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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Theo Vaughn, Ro Khanna, Shane Gillis, Steph Tolev

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Vaughn interviews Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna about War Powers Resolution and foreign policy
• New York Times profile of Andrew Schulz addresses his rise, use of controversial language, and outreach to Democratic candidates
• Andrew Schulz claims Kamala Harris camp lied about being contacted for podcast appearance
• New York Times article examines Shane Gillis’s path from cancelation to mainstream comedy comeback
• Steph Tolev releases Netflix special ‘Filth Queen’ produced by Bill Burr

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with for Daily Comedy News. You know, sometimes politics and comedy do intertwine. This was pretty interesting on Friday before the big news story over the weekend, THEO Vaughn had Democratic Representative Rocana from California on this past weekend to discussed several topics, including foreign affairs and AI. At one point on this past weekend, Kanna promoted the War Powers Resolution, which is a bipartisan bill that he had introduced with a Republican aimed at prohibiting US armed forces from unauthorized hostilities in Iran.

THEO Vaughn said, Yeah, people say, well, you don’t know a ton about the Middle East, Like that’s fine. I don’t want people I know, my friends getting called up. I don’t want the children and my friends getting called over to die. I don’t even understand how it’s an option. Vaughn went on to tell Kana, it feels like we’re just working for Israel.

I feel like it was supposed to be America first, focusing on like what what are we doing to get things back into America right, like to increase the purpose of being American, refill our hearts with blood and makes us feel something again here and make us be excited about being an American. The New York Times had a big profile of Andrew Schultz over the weekend. There’s also an audio version of it. I think you have to go to Apple Podcasts and look for the conversation. I’m not sure that’s not on Apple, but regardless, I both read it and listened to it.

It’s kind of confrontational, it’s pretty interesting, so it starts pretty basic. The Times ask Shaltz, in the last four or five years, you’ve really blown up. What has shifted to the culture to naby to come to prominence? Andrews said, when I started posting stuff on the internet, specifically stand up, things changed for me. I was trying to get an HBO special or back in the day, Netflix or Comedy Central.

I was trying to get anything, but I couldn’t get any motional with stand up. So out of desperation, I film my own special, pitch it to everybody nobody wanted, and I was like, I’m going to put this online. At that time, there was a sensitivity, especially in corporate America, about edginess and joke. So my gamble was maybe if I put this out on YouTube, there’ll be an audience that likes this kind of comedy. I put it out, A weird thing happened everybody.

They only watched twenty minutes. So I put out a twenty minute version of it in the next week, and I sold out a comedy club the next week, and I sawd out another one. I was like, Wow, there’s something happening over here on the internet that’s interesting, right that people don’t watch full hours. Maybe everybody is me that twenty minute thing that makes a lot of sense to me as a consumer. Times, you obviously have clear ideas about what works with audiences.

Does this create a temptation to pander Schaltz? Oftentimes what happens is yell of an opinion that’s maybe a little different, and you’ll be rebuked for that opinion for years, and then people start to come around. Then the same people that rebuked you will start echoing those sentiments with no accountability. Times you said you asked democrats to be on the podcast. Whom do you ask who said no?

Pete Boota, Judge, Tim Walls, Kamala Harris, and then her team lies blatantly lies times about what Schultz about us reaching out, and it’s wild to blatantly lie when not only did I reach out, Charlemagne, who’s working with them, reached out, Mark Cuban, who’s a surrogate, reached out, and we reached out, and they blatantly lie. Then when people write articles about it, they say, Andrew says he reached out to Kamala, but we reached out to the Kamala people, and they say that never happen, and so what’s the reader supposed to interpret that? As? It’s almost like calling me a liar. Then the interview gets into a bunch of Trump stuff, which is just too political for what we’re doing here at Daily Comedy News.

You can read it, you can listen to Andrew himself. Then they get into Andrew’s use of the R word and another word I don’t want to get involved with at all. So same note, you can listen to that, or you can read it yourself in the New York Times. Then this next point from Andrew, I think is stupid. They’re going back and forth on which words Andrew is comfortable with and which he’s not comfortable with.

So Schultz says, have you heard of fire retardant? How do you feel about that word. Times correctly, retardant in that context means to slow something down. Schultz, and this is just a stupid point, goes, Should we make a different word for that? Come on, dude, come on, just come on jumping ahead, The Times writes.

A few days later, Andrew and I talked again. And Andrew says, I was thinking about a lot of things from the conversation so far. Yeah, you had a good question I thought about all week, which was you don’t say the N word or the K word, but you’ll say other words. I was like, I think that’s true. I didn’t know what to think of it in the moment.

Then he brought up the R word, and how I feel comfortable saying that one? I really thought about it. This is me trying to retrofit my knee jerk feelings on it. I think what makes a slur bad is it’s a descripture plus organized violence as humans were like, that’s bad. But if we don’t remember that organized violence, or aren’t taught about it, or it’s too far in the past, we start to feel like it’s not as heavy.

I think that’s why our reaction is different when it comes to Latino slurs or Asian slurs. Where’s the organized violence? Interesting piece there? The Times also had an article titled what does Shane Gillis want to get away? With?

No interview with Shane there, but they’re mostly talking about tires, and they write Gillis brought a bro comedy fan base and endured a quasi cancelation with his Netflix sitcom Tires. He’s trying to map the leap from edge Lord to the mainstream. His big break turned into an immediate road block, and he went from anonymity to cause cancel Libree overnight. In a way, Gillis’s quick cycle of a sent crash and rebirth allowed him to begin addressing the obstacles that many of the manispheres current New Bro stars now. It’s NU with like an umlock or something, the two dots above the U new Bro And I think this article used Newbro twice.

I didn’t know that was a term, and suddenly we’re using it. But okay, I don’t not even sure what it means, but that many of the man of spheres current Newbro stars are heading towards. Most are still building creative work largely outside the moral spheres of mainstream Hollywood and media, hence YouTube, podcast, comedy clubs and so on. But blessed with both an audience and something of a scarlet letter, Gillis is most interested in finding his way back to Fame’s mainstream, or perhaps to remake it in his mold. They describe Shane’s comedy as an affectionate portrayal of a cockshore simpleton.

Gillis manages this in part because of how he uses his body. Now, this is really smart here. I thought they nailed this here. When he stands now, he’s six foot four and lumberjack stirty. He tends to bend at the neck ever so slightly as to slightly minimize his presence, and Gillis soft steps rather than pounding around, giving him an apologetic mean am I E N.

We’re using the big words today New York Times. Overall, he exudes a kind of soothing sand laeran hangtogness. Somebody got the thesaurus out for this one. Undoubtedly a decade or two from now, and a tour director will find a way to radically remake him in a role of great tragic empathy. Did nobody in The Times editorial deportmagau use some normal words, dude, what is this article for now?

Though it’s masturbation jokes and also gestures with tires, Gilliss appears to be aiming for a post liberal restoration of mainstream comedy values to somewhere in the late eighties with a greater dose of self awareness. Steph Tolev has a special add on Netflix today. It is called Filth Queen. Filmed in Boston. It’s produced by Bill Burr, who told Deadline the first time I saw Steph Tolev was a promotion video she had made for New York City show.

I immediately fell in love with her in her comedy, one of the most uninhibited original voices out there today. I love everything about her.

Speaking of Burr from the Boston Globe, somebody grabbed Burr on the street a…

Bill said he thought everyone was lying. He was told Karen was acquitted, and he’d said, wow. The Netflix release schedule is a little light right now. So we’ve got Steph today, Nate Jackson on July eighth, virdaes we’ll have a special on July eighteenth, this one titled Food Volume. There’s a poster for the special, which shows Virdas holding a lamp in his hand.

The caption reads, Indian comedy is not Silent, It returns with fool volume. Here are your guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmelive this summer. They include Anthony Anderson, Nicole Buyer, Alan Cumming, christ De Stefano, Fortune Fimester, Jelly Roll, Diego, Luna Comeil Nan Jianni this one. I keep making crinkly face at this and I think I brought it up in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Amy Poehler was on her podcast and like just decided to bear her soul and nobody was asking her to bear her soul.

Amy said that every comedian who has appeared on SNLL over the years has quote played people that we should not have played, and quote the part about getting older and being in comedies you have to like figure it out and oh, everything has an expiration date. It was even on SNL fifty when they had that segment which was like, here’s all the ways we got things wrong, and they showed way inappropriate casting for people. We all played people that we shouldn’t have played. I misappropriated, I appropriated. I didn’t know I don’t know what to make of this.

We’ve all done things in the past that were, you know, we wish we could do over, and you know, as somebody like walking around going I can’t believe maybe Polar did that role one time, Like I don’t even know what she’s burying her soul about. And are you gonna give back the money or just what we’re supposed to go? Oh yeah, that thing you did, all right, that’s cool. Like, I don’t know even know why you’re bringing this up. There wasn’t any sort of Amy polar Gate.

And at some point comedy is making fun of things. Otherwise you’re just doing puns and knock knock jokes. It’s almost always like an object of the joke that is being goofed on. She told Will Forte on her podcast. The best thing you can do is make repairs, learn for your mistakes, do better.

It’s all you can do that I agree with. I mean, you know, we make mistakes. We don’t have tom machines move forward, But I don’t I don’t know what this is about. It seems like some sort of virtual signaling to the Hollywood crowd. But Amy’s at a point in her career she doesn’t need to do that, so I don’t get it.

Late Nighter reported that Martin Hurley, you know him from SNL and the police don’t destroy guys, he had started a new Apple back to school campaign. Guys, it’s June twenty fourth. We’re doing back to school already. It only turned ninety degrees where I live two days ago, and we’re doing back to school. Can we just enjoy summer anyway?

The back to school campaign was aimed at college bound teenagers, but the seven minutes short was quietly pulled from Apple’s YouTube channel after one day. In the video, Late Nighter says Hurley, he played a fictionalized version of himself guiding high schoolers through the parent presentation, designed to help students convince their parents to buy them a MacBook. Apple has not explained why they took the video down, but apparently some people on social media called the video cringe, out of touch, and even manipulative. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption or feed drops, you can go to caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast, click up the benner that says uninterrupted listening five buff next a month, that stuff goes away.

If you’re on Apple, you get a thirty day free trial, So why wouldn’t you just try it out for thirty days? And like I’ve joked before, and I’m totally joking. You know, if on day thirty one you forget to cancel it and I get five bucks, well, hey, what do you want from mek you tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Brett Goldstein, Jeff Ross, Colin Jost, Seth Meyers, Tiffany Hattish, Tim McGraw, Zarna Gorg, Mike Vecchione, Nate Bargatzy, Chris Porter

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser signs deal with Paramount for MASH-inspired film
• Brett Goldstein discusses editing his comedy special and choosing between two recorded shows
• Jeff Ross announces 8-week Broadway run of ‘Take a Banana for the Ride’
• Colin Jost talks about the stress of writing SNL’s 50th anniversary special
• Seth Meyers discusses the decline of network late-night hosting opportunities
• Tiffany Hattish working on Peacock show about trip to Africa with friends
• Zarna Gorg releasing new special ‘Practical People Win’ on Hulu in July
• Mike Vecchione releasing special ‘Low Income White’ on Nate Bargatzy’s YouTube channel

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jotty Mash with your barely comedy news. I don’t know what’s a bick of this first one. Paramount Pictures has acquired a pitch inspired by the classic game mash. The mash game starts off with a player writing out the letter’s mash to predict whether you will live in a mansion, apartment, shack, or house.

Categories then picked on what you want in your future a spouse, kids, cars, pets, et cetera. Options are crossed off or circled under each category using a magic number, yielding your final resolution. Anyway. Paramount has acquired a pitch inspired by Mash from Nikki Glaser, who will star, in, produce, and co write the film. In Nikki Glaser’s untitled Mash product, a woman’s childhood mash game magically becomes reality and she discovers that perfect life isn’t the one she imagined.

Okay, boy, Nikki Glaser, your agents are getting it done like Capital G. Capital D keep riding this wave of Nikki Glaser. Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety. He said, editing his specials hard, it really does matter where you cut the shot. It affects the rhythm of the joke, and you’re so long in the edit you get so obsessive, a detailed that by the end you’re like, I don’t even know anymore.

Is this funny? I hope it’s funny, whereas live, you know it’s a yes or no. He taped two shows for the special. Stress point early in the first show, when the crowd didn’t let out a big cheer at the beginning, he said, in a way, it was good because it made me go, you have to nail this because they’re not going to be easy. So the first show, I was really locked in.

In the later show, they were much more up for it. There was much more energy, It was much more loose. I improvised a lot and I played around more. It was sillier. He thought the second show would wind up being the special, but then I went back in and watched the first show, and I was like, the first show’s better for TV because you’re not there.

You the audience at home, are not there. So me, me messing around, being loosey goosey’s less fun because you weren’t there. He shot it in New Jersey, but he wanted to shoot it at Minneapolis, but it was February and I was told if we shot it there that the equipment would freeze was so cold, we might not make it. He’s working on a follow up and says, I’ve got many months to figure it out, but it’s a good one. I think I came up with a thing that I think, structurally is very satisfying.

Talked about this a little bit on Friday. Jeff Ross is coming to Broadway with Take a Banana for the Ride eight weeks August fifth through September twenty ninth. The show is described as a hilarious and cathartic comedic experience about life and human resilience. The show, Take a Banana for the Ride, is named after Jeff’s grandfather’s practical travel advice. Ross explains, and ever since my aunt Best took me to see Jackie Mason on Broadway when I was young, I’ve daydreamed about performing my own classy and uncensored one man show.

I’m honored and excited by the opportunity to share my origin story of how I became the Roastmaster General. This new show is designed to be a cathartic experience shared with others. I encourage you to bring friends that you care about, people that might be going through tough times. I’ll shake them out of it with an evening of uncensored jokes, uplifting stories, songs, and even some live roasting or the Braevest volunteers. Colin Joe spoke to Variety about putting together SNL fifty.

He said, I found it much more stressful because you didn’t want to let people down who are legends. There was so much more lead time, but just like the regular show, I’d say ninety percent of it got written in the week leading up to it, so it was stressful for six months for everybody. He was nervous to write for Eddie Murphy, who’s very cool, and Seth Myers was in the room and added the word taciturn. Joe said, yes, so someone’s not talking. You read all of your worst fears into that person.

So when I first presented him with a sketch, she was like, I think it’s funny I was waiting for, but I’m not going to do it. That is stressful. Seth has been doing all kinds of press and I don’t know why. I don’t know what he’s pushing, but he’s been everywhere lately. He spoke to Variety.

Seth said, unless some major sea change happens, I don’t think there’s going to be a whole new wave of network hosts on the way. There’s always been nobody understands this business in this format better than Jimmy Kimmel, so when he talks about it, I tend to share his opinion. It does bum me out that the other people won’t have exactly this opportunity, But then again, when you think about podcasts, they have just a big as reaches we ever had. If you’re a great lover of the institution of late night talk shows, there’s probably some sadness in your future. But if you love funny people, telling funny jokes and talking to people in interesting ways, that’s always going to be available.

Set’s contract is up in twenty twenty eight, but says the network knows I’d like to do it as long as they’ll have me. Las Vegas Weekly caught up with Tiffany Hattish. They were curious about her hanging out backstage with Tim mcgrawn an Instagram video in which she raved about his cologne. Tiffany said he did smell good and he looks great for his age. I wan’ts Tim McGraw.

Tim mcrow’s going to be younger than me. I’m gonna feel ancient. I shouldn’t do this search. Tim McGraw is fifty eight. Oh yeah, he’s old.

I’m only fifty five. He did smell good. He looks great for his age. But I was like, dang, my brother’s lighter than you. Are you sure you’re not black?

He was telling me about being on the ranch and all that, being a cowboy. He used to ride bulls and new rodeos when he was a teenager. Tiffany said, I am a mechanical bull rider type at a bar, then I give a little extra something to the operator and not tossing me around like a crazy person. I’ve ever seen me in a competition for bull riding. Double check to make sure I did cheat.

She is working on a show for Peacock called Tiffany Hattish goes off and explains, it’s me and my real friends and we’re going to Africa. When I was a kid, I always used to tell them I’m going to take you to Africa. I’m very big on If I say it, that’s what it’s gonna be and it might take me thirty years, but we’re gonna do it. So we did it. It was a spiritual experience for us, a journey that I think every girlfriend group should take.

No, I’m not gonna lie to you. I thought I was gonna be on some hoe stuff. I thought I was gonna be hooking up with some African king. But then I realized I’m not the hoe I thought I was. Do you have some strong moral compass that It really showed me that who I associate with really does affect how I move.

Zarn A Gorg she’s got a good team too, good job agent in pr team, she has been everywhere. She’s going to be on Hulu in July. Her special is called Practical People Win. It’ll premiere Friday, July eighteenth. In Practical People Win, Zarna Gorg will take aim at husband’s kids, in laws, and anyone who dares question in Indian Mom’s wisdom.

How long special filmed in San Francisco. Mike Veckione will get a special on Nate Bergatzy’s YouTube channel, Nateland. This one’s called Low Income White. It’ll be out June twenty seventh. That’s this week in Low income White Mike unloads of Barrage, a fast paced, observational humor that hits on everything from aging and generational divides to the absurdity of modern life.

Got a quick clip for you, Well, let’s listen. I got all kinds of friends now, single, married, divorced. I got one friend he got married, divorced, remarried the same woman. I talked to him a few days ago. He said, I’m depressed.

I’m like, why are you depressed? He said, I’m having marital problems. Like, dude, you’re not having marital problems. You have a learning disability. Chris Porter talked to w RF and said he’s enjoyed touring, but sometimes envy’s people he grew up with who stayed local.

He says, there’s something peaceful about that life, like an episode of Leave It to Beaver. Everything you ever knew right there. But I’m also glad I left saw the world did some crazy stuff. Still, I miss when things felt massive, when being back stage at a concert was a big deal. It’s like when your friend is a Zach Brown fan and you’re like, oh, yeah, I just played guitar with them at Kid Rock’s house.

Chelsea Handler was talking about the origins of her book deal, she says, I got this book deal when I was dating Joe coy You know, you may remember Joe Coyo was at the Golden Globes one time, but I’m not going to get into that story today. And it was a very public relationship. My editor was like, oh my god, Chelsea Handler’s in love and publicly in love. You have to write a book about falling in love. And I was like, no problem.

I didn’t know this. Chelsea and Joe coy were first introduced by John Lovetz I guess, I mean, why not? Chelsea said. The end of that relationship changed the trajectory of writing her book. Or editor asked if she would consider writing a book about breaking up, and Chelsea was like, nah, my vibe is happy and optimistic.

I thought, okay, I’m not going to just do a book. Because I have a book deal. I can give the book deal back. So I reflected and I traveled. I thought, do I have anything to say?

And I did think about how people perceived me and how I feel and where I am in my life and where I want it to be. I think the book, which is called I’ll Have What she’s having about reflection. I don’t think we’ve all given ourselves enough credit for where we’ve come from and what we’ve accomplished. We go so fast through life that you kind of forget. And here’s a conspiracy theory that even I don’t believe in.

People are claiming that the upcoming film tron Ares is copying ideas from Adam Sandler. Stay with me, Why would you copy an idea from Adam Sandler unless the idea was have Drew Barrymore in your film. That would be the only idea for Adam Sandler I would ever copy. Right. So, tron Ares is a sequel to Tron Legacy, which is a sequel to say it with me, Tron.

Now, in this new movie, Tron’s digital world spills over into the real world, right, So it’s like video game stuff coming to the real world. People are saying that is a similar idea to Adam Sandler’s twenty fifteen movie Pixels, which I guess it is, but it’s kind of not at all. Do you really think somebody said, hey, Disney, you know we got this whole Tron franchise, you know we ought to make a third movie. Hey, great idea John, What do you got? What if we ripped off one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies?

What do you mean one of Adam Sandler’s worst movies? They’re all terrible. No, I know, they’re all terrible except on cut Gems and the one about basketball and the Space one. Those ones are okay and the two with Drew Barrymore. But the rest are all garbage.

We know that. But why would we rip off Pixels? I mean, if we were going to rip off an Adam Sandler movie, why that one? You know you’re right, that’s your comedy needs for today. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Jefferies, Mike Birbiglia, Jimmy O Yang, Bob Odenkirk, Seth Meyers, Ellie Coleman

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Jefferies on early comedy struggles and evolution as a comedian
• Mike Birbiglia’s Pope Francis special and White Smoke podcast about Pope Leo
• Jimmy O Yang’s journey from engineering to comedy
• Bob Odenkirk discusses dramatic career shift and fighting advice
• Seth Meyers on SNL’s political influence
• Ellie Coleman profiled as Wilmington’s most controversial comic

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jefferies started at age seventeen. In nineteen ninety four, he did some open nights in Sydney and said two of them went really badly and one of them went okay, And in fact one that went badly hurt me so much. I thought, this is all I ever do in my life.

I didn’t get back on stage until I was twenty. Now it’s all I could ever do in my life and the only real job I’ve had. I think about it a lot, and I do feel really lucky. We all get older, Jim says, I still push boundaries, but it’s a lot less about shock and more about clarity. Now.

The funny thing about comedy is that it’s more universal than people think. People everywhere relate to having kids, hating their jobs, worrying about money. The accent changes, but the laugh is the same. Mike Birbiglia had sold gold Derby about meeting Pope Francis the previous pope. Meeting Pope Francis was very moving, and I think it was very inspirational.

He was a deeply kind, loving and compassionate person who wanted change for the Catholic and he wanted progressive ideas, bussing gay couples and welcoming divorced couples back into the church and all these things. He would sort of go, well, of course, but actually there’s a faction of people who don’t want that to be the case. And so I say in my special, I go, in case you don’t know this pope, he’s pretty good, but only compared to other popes. If you met him at a party, you’d be like this guy, But compared to popees, he’s amazing. Some of the popes were literally Nazis, by the way, the Kurd Pope Pope Leo.

I’m writing a podcast called White Smoke, and we’ve been putting that out seven days a week since Pope Leo took over. There is like the podcast is barely religious. Like this week alone, we were talking about how Pope Leo met al Pacino and how Pope Leo is related to Madonna and Justin Bieber and he’s a White Sox fan, so there’s all kinds of fun stuff to talk about with Pope Leo. That podcast is called White Smoke. Wherever you get your shows for Bigly I said, I feel like stand up comedy is always best when it’s whatever you’re obsessed with.

In my obsession when I started writing this thing was the Good Life. How do you answer your child’s questions? We don’t necessarily know the answers. I was really knocking out of the park when she was five with the answers, but now that she’s eight, I don’t know all the answers. I don’t know how to explain drugs and the thing that happened with my dad.

Her BIG’s daughter asked if Grandpa was okay at a stroke, and Mike said he didn’t know. That’s some one was like, oh well, let me try to say this on stage and see if I can find the comedy in it. If you look at all my specials, that’s the challenge behind each one. How can you take a light threatening sleepwalking disorder and make that funny? How can you talk about having bladder cancer and make that funny?

And it’s like, if you can, that’s the ultimate comedy handshake with the audience, and if you can’t, then you just have to find another topic. I’ve developed a relationship with my audience where I trust them now to be okay. With it, and they trust me to take some big swings emotionally. I think it’s symbiotic at this point, and I think there’s a degree to which as a comedian, the audience will go there. If what you’re saying is funny, If it’s moving, the audience will go there, and if it’s boring comedically or dramatically, they won’t.

Jimmy O Yang told The South China Morning Post. There’s an expectation, especially if you grow up in a Chinese family, to go to college, and there’s only a few majors that are considered legitimate majors like doctor lawyer, a can finance. At first, I was an engineering major, but then didn’t love it. I try to find something easier that would also make my dad happy, so I chose economics. His dad helped him get an internship with Smith Barney.

Jimmy says it was like a golden ticket. Everybody wants to work for Smith Barney, but Jimmy never enjoyed it. He said, when I was a kid, I’d build little forts with my chopstick wrappers. He took hot jobs, try to make money from his hobbies. He worked as a DJ.

He got into comedy and said I didn’t have any stage for it. Although my jokes weren’t very good in the beginning. I think Hong Kong people have a great sense of humor, so I learned a lot from that growing up. Of course, my dad, he’s a very funny, charismatic Shanghai knees man. Bob Odenkirk, you have any wisdom for us, Bob tells Esquire.

No, I do not have worthy wisdom to give anyone. It’s a strange moment for me. I feel more uncertain than I having a long time about who I am, what I’m trying to do. I’ve been out of my element for about fifteen years now, starting with Better Call Saul. I had to leave this dramatic show and I had to learn on the job, and then I did an action movie called Nobody.

I’m coming to the end of a chapter where I redefine myself, but I’m not sure what that means. One of my qualities on screen is that I’m strangely earnest. My earnestness really doesn’t lend itself as well to comedy, which is what I’ve done for most of my career. It fits better in a drama. One of the weird things about where I am now is I don’t know what to do next.

Where’s the next load of laundry. There’s no laundry to do. I didn’t deserve half of what I had. You know, I can’t pretend like I have to engineer some great career. I’m so far past anything at any right to dream of.

So I guess I have to work on myself, which is that wonderful thing people do when they have enough money and they’re honest about the fact that the universe has been really good to them, and anything that remains that’s a discrepancy or an unsettling feeling is all theirs. He does have advice about fights. In a real fight, I would, upon the advice of every single stunt man I’ve ever worked with, get out of the room as fast as I can. Every one of them will tell you the first thing you do in a fight is get away from the fights. Fights are not fun, and they’re not good, and almost no one wins.

It’s not a movie. A lot of what you do for screen fightings goes against the basic rules of actual fighting. When you swing a punch, you go big and wide as you can which is not a good idea in a real fight, because now you’re way open. Lots of slessengers. Tour dates include Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Slavinia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.

Eliza says, I’m very lucky to have fans all over the world, so I always get to do Europe. I was in Finland, which is an incredible comedy market, and these girls came to my meet and greet. They made me this really cool card. They kind of look like me, and they were like, you should come to Estonia. I never thought about a Estonian and b that there would be cool girls like that.

So I’ve been working on this tour for a few years and I was inspired by meeting those really cool girls. I hope they’re still my fans because I’m coming. You should always be mindful of where you are and what your audience is. Outside of America, certain references will land because of our pop culture, but I think it’s always good to cater to and never pander. A couple of local jokes is great, but the point of view stays the same.

Seth Meyers did a lot of press for some reason. This month. He spoke to the Good One podcast. He said one of the ideas for SNL fifty was I wanted to have all the impressions of democratic presidents come out and just thank the liberal institution of SNL. Then the fake presidents would say, thanks for your help.

We’ve won six out of thirteen elections. Meyer said, as much as people talk about influenia LESNL is, it’s like sub five hundred if you truly believe it’s the liberal media. It’s wildly ineffective. And I like this profile from Star News Online, who tells us Wilmington, Delaware’s most controversial comic. She’s a gay, conservative mom and recovering addict.

She also claims to hate being gay. Ellie Coleman has a lot of good quotes in this article. Her production company is Ellie Degenerate Productions. Ellie Coleman says, mainly, I’m just focused on what pays my bills and gives me a savings account. She sounds very real.

I don’t leave my house for less than three hundred dollars unless I want to, and being able to do that, like coming from being homeless to being able to like pay me three hundred bucks, it’s pretty cool. We are told. Her comedic persona is a heightened version of her chip on the shoulder personality. One might call it lesbian redneck, a millennial bland of white trash hip hop, conservative leading politics, and jokes about everything from gay sex and drug abuse to being married and raising a toddler. Coleman used to wear her hair in a mullet.

She wears baseball caps, padded vests with furry colors, and or Dale Earnhardt t shirts under flannels. She describes her style as one hundred percent insensitive. It’s insensitive, and it’s one half the population is thinking, but they’re too scared to say it. During June, she jokes about the Pride flag. She started making jokes about Biden during the twenty four election because she was sick of hearing so many liberal Trump jokes, and explains a lot of the stuff I say on stages and how I really feel.

But I’m dead serious when I joke about being gay on stage, Like, I think the gay community has taking it way too far. We got dudes marching around inspeedos and stuff around kids. It’s like, okay, maybe tone it back a little bit, you know, go do that in a bar. She sounds like a lot of fun. I enjoy her.

She is Ellie Coleman, and that is your comedy news on this Sunday. Enjoy the program. Please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program commercial, free or without feed drops, go to caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re on Apple podcast, clok that banner that says uninterrupted listening See tomorrow.

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Featured: Iliza Shlesinger, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jimmy O Yang, Rachel Feinstein, Seth Meyers, W. Kamau Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Iliza Shlesinger on feminism in comedy and audience inclusivity
• Bob Odenkirk discusses creative partnership with David Cross
• Bob Odenkirk reflects on childhood and parental influence
• Jimmy O Yang on specificity in comedy and connecting with audiences
• Rachel Feinstein discusses her ADHD and work habits
• Seth Meyers addresses difficulty finding humor in politics post-2024 election
• Seth Meyers on Late Night band departure and show changes
• W. Kamau Bell fundraising stand-up shows for arts organizations losing NEA grants

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Eliza Slessengers been doing a lot of press, and Eliza says, feminism, it has become such a divisive word. And it wasn’t even a word I used until I realized women are totally misunderstood. Feminism is about getting your point across without aiming to exclude anyone.

You can stand up for women without bashing men, because feminism, by definition is about uplifting everyone. And so I try to be skillful at getting the point across about the way women are represented and the way women feel, our point of view while including the men in the audience, the men who love us, who date us, who reject us, who brought us there, who are friends with, and who are related to. Because if you don’t get the other half on your side, whatever the debate, you’re gonna lose. Nobody wants to spend money to see your performance and leave feeling bad. I’m a big believer in being fair, taking shots at everyone, and always, even if I hurt your feelings, bringing you back in good question of Eliza here, she was asked how big of a factor is the perception of being quote unquote trying to clean this up kissable, you know what I mean In comedy all I said, I don’t care about the perception and stand up comedy, but it is something that gets put on women anyway.

I show up with my jokes, ready to do the work, and in the common is always about being at an attractive level or being hot. That’s not to say that women don’t want to be attractive, but you’re factoring these variables they have to reckon with whether you want it to or not. And that applies to the way we dress. Is that tight? Are you attractive?

Are they distracted? These are just microhurdles that are not insurmountable, but it takes a lot of practice to be like, well, I’m wearing this and I’m talking about this. Get on board. Bob Odenkirk told Esquire his creative partnership with David Cross is like magic, pure magic that you cannot label or find. It’s not unlike a marriage.

I could sit here and list things that make us great partners, but there’s a dimension of blind trust and love that you can’t put a label to. If you’re not stupid, you have to appreciate that and respect it and be thankful for it. Bob talked about growing up and said, my dad’s indiscretion were so self evident in public. He was just a black hole of presence and of leadership. He was just a zero.

The lessons I got from my mom that were of value to being a decent person or self evident. She worked her ass off. She was mission oriented, which is to say, do the laundry, get the food on the table, get the kids where they’re going. When you’re a little kid and you live in a fairly nice neighborhood, but you drink powdered milk, you don’t quite know do we have money or do we not have money? I think we have no money, But does that mean we’re gonna be living in a corn next week?

Your life’s on steady. You’re very wobbly inside. We watched the Carol Burnett Show. I don’t really know how consciously what I was getting from that, but when I think back in it, you saw adults making each other laugh, and you’re happy to feel that warmth on the TV. It’s a wonderful thing to give to the audience, that warmth that’s genuine.

I saw Monty Python when I was eleven, I was absolutely like the world peeled back then. The veneer of things being legitimate was laid bare by Monty Python. Jimmy O Yang spoke about his comedy and said, I feel like you can really create something out of thin air without any tools. It’s just your brain and then a microphone. That’s all you need in an audience, and I fell in love with it.

In America, not everybody grew up with immigrant parents, not everybody grew up Chinese. But me getting more and more specific about my truth and letting people into seeing a piece of my life, that’s when people started relating to me. That’s when I was able to sell a lot more tickets because now people aren’t just coming to watch me for the jokes. They’re coming to watch me because they feel like they know me. ADDD tuned bag add attuned mag I spoke to Rachel Feinstein about her ADHD.

Rachel said, I’m insanely disorganized. I’m always running late, I shed debit cards, I’m always leaving a shoe in somebody’s car. I lose a passport almost every year. My husband, who is OCD, always says to me, whyt you just put things back in the same place, and I’m like, you’re assuming I know where I put them. My hands take trips throughout the day.

It’s like my hands aren’t connected to my body. I’m a workaholic, but only if somebody’s sitting with me. I always have to have a babysitter for myself. I pay people to sit with me. For example, an editor expressed interest in work with me on my Netflix special, but I knew I was never going to go through it and email them time code.

So I said to the editor, I’m going to come to your house and sit with you and edit every line with you. I don’t think he thought I was really going to do it. Then I was over at his place, just me and him and his wife in a little apartment. I’d leave and bathe and give him time to implement notes. But we were together for two weeks and we got it done.

I think we were common law wed by the end of that process. Seth Meyer spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how it’s increasingly hard to find humor and politics, and my barking dogs weren’t impressed by what Seth had to say or that I was recording. They don’t give a hoot. I don’t know if you could hear that or not. The noise reduction might get it, but I hear it.

Guys, I’m trying to record. Why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun. Seys said, I feel like a lot of people early on election night, when you realize what was happening, It was certainly a real feeling of dread about how do we do this again. I’ll admit to thinking in twenty sixteen like this terrible mistake has been made, but at least I know it won’t happen again, and then it happens again. I just couldn’t emotionally approach it the same way.

Would have felt really empty. I do think we’re in this unique situation whereas comedians opposed to the news, you can totally talk about things however you want to talk about them. So there wasn’t a big meeting or anything of the show, but we did say, all right, we have to still be joyful in the making of the show, and even when we’re talking about how bad things are, it has to be through an expression of joy with people who also want to feel like they’re coming for an hour of joyful performance. The Holly reporter asked Seth about losing the band from Late Night, Says says, those conversations were not fun. We don’t always agree with the people in charge, but we always do believe them, and it’s nice to know they’re coming to you sometimes with bad news from an place, and in this case the news is industry wide.

So we didn’t take it personally and we came up with a solution. And while it’s really hard to lose the band that on a personal level, I missed them all a great deal. We don’t feel as though the show has been massively affected on a quality level. I don’t feel like we hear from anybody. It’s just not the same.

And it’s funny when we talk about innovation. We were never going to innovate by making the show bigger. We weirdly innovate by making it a little smaller. Nice job by w come out Bell. He’s been doing a run of stand up shows and giving the proceeds to thirteen local arts organizations.

Those organizations lost funding when the National Aldowment for the Arts canceled some grants. Bell said it’s about supporting the local arts scene and making up for what our government refuses to do. We’re going to try and make those whole that didn’t receive any reimbursement on their grants and then split the proceeds evenly with the rest. The shows benefit the Berkeley Repertory Theater, the American Conservatory Theater, Theater Works, Silicon Valley Theater, Bay Area, San Francisco Youth Theater, Marie Shakespeare Company, Oakland Theater Project, New Conservatory Theater Center, Magic Theaters, Fan Francisco, Children’s Ferryland in Oakland, Crowded Fire Theater Company, Co Dance Theater, and Dance Mission Theater. Belle said, without theater’s nurturing talent, I don’t have the career I have right now.

Nice job, sir from Stripes dot com, which is Stars and Stripes, you know, the military newspaper. Yeah, they wrote about a comedy bar in Tokyo, and I found it interesting and I like doing this sort of thing on the weekend. It’s called Tokyo Comedy Bar, and you’ll find it near Shibuya Station in Tokyo. We’re told the third floor club includes a cramp bar serving craft beer and snacks. The room has fifty five fold out chairs a small stage in a sound system.

Comedian Tim Toe got up and told some R rated jokes related to his experience as a Chinese Canadian before a local favorite, Yuri Collins explained her dream of landing a sugar daddy who could fund cosmetic surgery. Karon Chew shared a story about getting upgraded to business class and leaving his wife to ride an economy in a recent flight. That’s very relatable. Tokyo Comedy Bar now hosts around seventy five show a month, and both Japanese and English. That’s a lot.

The main draw is the nightly seven thirty PM stand up comedy showcase. A nine o’clock slot usually features open mics, international headliners or Japanese language acts. If you find yourself in Tokyo would have cost you about two thousand and en to get in. That’s around fourteen dollars, and we’re told dress is casual. Tokyocomedy Bar dot com if you’re curious about more, and that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, they might like it too. If you would like the program without ads or feed drops, check the link of the show notes Calierroga dot com slash Plus, or if you’re on Apple Podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening, See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Theo Von, Tom Segura, Shane Gillis, Drod Carmichael, Jeff Ross

What’s in This Episode

• Late night jokes about Trump’s parade attendance estimates
• Trump considering involvement in Israel-Iran conflict
• Theo Von’s criticism of US involvement in Middle East wars
• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts renewed for season two on Netflix
• Shane Gillis Tires season on Netflix
• Drod Carmichael discusses explicit sexual content in comedy
• Jeff Ross diagnosed with colon cancer, Broadway show announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, summer finally came to where I live. I am so excited, and I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Late night. Had a pretty good week. Let’s do some late night jokes.

Haven’t done this for a while, Jimmy Fallon said. The White House is now claiming that over two hundred and fifty thousand people attended the parade last weekend. Yeah, it was an estimate, give or take two hundred and fifty thousand. John Stewart said it was less a show of overwhelming force and more like a military museum getting at its steps. Did you see Trump is coming out with a phone?

Seth Meyers at the Trump Organization today unveiled plans for a new Trump mobile phone service. Best of all, you won’t have any need for a friends and family plan allan. A lot of words come to mind when you think of Trump, but mobile is not really one of them. It’s the perfect phone to call your friends. It’d be like, yeah, I’m at the parade, there’s no one here.

Switching topic, Seth Meyers said, Trump is reportedly considering joining the war between Israel and Iran, and you might not like it. But he did say over and over again during the campaign America Third, Colbert, the thing is Trump being bunkerbuster curious is a shock to some people because one of the things that America First supposedly meant was keeping American troops out of foreign wars, so we can send more of them to Los Angeles, you know, send them to America first. All right, send your letters to those guys. You’re gonna be mad. You need a Biden joke to keep this thing balanced.

All right. Did you see Biden stumbled onto the set of Reacher. That’s a real thing that happened. They were filming Reacher in Philadelphia and Joe Biden showed up. Long story, Google it, The late Bot said.

Hunter Biden was impressed with the action scenes, but thought they needed more laptops. Late Bot again. New season Pitch, Reacher tracks down a fugitive, only to find out the President already pardoned him invited him with thanksgiving Late Bot again. Insiders say Hunter Biden was impressed with the explosions, but disappointed no one offered him a role as guy who misplaces important evidence. Send your letters to the late Bot.

Now we’ve offended everybody. Let’s move on. Or maybe not. THEO Vaughan is speaking out about the potential US involvement in the conflict, saying, quote, he doesn’t understand why America will get involved in a milie’s fight. On his podcast, and this story is making the rounds as I record this afternoon, he address the possibility that Israel is trying to get the United States into a war with Iran.

I don’t trust the Israeli leader at all, said Vaughan. I don’t believe anything the guy says, and I don’t think our soldiers should have to go and defend stuff that they start. I’m not a soldier, so I’m obviously speaking out of turn. I’m not even brave enough to serve. So there’s that element.

But this is kind of how I feel, I guess. So it’s like, yeah, when do I speak? When do I say that? Because you know, because it feels like they’re trying to push Trump to go do that, and it’s like who makes that choice? Does he make that choice?

And then what do we get? You know, what’s the win for us? We’re just involved in some other thing while we have suffering here at home. In more fun topics in Great News, Tom Sigor is Bad Thoughts has been renewed for a second season. I had a nice moment with my son the other day.

We were sharing a little whiskey and I was telling him about the show, and I said, it’s very funny and it’s very adult, and we will never speak of it it. Sigora shared a video of him breaking the news to his mother. Tom said, I’m so excited. She’s definitely not happy with it. It was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and horrify audiences with our very Bad Thoughts on Netflix.

We’re all excited to push things further with season two. I promise your family will not approve of what we do. Netflix shared the video and they tagged it sorry to Tom Sigora’s mom. Bad Thoughts is coming back for season two. No release date on that.

I discovered is the wrong word. I was watching Netflix and I got to the end of Tires episode six, and I was like, all right, that was pretty good. There’s six more episodes. I thought it was a six episode season because season one was six episodes. It’s twelve episodes, so I basically have a bonus season of Tires to get to Shane Gillis Tires on Netflix.

That and Sigora and the Conan Thing are the three funniest things of the year, all on Netflix. Good job there. Dred Carmichael did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. I found his first answer here really odd. The question from the Hollywood Reporter Ubye Gay is almost disarmingly frank about sex.

What made you want to go there with your first hour since Nathaniel? A right fine question. Now listen to this answer. I don’t know what to make of it, Drod said. I like speaking explicitly about sex.

It’s exciting because it’s the complete opposite of my life. For many, many years it was all suppression. Now, especially being in a relationship, I feel compelled to articulate the experience. I guess I hadn’t heard that a lot in comedy. And that’s funny because in a sense, it’s what you wanted from Louis c.

K. He was going around the edges of truly articulating sexual experiences. But there’s that glaring truth that he didn’t acknowledge. The same thing with Bill Cosby. Cosby is truly a master of the craft.

But now it’s like you hear it and you’re like, man, Wow, you didn’t really acknowledge what you were doing. Those are really scaring things. I don’t know what to make of that, especially on the Cosby front. Now, I do have a Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until mister Cosby passes away, but I will tell you that story someday. It was quite eye opening personal experience on I had with mister Cosby, who I interacted with at least three times.

A story for another day. So draw continued and said, even with a ZS. When we had the Babe dot Net situation, he made a special Spike Jones. It was well done, but it wasn’t quite exactly what you wanted. You wanted him to.

Well, you want anyone to come up and say, here’s what happened. That’s one of the things I admire about Richard Pryor. He’d come out on stage and be like, Hey, here’s what’s going on with me? Anything happening with him in public, he’d address it and work it out through comedy is doing what I wish my father, both my actual father and comedy forefathers would do. It’s a vulnerable thing.

The women in comedy, the best of the best have dealt with really vulnerable things, from Ellen to Tig and made it hilarious. I just feel compelled to do it, and I’m excited to do it a little nervous obviously about saying it and putting it out into the world. I don’t know what to make of all that. Yeah, I just I don’t have any comment. Be curious what you think.

Share your thoughts on the Facebook group Dilly Comedy News podcast group. Really really interesting there. I’m not sure what he wanted to seek, is these of those guys to do or Bill cous what’s Bill Cosby gotta do? Come out and do? Never mind.

Jeff Ross was on with Jimmy Kimmel. Jeff shared a joke his doctor delivered to Jeff Ross when telling Jeff Ross that he had colon cancer. Ross said, my oncologist was like, Jeff, good news and bad news. The bad news is you’re gonna need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago.

That’s brutal. Jeff said, I was already in my fifties. I’d never gotten a colin oscopy. I went in, I had no symptoms, and I had a tumor in my colon. You always think it’s never gonna happen to you, and it happened to me.

Now I have a semi colon. All right? What waw? Jeff addresses his cancer diagnosis in his one man show, Jeff Ross, Take a Banana for the Ride. It’ll be on Broadway this summer.

Jeff says, I don’t want the show to be Maudlin, but I think it’s important to address it. Norm MacDonald was very private and hit his sickness. I didn’t think that was fair to the audience and his friends. So I’m putting it out there, but I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. It’s going to be a very empowering and bold statement on how to get through tough times.

All right. If you’re planning on seeing Devin Walk and Michael Longfellow in Philadelphia this weekend, you’re not. They have canceled a pair of stand up dates. They are showing support for striking and terminated staffers at the venue where they were going to perform. Apparently, what has happened here?

Several employees at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live walked out during a performance by Suzanne Vega they have accused the venue’s new management of fostering a hostile work environment and failing to deliver timely accurate pay. Management responded the next day. According to this version, apparently management then let a dozen people go and ban them from the venue. Walker on Instagram said, in light of the labor disputed of the venue, we’ve decided to cancel the Philly show this weekend. We’re working on getting another date in the city later this year.

Brett Goldstein is hard to get secrets out of. He was speaking to Variety. They were curious about the new season of Shrinking. Michael J. Fox is a guest star.

Jeff Daniels and Cannis Bergen also appear. Goldstein said, being on set with Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox doing a scene, you’re like, am my tripping at my back in my bedroom in the eighties. But it wouldn’t give any details about it about Ted Lasso. You’re gonna tell us about Ted Lasso, Brett said, Obviously, I can’t tell you a single thing about it, of course, but we’re working on it and it’s good.

It’s exciting to have everyone back together. I put the spin on the word everyone there. Bill Lawrence talked about the Scrubs reboot and said, I hate the narrative, like, oh, the ninth year sucked, it’s sour grapes whatever. I’m lucky to have done it. I didn’t get to work on that season as much, but the writing staff did a great job.

If it had been a spin off called Scrubs Med or Scrubs Med School, it wouldn’t have been judged as horsehly. But I understand the business of that decision. Yeah, season nine. You know, it’s different that the show had kind of wrapped up and then ABC brought it back, and I know at the time they wanted to call it something like Scrubs Met and the network’s like, no, no, no, Scrubs. Season nine is fine.

It’s just it’s different. It’s like kind of like after Scrubs. Of the reboot, Lawrence says, this one is also called Scrubs and it starts with j D and Turk, although this version will try to capture the same humor and heart as the original run. We catch up with JD fifteen years later and has been beaten down by the system. Bill explains the hardest part is that Zach and Donald have aged people still have that affinity and love for that goofy youthfulness.

That’s why the T mobile commercials work well. But if I saw two guys in their late forties early fifties doing World’s most Giant Doctor and carrying each other around all the time, I’d go, what is going on? To see what that friendship looks like at their age, and take a comedic look at what medicine has become since those kids started out as interns, and see how our people would look at it, deal with it and try to remain optimistic. Is their main objective. I’ll share with you my wife is a physician, and she was an intern when Scrubs came on, and she for decades said Scrubs was actually the most realistic medical show because of you know, take all the broad comedy out of it, but just the background stuff of like how the hospital operated.

She said it was the most realistic that has now been superseded by the Pit where I was fun to watch the pit with her because she would just comment and be like, Oh, yeah, they’re doing this, they’re doing this. It was very realistic, according to doctor Mac. Back to Bill Lawrence, he says, I’ll tell you the people I based the original characters on, like the real JD Doctor Jonathan Doris is still the medical advice on the show, and it’s still a cardiologist and a heart surgeon in LA. But the real Elliott, who was Doris’s wife, doctor Dolly Clock, is no longer in medicine because it got to be too much for her. She wanted to do other things that we’re equally as philanthropic.

She does this education thing for adolescents and kids now. So to look at how the system not only changed, but it’s beaten some of these people down, how they retain their optimism with a wave of new young characters has been really fun. My hope would be that we established where everybody from the original show is, whether they’re still with us at the hospital or not. That would be great. Bill says, I hope Ken Jenkins as doctor Bob Kelso, who’s eighty four now, is able to come play with us a little bit.

He’s a little older, but we love him so much. Don’t expect Scrubs two O to feature the kids. Bill says, I think it’s inevitable that Jad and Elliott’s kid made compearances, but Scrubs is first and foremost a workplace comedy. So I think we’re going to keep it that. I’m looking forward to that.

And that is your comedy news for today. And I’m always honest with you guys about the shows right when I go, Hey, this weekend’s pretty good. This week this weekend, it’s a lot of filler stories. It’s, being honest, a light week. I carved two shows out of it.

I’m never going to tell you not to download the show. But you know, if you took a weekend off, this might be the weekend to take off. But I’ll see you if not tomorrow on Monday. I get it, just being honest, see you

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Featured: Marc Maron, Julie Sebaw, Bert Kreischer, Joe Rogan, CM Punk

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron ending WTF podcast after 20+ years
• Marc Maron HBO comedy special releasing in August
• Documentary ‘Are We Good’ about Marc Maron directed by Julie Sebaw
• Bert Kreischer’s unplanned WWE Raw segment with CM Punk
• Joe Rogan’s appeal to Australian audiences and masculinity culture

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mac with the Daily Comedy News and Mark Marin was at the Tribeca Film Festival talking about the new documentary he’s part of. Will talk about that in a second, but the question of course, hey, you’re ending your podcast, Mark said, I do put it a lot of it out there, and if I can handle it and I can be gracious about it, and I don’t know what it’s going to be like to not do it twice a week, and I don’t know what part of it is my own neediness or my own need to connect. But I can feel the weight of abandoning these people who have written over the years you saved my life. I got sober because of you.

I didn’t kill myself.

And then there’s part of me that’s like, are they going to be okay?

Should I reach out to them? Personally? It meant the world to me and really evolved my sense of self and my sense of being a person. All of this stuff I do is fueled whatever my particular creativity is, and I’m sure I’m not going to disappear after the podcast, but the goal will now be to figure out where to channel that creativity. One of those things.

He’s got an HBO comedy special that’ll be out in August, so between that and the podcast ending and the documentary, a lot of them are mare. In this summer, Mark spoke about putting the special together and said, my process is moving through these things to maybe no laughter and not quite having a way to make it funny or through line of things. Seeing that part of my process, which is not a standard stand up process, is where I knew going into the documentary that telling the stories was going to be emotionally loaded, and I didn’t have any real control over those emotions, but I knew it being public with the feelings would eventually enable me to settle into that, and if I believed in comedy’s ability to elevate those feelings into something common and funny, if not touching, that it would reveal itself on stage. So we had to do that. For better or worse.

The work I do in general is fairly candid and personal. The real question becomes how do you do this? When do you do it? The choice to do a podcast episode days after Lynn Shelton passed away, my producer was like, we don’t ever have to do a podcast again if you can’t handle it, and I’m like, well, I don’t know. I think it’s kind of important to expose this process in a way because everybody goes through it one way or another.

You can outrun grief, and it’s something that people don’t really talk about. Part of what I was thinking, I owe it to myself and just what I do as an artist performers to have public experience with this. The documentary is called Are We Good. Julie Sebaw is the producer and spoke to The New York Post about the doc. Julie says, I made the master timeline of his life when through all his podcast episodes, arranged the shoots at the venue, spent five years a story editor, plotted out with the different threads of the film we’re going to be and gave my sometimes harsh opinion on what should be included.

The Post was curious does the narrative of the doc change with WTF coming to an end? Julie said, a lot of people are curious about that my phone blew up when that happened, But there’s a plan and the release will be around the same timeframe is when the podcast is ending. This is Maren we’re talking about, though, he’s going to do everything he wants on his own terms. I think we’re all excited to see what the next version of Maren is going to be, but he does seem happy settling into his old man phase. The Post asked what it’s like working with Mark Maren.

Julie said, there’s never a dull moment with Mark Maron. He’s a highly watchable person, but also a bit volatile. When you start seeing how he lives and where everything comes from into his mind, it’s rewarding on a whole other level. He gets super emotional sometimes. After a Seattle set, Lynn’s friends came up to him and said he knew Linn is proud of him.

We instantly see his face crumble as he takes pictures with fans. The Post was curious what landed on the cutting room floor. Julie says there were a lot of scenes or moments of him trash talking comedians that didn’t make the finished product. There’s still a little bit in there, but it wasn’t the crux of the movie. We didn’t need to bring an outside controversy into something that’s already a lot to deal with as a film on its own.

That’s interesting, right, Wonder who it is Julie’s working on that Mitch Hedberg documentary, the one with Jeff Siegel. I’d spoke to Jeff a few months ago. Now looking forward to both those documentaries. Bert Kreischer and Raw Recap explained what went down in the ring on April seventh. Bert Krescher had appeared in a segment during the episode of ww RAW.

Bert wound up hopping the barricade to put a stop to Austin Theory and Grayson Waller’s attack on CM. Punk Kreischer said the moment wasn’t planned. He had proposed doing a spot earlier in the evening Triple H veto at at Triple H has creative control. But once Waller and Theory He’s beat down of CM started taking place, Bert says, they take me over, and I just pull my belt off to defend myself because I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I’m in way over my head.

All of a sudden, Sampunk’s like getting the rings. I get in the ring and he’s like, can you choke slam him? And I was like, I think so. So he just put his throat in my hand. I heard sampunk go one two boom, and brother, I would to say every man deserves to lose his virginity to the woman he loves and to choke slam a person from a different country.

That’s all I’ll say. The Sydney Morning Harold wrote a big profile piece about Joe Rogan and the Joe Rogan Experience. Jordan Baker writes under the headline, Joe Rogan’s message can be rambling and unpolished, yet men idolize him. This might be why, Jordan writes, Joe Rogan likes to hunt and cook his own food. He shoots with a bow, elk with their wild screams or his favorite prey, then barbecues the meat and serves a thinly cut with cheese and jalapinos.

He uses wheaton psychedelics, reads Hunter S. Thompson and dabbles in stand up comedy. He’s a mixed martial arts expert and nurtures his hard, nuggety physique with grueling workouts at Experimental Supplements. Rogan is a man’s man and many Australian men love him. His followers are not just fight fans.

Jim Burrows and fellow vaccine skeptics, highly educated or bane and politically centrist men listen to. One anonymous fan says, who wouldn’t want to be a skilled martial artist with loads of muscles? Would you rather be that guy or be known for being witty or intelligent? Yeah, I’d rather be that guy. The Herold tells us of a Sydney based chief executive who listens regularly and says, if you go to the pub with your mates and shoot the stuff for a few hours, the conversation goes from the footy to taxes to did you hear about the crazy celebrity?

That’s what you get from Rogan? Do people say you’ve got to be careful of Joe Rogan? And the Manisphere? Are people from legacy media who are losing out to him? Jordan Beger continues, It’s a conversation with no specific purpose, reminiscent and freshman lying on the university lawn, gazing at the stars.

His stick is open minded curiosity about everything, even theories that are discredited. He hates talking points and scripts. He expects his guests to say what they think rather than spin answers to avoid stepping on toes, I really like this piece a lot. How they quote Jack, who’s twenty six and works in insurance, and I think Jack understands the show and likes it for the same reasons that I do. Jack says he’s having a bit of fun.

He might be having a few drinks on the podcast. He’s debating things. They talk about, interesting topics, a different point of view. I just think he’s a funny, good bloke. That’s how I feel about the show.

I don’t take it too seriously. I find it easy on the years. It’s a good late night podcast if you’re ever in trouble sleeping. I like it a lot. Netflix announced Nate Jackson will have a special on July eighth.

It is called Super Funny. Nate Jackson tackles everything from racially questionable cookies to other everyday absurdities. Nate is also going to be in that office spinoff reboot whatever it is side project The Paper, so we’ll be hearing a lot about Nate Jackson and Chelsea Handler will be your headliner at the twenty twenty five Rochester Fringe Festival that’s coming up in September. So I shared this in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Remember the Nate Brighetzi Esquire profile that came out in May, So I was actually looking at it again and in it it had a photo shoot, and it came away feeling a little weird.

So here’s Nate, and I understand, you know what Esquire is going for, but they want us to know that Nate Berghetsi is wearing a fifty six hundred dollars jacket, a four hundred and twenty eight dollars shirt, three hundred and twenty eight dollar trousers, a one hundred and twenty eight dollars tie, seven hundred and ninety five dollars shoes, a ten thousand, six hundred dollars watch, a three hundred ninety five dollars ring, and a two hundred and seventy five dollars bilt. And I don’t know, as I posted, I go, is this supposed to make Nate more likable? Seems to disconnect, and then some of the gang was debating that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Again, I’m not like walking around all day going I can’t believe Naper gets he’s wearing a ten thousand dollars watch. But it just seemed a little bit of a disconnect from his everyday image.

Whatever Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off. David Spade mentioned that he will be one of the fillins this year. Again every time kim Ol starts going, oh, maybe I won’t host Late Night anymore. And I understand public negotiating. It’s like, dude, you get the summer off.

If you could stretch out your winter break, you could cut down the three days four days, and you probably do four days now. You can cut down the three. Abc’ll keep you. You might have to take a little less money, but don’t walk away from the show. Ken Flores, who passed away earlier this year, is one of the comedians in Hulu’s LOL Live.

The La Times wrote a nice piece about Ken. Gabe Iglesias talked about having Ken open for him in twenty twenty three. Gabe says it was a highlight to have him. His family’s mom, dad, and friends were there with him and fifteen thousand people that night. He remembers Flores as kind and respectful.

People did like him, and that’s very tilling. Ralph Barbosa said, the most memorable thing about him is how really was Ken never kissed anybody’s butt. She made me respect him a lot more because that means everything he got was through talent and hard work. Flores was going to tour this year with Renee Vaka and Ralph Barbosa. Renee and Ralph continue to tour.

They adopted the tour name from Ken The Butterfly Effect, and they split the profit three ways to include Flores’s family. Barbosa said none of us would do it unless it was split this even during every show they play an unreleased fifteen minute segment of Flores. Becka says he’s still killing it in the audience. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Steve Carell, Dave Smith, Patton Oswalt, Mark Malkoff, Chang Wang

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze mentoring next generation comedians through Nateland shows
• Steve Carell’s Northwestern University commencement speech with dance break
• Dave Smith reverses Trump endorsement, calls for impeachment over Israel policy
• Patton Oswalt taping new special at Montreal Comedy Festival
• Mark Malkoff biography on Johnny Carson coming October 21st
• Just for Laughs Montreal outdoor shows announced
• Chang Wang discusses finding authentic comedic voice without late night TV influence

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Caloroga Shark Media boy, ye will not stop raining where I live, He’ll know. I’m Johnny Mac Crafton’s Eide once again with your Daily Comedy News The Tennessee and I checked out one of the Nateland shows at Zenie’s in Nashville. They do that on Monday nights. It’s say lineup curated by Nate Brigetzi. Nicole likes attending the shows.

She said there’s always a chance Nate will show up, which is a pretty good possibility. If he’s there on a Monday night, you get to see a short set from him, essentially for free, which is huge. Nate showed up on April twenty eighth and did twenty minutes. Nate told The Tennessee, and I want the next generation to have a chance to come up behind me. I always believed in myself.

I always believed I was going to get to a high level. But I remember going to TV show producers and wanted to pitch shows and you get told no. I felt frustration. Why didn’t you pick me? Before people had to do sitcoms to do arenas, I’ve gone this other way.

Now you can just become a stand up comedian. I want that to be the path for the next group that comes up. Comics coming up and don’t know what they can do, and I can help show them. Aaron Weber is one of the hosts of the Nateland podcasts. He said, Nate put me on his podcast before I really had any right to be there.

He produced and funded my debut comedy special, and as busy as he is these days, he’s always available for advice whenever I need it. Greg Warren, who’s been in comedy for thirty years, said his career took off with Nate’s help. Warren said, honestly, I remember thinking I may be finally getting better at this. I might be too old for anyone to care. Nate produced two of Warren’s specials, help Warren launch his own podcast as part of the network, and tap Warren to be an opening act on the road.

Warren said, I toured Europe with Nate. Yeah, his daughter took advantage of my fear of heights and terrorized me at the top of the Eiffel Tower. But I’m still grateful of everything he’s done for me. I’m enjoying my career more than I ever have, and Nate is a huge part of that. Steve Carell gave the commencement speech at Northwestern University’s graduation over the weekend, and then middle of it, Steve said it is time to follow me.

In the mid commencement address. At dance break, Carrel danced for a bit behind the podium, then jogged off stage to high five and celebrate with graduates. He came back to the mic and said that was as invigorating as it was disturbing. He had to catch his breath and said, wow, I’m out of shape. Got more serious and said, remember the little things like being kind and that you’re not alone.

Take care of one another, remember to laugh when you have the opportunity, and to cry when necessary. Turn new jealousy’s admiration and use it to fuel your ambition in a positive way. Comedian Dave Smith making the news. Smith is a frequent guest on Rogan and as a podcaster to himself. He had endorsed Donald Trump in twenty twenty four, and now in statements that are making the mainstream media, Dave Smith said of the President he should be impeached and removed.

He called his previous endorsement of Trump a bad calculation. Smith added all of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything he ran a campaign on and everything that he stood for. These comments are in response to Trump’s handling of Israel. Aron send your letters to Dave Smith.

Paton Oswalt will tape his new special, Black Coffee and Ice Water at the Audible Feeder July eleventh and twelfth. They’re going to do three show. It’ll be recorded live and later released as an Audible original, which is kind of interesting. It’s not one of the usual suspects there, and I don’t believe Audible does videos, So we’ll see what happens anyway, We’re told. In Black Coffee and Ice Water, Patton Oswalt wrestles with religion, wolves, parenting a teenager, and musical theater.

The press release says Paton mostly loses just for laughs. Montreal announced the outdoor shows. They include Puddle’s Pity Party, in which the seven foot Sad Clown, whose golden voice is comparable to rock legends like Tom Jones and Freddie Mercury, will appear. Adam Ray is Doctor Phil Live. That is a free outdoor show that’s a lot of fun.

Bonjour High, which is It’s really funny because that’s usually how I’ll walk into Starbucks and go bonjeour high, and then they hear I can’t speak French at all, they switch, which is pretty good, very good title there. It’s a bilingual performance blending French and English humor that sounds like a lot of fun. Not outdoor shows. Re starby the Legend Returns. Tickets on sale now.

Also for christ Stefano in a Varieties. Ten comics to watch We haven’t seen the list yet, but but tickets are on sale that shows at Club Soda thirty two bucks. We’ll get you in. Past comics to watch include Nate Ali Wong, Donald Glover, Kamal Pete Davidson, Nick Kroll, Aubrey Plaza, Trod Carmichael, Pete Holmes, Michael Jay, Amy Schumer, Mattel Lane, Fortune, Fiemester, Moa Mayor, Jenny Slate, Hannah einbender Io Atabury, and so many more. Of course, pretty Ohen Taylor Thompson.

Pretty impressive list, but also how about all the ones that were on the list that we forgot about? You know that too, but it’s usually a pretty good list. Friend of the show, Mark Malkoff as a book coming out called Love Jenny Carson. Mark sent out an email that tells us the biography overwhelmingly contains new details about Johnny and a show never discussed on the Carson podcast. Mark currently hosts the podcast Inside Late Night, which is a good pod for you to check out anyway.

Love Jenny Carson sets the record straight on Johnny’s legacy and shines light on the many sides of his personality, incorporating interviews with over foreigner people in his sphere, including Carson’s staff, crew, guests, guest hosts, and friends, revealing never before told behind the scenes stories are the funniest and most beloved Carson moments of all time. The book is out October twenty first. The book also promises never before detailed reasons why Johnny stopped talking to Joan Rivers, why he banned guests like William Shatner and Orson Wells, the true origins of Cornack the Magnificent, which was not stolen from Steve Allen repoort Johnny played in getting Nixon elected president, the beloved comedian who the Carson writers dreaded, guest hosting interesting, I wonder that is, and many other behind the scenes stories should be a lot of fun. That one Chang Wang spoke to the Pitch Case C and he was talking about how he did not grow up watching late night TV, and Chang says, maybe I have more of a blank slate to a certain extent, I think I’m just a naturally observant, patient and sensitive person. That’s really helpful in this line of work.

Some comedians that say from a very young age wanted to do comedy. People who start too young maybe haven’t had a chance to developing themselves that they grow into a chricature of what they think a comedian is. I started hitting open mics in my early twenties. I think the best commuteans have a good sense of who they are and the unique person they are, and can lean on that and be brave enough to explore that. Pitch k C said they feel like people have been into comedians with specific voices and name checked to Connor O’Malley and Joe Para.

Chang. Do you feel like that’s been the case, he said, yeah, I think so. There’s so many more channels now, like literally, with cable, streaming and social there’s so many more ways to find an audience who can like what you do. It allows people to be themselves weirder. I feel like they have to follow mainstream forms of expression of comedy.

It used to be to make it big, you had to do a five minute set on Johnny Carson and then Mark Malkoff would write about you in his book and you get hundreds of millions of people seeing in one night. Now you can be big if you have one hundred thousand followers on Instagram or TikTok. It’s easier to find people who appreciate what you do. Jimmy O Yang spoke with the South China Morning Post. He was surprised how quickly his Hong Kong shows sold out.

Jimmy said, I really tried everything to get my tickets to my fans. Comedy is supposed to be for the people, and if it’s up to me, I do fifty shows if there’s availability and my schedule allows. Whenever I post something of me speaking Cantonese, I get a lot of love. But man, this is next level fanfare. And how fast the tickets sold, I feel like blackpink right now.

It’s crazy. Just makes me want to come back to Hong Kong more. There’s so many people that really support me. It’s very touching. And that is your comedy news for today.

And what’s been a relatively slow news week. We need like a good comedian fight or something. It’s been a little slow anyway. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. And if you’d like the program without commercial interruption or feed drops, go to calibrouga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening five bucks a month.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Jack Black, Adam Sandler, Sommore, Jay Pharoah, Leanne Morgan, Tim Daly, Roseanne Barr, Conan O’Brien, Henry Winkler, Mac Packer

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney describes himself as ‘gentle, listless, soulless wooden boy’ in Hollywood Reporter roundtable
• Eliza Shlesinger’s minimal joke-writing process and Emmy campaign push
• Joan Rivers’ comedy writing process with index cards from 2001
• Jack Black receives King of Comedy Award at 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
• Sommore and Jay Pharoah headline 2025 Because They’re Funny DC Comedy Festival
• Leanne Morgan discusses her new sitcom ‘Leanne’ and kissing Tim Daly on set
• Roseanne Barr injured by tree branch accident on her Hill Country ranch
• 2025 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductees announced

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney, in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable was asked what would a John Mulaney type be if someone were casting a John Mullini type. M’lanie said, when it has come up, it means like a gentle, lilliss, soulless wooden boy who’s fast on his feet. John adds, I’m much less nerdy than people think.

Whatever that means, I feel a little more weight in my feet when I walk around. Eliza Selessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Billboard. There is just a massive campaign going on trying to get her an Emmy. Billboard said, I was blown away when I learned you don’t write out your jokes except for a few key words. Have you always had that ability, Eliza said, I guess so.

I never questioned it or thought about it. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve been asked about it. I figured everybody had a little list of words. I know, people like Joan Rivers had a whole card catalog, but what I do as ephemeral. I’ll talk about Joe and I worked with her and her radio show in two thousand and one, sit there with two writers.

There was like the young guy who would have the hip references and the older, more established guy. Joan was amazing because these guys would write down jokes on a card, pass them to Joan and she would deliver them in her style, in her voice. And you know, some of the younger references, she might not even have known what the reference meant, but she knew how to tell a joke and would nail it. It was really great she and you know every night there were a ton of index cards which we threw out, and here twenty five years later on the fly, I’m thinking, oh, I probably should have taken those out of the garbage. That would have been pretty valua.

But I have now, twenty five years later, not that I’d sell them. I would just donate them to the Comedy Museum. But anyway, that was the thing that happened back in two thousand and one. Eliza said, I’m only using the material for about a year, and anything that I don’t use gets jotted down as a word or a sentence or two. I don’t have a library, and maybe that’s stupid.

Maybe I forget punch lines that I could have used. I have a famous bit among my friends. It’s about Las Vegas. I did it on the road for a year. I never wrote it down to this day.

My husband’s like, why don’t you do your Vegas bit? And I’m like, I can’t I remember it. So after a lie on random friends and my husband to remind me, what was that I said about curly irons by the pool.

Also, I write so much material.

I believe the good things stick when I’m creating that hour. To me, that’s the litmus test. It’s also a great way to fight off Alzheimer’s. It’s normal to do with joke two thousand times and then on the two thousand and first time, you’re like, wait, what was the punchline? But for me, that’s where the craft and practice come in.

I go up a lot, and I love doing it. And I’m always running and rerunning and fine tuning. Because when I do my special or go out on the road and people spend a lot of money to see me, I want them to see a polished product, not me sifting through a notebook or being drunk on stage. More from the Emmy campaign billboard was like your production value is a polished and sophisticated Eliza said, I appreciate that Homi old school. I like a shiny floor.

I like a high production value. Low fi production for sure has its place, and we’ll live in a world where people are getting famous off at TikTok clip from the Giggle Hut. But there’s something special about getting to create a special I agree there. I like the show business of it all. I want people to feel like they’re watching something of quality, and I believe what I create is of quality.

Well, guys, if you listen to this podcast, I don’t have to tell you who the King of comedy is. You know who the King of comedy is. Obviously, the King of comedy is Jack Black, because he’s going to receive the King of Comedy Award at the twenty twenty five Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. Jack Black is the second person to receive the award King of Comedy. Now, obviously, who would be the other king of comedy if not Jack Black?

Only one name comes to mind, the Great, hilarious, all his movies, fantastic, his act is, and stupid at all. The King of comedy Adam Sandler. Of course, given the honor back in twenty twenty three. Jack Black will accept the Silver Blimp on stage on June twenty first. I know you’re looking forward to this.

It’ll be on Nickelodeon teen, Nick Nicktoons, Nick Junior, MTV two who apparently still exists, and CMT eight Eastern five Pacific. Put it on your calendar. So Jack Black the King of Comedy. But if you listen to this podcast every day, I don’t have to tell you who the Queen of Comedy is, do I know? Of course not say it with me some more, of course him more the Queen of Comedy.

I got this press release here from the upcoming because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival, and they included this paragraph. Hell does the Queen of Comedy some more? Celebrated for razor sharp wit, trailblazing stand up specials, and unforgettable roles in films such as Friday Afternext and Soul Playing. Anyway, the Queen of Comedy Samoora and Jay Farrow or the headlining acts at the third annual. Because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival.

It is not until October, but they’ve had a pretty nice lineup the previous two years, so looking forward to that one. Leanne Morgan spoke a little more about her upcoming sitcom Leanne. In Leanne. Leanne Morgan plays Leanne, whose life is upended when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family, she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity, and jello salad comedy writing rule of three.

But she wants people to understand this is fiction. She explains, The premise is not based on my real life. It’s based on my comedy, but it would be too weird to be about me and real life husband Chuck Morgan and my real children. It was Chucklriie that came up with the premise of my husband wants a divorce and does it over email and has had an affair with a younger woman. Here, I am a grandmother.

Blah blah blah, I just did all that. Tim Daly plays her new love interest in the show, and she had to kiss him, something she asked her real life husband about beforehand. She explained, I had to say to you real life husband, Chuck Morgan. I’m kissing Tim daily in this episode, and I go, does that bother you? Leanne said it doesn’t bother her husband because Chuck Morgan wants me to make money.

Roseanne told Fox News Digital about having an accident with a tractor that left her with quote several injuries recently while working on her hill country ranch. I had this one tree, I guess it was two nights ago. I knocked at it and a big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. Roseanne said. It took an hour to move the tree branch, which she described as wingh one hundred pounds.

I was like, oh, I’m seventy two years old, but I just said, my mighty prayers always work. I said, come on, God, I’m seventy two years old, and I just want to be able to harness all this strong Russian energy. And I know he’s still having me if you’re with me, And then I flipped it. She told Fox News. The one drawback from the artwork is I don’t clear the trees as good as I should, and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me on the head.

Okay. Her son told US magazine that Roseanne splits her time between Sexist and Palm Beach, Florida. She’s been busy writing scripts and that she may make a return to TV. The Television Academy has revealed the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five, many people getting in, including Macpacker, Henry Winkler, and Conan O’Brien. The twenty seventh Hall of Fame class will be inducted in LA on August sixteenth.

Congratulations to those guys and the others. Brett Goldstein caught up with the rap and said he’s been a comedian for like two decades, but I’ve done seventeen years of stand up and there’s no proof I could be lying. I’ve always resisted filming. I never put stuff I did online. It’s about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.

There’s a pack to make with the audience, which I love. The exchange happens at a room with an audience, and when you take that out of context and stick it on the internet for people to weigh in on, I sort of think, yeah, this wasn’t for you, It was for the room and where we did it. He had that pretty darn good HBO special recently, and he said it became a challenge of how do you make it work on screen? I know it worked in the room, but how do you edit stand up? How do you frame it?

Where do you cut into a joke? Thank God I work with brilliant people who knew what they were doing, because I was constantly like, how do we make sure this is funny on screen? I don’t know what people were expecting when they came to see me. It amazed me that they bought tickets not knowing me as a stand up. I think it probably worked in my favorite because their expectations must have been pretty low.

Maybe they thought I was going to come out and kick a ball and say f off and leave and that would be enough. But instead I came out and did stand up as myself. In a way, it’s helpful because I’ve promised them nothing and their expectations are low, so when I’m a competent stand up, it seem like I’m really good. Bob oden Kirk is starting to wrap up press for Nobody Too. He spoke with Esquire and said most movies don’t work.

They just don’t. Out of one hundred movies, there’s like two classics in there. There are twelve worth seeing. There’s another fifteen that are fine, and then the rest are a mess. More advice from Bob Odenkirk.

If you don’t want to take risks is don’t be in this business. You know people will make their work too precious and take too long to put it out. I always say, what do you think you’re making? Last week I told you about the Stephen Colbert Book Club. Probably the coolest thing going well.

Keenan Thompson is now putting out a book. What is going on? I guess he saw Jimmy fallon making children’s book money. So Keenan Thompson is releasing his first children’s book, this one called Unfunny Bunny. Unfunny Bunny follows Unfunny Bunny.

As Unfunny Bunny embarks on his first day of school, determined to be the class cut up when his jokes fall flat, Unfunny Bunny learns about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams. The story contains thirty unfunny jokes throughout, with illustrations by Tony Neil. Margaret Show went on social media, listing the fillers, injections, and cosmetic proceidures she’s had on her face. She said this is a fifty six year old woman. She revealed that her chin is fake, stating the whole chin is filler, and added she’s indicted sculpture, which sounds like a science fiction villain, like, oh, we got to stop sculpture.

Nope. Sculpture is an injectable that stimulates collagen production. She’s injected the sculpture into much of her face, which sounds like something sculpture would do. Right. Sculpture wants to capture you and inject stuff in your face.

That’s what sculpture would do. Margaret Chose says her lips are natural, although she once had filler there but not recently. She also said she’ll entertain the idea of a face lip, saying I’ll lift whatever. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption or fee drops, there’s a link in the show notes, or go to calaruga dot com slash plus. If you’re on Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening five bucks a month. All that stuff goes away and you get nothing but your Daily Comedy News. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Theo Von, Shane Gillis, Druski, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Seth Rogen, Mel Brooks, Taylor Thomason

What’s in This Episode

• Druski releases trailer for ‘The Diggers’ film with Theo Von and Shane Gillis
• Jim Gaffigan discusses parenting teenagers and bourbon business with People magazine
• John Mulaney shares ideas about Chief Brody prequel concept in Hollywood Reporter roundtable
• Parallel thinking between Johnny Mac and John Mulaney on Jaws prequel ideas
• Mel Brooks to appear in ‘Spaceballs 2’ releasing in 2027
• Taylor Thomason steps down from CBS show, cites unsustainability of touring and hosting

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You know who’s a crazy person, Johnny Mac. It’s June sixteenth. I’m already freaking out that summer’s half over.

Part of that is it never stops raining here in the Northeast. Drewski has released the official trailer for The Diggers. The Diggers co stars Theo Vaughn and Shane Gillis. The movie he tells the story of Brandon Digger, a young man who inherits a funeral home upon his grandfather’s death. And see his name is Digger.

I see what you did there. However, Brandon finds himself in a bit of family drama as he learns that his brother in law played by Theo Vaughan, also inherited a stake in the family business and his father’s wealth. They come to terms in their new partnership. Drewski and Vaughn’s characters struggle to keep the family business afloat, and then they run into Shane Gillis’s character, who is the medical examiner. Now this is interesting.

I haven’t tested this out yet, but the trailer caption says, the Digger’s funeral home is open for business. For questions or general inquiries, please call us. And they gave a phone number. Should I give you the phone number? All right, you’re on your own if you call this phone number.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know if you’re gonna get something fun. I don’t know if you’re gonna get porn. I don’t know if a Hitler is gonna answer the phone. It’s probably a promo for the movie.

But you’re on your own here. If you call six six, two seven, three three zero one zero four, let me know what happens. If people are unsure what’s going on here. THEO Vaughn teased the release back in October on his podcast. At that time, he had said, me and Drewski did a fake movie.

It was like a fake movie that we made. So we’ll see what’s up there. Pretty interesting. Theovon Sheen gillis project that’ll get noticed here on Daily Company News for sure. U Jim Gaffigan caught up with People magazine.

He said, I feel like getting teenagers out of the house or out of bed on a weekend is a game in itself. So the game is like do you blackmail, do you motivate, do you inspire? Or do you just go full crazy? Here’s what you do, Jim. I’ll leave him alone.

Jim admits the task of arrenting teenagers is such a minefield, and for me, there’s the balancing act of you don’t want to lose your mind, but you also have some sense of self respect, you know what I mean. People also asked Jim about his rituals. The last thing he does before he goes on stage, he drinks coffee and says, I’m such a slow talking Midwesterner. The pacing of a show is faster than I speak. The last time he scored.

Husband points he brings his wife Jeanie, coffee every morning, but considering I travel constantly and she does ninety percent of all the things for five kids, it’s very imbalanced. It’s the least I can do. His last to do it yourself project. I’m not that handy. If the TV doesn’t work, I just don’t watch TV.

My wife’s like, why don’t you just unplug it and plug it back in. I’m like that would mean standing up. And Jim’s last obsession, he’s still pushing this bourbon. Jim nobody cares, but he did the hit for people, so people waxed his car, and we’re told Jim’s current precious batch is called middle Child Mystery. And as you’re drinking bourbon, don’t you want to drink something called Middle Child Mystery?

I mean, is there anything cooler than that? I mean maybe the Cold Bear Book Club is slightly cooler than Middle Child Mystery bourbon, but those have to be one and two. Limited quantities are available m HMM home delivery of thirty seven states, and you get in the stores in Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I had this in Friday’s show, and then it got bounced because of the horrible Mulaney story I told you about with the death threats. So that was terrible.

But Malanie was part of a comedian roundtable with the Hollywood Reporter. John said, I’ve learned that before someone can start giving notes, ask them questions about what they think you should do. You know, like, we have an astrologer coming on. Should I bring them on in the first act and have them sit there and we can bring out Gary Coleman and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where do we bring the astrologer out?

In the third act just start to give them ownership over something that isn’t even in significant And John was asked what he can’t believe he got away with on the show. He said, it’s not so much getting away with it, but I really respect that they’ve had me have so many big music performances on because they have a lot of data about how music does on TV and it doesn’t do as well as you might think. I’m dealing with a very data driven company that’s kind of interesting to learn, just like where the gas and Break is of people tuning in and out, and it doesn’t really color what we do, but it’s interesting information to have. I remember Jim Brewer a million years ago when he had the afternoon show on Sirius Raw Dog and I was the program director of that station. He was like, don’t we have ratings?

And I told him, I’m like, Jim, you don’t want ratings. The last thing you want is me coming to you and being like, you know people are tuning out during this segment. I’m like, enjoy the creative freedom you’re getting paid. You don’t need numbers anyway. Seth Rogan’s part of this round table and was curious if Netflix tells Malaney about the stats and Lannie said, yeah, tune outs completions things like that.

Like, I get it. You know, the stats are a good thing, but you look at them too closely, it can definitely interfere with the orts. I thought this was interesting too. You know, you hear about comedian theft and stay with me here. This is a total parallel thinking.

So if you go on my threads feed maybe two weeks ago, you’ll see I posted this. I was watching and Or the Star Wars thing and there was an actor in it who kind of looked like a young Roy Scheider, So I grabbed a screen grab of him and posted it and joked about my idea for Jaws zero, which is about a cop in the Bronx who’s like had it and is debating should he take a job as a sheriff in a small town up in the Cape cod Right, So that was an original thought I had. Now Mullaney in this Hollywood reporter thing, and I can’t say this loadly enough. John Mulaney did not rip me off. I’m not accusing John and Mullaney of stealing my joke, but I think it does illustrate parallel thinking, John Mulaney said, you know who I’d love to play is Chief Brody from Jaws, but in a prequel about his life in New York as a cop before he got to Amity Island.

But I don’t have the rights of the book, the movie, any piece of it. I’m putting that into the world because I don’t want to do the legwork of running down any of the rights. But it’s out there. I’m not sure mulaney would be right for that role, but I like the idea. It’s a ridiculous idea.

Here’s an idea that I think is terrible. Mel Brooks, who turns ninety nine this month, will appear in Spaceballs Too. That’s not the official title, that’s the working titles. Spaceball’s two will be in theaters in twenty twenty seven. We’re told Brooks will reply as the role of Yogurt in the follow up to the nineteen eighty seven cult classic comedy spoofing Star Wars and other films of the era.

I mean, it’s just not a good idea. No love mil Brooks. But if you want proof of why this isn’t a good idea, remember like two years ago we did History of the World Part two and it was awful. Right, there’s no way Spaceball’s two is going to be good. Here’s a starter.

John Candy’s dead. Yeah, don’t make it. Oh yeah. Joan Rivers was in it as the not quite c three po. Joan Rivers is also dead.

Josh Gadd is scheduled to be in this one. I don’t know. Just don’t make it. Taylor Thomason wrapped up her show. She explained why she chose to step down and said it was just not sustainable for me, so I guess touring pays better than CBS.

It was my dream that I get to finish out the season and hand it off to a new host. I really wanted CBS to replace me because I think there were so many amazing comedians who would have done a great job with the show. I bet if we live long enough, we’ll see a third version of at Midnight. It’s a relatively inexpensive format to make. Jerry Seinfeld has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater ten new shows October twenty four and twenty five, December nineteen and twenty January nine to ten.

Nice gig if you’re Jerry Reeltar dot Com tells us. In nineteen ninety eight, Jerry purchased a duplex apartment just steps from the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, a nice part of town if you can afford that, and if you’re listening to this podcast, you can’t. But if you were to walk from Jerry’s apartment to the beaconputer, that’s an eleven minute walk according to Google. It’s a seven minute drive according to Google. But if you’re a real New Yorker, there’s no way you’re picking a seven minute drive over an eleven minute walk, because in New York City, a seven minute drive could easily become a thirty five minute drive.

If you can do it on foot, do it on foot. Shout out to Mark, who listens to the show every day and was kind enough to send me a note on the side, a little QC quality control issue. You know, sometimes Johnny blows an edit, sometimes things happen, and Mark was kind enough to hit me on the side, be like, hey, you might always take a listening around a minute thirty five to one of the recent shows, So I appreciate you, Mark, Hope you’re doing well. Let’s hit gossip Corner. The Animal Rescue League of Iowa shared a photo on social media of Matt Rife and puppies.

I bet that got a lot of likes. The post said, these puppies got a fun night out this weekend. They got to meet comedian Matt Rife. We got a request to schedule a cuddle break for VIP ticket holders at Matt’s Des Moines tour stop, and we’re happy to bring these little ones out. The puppies enjoyed lots of cuddles from VIP ticket holders.

They got to go backstage and hang out with Matt. They had a great time getting love and giving kisses. One pop even dozed off in Matt Rife’s arms. Thanks for having us, Matt Rife. Las Vegas Weekly wrote about the Las Vegas version of the comedy seller You’ll find this one in the rio, We’re told when they opened that location in twenty eighteen, they had a challenge, how do you bring the field to the newer club to Vegas without losing its edge and soul.

I agree that is a mighty challenge. Owner known to Warman says in New York, most of our shows are sold out before we even announce the line up because they trust our brand. If somebody’s funny in New York, they’re funny in Vegas. It’s very challenging to run a place the way I like to run a place from twenty five hundred miles away, which has a lot of attention to service and customer satisfaction. I decided it was the wisest thing to really partner with a casino.

They’re in the hospitality business and would take care of the day to day challenges that I would risk if I were not able to check in on out myself. That’s smart. A lot of our crowd comes in knowing what they’re going to get. Sometimes they’ve never even been to a comedy club before. It takes them a couple of minutes to go, oh, we can laugh at that.

If they’ve only seen comedy on social media. They’re pleasantly overwhelmed by the live experience. It’s much more visceral than seeing it on a phone. They do nightly shows at seven and nine thirty, and that is your comedy news for a Monday. Summer’s almost over.

I’m freaking out. It’s got to stop raining. I need beach days. See tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Joe List, Brad Williams, Camille Non Gianni, Tony Hinchcliff, Harry Connick Jr., Louis C.K.

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan on SNL 50th season and redefining success
• Joe List’s new special filmed at multiple venues
• Brad Williams on performing in larger theaters without changing style
• Comedian debate over political material and cancel culture
• Tony Hinchcliff joke controversy discussed
• Harry Connick Jr. on heavy themes in comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. June Gaffigan caught up with Las Vegas Weekly, and although it seems like Jim has accomplished everything in the comedy world, he says, there’s stuff I want to do, but I guess I learned a long time ago that it’s the creed of fulfillment I should focus on. It sounds corny, there’s nothing better than coming up with a new joke. I realized this when I finally appeared on Letterman, which was such a huge goal of mine, and after that I was kind of confused.

What do I do now that I achieved this goal? Made me reevaluate what I really love about it. Jim spoke about his kids. They’re ages twelve to twenty one, so when we’re all together it’s usually around the holidays. They consistently have no interest in attending my shows, but when they were little, we threw them on the bus for a month.

They’ve explored the world a little bit. Jim spoke about doing S and L during the election cycle. It was bizarre, is what you would think. But also I was usually done after the cold Open, so it was gearing up for two minutes of work as somebody who does stand up for like an hour. I kind of missed some of that longer process, but it was an opportunity I could never imagine just so amazing, and doing the fiftieth season was so incredible.

If anything, it really surprised me because it was the first time I’ve done something where I felt like most people saw it. Maybe they didn’t see the show, but they saw a clip of it. So it was the first time I was involved in something like that. There are very few people who were like, what’s snl. I laughed at the New York Post.

They said, exclusive interview with Joe List, and I’m like, all right, but it’s not like you got I don’t know Taylor Swift. It’s Joe List, no offense, work with Joe, good guy. But you know, yeah, well from the exclusive interview with Joe List, Joe exclusively, he tells The New York Post. Every time I finish a special, I can’t believe I did it again. You know, you’re doing an hour on stage and you’re like, how am I gonna write material again?

I’m not gonna have this much stuff?

And then you do it.

Feels like a miracle every time. I feel like this special is better than the last one based on audience reactions. Plus, it’s the first one I’ve done that wasn’t filmed in New York at the Village Underground. It’s the first time I’ve cut together two different nights in two different venues, so it’s a lot of first for me. I think it’s very good.

I could be wrong. As for the time, Well, small Ball Joe List exclusively tells the New York Post I was opening for Louis C.K. Nine years ago and we did the LA fourm, which is a huge, sixteen thousand seed venue. I didn’t really know him at the time. Then we all got on a private jet and he was like, what a night.

That was the best show. Joe List playing small Ball at the LA Forum. I’m a big baseball guy, and I just like the metaphor of drawing a walk and bunding a guy over because he sees so many specials out of a crane shot and it’s at a stadium or an arena. The guy comes at the stage and it’s some sort of big act out, which is fine forever’s doing it, but for me, it’s just like I’m standing here. I’m not going to move around a lot, but I’m gonna get the job done.

It’s not gonna be too flashy. I like this part too. Joe List exclusively tells The New York Post the number one comment I get after shows is that audience members didn’t think I was tall. I’m very tall, six like an athlete. But I’ve had crooked teeth and glasses of most of my life and a bad jaw on I’ve been around Joe List, especially when a podcast company I worked at shared the studio with where they would tape Tuesdays with stories Joe and Mark Norman.

I don’t remember thinking that Joe List was tall. I don’t remember thinking anything Joe said. People think that I’m gonna sci fi. I’ve never read a Harry Potter. I’m horrible at math.

I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings. I don’t play chess, and I get laid a good amount. I’ve had no formal education whatsoever. I went to zero college. The other thing is I like foreign films, but I’m also obsessed with hockey, so you know I’m a complex guy.

Brad Williams spoke to the Independent about playing larger venues. Does he changed his style at all? Brad said, the show has always been sort of high energy. I’ve un told many times that the show was meant for theater, and maybe that’s just an over compensation for my size where I’m trying to make it as big as possible. So this show, other than the material, in terms of the energy in the scale, doesn’t changed much.

It’s not like a Garth Brooks Chris Gaines situation where I’m a completely a different person. If you like my show, you’ll like this show. No politics. I don’t fancy myself a political comedian. I don’t want to be a political comedian.

I don’t think I’m smart enough to be a political comedian. So no matter who you voted for, you can have a good time at my show. I want everyone just to have a good night out and no matter who you voted for. So I wanted to forget about the things that are going on in the world. I want you to put down your phones and not doomscroll for two hours about headlines.

I have very strong opinions about certain topics, but even when I bring them up with my show, the last thing I want you to do say hey, you think this way, you’re stupid, or you voted for this guy, you’re dumb. I think it’s really dismissive. We all want the same thing. We all want success. We want safety, security for our friends, for our neighbors, for our family.

Then to be able to advance in our careers and be able to do that. It’s what literally everyone wants. We have different thoughts on how to achieve the goals, but my job is to entertain anyone who buys a ticket. That’s my job. Well, said Brad Williams.

Cameil Non Gianni. He said, when I started doing comedy, the whole thing was in Chicago doing open mics. Was like, I have to talk about stuff no one else is talking about. But now how many guys are talking about the exact same thing. Cancel culture, anti trans stuff, whatever the f it is, it’s exactly the same.

Gianni said. It’s really weird to go up after someone who did a bit about how interracial dating is wrong and did pretty well with the crowd. Is that a thing? Is someone actually doing that as material in twenty twenty five? If I’m not familiar with such a set, but I will listen to Camille Camille said such comedians aren’t even committed to their own philosoph They say two things simultaneously.

We’re like street level philosophers, and it’s just a joke, and depending on what the attack is, that’s a defense. Oh, it’s just joking. But also what we do is important. We’re speaking truth to power. Both those things can’t exist at the same time.

Verbiglia, on a similar note, said the decontextualization of sound and video in the last decade has given anyone who speaks in a microphone a certain new level of self consciousness. It’s like, what does this paragraph sound like? What does this sentence sound like? What does this word sound like? You start to isolate everything, and I’m not free of that.

I do think, Oh, could this be cut out of context? Forbigs defends Tony Hinchcliff the infamous joke there, Burbig said, you can like the joke or not, but it was a joke. The ever so serious Harry Connoboluh said, my stuff has always been heavy. That’s always what I found most interesting. Racism and sexism, or wealth and disparity.

And none of this stuff is new. They’ve been around since the founding of this country. So to me, I’ve always wrestled with the dark stuff. I’ve always found that the most absurd. That’s the kind of stuff my hero has talked about.

If anything, I’ve been trying to get lighter. The stuff that’s heavier has more impact when it’s surrounded by things that are lighter, and also allows the audience they get to know me outside of just somebody who has beliefs. When the audience feels like they like you, like they know you, when you give them the stuff with the weight, it digests better. It’s like the difference between a random person sharing their personal beliefs versus a friend. When it’s a friend, I like this person.

Now he’s telling me this thing, it makes me more likely to listen. I feel like that’s how I’ve been approaching it, having these conversations. It definitely opens you up. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker about the cable news networks and said they’re trying to turn my brain a mush and I’m helping them. Every night, Debt’s scrolling on Instagram and need start reading again.

Then every election it just comes down immigration and the other usual five or six talking points. It’s like how we go through another election. No one’s talking about the complete out of control greed. Most amazing thing for me during the pandemic, other than the fact that a virus got politicized, was the fact that if you had a three hundred thousand dollars house and you were trying to sell it, it was difficult. If you had a forty million dollar house, they couldn’t keep them on the market.

I was thinking, where are they getting this money? How about this? How about Democrats haven’t been able to decide who they wanted for their Democratic nomination for three elections. Sanders wanted both times, and they said, nah, so why I have the primary? They didn’t want them because he was gonna go after the stuff that’s paying all the corrupt people.

These are liberals.

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And then you see all the stuff that the right wing people doing right now, pa…

It’s like you guys are doing that four or five years ago. If you look at the news, well they show when they show a Trump are they just show the dumbest person they could find, going Donald Trump’s a genius. That’s what the jay stands for right now. To show a liberal. They show that woman crying when Trump first got elected.

That’s not an accurate patorial of either side. These are crazy people. And meanwhile Democrats Republicans all got on the same page as greedy. They can’t be tried for inside of tradings like what that are we doing here? One of the most divisive things in this country has been Hollywood Awards shows these idiot actors.

They tuck down a red states that never been to the exact same way idiot rednecks talks about California. I ain’t to get the other side of here your opinion. We just insult them and don’t listen to them. It’s like people on the right, what are you a liptart? That’s the Internet?

The Internet? As you start your polling off with a f ed? Who’s listening after f ed? Send your letters to Bill Burr. Happy Father’s Day.

Roy Wood will release his first book, The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir. It’ll be out this fall. Crown Publishing says the book will delve into the lessons and values a Roywood junior is distilled from the unexpected figures who shaped his life after his father’s passing. Roy lost his father at the age of sixteen. Those father figures have included a variety of people’s encountered, from teenage friends to Trevor Noah, which is interesting.

Trevor no was forty one. Roywood Junior is forty six. The Man of Many Fathers due out October twenty eighth. It’s Fringe season, so we’re going to get another run of articles about the Fringe is too expensive? Get this every single year.

I’m sure it is expensive, but this is not a new thing. The Guardian got into it. Nish Kumar told The Guardian. I don’t have any family connections in common or television. My like up was that I went to a post university that had this relationship with Edinburgh.

The review go into the Fringe created so many opportunities for me. There’s nothing anywhere in the world like it. For all it’s problems, I still see that it has this ability to change people’s lives and teach people the job of being a comedian. Kumar says performing every day for a month improved his writing. Plus, you get a certain comfort that means you’re not having a full blown physiological panic attack every time you stand one that confidence never leaves you.

Comedian Annie McGrath says Edinburgh has already become widely unaffordable for so many acts and punters and landlords have a lot to answer for. It’s really sad as it could wipe out a generation of new talent. It also means there’s a lack of diversity in what’s being created if only the wealthiest acts and the bigs names are able to go. Kumar says comedy is one of the things we still do well in this country. Not providing funding for it is insane.

I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more about the expenses. Reese Darby spoke to The Guardian and they were curious, what is one of the strangest encounters with a fan you’ve had? Luckily, Rees Dartby at a story ready and it goes back in the day. I said, I was the freestyle dance champion of a small town called Hokun in New Zealand. So someone needed me a woolen jacket that had dance champion on the back.

Also, someone made a small bust of me once. I remember with the flight of the Concorde. Jamaine Clement once received a plaster impression of his lips. I don’t know how they did it, but to present something to you that he’s of you is insane. Luckily, no one’s given me a Folclay model of my nose or anything like that.

He looked back fondly on the Flight of the Concords days and said, we were young, and it was our first time in the States making something with their money and their brilliance. We got caught up in it. We just concentrated on how we could be so funny that we’re cracking each other up. And when after redo the scene we had some control of the show, we could improvise and do seven or eight takes, and that was really the key, because I got funnier every take. I know that for a fact.

I still say that to people when I do shows. I say, give me a couple more because I’ll peek on the sixth take. Some people say, you went from being that guy in the Flight of the Concords to a sex symbol with our flag means death. What was that like? Rees says, I’m a comedy guy, not a sex symbol.

My character wore some very attractive attire, but it’s still a very insecure, bizarre weird little Man was to try to find himself. The character was perfect for me because I liked dressing up being the captain, and I do overcompensate with authority because I really have no idea what I’m doing. There were definitely some similatteries there, but I was not expecting anything. On a sexual note from fans, the audiences are amazing. That’s your comedy news for today.

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