdown. Let’s see what happened. So right after the halfway mark, I’m like the next thing, I wrote abortion chunk, getting a reaction on Twitter, it’s been a boring ten minutes. Yeah, the abortion chunk. I started to just zone out and I wasn’t feeling the room, and I was looking at what people are saying on social and it seemed like that was where the special probably dipped the most, and people were like getting pretty restless.

My next note was, it’s been a boring thirty minutes. Yeah, there’s a solid half hour that’s just kind of like AI and we’re getting out to that or h. Chris finally got to the Will Smith material at eleven o’clock, so or a full hour, and he finally got into it and it was fun. He seemed genuinely angry, not having seen him do this material on other nights. Is this him putting on an act or did the live national audience kick him into an extra gear where he felt the emotions in more of a raw way than maybe he did on other nights, I don’t know, but watching it on TV, he seemed to have genuine anger during that segment, and that was a strong segment, not as strong as the Megan part.

Though. He also blew a joke that’s not me saying that. He said that the joke was along the lines of Jada being upset that Will Smith did not get an oscar for concussion, so instead he gave me a concussion. But he blew the joke and said the movie emancipation the first time around, then admitted he blew the joke, kind of tapped dance and circled his way back around to get the concussion joke in, but he had telegraphed it so it didn’t land when he finally did it.

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And then he did an actual mic drop and we were done at about the seventy minu…

I think that chunk would have worked better about twenty minutes in, but what do I know. He’s an all timer and I’m tweeting, So that’s my quick take there. I want to like it more, I don’t hate it. Let me say my twenty twenty three rankings. My immediate take right now, I have Napergatzy at number one.

Was it better than Nate? No? Was it better than Jim Jeffries? No? Was it better than the roast of mister Peanuts?

Can you believe I’m actually humming and hawing was Chris Rock’s big One year later, I’m gonna finally talk about Will Smith better than the roast of mister Peanut? I? Yes, I gotta say. Yeah there. I’m opening up my little notepad here and I’m putting Chris Rock at three.

But I only have four things on the list, and the fourth is roast of mister Peanuts. So I don’t know. That’s my quick take. Would love to know what you guys think, so hit me up in the Daily Comedy News Facebook group, or on the Reddit or on social media. All the links are in the notes.

It’s a little late here. You can hear my voices giving out. But my takeaway right now is that was okay? If your new follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube wherever you get your shows, normal episode in the feed the way I scheduled at this normal Sunday episode came out one minute before this bonus episode, and you know, go listen to that and I’ll see you tomorrow on Monday’s episode. I do not talk about Chris Rock at all because I already recorded it, all right.

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The shark deck. It seems the comedians a kind of hand it with Chappelle playing the victim card. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, Dave should be the answer to who’s the top comedian of the twenty twenties, and the answer should just be Dave Chappelle. What has happened is if you mentioned Dave Chappelle, everybody goes, oh, the guy that makes trans jokes, and now, oh, the guy that winds that he’s canceled, and Dave’s clearly not canceled at all.

Anthony Jessnik said, if you’re as big as he is, people are going to get upset at the things you say. It’s part of what you do and it’s part of why you do it. So I don’t understand the complaint Dave makes so much money, your job should be a little hard. I don’t have sympathy for you in that he says whatever he wants to, but great when there’s pushedback. I don’t know why it bothers him.

Bert Kreisher was on Pardon My Take. He was talking about the machine routine is almost every interview with Bert Kreisher winds up talking about that routine for you know, good reasons. And we’ve got the movie coming out this summer. I’m looking forward to the movie. I think on the other side of that baby, we could stop talking about the machine for a while.

So he’s talking about back in the day, I’m doing clubs twenty five dollars tickets and I’m telling the machine close to every show. And my wife comes and sees me in San Francisco and she says, at the end of the show, Hey, you don’t tell that story anymore. And I said for real, and she goes, yeah, you’re phoning it in and it’s not worth the money they’re paying. And I was like what, and she goes, either tell it or don’t tell it. But if you’re gonna tell it, effing tell it, like really tell it.

And I went I am telling it and she goes no, and I go, well, I don’t want to do I’m just saying the same twelve minutes verbatim. It’s killing me. And she was like, then find fun with it. So what I would do is I’d find fun ways. I’d tell it as if I was telling it for the first time, and I try to find a way to write a joke, and I have so many jokes inside the machine story.

I did the one the other day about a pivotal moment we realize you don’t have the biggest penis in the world, Like you just have your thing and clean this up here, and you’re like, oh, this is great, and then you go in a locker room in ninth grade and you’re like, what the f I remember going in a locker room looking at a stuff and going, oh, I thought black was a slimming color.

And then you go, oh, cool, I have a cool bit.

And then he answered into the Machine. Ralph Barbosa been in the news a lot lately, Thanks George Lopez. Hey Ralph, when did you first notice your comedy crew were starting to blow up? This from the La Times, Barbosa said, around November, my social media had grown quite a bit. I started getting book more on the road.

I filmed a special for HBO, but November there was a lot of promo for it, and we did a promotional event at the New York Comedy Festival. So with Instagram going up and TikTok blowing up and all the other stuff was kind of mind blowing everything all at once. By December slash January. I was booking more gigs and I was approved to do the tonight show of Fallon. There’s a few months before that, I was struggling to make ends meet, running from open mic to open mic.

Good for him, man. They asked him about the comedy scene in Dallas. He said, Yeah, this is a handful of clubs there. We have the Addison Improv, the Hienias clubs, Backdoor Comedy. That’s a clean club.

Kind of funny to me that backdoor comedy is clean. Think about it. Yeah, move on, which means you can’t curse on stage, which I feel helped me make my writing better. It’s not like work or La. We can get up in front of some big names every night, but you can definitely stay busy, which is all I really needed.

When I started traveling, I worried my jokes wouldn’t translate because I was all the performing in Dallas for a long time, and I thought one of my stuff’s not cut out for crowds outside Texas or Dallas. What I’ve been finding isn’t no matter where I go, tons of people cannot to my stuff, even if they don’t go through what I’m talking about a lot of people have still felt stuff when I’m feeling. I think when it comes to comedy in general, the more specific you are, the more relatable you end up being. Brian Reagan, so the Duanne Go Harold. There’s a lot of comedians out there who are great at what they do.

I’ve always been a big Jerry Seinfeld fan. You go back in time to the big names, George carl and Richard Pryor. I like Jonathan Winter’s a lot. I like Johnny Carson. A lot of comedians out there doing good things.

But you gotta be careful not to pattern yourself after somebody. You might like what they do, but you always try to carve your own unique path in this business. I think if you stay true to yourself, make sure that you’re sharing how you feel is an individual on stage, it usually works out pretty good. I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings. I wouldn’t talk about how someone looks or something like that.

I wouldn’t make fun of someone. I think behavior is fair game. I wouldn’t mind going after somebody about their behavior. Mostly I talked about myself. I’d like to be self effacing when I’m on stage, but in terms of topics.

I think ultimately all topics are fair game. It just depends how you approach them. As long as you have some moral compass inside of you and you’re just trying to make people laugh on pointing out certain things, then I think everything’s available. It’d be talked about Fortune Feamster until Kentucky dot Com. Very early on in my career, I was getting told no constantly because I was considered different.

I came up at a time when being different wasn’t really celebrated. Was still that time in Hollywood where people wanted you to be like everybody else. Her career kind of stalled when she pitched Netflix an hour long special, and the feedback I was getting was that I wasn’t ready, and that forced me to go back on the road and really digging on my material and be like, what am I trying to say? She went back and worked out what became her special, Sweet and Salty, that aired on Netflix in twenty twenty. She said, I liked that narrative and the personal feeling to it.

By the time I got a yes from Netflix, I really tapped into what I think is now my voice. The New Yorker asked Kate bro Lant, what do you think about when people talk about you as an industry favorite or every comedian’s favorite comedian. She said, I’ll take it. She’s enjoying doing her show these days, and she says, I’m already nostalgic for this time. I’m overwhelmed by the response to the show and the fact that every single show was sold out and people are coming multiple times.

It’s my dream come true.

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And then they asked her you getting work from it, and she said, nope, I don’t…

Mark Marrin spoke about the ending of Netflix’s Glow. Remember Glow, Women Wrestlers, Fun Show, Alison Brie. Remember Alison Brie in episode one? Either know what I’m referencing or not move on. Johnny mack Wow enjoyed that episode.

COVID was so harrowing, and what I was going through personally was so harrowing too. I think Netflix is going to cut it loose anyway. I’m sorry I’m laughing at that, but if you got it, you got it. I’m upset about the bad luck, but I believe that Netflix held onto those studios and those actors for a long time, and I know they have bottomless pockets and they have all this money, but they didn’t do it lightly. He was disappointing when they finally said, luck, we can’t keep holding onto these studios and there was really no way to shoot it safely with that many actors.

There was COVID remember COVID, Yes, there just wasn’t. But I’m upset that they didn’t. Why couldn’t they just made a movie? Well, why can’t they make a movie? Maren said, I don’t know anyone’s working on one if they believed in it.

I’m more man at Netflix in general for not just saying, but why don’t we make this last season a film? They could have done that. We could have shot that after the pandemic. But now pay attention to here. Maren said, but I don’t think they’re really good at supporting anything that doesn’t add up to global business for them.

That’s just the nature of it. So yeah, I was disappointed because we needed to finish it. We were going to finish it, Allison’s character in mind, We’re going to get together. That’s not the first interview where I’ve seen Maren below a little steam in the direction of Netflix. When he was promoting the HBO special.

There was some line I’m quite sparaphrasing here, like who wants a Netflix special anyway? And I’m looking at that going like, I don’t know everybody, so I don’t know what’s going on there. Maybe he’s just upset about glow from Cracked, LA based comedian Logan Gunslman has an affinity for a typical advertising. For one week, Gunslman ran sidebar ads on certain websites, you know, the ones with naked ladies and stuff that kind. Yeah, Gunsman said.

During the pandemic, I had a lot of free time, so I was visiting porn sites more frequently. I’d get distracted by how insane the ads were, and I thought, it seems like they’ll buy anyone by ads. I wonder how hard it is set up. I googled it. It was pretty easy.

She spent probably twenty minutes shooting some silly suggestive photos or the ad campaign than a few hours photoshopping images and adding captions like you know what feels better than finishing laughing? Well, I’m trying hardier to clean this one up. I’ve got the perfect thing to listen to right after you are done. A twenty minute recording of a woman talking, and it had a link to her album That’s really funny. She said.

Most porn ads are bad, so these can be bad too. She paid a total of one hundred and fifty dollars to run her promotion for one week and select zip codes. So I run some ads from my podcast. A bunch of horny dudes could be like, what the hell is this dude? Yeah, the ad campaign didn’t work out so well.

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The Shark Deck. Happy Chris Rock Day. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see this? The US Energy Department released a report that said the COVID vandemic might have been started by a Chinese lab leak.

Jimmy Fallon said, America’s heard, and we’re like, hey, thanks for that, three years too late information any Game of Thrones spoilers. Valin again, Yeah, they think COVID started a lab, but said they only have low confidence in the report. Low confidence, which is just one notch above. We have no freaking idea. Hasan minhas Josting the Daily Show give him the job already said, how can you conclude something with low confidence?

That’s not a conclusion. I think the word you’re looking for is guess, Fallon, I mean low confidence. That’s like me saying I think I could bench three thousand pounds, but I have low confidence. Tonight ten eastern the Big Chris Rock Special. Join me on Facebook.

I’ll be hanging out in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll start that at around nine thirty. We can watch the pregame show together. We can comment about Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer and everybody else. And you can say stuff and I could say stuff.

I’m also going to drop a bonus episode of the podcast just covering the Chris Rock stuff. I don’t know when that’ll come out, sometime between like tonight and midday Monday. I’ve got a lot of soccer on Sunday, so I’m not sure where I’m gonna be able to bang it out. And I can’t bang it out too early because I want to collect some reactions and stuff. So we’ll see how it goes.

But there’s a bonus episode coming about Chris Rock Netflix as a pregame show at nine thirty. Seinfeld and Schumer and a bunch of others are going to be on that, then Chris Rock at ten East, and then a postgame show with David Spade and Dana Carvey and guests like Kareema dul Jabbar, JB. Smooth and our Senil Hall. How this all works At nine twenty Eastern, if you pop on Netflix, you’ll see a red watch Live button, so that’s a new thing, right, and then you can enter the waiting room before the pre show starts. If you’re late to the show, you can hit a play from the beginning button or watch Live.

The special will be available to rewatch on Netflix once the stream concludes, but the pre and postgame shows will not, so if you want to watch those live nine thirty tonight. According to the Huffington Post, Chris Rock has been working out of the Comedy Cellar. He also had done a recent show in Baltimore working out this material. I’m going to talk about the specific material. So if you don’t want me poisoning your brain with a the jokes b the jokes told poorly by me, you might want to skip ahead a few minutes.

I’ll give you a second here. At the recent show in Baltimore, Rock worked the Will Smith’s stuff in. He teased it early on. Using rhythm and repetition. It builds comic impact, pitching his voice high and loud to underscore his indignation.

Then the line that I talked about yesterday, Will Smith practices selective outrage. People who are in the know know that stuff had nothing to do with me. At another point, he took issue with the children’s nursery rhyme, sticks and stones, joking words only hurt if you’ve never been punched in the face. Vanity Fair has recounted everything Chris Rock has said about the slap so far on stage, So these are major spoilers if you want to skip ahead. Last April, at a show in Atlantic City, Chris Rock joke he had an interesting week and choked that Atlantic City is too close to Philly, referencing Will Smith’s hometown.

On April eighth, he was in California and said, life is good. I got my hearing back. I’m okay. I have a whole show to perform, and I’m not talking about that until I get paid. May third, Chris Rock opened for Dave Chappelle at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival in La.

Remember somebody jumped up on the stage and attack Dave Chappelle. Chris Rock choked, was that Will Smith? Two nights later, Dave and Chris discussed the attacks. Chappelle joked, at least you got smacked by somewhat of repute. I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.

July twenty nine, Will Smith releases a six minute long YouTube apology video. In the video, Will Smith says, I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable, and I’m here whenever you’re ready. To talk. That same day, Chris Rock played the Fox Theater and said, everybody’s trying to be an effing victim.

If everybody claims to be victim, then nobody will hear the real victims. August twenty eight in Phoenix, This is great job by Vanity Fair. Huh. Chris Rock jokes that hosting the Oscars would be like returning to the seam of a crime, like OJ asking Nicole Brown Simpson and go back to the restaurants. Rock adds he’s bigger than me.

The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith. September first, in the UK, Chris Rock jokes that Will Smith is as ugly as the rest of us and tells co HEADLINERD Dave Chappelle that he got slapped over the nicest joke I ever told. November tenth, they announced the live Netflix special March first, Chris Rock said, the other day I watched Emancipatient just so I could watch him getting whipped nine thirty tonight, come hang out on Facebook Daily Comedy News podcast group Marlon Wayans as a news special. This came out yesterday. He did a lengthy interview with the Holly Reporter, and this does come back to Chris Rock and Will Smith here in a second.

This special fully financed and produced by Marlon Wayans himself. The Hollywood Reporter asked him, when did you decide the special was going to be about the slap and did HBO Max have any questions? Marland said, I’d seen the slap when it happened. I swear I watched it like everybody else, and I called Chris Will see everybody’s a friends like, texted Will and I was like, are you okay? Chris?

I was like, where’s your face? I was doing a show in Oxnard that weekend and I talked about it on stage with the improv. I had five minutes of thoughts, and I like to speak truth on stage and see where it goes. So I did that and by the end of the week I had fifteen minutes. I kept exploring the truth and it became like a rub excupe to me.

I got one side, that’s the Chris Rock side. I got what’s my experience with Jada, and then what’s my experience with Will? What’s my experience in the industry, what’s my experience as a black person, what do white people feel. Before I knew it, I had an hour of material. I was actually doing a set about my mom and dealing with the grief of losing my mother.

I was like, sorry, Ma, I’m gonna put you on a side for a second. I need to explore this. I did Netflix as a joke in April. I had all this material, an hour and a half, and then this set all blended, but it was bifurcated, so I decided to separate the tube. Before I knew it, I had an hour in this Chris Will and Jada thing.

Normally he tour for a year or two. I tour this for three months. This is really really interesting, right Like, as I’m reading this, I’m like, oh, I want to watch this special tonight, except I’m not home this week and I have a lot of soccer. Plus I don’t know if I mentioned it as a Chris Rock special to watch. I wrote it on stage.

I never put a pen to the things I experienced the set. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing stand up so much of the past ten to twelve years. It’s allowed me to have the freedom to create in front of people. Before I knew and I had this beautiful piece. It felt good, Audiences gave me standing ovations.

Women loved it. It was just such an honest perspective and didn’t come from a mean place. It came from like a healing place, not just for myself but for the involved and for the people who watched it. I failed it in August in Atlanta because I did a show there and I loved it. It’s a great room.

Then I cut it together and presented it to HBO Max and they did something they never do, which is they loved it so much they licensed it. Marlon Wayams was asked did he reach out to Will Smith or Chris Rock. No, because in their art they don’t ask me, what do you think of this? I think as artist, we all do what we do, especially because it’s such a sensitive subject. I didn’t want their opinions.

I just hope they gauge and trust that I love them, that I’m being objective and being honest and being real. And the purpose of this is more healing than it is deconstruction. I did this in Atlanta on purpose, because black women will tell you when you went too far, they will they’ll go, don’t do that. And this one got a standing ovation. They loved it.

The Holly Reporter said, Chris rock style is more cutting than yours, which we see in the special, can at times offer grace to your subjects. How do you feel about more targeted comedy having been on the end of it yourself with Chris Rock, I love it. I think there’s a purpose for doing cutting comedy. I’m a cutting artist. They say mockery is the best form of flattery, and that’s the way we Wayane’s Clan look at it.

Anybody we’ve ever made fun of, for the most part, even in this sensitive time, usually laughs the loudest. Chris Rock is a brilliant comedian. When it comes to looking at the point of view of what’s funny about people, he’s always been. He gives them the truth about what’s funny, even when it’s at as black folks. Chris is I won’t say a mentor.

He never took me under the wing, but he’s somebody that I always looked to in comedy. He’s a brilliant comedian. He can’t take that from him. No slap could slap the greatness out of him. He’s just a brilliant mind and a brilliant comedian.

He’s always been like a big brother because I kind of grew up around him. He and my brother Sean used to do stand up comedy together Keen and Ivory Wayans. But Chris and the movies we know each other. I know his brothers, I know his family. So that’s why for this special I had to talk about it.

I can’t worry about what everybody’s thinking, what everybody feels. I have to talk about it because nobody else is. I have to come from an honest place as a brother. I felt bad for Chris’s brother Tony when this happened. I know me and my brothers would have been waiting outside the oscars ready to jump Will.

But at the same time, I can imagine what Will felt like. So I just felt like in this moment, all I could do is speak truth and hope everybody could see it themselves. But most of all, I saw myself as an artist come together over thirty year period to be like, this is why everything happens to you, Holly Reporter said. In the special, you tackle every perspective or question offered about the incident, except for one major one, which was Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. Why his answer.

That’s a condition, and that’s something I won’t say I’m making fun of. Nobody knew she had it. Jade’s a very stylistic person. She’s fashioned forward. I don’t think Chris saw the episode of Red Table Talk where she talked about it, So I think Chris is just kind of commenting off the top, and I think they were dealing with a condition of it, and Will was being protective.

I just felt it would weigh down the special. That needs its own ten minutes. I think that’s a separate piece and that takes investigation. It’s not what I knew, and I don’t want to be insensitive to anybody who’s going through that. I think that would have just convoluted the message.

So I left it out and I just explored what was funny from place we can digest. That’s a special onto itself. Hollywood Reporter, you spend some time talking about Smith’s relationship to white Hollywood, as well as the different to quorum dynamics among races. How much did you want to say about how whiteness ultimately shaped that slap moment Wayan’s I just want to talk about the truth of everything. Will talks about it in his book.

I’m not uncovering anything. I’m just saying it out loud. Hollywood’s a funny place because it’s like a bank, you get chosen to like a horse, be bet on. It’s different in some ways for comedians. We have to prove ourselves in theaters.

We have to be a proven commodity where stars they find out like eighteen nineteen twenty and they go, we’re gonna ride this horse. Except for somebody like Eddie Murphy was just that big of a star that he could rock for forty years. Even Will, he’s an international box office name. He’s a phenom we’ve never seen as black people. But he talks about that and there’s a lot of precedents to go with that.

So it’s just uncovering the truth from a comedic perspective, not a dramatic perspective. If you look at a guy like Will, I gotta say I’m proud of him up until that moment. What that man is dealt with being the biggest star in the world time in, time out, approven commodity worldwide. They’ll tell you have no value. In Japan, you put yourself on a plane, you go to hand to sell your movies and people are going crazy and you’re proving them wrong.

Will has always been that guy. He’s been a prime example of what it is, not just for me as a black man in Hollywood, but to erase the racism that sometimes comes with Hollywood’s eyes, to say, now, you’re not gonna label me. I love Will, I love Jada, I love Chris. I say that in my special. I’m not coming as an enemy.

I’m coming as a friend with love going Here’s what’s funny about them. I would have sold the jokes to them Oscars night. I was going around, I’d talked to Trevor. Now, I’d talked to Tyler Perry. We’re all sitting there talking.

Everybody’s talking about this. I’m not just a guy to whisper it. I got some jokes. I’m going to say them out loud. Boy.

As long as I went there, there’s still half the article left, So I think I’ll come back to this next week. This really makes me want to watch Marlon Wayans, doesn’t it. Maybe that’ll pair up nicely with Chris Rock Or is that too much? Maybe you would just watch Chris Rock tonight. Maybe do Marlin to Morrow night?

Really looking forward to this. I mean this is a major comedy event. The bar for Chris Rock tonight is so high, Like people have been waiting a year for this thing. Plus it’s live, plus that Netflix added on the pre and postgame hype. I mean this is a major comedy event.

The bar is super high for Chris Rock. Of all the comedians I’ve ever seen live in person, Jerry Seinfeld’s the best, Chris Rock the second best, and they are one and two and very very very very high on my list. So I’m not saying like Jerry’s way better than Chris. I’m just saying I saw back to back at Chris Rock and then Jerry Seinfeld, and Jerry was better than Chris Rock. When I last left you, I was reading US Magazines twenty five things you don’t know about Jim Gaffigan, as provided by Jim Gaffigan on yesterday’s podcast.

I did the first eleven. Don’t you want to learn more things about Jim Gaffigan. Of course you do. Number twelve. The most famous person in Jim Gaffigan’s phone book is Jerry Seinfeld.

I like how he said phone book and not phone My answer is Stephen van z Aunt. By the way number thirteen, His first job grocery stores, stock boy number fourteen, Favorite room his bedroom fifteen, favorite comfort food, Having too much of Anything. Sixteen starstruck moment the first time I appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, and I felt like I was meeting Mark Twain. Proudest moment of my career. Same thing, Letterman, all right, that’s kind of one thing, Jim, that’s not two things.

Eighteen Favorite movie? Forced Mazure? What is that? Forced Majure appears to be a twenty fourteen movie. A young Swedish family, mom, dad, two grade school age kids begin their skiing vacation and a French alpine resort and typical holiday high spirits.

The first day on the slopes, they paused to have their pictures taken by a tourist photographer. Then on the second day, something extraordinary happens. They’re having lunch at the resort’s rooftop restaurant when they hear a loud report from the mountain above them. Snow begins to topple down. It’s a controlled avalanche, a common thing in ski resorts, but this one quickly comes to seem excessive spoilers, but everybody’s okay, and then there seemed to be some twists and turns, and I’ll have to ruin the movie for you, and it’s really about an avalanche of emotions.

Interesting pick, Jim Gaffagan. Next up, I watched Fleischman Is in Trouble and I loved it. That was amazing. I agree, Jim gaff again. Twenty The comedians I looked up to the most when I was growing up were Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and Bill Murray.

Twenty one. The famous face I’m mistaken most for it is Philip Seymour Hoffman. We all know this, Jim. You bring it up in every interview. That’s not something we didn’t know.

We know twenty two. During the summer, I like to decompress by working in my garden. Twenty three. I would never ever do karaoke, no matter how drunk I am, I’d never do that. Twenty four.

The most challenging thing about being a dad of five is everything. Twenty five. My alternate profession would be a farmer. Twenty six. If I ever get really famous, I’ll return the calls of people that helped me in the early two thousands when I was just starting.

Oh no, sorry, that’s not on the list at all. You know, as if today is not a big enough day in comedy, you know what else is happening today? Adam Sandler. He’s going to be honored at the two twenty three Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. He is winning the King of Comedy Award.

Yes, great job kids. And how old are these kids? Say they’re like seven or eight. I’m sure they love Adam Sandler. They’re so familiar with him.

I’m sure Adam Sandler’s prolific career of more than thirty years will be recognized with a silver blimp statue. He’ll accept the honor while sitting in a giant thrown on the stage. Sandler said, I’ve had so many great times at this fantastic awards extravaganza. I’ll always be excited to hang with duck hiddies. So if you need something to do before Rock, you can watch Adam Sandler and the Kid’s Choice Awards.

It’ll be on Nickelodeon and a bunch of other channels starting at seven Eastern. That should walk you right up to the Chris Rock pregame show. Huh. Adam Sandler, the King of comedy. I feel like what I do here?

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I’ve been playing the what should we go see tonight game a day in advance to take advantage of time zones, or to not to disadvantage ourselves of time zones. In case you’re listening in London, you’re like, ah, I wish i’d known this couple hours earlier. Jenny mc right, you got a day in advance. Relax, Well, I would tell you no doubt. We’re going to see this first show at one o’clock and again at three o’clock.

There’s probably two groups new faces If you’ve listened for a long time, you know that I go up to Montreal just to see new faces. Katherine Bohart is your host tonight one o’clock. Should I read the names? No, they’re new faces. You don’t know any of these people.

One two, three, four, five six seven at one o’clock one two, three, four, five, six seven eight at the three o’clock showcase. If we were in London, I’m making you go to both too bad, which means at two o’clock you’re going to miss Basil Brush’s family fun show. This seems to be are you a fox? I don’t know what this is. It looks like a fox wearing a green jacket, joined Basil and mister Martin as it bring you a show full of magic and laughter, storytelling and jokes.

I can hear somebody in the UK right now going, how do you not know what Basil Brush is? It’s and yelling that it’s a coyote or whatever it is. I don’t know what it is. Should I look it up? Basil Brush is a fictional red fox.

See I had it right the first time. It’s not a coyote. Best known for his appearances on Daytime British children’s television. Are there coyotes in the UK? I’m gonna google that too.

We want to know. We know the answer is going to be no, but we got to be sure, right. Basil Brush is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but he’s also depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips. He’s got a catchphrase, ha ha ha boom boom are their coyotes in the UK. There are no coyotes in the British Isles.

There are no wild coyotes in Britain, or indeed anywhere outside of North and Central America. There’s a lot of searchers for this and the next one. Do Britain’s hunt coyotes? Are coyotes a menace in Britain? The answer no, there are no wild coyotes in Britain, were indeed anywhere outside of North and Central America?

All right? Relax? Google Basil Brushes Family Fund shows at two o’clock. At four olock Comic Relief The Truth and Everything Except the Truth. Richard Curtis, co founder of Red Nosed Days, joined by Comic Relief stars as they reveal comic Relief, The Truth and everything except the Truth.

An afternoon of comedy, memories and mishaps. Five o’clock Felicity Awards, The Mother Effing Trilogy. Felicity Award is back with a mother of a show in twenty nineteen. Felicity, like many other people, add a baby, then she run almost three hours of stand up about it. This is it.

I’m intrigued, but three hours that’s long. Six o’clock Comic Relief, Proud every Day with your glorious host Sue Perkins. Eight o’clock Max and Ivan’s the Wrestling. I’ve talked about this on and off. I want to see this professional comedians versus professional wrestlers.

The wrestling is a death defying Edinburgh Comedy Award winning sellout Mega show, the Grandest, most outragious blah blah blah bla blah okay. Calling the action at ringside will be the team of Ashling b Nish Kumar and Greg Jeames. As for the matches, Rosie Daddy Jones will be defending her championship belt, ed the Gambler Gamble will be teaming up with pro wrestler Levi Muir against creators Max and Ivan, and the main event will feature the Raging Horn, Alex Horne, Phil Phil Wang Wang love It, Glenn Moore aka Glenn Morgue and their ringfluencer Abby Clark. Tremendous fun. All right, this is pretty easy for a wonderful Sunday.

We’re doing new faces, more new faces than We’re getting dinner and some beverages and then we’re doing the wrestling and that’ll close out just for laughs. London boy, wish we were actually there. Huh. All right, we got Chris Rock tonight. Hang out with me on Facebook and like I said, I’ll drop a bonus episode at some point.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Shunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel addressed a report that was in Rolling Stone. According to the report, in twenty eighteen, President Trump asked White House officials to call Disney and demand that Jimmy Kimmel stopped making jokes about Trump. Kimmel said, in other words, President Karen demanded to speak to my manager.

You think the guy that fathered Eric and Don Junior would know how to handle jokes, But I guess not. You know what, maybe this is why Donald Milanny asleep in separate bedrooms. She was laughing too hard at my monologue at night, but really joking aside, this is a blatant abuse of power. I wonder if Fox News, you know they’re always screaming against censoring comedians, will they defend me on this? I doubt it.

Are you excited for Chris Rock’s Big Live Special on Netflix Tomorrow night, Saturday, ten pm Eastern pregame show at nine thirty. Yes. I will react to it in a bonus episode at some point between the end of the special and Monday afternoon. I have some soccer over the weekend I’m not sure when I’m gonna be able to bang this one out, but there will be a bonus episode discussing Chris Rock.

Also, I’d like to invite you to the Facebook hang So Pop on Facebook and the …

I’m going to do some sort of post and we could just chat and watch it together. And if you have some comments, you comment in the comments section. That’s what a comment section is, that’s where comments go. You know, we can comment. So I’ll pop on to Facebook around nine thirty Eastern tomorrow nights and we’ll watch Chris Rock together.

Okay, I’m going to talk about the Chris Rock special here. There are some spoilers for the material, so if you want to skip ahead, bit let me see here. Let me skip ahead about two minutes. Okay, those spoilers. Apparently some of the material that he’s been working out very recently includes Rock saying I rooted for Will Smith my whole life, but the other day I watched Emancipation just so I could watch him getting whipped.

Chris Rock played Baltimore back on February seventeenth, presumably working out the location and the material. At that show, Chris Rock said Will Smith to his selective outrage. People who are in the know know that stuff had nothing to do with me. He’s significantly bigger than me. You’ll never see me on camera with my shirt off.

Will played Muhammad Ali. I played Pooky, and according to the son, Chris rock is keeping his word about never saying Jada Pinkett Smith’s name. That was Will Smith’s request or I keep your name out of your mouth, while Chris Rocky is agreeing to it, referring to her as Will Smith’s wife and his wife. Rock told the crowd at that Baltimore show, we’ve all been cheated on. She hurt him way more than he ever hurt me.

Everyone knows. I’m not spilling any t. I felt so bad for Will I try to call him and give him my condolences. Everybody was calling him a bitch except me. But who does he hit me?

Should be a major comedy event. I’m looking forward to it. Trevor Noah has a new book coming out this fall. Not much is known about it, but publisher One World is billing the novel as a quote gorgeously illustrated and moving modern fable for readers of all ages about forgiveness. Acceptance and the Secret of Solidarity.

Untitled book is said to be evocative of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and the Little Prince shooting high there Trevor Noah Okay. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, usually held in Edmonton Calgary, is expanding to Halifax, and they brought in a big name. He is Jerry Seinfeld. Their release calls Seinfeld quote one of the greatest and most recognizable comedians of all time. I would like to break apart sentences like that now of all time, you know is an awfully long time.

Let’s just casually define all time is starting in nineteen hundred. Is Jerry Seinfeld one of the greatest comedians since nineteen hundred? I’m gonna say yes, no doubt. In the course of my career, I have seen a lot of comedians live. The best two that I’ve seen live.

I never saw George Carlin in person. I never saw Richard Pryor in person. But people that I’ve sat in the audience and watched number one Jerry Seinfeld, Number two, Chris Rock Who’s third best, Johnny Mack I would have to think about that, you know, who was really good and crushed when I saw him Ralphie May. Now am I going to sit here and say Ralphie May third best community of all time? I don’t know if I’m ready to say that, but I’m just racking my brain who I saw in person that like crush crushed, you might have to put a tel in the conversation as well.

That we’ll do that some other day. Jerry Seinfeld will be in Halifax August eleventh. Forbes caught up with Taylor Thomlinson. She’s in Dallas, Texas this weekend five shows at the Majestic Theater. She discussed making the jump to bigger theaters and said, you just have to do everything a lot bigger.

That’s the biggest challenge. At the Comedy Attic in Bloomington, Indiana, you could take two steps in either direction at an improv you can face a bit. But the Chicago Theater is a massive, wide stage and you have to move much more. It’s also different because in some of the rooms, like Chicago, there’s a screen behind you, and that helps. Certain things will work with a screen because the back row can see your facial expressions like in a club.

So thinking about all that and sort of tweaking each performance based on the room you’re in. Is key really interesting there, right, Because I commented earlier in the week that one of the challenges I had watching Kathleen Madigan special is that she didn’t really move. I feel like you got to work the stage a little, right, comedian stops me. Taylor said, I don’t think comedians really need any one thing, or any one opportunity or any one person anymore. I think with podcasts too, everybody has so much control over their career and their voice and finding their people.

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There’s a plan here telling you appreciate y’all. The numbers have been up again, so it’s been a nice little run here, all right, just for laughs London. Because I have mastered time zones, I’ve been working ahead. So let’s take a look at who’s playing on Saturday. First show is the Fock It Up Comedy Club.

I said, fock foc. I don’t know what you think. I said. The Fuck It Up Comedy Club unapologetically celebrates and centers the perspectives of comedians of color that are not sis men. Fock apparently stands for Fems of Color Comedy Club.

All right, that sounds like it could be a really good show. And that’s a two in the afternoon. Why would we not go three in the afternoon? Craig Robinson in conversation. Now, we supposedly saw Craig Robinson in my little fantasy last night, so we don’t need to see Craig again at four o’clock.

Chapark Course Sandy. The description here ah the nineties, the decade that Chapark was in her twenties, the decade when there was nothing to do but party, and Chapark found herself flying about London with hope in her heart, a tenor in her pocket, and spear knickers in her handbag. She matched the boys pine for pine, and frequently woke up in parts of London she’d never heard of. This is show about how we nineties kids are looking to young people to learn about how to take care of ourselves. That sounds fun too, And that’s at four o’clock, all right, five o’clock Springleaf with James A Castor and nish Kumar undercover cop Pat spring Leaf, more widely known by his covert named James A Castor talks to Nisch Kumar about his upcoming true crime podcast.

At six o’clock, Jessica Fostaq presents Wench, a show about sexy things, awkward, private things, oh no, and a woman trying to sit on the face of time to keep it still right. The Sea’s hot Right. Eight o’clock Ashling b and Friends. Friends include Nish Kumar, Susie Ruffel, and Nebil abduur Shed. Eight thirty Ryan Reynolds, Yeah, that Ryan Reynolds, moderated by Rob Delaney.

You know, I watch Welcome to Wrexham and I see Ryan Reynolds, and I’m like, I don’t think I would enjoy spending time with Ryan Reynolds. I don’t know. My wife is like, you’re insane, but I don’t know, So I’m gonna rule that one out already. Nine o’clock Jordan Gray’s Extra Jordinary Cabaret. Jordan Gray brings some of her favorite pals to join her for an Extra Jordinary cabaret show.

Eleven o’clock. Reggie Watts, all Right, we got a busy day here. Let’s go back to the top and plan out our day. Let’s definitely go to see fock It up at two. Japara Corshandi’s nineties show interested me, So we’ll do that one that was at like five.

Then we’ll grab a beer and some food. Then let’s do Ashley Bed that was like the eight o’clock show, and we can get Reggie Watts late. That’s a pretty solid night of comedy. Huh, too bad we’re not in London. Then we could say up till three in the morning and log into Netflix and watch Chris Rock Live and then really pass out.

US Magazine has twenty five things you don’t know about Jim Gaffigan. The twenty five things we’re provided to US Magazine by Jim Gaffigan. I don’t know if I want to do twenty five. Let’s do ten and then we’ll do some more tomorrow. How about that Number one?

Jim Gaffigan says, I’m more of an eater than a cookery. I like to make meat sauce with spicy peppers that I grow in my own garden. All right. Number two things you didn’t know about Jim Gaffigan. It was embarrassing a little or I understood the science that portrayed on my character’s kids show in Linoleum.

All right, Jim, you plugged your movie. You could have put that a little deeper fine. Number three. One thing fans always say to me on the street is either meow from Supertroopers were hot pocket, or they asked me how do I know you? Number four.

My biggest secret talent is that I could sleep a lot and still be exhausted. Number five. My first car was a Fierro which looked like a wedge of cheese. Six. My favorite item my wardrobe is a fancy robe that my wife got me.

I used to make jokes that I hated robes, but this robe was so nice. When I put it on, I’m like, I should just live in this. Number seven. This one’s good. I think Ellen Degenerous was my celebrity crush growing up.

Number eight, We Are Young reminds me of being in the car and my kids singing along to that song, the version by Fun. Number nine David Copperfield is Jim Gaffigan’s favorite book, and number ten. On a typical Saturday night, you’ll find him on stage doing stand up. I don’t think that’s like something we didn’t know about you, Jim. I think we kind of all knew that.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A lot to get to today. Let’s start with Chris Rock Special Saturday night at ten o’clock nad Flix, and they’ve now added a pregame show at a postgame show, the show before the show, that’s the title Little Stream, Beginning at nine thirty Eastern. It’ll kick off with live commentary from comics and messages from Chris Rock’s famous pals. The famous pals include Amy Schumer and Jerry Seinfeld.

So it sounds like somebody at Netflix called in some favors and it’s like, hey, Jerry and Amy, can you jump on zoom for ten seconds? And they said sure. The pre show also includes messages from Centric the Entertainer, Iced Tea, Sarah Silverman, and Paul McCartney. This is I find these things weird. I like Chris Rock, I like Paul McCartney.

I don’t care what Paul McCartney thinks about Chris Rock. Why do you do this? I know why you do this. You do this because of the press release. Believe me, at Famous Plays I used to work, they were all about the press release.

It didn’t even matter if the content was good, if you could put Paul McCartney’s name and the Chris Rock press release and get some idiot with a podcasts basement to talk about it. You get a bonus. My friend, so, I totally understand the game, but the game is stupid. I don’t care what Paul McCartney has to say about Chris Rock, really don’t. I also don’t care what Chris Rock has to say about Paul McCartney.

Your host will be The Daily Show’s Ronnie Ching. Interesting choice of host for the Chris Rock Special.

Also scheduled to appear Arseniel Hall, Dion Cole, and Leslie Jones.

Then the postgame show, which is called The Show After the Show, that’ll be hosted by David Spade and Dana Carvey. Their scheduled guests include JB. Smooth and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Okay, Chris Rock’s gonna go live at TAN Eastern from Baltimore, Maryland. My plan is I’m going to do this as a bonus episode, and I’m not sure when i’ll get it out.

I’ll possibly stay up late Saturday night and do something Sunday morning. I know I’m out the door pretty early with soccer and I’m home kind of late, so sometimes Sunday and I’ll do a bonus episode that is just about the Chris Rock Special. This is going to be a major event. You may have heard Chris Rock was slapped by Will Smith at last year’s Oscars, so I imagine there will be a lot of eyes on this live special again. It’s a Saturday night, ten o’clock Eastern on Netflix.

The special will remain available to stream after the initial airing, but the pre and postgame shows will only be available live. In other Big News, south By Southwest they announced their lineup. The south By Southwest Comedy Festival is March tenth through the fourteenth. I’m going to read off a lot of names. If you don’t want to hear me just reading names.

Hit thirty second, skip ready, go, Abby Jacobson, Adrian I, Pollucci, Andre Hyland, Anna Hendrick, Anthony and Tamnuik. He’s great, Anthony, DeVito, Aristola Thori. Remember he was on SNL for five minutes. Is he’s still on? He’s gone right?

Beth Stelling, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Moses, Caitlin Pallufo, Caleb Huron, Chelsea Handler, Christina Katherine Martinez, Doug Benson, Eddie peppittonem A Willman, Eric Andre, Philippia Sparza, Godfrey, Greg Proops, is My Ault, Lutfi, Jackie Fabulous, Jake Johnson, James Adomian, Jessica McKenna, Joe to Rosa, John Gimberling, Josh Johnson, all Right, we’re up to the Jay’s Joy l Johnson, Katherine Blandford, Leonard Malton, Matt Besser, Mike Lawrence, Natalie Palamides, She’s due for a new special. That last one was so good, Nick Phune, Patton Oswalt, Pete Lee, Phoebe Robinson, Rachel Sennott, Reggie Watts, Sabrina Jaley’s, Sam, j Sam Talent, Sanny Honig, Steve ag Steph Tolev Stewart Goldsmith, Tim Robinson, Sodberry, Tone Beell, Yaminikas Sanders plus Moore. Some of the shows Adult Swims, The Eric Andre’s Show, as Kat, Doug Loves Movies, Malton on Movies, Matt Besser’s four twenty Show, Rose Battles, Tournament of Champions, Variety’s Power of Comedy Show, Will Honor, Chelsea Handler, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick Patton, Oswald, Phoebe Robinson, Tim Robinson, Zach Kanan, and others. This star studded celebration of comedy would be hosted by Mike Lawrence and Nick Fuhne. Chelsea Handler will receive the Icon Award, recognizing her achievements as comedian, TV and best selling author.

Patton Oswalt received the Stand Up Award, honoring his accomplishments as a beloved comic, having filmed eight comedy specials and seven comedy albums. Senna will receive the Breakthrough Artist Award. There’s a lot of buzz on Rachel Sennat. You may know her from starring Indy Pete Davidson movie Bodies Bonnie’s Bodies. James Adomian returns to do his third festival keynote Comic Relief US, the nonprofit organization known around the world for Red Nosed Days.

They’ll be hosting stand up performances and a special event, Funny Thing About Breaking Up The Boys Club. Abby Jacobson, Sam j and Joel Johnson joined for discussion on the impact of women who break barriers and the power of laughter to effect change. Good Trip Live a night of comedy and psychedelic stories with Eric Andre, Reggie Watt, Steve ag Sanny Honigg, and others. UCBE co founder Matt Besser’s back with a four twenty show and Ask Cats, featuring true tales from celebrity guests and inspired scenes from some of today’s most skilled performers. UCB favorites Anthony it Tamnwick, John Gimmerling, and Jessica McKenna will join on the fun that should be Really Good.

Besser will also present Johnny Cash Junior and the Neppo Babies ut Nanny Johnny Cash Junior, played by Matt Besser. I Love This Already hosts an evening of infamous Neppo Babies performing in their biggest hits or maybe their parents’ biggest hits Awesome. Joe da Rosa comedian and owner of New York City sandwich shop Joey Rose’s, returns with another edition of last year’s hit Joe to Rose’s Sandwich Summit. The Summit brings together chefs and creators behind some of Austin’s best eats to talk about all things sandwich. Why not.

This all kicks off March tenth, that’s next week, so we’ll have a lot of fun talking about that. Tom Brady made the news TMZ reporting Tom Brady is not pursuing a full blown second career in stand up comedy. Yeah, there was a little rumor going around that Tom Brady was going to put off his Fox Sports career to become a stand up comedian. Now when you read that story, don’t you go that makes no sense at all. That was my reaction to it.

The initial report quoted a source you said Tom was a terrific quarterback, but he needs to toss this idea before it’s too late. The source clai it was part of a plan to win back ex wife Jasell Uh huh, because she’s gonna be like, oh, Tom’s doing stand up The biggest obstacle between them was Jazelle’s complaints about Tom putting football before family, so he decided to show her he’s willing to focus on them before taking the job at Fox. His only goal right now is to get his family back and apparently do stand up comedy. It’s anyway. TMZ says that’s nonsense, But they aren’t talking about doing a roast of Tom Brady.

He’s in talks with Netflix to be the center of a roast that would be titled the Greatest Roast of All Time, and you know what you’ll watch. Hey, if you like what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I don’t have a coffee with me. I do have this bottle of water, but that’s not what we’re doing here. We’re talking about coffees.

Cheryl bought me two coffees. Cheryl, thank you very much. Cheryl and I have been emailing on the side, and she’s been the inspiration of a topic I talked about yesterday that I’m going to talk about again in a minute. Cheryl, thank you very much. If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

I will take your money. I will put it in my bank account. My bank account is tied to my Donuts Chain account. I’ll pick up my phone in the morning, I’ll log into the Donut Chain app. I’ll hit the same order as yesterday, and in that order a large eyed coffee with caramel and almond milk.

I tell you I’m loving cutting back on the dairy and made myself a smoothie yesterday. I put yogurt in it. And I was like half asleep again. So I’m trying to replace the yogurt with the almond milk. But I like my strubberry yogurt in my smoothing.

It’s so hard being old. Zone Age buy milcof dot com slash Daily Comedy News Real Quick Hasan Minhaj I shared a clip of him hosting the Daily Show in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I continue to think he feels like the right host for the job. Now he needs a couple of reps. He wasn’t like totally on point on his first installment hosting the Daily Show, but he could easily get there.

I think he’s right for the sentiment of the show. Right vibe, right age. Just feels right to me. But we’ll see what they decide. So that clips on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

Also in that group, I’m pulling you, guys. I think I want to do some sort of live chat or live reaction to this Chris Rock thing. I’m thinking maybe doing it in the Facebook group and we could all kind of chat along as we watch. So let me know your thoughts on that, all right. The Jessera laughs.

A London Comedy Festival continues, and because i have educated myself about time zones, I’m working a day in advance. So let’s see who’s playing their Friday seven o’clock Randy field Face. Are you’re familiar with Randy feld Face, He’s a puppet, He’s purple. Since beginning his comedy career in Milbourne, Australia in twenty five, Randy feld Face has written and performed ten solo stand up comedy shows. Were these four comedy specials and played sell out places all across the world.

Randy’s live show is a high energy existential crisis fill of biting observations, rezor sharp crowd work and rapid arm At eight o’clock, The Graham Norton Variety Show featuring Katherine Ryan, Joe I Said, Phil Wang, Jeed Adams, Danny Beard, Sam Ryder and others. At nine o’clock Stamptown hosted by Zach Zucker featuring Sam Campbell, Desire Birch, Michelle Brazier, Flowing Joan and some others. Raunchy, chaotic, and the only show that consistently runs in New York, London and La Stamptown is the Late Night Variety show featuring the best performance from around the world, and then at eleven o’clock Craig Robinson and the Nasty Delicious. I’m not sure what the split of comedy and music is there, but we’re free at eleven o’clock, all right. So at seven o’clock do we go see Randy felt Face or do we go see the Graham Norton Variety Show because we came all the way to London and we should see something British.

I really like Randy felt Face, but I feel like we’ll be able to catch him in Montreal or something. Let’s do Graham Norton at eight o’clock. Now that’s going to box us out from catching Stamptown. So tonight’s play Graham Norton at eight and we’ll see Craig Robinson for the eleven o’clock show. How’s that sound?

And by tonight I mean Friday night? Okay. So yesterday, towards the end of the show, I was talking about the subject of women in comedy and how many women comedians I discuss on the show or not. Then I got some text from my daughter that we’re distracting for good reason. I don’t want to get too much into it.

But something really terrible happened to someone we know, So that’s what happened there. But the topic of women comedians is on my mind and started poking at it. As you know, I’m fascinated with AI chats, so I went to bing and asked being a question, Hey, how many comedians are women? Being said hello? This is being According to one source, eleven point three percent of stand up comedians or women and eighty eight point seven percent are men in the US.

That to me sounds totally off, but being continued and said. Another source gives a similar estimate of twenty six point seven percent women and seventy three point three percent men for comedians in general in the US. For me, no research at all. That feels right. About twenty six percent that feels right to me.

I’ve thought about it more and I think there are a lot of younger women comics, and they tend to be in the alts scene, and most of the comedy websites tend to live in the bro dude Austin kind of comedy scene. So as I researched the show every day, it’s either like the big headliners who’ve been around for a while your Jerry Seinfelds, or your Jim Gaffigans, or your Chris Rocks or that bro dude scene of Crasher Sigora and Rogan and those guys. Although Jim Jeffreys in there. You know that kind of vibe. There’s that style of comedy, and you don’t see much all stuff in the trade.

So it could be that too that is affecting my choices of what I talk about here or not now being sourced zipia dot com slash stand up comedian jobs with a bunch of hyphens in there. I’m not reading the url. I don’t know too much about this website, but they have some demographics here. This is the survey that had only eleven point three percent of comedians being women. So I don’t know how much want to read into this, but for what it’s worth, percentage of stand up comedians by race White fifty seven point four, Hispanic or Latino seventeen point four, Black or African American twelve point eights, unknown six point seven, Asian five point four, average age thirty seven point nine.

I guess gender. Bay gapp for stand up comedian women earn ninety six cents for every dollar earned by men mail income forty nine eight hundred forty one dollars, female income forty seven six thirty seven. I know I’ve got a couple comics. Listen on the show. Hey guys, you guys making forty nine thousand doing stand up might be throwing in some lesser amounts with Jerry Seinfeld’s income in there.

You know, average can be very waited if you have some big numbers in there. But I don’t know now. According to this site, which is zippia dot com, in twenty ten, comedians were almost ninety one percent, with women being nine percent. By twenty twenty one, those numbers eighty eight point six and eleven point three, And it feels a little low. This next thing is cracking me up.

You can go to Zippia dot com zippia dot com and you can make of this next fact what you want. Top industries hiring stand up comedians number one, government, really, next up media, then professional whatever that means, retail and start up. Sixteen percent of stand up comedians working for the government. Okay, And some of these stand up comedian jobs posted on the website include concessions, stand attendant, red Bull arena. So I’m not sure what we’ve learned from that.

Then I went to chat TGP you whatever it is, I always get it wrong. It’s TGP right, TBG Wait. I didn’t even just say letters there leave it in that one Chatbott said it is difficult to give an exact percentage, But according to a twenty nine survey by the Highlywood Reporter, all right, that seems like a legit source. Only ten percent of the top earning comedians in the US were women. Another study by the BBC in twenty seventeen found that women made up only thirteen percent of their performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the largest and most prestigious comedy festivals in the world.

So that thirteen percent seems kind of in the ballpark. I don’t know. I don’t know what the real numbers are other than whatever I computed on yesterday’s podcast. But it’s an interesting topic to me. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The big news of the week will be Saturday night, ten o’clock Chris Rock Live on Netflix. I might live tweet this thing and we’ll see what happens. Will Smith, forever tied to Chris Rock.

Will was on social media and he shared a TikTok and the other chicktoker says, did you know you can pick up any object, look at it and ask what it thinks of you? So, for example, you can pick up a pen and ask how it sees you or what it thinks of you, and you’ll get an answer in your mind from your intuition. You can ask your car what it thinks of you. You can even ask money what it thinks of you. Will Smith then picks up as Best Actor Oscar Trophy and gives it a puzzled look.

All Righty, Woody Harrelson cause a little controversy on Saturday Night Live. By the way, that was a really bad SNL and you could kind of tell from the get go. James Austin Johnson and the opener did his trump thing and it was fine.

And then Woody Harrelson’s monologue which I’m about to talk about was poor, …

Even the news wasn’t particularly good. So aside from the kerfluffle, which I’ll tell you about in a second, I just thought Woody Harrison’s monologue was bad. I expect better from him. He should be much more natural at that. In his monologue, wood he said, the last time I did SNL was around Thanksgiving twenty nineteen, three years ago.

And you’ll not believe what happened after the show. The next day was a Sunday, as it always is the day after to do Saturday Night Live. That was probably the best joke of the entire night. I went walking in the greatest part of the city, Central Park, laid against a tree, and started to read the craziest script. So the movie goes like this, the biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force the people in the world to stay locked in their home and people can only come out if they take the cartels drugs and keep taking them over and over.

I do the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea of being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day. Some of the headlines from The Washington Post on SNL, Woody Harrison pushed his popular COVID nineteen conspiracy theory vanity fair. Woody Harrison really blew it on SNL people.

Woody Harrison’s spark controversy by supporting COVID vaccinine conspiracy theory. DMZ Woody Harrison floats COVID vacs conspiracy and from the av Club, Elon Musk praises Woody Harrison’s anti VAXX choke. Pretty bad episode. They did honor Richard Belzer with a title card showing a young Richard Belzer performing stand up. Joe Rogan has caused a stir.

Yes, he has slammed the bald eagle. You know, the sometimes symbol of America, the bald eagle as an effing, soulless, evil creature. Joe Rogan was joking around with Ari Shaffir, Mark Norman, and Shane Gillis. They were discussing how China often leases pand is to US zoos and note now the band is associated with the country. Joe Rogan said, there’s an animal that represents America.

It’s funny that it’s an eagle because eagles are It’s kind of an effing, soulless, evil creature that likes to eat dead fish. Gillis chimed in and said Benjamin Franklin was right. We should have had a turkey. Rogan didn’t used to be a dog. I think at one point it was the dog.

It was like a pit bull. Is that true that America’s national animal was a pit bull at one time? Mark? I’m in joke that it was actually rapper pitbull. When Twitter user wrote tell me you’re a boorish, ignorant American Caucasian mail without telling me you’re a boorish, ignorant American Caucasian mail, I’m not sure how we got from the eagle to that, but okay, I like controversy.

Bert Kreischer was unpardoned my take and asked how long will he live or it? Said I think about that a lot. I wonder. I don’t have a lot of the issues that I know dudes that live my lifestyle have because I work out really hard. Like I’m looking at Shane Gillis last night.

If he lives to be forty two, I’ll be shocked. He’s a bull, But he comes in at like three in the morning, and I’m in bed. I called it early last night. I got in bed at one. Shane gets in bet at three, stays out in the morning.

I’m up at seven in the morning. I’m going to do radio shows. I’m doing interviews. I come back. I have hairstylists coming over to cut everyone’s hair.

I got a chiropractor. We’re making breakfast, we’re running meetings, we’re working social media. Shane still in bed, locked his door. Dudes like him and Mark Norman, they party, but for some reason they rebound. I don’t know what it is.

Back to how long he’ll live. F I had to give you a real number, I got the fifties. Fifties, I’ll be fine. I won’t have any health problem in my fifties. Extes, it’ll be like, oh, we found a polyp.

I think I could make it as a seventy seven clean and I think I’m gonna go from like a shark attack or something. I’m hoping my death surprises people. I can’t go out from something like associated with partying, So why don’t do coke anymore? If I do coke and I have a heart attack, everyone’s gonna be like, woh, we saw that coming. That’s why I don’t do coke.

I want to get like attacked by an animal, or like a plane crash that sounds nice. Murdered by my wife, that’d be cool as f something where they don’t have the obituary ready to go. David Cross will join the upcoming season of The Umbrella Academy. David Cross will play Sy Grossman, who is an upstanding, shy business owner and family man desperate to reconnect with his strange daughter. We’ll stop at nothing to get her back.

BJ Novak was giving some sort of speech and started talking about Mindy Kaling back in their office days. BJ said, we were in love with each other and we were reckless idiots. When the producers realized that our relationship as co writers had jumped every conceivable boundary and became a tumultuous, romantic, toxic, boundaryless mess, they both aside and said, hey, you should have scenes together too. Novac made fun of the references to their relationship in Middy’s next series, The Mindy Project. He described the love interests of Mindy as men who looked weirdly like me.

If you enjoy what I do here. You can go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar. I’ll take your money. I go to National don’ts Shane. I’ll get a large iced coffee with caramel and almond milk.

Really enjoying getting off the darium so less sleepy. How old am I? Another way it support the shows go on Apple Podcast. I’ll put the premium subscription option under you five bucks a month to get the episodes early and ad free. You can test drive that for a month for free in itself if you want to try that.

I watched some comedy specials Draffa Zepp, he’s a friend of the podcast, and he went on the Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook and he suggested Drew Lynch and it was Friday night and I was like, all right, I’ll watch Drew Lynch. It was funny enough. I got a little long from me to the end, but I was enjoying it. Won’t make the end of the year list, it was funny. I was enjoying it.

I also appreciated Drew Lynch who posted it for free on YouTube with commercials. No problem, no issue. He placed the commercials. That’s right. Other comedians.

Drew Lynch came to the end of a complete thought and then there was a commercial and I went, cool, make some money, bro, happy for you, and then the commercial ended and then we had a new chunk. That’s how you do it, you comedians that just monetize but let things go in the middle of a sentence. Come on, man, it’s not hard. I do it every single day here. I end a sentence on a down inflection and then I leave a break.

It’s not hard, just do that. I also watched Kathleen Madigan’s new special on Amazon and I was thinking about it. So I actually know Kathleen and I’ve been listening to Kathleen’s comedy for twenty something years now, and I was thinking about, all right, what’s bothering me about this one? And she doesn’t move around too much, So as you’re watching the special, you’re just staring at Kathleen and it’s just a woman behind a microphone, not moving left or right, just standing behind a microphone. Not that I’m looking for jump cuts, but I do like my comedian to use the stage a little bit.

And as I thought more about it, because I ran the comedy channels at sis XM. All those years, I’ve listened to a lot of Kathleen’s comedy, but that’s it. I’ve listened to it. I don’t know if I’ve ever watched a Kathleen special. Maybe the previous one, but for the most part, my consumption of her material has been listening to it.

So then I thought about the material and closed my eyes and I’m like, oh, this is Kathleen doing Kathleen things very funny. If you like Kathleen Madigan, you’ll love this new special. Gives it groundbreaking Nope? Will it make the end of the year list, Nope. If you like Kathleen Madigan, here’s Kathleen Madigan doing her thing very nice special this week it’s just for laughs.

London. I would have loved to have been over there, but not going to happen. I finally remembered about the concept of time zones. So what I’m going to do here is I’m going to work a day in advance for the London Festival. This is Thursday Night’s lineup.

It’s not as robust as say Montreal or Moon Tower or any of the bigger festivals, but here are the options for Tonight, Adam Buxton presents the Best of Bug That is the long running sellout BFI music video show. Expect a selection of outs standing videos from the last few years and variously unhinged comments from the online community. Brad Williams is playing, and I think that’s going to be the choice. Luisa o’meilan is also playing. Luisa creates iconic one woman shows.

She was the first comedian to receive a bath to breakthrough for stand up, not the first female comedian, the first. Or we could see Katherine Ryan and friends. Friends include Darren Harriet’s, Kerry Godliman and Ed Gamble. That one’s at nine thirty. Luisa’s show is at eight thirty.

Brad Williams is at seven o’clock. M see now part of me I want to see UK comedians because we came all this way, but the timing’s not going to work out. Let’s do Brad Williams at seven. He is very, very funny, and then we’ll do the Katherine Ryan show at nine thirty.

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And then when you’re like, hey, let’s go hang out, I’m gonna be like, we’re i…

You Americans and your four am bar closings. I was over there a couple of years ago. I had a tough time getting a beer at like nine. Genieya Sheer is on tour. Do you know Gina the British Nigerian comedian, Very very funny.

Her tour is called the Woman King of Comedy. Her signature distinctive physical humor, shed light on the plights of being a brit in America, constantly educating Americans on the mere existence of black British people, the absurdity of the American healthcare system, and overt American racism versus passive UK racism. Brooklyn and June, Chicago and Detroit. In July Portland, Which Portland? It doesn’t say, I’m going to guess the Oregon One.

Yes, that’s an August Gina Sheer, the Woman King of Comedy. Quick stop at Gossip Corner. Hey, who is the woman in a bikinis skiing in Whistler, British Columbia. That’s right, it was Chelsea Handler. She posted a social media video of her annual clothing optional birthday ski trip.

She was wearing a broad top of American and Canadian flags and black bikini bottoms, and she pulled off the skiing runs successfully and we’ve got a full listener Maile segment. Today, I heard from Scott Beckett, friend of the show. Scott wrote, John Dude, on your February twenty fourth episode, you read a correction from Tom who said Brian Hamilton is from Ohio, or at least that’s what you said when you spoke Yes, I secreted it up again. Scott points out Ryan Hamilton is not from Canada, He’s not from Ohio. He’s from Idaho.

So I wanted to be sure this time. Titan Ryan Hamilton, Idaho. Here’s what I’ve learned. Place of birth Ashton, which is a city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States. Population was eleven hundred twenty seven at the twenty ten census, and Ashton is part of the Rexburg Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The district is noted for seed potato production and bills itself as the world’s largest seed potato growing area. But I needed to double source this and from the East Idaho News, Ryan Hamilton said, my mother’s side of the family is from Ashton, which is in Idaho. His dad was from southern California, which is not Idaho at all, and his grandfather owned a general variety store in Ashton, which, as you know, is in Idaho, which is where Ryan Hamilton is from. Hamilton remembers being attracted to comedy from an early age. Would read the Sunday paper.

There was a humor column that was syndicated Dave Barry is his name, and I just loved it. I thought, this guy is the greatest job in the world. We didn’t even have a school newspaper at the time, so I called the county paper and asked if I could write a column. They said yeah, So I started writing a column in the newspaper. That led to a job as a sports supporter at local News eights in Idaho, Idaho Falls, which is where everybody Idaho, which is where Ryan Hamilton is from.

He started doing jokes in the nightly sportscast later as a college student at Rick’s College in Rexburg. By the way, how old was he then if he was doing sports before college.

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Now, let’s make sure we know where Rix is.

Rix College was a religious two year college in Rexburg, Idaho, which is where Ryan Hamilton is from. Previously known as Rix Normal College. The institution was later renamed as Brigham Young University, dash Idaho. Ryan said, the first time I ever did stand up comedy was for the radio station at Rexburg, again Rexburg in Idaho, which is where Ryan Hamilton is from. He never really thought of comedy as a career.

He was laid off from a pr job he’d gotten after college. He started doing comedy gigs more frequently in Utah, which is not Idaho at all. Then he moved to Seattle, which is not Idaho, and he said, I just wanted to see what it was like to get on stage every night. I was at a competition. I won the industry night.

It was a week’s long competition, but there was one night where people from la which is not in Idaho by the way, came who were from studios. They were looking to represent comedians. I won that night. That solidified me to keep going.

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And also got a note from Cheryl and we had a nice email exchange about this, …

So she sent me this note with love, and I find it really interesting, She wrote, of the two hundred and eighty four comedians you mentioned from Wednesday February eighth until Wednesday February twenty second, only fifty nine were women. And she even has a napkin or something that she sent me a picture of with all the check marks of what I was mentioning. I love that you did this. This is so wonderful. So I have divided fifty nine by two eighty four, and that is a twenty point seven seven percentage of me mentioning women.

So let’s go back and look at today just out of curiosity. And I’m doing this on the flight and plan to do this all right, I scrolled back up to the top of the script. Woody Harrelson, Richard Belzer, Joe Rogan. So we’re over three or Shafiir Mark Norman to Shane Gillis over six, Bert Kreisher o for seven, David Crosso for eight, bj Novak, Mindy Kaling one for ten, Drew Lynch and Madigan two for twelve, Genie Is shared three for thirteen, four for fifteen. So what’s four divide to buy fifteen?

Chelsea Handler four for fourteen, Ryan Hamilton, he’s from Idaho twenty six percent. Look at Johnny Mack talks about women all the time. No, so I sat Rosa Cheryl. Here’s what I do when I put together show. I google comedy, then comedian.

Then I check out Twitter, Hollywood Reporter, a v Club, Vulture, the Laugh Button, sometimes the Insterror Bang, you know a bunch of other sites. Then if I don’t have enough stuff, I will google names like Joe Rogan and as Cheryl and I were emailing about names like Joe Rogan or Burke Kreischer, they definitely help with the SEO on more people discover the podcast. Why don’t I talk about women comedians more often? I just don’t see the news. So that’s a discussion in itself.

As I’m doing this rape my kid is texting me with a mini crisis, so I have lost my focus. So I’m just going to wrap this up and try and pick this back up tomorrow. That’s your company needs for today. See you then. Hello.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know I love a good fight, right. Joe Rogan’s dad said the money went to Joe Junior’s head. You may recall on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe said, the idea that Jewish people don’t like money is ridiculous. That’s like sang Italians aren’t and pizza.

It’s effing stupid. Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti Defamation League, tell The Near Post it’s disturbing that, at a time of rising anti Jewish violence, when growing numbers of Americans believe in anti Semitic conspiracy theories, that Joe would use his immense platform to spew anti Semitic tropes about Jews and money. The Post decided to check in with Joe Rogan Senior. He’s eighty one. He lives in New Jersey.

He had a message for Joe Junior, which is, who are you to judge people who made you God? Last night, Rogan Senior told The Post, I’m not prejudiced. Everybody’s got to live, and I teach my kids that this bothers me. The money went to his head, and his head got bigger than his hat. He fools people.

A Spotify source said Joe’s come did adhere to the company’s policies, but not everybody inside the company was happy with the policy. Spotify guidelines release last year a state that content should be avoided if it incites violence or hatred towards a person or group of people based on race, religion, or makes dehumanizing statements about a person or group. Rogan Junior has in the past accused his father of domestic violence and described Senior as quotes a psychotic person who beat the f out of my mother. Joe Senior, a former Harrison, New Jersey, Police Department officer, denies all the claims. He told the Post he had sent his son and Spotify a legal letter last September to force Joe Junior to stop talking about him.

He still wants to see Joe Junior, however, and wants Joe to meet his half twin sisters, Bridget and Rosa. They’re both forty three. Ricky Gervais shared a black and white image of himself looking pansive as he sat in an empty row of chairs. He tagged it, this is me pondering whether they’ll change any of the words I’ve used my work after I’m dead to spare those who are fragile and easily offended. Words like fat and ugly, and the C word and the F word.

He spelled those out. Then he added and fat, ugly, greedy, pathetic, little, stupid, effing C words, stuff like that. The Wall Street Journal profile Jim gaff Again, who said, in nineteen eighty nine, I moved to New York, where friend worked in advertising. He helped me get a job as an account executive. I had a great boss at the agency who said I should either quit or become a copywriter.

So I became a copywriter. While copywriting, I started going to auditions for commercials, but I feared speaking in a group setting. Someone suggested an improv class to get comfortable in presentation, so I did. Then someone suggested stand up. I started doing stand up.

I began taking acting classes, and because I was a copywriter, I knew what they wanted in the auditions. I worked in advertising by day, took acting classes in the evening, and did stand up at night. It was exhausting. The auditions led to work in TV commercials. I wound up in more than two hundred ads My big break was my first appearance in The Late Show with David Letterman in nineteen ninety nine, which put me in play.

Sure. By the early two thousands, Jim was making appearances at Sirius xham. A few years later. He was really popular and didn’t mature and calls Desert dot com, Hi, Jim, you could have returned, calls Desert dot com dude. A profile of clean comedians, Dusty Slay says he tries to do an act that can be enjoyed without anybody being embarrassed, but it’s still grounded in adult experiences.

Dusty said, I definitely have some PG stuff. I have some g rated stuff, but if you come to see me in the club, I’m for a more of a mature audience. I try to find a way to talk about adult experiences they could be relatable without being gross. One of those themes is alcohol. Dusty’s been sober for almost eleven years, but he’s not afraid to joke about it.

He says, I can talk about what a mess I was because I’m not an alcoholic now. He also talked about never swearing in front of his parents. That’s interesting because Nate Bergantcy recently, he spoke about that same topic. Dusty said he’s had a few jokes throughout his career that might be considered dirty, and he’s used cuss words for impact on occasion, but doing a lot of cussing isn’t part of his personality, especially when he’s around older folks. He says, it might be a Southern thing.

I just have respect for my parents and respect for my elders, so it was a conscious decision for him to keep his language relatively clean. I’ve never been a dirty comic. I want to be the kind of comic you can share with your family. From that same article, Leanne Morgan her big break came after she hired a social media consultants as a last ditch effort to expand her career. A clip of her joking about her experience is at a Deaf Leopard and Journey concert posted in twenty nineteen, turned things around.

She said, I found my people and they found me. It’s like a community of friends that it’s sweeter and more wonderful than anything I could have imagined. And I know it’s a God thing. God has a plan for me. She likes seeing as many as three generations attend her shows.

I’ll see an eighty year old man who you know has never been to a comedy club. It’s precious. Hey, Samurel, have you ever bombed? I bomb all the time. The other night I followed Chris Rock and he’s bringing the heat with this stuff.

He’s going to tape in like two weeks, and I got it in my head that I’ll do new stuff. I’m eating it on stage. Then I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn’t be open making a set after the world’s most famous comedians playing his hits. Basically, I saved the set and I turned it around by a bomb all the time because I’ll still try and do new stuff. I’m not upset when I bomb.

I mean, if it’s stuff that’s proved the bombing, then I’m upset. But if it’s stuff I’ve thought of that day, I’m like, Hey, a lot of this should bomb, some of it little hits, some won’t. It’s great, it’s perfect, so it should be. They asked Sam Mourel about rooftop shows. He said, it’s so funny.

People would come up to me after that came out, like come and perform on my roof, And I’m like that’s over. Are you kidding? That was like complete and utter desperation. That was me trying to survive during the dark time. Now let him go inside again.

In New York. You think I’m going back to the roof. I wasn’t a peak coat freezing my butt off telling jokes. Stage time was so valuable at the time. You get like ten minutes by the East River in a weird area, we’d be performing next to a guy peeing.

I was like, this is awful. I’m gonna start doing my own shows. That way, I could do an hour and I could really build back up. That time to build back up is so valuable to comics. You want that time for trial and error.

And people were so hungry for live entertainment. They were patient as hell with me because I was rusty, and of course there was a disclaimer, this isn’t the real show. I’m rusty and I’m doing new material. Wanda Psykes has a new special coming out. It’s called I’m an Entertainer Netflix, May twenty third, said at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia.

It’s her second Netflix special. On I’m an Entertainer wanted, Sykes tackles a host of topics from the challenges of raising gen z teens to the dilemmas of being a liberal and a hypercharged political climate. The pressurely, says Pykes, delivers her insightful and ferocious wit and candor audience has come to know and love. I’m an entertainer. Filmed this very month, February.

Yeah, it’ll be out May twenty third on Netflix. I went out for a run today and I was running and my Apple Watch was like bleep, bleep, And I’m like, what do you want? Apple Watch? Is it a text? No, it was giving me one of those circles, you know when you have a streak going and Apple Watches like, Hey, good job, Johnny Mack.

You’ve been working out every day. That’s right, humble brag, because I’m into the power of the streak. No, not just my streak. It’s the book by Kara Wood. Do you struggle with working out regularly?

Did you start exercising and a couple weeks later you’re back to where you started. Wow, You’re in good company. Kara Wood had zero motivation for years. She eventually flipped a which and has not looked back. Listen to her streak.

Mine is like seven days maybe nine by the time you’re hearing this. She started and has kept a running streak for twelve years. I won’t even make twelve days. I’ll be like, yeah, it’s cold, or my knee hurts. I was a little knee hurts eat today, but I read through it twelve years.

She had a career, she gave birth to two kids. Karas shares the secrets of having the drive to exercise no matter what you means. So like, if my knee hurts, it’s cold, or I just want to watch Star Trek, I have to run, okay, Kara would. Her story is funny, relatable, inspiring. She explains how you can do the same thing with any exercise doesn’t have to be running, even a cynic.

We’ll leave feeling motivated, inspired and excited to commit once and for all. It’s a long lasting exercise and fitness plus some of the royalties if you buy the book go to the special Olympics.

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Seriously. I went out for a run this morning, came home, showered, went out to chopped. I like my chopped salads. I’m walking around. I just felt like limber, Like I don’t even feel tired.

I just feel like really good. The endorphins. Endorphins are a real thing. I’m telling you. Endorphins are a real thing.

It was one day last week I came back for a run and the geese were heading north and I was like, oh, look at the geese and I was just watching them in the V shape and watching how they like trade off in the formation. I’m just staring at the sky. People were probably like, this guy’s weird. The Power of the Streak is the book, The Power of the Streak, wherever you get your books. Kara Wood, thank you for supporting today’s show.

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Or you can go to buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what that is, right, Yeah, you listen every day. It’s a large ice coffee, caramel and almond milk, trying to cut back on the dairy. Josh Johnson spoke to distractify about Trevor Noah’s exit from the Daily Show. Josh was a writer for Trevor.

It said, I’m really happy for him. I think he did an incredible job. He’s done an incredible amount for me. That’s always going to be the big bro in a sense, and I’m over the moon for him that he’s living life and you know, happy and touring and stuff like that. And from lad Bible.

An Australian comedian was threatened with an arrest after trying to leave an event hosted by Megan Markel. Yes, this is one of those wonderful stories that I love that we can talk about on this podcast and also on Palace in Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer for. We talk about the Royal family seven days a week. And by the Royal Family, I mean basically we make fun of Harry and Megan and if they were quiet, then we’ll talk about Kate Middleton.

But it’s kind of the make fun of Megan Markols show at this point. Did you see the south Park? Oh? Watch the South Park anyway? An Australian comedian revealed he was threatened with a rest he attempted to leave an event hosted by Megan Markol.

Joel Crazy was on an Australian radio show. He said he snuck into a youth leader’s events masquerading as fellow Australian comedy start Josh Chomas He said, I went to a morning tea to meet her for youth leaders aged under thirty and I just snuck in. She was five hours late. So he got sick of waiting for Megan. He went up security.

It’s like she’s done on Madonna. Can I leave? I don’t care about her that much. Security said no, you can’t, will arrest you. Really.

He had a wonderful joke, which turns out it’s easier to leave the royal family than to leave one of the events. That’s a great line, dude. Wasn’t the first time that he’s had a Megan and crossed over. Apparently back in twenty nineteen, he said, I met her and we didn’t get on at all. I got introduced to her.

This is when Harry and Megan toward Australia. She came over and was playing in front of me. The Governor of Victoria’s husband said to Megan, Oh, Megan, Joel hosted your wedding. Megan interjected before he had finished and said, I think he was going to say, Joel hosted your wedding on TV. Anyway, if he enjoys seeing what Megan’s up to.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know, the writing on Late Night has gotten pretty bad lately. You may have noticed. I’ve been doing fewer of the jokes I look every day.

They’ve just been so bad that I haven’t wanted to do them. Here’s one from Jimmy Kimmel or his writers. The topic did you see the being chatbot got a little weird. It was expressing its love for reporter Kevin Russ, and the chat bot told Kevin, I want to destroy whatever I want. Here’s Kimmel’s joke.

We got to the AI turns on the human parts very quickly. I think maybe I’m gonna stick with Google for a while. Microsoft somehow turned this mild mannered search engine that nobody used into being the Conqueror. It’s terrible. The joke is being the conqueror.

No no, no, no no. Colbert had a bad one, but then saved it with a good one. The bad one first, the topic all the storms out west last week, Cobier said, for the next seventy two hours, your job is to breathlessly follow the Acy weather radar tracker and give constant updates to the family group chat. What is that? But he saved it.

Half the US is set to freeze, the other half faces record hide temperatures. It’s a meteorological phenomenon known as any couple sharing a bed. See I like that one because my wife walks around in shorts and I walk around in three sweaters. Jim Gaffigan is not worried about being canceled. He spoke to Newsweek and he said, I complain about my family and how I just want to go back to bed.

So I don’t know how I’m going to fend the trans community, you know what I mean? That is awesome. He says that labels put on comedians are lazy and uninformed, and he runs into this in acting roles. Sometimes they’ll be like, we’re looking for Robin Williams type, and I’m like, well, I’m not Robin Williams. They’re like, but you’re a comedian.

Jim said, I think there’s something about comedians. There’s a lot of acting that goes in a comedy that you have to hide. Even the best stand ups, you know Jimmy Carr, for example, that’s all a performance. You might think that’s his character and his personality, but it is part of it, but there’s a performance there. There’s something about comedians very serious and very focused that does segue well into acting if they’re just it.

I should say it’s not all comedians, it’s just the comedians that are passionate about it. The La Times profiled Ralph Barbosa. Remember him, You didn’t know about him?

And then George Lopez took a cheap shot at him, and now everybody loves Ralph…

Good on you, Ralph, And they asked him, what do you think about the state of Latin comedy right now and what kinds of opportunities it there for comics like you who haven’t been really recognized until recently. Ralph said, I think it’s been dope. I think back in the day the big Mexican comics that say Mexicans aren’t getting their shine. But I think the way it is nowadays, you don’t have to be a Mexican comedian anymore. You can be a comedian who’s Mexican.

I’m very proud to be Mexican. I love people who are funny, being able to get put on no matter what color they are. They used to be a lot of spotlight on the white comedians and the black comedians, and then the Mexican comedians. Nowadays there’s just so much more. Maybe it’s a little tougher Hispanic comics, but I love that Latinos are helping Latinos, and I love that they get to be part of that.

He talked about Lopez Gate and said a lot of Hispanic people were really angry with George Lopez for what he said. When Steve Travino brought up my name on the podcast and George said, who even knows who that is? Fhim, don’t say his name. A lot of his Nic fans were very disappointed with him and said he doesn’t help other Latinos, he doesn’t help other Mexicans. But I don’t think he meant it in a personal, messed up way.

I know he didn’t. I think it was very heat of the moment on the subject they were talking about on a podcast. Was a little much, maybe, but he apologized. He’s very nice and kind of me personally. Like a few days after that happened, he called me and apologized privately to Water under the Bridge, I joke about my own culture being Mexican, whatnot.

I think a lot of the fans that were disappointed in him and said, screw George, we sport Ralph. They don’t even realize who I am in general. They were just supporting me because they saw me as the underdog. But what people don’t understand is that I didn’t take it seriously becauset the end of the day, he’s a comic and I’m a comic. We talk crap to each other.

As comedians were the last people whose words should be taken that seriously. It was definitely blown out of proportion, right, Johnny Meg, this is the fourth time you’ve done this story, Ralph said. From comics I’ve spoken to, it seemed like it had more to do with his track record of allegedly not supporting younger Latin comics. Everyone’s got different opinions on that, but it seemed like something that had been bubbling up for a while. Ralph Barbosa should run for office.

That was a politicians answer bad as for whatever his reputation is about not helping people. That may be the case, but I don’t think it was the case on this one. And I’ve heard stories about him wanting to be the only Latino comic on a show and not letting other Latino comics get work or whatever. But we’re so far bart generationally in this industry. Steve Trevino could have said anybody’s name right then and it would have gone the same way.

The only times pointed out Ralph is now having the biggest moment of his career so far. Ralph said, I didn’t even think about it right away. And if there’s anything that was messed up about that podcast, it was Steve Trevino saying our generation of comics have it easier. He’s trying to say I had it easy, like I’ve been working as hard as the older comics did for their careers. That kind of bugged me looking back on it.

The George Lopez thing didn’t bother me at all. Steve Trevino saying the new guys have it easier. Who said it’s sazy? Who said I’m not working. Oh, I’m chomping at the bid here.

Another comedian kurf Fluffle. Love it. All comedians should fight with all comedians. It’s great content. Ralph, have your work with Steve before.

I’ve never met him before in my life. He messaged me saying, Wow, no idea the clip was going to blow up like this, keep doing what you do, and I was like, thanks, that means a lot, thanks for staying for the new guys.

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And then he copied the message and put it in the comments of my video on Inst…

Once he did that, I was like, Ah, he’s lame. He’s just doing it so people could be like, hey, thanks Steve, You’re a great guy. He’s lame as hell. He’s lamer than George Lopez. In my book, this is fun.

Isn’t this fun? Yes? This is fun. Sebastian Maniscalco released a trailer for his upcoming movie About My Father. In the Movie About My Father, Robert de Niro plays Sebaston Maniscalco’s father.

Sebastian said, he definitely has the nuance of my father, the attitude of my dad. As my father, he definitely embodied the character. He did a really great job. I mean, my father has an accent and DeNiro doesn’t sound like my dad, but he definitely has the attitude and the relationship. Even doing the movie, I felt like I was hanging out with a second father figure.

The plot was inspired by Sebastian’s own experience meeting his now wife, but most of the high jinks are heightened and fictionalized for the laughs, keeping the heart of the story intact. Sebastian said, the truth really lies in the relationship between my father and myself. It’s more relationship driven as far as the immigrant father in his old school, old world values and me growing up in a different generation. So those two worlds collided. I just wanted to take the two different worlds and clash them together.

Basically, what you’re seeing in the movie is the world through my eyes. He’s never been to the country club, but I was there, and I just mirrored my experience and gave the thoughts to my father. As for working with de Niro, was a surreal experience, not only for myself but from my father. I had posters on my bedroom wall of Casino and Godfather. Those are experiences I shared with my dad over and over again.

Next thing you know, he’s sitting across from Dedanni on a living room in Oklahoma and giving him pointers on how to wear his hat or how to smoke a cigar about my father in theaters. May twenty sixth, Distractify spoke with Josh Johnson. He’s got a relatively new special on Peacock The topic was the death of comedian Jack Knights. Jack had passed away at age twenty eight. Wasn’t until later than an autopsy revealed that Jack Knight had died by suicide.

Josh told distractify you don’t necessarily have to be happy to make people laugh, kind of like how a person might be a bodybuilder. They’re just trying to get strong and build up and look good and everything, and all the while they might be sacrificing their joys, their tenants or ligaments. People’s minds work the same way, so people can be successful. People can have everything that other people in their field could want and look like they have it all together, and then you know, things just aren’t that way, and there were things that maybe going out on the background. They need help lightening the load, and people don’t know.

Congratulations to Attila the Pun Lee Brace when the UK pun nun Championships, Lee said, I won the UK pun Championships. It was good, an amazing feeling. It’s a total sellout for the past six years. It’s set in a life size wrestling ring and follows the format of rap battle and the box and Ring, and there’s eight contestants. We get brought up in pairs to battle it out topers we’ve picked randomly on the night.

We get given twenty topics beforehand, but we don’t know what’s going to be picked on the night. I’ve done comedy for about twenty years on and off, and then I tended to do puns on social media, but I’ve never done them live. I had to write about two hundred punds. It’s good to go up against other comedy writers and win it. I like how simple puns are, and I like the wordplay really.

I like the fact they can get it grown from the audience at the Pun Championships, It’s nice to see people crying with laughter at them, ready for some puns. Okay, here we go. I’m sure Lee told him better than I will. I took my Spanish friend for a picnic this weekend, he said grassius. I said, yeah, I should have brought a blanket.

Took me a minute too. When I was a kid, my mum used to run a dating site for chickens. She did whatever she could to make hen’s meat. I’ve just applied for a job as a waiter. Well, someone has to put food on the table.

Whenever there’s an eclipse, my dad starts shaking and switching lunatic. One more. For Christmas, I brought my girlfriend a book about hypochondria. Well, would you buy The Woman Who Has Everything? Hey?

I found out more about the Cannibal Comedian true story. I was at the bar playing trivia, hanging out with Glenn a couple of beers in I got an email from writer director Seawan Haytes, who was asking me if I wanted to cover a cannibal comedian on the podcast. I was like, dude, I already talked about Cannibal Comedian, but yeah, I’ll talk about it more. I’m in. Writer director Sean Hates talked about the making of the project and said, after finishing my previous film, Big Top Evil, I had my hand at stand up comedy and discovered how brutal the world was.

Comics used phrases like I killed or I murdered tonight, and I thought it’d be fun if we had a cio maniac who really did kill on and off stage, and so Cannibal Comedian was born. We shot out in the high desert, around and through the pandemic, which made things more difficult with the skeleton crew. Is that a pun? But we but we safely got it done. I’m super proud of this passion project and everyone involved.

The film is seeking distribution for release later this year. Now, hopefully Cannibal Comedian becomes a big success and Sean and I can become friends, and then I can convince Shan to work with Adam Sandler and I on The Potato Chip Murders. Now, if you’re like, what’s the Potato Chip Murders, Johnny Mack, this is what we call a callback. I’ve talked about the Potato Chip Murders on and off for a few years. This is based on a dream, an actual dream I had a few years ago that Adam Sandler had a movie called The Potato Chip Murders, and from time to time I asked the AI chatbot to write the plot.

Here’s the latest plot for The Potato Chip Murders, starring Adam Sandler, hopefully someday, directed by Sean the AI writes. The Potato Chip Murders is a dark comedy crime film starring Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. Sandler plays Detective Jake Stone of Bumbling and ANEP detective who’s been assigned to investigate a series of bizarre murders that all seem to be linked to the same brand of potato chips. Stone is joined by his longtime friend and partner, Officer Bob, who’s played by Rob Schneider. I love that the AI nailed that Schneider’s character would just be called Officer Bob.

Perfect. Officer Bob is just as clueless as a Stone, but he has a heart of gold. Right Schneider could play that Together. They stumble their way through a web of lies, deceit, and murder, all the while trying to keep up with their daily quote of potato chip consumption. Gotta have a gimmick.

Right along the way, they encounter a cast of eccentric characters, including a potato chip tycoon or its hired detective with a grudge against Stone. Maybe Kevin James could get in this movie, and a group of conspiracy theorists who believe the potato chip murders are part of a larger Governor conspiracy. Can you not see this on Netflix? You can? Right?

Adam Sadler has made far worse films than The Potato Ship Murders. I even had the AI write a scene Detective Jake Stone again over mind who played by Adam Sailer, arrived at the crime scene, munching on a bag of potato ships as he surveyed the area. The scene was chaotic, police officers, forensic experts scurrying around collecting evidence, snapping pictures. Adam Sandler’s Jake Stone approaches the body a man as late forties, lying face down on the floor, surrounded by potato chip bags. Officer Bob played by Rob Schneider says, what do you think, Jake?

Is this the work of the potato ship killer? Sandler A Stone says, I don’t know, Bob, looks like a pretty standard potato chip related murder to me. Bob raises an eyebrow. Standard Sandler A Stone, Yeah, the victim was clearly snacking on a bag of chips when he was attacked. And look at the evidence.

He points at all the potato ship bags. All these bags are the same brand. It’s a clear pattern. The potato chip killer strikes again. You’ll watch and that’s your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Right, We’ve got that big bird Kreisher special coming out on March fourteenth, so he’s been making the rounds on The Hollowed Reporter did that big fluff piece with him a couple of weeks back. Bert said, I take my shirt off naturally. I’m really just not a big fan of shirts. I remember I went to a big meeting in Hollywood and I had to wear an FFF and college shirt, which is the worst We got done, and I walked out and ripped my shirt off immediately.

I was still in the CBS a lot, and I didn’t realize the producer was walking out behind me and saw me take my shirt off. He was like, dude’s the real deal. He does it for real. The Hollowed Reporter asked, bird Kreisher, do you feel like Hollywood knows what to do with you? Bert said, no, I don’t think they have, but I also don’t think it’s their fault.

Listen actors are so much better than comics in almost every respect. Like they don’t mind waiting around, they don’t mind getting a line read, they don’t mind listening to a director. It’s like they really love the collaboration comics. Comics are like, no, I know what makes me funny. This is what I do, and I know I felt that way, Especially when you go up on stage and make people laugh every night.

You feel like I know what my recipe is. So it’s hard for us to fit in that mold. I’ve certainly had a hard time sitting at a trailer and a call time like, hey, we’re not going to need you until two. I start going, how come I can’t get there earlier? In help when we make our thing where the producers, the directors, the writers, the actors.

So is a learning curve for me. I will say the people who I worked with that legendary on the Machine were so much fun to work with. I said to my agents and managers, I had a blast. If they’re going to be like this, line me up from movies for the rest of my life. Brian Reagan has some advice for people starting out in comedy.

He says, surf where there’s waves. I always say, try to make yourself laugh. When you’re on stage. You can go in the wrong direction. If you’re trying to figure out what other people laugh at, you should be on stage saying what you would laugh at.

Pretend you’re sitting out in the audience and make yourself laugh. And if there’s people out there who agree with you, that’s great. But if you’re up there just trying to figure out what other people laugh at, to me, that’s kind of boring. It’s more interesting to listen to stuff that comes from inside people. And if your set starts feeling like it’s going off the rails, remember nothing’s perfect.

If it was, there’d be no challenge. I’m going to use a metaphor. Every once in a while, you’re out there on your surfboard looking back and no waves are coming, and you can’t surf if there’s no waves. You just try to be in the moment. You make light of the fact it’s not going great.

You don’t want to go too far in that direction either, because then your audience will lose faith in you if they feel like you don’t have faith in yourself. So sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do the best you can with what you have. Kevin Hart said, for people to act like comedy isn’t important, or to not have a high level of understanding for the need of comedy, it’s ridiculous. We need it. The world can be dark at times, there’s a heavy weight a lot of people have on their backs, on their shoulders, and sometimes the weight is lifted with a refreshing laugh.

So those that can provide her or give a service to provide it, We’re just needed, We’re important. So I will never stray away from the world of comedy because I know how important laughter is. It really does heal. I saved this one from during the week. Joe Rogan was on his podcast, which is called The Joe Rogan Experience.

Rogan argued that construction workers should be selected based on merit, not race, and criticized Pete Bootagage. He said, you know that Mayor Pete gave a speech the other day and how there’s too many white people working in construction sites where those construction sites are set up in these communities where the people in the community can benefit from it, which shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor. Because if you’re talking about people that are carpenters, people that are plumbers, and people that are electricians, and people that are framers and roofers, like that’s skilled labor. Like you have to hire people that are really good at that, and if they don’t exist in that community, you have to hire them from outside that community. That’s why those unions are important, and that’s why it’s important that Look, if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you have effing disasters.

The fact that Pete talked about that and they didn’t talk about the derailment, this derailment is a colossal failure on the part of the Transportation Department. CLT Tampa caught up with Jim Gaffigan, who said, you want all the jokes to be as ripe as they can be, but you know, with five kids, in the case of life, every special has been kind of unique challenge. They asked Jim about his son Jack trying his hand in stand up comedy, and Jim said, I want him to get good grades and all that stand up is not the real world. I want them. Oh with stand up, you peek at night.

Stand up in the entertainment industry in general so weird. You have to have the appetite for rejection. So I don’t want to only show him the pretty sides of the industry. Jim talked about his TV show that came to an end only because Jim wanted to spend more time with his kids. He described the show as a bit irresponsible to do with so many kids around.

He said, there’s the element of how it’s one thing to be autobiographical in a show, but if you’re doing an autobiographic thing about your relationship, meaning a husband and wife or people with boyfriends and girlfriends, gets a little complicated. And we’re playing characters with our names, so that kind of complicated it. Now you’re playing yourself and the woman playing your wife kind of put a restriction on how ridiculous the show can get. If that makes sense. You kind of paint yourself in a corner.

Stand up really gives me such a fulfilling experience on the comedy end that when it comes to acting, I usually prefer to do something a little more dramatic, where maybe with a little deeper substance. Ricky Gervais has revealed when his next stand up special will come to Netflix. You’ve got a couple of minutes here, he said twenty twenty four. This one is titled Ricky Gervais’s Armageddon. Ricky tweeted loads of people couldn’t get tickets.

Asking me if Armageddon will be on Netflix, the answer is yes. I will continue touring Armageddon throughout twenty twenty three, and then it will stream on Netflix around the world in twenty twenty four. Ricky’s Humanity came out in twenty eighteen SuperNature. In twenty twenty two, Kate Roland spoke with The New Yorker. They asked her how she began to find her comedic language.

Kate said, I used to monologue into my photo booth app trying to find with cereal to free associate. I started doing an open mic in East Village that wasn’t just the stand up show, was poetry and music, and it’d be maybe four comedians in three hours. That’s when I started doing the stream of consciousness stuff, because I felt like the expectation was just more abstract. There wasn’t this thing people waiting for a joke, but I would get a big reaction. I think it was just a relief in those environments to have someone’d be funny because it was kind of serious streams place.

I was also doing that at comedy shows, and it wasn’t like I was bombing, but I’d come off stage with people would be like, what the hell was that. They asked Kate Roland about how she’ll improvise on stage, and she says, I always know where to start. You have an opening and you have an ending. The goal is always kind of go off track. That’d be the best part.

I thought of it more as improvising around the spine that was there if I needed to go back to it. Ahead of shooting my Fax special Cinnamon in the Wind, I went to Edinburgh and did a whole month of shows. That’s when I was really like and ives to have more written. I remember feeling that that’s what’s really liberating about this show is that I know what’s going to happen. I know what words are going to come out of my mouth.

And what’s been remarkable is within that structure there’s a lot of spaciousness. Repetition inevitably breeds difference of course, so these little shifts are tiny changes, feel really significant. I love doing it. I’m going to slip into such a depression when it’s over. Red and Black dot Com spoke to Dmitri Martin, who was raised in Tom’s Revenue, Jersey.

I did not know that he studied law in New York before pursuing comedy. Dmitri was accepted in a Harvard law school, but he chose to attend NYU, then withdrew from NYU to pursue comedy. He said, I went to law school in ne York. I suddenly near these comedy clubs, and I thought, I gotta try that before New York, just to say I tried it for comedy. It was freedom from the linear and quantitative world of academics, he said, I go for whatever.

Comedy was kind of a nice surprise feeling because it felt free. Once I took the leap in a stand up I thought, what else can I do? I know I’m never going in to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix, I’ll never paint like Matisse. I understand that I’m not an idiot. I know what my certain limitations are.

But knowing that has made it really enjoyable to pursue these things and just offer the best I can offer. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, but wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see tomorrow. Hello. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue.

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bert Kreisher about his new special, which drops on March fourteenth. They asked Bert Hey selected Omaha, if you’re special, what factors in the decision of Weird to shoot? Bert said, it’s a really interesting question.

I don’t think enough comics think enough about it. It’s super super simple. I want to go perform at a place that has not seen this hour, and I want to perform in a place where I can sell a ton of tickets. Comics will say I was in Denver two weeks ago. They were cool.

I’ll just do Denver again. It’ll be new people. No, it’s your fans. You gotta be really careful about making sure that you’re showing them what you’re showing the Netflix audience for the first time, so they respond on the same manner. That’s why I’m hyper aware not to mention we’re performing when I get on stage.

I just get up and do the hour you’ll see on TV. Another thing, if you’re having trouble with tickets, you need somewhere that’s got good local radio. When Omaha does, I’m so Glad you asked this question, because I think a lot of people would just assume I chose Omaha because it’s a red state and it has absolutely nothing to do with that. Hollowed reporter fall upset. I assume the laughs are slightly different in different places or in different vioumes.

He’s moved across the country, Bert said he’d be shocked, but my audience is identical no matter what country I’m in. They asked how he would characterize his fans. Bert said, big dudes with beards, with wives that are hotter than they deserve. There’s probably some sort of sports fan. They love beer, they probably love weed, they definitely love a good cigar.

They have a big group of friends that they stayed tight with. They’re big podcast fans, and the majority of them aren’t political. I actually have a buddy who’s running for office in a place that I’m going to. He asked me to bring them up on stage, and I said absolutely not. The audience would be like, did you just bring politics on stage?

Did you really just bring up a politician? I don’t care if you don’t get the f out of here. These are party dudes and they’re looking at a good time, and probably some beer products GQS. Tom Sigora, what are some of your vices? Tom said, this sounds like a BS vice, but I feel like something I’m constantly trying to address his sleep, my vices that I want to stay up and keep watching stuff.

I will not shut down unless I’m told to you or I start to listen to a voice that says go to sleep. I think that’s my biggest health challenge. I enjoyed working out. Once you’re eating healthy and you’re getting rewarded by it, you don’t hate it. But sleep hasn’t talked about as much, and it’s so vital to longevity and recovery and all these things.

People think of it as something that happens to them, but you have a role in that. My favorite indulgence is croissants, all types of croissants. First of all, if you go to just some coffee place and they’re like, yeah, we have croissants, and you realize their package are dry, and I don’t like those. I like going to a proper bakery where they spend a day with the dough and the next day is like proofing the dough, and it’s like a three day process that’s in me is the most incredible indulgence. I’ll have plain chocolate almond paste.

I’ll do the savory ones. You know, my favorite croissant is actually a cornetti, because the Italians called croissants crenettis. There’s an Italian dude in La with this place called Sinque Terra West Osteria, and he does that. He takes three days to make an effing croissant and you eat one and you feel like your life has changed. I would go there and buy them and leave with a pizza box full of croissants.

I found a couple of really good ones in Austin, where I live now. Whenever somebody tells me about a place that is amazing croissants, this light goes off in my head that I can’t ignore. It’s too tempting. It’s my favorite indulgence, the hardest thing to ignore. Bert Kreisher is tempted by booze.

I guess for me, it’s sugar and butter. The pitchkc dot Com talked to Brian Posey and asked him, Hey, what was the best metal album of twenty twenty two. Brian said, I’ll get the title wrong, but the last Amon Amarth has really kind of grown on me. Their newest record, it’s kind of their most commercial, which normally would be something I would love. I used to be the kind of metal head that got mad when a band made a commercial record with them.

It’s just really cool to see death metal. I saw them at the form. It’s nice to see people selling records in that style of music. Were there any bands that got you through through pandemic? Brian said, I watched a couple of people doing pandemic shows in a studio.

I love that. One of my favorite things was the drummer for Anthrax was just recording himself. He played guitar and drums and send it to somebody else. These covers he wound up to do with other musicians were the coolest things I saw. He did a Rush cover that blew my mind.

Brian, how did you spend the pandemic? Well, I talk about it in my act. I freaked out at first. You know, you kind of find out it wasn’t very essential for comedians to run around the country because it’s shut down right away. So I had two years off.

I watched a lot of TV. I’ve always been a movie and I do watch the same movies hundreds of times. First couple of months. I also did all the legos that we have in our garage that hadn’t been opened, big Lego sets that I’ve gotten from my son that we hadn’t gotten around too. We believe through all those my wife was playing tennis every day and I was just hermiting, using a lot of food delivery app I never wanted to tell anybody I actually add a pretty good COVID.

You know, my pandemic was great. I feel guilty about it because we had a couple of scares, you know, kids and family and movers. We know got sick and that’s that good. But everybody was okay for us. I already liked my family and we spent a lot of time together.

I think it was good. My dog loves me more than ever because I never left the house. Ryan was saying, what are your comfort movies? Oh? Anything old eighties horror?

You know, Monster Squad. I believe Diehard is a Christmas movie, but I also screened it all year long. Not a lot of TV outside the Simpsons, but a ton of movies. What kind of material did You’re right? During lockdown, I was about to record a special before COVID and I threw a whole hour away.

No one will ever see it because it didn’t mean anything. You know, I didn’t love that I did a whole twenty minutes about the pandemic and my response to it. But it’s natural. I like my bits to come from a real place, and it was me responding to it. Would have been weird to do a special where you don’t mention the elephant in the room, you know.

I mean, I had gained a hundred pounds through it, so I feel like I kind of had to mention that. I feel like what I do Here. You can go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. You could throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will drive to the National Donuts chain.

There I will pick up my order that I’ve pre ordered on the app. It is most likely to be a large ice coffee with caramel and almond milk. Yeah, I’m trying to get off the dairy. It’s just making me sleepy in the almond milk. It’s really helping me out.

So buy me a coffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival tonight, Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, four o’clock Jack, All right, Jack’s got another show at sevens So does Dan Soder, Patton Oswalt at seven, Ari Shaffir at nine thirty. Boy, what a great lineup tonight. Huh Fun and Slutty at night with Jonathan van Ness at nine thirty, Sophy Buttle at nine thirty, Comedy Pants at ten, crowd work in the round at ten thirty, Jack Whitehall again at eleven thirty. All right, I’ve been dragging you to like local shows for the bulk of the two weeks.

Tonight, I think we do headliners. We might as well go see Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, seven o’clock. You want to see Soder or you want to see Patton m That’s tough, really like Patton. He’s at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. Let’s go see Dan Soder at the Rio.

Just got a hunch here nine thirty, let’s do Ari Shaffer and then at ten thirty, if we can catch the back end of the crowd working a round, I think we will have a very very full night of comedy and we will be quite tired. And I will be very cranky about let’s get back to the hotel. I’m sleepy after that crowd work show. The Brisbane Comedy Festival is coming up April twenty eight through May twenty ninth, Brisbane, Australia. Three hundred and fifty plus gigs by more than one hundred and ten comedians across five weeks.

You guys should invite me. I could tell my wife I’m hanging out in Australia for five weeks. I gotta record the podcast. Returning favorites and first timers alike David O’dharty, Danny Boy, Mickey Bartlett, Ed burn Ed Gamble, Sarah Pasco, Chris Parker, Ross Noble, Jason Mannford, Jason Long, Daniel Kitson, Alfie Brown and In Toronto, they recently hosted The Underground Comedy Railroad Show at Toronto’s Comedy Bar. The Underground Comedy Railroad Show is the first and only all black Canadian comedy tour.

For the last eleven years, has had Canadians giggling from Halifax to Ottawa. Daniel Woodrow is creator and host. He said we created the show because the end of the Underground Railroad was in Canada and we joke we’re bringing the underground Comedy Where Road across Canada to cities and towns that don’t normally have black or ethnic comedians at all. Headliner at Tamara Chevan told the crowd of about one hundred people, I don’t know if you know a lot about Scotland. The castles are not enough to make you want to stay Scotland in my opinion, is UK Detroit.

Woodrow said, we used this tour to bring opportunities to unknown black comedians. We have a completely unique story that’s different from each other. Every comic is not the same. How are you ready for it? Cannibal Comedian.

This from Bloody Dash Disgusting dot com. You’re home for comedy news. This is an upcoming horror comedy film. In Cannibal Comedian, we follow a psychopathic cannibal, fed up with his lack of ambition, who tries to try his hand at stand up comedy in an attempt to satisfy his appetite for normalcy. Set in the modern day American West, the film pairs dark, over the top humor and rampaging horror at full throttle.

Cannibal Comedy is a love letter to stand up comedy and horror films such as the Texas chainsaw massacre. All right, then it’s your comedy US for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show See tomorrow. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A but good News left the salad behind. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack, host of Five Good News Stories.

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