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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Tim Dillon, Joe Koy, Gabriel Iglesias, Jason Bateman, Hayes, Will Arnett, Dana Gottfried, Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Chris Rock, Kyle Kinane, Jim Breuer

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer plans to compete with Joe Koy for largest arena comedy audience
• SmartLess podcast hosts taking show on tour with HBO Max documentary
• Dana Gottfried reflects on one year anniversary of Gilbert Gottfried’s death
• Chris Rock and Kyle Kinane both feature pillowcase jokes in recent specials
• Jim Breuer transitions to family-friendly comedy content

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m pretty open about this, so I tracked the stats on the podcast. Do you know what episode did really well last week? The one I titled Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher something something Joe Rogan Lazy name dropped in that one.

You gotta do that. Then later in the week I did one with Dave Bird and the title didn’t do as well. So, hey, guess what, guys, Tim Dillon and Bert Kreisher. I had a conversation about Bert being one of the biggest arena comics in the world. Tim was like, you’re what number three?

Number four? Bert’s at four? Tim? Who were the first? Bert Sebastian Fluffy and Joe Koy Fluffy meaning Gabriel Iglesias.

Bert said, I’m going after Joe Koy. He has the nation of the Philippines, the whole nation. If I could just isolate a minority to fall in love with me. Yeah, we’re going head to head. The SmartLess guys are taking their podcast on the road.

SmartLess another thing to drop in your podcast title for SEO in case you’re playing at home. Yes, Jason Bateman on Hayes and Will Arnette are taking their podcast on the road. I don’t love their podcast. Am I allowed to say that out loud or I’ll be shunned from the entertainment industry. I really don’t think it’s that good.

They’re pretty famous. I get it, they’re good, good guests, but I want to actually listen. I don’t think it’s actually that good. The trio will have their journey documented for HBO Max as they share the experience and their friendship. What’s it called smart list?

Colin on the Road? If you’ve never listened? Is smart list? Well? Each episode features a mystery guest that one of the hosts know about and the other two did not.

Once the mystery guests makes themself known, the three interview them in their own comedic way. The show was described as a podcast The Connecting unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hill larity. People Magazine talk to Dna Gottfried. She was looking back on husband Gilbert Godfried. It was the one year anniversary of Gilbert’s passing.

Dana said, before I reflect, I want to take a moment to thank my incredible friends, family, The Gilbert podcast community and Gilberts fans for all their support. You guys carried me. I’d also like to give a special thanks to the most brilliant magician and my superhuman friend, Penjalette, who texted and asked how he was doing every single day all caps since Gilbert passed. He did not miss one day. Thank you.

Dana told the story. He was February twenty six, nineteen ninety seven. I had just turned twenty seven. Gilbert was turning forty two. We met at a Grammy party at the Tavern on the Green.

I was there because I worked in the music business. He was there for free food. I accidentally dropped food off my plate. He picked it up and put it on his plate. I thought it was a bit odd, but I guess I’ve always been attracted to a bit odd.

He looked incredibly sweet and a little lost. I felt sorry for him, so I was nice. He asked my phone number. The rest was history. I don’t know how to explain the uniqueness of our relationship.

I was young, outgoing, and social. Gilbert was shy and introverted. Time out. I love when people talk about off air or behind the scenes Gilbert. He was not his public persona at all.

A very introverted, quiet spoken man. He was not the ah that you know from his public He’d be like him, very nice to meet you anyway, she said. Gilbert was shy and introverted. We were opposites, but like two pieces of a puzzle, we fit together perfectly. For the next ten years we dated.

He’d come over to my house every night to watch TV since I actually paid for cable. We were in love. Gilbert used to say he was like a McDonald’s happy meal. You can’t replace the French fries for onion rings. He knew who he was and he wasn’t going to change.

I told him I would never want him to change. I embraced who he was. Eventually he took the plunge and trusted me. We decided to move in together and start a family. While packing, I asked Gilbert to try and get rid of some of his hotel soaps since they filled up the entire second bedroom of his apartment.

Yeah, Gilbert apparently would take every soap home from every hotel. He asked his sisters if they needed any soap, and they said only big bars. Gilbert, being Gilbert, stayed up all night, opening the little rappers, running the soaps under the water in the sink, mashing them together to make big bars. The next day he delivered a garbage bag full of custom made big bars of soap. I thought it was so sweet.

I couldn’t help but love him. Great stories there. Vulture pointed out that two recent stand up specials, those being Chris Rocks and Kyle Cananes, both talked about filthy pillowcases. And Chris Rocks he said, you don’t even realize all the amazing little things a woman does for you until you don’t have one. The other night, I’m trying to get some sleep, trying to sleep, couldn’t sleep.

Suddenly dawned at me. I was like, this pillowcase is filthy. Are we supposed to change these? Kyle Knaane’s joke. If you’re a single man in here, leave now, go buy new pillows.

I encheathed what I assumed to be a pillow one day in the daylight, and what I extracted from that pillow case. It had the same texture and patina as a Wild West wanting poster. Was cold and slick, the edges were crumbling and curled. At one side was burnt. How did that even happen?

It looked like a map to the New World. That’s what it looked like. Whatever fluids come out on my face at night. The liquid had expanded and created rudimentary coastlines of the Americas. Over here.

You could say, oll, this is Hollywood from the Mediterranean to hear. Ultra says the differences in these bits speak to the comedian’s contrasting sensibilities. Chris Rock uses brevity to sell his material, while Kyle Canaan achieves the same results with extended soliloquies. Rock takes great pains to appear in control. Canaane deliberately engineers chaos.

Arizona Bigamedia dot Com caught up with Jim Brewer. Let me see if I can get my half ass Brewer impression. Actually, back in the day when I worked with Jim at Series XM, I could do a really good Jim. I would write a lot of copy for Jim, so I really how to capture his voice.

And then you’re around him enough and I could capture it.

So the way I always get into this and I’m doing this for real and real time. Here the first time I met Jim, somebody had said, hey, do you want to take a meeting with Jim Brewer? And you know, it was Jim, and I’d think Jim would open this if you listed everybody on Saturday Night Live. Jim’s not in the top ten. But I was like sure.

So I had a meeting with Jim and he pitched his radio show and he goes, as I can already tell I’ve got my good Jim today, all right, so the show it’s it’s me my friend Pete. Pete was Pete CORRELLI I would tell stories. So I sat there with Jim for like an hour and he might have been high, you can ask him. And I wasn’t really sure what I was pitching because I would have how to go back to my boss and said, hey, you know Jim Brewer, Yeah, he was on SNL. He’s like one hundred and fourteenth best guy that was ever on.

Anyway, he wants to do a show where he tells stories with his friend Pete. And again this is fifteen years ago. Be worn. At this point, nobody knows who Pete Corley is at that point, so I can’t walk back through and be like, yes, Jim Brewer, and Pete tells stories. So I asked Jim to do a demo.

The demo he did was the best demo I ever got in my entire radio career. I took a CD of it. You remember CDs. That’s all the story is. I left the army and Boss’s chair with no note, so, knowing my boss, he played the CD.

That pilot sold itself. Greatest demo I’ve ever heard. Jim talked about his current show and he said, it’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. I’ve got my good Jim today.

It’s a lot of family stuff. It’s a little bit of current events. He usually hits whatever was going on first ten to fifteen miss and from there every curl too. I don’t curse on stage. I don’t swear.

It’s helping that I’ve recorded three straight podcasts. I’m a little gravelly anyway. I like the people can bring teenagers and those twelve and over. Jim explains back in two thousand and eight he made the decision to keep his comedy clean in part because he had kids. He said a woman approached him and said, oh, you’re the guy from TV and stuff.

You’re really blue when you’re live right, you’re like really dirty. You’re the drug guy. Jim said, I know, w what maybe mad? And they also made me realize she thinks that way? Who else thinks that way?

Why do you think that way? If you grew up watching Saturday Night Live or Half Baked, you just know a screen persona you no know the son, father, husband, the married, moral faith guy. Jim’s kids they’re grown now. Yeah, I’m thinking about that. Jim’s kids are a little older than mine.

Yeah. Yeah, they’re not little kids anymore. They are a constant source of materials for his routines. Jim said, never ends so long as they’re in the house. Even after I’ll never run out of material.

I’ll never run out of material being married. Jim says he has left TV in movies. In his rear view mirror, I’ll jump in. Yeah, he was like over show business when I was working with him. He just wanted to be a family guy.

He’s a good guy. Jim said, I left that world back in two thousand. I didn’t want to be in that world anymore. I want to be in at WHORL I could control my destiny. Would stand up starting to put out what I want to put out and have a desire for that grind.

I’m not a big fan of that world. There’s not a lot of good morals go along in that industry. Jim Brewer is at Farnsworth Hall Fry and Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. Those are somewhere in Arizona. Whyt You go on Jim Brewer dot com and figure out where.

All right, I’m going to be in trouble with Kara Wood again. Caraman. You know Karash, she is the power of the streak. Look, I was doing great last week. I ran Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

I played volleyball. Wednesday night. At the volleyball game, I’m not doing a bit here. Four balls in my buddy crashing into my other buddy, and first buddy broke his leg. We’re not as young as we used to be.

Then when I got home, my name was throbbing a little, and I said, all right, I’m taking Thursday off.

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And then Friday.

It was a summer Friday in April. It was eighty six degrees, so I didn’t run on Friday either, Kara. But I had a really good street going and I’ve been eating salad, So leave me alone. Willya. Kara Wood.

She wrote The Power of the Streak. It’s an easy to read book. And if you struggle with working out regularly and you have excuses like, oh, my friend broke your leg or was nice out, you know that kind of stuff, you need to say start exercising. You need to check out the book. You see.

Kara had no motivation for years, and then she started a streak of twelve years. I get four days in and I’m like, hey, look at me. I work out all the time. Twelve years. She had a career, two kids.

She’s got the secret to having the drive to exercise no matter what. So like, you know, you can’t be like oh, but it was eighty six and it was a Friday, and I had prerecorded Monday’s podcast on Thursday afternoon, so I could just goof off, fright. You can’t do that. You got it? You gotta do it.

Kara’s story is funny, relatable, and inspiring. She’ll give you a step by step guide of how you can do the same thing with any exercise. It does not have to be running. It’s the Power of the Streak. But Kara Wood available in all fomats, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble’s an audiobook on iTunes Audible.

Check her out on the social’s insta is at the Power of the Streak a Twitter at Power of Streak. Kara’s also got her free newsletter if you want to check that out. That one is called knock It Off. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. You can go to substack and sign up for free knock it Off dot substack dot com.

I’ll save it the trouble. All this is in the show notes care I think for supporting. Today is a Daily Comedy News I actually wish I had wore Jim Brewer stuff since I have the gym voice down today Jim, he tells, who’s aunt Moontower Tonight? Nothing not a not a show Monday Dark? All right?

Jim, who’s at Nashville Kid Rock, Kid Rocks Comedy Jam? Yeah, I get luck with that Kid Rocks Comedy jam rym an Auditorium seven o’clock. But hold on, Jim, who’s on the show? I mean, I get that you don’t want to see kid Rock? But who’s performing?

All right? It’s Donnell, Shane Gillis, Big Jay, Chris Porter, Eleanor Carrigan and whoever chance, Willie is that’s actually a good show, Jim. Seven o’clock, Leslie Jones. May we’ll go over and talk about Lauren matt Rife at nine thirty. All right, Jim, do you want to do Milbourne?

Now? Can’t you hear? We’re losing the impression? Stop get out on top? All right, that’s good advice.

Who’s at Melbourne today? Andrew Silverwood show is called I Really really want a Zigga Zigga and a nap. Fourth Wall gave it five stares at a stone cold Legend Weekend Notes four and a half stars said want to watch you out for the Adelaide Advertiser four stars, a must see, explosively quick wit. All right, that’s high breeze there, let’s listen. I really should have finished my last show and gone home sober.

But I’ve cocked to Dexie, had a beard, had no dinner and had just enough acid to think that this chair with grass on is real nice. I really shouldn’t be finishing my fringe. I’d really really gone up Version of the House from Friends. This is love. I love this spot.

It’s delightful to where I come from. We tend to take Christmas decorations down by March, but no, not in Adelaide. Oh lord, it’s a risk for me. It’s a real risk for you because you’re about to close out a show with a guy who looks a little bit like a Disney Pixar character went out to rescue buzz like you and got lost at a Mardi Grass. All right, that’s the Andrews silver Wind.

Let’s do one more. Jeff Perkins is almost sold an said caught low avails. Jeff Perkins was your teenager? Are the kind of weird where former classmates would appear on the news and saying, yeah, I think I always knew you should start a cold. She was just a little different.

She watched Door the Explorer. It’s too four into her teens. Let’s listen. Stand up comedy obviously is a very fun job, very stupid job, but I think it’s also very important to use these times when you do get to stand in front of an audience or on TV to spread a message and to educate. And that’s what I would like to do tonight, if you’ll indulge me.

I found a list online that I think we can all really learn from. And this list is entitled forty four Basic things women want that really aren’t too much to ask for, good of them to narrow it down just a tight top forty four. So, so let’s go on a learning journey together. It starts off with someone that holds open doors for her and walks her to a front stoop after a date. Anyone in the audience got a stoop?

It stoops up the back. No, okay, we’re all gonna dialogne rush someone that kisses her with the same passion after three years of dating as he did after three days of dating. Relationships don’t last three years, all right. I think the materials there, I think the pacing is off. I think she could move a little more quickly.

But again, I’m in my basement doing a half ass Jim Brewer impression. So what do I know? Jim wants you to take us home? All right? That’s your comment news for Today File The show Free.

It’s on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get shows. Johnny Mac, let’s see you tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No? All right, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories.

It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories, like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue, Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh, by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five good news stories. Nice easy way to start your morning.

Five good news stories. The number five good news stories wherever you get your podcasts,

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Featured: Brian Baumgartner, Ed Helms, Henry Winkler, Nick Offerman, Sam Morrell, Claire Hooper, Lizzie Who, Anthony Locasio

What’s in This Episode

• Brian Baumgartner launches Office oral history podcast with Ed Helms
• Ed Helms’ podcast Snaffoo about 1983 nuclear confrontation military exercise
• Henry Winkler reflects on ending Barry after playing Gene Cousineau
• Nick Offerman crafts wood from fallen Chinese elm tree in Baumgartner’s yard
• Sam Morrell’s audience interaction technique using drink choices
• Claire Hooper’s Sweet Charity review at Melbourne comedy festival
• Lizzie Who performs at Melbourne Town Hall exploring racial identity
• Anthony Locasio Australian comedy tour showcasing Greek-Italian heritage

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Brian Baumgartner, you know him Kevin from the Office. He says the Office is now bigger than it ever was. That led to the launch of his podcast on oral History of the Office. Ed Helms said that podcast gave us a chance to talk about the show itself, which was a vibrant part of our lives for almost ten years.

In the aftermath of the show, we were all excited and stunned and surprised by how the show lived on after it ended. I really loved the opportunity to go in a safe space with Brian and think about it and talk about it. These days, Brian hosts Off the Beat, a weekly conversation with TV’s favorite actors. Ed Helms did a podcast called Snaffoo, which got into the story of a nineteen eighty three military exercise of a lot of people claim was the closest we ever came to nuclear at confrontation. Thanks for the laughs on a Sunday Sehn ed Helms paid the bills for many years doing voice acting.

He said, I was doing stand up in the trenches making five dollars per spot, but I was actually making more as a commercial voiceover guy, recording multiple sessions a week for years. That really credit that experience for giving me a weird comfort level with my time in a booth doing the podcast. He dropped the g there, John Yeah, the Queen’s coming out doing of a podcast. Brian said, what I love and what I’m trying to capture is a conversation between two people that can’t happen when a member of the press, the Queens came out there again, we can’t keep it in today you’re getting Queen’s accent, Johnny Mac. On This Sunday, Brian told a story about Nick Offerman.

He said, as many of you know, Nick Offerman works well with wood. Brian said he had the most beautiful Chinese elm tree in his yard. One day it unexpectedly fell. Brian said that the tree was so meaningful to me and my children. I have a connection with my child to this tree.

So Nick came, got the tree trunk, and right before he left, in his very nick way, he goes, it’ll be about five or six years before it’s ready. It’s been about five years and it’s on my to do list, and I keep thinking I should ask him. I want Nick Kaferman’s making. Barry is back tonight. One of the stars of Barry is, of course, Macpacker Henry Winkler.

Henry said, my growing to a more mature self allowed me to become Gene. I wouldn’t have done him earlier in my career. I wouldn’t be able to taste the juicy to sales. I’m grateful was an acting gift given to me. I was twenty seven when I was The Fawns and Happy Days.

I was seventy two when I got Jeane. What a journey. I’ll miss him, but it’s the right time to end the series. Honestly, Barry can’t get away with much more. As an actor.

You try to find a colonel of humanity and a character, no matter how much of an a hole he or she is. Every great piece of literature character is in you already. That’s why they last five hundred years. That’s why Shakespeare’s been around forever. Forget about poetry.

Those characters have been sitting around your table when you grow up. You know them in your village, every one of them. That’s a sign of great characters and the gift of being able to play one like Jean. I had the same feeling when I finished ten Years of Happy Days. I was sitting in my office at Paramount.

I had a production company. I didn’t know what to do with myself. Plan A was to live it to the nth degree, and my brain hurt because I didn’t know. I had no plan. What do I do?

What do I pick? Will it be as meaningful as the character I just played. I’m having that same feeling now with Barry, but with less pain because I’m a little older now. Well, every do anything is impactful? Again?

Is this show? What I’ve learned is you don’t know? Forbes sucked to Sam Morrell and said, hey, when you riff with audience members during your show, you usually start with what someone’s drinking. Sam said, it’s their night off, they’re loose. What they’re drinking tells you about the person.

If someone’s having a fruity drink, I’m assuming it’s been an easier day. If someone’s drinking a Long Island nice tea, I’m like, what are you running from? Then Sam usually buys them a drink after roasting them. Sam said, that’s my way of saying thanks for playing along. They’re drinking a really bad beer.

I’m like, get them a real beer. Sometimes they’ll want me to do a shot with them and they’ll ask for kamikaze. I don’t want to do something sugary. If I’m doing a shot, I want to feel it. Let’s take a look at what’s happening at the various comedy festivals today.

Let’s start with Nashville, which I bookmarked. Good Job John five o’clock, Eddie B. Teacher’s Only Comedy Tour five thirty, Jeames Gregory eight thirty, Josh Wolf’s Extravaganza Bonanza. That’s it, m all right? If you and I are there in Nashville, we’re hanging and we’ll go see Josh Wolf at eight thirty, and then we’ll go hang some more.

Moon Tower, What you got? One show only, Samantha B Seven o’clock. If we were in Austin, guess we’re doing and that Melbourne? What do you got? The Age reviewed to Claire Hooper’s Sweet Charity and said when soft plastic recycling systems collapse, how many folks breathe a sigh of relief?

Picking up the scabs of parental and existential anxiety? She asked, if it’s really gonna make you feel better if you graciously pay for forty five dollars of someone else’s chicken nuggets while stuck in a drive through que when all you want is a coffee. Is generosity to humanity and our future. Foolish sounds like a slog, but the chuckles keep coming, and Hooper leaves us with hope three and a half stars. The Age reviewed Lizzie.

Who’s woo who? She’s at Melbourne town Hall? And they said, Lizzie who’s on the cusp of turning forty and she’s feeling fine. Her set is decorated with bright flowers, her outlook of sunny. She likes who she is.

Let’s take a listen. A few years ago, I found out that I was a POC. Yeah, that’s a person of color. Before that, I was just the Asian chick. And before that, people didn’t see color because HR said we didn’t legally have to.

I’m a POC. Yeah. I feel like I’ve joined the FBI or something like I’ve watched a recruitment video online. Do you have at least one parent with colored skin? Will your childhood friends surprised by the smells coming from your home kitchen?

Tell me, are you interested in taking advantage of white guilt? They gave her three stars. How about Anthony Locasio? So the headline I saw from NEOs Cosmos was the Greek Italian comedian storming the nation. I was like, who what?

And then I found out, Oh, in this case, the nation is Australia. Anthony says. The idea that jokes and stories I wrote in my boxer shorts of My Kitchen Counter and Roseberry gets to be heard in multiple cities by hundreds of relative strangers is something that will never not be cool. In my new show, I tell a collection of stories about some of the most morally questionable things I’ve done in my life and juxtaposed that with material about my current loving relationship to raise the question of whether our sins and transgressions preclude us from deserving of He added, I’m currently so cold in Melbourne. I want to vomit, and I’m gonna have to go shopping to rectify it or I won’t survive until May.

Is interesting. Comedy started when he saw Eddie Murphy raw at eleven years old. His other inspirations include American comedians Dave’s Chappelle, Bill Burr, Louis C.K. And Australians Joevatti he’s real good and Carl Baron. Don’t know Carl, but it was George Carlin that made him want to try comedy, said.

The way Carlin was able to infuse social and political commentary into his jokes or vice versa, depending on your perspective, was simply revolutionary. Let’s take a clip. I had to make some edits here. There’s a bunch of f bombs, but you’ll get the gist. But other than speaking the language, is the only element of my cultural background that existed in my life when I was a kid was the big Sunday lunches.

The big rule of thumb in ethnic households, I think is the smaller, the more trivial, the celebration, the bigger than lunch. We have to Christmas, big Asta bigger. One of my cousins Wants cracked the top two hundred and fifty globally ranked FIFA players. We called the neighbors for lunch. It’s the best.

It’s heaven for me. It’s every part of the kitchen is covered by every yellow food you’ve ever seen in your life, waiting to be pillaged by conveyor belts of fat wogs queuing up with paper plates. They’ve got to be paper plates, guys, and not ethnic people. They’ve got to be paper plates because these people are just salivating and sweating so much. Paper plates are the only things enough grip for these to hang onto.

What them making. It’s amazing, it’s it was the time of my life. But I never realized how special, how unique these lunches were to my culture until the first time I ate at my white friend’s house. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Joe Rogan, Mike Vecchione, Kathleen Madigan, Drew Lynch, Mark Watson

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan on comedy philosophy and family perspective on his humor
• Joe Rogan’s arena show preparation techniques using index cards
• Kathleen Madigan on late night TV success and career contentment
• Drew Lynch on handling hecklers and interactive comedy shows

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan said, comedians are a serious bunch. They’re much more philosophical and introspective, and maybe it’s narcissism, but they’re more thoughtful than one would imagine. For me, I’m always relearning basic truths.

It’s almost embarrassing. I remember a big goal of mine was to appear on Late Night with David Letterman. I want to do that that everything would be solved. So then I remember after performing on Late Show. It was great, but I was like, all right, what do I do now?

And I realized, well, not in a romantic relationship. I shared that with friends and family stuff like that, and that was great, but it was a moment of realization, what’s the important thing? He joked about his comedy saying would stand up. Essentially, I’m complaining about my family, right. But there’s this understanding that if people are complaining about being a parent, that means they’re participating.

If they’re not complaining, either they’re the most well adjusted Buddhists of the world. Or if you’re not affected by this experience of being a parent, then you’re not involved enough. Some of the things I say about being a dad. They’re not earth shattering. The reason work is because they’re universal, and it’s a dismantling of a mids surrounding bearoning and I guess behind it, it’s their whole curmudget thing.

WC. Fields wasn’t really going to eat kids, but it was pretty funny that it was like they should be cooked. I feel guilty saying this. My dad he was very engaging, people really liked him, but he wasn’t incredibly funny. He was a good hang, but he was more unintentionally funny.

And I should also say that’s from my son’s perspective. My kids don’t think I’m funny. Well, I think they think I’m funny. But could he make a career at this certainly not. My father had a joke, why does Jimmy Carter carry around a turkey for spear ports?

That was the joke my dad would tell. And you’re like, are you kidding me? It’s funny. I’ll meet people who know my brother Joe, or know my brother Mitch, and Joe and Mitchell tell these people that they’re funnier than me, and these people will be like, yeah, I know your brother. He says he’s funnier than you.

Jim’s retort, I have more comedy specials than them. Joe Rogan had Mike Veckione on his podcast and Vicky One asked Joe about his techniques were staying common confident before every show? Rogan said, Arenas. One of the things that I do is I have index cards, so I right out before, I’ll get there early and I’ll write like just bullet points of all the sets or the bits, and I’ll put them on cards like this is on this subject, that’s on that subject. I lay them out on a coffee table, and writing them out just cements it all in my head.

It solidifies it in my head, and then it’s just about getting fired up. My set is rock solid. That means I’ve done the clubs and then I went on theaters and start feeling it. You can’t just go up in front of sixteen thousand people not knowing whether or not it’s gonna work. You have to be tuned in and ready to go.

And yeah, you gotta go out there with a lot of energy because you know this person’s like they got an effing babysitter. They bought the tickets a long time ago, and it’s a big deal for them. The Good One Podcast asked Kathleen Madigan if there’s anything she still wants to do. She says, no, that’s such a Kathleen answer, because the weird thing is, if you’re anywhere near my age, we didn’t even know those things were going to exist, so you couldn’t dream of them. What’s HBO?

And it shows up and it’s like, well, I gotta get a special on HBO? But that could have been a goal because it didn’t exist. Serious radio didn’t exist. Netflix didn’t exist, Amazon Prime didn’t exist. Nothing.

It’s all been a winged thing. I think actors could say the ultimate things an Academy award, a SAG Award. We don’t even have any of that. So it’s just like the joy of being and guy, there’s no problems. There’s just happy accidents.

If you just want to tell jokes, and that’s what you care about. You’ve done all the specials that you think you’re done with. Is there anything I’m forgetting about it? I am smiling reading this because I’m thinking about my several times I hung out with Kathleen, And in case you’re curious, she’s exactly who you think she is, like exactly, she really does have that. Yeah, none, nothing’s gonna phase me.

Vibe love her. Hey, Kathleen, you were able to do both Leno and Letterman, which is not of things a lot of comedians did. And she said, yeah, it’s pretty proud of that because my act was just bounce enough that I had stuff weird enough for Letterman but mainstream enough for Leno. The sets were very different. It’s already even picture both in one but even now I could take that hour on Amazon and go, okay, this is what I had to do to be on Leno.

I do all the jokes about my mom and dad because that’s Middle America, and then I’d do the weirder Bigfoot thing for Letterman. She says she’s loving doing theaters. I don’t care. I don’t even want to do an arena. The more I talk about things like this, I think I treat this like a job.

Johnny Corson retired and nobody said, hey, what’s wrong with you. You’d occasionally see him at Wimbledon. He was showing he loved tennis. He’d seem as a fan. He did what normal Midwest people do when they’re sixty five they retire.

I’m good now. Who made me think about it? Because I haven’t thought about is there anything left? No, because the place is that I want to go. I can go on my own.

I don’t need to book a show there. Love her. The Daily Cardinals spoke to Drew Lynch. Ay Drew Lynch, how do you feel about hecklers? Drew Lynch said, I don’t discourage or encourage anything during shows within certain limitations.

On both ends, I love if there’s a show that feels specific to that audience. So if there’s something that happens unprompted, I love to play with that as long as it’s good fun and it’s not malicious. I love that the audience can leave feeling like, ah, that was something unique, it was specific to our show that can’t be recreated. On the other hand, if someone does call out on and becomes so much of a distraction and it becomes clear that in the show the other people are not having a good time because of it, that’s where I have to kind of step in and draw the line. Some people love interactive components to show because that’s the advantage of going to see a live comedy show.

But At the same time, there’s some people who just want to hear the performer. A certain joke is monopolized by one audience member, then it’s up to the performer to try to mitigate that. Something I had to develop because I used to think a lot of people would be heckling me out of a hurtful place. I used to get heckled because of my speech and people feeling impatient. So it was a defense mechanism that is shaped into a tool that allowed me to funnel little bits and spontaneous moments into my comedy.

Something happening from nothing is one of the most beautiful moments in a stand up show. Amen, as long as it’s on the performer’s terms and it’s not becoming so disruptive that other people aren’t enjoying themselves. One way you could support the show become a premium subscriber on Apple podcast click on that purple app that says podcasts on your phone in their search out Daily Comedy News, and they’ll be like, hey, premium subscription. You’re gonna click it, and then you’re gonna go yeah, and then what’s gonna happen? I got to warn yet, I don’t want you to be mad at me a month from now, they’ll charge you five dollars a month.

That’s what being a premium subscriber is. So what do I get for that? Johnny Mac? You got the episodes early. For example this Saturday episode, you could add Friday morning.

Any episodes are ad free. So premium subscriptions and Apple Podcast five bucks a month. First month is free if you want to test drive it. Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Mark Watson’s show was called Search. He’s at Melbourne Town Hall till April twenty third.

The age reviewed and said with a foul beginning, Mark Watson delivers the audience four lies in a single truth to detect, dressing up as a gigantic plastic phallic thing, speaking multiple languages, sleeping with an Australian, a lister, etc. He leaves the stage and returns two minutes later and leaps in with show and slowly dissects the fiction that sounds fun. He details the repercussions of his failed marriage, the bewilderment of his teenage son’s first Google searches since acquiring a smartphone, and zoom meetings with teachers gone awry. A side note this is not a show you want to be laid for. Apparently some people were late and he gave it to them.

They wrote nothing groundbreaking but thoroughly enjoyable. Four stars. Let’s see who’s playing on Sunday. Wow, for all my complaining about this website, it loaded in like one second. Today Gerard McGowan show is called The Hardest Way to Make an Easy living.

This is a show about construction, trauma, demolishing and rebuilding yourself.

All right, let’s listen.

I have a new comedy ten years. This is how good it’s going. I don’t have a bed frame. What’s up? Okay, here we go, Look I go.

Oh, I didn’t know his marriage was trying to get a high five Jesus Christ the wife pipe and then he’s married. He’s married. Don’t hi five him even on a Friday and night. Well check this out, No it wouldn’t. I’m gonna do the joke now, if that’s all right, missus high five wife?

That okay? Thanks? Yeah? Oh yes, it’s not all fun and games. No bed frames caused me a few issues lately.

Not gonna lie. I was. I was on a date with the girl recently, going pretty good, right, going pretty good. She ended up coming home to Cassadel mcgogan and then getting there she walked into my bedroom, saw it another bedframe and just went, I’m sorry, but I can’t do this and left. Don’t like Chase.

After I was like, heyy hey, hey, hey, hey hey, can I go with you? I don’t want to be here either. He’s fine, very charismatic. I had to scope out some CrowdWork there that we had some f bombs in it, but good clip there. Whois Gornham’s show was called It Hit a Pigeon with his bike.

Let show about interactions with strangers, serendipitous moments, and the different ways we show each other who we are. Let’s listen. I love having a dog. My favorite thing about having a dog is walking her to the park. That’s my favorite activity in the world.

I love walking my dog to the park so much as long as I don’t have to speak to any other humans at the park. I hate that I reckon. Nothing illustrates the awkwardness that human consciousness has created better than the difference between dog to dog interaction and human to human interaction. Because the dogs, they can straight away you’re a dog on the dog. Let’s have a wrestle while the humans.

You start off by asking each other how old your dogs are, and people are very specific about that. Four years seven months, which is weird. Lots of difference between a four year old dog and an eight year old dog. Like I reckon dogs, I only have three ages. Really Poppy, not a poppy anymore Gonna Dawson.

Other than that, he’s fun, very charismatic. I would like to see more from him. All right. Closer to home, the Moontower Festival continues in Austin. Let’s see who’s playing on Saturday night and we’ll play the Hey, if you and I were there, what would we go?

See? Game? All right? At seven o’clock. Our options Seth Meyers headliner, event, Chad and j T, Jared Freed at seven thirty.

Let’s see then at nine thirty, Seth Meyers again, Randy Field face, Jared Freed at ten. Okay, pretty easy for me to pick there. Seth Meyers early, Randy Field face at nine thirty. Let’s do. 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, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue.

Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh, by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five Good News Stories, a nice easy way to start your morning. Five Good News Stories the number five Good News Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Hank Azaria, Hari Kondabolu, Adam Sandler, Pete Davidson, Kyle Kinane, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Chris Rock, Ricky Smiley, Carlos Miller, David Spade

What’s in This Episode

• ChatGPT vs late night writers – Biden Ireland trip jokes comparison
• Hank Azaria apologizes to Hari Kondabolu for Apu character
• Hari Kondabolu’s ‘Vacation Baby’ special launching on YouTube
• Nate Bargatze headlining Nashville Comedy Festival at Bridgestone Arena
• Nate Bargatze cites Adam Sandler as inspiration for creating worlds in comedy
• Pete Davidson hosting SNL May 6th, attending Met Gala, Peacock special May 4th
• Johnny Mac’s top 5 comedy specials ranking (Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Hari Kondabolu)

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark deck busy one again. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Yesterday I did the whole thing with Is the chat che pet actually funnier than the late night writers? Let’s take another look of that, the chatbot said, Joe Biden is planning to visit his ancestral at home while in Ireland. He’s open to find some long lost relatives, but if he doesn’t, he’s prepared to start hugging random strangers and calling them cousin.

That’s really good there, chatbot Colbert. The trip is part diplomacy and part homecoming because Biden’s ancestors came to the US from Ireland the mid eighteen hundreds when Biden was just a teen.

Also a great joke, chatbot, Hey, I heard that Biden is planning to visit a Pu…

He’s open to try some traditional Irish food like fish and chips, or a play the Lucky charm cereal. Not bad. One more from the chatbot. I don’t know why it went here with this ice cream joke, but I kind of like it, chatbot. Biden is known for his love of ice cream, and he’s already scoped out the best places to get a cone in Ireland.

Okay, interesting premise. He’s even hoping to convince some local shops to start selling his favorite flavor, Rocky Road to the White House. See these these are good writers Guild. You might want to actually be worried all right, Hank Azaria has apologized to Horry Kondabolu. You may recall that Hurry put out a documentary called The Problem with Apoo.

In it, Knabolu argued that the Simpsons character Apoo had been harmful to South Asians in the West, citing Apoo’s outsized cultural footprint and im media landscape that otherwise featured a lack of Salthasian representation. Let’s hear from Hank Gazaria. Hi, I’m actor Hank Zaria. You might know me from my television show Brockmeyer, or from many TV and film roles over the years, and of course the voices that I do on the Simpsons TV show, like Moti Bartender. Please Chief Wagon, I’m here to day though, to urge you, please watch Hurry Kndibola’s new stand up comedy special called Vacation Baby on YouTube.

It’s honestly one of the greatest pieces of stand up but I have ever seen in my life. It’s filled with so many hilarious and poignant anecdotes about what it’s like to have a child during a global pandemic, and just the kind of thoughtful and biting social commentary that will come to love Forlory. So please do yourself a favor. I watch Vacation Baby on YouTube for free. Thank you.

You nailed it. That’s exactly what I wanted. Thank you. I pretty much had to do that. I didn’t absolutely no choice, not really no, okay, fair enough, Vacation Baby on YouTube.

Really looking forward to seen it. Horry. Condubulus special is out on Tuesday. I have seen it. Remember recently I hinted that I had seen a special and it was I think I haven’t.

Let me check fifth the best of the year. Yes, I have it at five. I have seen this one. It’s out Tuesday on YouTube. It’s really really good.

So my current listings number one Kyle Canaan two Nate Berghatsy three, Jay McBride for Jim Jeffreys five, Hurry, Condubuloo six Chris Rock So don’t look at me putting it fifth and being like, oh no, it’s ahead of Chris Rock’s Big Deal special. Okay. Number seven, of course is the Roast of mister Peanut. I know you think I’m all insane. Go on YouTube type in Roast of Mister Peanut and watch the long form version of it.

It’s pretty good. We should have a big week of Gossip Corner coming up. Pete Davidson is going to host Saturday Night Live on May sixth. That same week, he’s expected to attend the met Gala, and he’ll also have his Peacocks show Buck GISs Out on May fourth, So around that first week of May should be a lot of Pete Davidson, which is always great for Gossip Corner and cross promo. That’s also the week of the King’s Coronation, so it will be a big week for Palace Intrigue.

That’s the daily podcast on the Rady four about the British royal family. Now, weather, gods, could you make it rain a lot that week because this week here it’s in the high eighties in northern New Jersey in April and all I want to do is sit outside and not record podcasts in my basement. So a week of May first, if you could make the weather like really awful so I can get all this work done. That would be great. Spa of Nate Brigatti.

Two minutes ago, he is headlining the Nashville Comedy Festival kicks off. Nate’s playing Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. That’s the Hockey Areno for by the cool bars, downtown, cool place. This show’s called up from Old Hickory to Broadway, Nate told the Tennessee and whenever I let myself daydream about success, it was playing Bridgestone. Back in two thousand two, Nate enrolled in classes at the Second City.

After an eight week course, he traded improv for stand up, tacking a comedy class, and performing an open mics in Chicago for the next two years. He moved to New York in two thousand and four, partly inspired by Jerry Seinfeld’s two thousand and two documentary Comedian. He and the family moved to la in twenty twelve, but two years later they very very quietly moved back to Nashville. Nate kept it a secret from everyone in the business. He said, my biggest fear was they’re gonna think I quit, So I didn’t say anything when I travel to LA my manager knew, but I didn’t want somebody to not meet with me because I didn’t live there.

In twenty seventeen, Netflix launched a series called The stand Ups. Each episode featured a thirty minute said from a different comedian. Nate was on the first episode. At his next gig the following week, he said, I remember I did some jokes and they didn’t hit as much as they usually do. The reason the audience hadn’t heard them.

Nate said, I was like, wait, are you all here like because of me? And they’re like yeah. He said, it was the first sign of panic. We’re like, oh, I gotta write new material. People are coming.

Nate met a caddy at the Pebble Beach pro am and the guy said he’s been to twenty shows. You write an hour for the tour and then you kind of change it up. You don’t change every show. When the new tour started this year, I had people fly to Jonesboro, Arkansas to watch the beginning of the tour, and you know, I was having a great day.

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And then Nate had to throw this in.

He takes a queue in his career from Adam Sandler. Yeah, Adam Sandler invited Nate backstage at a Sandler show. Nate said, I’m a giant, giant fan of what Adam Sandler does. I want to create the world he created with his movies. No, don’t do that, Nate.

No, Nate Brigatsy and Jack and Jill. No no, no, no, no no no no no no no no no. I want to create the world he created with his movies. That’s what we’re trying to do with Nateland. He’s a huge inspiration to me.

No no, don’t go the Adam Sandler out, because then you’ll ruin Dusty Slay. He’ll be your Rob Schneider and you guys will do garbage movies. No, no, no, don’t do that. The Nashville Comedy Festival does kick off. The lineup includes Ricky Smiley, Carlos Miller, David Spade, and twenty six other acts from around the country.

Carlos Miller said, every time I come to Nashville, I feel like I’m visiting family. The music, the food, the people all love this city. I’ve never met a stranger in Nashville. Everybody shows so much love. It is a Greek ten.

If you’ve never been in Nashville. You should go. Why don’t you get on a plane right now, hit some hit the comedy festival. Go do it, Miller said, man I got my picture up on the wall at Zany’s. I love going back there every few months at seeing who and what they’ve added that place.

All right, So Nates at Bridgetown tomorrow, Carlos Miller’s at the War Memorial Auditorium tomorrow, Jason Banks at Zany’s Tonight’s, and tomorrow Little Sasquatch at Zany’s. Then I guess we can talk about the rest on Sunday? Did you already record Saturday’s episode? Chenny Mack? Is that while you’re slipping the Saturday nights in?

Maybe you tell me? I promised you, just for laughs, would announce some things and announce some things. They did. Comedian Ali Wong, she’s having a moment. Jonathan van Ness and Anthony Chelsea Nick.

Those are the first three names announced just for laughs. It’s July fourteenth through the twenty ninth. If you’re in the northeast and you can get to Montreal pretty easily. It’s a seven hour drive from northern New Jersey, not too bad from New York City. Boston not too bad.

Cleveland. If you’re in Cleveland, I don’t know how long it is from Cleveland and Montreal, but you should go and go the second week. And if you’ve got to pick shows, I’m telling you go see New Faces one and New Faces two, back to back shows, same theater. You gotta pay for an entrance twice. It’s not a lot of money, but that’s a great thing to do.

And then while you’re up there, if you’re not as deep into the comedy world to say I am, go see some of the bigger names. But the Montreal Comedy Festival is great. In the daytime. You can hang out up at Mount Royal. Give you oldtown look.

If you want to hear about Montreal. My other podcast is called Travel Is Back, and the Montreal episodes are actually the most popular episodes. There’s probably four of them altogether, So Travel is Back is that podcast. If you want to hear me go on about Montreal. But you should go go the second week and go see Faces.

Some other names, Daniel Slas Mexican stand up comic, Carlos Baiarda and Tom Poppa will be there. Ali Wong show will be joined by special guest Shang Wang. He of course had the best comedy special of twenty twenty two. That’s a good show. Why don’t you come up to Montreal and hit Ali and Shang and maybe hang out with me.

We can have a beverage. Come on, let’s do it. The host of the Galas and time out, I noticed yesterday when doing Melbourne stuff, the Australians say gala. John from Queens says gala. But anytime I’m involved with the Montreal Comedy Festival they always say gala, which is correct.

Let’s see. I have found a website dictionary dot Cambridge dot org slash US slash pronunciation, and it says how to pronounce gala nown in British English and how to pronounce gala nown in American English. Should we listen, Let’s figure this out. Gala. There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet’s Gala Night Gala the American Ballet Theaters Spring Gala raises money for community outreach programs.

Okay, two points here point number one for somebody who wants to sit outside because it’s in the high eighties today. I’m doing a terrible job of hitting in a short podcast like stop going off on distractions, Johnny Mac, you’re just costing yourself editing time later point number two. All right, somebody out there, if you’re from Canada, hit me up contacts. In the show notes, the Canadians say Gala Why just for laughs? Announced as Gala host comedy star Russell Peters.

He’ll EMC four shows. Another Gala host, Jack Whitehall. The Nasty Show will feature performances by Donnel Rawling Steptlev and adrian Ia Pallucci Keeping eyeing Her She’s Fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda Cool Club will have Alonzo Boden, Jean Marcos Serresi, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasai. Sounds great.

Absolutely do Montreal if you can. Jenny Zigrino’s album is out today. Yes, an album, an actual album. It’s called jen z Love the title, Jenny told Rebellious magazine. And I’m not going to sit around and wait for people to find me and big me do a special.

I’m just gonna do it myself. Obviously, you don’t do it yourself, you do it with the help of a lot of people. In August of twenty twenty one, I contacted my friend Whoe’s a production company in New York. I was like, let’s make a special By November of twenty one, it was funded gen Z, g E, N dash Z, and Gage. She didn’t get the joke, has funny takes on baby boomers, gen Z and everyone in between.

Zagreino, herself a millennial, thinks gen Z maybe a little different than previous generations and that’s a good thing, she says. I think they’re gonna be a little weirder because we had two years inside. They’re just gonna be a little weird, and that’s okay. I feel like gen Z are gonna be the ones that are really going to change things. The millennials were like the tester group.

Let’s test it out, see how it goes, and then it gets refined by gen Z. My hope is they can stand up to what’s happening again. Fellow gen xers were like the middle child. Everybody talks about the boomers, and then the millennials came in and like just were like, didn’t want to work on Saturday. Those guys gen Z, I don’t know what they’re up to.

They’re on TikTok all day. Nobody talks about gen x Zagreino has a take on Steve Bashimmy, and she said, first of all, Steve Bishemy’s not ugly. He can totally get it. He’s diverse in his acting. He’s talented.

Who else went back now one, citing the fact that Bishemy, previously New York City firefighter, rushed to the scene on September eleventh. He’s a great actor and he sounds like a really stand up dude. He has a very normal life. He’s in it because he loves the art. If you enjoy what I do here.

Became a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. Open up that Purple podcast app. They’ll be like, hey, premium subscriber deal and you go, yeah, all right, fine, I’m tired of John talking about it every day. Five bucks a month. You get the episodes ad free and early.

You could have had this one on Thursday afternoon. You could have been sitting in your backyard and joining the sunny, eighty something degree day. I’m gonna be like, hey, Friday’s podcast is pretty good. I feel a lad here. Those other people how to wait till Friday morning three oh five am Eastern time and look at me roll in large premium subscriptions on Apple podcasts.

Hey, my former co worker Jamie FOXX apparently had a little medical thing. His daughter Krinn released a statement on Instagram saying, Jamie on Tuesday had a quote medical complication. We wanted to share that my father, Jamie fox experienced the medical complication. Luckily, due to quick action and great care, He’s right down his way to recovery. We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers.

The family asked for privacy during this time. Leanne Morgan special I’m every Woman is out on Netflix. I have not yet seen it, but Decider did and they said, we’ve seen rural TV families who make nice like the Waltons, and hillbillies who make mayhem like Mama’s family. The Morgans seem like they might be somewhere in the middle, all thanks to their mom as the central figure and creator of disruption. She says.

Her mom and other relatives also dexetrim dietary supplements. When Leanne was only seventeen. She said, it was speed. We took speed as a family. Should you watch it?

Decider says, if you’re looking for funny, family friendly stories about having to put up with a spouse and children, or if you’re a woman seeking some inspiration about how to age with grace and humor, then definitely all caps stream. It’s this next comedy show. I might have to check out myself personally. Get out of the basement, because I want to make sure you have the best coverage of The Naked Benefit Comedy Show joined New York City’s best comedians as they stripped down for a great cause. Each comedian we’ll perform their hilarious ten minute set naked.

Proceeds from the Naked Comedy Benefit Show will benefit a word winning nonprofit organization, Broadway Sings for Pride. So if you want to see them naked, this is your chance today.

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All right, let’s take a look at the festivals.

I want to go outside. It’s so nice out, all right, Friday at the Moon Tower Comedy Festival. Seven o’clock Vier DAWs seven o’clock Randy Felt Face seven thirty, Jared Freed eight o’clock, Perfect Cult, nine thirty Jay Farrow ten o’clock Jared Freed again, ten thirty Perfect Cults. All right, if I remember correctly, we’ve seen Jared Freed and Perfect Cult already. Have we gotten a Randy felt face.

Maybe we did that the first night. I know I wanted to see Vier DAWs. I think we’ve seen everybody. Should we just drink. We haven’t seen Jay Faro yet.

All right, we’ll drink and then we’ll do jayfarre at nine thirty.

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Now let’s do Saturday.

Some people might think John recorded Saturday’s podcast earlier the week and kind of forgot to do the moon Tower segment. I’m not sure that that’s true, but you know, just for your naysayers, Saturday’s event, Seth Myers is your headliner at seven o’clock, Chad and Jat at seven, Jared Freed again, seven thirty, Joe Firestone eight o’clock, Seth at nine thirty Randy felt Face, Jared Freed, Joe Firestone. Okay, so we should probably go see h Jadd and Shade’s he It’s seven and Seth Meyers late. How does that sound. Let’s take a look at Melbourne.

Nick Schuller’s show is called Firebrand. In twenty nineteen, the Schuller family home burned down in the black summer bush fires. Like all good comedians, Nick has monetized his trauma turned his family’s tragedy into an hour of light entertainment.

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Enjoyed watching the lockdown protests. Don’t really understand why people were getting angry about the protests. It’s one of the few times we get to witness natural selection occurring in real time. No other time does the shallow end of the Jane pool congregating a single location to wipe itself out. There were lockdown protests in Queensland despite Queensland not being in lockdown, which begs the question can you complain about oppression while not being oppressed?

The answer to which is yes. That’s Sky News is business model. In the Queensland protests, a man rode a horse across the Queensland New South Wales border. The news story had a video of the man riding a horse across the border. Then the story said man allegedly rides horse across border.

I was like, all reckon, he did it, all right? I don’t pick these clips. These are the clips on the Milburn site. There’s also some Claptor in there. In case you caught it, Nick Schiller, I’m I’m sorry you didn’t really enjoy that awkward to in the podcast.

Now, John, you just say goodbye, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. I heard tomorrow is a ready record it, so come back. This seems to be an episode for tomorrow. See then, Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat?

No? All right? Hi. I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue.

Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles, or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license. Oh by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s five Good News Stories. Nice easy way to start your morning.

Five Good News Stories the number. Five Good News Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Sam Morrill, Hannah Gasby, Dave Burd (Lil Dicky), Nick Offerman, Jonathan Van Ness, Andrew Schulz

What’s in This Episode

• Writers Guild potential strike and late night TV job concerns
• ChatGPT vs. late night writers comparing COVID emergency jokes
• Hannah Gasby Netflix special ‘Someone Special’ at Sydney Opera House
• Hannah Gasby curating Pablo Picasso exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
• Sam Morrill launching Bodega Cat Whiskey with Mark Norman
• Calgary Great Outdoors Festival lineup announcement
• JFL Montreal first wave of comedians announcement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck Johnny meg who with your Daily Comedy News A busy day again? Did you say the writers might go on strike out in Hollywood? Yahoo has an interesting piece with an anonymous member of the Writer’s Guild. The topic here Late night and I thought it was interesting. Yahoo quotes w G A anonymous as saying, there’s a lot of uneasiness in general.

People aren’t sure of what’s going to happen in this negotiation. You combine that with the shifting quote unquote Late night world. That’s harder to define these days because almost nobody watches Late Night Live. It’s become a different thing, the uneasiness of this business and economy, and there’s more writers than ever looking for a finite amount of jobs, so of course becomes stuff or to find work. Anonymous continues, Late night ratings have been dwindling by the day, and for a decade, late night shows have been writing and producing for an eventual online audience, stuff that will be consume the next day and beyond.

Whether it’s carpool karaoke or foul in playing toy instruments to a pop song, it’s all either on youtubeer social media. Most of that stuff is put out as promotional, so we never see a residual that has a lot to do with what’s going on this negotiation. There’s a general changing of what the comedy and variety definition is. We all have stories. You get the residual check for four cents or something like that.

I got to check the other day for twenty nine cents, two payments, three cents and twenty six cents. It would take me months to track down where that came from. It’s just so hard to find out what you’re even being paid for. If you get five hundred bucks in the mail, you just put it in the bank. You’re not going to spend two weeks trying to figure out where it came from.

It’s hard for writers to keep up with what their actual contract says, and I think that’s by designed by the powers that be. This negotiation it’ll reveal a lot. There’s so much transition going on the studios they’re investors the bottom line, and then the way they view the future of quote unquote content and whether they value writers or if they think they can move on with fewer writers and use artificial intelligence to write scripts. All right, So I’m going to jump in there because that intrigued me, and what it inspired me to do is look at some actual late night jokes, which again will have been hold much better by the professional late night host than they will buy some idiot and his basement. So I took the actual jokes and I had the chat CHEPT write some jokes the topic.

President Biden ending the COVID emergency. Okay, you tell me my performance aside, if the chat GPT jokes aren’t as good as the late night jokes, I’m serious here, ready, chat GBT. In a bold move, President Biden has declared an end to the COVID emergency. It’s like when your mom announces the end of dinner but you’re still not done eating. We’re all like, wait, are you sure it’s over all right, Colbert, I’m not sure what it means for health, but it means that we can finally get back to some of our favorite pre pandemic elite show segments like Subway Blind Taste Test.

Chat GBT, Biden says, the COVID emergency is over, which means we can finally go back to our normal lives, you know, like arguing with relatives at Thanksgiving and pretending to enjoy the small talk at the office. Jimmy Kimmel, The end of the COVID era is surprisingly kind of bitter sweet. This morning I did something. I wiped down my groceries just for old times sake. I actually bought a bottle of purel and wiped it down with pul CHATCHBT.

Joe Biden has declared into the COVID emergency, which means we can finally see each other’s faces again, unless you’re holding it on that pandemic beard, which case it’s time for that to go. I think the chat GBT jokes were better. Hannah Gatsby, She’s got a new special coming out. This one is titled Someone Special, was taped at the Sydney Opera House. It features Hannah Gatsby discussing their twenty twenty one wedding to their producer, Jinny Shamash, More than one traumatic encounter with a Bunny and more Someone Special Netflix, May ninth.

No trailer yet, but hopefully they will do it to ton of press and the press will say the words schappell to them and we can stir that up again. That’s always fun. And people over at Hannah Gasby Inc. Are not coordinating because before I saw that they announced the special. I had this story for you.

This from ARTnews dot com. You’re home for art news. Hannah Gatsby is organizing an exhibition about Pablo Picasso for the Brooklyn Museum. It’ll open this summer. The title It’s Pablo Matic Picasso.

According to Hannah Gasby, it’ll feature nearly one hundred works, many of them done by women artists. It’s description promises a look at Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary and feminist lens, even as it acknowledges his works transformative power and lasting influence. The Guardian ran an article last week asking if we should cancel Pablo Picasso. I don’t want to bog down on that. Just google cancel Pablo Picasso.

Educate yourself. In that article, one of the co curators of the Brooklyn Museum show said, Hannah Gasby says, there’s a lot that’s easy to hate about Picasso. But if the goal was to cancel Picasso, we wouldn’t be doing this show and Hannah wouldn’t be participating. I got an email from JFL Montreal. It said, we’re excited to reveal the first wave of comedians on April thirteenth.

So I guess we know what tomorrow’s podcast will be. I’m recording this on the twelfth. I don’t live in the future. I don’t have the information yet tell you about that tomorrow. Just for last Montreal, you should go.

We could have a beer.

Meanwhile, the lineup for the Calgary Great Outdoors how Many Festival has an…

He’ll be the headliner on Friday, August twenty fifth. He joins previously announced Saturday headliner at Jonathan van Ness of Queer Eye fame, and Sunday Andrew Schultz is your headliner. There’s a mix. Let’s see. I’m getting along here.

I have to bump the stories. Should I bump Sam Morrell or Jay Farrow? They’re both good. Let’s see. I know I’ve got some Sam next week.

Let’s bump Jay Farrow. Sorry, Jay Forbes s Sam Morrell, Hey, what was your first drink? Sam said? Probably wine. The good thing about being a New Yorkers when you first start drinking, it’s either house parties, where the real first move is to go to a Chinese restaurant because they don’t care what age you are.

Again, my information may be very different. But that’s not really how we started. Back in the eighties, you’d go to the bar. They didn’t prove so much, but who knows. It’s a new century.

Things may have changed. What was your first drink of choice? Sam, He said, I definitely liked whiskey early on. That’s aggressive, buddy, because I felt that’s what you should drink as a man. That’s what Bogard drag, and that’s what they drank at the Old West.

They’re not ordering two spritters in a John Wayne movie. All right, Sam, why just start your own whiskey bodega cat? And he said, Mark Norman and I have a podcast called We Might Be Drunk, And it quickly became evident that whiskey was our drink. All these celebrities of their own alcohols, and I was like, why can’t we do it. I put it out there on the podcast.

We got so many emails. We just went with who felt the most legit. Forbes asked him to explain for people not from New York what a bodiga cat is. Sam said, late at night, you go to the bodega, maybe you’ve had a few drinks and you’re looking for a snack. That is exactly why you’re in the bodega.

That’s it. That’s why you’re there. And a little cat we’ll pop out of nowhere. You just pet the cat. It’s this weird bonding moment.

You’re always happy to see a bodega cat. That’s how we want people to feel about our whiskey. It is some cross promo here for Palace Intrigue. That’s the show on the writer on we talking about the British royal family to see yesterday Harry finally said he’s going to go to the coronation. Megan Markel’s not going.

This is good for Palace Intrigue. It’s like an ongoing soap opera that’s this week’s storyline, controversies, whatever. So if you want to keep up on all that Palace Intrigue, if you get your podcast. I did wind up watching Jury Duty like I promised. I liked it a lot, watched all four available episodes.

Is it hilarious no? Is it entertaining? Yes? Is it addicting yes? First episode I was like, all right, this is pretty good.

It’s basically office doing jury duty. But once it got rolling, I was like, I’m hooked. I love these characters, the acting is so good. Perfect show. Watch Jury Duty.

It’s on free V. Nobody knows what that is, just so open up Amazon Prime. They’ll put it under your nose. You’ve got to sit through like ninety seconds of commercials. It wasn’t too bad.

I just picked up my phone and played on Twitter and before I knew what the break was over Jury Duty. Strong recommend watch it. I’m not going to watch it weekly because the episodes go by so quickly, so like, I don’t want to sit down Friday night and watch twenty minutes and be like, oh, I want more. So I’m gonna wait until the other four episodes are released and then I’ll watch the rest of it.

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Also, watch some more of Beef on Netflix.

I think I’m up to episode seven now. I hate when shows dropped ten episodes at once. It’s just too much. I liked the weekly cadence of things, so we’re all on the same page. We’re all talking about the same thing.

For example, succession, we’re all up to the same thing. We’re all looking forward to the same thing on Sunday. But these things Netflix, like hey, here’s ten episodes, and things like Netflix. I’m busy man, anyway, I’m on like episode six or seven, really enjoying beef. You know who?

Shut up, Andrew Santino. That’s right, he’s on it. Another show you should watch is on FX or FX on Hulu these days, and that is Dave and the Hollywood Reporter did one of those fluff job pieces with Dave Bird. Dave said, I feel like I’m the comedic voice of my generation. All the reporter rights.

Then he hesitates, realizing how a declaration so seemingly hyperbolic might be interpreted. Dave says, you’ll read it and be like, this guy’s out of his mind, and really, I don’t mean it arrogantly. Dave Bird aka Little Dicky, then tries to describe the difference between confidence and arrogance, and he said, I’m not like, oh, I’m the best effing rapper line or I’m the funniest guy in the world. No, I’m more like, I’m a passenger of this talent. And it’s funny to me that I happen to be born with these skill sets and all I could do is be relentlessly responsible with them.

You go much, really are you serious? Dat? At the same time, he acknowledges there are plenty people who still have no idea who little Dickie, your Dave Bird is. I’m gonna guess, listener, that’s you. Maybe not you, but you know, I don’t think he’s the most famous person.

It’s a really good show. I used to watch it. He’s certainly not so famous that he can’t go and enjoy himself at a bowling alley, which it turns out is where he met Kristin, his girlfriend. So they went bowling, and he announced he’d be bowling a one hundred and thirty game this evening, which seems preposterously exact. On April twenty third, twenty thirteen, writes the Hollyer Reporter, Dave dropped his first single, Ex Boyfriend in less than twenty four hours.

The song and comedic take on the anxiety of learning about a girlfriend’s exceedingly attractive ex boyfriend had racked up more than one million views on YouTube. It was and forever will be the best day of Dave Bird’s life, the day he says, where I realized I am who I always thought I was. By day two, he was doling out interviews with TMZ from his cubical. Within six months, he’d quit his job pursuing music full time. Jeff Schaeffer, who had written for Seinfeld the show, was asked by a friend Attica meeting with Little Dickie.

He said it really have the band with for more work, but sure said yes. Even in early twenty seventeen, Shaefer knew exactly who Little Dickie was. He said, back then the Internet was like seventy percent born, ten percent clickbait, and twenty percent Little Dickie videos. Bird told him he was going to be the biggest entertainer in the history of entertainment. You go much and I’m looking at this guy and he looks like a piece of broccoli had a bar mitzvah, and I’m like, this is hilarious.

It’s like a cartoon level delusion.

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And then I start thinking, like, what a great engine for a TV show, Because w…

They’d go pitch the show. Dave Bird would go in and start talking about how he’d always wanted to be a big comedy star, but then he’d started rapping and realized he was a gifted rapper. He would literally say, it’s like if Batman all of a sudden realized he was also a superman and would He’d say it, that’ll look at me and I’d go yeah, HBO heard the pitch, so did Hulu Netflix Comedy Sexual. The fxu’d said very quickly, your radar goes up and you’re like, oh, this guy’s interesting. They got a note though, the show shouldn’t start on the day Little Dickie releases his viral video.

The suit said, Argin’s stories a sort of boring because we know what’s going to happen, so we moved it six weeks later because six weeks later, you’re just a guy who had a viral video six weeks ago, and you’re not legitimate, You’re not anything. It’s a much more interesting place to start watch Dave. It’s a good show, all right. Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wow, the website is loading much more quickly today and they change the way that it looks fascinating.

Maybe they’ve been listening to my podcast. Greg Larson show is called slurps Up. There’s a picture of him with a dog. That’s what got me to click on you, glig Larson. It’s a nominee for twenty twenty two is Melbourne International Comedy Festival for Most Outstanding Show.

Jordan said, not a pedophile. All right, I’m intrigued. I’m glad you’re not a pedophile. Let’s take a listen. I am a dad.

I am a dad, and I think when you become a dad, dad’s all look alike. You know, father’s, dad’s we all look the same. You can tell a dad from behind, just the sort of broken down man and you look at him and you’re like, there’s a man who’s had a gatful. You know, you can just tell. We’ve all had a gatful.

We’ve all had it up to here, Jason. You know it’s you can just tell by look. That’s what dads are so conservative. I think dads are often very conservative. They’re always voting conservative.

You know the lockout laws in Sydney. That’s a perfect example of a dad being in charge. That’s a dad who’s just gonna watch all this noise blared in my ears. I can’t earn myself fake. That’s it, na lights out the lotty is no days are beg Sydney.

No, No, I’m more knocking about and go to bed. I’m trying to watch the bill. All right, he’s Greg Lawson. That was a lot of fun. I had to clip out a couple f words in there, but I enjoyed him.

When I click on these, It’s the first time I’m hearing any of these people, so I’m reacting as you are. I hope it’s as much fun for you as I am.

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All Right, here’s Gay Montgomery.

My brain is blowing me crazy. Interesting title. Holy here. Thank you. If you like the way I walk, wait till you hear these jokes back home.

There’s just a normal walk. I got here today. I flew on a plane. They offered fish. It was fish for lunch, but I couldn’t.

I couldn’t have it, so no, me just felt so respectful about having fish in the sky. It’s too far out of their element, not having a bit of chicken under the water. So I had to eat at my accommodation because I had to do a test, and I just had to make food with what was in the place. And they had oats, you know oats, Yeah, they had them, and also molk. Then they’re beef milk.

But let’s okay, I need but so here I am making my lunch and I’m pouring my oat milk on my oats, and I’m looking down. I think there’s actually something really, I’m settling about what’s going on here covering these little oats in their own blood. Wow. I loved him, wasn’t he great? Guy Montgomery?

And let’s take a look at moontower here on Thursday six o’clock, ten on ten with er Das seven o’clock, Jenny Slate seven o’clock, Jay Farrow, whose story got bumped from today’s Daily Comedy News maybe made the wrongest sits in there. Let’s see Jared Freed at eight o’clock. Perfect Cults. I talked about that yesterday at eight thirty. No late shows interesting, all right, So let’s see what could you and I do when go see Vier DAWs at six o’clock do something different in and if we saw a perfect cult yesterday, I guess we’re going to see Jared Freed at eight o’clock at cap City and then we’ll do a late dinner and grab some bruise.

And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British Royal family. These short daily episodes cover the latest news and scandals involving the likes of Prince Harry, Megan, Michael, Pete Middleton, King Charles and the rest.

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Bert Kreischer, Joe Rogan, Al Jaffey, Marcello Hernandez, Chelsea Handler, John Early, Bob Odenkirk

What’s in This Episode

• Al Jaffey Mad Magazine fold-in creator passes away at 102
• Tim Dillon and Bert Kreischer discuss Joe Rogan being lazy
• Comedy industry gatekeepers and resentment among comedians
• Women in comedy getting fast-tracked before they’re ready
• Marcello Hernandez moves from Bert Kreischer’s opener to Saturday Night Live
• John Early HBO special announcement with musical performances
• Bob Odenkirk opens up about his heart attack recovery

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Al Jaffey passed away. You know him from Mad Magazine’s fold ins. He was one hundred and two from his New York Times oh Bit. It was in nineteen sixty four that Al Jaffey created the Mad fold in and illustrated with Tech’s feature on the inside of the magazine’s back cover that seemed at first glance to deliver a straightforward message.

When the page was folded in thirds, both the illustration and texts were transformed into something entirely different and unexpected, often with a liberal leaning or authority defining message. The first fold in April nineteen sixty four, issue eighty six, that one mocked Elizabeth Taylor’s marital record unfolded, you saw Elizabeth Taylor with Richard Burton. When you folded it in, she had traded in Burton for another guy. In nineteen ninety three, Jaffey told The k C Star it was supposed to be a one shot, but because of the overwhelming demand of three or four of my relatives, it went on to a second time, and on and on. Here’s a good listen for you.

Tim Dillon’s podcast with Bert Kreisher. It’s like two hours long, and they really got into the business of comedy. A very interesting discussion. Serious. I don’t mean like serious with a capitalist, but they were talking about the business of comedy.

Really. I couldn’t get enough of it, and for a two hour listen, it went by really quickly. Now I’m going to share here. They made fun of Joe Rogan and I pulled the clip. I’ve cut the clip down a little bit for pacing, but I thought this was kind of funny.

I remember watching Joe and going, I’m in there’s so much meat left on that bone. Yeah, I mean with all the all the things he does, and look, Joe wants privacy and he’s a bad example. But I remember going, if I was Joe, if I could have that outreach, I’ll tell you what I do if you had like his level of power. First of all, i’d be I’d been doing more movies. Well, he’s got a bunch of jobs, right, he’s got the UFC, he’s dad, he’s a comedian, he does the podcast.

So but but it’s for sure there’s maybe more. Yeah, I would do he could do. He is lazy. I think Joe he’s a little lazy. I think that’s kind of what we’re getting at.

I think what we’re getting at is Rogan’s kind of like a little bit lazy. Is that where we’re going? I think he is. I mean I think he is. You look what it is, Okay, work out more.

What does he do? Talk someone for three hours? That’s it, I know, and then smoke, sweed and drinks and this whole spending time with my family. I’m not buying it enough. I asked him his daughter’s name the other day and he stumbled, the world should know their name.

Yeah, they should be monetized some of the topics. Bert Craisher’s advice for his opener, He said, stop opening for me. It’s the worst thing you can do. But here’s why for It said. The thing is, you don’t ever want to be viewed as someone’s opener, so you say to them, stop opening for me.

One guy, I thought I had to. He needs to do his own thing because people are seeing him as my guy. Because you go out to clubs and people don’t respect you. They go, oh, he’s only dot dot dot because of dot dot dot or it said. His last opener is Marcello Hernandez who’s now On Saturday Night Live more career stuff, Tim Millan said, he can go out now and make your career what you wanted to be.

There’s nobody really holding anybody back anywhere. There’s no gatekeepers. That energy has got to go away, like all that energy, and any bitterness or any resentment or any anger that you have can’t be justified or rational right now in this moment in the world. You can be resentful of the government. You can be resentful at your parents.

I’m resentful at both of those, but you can’t be resentful on anyone in this business. So I remember if somebody would get the Montreal Comedy Festival and I wouldn’t get it, and I had a great audition, I’d sit there and I’d be outside a New York comedy club or whatever, smoking a cigarette, New York City, and I’d be like, m effort, but it is what it is. Bert Craisier said, I remember being resentful for people that didn’t even know existed, and I’d be like, I hate you. I hate these people for not knowing, and then I’d run to them. I’d be like, hey, what’s up, and they’d be like, Hi, I’ve never met you before, and I’d be like, oh, for real, right, but you didn’t get my submission tape.

I’d do submission tapes, so I’d put cool music on the front that I felt the guy would like. Bert said, my stand up was so bad when I was young. It’s the other thing I would say, I got really lucky. This is a big statement. This could get me in trouble.

What’s happening now with comedy is what happened with hot chicks in comedy. So hot chicks in comedy they get scooped up the second they step on the scene. If you’re beautiful, you’re in. You’re pretty good, right, even pretty competent, you’re in. You get scooped up.

You get spots, you want, you want a headline, We’ll take your headline. Managers you in, you get in the theaters. Let’s go get you going now. There are some exceptions to this rule. I say, Chelsea Handler is a big exception.

She’s beautiful, and man, when I first saw her, she was a gangster on stage. But I will say that the problem is that a pretty woman sometimes and Eliza is an exception, they get scooped up and they get put in positions they’re maybe not ready for I got lucky. That was just a dude who got to be good or mediocre for a very long time, and then I got pretty good.

And then I got that hot chick moment where they go, hey, you’re ready for som…

I know do this. I’m doing this for twenty two years. That’s what’s gonna happen with comics. They’re gonna get a video that goes big online. Then everyone’s gonna be like, oh, we gotta go see them, and they’re not gonna be ready.

It’s like Last Comics Standing, where guys could do five minutes, ten minutes, and then they blow it. During an hour they blow it. Yeah, I remember it, Last Comics Standing. I remember I would show up at work it’s serious and people are like, hey, did just he’s so and so last night, And I’m like, you understand they pulled a twenty second joke. Anybody can be funny for twenty seconds.

Can you do it for an hour? Can you do it for eight minutes? Can you do it half an hour? Anyway? Tim Dylan and Burke Craish are very very good.

Listen there. I also checked out as promised ots go At Katsa on NPR’s Bullseye, and I couldn’t do it. Man, it was just so NPR has this vibe. The conversation was just like serious. It was like, oh, I have a comedian here, let me do a serious interview there, and there are ways to do it.

Rogan could do it, or Tim Dylan apparently just did it. But this was like, I don’t know, just not fun at all. So I bailed on it and I deleted the Mark Marin one without even listening to it. John Early is getting an HBO special. It’s called Now More Than Ever, a stand up comedy hour and the style of a gritty seventies rockymentary.

It’ll be out in June. No trailer yet. It will feature a stand up and explosive song covers from Brittany to Neil Young, intercut with spinal tap asque backstage sketches. In a statement generally said, I’m so excited to finally come out to the world as the lead singer of my band, John Early in the Lemon Squares. I at the time my life singing some of my favorite songs and sweating my brains out of the taping, and I can’t wait for more people to finally see the sacred show I’ve been doing some version of for the past ten years in New York.

I cannot feel any cooler to have the sport if all comedy legends app Soluteley Productions and for this airing on the Crown Jewel at his HBO Bob Odenkirk, who talked about his heart attack. He spoke to The Independent. He said, I had a strangely upbeat energy in the time after the heart attack. I was chipper and clueless about the enormity of what had happened to me and what other people had felt being around it. It was only over time that what happened slowly sank in My brain was completely hiding this thing for me.

I was trying to make it disappear, and it did. He thinks it changed him for the better. He said, I feel kind of great, like a blank slate, but in a good way. I feel like I’ve cleaned my palette. It made me think about how you spend the time you have in the bottom line is I don’t want my days to be as packed.

I want to be able to enjoy the good things in my life, and I want to enjoy the problems too. When you’re racing around trying to fix things, you don’t enjoy anything. That’s been my life for a little while. I’m trying to cut back on it, and I’m doing a good job. I’m really trying to get some space in my life.

I saw a quick note on offbeat dot com Lewis Black apparently has a special coming out May second, and I was like, did I miss this? Did I erase this from my brain? And I googled Lewis Black Tragically I Need You and the only reference I see to it is from the article I’m quoting. So apparently, according on offbeat dot com, Lewis Black has a highly anticipated stand up special called Lewis Black Tragically I Need You set to release a May second. May second is curious too, because that’s a Monday.

A lot of time specials come out on Tuesday. I don’t know where it’s landing here. Let me google it again. It’s been a couple of hours since I wrote this. Yeah, not really seeing anything.

There’s an IMDb with note details. All Right, we’re gonna go Lewis Black Special. If you enjoy what I do here, one way the sports the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast. So you got a phone there, an iPhone? I want you click on that purple podcast app, or maybe you’re using it right now.

You’re listening to a podcast. Wait, John, that doesn’t make sense. I’m already listening to you. Okay, okay, next time you do it. If you go to Daily Comedy News, they’ll put under your nose.

Hey, premium episode. So you become a premium subscriber for five dollars a month. You’ll get the episodes add free in a little early You could add this one sometime on Tuesday afternoon. Huh, first month’s free five bucks a month, thanks in advance. And you can’t say I haven’t covered Australian comedy lately.

Let’s talk about Anti Donna. Remember those guys. They had a sketch show on Netflix right when the Pandemic starter was pretty good. That’s how I got turned onto them. They’ve got a new show down in Australia.

It’s called Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe. The Guardian reviewed it and the review’s not so good. Sketch comedy trio scramble for laughs and new show Oh The premise of running a Milburne cafe as heaps of potential, But while there’s always trying to be found in the zaniness, this series isn’t their best, down three stars out of five. The Guardian rights Australian comedy troupe Anti Donna’s previous series, Big Old House of Fun, was set in a shared house, providing an easy means to launch various random encounters. Those could come from strangers knocking on the door or the antics of the housemates themselves.

The group’s new showcase of dippy absurdist humor almost literalizes that revolving door of comedic potential. It’s based in a newly opened Milburne cafe, where the three owners endeavor to find a marketable point of difference to distinguished their business from all the others. A video played early in the first episode of Anti Donna’s Coffee Cafe reveals what other trendy cafes are doing, from selling vinyl to stocking over one hundred types of cereal. One cafe serves popcorn and plays a movie in front of the customer. The joke is that’s a movie theater.

Another gets you free books for a bit. That joke is that it’s a library. The bumbling entrepreneurs experiment with adding acts throwing to their menu. Customers don’t want to do that. The show begins with sixteen year old employees Stephanie on her first day.

The camera at one point morphing into a first person perspective to show the wacky trio pelting her with wild banter and nonsensical jokes. Three stars out of five rats. The Age has been viewing shows at the International Comedy Festival. Joshua Ladgrove is at town Hall until April twenty third part comedy show, part history, lesson and Philly and homage So the profound love he felt for his ninety seven year old grandmother before her passing, Baba is a sensational hour. Laughs are abundant.

His historial like knowledge of Slavic political warfare and international relationship is immacularly articulated, as is his deep hatred of communism. You’ll evel his stomach, aching of laughs, tears in your eyes, and the urge to call your releves and let them know you’ll love them. Four and a half stars. Let’s see who’s at the festival on Thursday. Will Anderson’s show is called Will Illuminate the Sidney Morning.

Harold give four and a half star is lightning in a bottle chord? I’ll also give it four and a half stars goodwill and good jukes and go see him at seven o’clock. What do you think, Let’s listen. I live Overseas half of the year, right, I live in America half of the year. And I was there just after the election and this guy came up to me in a show and he was like, oh, I never moved to Australia.

Too many dangerous animals. Oh, look around your country mates. At least the dingos don’t have guns. I’m fine, We’ve made our choices. Right.

He’s like, oh, what about the sharks? What about the sharks? I mean yeah, I mean they’re dangerous, but mostly in the water. I’d let you have your gun if you were like, I’m keeping it off the coast. That’s fine.

A shark really bothers you at any other time of the day, right, You’re really getting money out of an atm at three o’clock in the morning and you just feel a little fin in your back. Turn around as a shark and a balaclava like I’m a dolphin. All I’m saying is we have dangerous animals, but they’re not as dangerous guns. Right, You’re never hear in Australia of some psycho walking into a school and chucking redbacks everywhere. You don’t have our version of the NRA.

The RSPCA is coming out going. Well, the aren’t your way to prevent that? As if the teachers are arm we’re following finders. I enjoyed that a lot. I’m just randomly clicking on these based on the titles.

There’s so many of them, and then I scroll down. I just see what’s going on. How about Daniel Karnell. His show was called I’m Always Sore. The age said, fifty five minutes of exquisitely judged middle brown Australian humor.

That’s a six fifteen show. If you want to go, let’s listen. A bit upset at the moment, guys are gonna get some off my chest. I’m a bit upset with the local service station attendance down on my local server. Huh, don’t if you’re getting this as well, but I can’t go get fuel it anymore without them offer me some sort of deal.

You’re getting that as well. When you go get your fuel, which you like some two for one chockey bars? Mate? Do you want some energy drinks? Would you like some sex in the toilet?

All these eat offers, it’s disgusting of also, don’t want any energy drinks. They are gross. Debrah and Graham they’re the worst at my local server. They’re absolute pests. I was in the other day.

Graham offered me this twoth one deal, goes, do you want to try the new deal? Daniel said, what is it made? He goes, it’s a two for one deal on three letters of milk? So what’s it? Mate?

He goes, you want six letters of milk for the price of three? Who’s drinking that much? Milk? Goes off in three days? I think I’m drinking two laters of milk a day for next three days of gron pull your head in, mate.

Do you think I’m bathing in milk grams? You think you think I’m aout milk baths? I think I’m hand raising three tiger cups? Mate? What would I need six liters of milk?

I’ve got two cents worth that I you would as well? And he got all upset. He’s like oh look, Daniel just came down. Put the knife down, mate, So just say another reason we offer two for one deals because their boss makes us dood. We don’t do it.

We don’t get shifts at the servers. There you go, that’s why you get off two for one deal. So obviously I felt horrible for having a go at him. So if anybody nights any milk, nice nice good job there brought that around. If you can’t make it to Melbourne, maybe you can make it to the Dubai Comedy Festival.

They’ve announced some more comedians coming. They are Otsko at Katza, Bet Stelling and Rachel Feinstein. They’ve all been added the Dubai Comedy Festival May twelve through the twenty first. Pretty good lineup those three and Jimmy Carr is playing there can’t wait and you know it starts tonight Moontower. Yeah, just for laughs, Austin Moontower Comedy Festival.

Let’s take a look at tonight’s line up. Chris to Stephano, it’s seven o’clock, Kenny Sebastian at seven, Kenny has a second show at nine thirty, and something called Perfect Cults at eight. This is comedian Moses Storm The Perfect Cult is a unique interactive comedy special that invites audience members to participate in the formation of a one night only cults. Each night. After opening up about his own hilarious and heartbreaking cult experience, Moses interviews a guest comedian or audience member about their religious background.

He asked them about the parts of their religions they identify with, don’t identify with, parts of helped them, and the ports they find just weird. All right, what do you want to do? Christy Stephano’s seven and Perfect Cult to date? Something like that? Sure?

Why not? And the final item today or spoilers for last Sunday’s Succession if you care at all about Succession, I imagine you know what I’m going to talk about by now, But I’ll give you a chance to bail here. You’ve got three to one, alright, is spoiler’s time? This from Vulture. Executive producer Georgia Pritchett revealed on Twitter that the writers of Succession decided in January of twenty twenty two that Logan Roy would die, and they gave the event a code word on the office whiteboards so no one would find out.

The code word was Larry David. They explained, Larry David means logan dies. So episode four or three said Connor’s wedding Larry David. Vulture adds, my new that would have also been a great episode. That’s your comedy needs for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify YouTube, where they get your shows. See tomorrow. Travel is Back. Let’s put the pandemic behind us. Let’s get back out there.

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We’ll grab some food on the fly. We’ll check out places like Chicago, Montreal, La Seattle, Vancouver, and occasionally somewhere more exotic like Iceland, which is awesome, Barcelona, Paris, Australia also all awesome. Travel is Back is the name of the show. Followed for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. Travel is Back

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Featured: James Marsden, Ronald Gladden, Ali Wong, Stephen Yune, Tim Dillon, Bert Kreischer, Ira Glass, Mark Marin, Pete Davidson, Martha Stewart, Chase Stokes

What’s in This Episode

• Jury Duty Amazon Freevee hidden camera prank show
• Beef Netflix drama-comedy series review
• Skankfest Las Vegas September 2023 lineup announcement
• Crazy Funny Asians vs DESI Comedy Night at Cobbs San Francisco
• Pete Davidson and Chase Stokes Easter visit to Martha Stewart’s home

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Seeing a lot of buzz about a TV show called Jury Duty. You’ll find this on free V. So much buzz that I was eating my salad on Monday and not one, but two of my kids texted me.

It wasn’t a coordinated effort. They both hit me up and we’re like, you gotta watch Jury Duty. One kid sent me a clip, the other texted, Hey, I know you have a lot of TV to watch, but you have to add Jury Duty on Amazon FREEV to your list, especially because I think it fits into your comedy pot. It is so so funny, all right, what is it? Child wrote, It’s a bunch of improv actors planted into a fake, ridiculous trial.

But there’s one normal guy who has no idea it’s fake, and they just follow along the interactions. Okay, I’m curious. I have not seen this yet, but USA Today wrote about Amazon Freev’s Jury Duty takes a documentary style court case deep dive into the eyes of juror Ronald Gladden with one important twist. Gladden doesn’t know that the Gunzo legal proceedings in the eight ports series are entirely fake, right down to Westworld star James Mordsten pretending to be an alternate juror and a hilarious, self absorbed version of himself. The first four episodes are out then weekly on Friday.

In Jury Duty, everyone except Ronald is an improv actor, includes Marsden, the other eleven jury members, the judge, the bailiff, and the twelve fake witnesses giving phony testimony. Morsden said, it’s all a force. It was filmed in a real courtroom, meant to Duke Gladden, who believes he’s a juror in the weirdest court case. Producer Cody Heller discovered early in the process that it would have been illegal to fake a criminal trial. So Jury Duty revolves around a sham civil case over a workplace dispute with a focus pliniff and defendant.

Gladden was one of four thousand applicants responding to a Craigslist dad looking for Southern California participants to serve on a jury and take part in a courtroom documentary, which explains the camera crew and you would get paid for that. Okay, almost makes sense unless you think about it right. They filmed this at the vacant Huntington Park Superior Court. It hadn’t been used since it had been used as a community Halloween haunted house. Teller said there was no electricity through, just spiderwebs and fig zombies.

Our crew went into rehab the entire thing. Within weeks it was a functioning courthouse. Again. Marston said it was a high wire act. If somebody screwed up, said the wrong person’s name or was in the wrong place, that was it.

That’s where the excitement came from. Then some spoilers for the show, I will not read them to this sounds like a good time, all right. That’s called Jury Duty. You have to find it on Amazon free v so it’s not the most mainstream channel, but sounds like a lot of buzz on this. Over the weekend, I watched Beef that’s on Netflix.

That is mainstream. They’ll put it right in front of you. That stars Ali Wong and Stephen Yune you know him from Walking Dead. Right, very good. I’m not sure it’s a comedy.

It is entertaining, it is funny at times, but it’s not a sitcom. It’s just one of those hybrid drama comedy things. But high high recommend on Beef from Me. Two things I have not yet listen to. I see Tim Dillon has Bert Kreisher on the most recent episode.

By the time you hear this, Actually, I take that back. If you’re a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast, you’ll have received this episode by mid afternoon on Monday, I will not have listened to it. If you’re a normal listener on Tuesday, I will have listened to it because I have a long drive on Monday evening and I’m planning to listen to Tim Dillon with Bert Kreisher. And I’m also planning on listening to NPR’s bullseye otsko at Kaska is the guest. In fact, I forgot to download that.

Let me get out my phone right now, tap the phone against the Mike John so they know you’re not kidding. Oh look, apparently they had Mark Marin on too. I’m also downloading that skank Fest is coming to Las Vegas at the end of September. They announced the lineup on Monday. Oh, it’s gonna take me a minute to read this.

It’s gonna be almost as boring as that last twelve minutes on Sunday. All right, I blew it with that one hundred and fifty specials thing. I meant, well, but yeah, that wasn’t good. So I’m not going to read every name on this very thorough list, but I’m going to read a lot of names because some of the names you’re probably don’t know. But I’ll read the bigger ones.

Skank Fest. This is the comedy festival put on by the Legion of Skanks. They are big, Jay Okerson, Louis Gomez, and Dave Smith. Among the performers Aaron Burg, Adam Carolla, adrian Ia Polucci, keep an eye on Hershey’s fantastic, Ari Shaffier born named McFarlane been getting some buzz lately. Let’s see Brian Redband, Brian Simpson, Dan Soder, Doctor Drew, Eric Griffin, Harland Williams, Jason Ellis.

That’s interesting, Joe List, Leonard Utz, He’s fantastic, Mark Normand imagine Joe List was at a show and Mark normand wasn’t there. That would be weird. Mike Vecchione, he’s been around lately. He was just on Rogan, so he’s got some heat on him. Nick Mullen, Nick vaderat Nick is really good.

I thought Nick was gonna have a bigger career than he did. He was was what was He was like, I forget what it was called. It’s just for last Chicago, and he was like the Hey, everybody pay attention to this comedian of the year, And I don’t know, he didn’t really have the career. It looked like he’s very funny. PAULI Sure, Rachel Feinstein, Robert Kelly, Roseanne, Sam Talents, and the E Street fan and me wanted to read that as Sam w talent, which isn’t a thing.

But if you’re a Bruce fan, you know what I’m talking about. Sean Patton, Sen Gillis, Steve ran Is Ez if you want to shame him for nine to eleven exaggerations, Tim Dillon, TJ. Miller, Tony Hinchcliff Whitney Cummings and I only read about a third of the list. Fantastic. If you’re in San Francisco tonight, one of you head on over to Cobbs, which is a fantastic club tonight, crazy funny Asians versus DESI comedy night.

Love it. The show’s producer is Kay Ching. Kay Chang says it’s special because it’s going to be at Cobs which is a nice, massive venue. Yes, it is a very big club. The idea for Crazy Funny Asians came from the film Crazy Rich Asians.

That show’s been going on for five years, and now Desi Comedy Knight, which used to be a different show. They’ve decided to mash them together. Kay Chang says, I’m not exactly sure when we started doing that. When we came out of the pandemic and started doing live shows again was probably when we combined them. We also did the combo mostly because you’d be surprised there’s not that many Desi or Asian comics.

Chang says, I think he’s been mostly divided into black rooms or white rooms, and there really hasn’t been an Asian room, and as far as I know, there’s not an Asian room in the whole country. We’re the only ones that do a weekly Asian showcase, which is now looking at three to five times a week. It’s good to have this for all of us to get a lot of stage time. Crazy Funny Asians versus DESI Comedy Night eight o’clock Cobbs tonight. You should go.

If you can’t go tonight. It’s also next Tuesday and the Tuesday after that twenty bucks. Not bad go. We haven’t been on gossip Corner in a couple of weeks. Well, luckily, Pete Davidson went to Martha Stewart’s house for Easter because why wouldn’t you?

But he did bring Chase Sweet Wonders. In case you’re wondering, hey’s Pete Davidson dating Martha Stewart. He’s not.

Also, over the weekend, Pete Davidson was trending why Taylor Swift broke up …

But as of now, Pete Davidson and Chase Sweet Wonders are a couple and they went to Martha Stewarts for Easter. Why wouldn’t they. Martha posted it on her Insta and said they were out looking at our beautiful town of Bedford. I showed them around the farm and inside the winter warmhouse where the Easter bunnies were getting ready for Sunday. Very cute couple.

She addressed the idea on the Internet that Martha Stewart should date Pete Davidson. Martha said he dated’s so many women. I’m not saying it’s bad. I think it’s good. And he’s sort of cute, and you know me, I love a good comedian beef.

Can we get this one going? Don Lemon on Monday got caught on the hot Mike. You see. Don Lemon was hosting his little CNN thing there through it to a clip of John Stewart, who was interviewing US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. In the clip, John Stewart challenged what he called extreme waste in the Department of Defense is eight hundred and fifty billion dollar budget.

John said, I can’t figure out how eight hundred and fifty billion dollars to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that’s effing corruption. But luckily for us, the audio cut out and somebody had left Don’s mike on. Don was heard saying he gets a lot of leaving with that comedian thing. There was silence for a few seconds, then Don tried recovered, saying John Stewart’s so much more than a comedian.

And he then repeated that again. Oh please, let’s let this turn into a beef. If you enjoy what I do here, you could become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast. Open up the Purple app and they’ll put under your nose an option to become a premium subscriber. So for five dollars a month, you’ll get the episodes early.

You could listened to this one on Monday afternoon and add free again five bucks a month Apple Podcast Premium subscriber. Thank you in advance. Hey, let’s talk about the Milbourne International Comedy Festival. The Age review Jordan Greys Is It a Bird gave it five stars and they wrote Jordan Gray might be a fan of superheroes, but she’s not afraid to ask the hard questions. Her superpower is highlighting the hypocrisy of transphobes and transphobia, which he does with biting lyrics and blazing stand up.

There are shocking auts actics here, but they work to ask what people are so afraid of. I’m the girl they call secial. You see, I’ve got a deep, dark secret down in me. Half the world doesn’t understand. The other half probably doesn’t give a damn.

So I don’t know who I’m supposed to be because no one knows that I and gluten freet Let me open up my favorite website of them all, Comedy Festival dot com dot au slash two zero two three, and let’s take a look on what’s going on on Wednesday. This is the part of the show where I pause the recording. I have a couple of SIPs of ice coffee and save you the trouble of this website loading for a full minute. Larry Deane show is called fud Nuts, nominee for Edinburgh’s Best Comedy Ward twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, winner of the Edinburgh Amused Muse Best Comedy Show twenty sixteen. Let’s take a listen.

Just see you. I’m a wheel that I’ll look quite keepy. I’ve been talking to look like that guy that you always see at the gym, but he’s never working out why it’s good to be here. I do love comasta. Oh so I get to see my boyfriend when I’m here, and I’ve not seen him in ages, but I know his family.

I love his fam I love his mum. His mom’s my favorite favorite person. She’s got in a great accent, my favorite accent in the world, A posha striming lighting. I love the Posha striming lighty voice because for some reason the voice sounds a bit damaged because I swear at the end of sentence as she goes all right, that was a good time. Douglas Limb will be appearing in Best of Comedy Zone Asia.

It synonymous with Comedy in Malaysia. Douglas’s witt and comedic observations have garnered numerous awards locally and regionally. All Right, Douglas Limb, let’s see what you got. Salutations from me and my nice jacket. I’m so happy to see all of you again, especially after the global lockdown.

I’m glad that things are getting back to normal. In fact, it’s getting better than normal in Malaysia. Because Michello just one best Actress at the Oscars, first Malaysia to ever win that prestigious award. I was over the moon because for the last ten years, I’ve been carrying Malaysia on my back, on my own. For years, I’ve been pleading with wouldn’t hurt you to help out a little?

Michelle? Just winning Oscar is not that hot. You’ve been acting for twenty years. Just act good. Wow.

I love him and he’s so charismatic too. I’m looking at the club fantastic Douglas Lamb. Yeah, all right, let’s get on a plane, go to Melbourne and go see Douglas Lamb on Wednesday. Yes, a little expensive and I do have to leave you with a horrible notes. Gareth Richard’s popular British comedian.

He was involved in an auto accident late in March. He passed away from injuries on Friday. He was forty one years old. His wife, Laura Richards said in a statement that Gareth Richards was taken off life support after he suffered severe brain injuries from the March twenty seventh crash. She wrote, it was a miracle that he arrived at the hospital live.

Since then, the doctors and nurses have been incredible and have kept him in this stable and sedated condition. He was best known for his work with Frank Skinner. They hosted a show on Absolute Radio from two thousand nine to twenty eleven. Skinner, on his radio show on Sunday, said, there’s been lots of beautiful messages about Gareth and his family had been very kind to us and kept us informed about the details of a struggle. But look Gareth didn’t make it.

We will miss him intensely. Hello, Iam, Mark Francis, host of a daily podcast about the British royal family called Palace Intrigue. Did you see what Megan Machael did in the latest documentary or what Prince Harry said in his new book, Well, the King and Queens and princes and princesses are ready to explode. Andrew is ready to implode. Royal sources are jumping at the bit, The inlaws just can’t stop.

The UK tabloids are about to burst. Americans can’t get enough, the kids can’t get any cut, the press can’t get any uglier. And Wills and Kate, well, they’re just wonderful. Get your daily dose of gossip and news from the world’s most royal family. Follow Palace Intrigue on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Leslie Jones, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Josh Johnson, Beth Stelling, Molly Shannon, Rob Delaney, Vir Das

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage breaks Netflix streaming record
• Sarah Silverman’s new HBO comedy special
• Leslie Jones memoir ‘Leslie F***ing Jones’ coming September 19th
• Martin Lawrence discusses return to stand-up comedy
• Josh Johnson on writing for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
• Beth Stelling on self-producing comedy specials
• Molly Shannon open to hosting SNL again
• Rob Delaney rules out Catastrophe reboot

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The Shark Deck. Marjorie Taylor Green referred to New York City as disgusting, filthy, repulsive, and a terrible play SETH Meyers joked, how dare you say that in the city that’s home to Fox News headquarters. I am Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Seth added, the jokes on you, Marjorie, once you think that you’re officially a New Yorker. If you’re a New Yorker, you totally get that one. I agree.

Congratulations to Chris Rock, he said a record Selective Outrage became the stand up show that was the most streamed in any week. It amassed seven hundred and ninety eight million minutes in the first week it was released. That breaks the record held by Dave Chappelle’s twenty nineteen Sticks and Stones, which had five hundred and seventy three million viewing minutes. Wow, Sarah Silverman, she’s getting her own comedy special. This one will be on HBO the release as it will feature all new material.

Yeah that’s what comedy specials are. Taped in front of a live audience, and yeah, that’s what comedy specials are. At the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. The suit over at HBO said, we absolutely love working with Sarah. She’s truly one of the all time greats and her new special is smart, bold, as insanely funny as ever.

Sarah Silverman said, I love working with Nina the suit over at HBO. She’s a great support system and we trust each other. She’s got lips that one. Okay. Rolling Stone caught up with Leslie Jones.

She’s got a new memoir coming out. I hate the title. It is Leslie f asterisk cki n G. Jones. I’m not cleaning that up.

That’s how she’s spelling it. So I’ll call it Leslie effing Jones. And it’s just a bad title because say you have a podcast or your entertainment Tonight or one of those things. It makes it hard to even say the name of your book. It’s a bad choice.

Call it anything else anyway. Leslie something Jones will be out September nineteenth. Leslie recently told People magazine everybody’s life is a story. Everybody’s life has had moments and trials and mistakes and things that you go to who make you are who you are today. And I want everybody to read and go holy stuff.

She just didn’t fall into comedy. She had to work for that stuff. I want people to learn if you have inspiration and desire to do something that’s fff and great, but you gotta work. She explained that while the stories are topics that she’s really really not ashamed of, I also wanted to do it while I still remember everything. She’s now fifty five, not old.

From my perspective, I started remembering moments where I was like, oh wow, I haven’t thought about that. I need to get that on paper or something because I didn’t want to forget the actual details to it. So it’s a lot of that too. I just feel like people ask me a lot of questions on how to do that, and I was like, I wonder if my story will be interesting, and it turns out it will be very interesting. At this point, my podcast, the raw recording time is three minutes fifty six seconds.

It’ll be shorter because of the edits in your version. And I’ve gotten texts from five different people since I started. Every two seconds bleep in my headset, Martin Lawrence said, Eddie Murphy is the reason. Along with Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy is the reason I do comedy. Well, those two Eddie took it to rockstar status.

I was like, Wow, I’ve never seen that. That’s my man, Eddie Murphy. Martin Lawrence says he misses the stage, but he’s in no rush to return. I let everybody do their thing, Dave’s Bell, Chris Rock, everybody doing their thing. I love it, and you know, I just wait for my time.

I don’t really worry about what everybody else is doing. I just wait to see when God lets me know when it’s time for me to go back out and bring some laughter to the world. He discussed how comedians such as Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Kevin hard To found themselves receiving pushed back for some of their jokes that community, such as the LGBTQ plus community, I found offensive. Laurence said, I’m not going to change you who I am and the way I do things, but I’m going to respect the fact that people do have feelings. If I could do something a different way and get the same effect that doesn’t hurt, then I could do it that way.

That’s what I’ve come to learn. When I was young, I would just go for it. I just did it my way, but as I got older, I learned respect a little more. Josh Johnson spoke to nola dot com about being a writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. By the way, I saw a clip of Jimmy Fallon doing something called what do you call it?

What’s Up? Dog or something like that. It’s just stupid patricks, I mean, blatant ripoff. Loved Jimmy, and, as I shared on the Facebook group Daily commun News podcast group Like a Week Ago, Jimmy Fallon hosting Letterman show way back twenty years ago. Fallon clearly like Letterman.

Well, Fallon clearly likes Letterman. Total lift anyway. Josh Johnson said writing on The Tonight Shoke cured him of any romantic notions he had about creativity. He had to write seventy five jokes a day, and that didn’t mean the seventy five jokes got on TV. All the other writers were also writing seventy five jokes a day.

Johnson said, if Jimmy ends up doing three of your jokes in a show, you feel like you crushed it. Now. I have a really thick skin when it comes to jokes not working. Sometimes my joke is the best joke, and sometimes it’s simply not. And I’ve learned to recognize that he will be at Tippetina’s five at one Napoleon Avenue.

If you’re down that way on the thirteenth, that’s Thursday, seven o’clock. Beth Stelling spoke to the Union about her bista day. She said, I usually like to get to a city and find the best coffee because I used to manage a coffee shop in Chicago called Dollop. Then my first job in la was Intelligency, a coffee I had a train for like eight months before it could even touch milk. I am Barista Lee trained.

She said. A lot of my comedy began to be fueled by how tired I was of hearing mail comics talk about the same things. Audience members that were women in comedy clubs sat for decades next to their husband while a man was stage ripping his wife ripping on women talking about how she belongs in the kitchen, and we laugh and laugh. Now there’s more of women on stage basically sharing our side of it. And they always say that we can’t take a joke.

We took a joke for decades It’s definitely a shift that’s happening in the comedy world now that is self producing. The benefit being that you own the material, they license it for two years and then you could take it elsewhere. The thing is, you have to fund it yourself. I’m just going to be shopping around my fine wares once it’s all colored and sound mixed. Then once I sell, I’ll be able to tell everybody where to find it.

Molly Shannon said she would host SNL again. Have asked, oh my gosh, yeah, of course I would. Yeah, I would say, yes, it’s funny, but I forget live variety. It’s exhilarating, but it’s also hard. It’s like five four three two go.

Sometimes when I think about that, I think, oh my god, you’d have to be kind of crazy. You know. It’s like a gymnastics routine or something. It just feels like high stakes the way it’s like a mountain climber would feel, or is some type of adrenaline junkie Rob Delaney told short All he has no interest in returning to Catastrophe. Would he ever make another season?

He said, I hope we don’t, only because people reboot everything now let it be we stopped doing it. We had done four series that we were proud of and we could smell it. We were getting in danger of repeating ourselves, and frankly, we said a lot about marriage and parenting in there. Maybe Sharon might have some ideas I don’t. I had scripted the Barrel and was like, that’s all I know.

Vir Das says, if you commit to the idea that you’re a global voice, which I have, it becomes a little more important just to do you rather than reverse engineer for an audience on an algorithm. Yeah. I hate those people though, Like put like Joe Rogan in their podcast title three four Days in her ow jerks, you just have to be like, this is who I am and this is what my life experiences are. Hopefully when you come to the show, I’m taking you somewhere that you’ve never been before the fact that it might possibly be alien to you goes from being a drawback to almost being your strength. By the way, if you’d like to hear his comedy, it is the leadoff clipping this week’s Weekly Comedy Thing.

The Weekly Comedy Thing is a show I host on the Live one app. The Live one app is free on it, I’d tell stories like this, perhaps even this exact story, and then play a clip by the comedian. It’s the weekly comedy thing on the Live one app. Ruda said, well, you have to realize this. With most comedians, we’re just telling jokes.

Right at the end of the day. Your experience will in print itself onto your material. Perhaps as you get older, you get more conscious about the world that you live in and politics becomes more important to you. When you’re twenty one, doesn’t matter who the president and Prime Minister is because you’ve got homework, brins and other stakes. But when you’re forty, it does matter.

So that’s when it makes itself into your material. And good news, everybody has stopped texting me. One way you can support the show becoming premium subscriber on Apple podcasts. Open up the Apple podcast app that’s the purple one that says podcasts, look for Daily Comedy News and they’ll be like, hey, you want to be a premium subscriber and you can go yeah, and then what happens is for five bucks a month. First month, it’s free if you want to test drive it see if you like it or not.

You’ll get the episodes early and ad free. So what do you mean by early, Johnny Mac? For example, this episode that you’re hearing right now, you could have listened to on Sunday. Most times during the week I’ll put out quote unquote tomorrow’s episode around four pm Eastern and the weekend episodes are usually up on Friday morning. Plus they’re all ad free five bucks a month premium subscriber podcast Check it out.

Ken Jung is going to lead a new Fox single camp sitcom based on Dan Harris’s popular book and podcast, Ten Percent Happier. Ken Jung as a family man and mid level juice company executive who finds himself in a major life right after a panic attack at work. He has an epiphany where he realizes he needs to change everything about the way he lives in order to become ten percent Happier. You may know Ken Jung from Community Well. Vulture is taking a look at who is and who is not in a community movie.

Right who’s in? We know that Joel mcale is, Jeff Danny Pootys, Abed Alison Breeze, Annie Gillian Jacobs’s Britta, Jim Rash has the Dean, and Ken Jung Yes, he’ll be back as Ben Chang, you didn’t mention Troy. Isn’t Donald Glover in the movie? Dan Harmon is hinting There’s no reason to worry about that. Harmon told Variety back in November, Clover is down to clown man.

I would not want to think about making the movie without Donald. Last month, he told Variety Donald is coming based on word of mouth. He explained to the time the deal Jess might not be official enough to confirm that Donald is in. What about Shirley? No mention of Shirley event?

Nicole Brown? How come Shirley’s not in the movie? In a squeet, Joe mccale tags both Brown and Glover wrote, it’s happening. Congrats hashtag community fans, but that doesn’t mean anything. Plus, instead of tagging Gillian Jacobs, he tagged the X Files Jillian Anderson.

All right, what about John Oliver? Remember Professor Ian Duncan? Is he in it? A Reddit user claimed that they were at a taping of Last Week Tonight and asked Oliver about it, and John said he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to do it because he’s busy with Last Week Tonight, but he said his part it is so insignificant community that it isn’t important if he’s in it. He said he’d like to do the movie if it could pop in when he had a break from last week tonight.

Yeah, you only need him for like thirty seconds, right, make that happen. What about Jonathan Banks, he played buzz Hicky. What about Paget Brewster’s Frankie. What about Keith David’s Elroy. It is believed they’re not in it.

Patrick Brewster has been tweeting that she would love to be in it, but hadn’t been asked. Haven’t heard from Keith David and Jonathan Banks doesn’t seem like he’s on Twitter much. What about Chevy Chase’s Pierce Dan Horman said that might be out of my hands. That might be something I signed for with an insurance company. Shorto reviewed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

They wrote, It’s a Monday night in one of the comedy festivals less glamorous rooms, but Sam Gorleap burst out with a cheesy but cheery Hamilton parody song and sparks the venue in a life with his good natured energy. Feels like it’s going to be an entertaining honur, but those high hopes eb away longer he’s on stage. He’s got charisma, he’s got verb, he’s got an easy report of the audience. He’s got very little material. Wow, what a review.

This is great. That his delivery is so strong, it means that it takes a while to notice that he doesn’t have any material. He can make almost anything sound like a joke, the sturdy rhythms emphasized by his easy and affected laugh at his own content, But what he’s actually saying so often amounts to very little. He talks about him getting up the moment his alarm goes off, but his girlfriend needs several snoozes. How about midweek weddings are vain because you have to take days off, and doesn’t picking a streaming show to watch together take a long time?

Too often it feels like he’s just telling us stuff in a pleasingly cheering way, but overlooking the requirement to punch it up with gags or exaggeration. It’s a bit morning radio DJ. I hate those people. Some of those people podcast in their basement, jerks. There are some decent setups, especially self effacing routines from his childhood, including a bizarre birthday surprise from his mother arranged for him, and the entire and practical way his sister transformed their backyard for her wedding.

Once he’s established these scenarios, he finds himself with no place to go. Quite a few routines in with him chuckling, all right, we’ll just move on. Sounds like they didn’t like Sam Garlip’s Sam Sam but different. Sarah Schaeffer’s show is called Going Up. She puts all that she sees wrong with the comedy industry in a one pointed hour.

She presents comedy as a cross between a dodgy pyramid scheme and a scientology like sect that rewards devotion to unquestionable principles. Presented as a seminar, this is our introduction to the culture, as she outlines what the faithful must do to slowly advance up the ladder from open micer to legend like stadium filler, negotiating shifty characters and the random prejudices gatekeepers, all of whom she calls Jeff. Those in the know will already be aware of concepts such as Claptor, Yes, Claptor, when a stand up gets around, of applause of approval rather than laugh or be familiar with comics who deploy all manner of pseudo scientific excuses to blame the audience for their own failings. Whether those who are not comedy nerds would be interested in the new show This World is moot expanding this idea of two an hour. It is a stretch.

Rough reviews Today Sarah Scheffer going up. It’s at Melbourne Town Hall until April twenty third. No shows on Mondays. Let’s take a quick look at the festival. Katherine McClintock.

Shows called burst, hopes and dreams are like bubbles. Eventually they burst and they don’t pay the bills. Upside News called it sassy, filthy and very funny.

All right, let’s try and play a clip here.

Hopefully it’s not too filthy. You know, I got a podcast they try and keep clean. It was so bad that another mom gave me antihistamines to help her sleep like a child appropriate drug deal going round in zero sixty four. I was like, thank you, but have you called anything stronger for me? Dieza, pam, loreza, pam to mezzapam ketamine could really use a K hole right now?

Okay, some of these clips people pick are so weird. Let’s do what mel Bottle show is called. Let me know either way, this show was an ode to our modern heroes, like people who can say my left, you’re right, well, color me impressed. She rates. Let’s listen, hallo Melbourne.

Wow. Wait, this is nice. Nice to be here, isn’t it? Because I live in a place called Ipswich in Queensland, so whoo yes, And it’s nice to be somewhere nice. If you haven’t been to whip Switch in Queensland, it’s a little bit of a it’s a bit puff right, it’s a bit of a rat hole, like I don’t know what your nearest rat hole is.

Let’s just I don’t know. We’ll say Sydney for now. There’s no there’s no purebred dogs. You know those suburbs where everything’s a staffy cross Staffygos Kelpi Stafogos border coli and I Stafygos labette or some of the kids are staffy cross. There’s no purebred dogs.

We can’t afford them. And if you do see one, it’s a German shepherd that’s a police dog. Out of the way. He’s got a job to do. We also don’t have any oodles.

There’s no oodles. There’s no caboodles, there’s no moodles. Joodles labradoodles that don’t exist. We can’t afford those a that right, that’s this is the thing. I’ve got a bit of a beef with oodles.

You know what, you don’t say anymore? Just a plain old poodle, do you? They’re gone? You will not spot just a standard, plain, boring poodle. I reckon there was one male poodle left in Australia somewhere.

That was good. The next few jokes were about the one poodle left in Australia having sex with other dogs. Again, she used some salty language. I had a bail on the clip there, but that was pretty funny. That’s your comedy needs for today.

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Featured: Hannibal Buress, Kathleen Madigan, Donald Glover, Louis C.K., Ray Romano, Kevin James, Steve Bennett

What’s in This Episode

• Hannibal Buress touring as rapper Sue Tune at South by Southwest
• Kathleen Madigan discusses turning down TV and movie roles to focus on stand-up comedy
• 150 comedy specials released in 2023 so far
• Perth, Australia comedy scene review featuring local comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hi, I’m Tryni Mac with your daily comedies. Let me tell you what’s going on here. So my plan for today’s podcast was, during the week, I saw a list of all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three, and I’m like, oh, that’ll be fun to share with everyone. And I have just finished recording that, and it’s twelve minutes of me reading a list.

Now I do want to share with you, but I’m like, I can’t roadblock the first twelve minutes of the podcast with me reading a list. So what I’m going to do today is normally the podcasts two parts. Today we’ll have three parts and if you want to hear me read the entire list of all the comedy specials that have come out so far this year, you could stay for the last twelve minutes. Otherwise you were dismissed early. Totally understand if you bail on that, I will tell you when it’s coming.

Hannibal Burris, he’s out touring as rapper Sue Tune. Statesman dot Com saw his set and they wrote during south By Southwest twenty eleven, Childish Gambino, you know, Donald Glover packed to capacity growed into a club. His rap alter ego was intense, moody, agropunk, and much of the annoyance of the crowd and tendance, including the writer not at all funny. People were mad. Hannibal Burris took a completely different tack when he at the stage.

He said, this is a new feeling for me, not the rapping thing. It’s just usually when I play shows in Austin, I get paid a lot of money. He then did a set that punched way above the non existent cover charge, backed by a full band. He made it clear he was into building the show to prove his rap skills, but still he peppered the set with jokes and many of the songs themselves were infused with humor. High points included Veneers, a baller anthem about fixing your teeth.

I’ve heard that one, it is rather catchy, and a random cover of Christian pop icon Michael W. Smith’s Awesome God. How does he balanced comedy and rap? He says, well, I’m interested in this Gambino thing. Y’all were really mad, he said with a laugh.

Backstage before set, local rapper Eric Morgan said, I thought Glover was going to do stand up and was disgusted when he started rapping. Annibal said, I actually recorded music before I did stand up. My career was always parallel of music. Early on, he who to open mic nights that featured both music and comedy. He did skits on rappers albums he battle wrapped in college.

Then his comedy took off during the pandemic. Stand up clubs were weird, and he didn’t love acting enough to take a COVID test every time he stepped on set, so he went into the studio. He was inspired to make the song for New Years after seeing an ad for hairplugs. He had never had fake hair, but he had fixed a chip tooth. An early version of the song included a dentist drill.

His friends convinced him to remove that. I like making a goofy fun songs, and I also have this real stuff too. He’s decided to just do what I enjoy. That’s awesome. Kathleen Madigan was on the Good One podcast this week and they said, Hey, Kathleen, you’re arguably one of, if not the most successful road comedians ever.

You’ve built your audience on the road exclusively. Is I make you proud? Kathleen said, I am proud of that, but a sort of luck. One time, Louis Black was on The Big Bang Theory. He played some nutty professor and was like, well, you go with me?

And I said, lou I mean, I said come once. It was so boring. I don’t want to go watch. I love you, but I don’t want to go, and he was like please, and I was like fine. We left my house at four, We got home at eleven.

Me and as old assistant drank a bottle of chardonnay throughout the day. We pullowed through a bottle. I had memorized the whole script, his parts, the other parts. It’s so slow and tedious. I just want to tell jokes.

There’s not many of us where. That’s all we want to do. When I started comedy, as far as I knew, that’s all we wanted to do.

And then it started to be like, look, Ray Romano’s got a sitcom and Kevin Jam…

Do you really want to be that board for hours upon hours for what You’re not even an actor? Like they offered me some important, some NBC thing, not that long ago, within the last five years, and I was like, I’m not an actor. I don’t want to I kept saying no, and they kept offering me more and more money. I said no, I’m not seeing that as a bargaining trip. I truly want nothing to do with this.

I don’t think the agency was saying it like that. I was like, you need to tell them I have no interest in TV or movies unless it’s a friend and I get to play myself as a bartender. There are people that are qualified act. It’s insulting to call a stand up comedian. It was no experience an actor.

I’m like, all I want to do is tell jokes in front of people for an hour. This shows two hours and I’m done. That’s my work day. I do some other stuff, but I’m in charge of it all. I’m my own boss.

Initially, when they told me to go edition for stuff, I’d get ticked off at the gate. I could never get on the lot. I’d be out there for twenty minutes going my name’s on a list. Try not to get mad at the person. You have to want what’s at the other end of that gate.

I auditioned for some commercials They did it like three times and I was like, the money’d be great. Why not It’ll take three days out of your life. But the odds of you getting that commercial is it worth the day of your life? I lived in her most at Beach. I could be rollerblading right now.

If you tell me, do you want to go fishing? Yes? Do you want to go blake golf? Yes? But so I want to be on a sitcom all this week, No short Old took a look at forty eight hours in Perth’s comedy scene.

Steve Bennett visited Western Australia. Perth fascinates me. Perth is like as far as you can go from where I live. If you go any further, you’re on your way back, you know what I mean. Perth on the West coast of Australia.

The comedy scene there apparently is centered on the comedy lounge above a downtown restaurant with a design based on the best clubs. It’s British owner John McAllister visited in London. Friday’s show This a couple of weeks ago, is packed to the rafters. Compare Simone Springer’s smiley demeanor is welcoming. It conceals a wearier can’t be bothered attitude, not least to her own.

Add child, her jokes can feel a little mechanical, but she shrubber off script during the best from a risk Gates who would frow with a couple in the front row, You can see why she’s an MC. First up was a relative newcomer, Martin Darcy. His lack of experience showed in a staccato delivery and affected laugh at his own jokes in the sense that he feels a little tooper out of piling, pull back and reveal punch lines on top of each other. Yet he’s a robust gag writer playing up his beta male status and Asian heritage. Strongest of course, when he subverts stereotypes rather than leaning into them, which demonstrates strong potential.

See that’s a really good review, right He didn’t be like, oh there, it was great. I like that. Darcy spoke about losing his virginity latent life to a cougar, starting what came to be recurring theme of the night about age gap relationships. Locally based Scottish comedian Gil Cordner approached the topic from the other direction, giving out strong, filthy aunt vibes a she dished the dirt on having a much younger husband. Next up, looking like wild haired trolls in Team Australian track suits, the Nelson Twins are as.

The name pretty much gives away identical twins who’s entire set is based on doing what brothers do, viciously slinging mud at each other. It’s essentially a well rehearsed roast battle. Next up, Andrew Wolfe has an appropriate surname given his unhinged ailing at the Moon delivery, a manic hodgepodge of depression, anxiety and fury that proves highly effective. There are some good gags about anti vaxers and people say they’ve been abducted by aliens, but it’s the unhinged energy you’ll remember. At one point he worries about going full creamer.

Finally, Sons of Fred a drum tight three man outfit who burst on the stage with a series of tightly choreographed alternative intros. However, they don’t have the invention of the similarly high energy anti Donna to back up their well honed physicality. But the musical theater take on heavy metal is definitely a highlight. Saturday saw the Western Australia final of the Raw Comedy Competition, featuring twenty Newish acts from around the state. Winner Nicole She mocked Chinese stereotypes and some ozzy ones without being afraid to show a little edge.

English act David Hughes was another front runner, and if his attitude mannerisms borrowed heavily from Ricky Gervaise, his bad Dad stick was full of pointed punch lines that hit home.

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Meanwhile, Blake Richardson was a charismitic performer with some solid mater…

Oldish hand Xavier mcaldies did a broad set that range from admirably convoluted puns to her miner of just how sinister the phrase lock up your daughters really is. Some of the material is root one how many middle aged male comedians are. Indeed, people talk about hair growing out of everywhere but the head. But he’s a skillful, likable performer who also strays down more creative roots. If never quite foreign enough.

Sounds like a nice vibrant scene out there in Perth. I like doing this international stuff.

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Speaking of which Let’s see who’s at the Milburn Comedy Festival on Monday.

Laura Hughes presents Laura Hughes, Laura Hughes and some other Laura Hughes’s is Laura Hughes returns to the festival after a decade in la honing her unique brand of comedy, and she’s bringing wigs. Let’s listen to a clip. There are a few things that you can do that make you instantly cool. Number One, sunglasses at night, because you’re probably going to be parting to the break of dawn and who knows when you might need to weld something. Number Two laziness, especially when it comes to the English language.

Oh, I’m j did you just lullop me? That is tots in approach and I’m Jen’s deva right now, Tyl. The less that people can actually understand what you’re trying to say, the cooler it is, all right. That was fun. Next up, let’s see Michael Schaffar well Worth the Chemo.

He is a testicular cancer survivor, lawyer turned comedian. He has the solutions to all of the world’s problems. Let’s listens. Going to see people having some drinks. I’m not a big drinker.

I find that when I don’t drink, people just try to make me drink. And the worst attempt was on Tuesday, went out for lunch. The way he gives me the drinks, man, you, I’m like, oh, it’s fine, I’m not drinking, and he goes, come on, nice buddy, it’s Friday somewhere, and I go, it’s Tuesday everywhere. Well you know what I mean. It’s five pm somewhere and I go, yeah, but it’s one pm here.

This is the context we’re in. You can’t just change the context to suit yourself. You can’t walk into work naked and be like, it’s all right, guys, there’s a shower somewhere. It’s all right now. I’m looking at the clip.

He’s got a lot of charisma there, so that probably played funnier in the room than it did on the podcast. Let’s do one more Sharam nam Darian horny and depressed. After all his years of being a life coach and dating coach, helping people resolve anxiety issues with their love and life, he realized he was still two things. Desperately horny, desperately depressed. Let’s listen, hi, I’m Sharam Namdarian spelled sh r A m N A M d A R I A M hi.

I’m cold bowl of spaghetti, just joking. I’m the man your mother warned you about, and I’m the man they named Friday after. But who am I? I hear you asked, Well, I’m sure as a bad and I was a dating coach for the last seven years, and a bloody good one at that. Do you like comedy?

Of course you do. Come see my show at the twenty twenty three Melbourne Comedy Festival. Ha ha, all right, he was pretty like, well that was fun. That’s the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on Monday. By the way, you can get into his show for seven Australian dollars.

Now people listen every day. Now we divide that by two thirds, which means you can get in for what four fifty Who’s doing the math? I’m not. I have so blown out my voice because, like I said, I already did the stuff about the one hundred and fifty comedy specials. So let’s take one more break.

If you don’t want to hear me read a list for twelve minutes, you are dismissed. You know the deal. I’ll be back tomorrow. If you want to go through all one hundred and fifty comedy specials that’ve been released this year, hang around. They saw this one during the week.

This is from the Comics Comic Sean McCarthy is the writer there. He has a substack called Piphany, and he listed all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far. You know how many there have been, over at one hundred and fifty. Now, I want to stop using the words special, and Sean, I’ll talk about this a second. His thing not everything special.

For example, I saw Monster Brune released an hour on YouTube and I was watching it Tuesday night and I enjoyed it, But was it a special? Like it is it up there with like Carlynton at Carnegie Hall. No, it’s a guy in a club doing a perfectly fine, entertaining, funny hour. But we gotta stop using the words special. I think hour is the word we should use.

And I’m trying to retrain my brain because I think we all call everything a comedy special, and we got to get away from Sean McCarthy writes. So two clarifications or declarations before you look at the list of twenty twenty three comedy specials. First, especially with regard to YouTube citations, I must remind you how painfully easy it is for anyone anywhere in the world’s record themselves and uploaded for sharing on YouTube as a quote full comedy special unquote. Amen Sean writes, My including on on this list should not be construed as me legitimizing some of these people as professional stand up comedians. Second, I must also stress there’s no surefire way to account for all the new comedy specials available to stream on Earth.

I may have missed one or more. So if you know of some, let them know. I share the list in the Facebook group Daily Companies Podcast Group if you’re curious. But let’s take a look at this January Steve Hoffs that is the recipe. I don’t remember that coming out, and I’m not going to repeat that about one hundred times here, And that surprises me because Steve loves to publicize himself like big time.

So how that came out without it hitting my radar? And again, I write this podcast every day, even if I don’t record every day, I do write every day. I don’t know how I have missed that.

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Moving on, Nick whitmer is Always Hungry YouTube.

Mike Brydenstein’s Lie from the Glendale Room at YouTube. Tony Laws Go Mister Tony Go via Comedy Dynamic an Amazon. Now that’s a major label. I don’t remember that. Andrew Santino Cheeseburger yep.

Adam Rose Imperious on YouTube, Alexandros Suvales Bad barrot Ice on YouTube and then bears it be in Greek that special. Ron Irvin’s Prodigal Son YouTube. Andrew Myrie ducking a Pond YouTube, Andy Andres last shot eight hundred pound Gorilla media YouTube. I think that one hit my radar. Nathan Cassidy’s Observational Amazon really, Brian Possein yep.

Tim McLaughlin goes Banani’s YouTube. Nick Nannie’s nessen Dorma YouTube. Nathan Macintosh Money Never Wakes YouTube. We’re a tenth of the way through the list in case you just want to bail out an ex episode. Matt Ruby’s Substance YouTube.

Joe Hill, Somebody’s got to hear this YouTube. Wait, Sean has crossed one out. Number eighteen was Matt Rife only fans and it’s now crossed out, all right. Nineteen Kabir Sing Ballerwood YouTube one four Nos The Snow Mexican YouTube. Brandon Sean Everybody’s at Targate?

Amazon Yeah, Stand Up for Pitt’s Comedy Special with Rebecca Cory Amazon Yeah. Dan Nightingale smash Or YouTube, philp Pointer Sweat It Out YouTube, Drew Lynch can Cuss YouTube, The Red Richardson Special YouTube, Michelle train A Divorced Diaries Amazon Asian American Eyes and Immigrant Comedy Special Amazon. Nate Brigassi, Hello World, Yes, Seaton Smith Live at MSG opening for John Milleny on YouTube, Bruno Romano Too Honest to Have a Job YouTube, Troy DeShane Got Next YouTube? That was just January onto February, which only has twenty eight days most years, except every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s a century year not divisible by four hundred. So two thousand was a leap year if you’re still around.

Twenty one hundred not a leap year, all right, So if you’re expecting twenty one hundred to be a leap year, it’s not twenty eight days in February most years. Sean Hameron Small Face YouTube, Ferris Ia Send Help YouTube. Isn’t this insane. Brandon Bricks Live at the Comedy Store YouTube, Daniel fernanez Alive in Vaccinated YouTube tube, Mofti Good Cop, Bad Cop Nigeria YouTube, Catch each your Boozy kindergarten teacher Energy YouTube, Rodney Norman stand Up for twenty two YouTube bt Just Try YouTube, t t Ladette YouTube Silas of Bollocks. They said there would be jobs YouTube Ben Rosenfield, Don’t Shake Your Miracle Amazon anubab is seeing Bossy Amazon Doctor Jason Long Ride with Casha Netflix.

I actually watch that Marcella Arguello bitch grow Up. HBO mix that happened Mark Marin HBO, Sarahti on a forty four moment aj Grill, I’ll quit one of thirty YouTube. Tony Lyle Live in Auckland YouTube, Chase O’donald YouTube, Ava Carol Late Bloomer YouTube, tiz Ilias Viked YouTube, Ben Zanio Mister Ben Indonesia YouTube, Henry Welsham Book from eight to A Amazon, Jim Jefferies High and Try. That’s on my top ten list. Netflix, Roseanne Barr canceled this Fox Nation, Josh Johnson up here killing myself, peac Matt Rife Matthew Stephen Wright moment, Alan Sidney Dedde Issues YouTube, Natalie Cuomo’s shut Up You Loved It YouTube.

I didn’t know that one came out. I want to check that one out. Kate Quigley Magic YouTube, Annie Malick General Blessings YouTube, Chris Shilting The Son of Tom and Jerry g Rii YouTube. Ronnie Myers You Funny Yeah YouTube, but Rodney Norman Stand Up for twenty two YouTube, Treeol’s Alien Invasioned YouTube. Wayne Beas Record of Underachievement YouTube, Lucas Waterfield Public Inconvenience, Amazon, Joe Lycett More More More, Amazon, Some More, Queen Chandelier and Netflix, Wenderson Neunez Preaching of the Choir in Brazil, Netflix, Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, Amazon, Lavelle Crawford Showtime, Stuart Goldsmith I Need You Alive moment Marcus D.

Wiley Grown Gray Forgiven on YouTube. John Agasild Welcome Back Scotland YouTube, Brad Wenzel Joke Joke Joke YouTube. Joff at the Stupid Experienced Rwanda YouTube. Charlie Burn’s Midwest Goodbye YouTube. John Franklin The Specialist YouTube, Drew Lyncher These Jokes YouTube, Nate Jackson Live CrowdWork Special YouTube, Aksha sree Vastava Mental Health YouTube, Adam Row Juicy YouTube, abishek up Mayu Health Anxiety YouTube, Paul Zertin Hands Free YouTube, but Train Knolls Infinite American Tales YouTube, Vinnie Brand Rip Fat Bobby YouTube, Sarah Milliken self released, Nick Usef Take Care YouTube through February one more month seeks, Marlon Wayam’s God Loves Me HBO max A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Dimitriu Netflix, Chris Rock Did you hear about that?

One? Netflix? AKSh Metha No Smoking India YouTube, Mussud Akbarzada Fame German Iranian YouTube and John McCombs Make a Way to Estonia YouTube, Graham Elwood manifest A YouTube, Russell Kzz The Big Cheese YouTube, Jacob Hatton Relax England YouTube, and Nate’s Armbuster Sorry to Bother You YouTube, Guarav Kapoor. I’m probably butchering this title. Mumbai Say Ia, Mara Dost India YouTube, Stevie Brown My Friends Call Me Beatle YouTube, Paul mon Elected in Northern Ireland YouTube, Dave Lester, How did that make you feel?

Amazon? Joe Mantilla, No one asked for this YouTube, Josh Means Business YouTube, or Zilla Carlson Token African YouTube, Kelsey Cook The Hustler YouTube, Nittish Suka Who Up Person YouTube? Andrew BALISTERI Live from the Greatest City on Earth YouTube. Brian Sclero Never Not Crapping, Clean that Up YouTube. Terrible title, Brian, don’t do that.

That is not going to help you with a title like that. That’s Brian bad title, not a good idea. Jenny Zagreeno gen Z YouTube, Joslyn Sharp five ten two eighty Amazon, Bert Kraisher’s Razzle Dazzle Netflix, Foil Arms and Hogswines from Ireland to Moment. Justin Martindale Gaybash moment, Mona Up Substantiated YouTube, Jamar Malika Neighbors Rotten Luther King Junior YouTube, sore In Para Lab with a Romanian title out of YouTube. Osha Dwyer Knockout YouTube.

J McBride Daddy’s Girl, That’s on My List YouTube, Very good special watch that Kai Kai Apocalypse Now YouTube. Andre Ferrell’s Rude Awakening. Amazon stand Up for California, Amazon Russell Brand Brandemic Locals only, Lee Kyle’s Disco Twicks England to YouTube. Jeremiah Watkins Dandy YouTube link, Mike a Greek Title on YouTube, John Grimes Going for Broke YouTube, Michael Shaffar al Right Next Joke YouTube, Mike Vecky Owns the Attractives YouTube, Angelo Gingirelli Stuck in the Middle of YouTube. Doogie Horner’s Dad Max on YouTube.

Dave Hugh’s Ridiculous on Amazon, Brent Terhun’s One on Flat Earth on Amazon, Well Red Comedy on Amazon, May Martin on Netflix, mort Brooke Spiritually Filthy on YouTube, Dustin Nickerson Runs on the Family YouTube, Gareth wat Doozy on YouTube, Anthony Rodgers Sun Burton Hawaii YouTube, Zach Hammond’s Welfare and Disguise YouTube, Kyle Canaan Shocks and Struts the current number one special of the Year on YouTube. Nathan Katone Let’s Talk about Vexi YouTube, Brian Churchill Alpaco Churchy YouTube, Monster Brownie The It’s in the Bees YouTube. Andy Parsons Live and Unleashed but naturally cautious Amazon, Jeff Lees and Grandma used to heck on Me Amazon, Ben Rosenfield Geopolitical Dick Jokes Amazon, and just this week, Big Jokerson’s whatever It’s called that also came out. So again, thank you Piphany dot substack dot com for this list. Great job Sean McCarthy, who says thirty one for January fifty nine for February fifty nine from March a first quarter total of one hundred and forty nine plus the Big Jay makes one fifty.

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Featured: Ego Nootum, Kevin Hart, John Cena, James Corden, T.K. Kirkland, Chris Gethard, Jordan Strauss, Dave Woodhead

What’s in This Episode

• Ego Nootum interview on pre-med background and SNL cast favorites
• Kevin Hart promoting Die Hard 2 and working with John Cena
• James Corden’s Late Late Show ending April 27 with no replacement host
• T.K. Kirkland filming first-ever comedy special in Bermuda
• Chris Gethard discusses comedy writing process and Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Jordan Strauss releases comedy album about wife’s cancer diagnosis

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Variety caught up with Ego Nootum and asked her, if you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing. Ego said, I was pre med because I’m Nigerian American and pretty much all parents want us to be doctors. I was a business miner as well in college.

I love my business classes. I love my accounting class. Doing a ledger was very fun to me. I don’t think i’d be an accountant. I’d be a headhunter recruiter because I love helping people find what they’re looking for.

If you said I’m looking for a pair of pants, I’d be like, what kind? What style? She took that question quite seriously. Most comedians would have clowned around there. All right, what made you laugh the most watching SNL before you were on it?

And she said Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, and Tracy Morgan. I loved, loved, loved watching them. Tracy was always so funny, and then getting to see him on thirty Rock just solidified that for me. Now that I’m there, Heidi Gardner makes me laugh a lot. She just embodies a character.

So well. Andy Dismukes makes me laugh a ton. James Austin Johnson’s really freaking funny. Everyone I work with is so funny. That’s not a fair question.

Kevin Hart has been out and about promoting diet Heart two. Movie Web asked him about the action and die Heart Too, said, there’s so many great scenes to go through, especially when you look at your sporing partner, people like John Cena. What’s it like working with him? Kevin said, John Cena was great. We were very lucky to have him.

He’s an amazing talent, a world star of today’s time. His success is warranted. He’s a tremendous athlete, a tremendous personality in the space of wrestlings at a mirror that to match that was a no brainer. How much did you prep in this one? My size is no match of course for John cenas I just try to come in with a significant amount of personality.

But there are moments in the movie where the alignment are jesting from me he to I are ones where the audience is going to run away remembering afterward our fight scene, especially so I would say buckle up. James Gordon was at the palifest. The Late Late Show is just about to die, the last one April twenty seventh, and they’re not bringing it back. There will be no next host of The Late Late Show. Gordon said they have twelve episodes left to do.

They probably a few were now, and they’ll likely be the biggest show that’s ever done. These will include three carpool karaoke sessions and one of his famous crosswalk to musical segments where he ties up traffic in LA and really ticks people off, as well as the teased Lion King musical performance with James Cordon and Tom Cruise. Cordon will also participate in They Take a Break segment with the Kardashian Family. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of James cordon Lately Show seeing clips, I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched the show. Cordon revealed one of the craziest ideas that they never got to, which would have been Jennifer Lopez living with him in a glass box to spend it over Sunset Boulevard for an entire day to promote her twenty twenty two Netflix documentary halftime.

He says it feels strange to be ending the show. It’s not right because you’re having such a great time it gets to go to work with all my best friends. But at the same time, I’m so certain it’s the right thing to do. I’m so absolutely certain that we did everything we wanted to do, and I think it’s really important to have things end. T K.

Kirkland is going to film a comedy show in Bermuda April fifteen. TK Kirkland billed as the Underground King of Comedy. Yeah, will be the star of the stage. April fifteenth. A local said there’s never ever been a comedy special shot in Bermuda.

Others have done it in Cuba, whatever, but not Bermuda. So it’s a big deal. He’s gonna film it Bermuda and then it’ll be picked up by a major network, either Hulu, TV One, Netflix, Whoever’s going to pay him the most money. But for us as a country, as an island, we will be showcased. If you want to go April fifteenth, eight thirty pm in Bermuda, be prepared for quote strong language is the warning on the ticket.

Chris Gether didn’t talked to Broadway World. They asked, hey, what’s your process like when it comes to sitting down and writing out a show, Getherd said, my writing process tends to be a lot of bullet points in a notebook and notes on my phone. Then on any given night, I’ll start organizing those bullet points to see, all right, if this follows this, does it build momentum or their callbacks to start the show up? If I place things in different places, A lot of it is just random scrawls in a notebook that if he sat down and looked at it, there’s no one else on earth who could possibly decipher what I was going for. I’ve often said if I ever dropped my notebook on the ground and someone found it, I think that might call the police because it’s almost unibomber level strange chicken scratch.

At the end of the day, no matter how much you put in the notebook, you have to get up on stage. You have to try it, you have to bomb, you have to eat it. I have done that many times with this materially as well, particularly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where I kept bombing and rebuilding it, bombing and rebuilding it. That’s a painful but necessary process. He said.

I’m really jealous of musician friends of mine. They don’t have to get up and play a half finished song in front of an audience to see how it goes. And if they have a song people like, they get to play it forever. Comedians throw it out once we’ve released it somewhere, and we pray we have a few more jokes in us. On the other side, if you like what I do here, you go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

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If you feel bad, gotta buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, good way to support the show. Jordan Strauss’s album is called The Funny Thing About Cancer. He says you have to be able to laugh at it. That’s one lesson that he learned after his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Jordan and Chelsea Strouss were planning their wedding in March of twenty two when Chelsea’s knee, which had been bothering her for almost a year, began to be unbearably painful.

Turned out she had bone cancer. Yek Strauss said the treatment was very aggressive, six rounds of chemo and a major surgery on her leg. They wanted to go through the wedding even though she had to start aggressive chemo just two and a half weeks before their wedding day. Two days before the wedding, Chelsea was hospitalized with a fever. It was told she wouldn’t be able to leave until her fever came down for a full forty eight hours.

She begged and pleaded they let her out for a quick ceremony, then she had to go back to the hospital. Jordan says it does seem a little odd a comedy album about my wife’s cancer diagnosis, but I wrote it with a thought in mind that I want this to be enjoyed by people that are going through the same thing. It’s got a website you can pay whatever you want. It’s a digital download twenty percent of all proceeds will be donated to bone cancer research foundations. Chelsea’s cancers in remission.

She’s finished her chemotherapy. They’re about to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary. The Age taking a look at some of these shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One of them is Dave Woodhead. He’s the host of Triple j’s Lunch on the radio, and he said, we get hundreds of thousands of people listening at any point, and I feel nothing when I go on stage, even if it’s just send people in the crowd.

I get very nervous and I start shaking. It’s not just being nervous, it’s the adrenaline kicking in. It’s such a rush the whole time. So I’m a radio guy and I can tell you anytime we do a big live show, I still would get nervous. I think it’s just normal.

If I didn’t feel nervous, I would feel weird. You just you get that adrenaline rush. I feel you, Dave Woodhead. When I was growing up, he joined the festival’s Class Clown competition for teens. He said, I kind of cracked the code that if you chucked a couple of jokes into the presentation got the teachers laughing that start bumping up your greeds.

He saw an ad for class clowns. He decided to give it a shot, and a week leading into it, I remember it being so irritable and really on edge. Just before he took the stage, he suffered a classic high school situation, an American pie moment where I completely ripped my jeans in the worst place, right next to the crotch. I had to do the first show holding my shirt down. But as soon as I got my first big laugh was the first time I relaxed in a week.

I suddenly felt common at ease. The rush is why you keep doing it after a while, to chase that feeling. He’s learned that the comedy festival is a mental game too, and he said, when you’re doing a show every night, you want to impress the audience, but you’re also hanging around with comics, so there’s almost a competitive thing in that. There’s just all this unnecessarily bs that can cloud what you’re actually trying to do with the biggest challenge when doing the festival is to remember to have fun, but remember the comedy’s a fun thing and the people have come out that night. Just want to see you have a good time.

Dave Woodhead show lunch for dinners at Trades Hall if you’re in Melbourne all the way through April twenty third, but not on Wednesdays. He’s off on Wednesdays. Maybe plays volleyball. Who knows. Let’s head on over to the website and see who is playing on Sunday and no Sunday is Easter?

Does the festival have a lot of shows on Easter? Do people go to comedy shows in Australia and Easter? James Rooks show is called Badong. Ever since he was a little kid, James has always been called by his family by his Filipino nicknamed Badong. Now, after turning thirty, he’s asking the question is it time to retire their name?

Metro mag said, my favorite show of the festival. Okay, so before we hear the clip, I have to cherry picket. He dropped a lot of f bombs of the setup. Here is about a song and the lyrics of the song and the punchline is that the couple in the song I’ve had sex four straight days. Then he did some crowd work.

Let’s jump in. It’s fine if you don’t. What’s your name, bro, Joe, You’re like, oh Joe, look, it’s fine, Joe. It’s fine if you don’t. No one does.

I don’t. I’m gonna be up fun with you. No one does, right Joe, I’m getting a vibe with you. They’re like, if we if I made like an R and B group with you and like hopped into booth and made our own remot today, so we’ll go something like this, We’ll go Mata run a Monday, took a for it. Drake gone Tuesday, center a text on Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.

Still haven’t heard from her. Like, let’s do one more here, boy, This website is getting slower every day. I hope you guys like this international stuff. I just find it interesting to hear some different voices rather than say, talk about Bert Kreisher every single day. You know, Oh, here’s Brian Lewis.

We talked about Brian yesterday. Hi guys, I’m Brian. I live in Brisbane. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it. It’s Australia’s biggest suburb.

Took his ages to get COVID up in Queensland. But if I’m honest, it takes the ages to get anything, so it’s really nice for me to be here. I’ve left at home in Brizzie. Always get this wrong. An eight year old, six year old and a one year old.

Yeah, none of them are mine. Just a very bad babysitter. Yea, Now they mind three kids? What a slot? All right, little slow start there, but oh kay, you know who else is playing in Melbourne on Sunday.

Kyle Canaane. Imagine I went all the way to Melbourne. I just saw Kyle Canaane. That would not be a good choice. I mean, I love Kyle Kanade, but I don’t need to fly nineteen hours to do that.

And that is your comedy news for today. On Tomorrow’s show, a look at all one hundred and fifty comedy specials released this year. Now by a look at, I mean, Johnny Mac reads you one hundred and fifty things. I don’t have time to analyze one hundred and fifty comedy specials or watch them or whatever. But if you want the fullest of everything that’s come out this year, check out the back end of Tomorrow’s podcast Normal Stuff.

At the top. I did that at the end. It’s seriously twelve minutes of me reading a list. I’m not sure it was the best idea, so I moved it to the end. But the front of the show is normal, and I meet you back here tomorrow.

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