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Featured: Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler, Ellen DeGeneres, Julie Andrews, Steve Carell, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Lyle Waggoner, Amy Schumer, Bobcat Goldthwait, Todd Barry, Ray Romano, Chris Rock, Louis C.K., Dave Chappelle, Dennis Leary, John Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday NBC Special
• Carol Burnett Show Legacy and Production Insights
• Male Comedians Answer Questions Asked to Female Comics
• Bobcat Goldthwait Album Release ‘A Soldier for Christ’
• Todd Barry Interview on Intimate Venues and Comedy Advice
• Ranking Stand-Up Comedians from the 1990s

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The Shark Deck. Happy birthday Carol Burnett, who is ninety years old. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I had the pleasure of meeting Carol Burnett once. We did a serious XM town hall with the cast of The Carol Burnett Show.

Amy Schumer was the moderator of that. I will throw a link to that clip in the show notes about turning ninety, Carol tilled people and can’t wrap my head around it. I still feel like I’m about eleven. But I’m amazed. Sure went fast, but I’m glad because I’ve got all my parts, got my hips, got my knees, and I’ve got my brains.

I’m happy about that. NBC has a two hour special featuring Amy Poehler, share Ellen DeGeneres, Julie Andrews, and Steve Carell. Actually Steve is an improp performer. Really good choice there, Carol said. As a kid growing up in LA I used to pretend to be on a radio show.

I did that too. I would yell out the window. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a young girl who’s going to sing here without any musical accompaniment. One time, a man next door said we had turned that gust durn thing off, and I thought, I’m a hit. They think it’s a real.

Carol added, I was pretty much a quiet student all through grammar school, Junior High, and Hollywood High. I’d get around with my friends and abored kids stuff like that, but I never really thought about it. So I got a UCLA and I was in an acting class. A lot of the kids in the class were doing heavy dramatic stuff, and I thought, I can’t do that, so I picked something light and they laughed. That’s when the bug bit.

Carol headlined The Carol Burnett Show for eleven seasons, then Carol and Company for another two. Started as Miss Hannigan in nineteen eighty two’s version of Annie She Wants her Legacy to b Then I made people laugh, made them feel good when they might have been down. My fan mail, many say it was the only time the family we’d get together to watch and laugh, and that sometimes they were lonesome and we’re cheered up by our show. That’s a good feeling. Yeah.

I remember watching that show live on CBS as a young child. As for tonight show eight o’clock Eastern NBC, Carol said, it’s a two hour show, and we were done in about two and a half. It was filmed in front of a live audience. She said, I want people to feel like they’re seeing a Broadway show, not sitting around waiting for scenery or costume changes. It’s a little bit tar eyed.

At one point we pay homage to late co stars Harvey Corman and Tim Conway and Lyle Wagner. It was just unbelievable how many people turned out and spoke, but they were mostly just very, very funny. Julie Andrews flew out and sat with me the whole evening. It was the best kind of birthday party I could ever have. Carol says, I don’t mind talking about the past.

That’s why we’re here, and I remember it all very well. Somebody details if he asked me something I don’t remember. It’s probably because it didn’t stick with me very long on the first place. In nineteen sixty two, she signed a ten year deal with CBS. Carol said, I had a very good agent.

It was ten years where I would be required to do an hour long variety special each year and two guest spots on some CBS shows. The big thing in the contract is that if I wanted to push the button, CBS would have to give me thirty one hour variety shows a year that have to put them on the air, whether they wanted to or not. At the end of the fifth year, during the holidays, Carol said, I made a phone call to one of the vice presidents at CBS New York and I said, I’m calling to push that button. I’m sure he got a lot of lawyers out of Christmas parties that night. The next day he called back and said, Carol, Comedy Variety is a man’s game.

It’s Sid Caesar, it’s Milton Burled, Jackie Glees, and it’s Dean Martin. It’s not really for you gals. They didn’t want to do it, but they had to put us on the air. I never felt any pressure. We had a well oiled machine from the very beginning.

We know what we’re doing, and I just told everybody not to think about the future. If we had fun, the audience would have fun. The network didn’t expect us to pass that first season, but I got in two hundred and seventy episodes in eleven years. They didn’t do it live, but Carol said, I never wanted to reset and retape anything. We taped a show in an hour and fifteen minutes.

The Q and as all would cut and trim. I never wanted to keep the audience waiting. I used to have a bet with the stage hands that I could do a skin out change faster than they could move a couch across the stage. I’ve been a guest on some sitcoms where it’s a twenty two minute episode and they take five hours to tape that sent out for pizza for the audience, and there’s this more comic cup. They’re trying to keep everybody happy.

I don’t know why they take so much time. It’s not necessary at all. It’s ridiculous. Happy birthday, Carol, all right. Yesterday I was sharing with you this thing from lidhub, where Jenner Friedman asked male comedians the type of questions that female comedians get.

Asked one of them, do you write your own material? Pat and Aiswald said, I really do. I guess it’s a compment when people tell me you could totally hang out with the lady comics. Jim Gaffigan, still not really getting the joke here, said well, yes, occasionally I write with my wife, have some fun, Jim. Next question, is all your material about being a dad?

Jim Gaffigan, No, have some fun, Jim. John Stewart. That’s a tough one because you could see that not being viewed through the lens of pure sexism, but somebody who actually knew the act and could be like, you’re just having children. To get another fifteen minutes, Eugene Merman said, if I hope to take my comedy to the next level, I’ll stop doing stand up about weird things that have happened to me and I’ll switch mostly to fatherhood. My comedy is a mix of what happens to me, which now incorporates fatherhood.

Good exchange with Fred Armis and Fred said, none of my materials about being a dad. I’m not a dad. Jenna Friedman said, I’m sorry. Just assume since you’re a man that you’re a dad. An Armis and said no.

Bobcat Goldway has an album out today. It’s called A Soldier for Christ, a mix of personal stories from childhood, family, old friendships, and touring with Nirvana. Ton Barry caught up with the Santa Fe reporter who said, hey, Ben City playing some Moraller markets. Do you prefer more intimate base. Todd Barry said, well, most of the venues that play are intimate, even a big cities.

I do like playing the smaller market, especially if they’re cool cities like Santa Fe. Well, Todd, do you think of yourself as deadpan? Todd Barry said, no, I don’t think of myself as deadpan, but maybe I am. But I’ve never consciously worked on my delivery or stage persona just kind of evolved or organically. His advice for younger comics right, and get on stage as much as possible.

Don’t bug people, don’t post a clip that doesn’t make you look great, don’t obsess with getting a manager or agent. Just get good at what you do and have fun. Parade spoke to Ray Romano out doing the rounds for his new movie Hey Ray. Describe the stand up comedy scene in the nineties. Ray Romano said, my class was like Chris Rock, Louis C.K.

Dennis Leary, John Stewart, and Dave Chappelle. Wow, all right, let’s rank that. Okay, here’s the list. Ray Romano, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dennis Leary, John Stewart, Dave Chappelle, let’s just rank them as stand ups.

Wow, okay, we’ll put the list into This is me talking, this isn’t Ray Romano. All right? So I think in group A we have Chris Rock, we Seek, and Dave Chappelle. In group B we have Dennis Leary, John Stewart, and Ray Romano. Ray is the best out of group B.

I’ll put Dennis Leary ahead of John Stewart. No dispect to John Stewart, but you’re in one heck of a class here with this list. All right. In the top group we have Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dave Chappelle.

That is tough. Rock is one of the greats. C K was compared to Carlin before he admitted to doing some naughty things and no one likes him anymore. And Dave Chappelle is at the top of the game right now. Wow, you know what, Why don’t you tell me?

Go to the Facebook group and answer the question at f d S three Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dave Chappelle. How do you rank them? So it’s Facebook Daily Comedy News Podcast group. That’s a really tough question.

Wow, Ray Romano said I’d see them night in Night out, of the clubs in New York City. I don’t know if I’m being naive, but I didn’t find it to be competitive. When Dave Chappelle got a movie, We’re excited about it. The only time I felt threatened was when I had to follow somebody in the club, like I’m following Chris Rock. It’s like, oh my god, this is gonna be our Ray, did you enjoy that life for you eyeing a bigger prize like Seinfeld?

And Ray said yeah. I could see Jerry Seinfeld and Tim Allen Rosanne Barr were getting development deals. Was I thinking of that? I can’t say it wasn’t. I was happy doing stand up, but it’s not a great living.

The gigs came in spurts, and I was on the road when my wife was at home and queens with three little kids. There were times when I remember having to borrow money from my dad to pay bills because I was having a slow month. He was almost on news radio. He said, I’m thirty six, I’m wondering if it’s ever going to happen. And this audition came up for an NBC sitcom starring Phil Hartman.

I knew it’d get on the air and I got it. But at the table read I could feel that the magic I had at the audition wasn’t quite the same.

And then at day one at the rehearsal, I felt it even less.

By the second day, I was in over my head. Now I’m in La my wife’s New York at the kids. My phone rings at six thirty in the morning, so my manager telling me they’re going in another direction. I got fired and Joe Rogan took my place. The timing worked out.

About three months later, I happened to do my first spot for a letterman. I did five minutes. His producer called me at my house and Queens on a Saturday afternoon. He said, Dave loved my act and wanted to sign me to a development deal. And he goes, don’t sign with anybody else, and I said there is no one else.

That production company eventually put out Everybody Loves Raymond Create a Stirred Dot. CA caught up with Ali Hassan and Ali was thirteen years old when he developed a love of cooking. He said, I insulted my mother’s sandwiches as a young man. Mom said, then make your own. She get all the grudge she meant it, so off to the kitchen Ali went.

I started with sandwiches, then moved on a pasta and chili and that kind of stuff. So I’ve been cooking for a long time, and I made it my profession. For about twelve years, I was a caterer and a cooking instructor, and a chef, and a couple different restaurants, and a management a restaurant. So I have this life and food that I never explored. But then his career in stand up comedy started to take off.

He said, it’s my favorite thing to do because I’m so geared towards instant gratification. When I go a few weeks without stand up, I start to get very, very incomfortable. I love the pressure of figuring things out in real time. I’m a guy who can’t even figure out one side of a Rubics cue, but I loved this particular puzzle. I still like it, even w the joke bombs.

I even love failing. I love the challenge of figuring out why do I think it’s funny, why don’t they think it’s funny? And don’t I change it to make it funny. The connective tissue of food is always there. It’s this beautiful way of unifying people.

His current show is called Does This Taste Funny, which takes its name from an old joke about two cannibals on a clown think about It. One part of the show talks about his journey in and out of the Schwarma world. W Bure profiled Alex Edelman’s show, which is called Just for Us, Just for Us as coming to Broadway in late June. So what’s that show about. It’s about Alex Edelman’s decision to respond to an invitation to attend a public meeting of white nationalists.

He explains, as a comic, his job is to make audiences like him. The fact that this particularly intimate audience, you know, the white nationalists, has clearly identified Edelman’s ethnic community as responsible for the assault on their superiority may give him pause, but it makes him want to work harder to win them over. Some of the characters an older woman working on an impossibly large jigsaw puzzle, a young woman named Chelsea who figures in Edelman’s romcom fantasy Hey You Never Know, and Quartet as an attendee who remains suspicious of Edelman while Edelman watches the group non agreement about such shocking events as the marriage of Meghan and Harry and the erasure of white men. He searches for a way in offering his expertise on the meaningful contents a social media algorithm. While it signed the group’s ready to take a teminate break, Gentleman feels a sense of triumph and says, am I the hero we need these difficult and challenging times.

Sounds like a very fascinating show. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. See tomorrow. Once in the Generation I Knew You, British Royal Dynasty takes shape and I am Ent Francis host of A Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Meghan in California to Kayton William in the UK, along with King Charles Quincamilla, Prince Andrew and the whole cost of characters.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Theo Von, Sam Morril, Bill Burr, Rodney Dangerfield, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Maz Jobrani, Jenna Friedman, Jon Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s Baby J special released on Netflix
• Sam Morril discusses Bill Burr’s We Might Be Drunk podcast appearance
• Everybody Loves Raymond reunion special pitch rejected by networks
• Patricia Heaton’s memories of kissing Ray Romano on set
• Maz Jobrani reflects on turning 50 and immigrant masculinity
• Jenna Friedman asks male comedians about being men in comedy

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The Shark Deck. John Mlaney’s new special Baby Jay is out on Netflix today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mulaney told people that he had COVID at one point, he said, I got to say I didn’t experience the pandemic the same way other people did. Mullaney was on with THEO Van’s podcast.

He said, I didn’t know the nasal swab hurt until after I got sober. I gotta remember to download that episode. I will do that right now. Done.

Speaking of podcast, Sam Morrell was asked who his favorite guest on that We …

He was really calm, which is rare for Bill. He’s always been nice to me, but there are clips of people setting him off, and you don’t want to be one of those. He doesn’t drink, but he loves milkshakes and cigars. So we did that and I think it put him in a good mood. Who are your at comedy heroes?

Sam Mourell? And he said Roddy Dangerfield really made me love comedy. He was a machine gun, relentless, hilarious and also self deprecating. Back to School was to me the funniest movie ever. Joke for joke, every character just serves to set up as jokes, and that to me, He’s a ready hilarious.

Chris Rock’s roll with the new album was a game changer for me because of these provocative setups. I remember my mom grabbing my disc player and wondering what I was listening to and just saw this look of horror on her face. Then thirty seconds later she’s laughing hysterically, And that’s beautiful that the joke can push you away and then bring you right back. Sam Murell, have you ever gotten a drink or share a meal with one of your idols? Sam said, I got to open for Adam Sandler and that was pretty insane.

We’re just hanging out after the show, is eating steak. He’s as cool as you would hope he would be. I’m like, Wow, you made me so happy as a kid, and you still make me happy. That’s kind of a beautiful thing. I was on the road recently in Saint Louis and Chris Rock was in my hotel.

He hung out for a wild It’s kind of cool. To be like, oh, just me and Chris Rock passing through Missouri, would you guys talk about a lot of comedy, philosophy and stuff. When he says something, you listen because it’s Chris Rock. Everything he says is absolute. That’s how his mind works.

That’s how it is. Even when you don’t agree with it, you’re like, well, that was really well worded. A lot of ray Romano press lately because of the new movie, one of the questions being asked is could we get a reunion of Everybody Loves Raymond? To show creator Phil Rosenthal says, here’s what I really can’t believe. I’ve pitched now to a couple different places.

We can do a reunion special. We can tell stories of the things that happen to us all at home, and then show a clip of the Raymond episode. And I think it’d be entertaining and funny, and you get a chance to catch up with the cast as they are now. And it seemed to work for friends and no takers. Not yet.

Maybe someone will say, hey, this seems like a no brainer. I think people like the show. I think they’d like to see the cast together again. I think they’d like to revisit some of the highlights and outtakes from the show. There’s no rhyme or reason anything.

If they see money, they go for the money. If they see demographics they want, they go for that. I’m not singling out any network. There are plenty of entities who’ve been involved with that show that could do reunion show or a special, which certainly doesn’t cost as much of producing a real episode of a show. It’s people sitting in chairs and then you have clips.

But one about a proper reunion, Patricia Heaton told Us Weekly in twenty eighteen, and she nails it here. I don’t think it’s possible now with Peter Boyle and Doris Robert’s gone, it just would be the same show. Yeah, I don’t know what everybody loves Raymond would be without the parents dynamic. And you don’t want to do like Raymond the next generation and cast Ray and Debra in the like parent roles. That’d just be stupid.

Don’t do that. Leave it alone, good show. We could watch the reruns. When Patricia Eaton was first cast on the show, she joked about having to kiss Ray Ramato and said, that’s how desperate I was for a job. I don’t know who that guy’s in the corner, but if I have to kiss him, I’ll do it.

Just tell the story. I was on an airplane once and they had Raymond on there and I was watching and my headphones on. I was laughing out loud. You’re kind of not aware that you’re laughing out loud when you have headphones.

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And then the steward came by and he said, I think it’s so cute you laugh at y…

So when I do the podcast, I have a script, and the script is just for me. Said, don’t really clean it up. And this has been making me laugh. A typo that I left in I wrote, brag Darrett. That’s supposed to say Brad Garrett, but it says brag Darrett.

He also talked about a possible reunion and he said, nah, that’s really far from Ray’s emo. Once Peter passed, Ray said that never be reunion. I totally agree with that. Ray was smart to go out on top. Very few people do that.

Ray and I are good buds. Were poker people. We have a game every three months, and we golf every couple of months. I know it sounds cliche and trite. But we’re really so close, and that’s why a lot of fun stuff did happen on screen, because we really did have that closeness.

We do keep in such I won’t say we hang out every week, but we’re definitely close. Master Brownie got philosophical about turning fifty. This from Men’s Health, and he said, once I hit fifty, I thought, oh my god, I’ll be passing away. I’ve lost my sister to breast cancer and my brother to addictions. So those moments will come when I realize that, and help me reiterate this idea in my head that you have to live your life.

You have to live your life for experiences, you have to live your life for memories, and you have to live your life for loved ones. Great advice there, Mas, cool guy. I met him once, I think in Montreal, maybe twice. I might have met him at Serious Proper in New York City as well, but I always enjoyed my time with Mas. And he said, a lot of the Iranian men that I know, or even some other immigrant men, they come from very mancho background.

These immigrant cultures, I think put a lot of pressure on men to answer and solve every problem. But the truth is we can’t. Because we’re mortal beings. We can’t do miracles. Unfortunately, in our culture, it’s not encouraged to seek help and talk to others.

I’m always trying to understand the way I am. One thing I discovered about myself recently is that I’m a pleaser. I like to please people. I like to say yes, and that puts me in situations that I don’t want to be in. So I’m trying to work on that a bit, and I’m trying to work on prioritizing myself, my family and my responsibilities that I feel are essential to me first before I say yes to other things.

Part of being a comedian that helps me is I get to go on stage a lot of times and actually rant about something that was on my mind to a whole audience. If I’m on stage talking about something that happened in my life, chances are there’s somebody in the audience who can relate and we laugh together. And I think that’s to form its own therapy. All right. This next thing is from Liththub, but Jenna Friedman at the center of it, and I love what she did here.

She said, if I had a dollar for every time a journalist asked me, is it hard being a woman in comedy? I probably make as much as a man in comedy. So what she did is she gathered some male comedians and asked them the types of questions she usually gets. Asked, this is a lot of fun and it’s long, so I’m going to split it and do part of it somewherew Jenni Friedman asked what’s it like to be a man in comedy? John Stewart laughs and said it’s golden because men in comedy are carried into the clubs.

It’s incredibly pampering. You’re paid in doeg Did I even say that? Right? Doche Coin and Cocaine futures. Eugene Merman said, you know, it feels fine.

It feels like I have opportunities I could presume. Sorry, you get that question. It’s so outside of what I do. It really makes it clear that interviews for you were probably unpleasant. Patton Oswalt said, sometimes the road could be a little rough.

I don’t want to make it sound like some horror movie, but sometimes club owners are more concerned with drink sales and not focused on, say, crowd control.

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There’s still a long way to go, but it’s fun. Jim Gaffigan said, I can’t really speak from my entire gender. Next question, when did you decide to become a male comedian? Eugene Merman said, I guess I was eighteen when I decided to be a male comedian, or at seventeen, I think I realized comedy was the kind of job and I was male, So that’s what happened. Jim Gaffigan said, I didn’t decide to become male.

I was born male. You can have some fun with this, Jim. You know. Bob Odenkirk said, I didn’t think I had a choice to become a female comedian. It was a different time.

I didn’t have that option. John Stewart said, you know, for years I was a boy comedian. I think at some point after my bar mitzvah that I decided. Actually, I don’t think I decided. I think it was just pronounced and annointed.

I was at a ceremony. Was it hard to be a male comedian back when you’re starting out? John Stewart said, yeah, because the competition was all men. The competition was fierce. There was only every slot, so you had to fight for all of them.

Next question, do you think men can be attractive and funny? Jim Gaffigan said, I think there are two separate things which really have nothing to do with one another. Funny is the only important thing in stand up well it should be in my opinion, Jim, you can have fun with this. Pat Oswald, I’m not gonna lie and say that a nice shoulder to hips ratio it doesn’t open some doors, but after that, you’d better be able to deliver the material. You’d better be funny.

I know a lot of male comedians who were very handsome and figured they could coast on that, but then Eddie peppettone is suddenly getting all the TV gigs. It’s a wake up call once you hit that stage. Jennif Friedman asked, do you think it’s more difficult for male comics were not attractive. John Stewart said, yeah, it’s very difficult. That’s why we’re out at night.

I’m pretty sure that’s why there’s a two drig minimum. It’s not to loosen people up to the funny. It’s to make us more palatable to the eye. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and you can buy me a coffee. You can throw a couple of bucks on the tip jar five dollars the suggested amount, and I’ll take you five dollars.

I’ll go get one of these at the National Donuts Chain. Still a lot of ice left. Usually the ice is gone by the time I record Buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. After that monthlong run of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, that’s over. Now the Sydney Comedy Festival is on.

They don’t have clips posted the way Milbourne did. And I’m not going to read you a whole list because you’re probably not on your way to Sydney. Although if you are, thank you for listening to the podcast. But some of the shows on Tuesday, David O’dharty Hesmo, he’s a lot of fun, Reese Nicholson, Sam Campbell, those are all good. Looking ahead to Wednesday, a lot more shows.

Let’s see what we recognize here. Sam Campbell again, he’s really good. No names that I know here some repeats from Milbourne, but I’ll tell you Sidney Comedy Festival. Your website loads nice and fast. Melbourne folks higher the number three person away from the Sydney Comedy Festival and have them do your website.

Laugh Button asked Big Jay Okerson, Who to you are the ultimate comics comics great question, Big Jay said, There’s two that always come to mind, Patrise O’Neil and Dave at Tell. He also added Great Giraldo because he was always bordering mainstream success but he never quite got there, but he was revered among comics and audiences. Comics were like, damn man, this guy’s good looking and fantastic at comedy Patrese. Unfortunately he got his legacy cut short. It’s crazy to think that I’m years older than he was when he died.

He’d be fifty two. We have the same birthday. I’m forty five. He would have probably been one of the most elite comics comics. He probably wouldn’t have broken through with mainstream success, but he would have been very successful in his universe for sure, and wealthy, I’m sure, I hope.

And David Tell is a machine of comedy perfection. The way he does it is amazing. What I always love about Patres and Dave is the difference between watching the staff drone through comics who they know, who were there every night. You’d watched them roll their eyes and go, oh, this guy again, but then they all stopped working and sit down. Young come in the room, some huge comics come in and watch him form.

And I was like, that’s what I want aspire to do. I want people who are bored with comedy go, I’ll take a peek at this. It’s awesome being a comics comic. The respect from others is so huge, But financially, I want to be a people’s comic. I started comedy with Kevin Hart.

I definitely want Kevin Hart’s belongings is bottomless doe, But the limited time that I’ve spent with him in the last decade, it looks like it’s a lot. I don’t want everything in my life to be private, because if I want to go to a movie, I have to go to a private movie theater or something or screening. He couldn’t take his kids to a fair down the street and go on the tilted World cause a major problem. If I go to Carnival i’d get noticed. Well, the carnies would probably recognize me.

I might get recognized a handful of times. But I could walk through the airport by myself, and if I took three pictures in one airport trip, I’d be like, Wow, that’s a lot of pictures for an airport trip.

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Speaking of Kevin Hart and Fares, he will be playing the twenty twenty three …

The fair runs June seventh through July fourth. The theme get out There and from Yahoo. Jack Whitehall recalled the time he bombed so hard at a private comedy gig for King Cheryl was the third He told James Gordon that he was not invited to the coronation. By the way, full coverage of the Coronation on Palace Intrigue. That’s a podcast in which I’m the writer.

We talk about the British Royal family palace intrigue where you get your shows. Jack Whitehall not invited to the coronation of King Charles coming up on May sixth. He said, I went out there and they were set King Charles and Camilla in the front row and thrones literally in thrones. I had no microphones, so I was literally the court jester for half an hour. I did a lot of jokes about Kate Middleton because you’d been at my school, and I was referring to her as the one that got away, and he didn’t like that at all.

I literally bombed so hard, and afterward I had to meet with him and I had a bow and he said, yes, well, I think next year we might try a magician. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Once in the Generation, I Knew You British One Old Dynasty, Taste Shape and I Am On Francis host a Palace Intrigue at Daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get over news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace from Harry and Meghan in California to Cayton William in the UK, along with King Charles, Quinkermiller, Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters.

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Featured: Richard Lewis

What’s in This Episode

• Richard Lewis retirement from stand-up comedy
• Richard Lewis Parkinson’s disease diagnosis
• Richard Lewis health struggles and surgeries
• Richard Lewis continues work on Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12

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The Shark Deck. Hey guys, a quick bonus episode. Richard Lewis has announced that he has retired from stand up He has also revealed he has Parkinson’s disease. He put out a statement via Twitter, let’s listen, Hey, listen. I just wrapped a couple of weeks ago of season twelve of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and it was just an amazing season and I’m so grateful to be part of that show.

But you know, in the last three and a half years, I had sort of a rocky time and people who said I haven’t heard from you, and are you still touring? Well, here’s really what happened. Three and a half years ago. I was in the middle of a tour and then I finally ended it with a show. I said, you know, I’m at the top of my game after fifty years almost I’m going to just call it quits.

And I felt great about that, and then out of the blue, I had four surgeries back to back to back to back. It was incredible. I mean, I couldn’t believe, you know, it was bad luck, but it’s life, you know. I had a back surgery, then I had to shoulder surgery. Then I had to shoulder replacement surgery, and then I had what was another thing I had?

Oh, I had a hip replacement. So you know, there was months where I was just focusing on PT like I am now. And on top of all of that, two years ago, I started walking a little stiffly. I was shuffling my feet, and I went to a neurologist and they gave me a brain scan and I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. And I was about two years ago, but luckily I got it late in life.

And they say, you progressed very slowly, if at all. And I’m on the right mad so I’m cool. So I guess I just wanted you to know that that’s where it’s been at. I’m finished with stand up. I’m just focusing on writing and acting.

I have Parkinson’s disease, but I’m under a doctor’s care and everything is cool. And I love my wife, I love my little puppy dog, and I love all my friends and my fans.

And now you know where it’s been at the last three and a half years.

God bless you, Best of lucky. Richard Lewis back in the Morning with a regular episode

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Featured: John Mulaney, Theo Von, Jerry Seinfeld, Jordan Klepper, Jimmy Fallon, Jim Brewer, Joe Rogan, Mark Marin, Bert Kreischer, Bill Bellamy

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney discusses addiction and intervention on Theo Von’s podcast
• Tom Brady’s legal team takes down AI-generated comedy special
• Jerry Seinfeld explains why the sitcom was named after him
• Jordan Klepper jokes about SpaceX rocket explosion on The Daily Show
• Mark Marin joins cast of Untitled New York Christmas Movie
• Joe Rogan and Jim Brewer discuss Budweiser’s post-controversy commercial
• Galaxy Quest TV adaptation revival attempts
• Bill Bellamy recalls childhood experiences in Florida

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the space X rocket blew up? Jordan Klepper was hosting the Daily Show and said, and to the haters who said Elon Musk couldn’t possibly destroy something faster than Twitter, the jokes on you, Jimmy Fallon, Yeah, took off fast, was flying high, and then all of a sudden it exploded, kind of like Rhonda Santi’s presidential campaign. Kimmel, that disassembly caused space X three billion dollars, which you could defame four different voting machine companies for that much money.

Hey, Jerry Seinfeld, why was the sitcom called Seinfeld? Jerry told g Q back in twenty seventeen. I thought that would be fun for me and fun for the audience, and I thought the show might only last a couple of episodes, so it might as well help me sell some tickets at the comedy clubs I was working at. We couldn’t think of another title, and we figured that’s what people are gonna call in anyway. The show’s always the name of the guy.

It’s not the Tonight Show. It’s Falon. You know. I did a Conan, I did a Falon. Hey, Jerry Seinfeld, Why is Seinfeld setting a diner?

Jerry said, the thing that is most similar to comedy is food, and that everybody’s taste is totally personal. You go into any restaurant, you say to yourself, I think that was great. Somebody else so I thought it was a mediocre. I thought it was too salty. And it’s the same thing with comedies.

So you can’t really recommend comedy in the way you can’t recommend food. From TMZ. Tom Brady apparently did not enjoy AI generated Tom Brady comedy special. TMZ reports TB twelve threatened legal action, and so it’s been wiped away from the internet. Oh that sounds like a dare I bet we can find it if we try Tom Brady.

The guys who made it, explained on their Doodzi podcast that they received a season assist letter from tom Brady’s attorneys. They said the letter claimed that the AI version of Tom Brady blatantly violates the former Quarterbacks quote unquote rights, and if they didn’t meet a list of demands, which included taking down the video, a lawsuit would be forthcoming. They added, though, that this situation will not prevent them from making further attempts at Ai comedy, perhaps even making one Down the Road that features Joe Biden John Mulaney. His special is out on Netflix tomorrow. He was THEO Vaughan’s podcast.

He was talking about his intervention again. He said, I’ve just been in my drug dealer’s apartment. I finally got the right balance, one pocket, all out of all and coke, one parkt All Xanex, and I was like, I’ve done it. I’ve reached equilibrium. Laney said he was pretty strung out at the time, but was insisting to his loved ones that he hadn’t used drugs in days.

So you were deep in. How’d you get so deep in? Because I don’t think anyone would look at you and think this is the coke got good? That was the whole thing. I mean.

I certainly tried to talk about it on stage as having had like a drug and alcohol problem, but it’s just something about me seems like he has it all together, has the problem. I don’t put that on you to be like, how come you didn’t see it then? Because I was I really thought that I was doing life. I was able to achieve it life with the drugs as opposed to in spite of them. It took me a long time over the past couple of years to realize that I did well at what I do in spite of drugs, not because of them, Laney continue.

I remember times when I felt like, all right, I’ve done too much. Maybe I should just go down to the lobby and sit there and tell the doorman to grab a paramedic or something. Melaney spent five or six days in detox, and he says he felt as though his skeleton wanted to rip out of his body. I remember laying on my bed writhing. Mark Marin has joined the cast of untitled New York Christmas Movie.

In Untitled New York Christmas Movie, Mark Marin will start alongside Melissa McCarthy. Untitled New York Christmas Movie is a comedy about a workaholic man who unlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas. My friend Jim Brewer was on The Joe Rogan Experience last week. I’ve been picking away at that episode and joying them getting deep into conspiracies together. The topic switched to the recent Budweiser commercial.

No, not the one that started all the controversy. The one that came after that. This is the one that’s like horses and mountains and American flag. It’s like Budweiser overacted to the transgender can controversy and went up, go right down the middle, flags, horses, mountains, let’s do it. Rogan said, it’s like the dumbest pro America and Rara like, we don’t know who you really are now, so you can’t just make this commercial like where’s this coming from?

What was this AI generated? That’s probably a chat GPT four point zero version of the perfect American commercial. That’s really that didn’t have nothing to do with drigged bud light either, by the way. That was like that made me want to move to Montana. Rogan added, I would respect this if they had this, and then Dylan Mulvaaney just starts car wheeling into the frame.

Brewer added, but that’s what I’m saying. You don’t know if I wanted two guys on the board going, I don’t know if this is a good idea. I don’t know if this is a good decision. Bro Very Daz was at Illinois States and he said, I generinalely believe this new generation of kids in college will save the world. But I do feel bad because they live their lives in two layers.

There’s the performative life that they put out in the real life that they live. And the more they have to perform their lives for the dopamine and tablets, the less they embrace their own imperfections. So your flaws, your anxieties, your fears start to seem larger and more powerful, and you have to fight more because you’re putting on this performative life that you want people to buy into, and at the same time, you hold people to a level of perfection that nobody’s ever winning. So find yourself by embracing your own imperfections, being kind to the world by allowing people theirs. Bill Bellamy talked to Click Orlando about his summers in Florida.

Growing up, he used to spend time between Miami, Tallahassee and Marianna, Florida. He said, I used to have to feed the hogs on my grandparents’ form and one morning, very early, I was out there and I was like, that’s not a regular cat. And I look and I ran on the house and I tell my grandmother and I said, Graham, I think that’s a big cat, and she said, aw, that ain’t nothing but a panther. There’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing available. That is the show I host once a week on the Live one app.

The Live one app is free. So what is the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this plus bits. So the stories are shorter, but there’s more comedy bits. So if you’re like, hey, I wish Johnny Mac would shut up, well, first of all, I don’t know why you’re an eight minutes into this podcast if you can’t stand me, but we’re friends.

But if you want to hear some comedians along the way, for example, if I teld a story about Jim Brewer, I might play a clip by Jim Brewer. It’s The Weekly Comedy Thing. It is free on the Live one app. The app is free. Check that out.

New episode every Monday. Remember Galaxy Quest, the really really really really really good Star Trek parody. They’ve been trying to make a TV version of this for years. They’re trying yet again. They tried back in twenty fifteen to do a direct follow up to the movie that was sold to Amazon, and it never happened.

Then two years later Paul Sheer yes that Paul Sheer took over writing the script. They were ready to go, and then Alan Rickman passed away. Sam Rockwell, who started in the original film, said we were ready to sign up, and then Alan Rickman passed away, and Tim Allen wasn’t available because he was in last man standing and everybody’s schedule was all weird and was going to shoot like right now. And how do you feel the void of Alan Rickman. It’s a hard void to fill.

In twenty sixteen, Tim Allen told The Hollywood Reporter Galaxy Quest is really close to being resurrected in a very creative way. It’s closer than I could tell you, but I can’t say more than that. The real kicker is that Alan now has to be left out. It’s been a big shock on many levels that never went anywhere, But now Paramount TV Studios is trying again. I think enough time has passed that you’d have to reboot it.

But that’s okay. Great really enjoyed it. If you’ve never seen the Galaxy Quest movie, it is one of the better Star Trek movies. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Chelsea Handler will headline Series Fest.

Series Fest is a TV summit coming to Denver May fifth through the tenth. Series Fest described as a film festival for independent episodic TV. Some of the others going there Jay Farrow, Adam Ray, and Joel McHale. Pretty interesting bunch there. Paul Giamatti, not a comedian, will also be there May fifth through the tenth.

The Sydney Comedy Festival is kicking you Off. The Sydney Morning Herald has some recommendations. Let’s take a look. Lou Wall is the creator of lou Wall Versus the Internet, and lou Wall describes their latest opus as two shows in one based around cyberstalking a frenemy. It’s a high octane, hypercreative riot that plunges into some of the Internet’s most bizarre rabbit holes.

One extended exchange with a foot fetishist is fashioned into a rap. It’s a musical comedy, lou Wall says. For me, the ideal show is a mashup of a pop concert and stand up. Andrew Portelli is an ex lawyer. He says, when I started out, I wanted to be Louis C.K.

But for a variety of reasons I’ve got away from that. That’s pretty funny. Nudge, nudge, say no more. He says his legal background has given him perspective and helped him get comfortable in the spotlight. I was never a natural public speaker.

I was always more of a writer. But once you go to court and speak in front of a judge, there’s a real risk of humiliation and lasting repercussions, not just for you, but for someone else. Bron One Cuss The Sydney Morning Harold describes Bronwyn Cuss’s delivery as dry as the Simpson Desert. I’m guessing local Australian reference. But it was not a stylistic choice, she says.

When I first started, I was way more nervous, so that style was out of necessity. I couldn’t move that much. Her show’s called Sounds Good. It includes an underwhelming response to her coming out and her time working in prisons and from Al Jazeera. You’re Home for Comedy News in Berlin, comedians from Ukraine and Russia are sharing the same stage as an outlet for their grief, anger and desperation about the war.

It’s a Wednesday night and a bunch of comedians and fans or a black walled theater in central Berlin. They come to perform or to watch. They speak Russian or Ukrainian. They are professionals and newcomers. They share an interest in stand up comedy and more than a contempt for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Nikita is a thirty two year old comic, and she says, obviously, don’t joke about the dead bodies in Bucha, but you can joke about the washing machines that the Russian soldiers stole there. Joannah George is forty one and teaches German to foreigners at the local university. She says, my husband is Russian, I’m German. It’s nice that we now have options over who gets to be the fascist in the relationship. Funny joke which she’s told in fluent Russian.

Eric Orlovski is a thirty three year old who fled from Kieva last April, and he said, what I really like about the Germans is their love for silence. I can’t imagine that hell would be for them to live under the air raid sirens in Ukraine. They’d probably think if only the rocket hit me already and Margharita Steimerling. She has also found herself in Berlin and says, this is not my home. I have to date anyway.

I can get the miserable, the jobless, even the Russians. That your comedy news for day. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat?

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Bert Kreischer, Richard Belzer, Brian Regan, Hari Kondabolu, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Johnny Carson

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon’s fake business prank calls to realtors
• Richard Belzer tribute and crowd work legacy
• Brian Regan on influences from Carson, Pryor, and Steve Martin
• Hari Kondabolu on the hardships of touring comedy
• Nashville Comedy Festival lineup and schedule
• Moontower Comedy Festival updates
• Sydney Comedy Festival April 24 launch with 245 shows
• Lady Ha Ha open mic series for female comedians in Tucson
• Aaron Souls performing stand-up in the metaverse

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News. On his podcast, Tim Dillon was joking about fake business. This is a recurring theme he does. Dylan was talking to Bert Kreisher and he said, my thing was like fake business where I would call realtors and I would get into actual negotiations about a property, and I would say, I’d be a fake realtor and I’d call them up and I’d go, listen, my clients are deadly serious. They live in the United barrab Emirates, and here’s you know, here’s a couple of things we need to get, we need, you know.

And what happens is it’s immediately real business for the realtor, but it’s fake business for me because the clients don’t really exist. They don’t know it’s fake business. Yeah, ninety percent of what you do in sales is fake business. It’s not real until they signed a thing, which very few people do. So even though it’s fake business, it’s real business for them.

So it trains them, it keeps them going. Tim continued, explaining the bit, Yeah, represent a lot of very discerning clients in the LA area. None of them exist, but they’re high end They’re very discerning. They want malibill on the water, they want Beverly Flats. I like wasting the time of people.

It’s a great thing for both of us because sometimes I have time and I’m in traffic and call them up and I go listen. I have a client is very excited about this property. It seems price a little higher relative some of the other comps in the area. I just want to know, are their details about the house that would justify that. I’ll wait and then they’re like, absolutely, I’m glad you asked.

Tim says I have no respect for the real estate profession. The Tim Daland podcast is very, very funny. Am I horrible that I find that funny? That he’s wasting people’s time? He told it very well.

Vulture wrote about Richard Belzer. This by Rich Schneider, who said, back in the day, watching Belzer play whacka Heckler for his entire set was a lesson. He was cool in his delivery and precise with his words, never showing fear or anger. He exited with the same stret he entered with, and more applause than years. He never gave up the stage.

When Belzer actually got to do his acting clubs. He had all the tools, a quick mind, an ear for impressions and dialects, a decent singing voice, and a fearless attitude. But what made the room filled with comics was his crowd work. His attitude was so New York and not a woody Allen kind away kind of Martin Scorsese reen soaked garbage strike taxi driver in New York. He puts such anxiety in the room way more than the usual hope this comic can make us laugh.

Nervousness, What a great description, Snyder continues. During any given show, Belzer might talk to ten audience members and insult each one in a different way. By the time he finished mulling some heckler, the rest of the audience avoided his gaze like he was a gang of switchblade flicking, leather jacketed hoodlums entering their empty subway car at three in the morning. In an error where most comics were clean to get on the tonight show, Richard used the F word in all its forms. The port authority should have hired him to record greetings at bus terminals, train stations, and airports.

Welcome to New York. You f’s have a good effing time. He had nicknames for the audience kid pal Babe, Sparky. Once he tagged an audience member Sparky, they might as well have started playing taps. The pitch kc caught up with Brian Reagan.

In the past, Brian had claimed as his influences Johnny Carson, second mention of the Day Drink, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor, and the pitch KSE was curious what Brian Reagan adapted from them. Brian said, well, I learned different things for different people. Johnny Carson was always kind, He was always nice to his guests. The classic example I use is he had an older woman on the show who had a potato chip collection. She wasn’t a star, she wasn’t a celebrity.

She just had all these potato chips she thought looked like different things, and she came out with her little potato chip collection and showed them. And it would have been so easy for hosts to ridicul or mock this woman, but Carson made her feel like a queen. I love the kind of comedy I call it laugh with comedy as opposed to laugh at comedy. You can laugh at people. I don’t find that particularly nice.

I prefer laughing with them, So I got that from him. Brian continues, I watched her Richard Pryor special that I hadn’t seen a long time. He’s on stage doing this thing, and I literally start crying because like seeing somebody raised comedy of the form of art. Watching this master, I’m thinking, Wow, some people can do this in a way that’s just elevated. Somebody can turn comedy into beautiful art.

As for Steve Martin, he does double barrel comedy. It’s a mixture of silly and smart. His character is silly and naive and unaware that the comedian who created the character is brilliant. So at least for me, when I’m laughing, I’m laughing at both. The La Times asked Harry Connabolo, what’s the risk part of the comedian job?

Travel? Travel is hard. I think that’s true for any touring performer. I love performing, I love going to other cities, but the process of getting those cities and staying in a hotel and stuff that was exciting when I was twenty eight. At forty, it’s like I have a kid and I have a partner.

I have a life. I want my kid to see me.

Also, I take shows that don’t go well little harder now because it’s like I l…

Amen, Hori Kondobulu. I love this job, but it’s brutal, brutal on the body, brutal on the mine. How many friends birthdays did I miss? How many weddings did I miss? That’s part of what comes with you going where the gigs take you.

Let’s see who’s at the festivals. It’s the last night of the Nashville Comedy Festival. Alley Wong at the Rhyme and seven o’clock, Jimmy doert Zini’s four and seven, Rocky Dale Davis at nine fifteen. All right, that’s easy. We could do Jimmy at four, Alley at seven, and Rocky Dale Davis at nine fifteen.

That’s a rap on Nashville. Moontower wraps up only one show today at the Paramount. It’s the Philippe Esparza headliner events off Barbosa. Vanessa Gonzalez joined Philippe on that Bill No more Melbourne, but good news. If you like Australian comedy.

The Sydney Comedy Festival starts April twenty fourth. Yeah, two hundred and forty five shows. Are you like John, We’re sick of Australian comedy? Well too bad? April twenty four to May twenty first, two hundred and forty five shows.

I liked the international stuff. I hope you do too. Some of the comedians going to Sydney Joe ly Set and Sara Pesco from the UK. I’m going to butcher this name Shock, Bazudenhout from South Africa and Scotsman Larry Dean. Local comedians Osher Gunsberg, Katie Flanagan and Dave Hughes from the Arizona Wildcat.

The first open mic that Linda Ray felt truly comfortable at was one hosted by a woman at the Surly Wenchbub and Tucson. Ray started doing comedy at the Estrogen Hour and opened my comedy show for women back in twenty sixteen. She said. When I started doing comedy, the only open mics in town were Laughs and Mister Heads. I love the name of all these clubs.

Last year she got involved with Lady ha Ha, giving female comedians one more to performed. Priscilla Fernandez is the co founder of Lady Hahn, says, the whole point is to empower you to start an open mic, to do shows, to do different kinds of comedy, to have the courage to know that you have a community sporting you. Lady ha Tuesday’s at Bumpstead’s one thousand and three North Stone Avenue in Tucson. If you’re a local and from w ZZM. A Grand Rapids comedian has taken stand up to the metaverse.

Aaron’s Souls calls himself the unemployed alcoholic. He said, I left a job to dress alcoholism in my life and was going through a kind of a tough time. Was an extended period of unemployment. His wife’s suggested e TRVI laughfests, first time or showcase, so he got in a comedy. But then there was that whole pandemic thing.

That’s when he discovered the metaverse. He said, I wouldn’t have quite expected my path to follow that route, but it did. He created the Soapstone Comedy Club. The venue was founded in Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Inside the club, which is a virtual club all remind you.

A banner says, we’re all here because we’re not all there. He said, I’ve seen people that suffer from severe social anxiety end up taking the stage, hearing your room all the people applaud them. It’s truly life changing for them. So if you’re on Horizonal World’s check out the Soapstone Comedy Club. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Dane Cook, Ray Romano, Adam Divine, Jay Pharoah, Jordan Clepper, Stephen Colbert, Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crowe, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Donald Glover, Will Smith, Ricky Smiley, Miss Pat

What’s in This Episode

• Clarence Thomas luxury gifts scandal with billionaire Harlan Crowe
• Dane Cook’s evolution from hyperactive stage style to stillness and maturity
• Ray Romano’s new movie and living at home until age 29
• Adam Divine’s comeback after near-fatal truck accident at age 11
• Jay Pharoah on comedians transitioning to dramatic acting roles
• Nashville Comedy Festival lineup announcements

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The Shark Deck made you see last week we learned that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had secretly accepted luxury tips from right wing billionaire Harlan Crowe. Long set up there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily comment he knews. Jordan Clapper was host in the Daily Show. He said, of Harlan Crowe, that’s his actual name, not his Game of Thrones cosplay character.

Stephen Colbert said, Crowe is an arch conservative who was known for his assorted Nazi memorabilia and garden full of statues of the twentieth century’s worst despots. It’s so impressive that they put him on the cover of Hitler, Holmes and Gebels. I like that joke, Jordan Clepper. Again. On top of that, Clarence Thomas’s mom is still living in that house rent free, and Harlan Crowe is paying for thousands of dollars of renovations, all of which Clarence Thomas should have disclosed by law, though in his defense, laws complicated and he’s only a Supreme Court justice.

Interesting interview with Deane Cook in the Niagara Falls Review, and I really like how they wrote this. They wrote the enduring image of Dane Cook as a comic and constant ocean, prowling the stage, waving his arms, his body, reenacting every story. It helped make him the biggest comic in the world for a long stretch. But even then, Dan Cook knew that manic style had a shelf life. At some point it’d have to hold the audience’s attention without running laps around the stage.

Dane said, I remember calling my mom after I broke through that first year and saying, I can’t be this guy. I don’t want to be this guy. She was like, what’s the plan? Dane said, The plan is to age out with my generation. I have to be willing to evolve and to grow and mature.

He forced himself to plant his feet and engage with the audience. Dane said, I hadn’t experienced bad sets like it did in twenty eleven when I made that decision to implement stillness. I was crushing it for years. I was like, Okay, I know all the tricks and the caness little tells. I know my things, but that was hard, really hard, And yet within a few weeks of doing it, it empowered me.

I was like, I’m funny, even if I’m just sharing something and no gear of the early two thousands, he said, I was like the coolest guy in the room, and it made me the uncoolest guy in the room. Thank goodness for youthful little nieve. It’s hey, people don’t realize this is a perk early in life. As you get a bit older, you look at some of the trick tres avenues you have to take in the entertainment industry, and it’s not for the week of heart. It’s not for the strong of heart.

Even it’s cutthroat, it’s competitive. It’s everything that’s the opposite of what you see when you see the red carpet and the razzle dazzle. It’s a brutal machine, and you’ve got to know yourself well enough to go how do I fit into the machine of the cancel culture? These days? Dane says, you can say the words, you can describe in great detail and abomination a racist incident.

You could talk about all of it if you’ve lived it. You can’t be observing and reporting like it used to. They don’t want it, they don’t want to hear it. You’ll get turned off. Ray Romano’s new movie is out in Parade Magazine asked him, so exactly how autobiographical is this movie?

Did you meddle in your son’s future like your character Leo did? Ray said, my son Joe is six five and what’s the star of his basketball team? In LA I loved going to the games, and if I’m being honest, I also enjoyed the attention that I got from It’s kind of sad if you think about it, because I’m a celebrity from TV and I needed more attention. I live vicariously through him, But he wasn’t going to play in college, unlike my son in the movie. Ray, did you have immigrant Italian parents?

Where? I said? Mine was second generation. My wife’s family came right over from Italy, and for thirty five years I experienced that rich tradition of family and celebrating and eating, and I’d took in their standards and what they believed in. I wanted to write for that universe.

Is it true? Ray? You lived at home until your twenty nine? Ray said, that was my life. I lived in my mom’s house and moved out the day after I got married.

Let me tell you I have a twenty five year old son still living at the house in LA and another who’s thirty in moving out. But I have quite a different house than when I grew up in For that one, we had a bathroom and the house was about sixty nined square feet. I shared it with my mom, dad, and two brothers. My kids have a theater, eleven bathrooms, of pool and tennis courts. I don’t think they want to go anywhere ever.

Adam Divine told High Times when I was eleven years old, I was hit by a thirty two tons cement truck and couldn’t walk for almost two years. I had twenty five or thirty surgery something like that, and after having such a near death experience as a kid, comedy was my warm blanket. It was something that made me feel good. I like making people laugh, and it was something I could do from a wheelchair once I didn’t die. I think my parents were like, all right, if he wants to do comedy, more power to him.

He’s not dead, secnty whatever he wants. I honestly don’t know if I would have gotten involved in acting or commed if I hadn’t had the accident. I’m from Omaha, Nebraska. Comedy wasn’t a real job. To have the accident changed his perspective.

He said, anything as possible. You only have one life, you might as well try to live it in the way you want to live it. As much as it sucks, I’m still in residual pain from the accident, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world, because I know I wouldn’t be here doing the things I love to do if it weren’t for it. How to get started, I got a job working the door at the Hollywood imbrov I consider that one of my first breaks because at the time I was seeing stand up every day at work. Every night, I was seeing Chris Rock, Dave’s Rappelle, Sarah Silverman, Zach Allafanakis.

Then during the day I’d write with the guys come up with different internet videos at the same time. It just met Ander’s home in an improv class the Second City in la It’s after we met that I think everything started to click into place. Salon asked Jay Farrow about dramatic acting, and Jay said, you could see how a lot of people were comedians are transitioning over to that. Martin Lawrence just did a film where he plays a detective not funny at all, it’s a serious role. If you’re good at making somebody laugh, you can make somebody cry too.

You have those skill sets. Comedians have to reflect on life. So whatever’s going on, whatever we’re portraying out there, whatever we’re giving out there, this is an actual life that we’re painting for you, and we’ve been through it. That’s why you can connect with it. So it’s just natural.

Eddie Murphy’s grated drama. He should have had an Oscar, Jamie Foxx as an oscar. He got a for Ray, Mike Gapps, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Donald Glover, the way he crossed Over, the way he did Atlanta, the way he did music. So kay to be multi talented in twenty twenty three. As long as you have a fan base and if people are willing to give you business, he can’t get canceled.

All right, Jay Farrell, if you were going to be in a biopic, who would you play? And he said, I mean the easiest one. You can literally see it Eddie Murphy. Yeah, that would be pretty good. Actually, listen, I could put the leather suit on and just talk to people.

Just be cool. That’s what it’s all about, just being really cool. I could play Will Smith in a biopic. If you’ve ever seen me do behind the actor on YouTube, the series I used to do with two actors going back and forth. I had Will Smith.

I put tape behind my ears. He had them joints out like this like a dog because Will Smith’s got Sonar on his head. Shout out to Will Smith, though he don’t need no bad press. The Nashville Comedy Festival continues Ricky Smiley’s at the War Memorial Auditorium at six, Miss pat at seven at Zany’s Fortune Themester at eight o’clock at the Riemann Ali Sadek at nine at Zany’s Very Very Full Day at the Moon Toower Comedy Festival in Austin. I won’t read them all.

I’ll just skim and see what catches my eye. Here The Sklar Brothers present Tagget at seven thirty at Parish Sclar Brothers Adam Ray, Dana Gould and Natalie Palamedia. She’s fantastic, Lisa Ann Walter, Liza Trigger, Andrew Dismuke’s Andrea Gin That’s a good one. I like shows with a lot of comedians. At the hide Out at Age thirty it’s called Killers.

Ralph Barbosa, a lot of buzz on him, Paris Sashey, Mike Vechio and Michael Longfellow, Lori Kilmartin, Josh Adam Myers, David Nihill, Jordan Jensen, Daniel Van Kirktt, Tone Bill, Maria Bamford’s a headliner at the state Side at nine thirty, Big Jokerson the headliner at state Side at eleven thirty. And guess what, It’s the last day on Sunday for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I’m gonna miss doing that, especially because they have clips. William Wang show is called favorite Only Child. Promotis said the show it was great, very enjoyable and funny from beginning to end.

Highly recommended. Let’s listen from China. I don’t like to tell people that anymore, you know, because the news I went to a job where you where are you from? It depends do you like Sushio squame straightforward? But it’s funny, right, fantastic.

I gotta tell you behind the scenes. I just went through five six clips and I don’t know these performers. I’m not an expert in all things of stranding comedy and everything. I clicked on was a sketch where pre produced package. I could not find any more stand up.

So I think we’ve reached the end of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I did enjoy it. I hope you did too. The BBC has confirmed the dates of the Cardiff Comedy Festival. This one’s coming up May twenty four to the twenty sixth.

This one’s a little different. It’s a more i’ll call it industry. The BBC Comedy Festival is described as a chance for producers both establish a new and those taking their first steps in the TV industry to come and reflect, celebrate and explore comedy in the UK. There’ll be a bunch of panels and events open up for the public and the tickets are free. So we’ll keep an eye on the Cardiff Comedy Festival.

And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube, where you get your shows See tomorrow. Once in a Generation, I knew you. British Royal Dynasty Taste Shape. I am Ent Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get over news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the palace, from Harry and Meghan in California to Kayton William in the UK, along with King Charles, Queen Camilla and Prince Andrew and the whole cost of characters.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Joe Rogan, Janelle James, Dave Chappelle, Ray Romano, Brett Goldstein, Will Ferrell, Sarah Sherman, Meghan Statler, Patty Harrison

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s story about Joe Rogan trying to befriend him
• Janelle James criticizes Dave Chappelle’s recent special as boring
• The Daily Show announces rotating host lineup for May 22 episode
• Ray Romano’s new film Somewhere in Queens
• Brett Goldstein discusses becoming a sex symbol from Ted Lasso
• Will Ferrell developing TV show about professional golfer in rival golf league
• Live Nude Girls comedy tour kicks off at Moonsun Comedy Festival

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The Shark Deck. Let make attention getting headline. Bert Graisher thought Joe Rogan was gay. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s unpack this.

Graisher was on Logan Paul’s podcast, and I’ve pulled some audio here so you can hear Bert’s tune. But Bert said he didn’t intend to become friends with Joe Rogan. First, quoting Burt Graisher, I had a bad running with the dude. I didn’t want any friends. I was like, I’m good.

Grasher said he got a phone call from Rogan. Graisher was sitting down and watch Game of Thrones. Rogan calls and he goes, what are you doing. Bert says, I’m just hanging out, and Rogan says, come to the ice house. We do some of the podcast.

I’m getting ready to go on stage. And Rogan comes up with two shots of Jack Daniels and two beers and he goes, hey, man, we’re trying really hard to be your friend, but you’re not letting us. And he’s like, we like you and you’re a good guy, and we’re not gonna hurt you, like, we won’t let you down. We’ll always be here for you. But you gotta let us be your friend, and you gotta trust that we won’t hurt you.

It said. He was suspicious. It is horrible to say, but when Joe wanted to be friends with me, I was just like, oh, he must be gay, Like like, why would you want to be friends with another man?

And then he added Joe Rogan never tried to kiss him once.

Janelle James has called Dave Chappelle’s most recent special boring. She told Variety, the last I watched of his was when he came out with all the specials at once. Variety wasn’t sure what she meant there. They think it’s when he released four different specials over the course of twenty seventeen on Netflix. But Janelle James said, regardless of what he said, I thought it was boring.

I like silly Chappelle. He’s in his wisdom bag. Now. We’re clowns. Once we forget that we’re clowns, and then it becomes bad.

Your objective is to make people laugh and then sneak your thoughts in underneath the jokes. If your thoughts are on top, that’s not funny or entertaining to me. All right, Daily Show, it’s time to pick a host. Here’s what they’re doing the week of May twenty second, who’s hosting the Daily Show’s news team. They’ll all host quote as a collective, is how they’re spinning this in the press release.

So it’ll be roy Wood Junior, D’ll say, Sloane, Ronny Chieng and the others. They’re all hosting. However that works now to me, this sounds like they had somebody and somebody pulled out. And I say that because the week before, week of May fifteenth, they announce Charlotte Mean the God will host then May twenty second, and the two slot is you know, hey, let’s let everybody host because we don’t really have anyone. That’s a little weird to me.

They’ll be Dark of the week of Memorial Day than Michelle Wolf hosts week of June five, Ronny Chieng week of June twelfth, Lewis Black week of June twentieth, and Jesus Nice week of June twenty sixth. Just pick somebody, already, Just pick Hasan Minhaj already, Just pick Roywood Junior, already, Just pick Chelsea Handler already. Ray Romano has a new movie out today. It’s called Somewhere in Queens. In Somewhere in Queens, things go awry when Mary dad Leo, played by Ray Romano, becomes hell bent on making sure his teenage son Sticks gets a basketball scholarship.

How old is Ray Romano now? Ray sixty five, stretching there a little bit that his son is in high school. No yes. In real life, Ray has a son, Joseph, who’s twenty five, played high school hoops. Ray had nice things to say about his wife.

He said, I’ve been married to her for thirty five years and I’ve been in the business for just about that long, so she’s supportive, but she’s not on top of it as my kids are. He says he’s careful what he shares about his family and says I never do it at their expense. His kids have never pushed back on what to include. My wife on occasion when the TV show was on, would have an argument and she turned and say, I don’t want to see this on the show, and I would say, we already did that episode. That’s really funny.

Somewhere in Queens playing in theaters now. It also co stars Sebastian Maniscalco. Variety asked Brett Goldstein you know him from ted Lasso. Roy Kent, yes him, Yes. They asked him how he feels about becoming a sex symbol, and he said, this’s the first I’ve heard of it.

He adds up, flattered. You’re telling me this, and I’ll expect you to address me as sexy Brett Goldstein for now. On how I feel about becoming sex symbol, I don’t know you can say. He blushes, looks confused, his head explodes. If that’s a thing that has nothing to do with me, that has to do with the show, right because of the character.

Maybe it’s hairy men. I seem to be the only person in La in the last fifteen years to us body here. Maybe that’s a thing like whoa, what’s this? This is new? Brett says, I really love playing Roy Kent.

People always say you don’t see angry in real life, and I’m always like, but I’m effing angry, and maybe that’s part of me that gets to process it through Roy. He rejects the notion that ted Lasso should quit before it turns to garbage, and he says, no, it wouldn’t get garbage because it’s a really good effing group of people care about it. Jason’s an effing genius. No way would make something crap because why would we suddenly be crap, like, oh, maybe it would go downhill. Why have we suddenly all got crap at our jobs?

Case you didn’t pick it up there. He curses a lot in real life too, and I had to clean it up. Will Ferrell will have a new TV show eventually. It’s in development now. I believe he will star in it as a professional golfer who becomes the face of a controversial new league competing with the PGA.

If you are a premium subscriber to Daily Comedy News, you already have the weekend episodes. That’s one of the benefits for signing up as a premium subscriber at Apple podcast O. Put up your purple podcast app and they’ll be like, hey, premium subscription. You could be like, try it out for a month. It’s free for a month, and then if you like it, you get the episodes ad free and a little bit early.

By a little bit early, that’s usually around four pm Eastern, the day before official release, and the weekend episodes are usually up on Friday morning, and it’s five bucks a month, and it’s a nice frictionless way to support the show, because you’ll set it and forget it, and then I’ll get five dollars minus apples cut once a month, and I appreciate it. Tonight at the Moonsur Comedy Festival, Live Nude Girls, Wait, What’s this? Last fall, comedians Sarah Sherman, Meghan Statler, and Patty Harrison decided on a whim to do a Halloween theme show together. This story from My San Antonio. They didn’t really have time to write materials, so they grabbed a bunch of costumes and mostly winged it.

Statler said it went so well that we were like, if we actually plan to get cool things together, maybe we have to do it. So tonight the Live Nude Girls tour kicks off at the Paramount Theater.

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Also today, a ton of shows.

I won’t read them all, but here’s one at eleven am, The Sclar Brothers six o’clock at the Creek in the Cave. Jfl’s New Faces. I didn’t realize they were doing a New Faces at Moontower. Very very interesting. I had no idea about that.

Hmmm. I have clicked on the link. No news as to who the new Faces are very interesting. Maria Bamford’s a headliner at state Side at seven, the wonderfully titled We Are Having Gay Sex is the Creek in the Cave At eight, Ashley Gavin, Mattie Weener Eesa Medina and Monet x Change. Bobby Kelly’s your headliner at the state Side at nine thirty.

Break in the Cave ten o’clock. Big Jay Okerson hosts What’s Your Effing Deal? Justin Silver Ian Bag Joe List not a bad night there. Let’s see what’s happening at Nashville. Solid night there with Nick Schwartzon playing the War Memorial Auditorium at seven, Miss Pat at seven at Zani’s, David Spade at the Rhyman at eight, and Ali Sadiq at Zany’s at nine thirty.

And don’t forget the Milbourne International Comedy Festival. Nicky Britten show is called Getting Out in front of It. Let’s listen. I read an article recently that apparently living a is worse for your health than smoking. I thought I was being healthy my whole life abstaining from smoking.

What an idiot, because I’ve also lived by myself for the last ten years, and apparently on balance I’m worse off good. I should have been sucking on the sigies the whole time, honkin on the vipes. Should have run my mouth around a meth pope. At least i’d have a sense of community. I’d be adding years, losing teeth, but adding years.

So that was a little rough, and I let it go along looking for a laugh there. I’ll remind you, I’m not picking the clips. These are the clips that are being spotlighted on the website. So sorry, Nicky Britten, Yeah, move on from sixth Tone. A female Chinese comedian has received mixed reviews online after videos of her sharing her experience of a sexually transmitted infection during a set continue to attract attention.

She goes by the stage name Manga with two g’s in there, and she described as she was infected with HPV virus. Some have labeled her indecent for openly sharing about her sex life. Manga said, I’m scared to read comments from the audience because I know there will definitely be some slut shaming. But I won’t stop my stand up comedy because if all those malicious attacks, this is about me. This is what I want to talk about.

The Windsors. That’s a sitcom on Channel four in the UK. It’s returning for a fourth season. Harry Enfield or Prize’s role as King Charles. They haven’t started filming yet.

They were beginning to work on it and then Queen Elizabeth passed away and then they thought, hm, we should probably regroup here. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow Polace Intrigue wherever you get your shows. Follow Daily Comedy News wherever you get your shows in those places include Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Wherever you get your shows.

See you tomorrow. Once in the Generation I knew you. British Royal Dynasty Taste Shape. I am Ent Francis, host of Palace Intrigue at daily podcast about the Royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside ad and outside the Palace. From Harry and Meghan in California to Cayton William in the UK, along with King Charles, Quinkermiller, Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Divine, Nate Bargatze, Harry Connick Jr., Alex Borstein, Bill Burr, Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Rory Scovel, James Corden

What’s in This Episode

• Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems settle for $787.5 million
• John Mulaney releases trailer for Netflix special ‘Baby J’ dropping April 25
• Adam Divine discusses marijuana as a creative tool for comedians
• Nate Bargatze sells out Bridgestone Arena with 19,365 attendees
• Harry Connick Jr. releases comedy special on YouTube to avoid waiting periods
• Alex Borstein releases new special ‘Corsets and Clown Suits’ on Amazon Prime
• Bill Burr returns to directing with ‘Good Fortune’ film co-starring Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves
• Rory Scovel announces ‘The Last Tour’ following his Netflix special release
• James Corden’s final week hosting The Late Late Show

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The shark deck if you see dominion voting systems and Fox News settled for seven hundred and eighty seven and a half million dollars to avoid a trial. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I love Jimmy Fallon’s joke. You could tell Fox was stressed about the trial because they spent the day chugging bud Light. Jimmy Kimmel said, it’s gonna take a lot of reverse mortgage ads to pay that one off.

Kimbell again. Immediately after the settlement, Fox issued a statement that said, this settlement reflects Fox’s commitment to the highest journalistic standards. They’re already lying in their statement about lying. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, Netflix, April twenty five, That’s what Tuesday Johnny Mac checks his calendar technology. Yes, Tuesday Mullaney put out a very very short trailer.

Let’s listen and as you process and digest how obnoxious, wasteful, and unlikable that story is, just remember that’s one I’m willing to tell you. Using my calendar technology, I have divine that today is four twenty, so I have to do something about getting high, right. That’s what we do all right high time spoke to Adam Divine, you know him from Workaholics, and I asked, Adam Divine, what role does getting high lay for you creatively in your life and in general? Adam Divine said, I feel like of all the guys, I probably was the biggest owner. It’s a real battle of royale between me and Kyle for that title.

Nowadays, you could use marijuana as a creative tool, but you just have to know yourself. You have to know how much is too much and how it affects you as a person. It’s the kind of thing that is a tool in your two belt, but it won’t make an unfunny person funny or a non talented person talented. If you don’t have the goods to begin with, it won’t help you. But it can be used as a tool to freepe your mind.

Every once in a while, if you can’t crack a story, you’re working on a video that you can’t get just right, you’re able to tweak it by smoking a little bit you think about it. You’re free your mind. You’re not married to what you’ve already written and what you’ve already worked on, and you’re able to work on the problem from a different point of view. That’s how I viewed marijuana, and I think it’s helped me along the way. Gratulations to Nate Burgatsy.

He seld out the Bridgestone Arena set a new record. Nineteen thousand, three hundred and sixty five people attended his show on April fifteenth. Thank you, dr for putting this story under my nose, Nate said, My first visit to Bridgetone was to watch a Nashville Cats Arita football game. When I start a comedy, I’d find myself daydreaming about coming home to play Bridgetone, but never really think about it. Let’s take a while for me to wrap my head around this.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Did you watch Harry Konaboloo special on YouTube? Yet? I liked it a lot. The La Times caught up with Harry, and apparently Harry perhaps for every stand up performance the same way.

He drinks lots of water and then he peas and then he paces. He said, it’s the same thing over and over. And I think there’s a comfort in that I’ve been doing this twenty years and I’m still absolutely in mess until I go on, all right, why’d you put your special on YouTube. Hary said, I feel like it just got sick of a waiting with comedy specials. As a handful of people at a certain level who can say I want to make this a special, then one of the streamers and the networks makes it because it’s good business.

There was this era where corporations were really investing in stand up and it feels like we’re starting I see a decrease in that. Again, is maybe there are fewer streamers and things are consolidating as the industries and flux right now in a lot of ways, I’ll jump in I’m going to comment on about that. In the second half, the money was just ridiculous, all right, Just remember that point. Let’s get back to hurry. The idea of waiting some indefinite period of release material just didn’t sit well with me.

I do stand up because I like to record hours. That’s a fundamental part of the job for me. I don’t feel like I’m developing unless a new hour comes out and I clean the slate and start fresh with the next one. And I started seeing all these other comics start to release their specials on YouTube, which really initially didn’t sit well with me. Because it means you as a comic or taking the financial risk, you’re gambling and saying I’m betting on myself and stand up as a lot of that.

Already it’s a lot of risk, and now we have to make it ourselves as well. But at the same point, I’m like, ah, this is freedom. So instead of waiting on an industry stamp to say you can make this, it’s betting on yourself and saying I trust my instincts, I trust the people that like me, and I feel like more people will like me if they see this. Whether I’ll go for it again is dependent on how this does. But I’m definitely proud of this hour.

I think it’s smart. I think it’s unique. I think it’s a personal and creative progression. Alex Borstein apparently has a new special on Amazon Prime. It’s called Corsets and clown Suits.

I didn’t even know this was coming. It’s out if you want to watch it, I haven’t seen it yet. Primetime reviewed it and said, about half an hour into her Prime video comedy special Corsets and clown Suits, Alex Bornstein tells us exactly how to watch it, standing in front of a live audience. Wearing a glittery checkerboard skirt and shoes with red pomp poms on the toes, she goes off on a barely coherent tangent about the reason the word divorcee has too ease. At the end, catching herself, she strokes and says, I don’t know, I just made that up, you know, making all this up.

Then she takes it beat and laughs and says, be your tickets were free? Who gives a hoot? Flanked by a pair of musicians, a sign language interpreter, and occasionally a burlesque dancer, she talks about a recent divorce in her general frustration with the way women are expected to behave. She makes crewe jokes that are sometimes directed at her parents sitting a few feet away. She sings covers of David Bowie and Ricky Martin tunes, and she belts out original numbers, including one gleefully inappropriate ditty about Hitler’s maid.

It’s an enthusiastic, chaotic jumble. The messiness is part of the fun. That sounds like fun as he’sn’t sorry, remember he was canceled for a little bit. He is out of comedy jail. I think he has a new movie he will star in and direct, good Fortune.

It’s his second attempt to be a director. The first time he was directing Being Mortal, and Net production was suspended over complaints about Bill Murray’s inappropriate behavior on sets. We don’t know what Good Fortune is about, but it will co star Seth Rogan and Kanu Reeves. A variety reminds everyone, I’m sorry. A comedian who rose to fame on parks and recreation, took a break from Hollywood after sexual misconduct allegations were leveled against him in twenty eighteen.

Rory Scovel is at the Wilber Theater in Boston tonight. He spoke to Vanya Land and the name of his tour is the Last Tour. Rory says, There’s something I love about how dramatic that sounds. Whether this is truly the last tour or not, but even on the comedic side of it, calling my Netflix special, Rory Scovel dostand up for the first time, It’s pretty funny to have the very next full tour be the last tour, because it sounds like the shortest career ever. Look at me.

You can actually hear the ice today huh. You like how this sounds, Buy me another one, and buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. James Cordon, he’s got a week to go. I don’t know if there’s gonna be a big hoop to do about it. I’m sure the bigger trades like Variety in a Hollow Reporter will do big fluff job pieces about James Cordon, but I’m not sure the rank and file civilian cares all that much.

James Cordon has the guests for the final Late Late Show. Again, it’s not just Cordon’s finale, it’s the show’s finale because they’re not going forward with it. They’re gonna put on game shows or something. I don’t even know what the plan is for two weeks from now. What CBS is even putting on I guess reruns till they figure it out.

His final guests will be Harry Styles and Will Ferrell. Let’s stop off at gossip Corner now. Yesterday I mentioned the story about Bill Hayter, who’s out promoting Barry and Carol Burnet, who’s got a special next week. Well, why do you know from page six Bill Hayder is dating Ali Wong and she happens to be promoting beef. Isn’t that weird?

Now mentioned his quote girlfriend in an interview but didn’t name her. But luckily the publicist whose job is to publicize Bill Hayter, it’s ald the press that, yeah, the girlfriend is Ali Wong, who, by the way, is promoting a show on Netflix. Funny how that happens? All right. In the first half of the podcast, I commented about money Yahoo wrote about Ali Wang and said it’s not clear how much she made from each special, but in twenty nineteen, HBO Max and Netflix entered a bidding war for her latest two specials.

HBO Max reportedly offered an amount quote north of ten million dollars for the specials. That’s crazy money, Like, how do you make your money back on that? Now I’m familiar with how money works from explaining to people how to Howard sterndeal made sense for series XM. So Netflix is what fifteen bucks? So if a million people sign up for Ali Wong, that’s fifteen million dollars in a month.

I mean, I guess it makes sense. I don’t know if a million people are signing up, but we could divide that to one hundred thousand and hope they stick around for ten months. Maybe north of ten million makes sense, but boy, that’s a lot of money, huh. Chanting protesters have turned up at a gig of a comedian who joked about the Dalai Lama’s interaction with a child to buckle your seat belts. Sourcing here from the Daily Mail and seven News Australia.

So there was a crowd of about one hundred and fifty who surrounded the entrance of the Rubber Chicken comedy pub in Melbourne to protest Lewis Spears. Apparently mister Spears had performed what’s being described as a crude stand up routine making fun of the Dalai Lama. I’ll tell you why in a second. I’ve tried to find the actual jokes, not just the audio of it, even a transcript of it. I don’t know exactly what mister Spears said what led to the jokes was.

Apparently the Dalai Lama has issued an apology after footage went viral of him asking a young boy to quote, suck my tongue. All right, stay with me, Stay with me, Stay with me. A statement posted to the Dalai Lama’s Twitter account said a video clip has been circulating. The shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked his holiness, the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug. His Holiness off and teases people he meets in an innocent, playful way, even in public and before cameras.

He regrets the incident. All I know about spears set is he made multiple jokes about pedophilia. The Canberra Tibetan community said, while we fully appreciate what comedians do, we find mister spears take on the recent incident involving his holiness dishonest, purposely misrepsenting actual facts, disrespectful, and in port’s haste. We request mister Spears either not be featured at the festival, or at the very least be directed not to include defamatory and derogatory and material about his holiness in his set. Spears tweeted and said he would not be intimidated and would not cancel his show.

He said, the followers of the Dalai Lama know the consequences of restricted speech better than just about anybody else on earth. You’re free to worship you like in a free country, just as I’m allowed to joke about whoever for whatever reason. Sorry, but I walk through hell to do these shows. I won’t be stopping over a protest. I’m going to fly through a bunch of reviews here for the Milbourne International Comedy Festival.

These have been backing up the podcast have been a little longer than usual lately, and the festival is almost over, so I want to get these in Artsub gave Kitty Flanagan Live five stars and wrote Flanagan his back while the stand up show that is acute observational humor, superb timing and consummate stagecraft, brilliantly funny. She barely lets up for the entire run of the show, with only a few carefully orchestrated commerments to give the audience time to catch his breath. She really is that good and she could sing the age. Gave three stars to be Barbo Skirla’s show called a House. They write with the kind of content warnings that would make a cigarette pack wins.

That’s a great line. This isn’t the field good show of the fest. Right out of the gate, be Barbow Skirla lets us know she’ll be dragging us laughing and or screaming into the deep end. Of the comedy pool. Thankfully she has the chops to keep us afloat.

Her hour puts her family in a crosshairs, teasing out the ways in which intergenerational trauma and denial lets angst written teen years and serious adult therapy. Somehow she squeezes big glass from all this, getting nigged by your mom, growing up at a yelling household, the horrowing ordeal of reading your real diaries. It’s heavy stuff, but served up with a winningly light touch. Dan Smith’s shows called Nipples four Stars, The Age Rights. Dan Smith invites heckling, then handles it with grace and wit.

They joke about the trials of a Vegas wedding, staying friends with X’s, and pondering if therapy’s worth it, admissed hordes of relatable tales, talking about the show’s title, which is Nipples in case you forgot, and a random moment of brain crashing. There’s a fair whack of heckling, But is it heckling if the comedian urges the audience to get involved from the outset, sharp and funny, is this show better than therapy? Yep? The Age went and saw Sam C’s government approve sex. Did you know?

A few years back, Sam C was invited by the Singaporean government’s a host a series of public panels demystifying sex. I didn’t know that either. If you did, you win Today’s Daily Comedy News. My name is Sam C. I am a millennial comedian.

I know something, Oh millennials, if your avocados and your Instagram, I don’t really cab all those things follow me on Instagram. There’s a big stereotype, you say, like especially I am a millennial comedian. They say like, oh, you guys just want to make a lot of money and give nothing back to society. And I like to dispel that that falsehood. But I am a hot walking comedian seven years in the Singapore colmedy scene.

Not only do I do nothing for society, I also do not make any money. He says, it’s no surprise Sam C scored the gig. He boasts Jimmy Corus swagger and Jimminy cricket warmth. I love that you trust him, which is essential for a show roaming from romance to kink. The cultural differences in dirty Talk and the Worrying reason dres killed off its global sex survey four stars for that one.

Also four stars Blake Pavey. He may not live beyond the age of forty five, but he doesn’t want your pity. He just wants to make you laugh. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, which is a terminal respiratory illness that mostly affects the lungs and digestive system. He was diagnosed when he was just six weeks old.

Twenty one years later, he’s named his comedy tour literally Dying. I try to pull a clip, but he curses like twice a sentence, and it wasn’t going to be able to make it work. And Canila, it wasn’t that good. One more from The Age. They gave three stars to Larry Dean, skirting sheepistly around mental health.

His therapist says, feel your feelings and the Age rights. You can’t help wishing it. Follow her advice instead of always distracting with something silly. Hung on an over long and not very interesting airport search drama. At least the constant interjections allow a breather.

But when Dean finally coalesces on an emotional tribute to those who lift us up when we need it most, you can feel a much stronger show waiting in the wings. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow a 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.

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Featured: Scott Aukerman, Joe Rogan, Big Jay Oakerson, Bill Hader, Pete Davidson, Ben Schwartz, Fortune Feamster

What’s in This Episode

• Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang Bang podcast book with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Weird Al, and Patton Oswalt
• Joe Rogan’s new snake-carved coffee table at Comedy Mothership green room
• Big Jay Oakerson’s special filmed at Skankfest with over 500k YouTube views
• Bill Hader and Carol Burnett discover they’re related through PBS Finding Your Roots
• Pete Davidson’s new Peacock sitcom Bupkis premiering May 4th
• Ben Schwartz’s journey from UCB dog’s body to Parks and Recreation star
• Fortune Feamster’s upcoming Netflix project Foo Bar with Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Scott Ackerman. You know him. He’s the host of Comedy Bang Bang. He told The Wall Street Journal.

I always truly thought podcasting is the future of the comedy industry. Podcasting can be transformative in terms of an audience discovering your work. It’s all very surprising that it’s worked out financially. That was never the point. He’s out pushing Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast of the book, a coffee table book with introductions and forwards by Linmannuel, Miranda weird Al, and Patton Oswalt.

Nearly forty comedians, including Andy Sandberg and Paul F. Tompkins, have bits in the book. One of the topics simple exercises you can do at home with machetes. Joe Rogan was on Instagram. He showed off the latest addition to his comedy club.

It’s a coffee table with a three D an a conduct carved into it. Sure why not? In the caption, Rogan said, one of the coolest things about the Internet is being able to discover amazing artists. Scott Dao created this insane coffee table for us for the Comedy Mothership. Green room.

I effing love it. The laugh button caught up with Big Jay Okerson the topic writing his latest special, and he said, Quarantine happened.

And then what happened was I never really write any jokes down.

I never watched myself or film it or anything. But I worked so much that I always have it ready to go and how it goes. I didn’t even think about how those three months of nothing, no stand up would affect that. So when I came back, I kind of had to learn it all over again, which was its own interesting process.

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And then the temperature of everything changed.

Quarantine me two stuff and Black Lives Matter happened, and essentially Netflix and all those companies were like, oh, an unknown, straight white guy, good luck with that. The door wasn’t really open anymore, at least anytime soon. So I got dejected by that, and I thought, damn, nobody wants to do this at all. Then Ari Shaffier suggests that I do it myself. I was going to do it in Philly at the TLA, but they priced me out.

It was too expensive. It would have added almost six figures on the special cost already, which is all mine. So then I was dejected and thinking, oh, I can’t even do it in Philly the way I want to do it. Then David Tell suggested doing it at Skankfest. One of the interesting things is we did it in the afternoon.

It was two shows in the afternoon. We shot versus the night time for a lot of reasons, scheduling and all kinds of things like that. If I was doing it it just for laughs or moontower or something like that, I don’t know if we would feel the same festival energy from our festival because it was just diehards. All right, Big Jay Okerson, what’s the reaction so far about your special? And he says, you know what’s funny anything else I’ve ever done, whether it’s Comedy Central and Netflix or somewhere else.

Your only feedback of how many people are seeing it’s through a loose idea of how many Instagram followers should pick up and comments from people you already have. You kind of get a gauge that it’s doing well or people are watching it for a while. YouTube is interesting because it tells you every single person that watches it it’s doing well. Right now, over half a million and a day and a half. I think that’s a good trajectory.

Yeah, man, congrats, Jay said, I’ve done all the press I can to support it. I’ve had a big hand in editing it and all that stuff. It was so difficult to keep watching and enjoying and hoping it’s good. So it’s great now that it’s out there and you see the good feedback, because at the time I was done, I was like, this thing is a piece of stuff because I had seen it seven thousand times. Next week, Carol Burnett turns ninety.

We’re gonna start seeing a lot of Carol Burnett press. Related to that, Bill Hayder told a story. So before I tell you the story, Bill Hayter is motivated to promote Barry season four. Carol Burnett, who’s turning ninety, is motivated to promote the Carol Burnett’s special on I think it’s on NBC next week. So when I read this story and it happens to come out now, I’m like, uh huh, yep, right, yup, uh huh.

Right. As the story goes, Carol Burnett was on that PBS show Finding Your Roots, and Bill Hayter said, Carol Burnett emailed me. She emailed me and said, hey, we’re related, and I went what And Johnny Max said, wow. Carol Burnett, who’s promoting a new special, is related to Bill Hayter, who’s promoting season fourth Barry. That’s weird.

Bill Hayter said, I tell my kids, I’m like, we’re related to miss Hannigan. They were like, ah. Hayter said, We’ve been texting and emailing and stuff, so that’s been really exciting. I hope I can like have dinner with her. Pete Davidson also making the rounds.

He’s got a new sitcom, so suddenly he’s answering big good questions. You can listen to yesterday’s episode for that answer. Vulture says buck Gis seems like Pete Davidson’s version of a Zach Braff movie, a little artsy, a lot self reflective, people shouting at the heavens, crying, hugging, and sticking their heads out of a sunroof. The trailer opens with Pete David’s saying I googled myself and scrolling through some real, not so nice things that have been said on the Internet about him. He tries to get wisdom from older people he respects, like Joe Peshi and Bobby kind of alley.

He gets roasted by other older people he respects David tell says Davidson, I’ve got a weekend update for you. You suck. A girl in a card tells him you run away from people who love you and rain falls outside. Pete said he picked up up guests because it’s Yiddish for goose egg zilchnada, and he says the word looks cool like on a T shirt. Bup giests will be out on Peacock May fourth.

The cast Pete Davidson, Edi Falco plays his mom. Joe Peshi plays his dad. Guest stars include Charlie Day, Chase Sweet Wonders, Simon rex Keenan Thompson and Ray Romano and Brad Garrett. Going to be talking about them a lot in the upcoming days. The Guardian caught up with Ben Schwartz.

He started out as a dog’s body at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, paying with his labor for access to the work of Amy Pollard and company. I am unfamiliar with the term dog’s body. Apparently it is a British term for a person news given boring menial tasks to do. That makes sense Originally, in the British Royal Navy, a dog’s body was a semi sarcastic colloquialism for a junior officer or a midshipman. Ben Schwartz told The Guardian, since the beginning, I’m always like, I’m gonna find a way to do this.

I tried everything. I freelanced writing for David Letterman, I freelanced for SNL, I did commercials, I tried stand up. I tried everything, hoping something would stick and I could be in the industry I loved. At age twenty nine, he got Parks and Wreck, but that did not break his bond with improv. He says, anytime you tell people I do improv, their only reference is their friends class shows at college, and my class shows were horrific.

I didn’t know what I was doing. So I think people’s perception is based on watching performers starting out who haven’t put the hours in. They have nothing to point to, like a special from anybody, to say, look, how good this could be. Fortune Feamster talked to al dot com al As in Alabama. No, it’s not my friend Alic’s website, it’s an Alabama news site.

Fortune says, I’m in that weird exact space between millennial and gen x. I don’t even know what the word is. I feel like everything has a word. I’m not like a full gen xer, and I’m definitely not a full millennial. So we have a little bit to draw from.

In her youth, she was a misfit Southern tomboy. She came out as a lesbian at age twenty five. She said, be quite a few years before I realized I was gay, which is bunkers because I’ve had this haircut since I was five years old. My hair knew I was gay. I didn’t.

She’s got an upcoming project with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who did you think I was gonna say? It’s called foo Bar. That’ll be on Netflix May twenty fifth. It’s an eight episode TV series.

Fortune plays a CIA agent that’s unexpected, And hey, Bill Lawrence, why don’t you reboot Scrubs? Come on, man, let’s do it. Haven’t you come close to rebooting Scrubs? Bill Lawrence said, yeah, bunch, here’s the thing. Everybody on that show was killing it today.

Now send him out. Isn’t that true? Because JD and Turk are doing a podcast the podcast does well and they’re in like one commercial with John Travolta. Are they killing it? What’s Sarah Chawk up to?

We’re not making any Rick and Mortis anytime soon. Judy Rais did three seasons on Devious Maids. Neil Flynn the Janitor, Well, he’s probably got crazy sitcom money now, but I’m sure he would do it. He likes to work, and you would need doctor cox on see McGinley. What’s McGinley up to?

While I’m googling him? And his biggest credit is Scrubs, so he hasn’t done too much since twenty ten. Bill Lawrence, I respectfully disagree they’re not killing it. I think they’ll take your call. Bill said, here’s the thing.

Everybody on the show’s killing it well discussed, so I think we’d all have to have the excuse to spend time with each other. But no one’s in dire need of work, and we see each other anyway. If we ever come up without idea that would be fun to revisit, we’ll do it just for the hang of it. But I reached a point on that show and maybe I stayed too long. But by the sixty year, the writers would be like, what should doctor Cox’s rerunt be?

And I’m like, why does he have to be mad every week? Who cares what he’s mad at? My God? So nostalgically it’d be fun to revisit. The idea of doing it as a series is a bit of a bummer to me.

Dudes, get that thing on the air now. If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Coming to News because you hear this coffee. This coffee is now twenty eight hours old, John, Dad, you record Wednesday’s podcast early because you had to actually work on Tuesday. No, what makes you think that? I just have had this coffee sitting around for a day and a half and it’s it’s not really cold anymore.

So if you’d like to buy me a coffee, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Throw five bucks on the tip jar, I’ll take your money. I will go to the National Donuts chain. I’ll use the app. I won’t even talk to any humans, and I’ll just grab my cup and get back in my car.

No forget, if we get two hundred dollars, I’ll say nice things about Adam Sandler details that buy mec Coffee dot Com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s see who’s at the festivals? Got my bookmarks open. It’s like I recorded two episodes back to back. You know.

Today, of course, is Wednesday at Nashville, Dusty Slay’s Grand Old Comedy Show Zany’s six o’clock. I would absolutely be there for Dusty though, because it’s six thirty. It’s the Zany’s fortieth Anniversary Comedy All Stars, but that’s at the Rheman. So all the all Stars went over to the Rheman and you’ll left Dusty Slay there. I would go see Dusty Slay.

Who’s on the All Stars? John? I don’t know. The website won’t tell me. Seven o’clock Gigli Squad with Hannah Burner and Paige Desorbos at the War Memorial Auditorium, Leanne Morgan, seven thirty at the Opery House, Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly Zany’s nine fifteen.

All right, that’s pretty easy. We go to Zany’s, we see Dusty Slay, we grab a beer or whatever, and we just stay at Zeni’s and see Big Jay and Bobby Kelly. All right, that works.

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Meanwhile on a Wednesday night in Austin.

Six o’clock show, The Creek and the Cave is called Cheers Queer as Brandy Davis, Guy Brenham, Ashley Gavin, Molly Kearney, Alex English, Lias A. Trigger and some others. That sounds fun. Seven o’clock at the Stateside Theater, Maria Bamford, seven o’clock at the Paramount, Howie Mandel, seven o’clock stores in Bars at Antonesd’ll say Sloane, Adam Ray, Jeremiah Watkins, Tone Bell, Brad Williams and some others. That’s a good show.

Moontower has kicked in big time. Huh. Parker Jazz Club seven o’clock to Hill Liist, Mike Veckione, Molly Kearney again, Devin Walker, John Rudnitsky. He’s really funny. Remember he was on Saturday Night Live for about eight minutes.

But he’s funny. Home Base at the home Base at seven thirty, bunch in they don’t recognize. Let’s skip down a bunch Stateside Theater, nine thirty. Brad Williams. Yeah, all right.

If we were in Austin tonight, I would say we’d do hm. I feel like you could see Bamford all the time. Let’s do how he meant Deel at seven, Brad Williams at nine thirty has that sound. And let’s see what’s going on at Melbourne. Jeff Green’s show is called Back to My Roots.

The Herald’s son says, one of the greats of pure laugh out loud comedy.

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All right, let’s listen.

Lovely to be in the beautiful city of Melbourne with the trams and your bipolar weather, because I love the anonymies are anomalies of Australia, because austral is a dichotomy. Yeah. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds impressive when you say it. Australia is a dichotomy. What do you mean, I’m leaving now, No tell us what you mean.

Because your lovely, warm hearted, kind people. Then you get into your cars you become fire breathing, psychopathic maniacs. I’m terrified driving in Australia. My friend says, in Germany they drive as fast as they want on the Autobahn. We should have that in Australia, said no, no, I shouldn’t.

You see the Germans drive very expensive cars with robotic precision. That’s how it works in Australia. You descended from manglows and celts, with a few Asians and Mediterraneans thrown in the consequences which the roads are a cauldron of chaos. No bad, right, solid enough, nothing remarkable there, but that’s fun. Alex Ward’s show is called Saving for a jet Pack.

The description no children, no house, no problems. The age, said Wards, trajectory is spiraling vertically. That’s a fascinating description. Okay, alex Ward, what do you got for us? I was walking down the street the other day and this lady passed me.

She was wearing a rainbow badge and on it it said Ally. I had two thoughts. The first was well, that’s nice, But then I had a second, way louder thought, which was, Wold, she really wants everyone to know she’s not the gay one, because if she wanted to be supportive, she could have just had the rainbow and said she’s made sure she’s got the one that says Ally, So she could be like, yeah, good on him, but not me. I’m not one of them, friend of no, but I’m part of the queer community. We need the support, so please get a badge, get one, although I’ve never seen that badge for sale, Like, I think she made that batch and you’re going to have to make one too.

Just buy the rainbow one and get a marker and you can just ride on it ally or something else more fun. That means the same thing like no homo will also work. All right? So was that the funniest minute you’ve ever heard? No?

I loved her though. I was totally in on that story, and I want to watch the rest of the clip. I was really entertained. So that’s eight. I’m a bit of a comedy snab here, and this is when you get into the people who come out and just knock down pins within five seconds with something a little shocking.

I found her to be a good storyteller. It’s Alex Ward. I’m very interested there. That was I’d like that first minute a lot. That’s your comedy news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No? All right?

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Stephen Colbert, James Cordon, Harry Connick Jr., Mark Marin, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Mini Driver, Mandela Jahava, Kathy Griffin, Artie Lange, Lil Dickie

What’s in This Episode

• FBI arrests 21-year-old Air National Guardsman for leaking classified documents
• Pete Davidson addresses questions about his body on Charlotte Magne show
• Harry Connick Jr. releases new special ‘Vacation Baby’ on YouTube
• Mark Marin discusses his special ‘From Bleak to Dark’ about loss
• Peep Show being remade for American audiences with female leads
• FX’s Dave season three premiere
• Kathy Griffin diagnosed with complex PTSD
• Artie Lange selling New Jersey home, website shut down

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m sure you heard that the FBI arrested a twenty one year old Massachusetts Air National guardsman in connection with leaking classified documents. Enough set up there, John, get to it, James Gordon said. The leaguer is described as a lonely young man who is part of a chat room group that shares a love of guns and military gear.

You know how sometimes you find yourself going it’s always who you least suspect. This isn’t one of those times, Colbert said. The suspect was taken into custody in Massachusetts, where just moments before, he was seen from a helicopter reading a book on his porch. That book Solitary Confinement for Dummies. Colbert again, Now, for those taking classified documents home, you could face chargers under the Espionage Act and get up to ten years in prison per document.

So he’s in trouble unless he declassified them with his mind. Gordon, as a twenty one year old, he’s devastated that this mistake may cost him his future, but he’s also a thrilled that he’s posted something online and it’s totally went viral. Cordon again crushing it as he wraps up is Late night show soon. Oh and we’re going to talk about that at the end of the podcast Stick Around Gordon. He posted some of the documents in a chat room for gamers.

Gordon said, I don’t know how this works. Did somebody write like, hey, guys, how do I went at fortnite? And you respond with I don’t know, but here’s some satellite ima juice of Yukrean. Pete Davidson is making the rounds. He was on with Charlotta Magne the God.

And I know you’ve had some big questions about Pete Davidson. He has answered your big question. Let’s listen. I don’t understand. It’s really not that special.

It’s a very normal size penis. It’s like, you know, not too big or too small. It’s just like you know now, I don’t understand that it’s just like big enough to enjoy and not big enough for it to hurt. So there you have it. I’m not gonna come it.

Horry Kunnabully, Who’s new specials out today? It is called Vacation Baby. It’s on YouTube. I have seen it. I had a screener a couple of weeks ago.

Thank you, Team Hurry. Really enjoyed this one, especially the first two thirds, and I never realized Harry’s really got I’m Mark Marin in him, which I think you’ll hear as you listen to that special. Would you like to hear a clip? Okay, I’m a Hindu or as it’s pronounced in America. Muslim people have called my child a COVID baby, which is inaccurate because he was not conceived during COVID.

If you must know, he’s a Honolulu Ritz Carlton vacation baby. There’s a big debate amongst parents how long is too long to breastfeed your child? Right? And I think that if your child is able to say, mother, can I have some of your sweet sweet breast milk in a text message, it’s probably too long. It’s probably too long.

Are Konnabulu Vacation Baby on YouTube? You should watch it?

Speaking of Mark Marin, I didn’t even do that on purpose.

That’s a nice accident. Mark spoke to a live audience at New York City’s Town Hall about his recent special from Bleak to Dark, and he said, it’s really tricky to make that stuff work. It’s the most full piece of work I’ve ever done, and the most grounded despite the topic matter. It’s the funniest I’ve ever been. I’m talking about losing someone.

It wasn’t funny. It became a sport group situation. I’d get choked up. How do you balance a joke about visiting her body the night she’d passed when working on some of the stuff was still very emotional. I had to find that balance, he added.

I’m not an arena act. There’s no way I’ll be that guy. I’m not even sure I got into it to be an entertainer. I use it to get to your own personal truth. It was about being seen and making people think about things even differently.

It’s a noble profession. I’m not sure I like this idea. They’re trying to remake Peep Show for the US again. The Peep Show is a wonderful brick com I thought it was still on Hulu. I want to watch it, and it’s not on there anymore.

So I don’t know if you could see it in the States right now. Any original David Mitchell and Robert Webb, you may know them as Mitchell and Webb you’ve probably seen the sketch where they’re dressed as Nazis and they ask, are we the Batties? Mitchell and Webb played Mark and Jazz, two dysfunctional friends and flatmates with opposing personalities. It ran nine seasons between two thousand and three and twenty fifteen. Well, in the American version it’s Mini Driver and a Mandela Jahava.

They are women, so one big difference there. For the new series. They’ve tried to remake this for the Americans a few times. There is an American pilot out there on YouTube, and I haven’t seen this thing nailed yet. Who knows.

Speaking of television, over the weekend, I watched the first three episodes of season three of FX’s Dave That’s the Little Dickie sitcom. Very very good. Enjoyed that a lot. You should watch that. Page six spoke to Kathy Griffin.

Kathy Griffin says she’s been diagnosed with quote complex PTSD. After getting an MRII Kathy posted a video saying, let’s talk about PTSD. Never talked about it publicly. You can laugh or whatever, but I’ve been diagnosed with complex PTSD and it’s called an extreme case. Kathy Griffin explained where the wink though her issues began about five and a half years ago.

She got held up a picture of a very famous person’s severed head, and I don’t want to go there. Artie Lange, he’s selling his longtime New Jersey home and his website has been shut down. What’s going on? Aready? The New York Post says Already, Lang, who’s fifty five now, had purchased his New Jersey Town home back in two thousand and three for four hundred and twenty nine thousand dollars.

It’s two bedrooms, three bats. In twenty twenty one, while he was completing a drug court program, he transferred the deed of the house to his mother, Judith and his sister Stacy. Sources tell the Post the home is no longer a suitable residence for his mom, who’s dealing with health issues. It’s currently less than at six hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars.

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Right now, it’s parked free courtesy of GoDaddy dot com. You can get this domain. Let me click on it if you want to buy Artayqwitter dot com. They might be able to help you get it. You could, of course get already quitters dot com for five bucks.

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Congratulations to Henry Yen, the winner of twenty twenty three’s Raw Comedy Talent Hunt at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. Shortol writes them olver and local, seemed at ease in front of the fourteen hundred strong crowd, fully using the stage and exuding a genuine delight to be there, yet happy to muck around on his biggest gig yet giving a shout out to his parents. They write, he has a winningly odd energy, slightly awkward and nerdy, but owning it with confidence, while being apparently entertained by his own gags, chuckling infectiously along with the rest of us. He committed half a set to routine about towels and his ability to ring no pun intend at every angle. From the premise, it felt as if he could have easily done twice as a lot of time slot.

I tried to find a clip, but I could not. Sorry about that, I did. Look now, sadly, we’re into the final week of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. I’m going to miss this segment a lot. I’ve been enjoying it.

Let’s take a look at Wednesday shows. David Quirk’s show is called Cobra. The description do you remember back in the eighties when everyone called each other cobra? I don’t either, but I met a bloke once who swore that’s what we did. The age came in with yikes, listen to this doesn’t quite live up to the lofty expectations created by his previous work.

That’s what they’re putting on the website as the review. Wow, Melbourne. First of all, did anybody scrub the website? I’m not sure that you wanted that up there. Okay, I’m curious.

Now let’s listen to the work that doesn’t quite measure up. Thank you for that shit. Thank you. Wow. I am a very good comedian.

So I’m lucky to be standing here before you, folks, because I’ve spent most of my time a decade ten years working in retail is what I’ve done. I don’t know if anyone does someone openly laughing at that as you should really maybe he knows retail retail the art of standing uprights, not moving around enough, hardening the arteries, ensuring an early death. That’s retailed. But I was very good at it. I want you to know.

I was actually very because I’m very friendly to the customers. But I noticed, after about nine years of doing that job, every time I smiled at a customer, a little bit of the soul just flew away. Hey, how are you, folks? Hire folks have and that’s not healthy, is it? That’s bad?

Something bad? He’s happening in Slide of You. That was good. I like David Quirk. I also like his look.

He could play KNICKI in Grease. He’s wearing a white T shirt with a denim jacket that’s a little shorter than the T shirt, and he’s got like knicky hair. It’s better than that Rise of the pink ladies thing on Paramount Plus. I’ll tell you that all right. One more.

Fanny Kasab’s show is called Fireworks. He was a child in war torn Lebanon, but he found a very unlikely source to make his own fireworks. The near death experience made him tough, resilient, adaptable. Now he’s a single dad raising two children in safe, optimistic Australia. He had a late advertiser said, hilarious leaves the audience in stitches.

Okay, let’s listen, and I hate Itani meant, so many Italians here to them? Are you cowards? I know you’re always the same, always walk up the girls and say stuff like hey, his time, did you have a good day? And the Ausie girl is looking at him. Swanny goes, women aren’t truman to get literacy.

He’s fun. I mean maybe if you’re Italian you don’t find that funny. But I thought he was fun. Oh, we’ve got more festivals, don’t worry. Let’s see who’s at Moontower tonight.

Busy weed for the festivals. Huh Tuesday night at moon Tower, Matt Rife. I’m seeing a lot of buzz on him. He’s at the Stateside Theater at seven o’clock. I saw he’s got a special up on YouTube.

I need to check out Leslie Jones at seven and Matt Rife again at nine thirty. All right, if we were at Moontower, I guess we’ll see Leslie at seven, Matt Rife at nine thirty. And let’s see who’s at Nashville tonight, Kid Rock at the Rheman, William Montgomery at Zenies, and that’s it. I guess we’ll check out Kid Rock. Lindsay Glazer has a new album out on Comedy Dynamics.

All their releases are good. This one is called Thanks Dad. The press release says powerhouse attorney and comedian Lindsay Glazer is ready to make her mark. In hilarious stand up comedy album Thanks Dad, recorded downtown Las Vegas in December of twenty two, Lindsay shares stories about her neurotic condition, the joys of one a home, and being sued by an NBA player. It says she is the second most famous comedian out of Peoria, Illinois.

Who’s number one? Do you know? I think I know, but I’m googling the answer. Richard Pryor more famous than Lindsay Glazer. At this point, let’s not sell her short.

You never know, all right, John, You said you had a James Cordon story. Yeah, This one from movie Web director Craig Duncan says he won’t be wanting to work with James Cordon. He worked with Cordon as a director on a League of their Own, and he says, the most difficult and obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with is James Cordon. That’s interesting because some people would say Joey Diaz is the most obnoxious presenter they’ve ever worked with, But that’s not what Duncan said. He said, James Cordon is right.

So if you asked Duncan, hey, who’s the worst human being you’ve ever met, he would not say Joey Diaz. That’s not what he would say. He would say the most difficult, obnoxious presenter I’ve ever worked with James Cordon. He says even before meeting Cordon, he was warned about the TV stars but behavior with producers. Asking Duncan how well he did working with difficult presenters, he said Cordon was braiding him, saying, what the f is going on here?

It’s obvious what you do? You put a camera there, you put a camera there. You put a camera there so obvious, You’re stupid, Duncan said. He tried to satisfy Cordon by saying the TV host was absolutely right about a change they wanted that they had already done anyway. Duncan recalls another experience of waiting for James.

Cordon arrived, only for him to show up forty five minutes late to film a brief segment. Holding everybody else up, Duncan said, cheers, James, you got your way. Well done for treading all over my toes. I don’t care. I’ll get paid at the end of the day, and I hope I never ever work with you again.

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