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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It’s kind of slow here on this Sunday. I held back a couple shinier things for tomorrow that I want to talk about during the week, as the weekday numbers tend to be a little bit bigger. Jay Leno’s Law has passed its first hurdle in the California legislature.

Named after Jay Leno, who co authored the bill, Leno’s Law would change how classic car owners navigate anti smog laws in the state of California. You see, the California Air Resources Board currently requires all vehicles built in nineteen seventy five or later to undergo a smock check every two years. Under the terms of Leno’s law, smock checks would no longer be required for vehicles thirty five years or older if they’re insured as a collector car, So that would move the deadline up to nineteen ninety. Jay Leno tild supporters, I know there’s nothing more annoying than Hollywood people involved in politics, so I’ll just try to keep that to a minimum. But this one’s important to me because I’m an enthusiast California helped invent car culture, from low riders in East to light a muscle cars in the Central Valley.

These cars tell the story. SB seven one two is about keeping that story alive. These vehicles are driven occasionally, not daily, and it just makes sense to treat them differently. I’m proud to be working with Senator Grove, and I thank the Committee for recognizing the importance of preserving our automotive legacy. I laugh here in New Jersey when you go for inspections, the only thing they check right now is the emissions.

Seriously, you could roll up with crack windows, no door, a taped on bumper, Been there, done that. Nobody cares. As long as you pass the emissions, you’re good. The La Times caught up with Leslie David Baker. Now you’re like, who’s Leslie David Baker.

He’s Stanley on the Office. Remember that guy. You’ve seen the Office? You’re familiar with the character Stanley. You know who I’m talking about now?

Yeah, of course, Leslie says, I know you. Hear some celebrities say it’s a bother when people call me by my character name. It’s a bother when people are talking about the show I did this many years ago, but for h it’s an honor and a privilege to have that kind of recognition. Hali Times tells us, much like Stanley, Baker loves a good snack break, which is good because his name is Baker. He’s in partnership with frozen snack band Tasteless Tasteles, Tasteles, tast l e Z taste Dels, Taste Les you guys tell me, I’m gonna go with taste Les because it’s funnier.

They were curious what is Leslie’s Sunday routine, and Johnny Mack wisely held onto the story, thinking, someday there’ll be a slow Sunday and you’ll wish you had this story. That’s today, my friends. He wakes up at ten am. Dude, what are you doing ten am? You only wake up at ten am when you’re in college or like you know, right out of college, when you’re hungover.

You don’t sleep till ten am when you’re an adult. How old is this guy? Stanley’s sixty seven years old. What are you doing? Get up?

Ten am? He wakes up and enjoys a cup of coffee, then he takes a shower, and I’m gonna pause here to put that mental image in your brain. Because it’s a slow news day. Stanley from the office, taking a shower. You’re thinking about it.

I know you’re thinking about I’m thinking about it too. At noon, Stanley’s perfect Sunday would involve a very long brunch. He says, if I’m at Bottega Louis, I’m going to have their portobello fries. They serve it with a nice gorlic. They also have a nice pizza that’s drizzled with honey and sliced red peppers.

That sounds delicious. But if he finds himself at these sand Vicente Bungalows, he’d get one of their omelets, and their chocolate chip cookies are his favorites. At two thirty on his perfect Sunday, he would go to a flea market, specifically the Melrose Trading Post. Leslie told The Times, I got a chair a statue there from my house. It’s fun.

Parking is convenient, and it’s right down the street from Cantor’s Deli. So after brunch you’re like, I’m not cooking dinner tonight, go buy Canter’s Deli and get something for later. At five o’clock, he says he might head over to the Grove. There’s a meat market there eat. Stanley’s not looking to pick up chicks.

He’s looking to eat, have sausage. At seven o’clock, Leslie would like to hit up a steakhouse. I’m fully aware I keep bouncing between Leslie and Stanley. It’s on purpose. Did I mention it’s a slow news day.

I’m trying to make a show out of this. I’m gonna get a text from Scott Beckett and he’s gonna be like slow news day, and I would be like, yeah, I mentioned it. Leslie says. When I want a really good steak, I go to Mastros. I’d order gin with ginger beer, a splash of bitters at, a twist of lemon or orange.

That’s a good cocktail. At nine point thirty, he would catch a live show on a Sunday night. Dude, if I’m not in bed by nine to twenty nine pm on a Sunday night, my whole week is thrown off. But then again, he didn’t get up till ten am, his bedtime. Midnight.

He tells the La Times. LA doesn’t stay open as late at Chicago and New York. So usually by midnight I’m home, especially if I have to get up and go to work. Sounds rough getting up at ten o’clock every day. All right, we might as well get to the festival stuff.

Brad Paisley, Yeah, the country music guy. He’s doing a benefit today to support his free grocery store called The Store. Paisley said, it’s an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything. Most charity events are too long. Most of them are asking a lot that people attend.

You’re asking for money, you’re asking for time, usually feeding them a badly catered meal. There’s an auction that takes too long. None of that is a part of this. This is what we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without.

The Store is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based grocery store to Nashville families with food insecurity. They open their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, they reveal plans for a second store. Paisley describes Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without as a roast in comedy Night that just so happens that we raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed people. That’s awesome.

It’s at Zany’s tonight, doors open, five fifteen, show at six pm. Tickets. Now, it’s a fundraiser, so don’t I roll this. Okay, this isn’t Alley Wong charging you one hundred and sixteen dollars for a practice show or whatever that was the other day. This one two, one hundred and fifty dollars.

It’s a fundraiser. Okay. Let’s see what else is happening at Nashville tonight at the Rhyme at seven o’clock one to psykes, and at the Lab at Zany’s at eight thirty. Amber Autrey’s stand up, Get Down. Let’s see what this is.

Amber Autrey is an international touring comedian hailing from Nashville. She’s been featured on Peacock TV. Amber’s relatable observations and electric energy make every audience feel like they’re the best friend. So basically, it’s a nondescript comedy show as far as I could tell. All Right, that’s the Nashville Comedy Festival for this year.

I get to delete the tap and get some of my browser space back let’s see what’s happening at Moontower tonight, Johnny Mack, you usually do the festival stuff in the second half. Is it a slow news day? Oh? Can you tell? Only one show at Moontower tonight, seven o’clock at Tiffany Hattish the Funny and Fearless Tour at the Paramount Theater.

Now I’m kind of annoyed. I didn’t know the Macau Comedy Festival is going on this week because I would have talked about it. It opened on Wednesday with Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, which is a Mandarin stage adaptation of the popular British children’s series. Well that’s not your typical comedy festival. Now.

Unfortunately the festival only ran through today Sunday, and the way time zones work, by the time you’re hearing this, you’re not gonna make it in time. But there were comedy megastars there, that’s right, Shen Tang, Ma Lee, not somebody named Molly, This is Ma Lee. They were there that you’re said you missed it. Congrats to the Woodlawn Comedy Club in San Antonio, Texas. They opened up last night.

This is the place. Paulie Shore is part of told you about that. I got a nice note from the owners. Hi, guys, good to hear from you. Got some good shows coming up.

April twenty sixth. Michael Winslow’s there. Remember him? He’s the sound effects guy from movies like forty years ago? Isn’t that who Michael Winslow is?

Yes, the man of ten thousand sound effects. You know this guy? May third, Tom Carter and Kerry Louise. May tenth, Stephen Michael Caseta. You know who that is.

He’s the guy from Breaking Bad. What was his character’s name? Shout it out at your phone, remind me while I look it up. He played agent Stephen Gomez on Breaking Bad. He’s comedian May seventeenth, Caroline Ray June twenty eighth, Bill Bellamy, And there’s some other shows in there in between.

Here’s a fun thing I saw while putting together the Palace Intrigue podcast. Palace Intrigue is the show where we talk about the British royal family. I’m the writer on it, and I can assure you we make fun of Megan Markle. There’s a lot of money to be made making fun of Megan Markle. So while I was googling Megan Markle.

I learned that Megan has invested into the six hundred dollars billion menopause market with a fresh investment in Midi Health. Now, John, we get it’s a slow news day, but why are you mentioning this because the article said some of the other high profile investors include Amy Schumer. Very interesting. The Simpsons is still on, unlike Bob’s Burgers, which has never aired. Clearly, the Simpsons exists, although much like Bob’s Burgers, it’s entirely possible that The Simpsons have just been pretending to be on for the last twenty years or so.

I know the Simpsons at least used to exist. I’m not sure it actually still exists, but they keep claiming there are new episodes even though nobody’s seen them, and stick around after the fake Simpsons for the fake Bob’s Burgers. Two questions, One, have you ever seen bobs Burgers? No? Two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen bob Burgers?

The answer is also no. Anyway, where you to put on Fox tonight you would be like, Hey, one of the bullies has a new voice. What’s going on there? Well, you see voice actor Pamela Hayden retired Jimbo Jones now played by Moe Collins. As of tonight, That iss your Slowest Heck comedy news for today.

It wasn’t the worst show I’ve ever done, but also not the one that I will send to the podcast Hall of Fame. I definitely have good stuff for tomorrow, because A I’m about to record it and B I know that I held it back. Tomorrow’s really good. Today, you know, slow to Sunday, got some brunch with Stanley. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidly Ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and let’s talk about that greeting. Now. I’ve been doing that, think I’m channeling ned Flanders.

But it came up in trivia the other night and they asked, how does Ned Flander as a greed people? And I wrote down heidly Hoe. But no, no, no, Ned Flanders, apparently, says Hi Diddley Ho. So I didn’t get the point in the trivia game, but I got the Dave Chappelle question correct. I shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Hi Happy Saturday.

Maybe, perhaps, possibly they’ve figured out what to do with John Mulaney’s show next week the guest David Letterman. Finally, Letterman also dropped an episode of his show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. His guest is WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark. It’s not what I want out of you, Dave. I’m not gonna watch that now.

Dave is, you know, mostly in retirement. He doesn’t care if I’m gonna watch or not. But I don’t want that. Can Mulaney interview Kaitlyn Clark and let Letterman screw around with a weekly talk show. Can we make that trade?

Because I would watch that great lineup next week David Letterman, Hannibal Burris, Leanne Morgan, Nicky Glazer, music by Randy Newman. Maybe he’ll do I Love La. So they are pulling out all the stops next week, Nikki Glaser, Letterman, LeAnn Morgan, Hannibal Burus, Fantastic. Everybody’s Live with John m’laney streams live on Netflix Wednesdays at ten East seven West. Because John opens the show with that very exciting it is seven oh two in Los Angeles, it is fifty nine degrees, John, take my notes, ask Dave how to do it?

Come out, tell two jokes and roll into the show. You’re not doing this right. And by the way, if you give me David Letterman, Nicky Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Leanne Morgan and Randy Newman, and you can’t hand in a good show, forget it. It’s not gonna get better than that. All you have to do is go hey, guys, what’s up?

And shut up. At an hour later, go all right, goodnight, everybody. That’s all you need to do with that panel. If you’re in the UK and you’re like, boy, I wish we had Saturday Night Live. Well, they’re making Saturday Night Live UK.

It’ll launch sometime in twenty twenty six on Skymax and the streaming service known as Now same format, guest host, musical guests, and a cast of British comics. The CEO of Sky Studios said, for over fifty years, Saturday Night Live has held a unique position in TV and and our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation, all under the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels. The show discovered and nurtured to countless comedy and musical talents over the years, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lauren and the SNL team to bring an all British version of the show to UK audiences next year, all live from London on Saturday Night, Google tells me. In the States, SNL Studios is a production company founded in nineteen ninety seven as a joint venture between Louren Michaels and NBC Studios. NBC Studios is now Universal Television, the production arm of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

So some version of NBC’s got their hands in. Lauren’s gonna get paid a lot of money to be made out there. I hope this show in the States. A bunch of comedy specials coming up. Jessica Curson will have a special on Hulu on April twenty fifth.

Now I don’t know this because a Hulu publicists sent me the notes, because that would be too easy. No, I was on the internet and I stumbled across this, so I’m happy to tell you. Jessica cursons I’m the Man. Premiere is April twenty fifth on Hulu. Jessica tells The Daily Beast, I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.

My stand up has always stood out to the audiences I’ve performed for my fans, and especially to other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage. Jessica says people need to laugh now more than ever. Is that some did? They did?

They pass out a pamphlet to all the comedians that you just have to say that in an interview. Is not every comedian saying you know people need to laugh more now than ever. Has there ever been a point in history where, like, you know, everything’s chill now, people don’t really need comedians, but you know, if you want to laugh, that would be fine. Everybody needs to stop saying people need to laugh now more than ever, Jessica continues, After everything we’ve been through these past few years, I wanted to create something brutally honest and authentic. I wanted the audience to know they’re not alone.

That I struggled too. I pride myself on being an entertainer. I wanted people to see a show nothing too much. That’s what people experience, a fast paced ride. I’m so proud of what I’ve created.

I can’t wait for the world to see it also, and I’m filled with fear now. I could play a clip here, except the Hulu publicists don’t get back to anybody. I don’t have a clip to play for you. I guess they don’t want you to watch their special. That’s fine.

I will not be stopped because I have found out that the next hilarious thing on May thirtieth is Ricky Smiley. His is called fool ish with a hyphen between the L and the Eye in fool Ish, taped at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. The special is said to be infused with his trademark humor, characters, and satire on life and pop culture. It’s his first special since twenty eleven, and Smiley said, as I knew after over ten years, I had offered something that was satisfy my fans. I’ve been through a lot of transformation and trauma these past few years, and I was determined to get through it and think that I’ll have a deeper connection with my audience.

From my experiences, we can find humor in so much of life. Fool Ish is for people of all ages, for those who grew up playing with etch a sketch, to those who were raised on iPads. Brett Goldstein. We have a date for his special on Max April twenty sixth. You can sit home and watch Brett Goldstein the second best night of your life.

Now, HBO does this annoying thing where they don’t release it until ten pm Eastern. You know, Johnny Max fallen asleep to ten Eastern? How about seven Eastern? Guys? If you’re like, who’s Brett Goldstein, He’s Roy Kent on ted Lasso.

Now you know who this is. I’ve even shared a trailer and it’s a big bag of okay. I had to make some medits here because there’s some naughty words we’re not going to use on this podcast, and overall I find the trailer okay. Cookie Monster is an addict. Bah, we are meeting him at the point of addiction where he’s still fun in a few months.

You don’t want to be hanging out with Cooky. Cooky is a nightmare very soon. My mom is really hot. Recently, I’ve been speaking to lots of couples in long term relationships, and I’ve been asking them about their sex lives because I am a pervert. I’m vaguely distracted by a child in the front run.

Are you a human child? Okay, We’re going to learn so much. Cameron Esposito talked about her new special with The La Times and says it’s meant to be art. Sadly, stand up comedy can sometimes just be goofing around, and it is, but also I wanted to feel like the experience of a manic episode, which is what the special is about. There’s meant to be three sections within the special.

The first it’s just the standard special that you’re used to, with more traditional camera angles. The second it’s one of the camera shifts to being almost up my nose, which is meant to sort of feel intense and a little panic inducing.

And then the third act is filming in front of an all white background where t…

I haven’t seen this one yet, but that sounds like a little too much for Johnny Mack. How about you stand in front of a brick wall and you tell some jokes. How about that the camera says, dropout. Let me build a fake stand up club. It would be cheaper to shoot at a regular club, but I wanted to be able to control the exact camera angles and where the audience was placed so we could pull off this idea of escalating energy and being on stage.

Part of the reason I chose this job is it being on stage also induces like a mini bipolar cycle. So literally being on stage floods the brain with those chemicals, like those very positive endorphins, like the feeling of working out or drugs. Because it’s also the same chemicals that happen when people take cocaine. What is going on with this special? Can’t we just stand in front of a brick wall?

So being on stage and all this chemicals being released and the excitement of that, I want people to feel that and not just feel it in the way when you’re shooting a special and there’s like a cream shot and it’s very far from the back of stage, and you’re getting this grand feeling of stand up, which is so sumportant to stand up biz, but stand up when you’re watching it. My favorite thing is being in the room, Cameron. I think that’s something that stands a test of time. Are those specials like Carlin that are really about this bigger question and they answer it with an arc. Bo Burnham has done a great job with this, Hannah Gatsby, all those specials.

I think we’ll have a lasting effect and change the art form. And these specials that are kind of like sermons, they have a point or hear me out, you stand in front of a brick wall. I was hanging out with some civilians. Now these civilians are my friends. We were at trivia night the other night and they started their own conversation about what comedy specials they were watching.

We usually talk about, Hey, what are you watching, Bill? What are you watching on Netflix? What’s good this week? Bill? Bill?

As soon as it comes out on Netflix, Bill has seen it. So I asked Bill, what should I be watching every week? So one of the guys had watched Bill Burr’s special and really liked it, and then the three of them were like, yeah, Bill Burn and I didn’t want to chime in and be like, excuse me, I’m a comedy snob. I think it’s actually Bill’s seventh best special years what I just went. Yeah.

They also talked about Nikki Glaser and found her to be a little graphic. They weren’t offended, they weren’t shy, but they’re like, oh my, I can’t believe she says such things personally, that’s not my style of comedy. And they were bored by Chelsea Handler. So that is three civilians at Trivia night reviewing comedy. You can agree or disagree.

Let’s hit gossip corner real quick. You might have been there in Adams County, Pennsylvania. You’re at the Civil War Museum and shop and in walks Matt Rife, Yeah, the Union drummer Boy shop. Posted on social media Matt Rife stopping by to check out some historic artifacts. It is unclear if he bought anything from The Guardian.

Australian comedian Alice Fraser not coming to the US after receiving legal advice that she could be stopped at the border because of Trump jokes really overreact much. Alice was going to apply for an one B visa, which The Guardian tells US permits comedians to live and work in the US if they demonstrate extraordinary ability in the arts. But after widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US and travelers being detained, Fraser sought advice from an immigration lawyer. Alice tells The Guardian, I asked the lawyer what I thought was a ridiculous question, that I do political sets are and have a fair few jokes floating around on Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and whether that be a risk. I thought I was being paranoid, but you said it might pose a risk and it almost certainly googled me are they doing that?

Which reminds me, by the way, Trump, Elon doing a great job. Nobody’s a bigger sport than me. Anyway, back to the show, she said, while the vast majority of people will be able to travel. It it out. They’re definitely doing increased scrutinizing.

Johnny Mack doesn’t want to go to the comedy Coulac guys is if this is a thing. I mean, I’m just recording stuff on the podcast. You guys are doing great, keep it up. If I didn’t have two children, I might be more open to taking a risk. But the vision of me being there with a baby strapped to me and held up in hassled or worse, I’m not up for that.

According to The Guardian, foreigners have had their devices search at the US border and been denied entry, including a French scientist who had messages on his phone critical of Donald Trump. Fraser says, I will go to the America that will have me when it’s no longer reasonable for a visa lawyer to say I should purge my social media before I go there because a joke about Elon Musk might be considered hostile to the nation. Are you at C two E two twenty twenty five. They’re in Chicago and they have a track for comedy fans this weekend. Patton Oswalt was there last night.

Second City is there tonight, Let’s see who’s at the various festivals. It is the final night of the Traverse City Comedy Festival. Three o’clock Funny Women of a Certain Age, three point thirty, Comikaze Comedy Show, five thirty Big Fun, Murder in Improv, Murder Mystery, A Next Up Comedy Showcase at five thirty. Six o’clock Mark Marin, WHOA, I love Mark Maren and it’s happening. At six o’clock, I could see a comedy show and being met by quarter to eight perfect seven o’clock Leon Lord.

Eight o’clock the Comedy Rumble with a it looks like I’m just skimming here, probably about fifteen comedians. That’s different than the Daily Doesn’t Showcase.

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Also at eight a second a Mark Marin show at eight thirty, but I’ll be in bed …

At nine thirty the Out of Towner’s Comedy Showcase, ten thirty PM A Dirty Showcase, and at midnight Comedy Karaoke. Nice job, Traverse City Comedy Fest. I get to delete that tab until next year, and my browser fills up. Guys, it can’t keep everything open. In Nashville, Dan Cummins at five o’clock again My kind of Show.

Six thirty a Zany’s showcase for the Tonight show. That’s interesting. Dan commins again at Zany’s. At seven thirty Jay Leno at the Rhyme and at seven thirty eight forty five another showcase for the Tonight show. Ninety five pm Pete Lee and at ten forty five the Dark and Dirty Showcase.

And I don’t know if this is a mistake or they put it out of sequence. It says Saturday, April twelfth, four o’clock, Yakoff Smirnoff. But I’m gonna guess this is a mistake and this is actually Sunday. Let’s say no, it says April twelfth, all right, they put it out of order yakof smirnof at four o’clock. I’d probably be at that.

They have some more shows tomorrow, and let’s go down to Austin, Texas, where it’s all bro dudes with shaved heads and muscle t shirts and all the other stuff we hate as they ruin comedy in Austin, Texas. Those jerks, right, it’s not the current narrative. Four o’clock. Josh Johnson also at for Don reed Boy Saturday afternoon comedy is the thing. Huh.

Josh does another show at seven, Handsome Live with Tignataro, Fortune Femester in May Martin at seven, Ricky Lindholm at seven, Josh Johnson at nine thirty. Josh doing three shows in a row. I don’t know if you want to see that third show, Guys, and Alex Moffatt at nine thirty at the State Theater. Out of everything I just talked about, Mark Marin and Early Bed. How’s that sound?

It sounds great, Johnny Mack, I know. And that’s a lot for a Saturday, right, Yeah, let’s go do something else. Why are we’re listening to podcasts? It’s the weekend. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Praiser has been on a little bit of good pr run. He appears in People’s new YouTube series Roast by Life, and he told a story about going to a quote very expensive dentist in Beverly Hills. Now, sometimes Bert tells a story, and I’m not sure I quite believe the story, perhaps possibly maybe exaggerated for comedic effect, But as the story goes, Bert was at the dentist with his daughter, Georgia.

She’s now twenty. This story happened when Georgia was four and poor Georgia broke her jaw. Bert explains, they had to put Georgia under anesthesia, noting, and they told me, you know, we can’t find a vein. We need you to put her under. And I was like, I’m thirty five years old.

I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m a brand new dad. I go, baby, we’re gonna put the gas off your face and you’re gonna breathe even lee, You’re gonna go to sleep.

And then Georgia, four years old, looks up at me and goes, what if I don’t wa…

And I was like, great question. I look at the doctors and I said to these dentists, I go, she dies, do we bring the body home with us? And they’re like, whoa, what are you talking about? Bert says he started panicking. I start crying uncontrollably.

I go to the waiting room and crying so bad. People in the waiting room are freaking out. They’re watching a grown man’s sob. His wife, Leanne’s crying. There’s a kid with his dad who’s like, Dad, you said it wasn’t going to be that bad.

Bert remembers a woman trying to soothe me and make eye contact. After ten minutes, the dentist shows up and says Georgia was fine. Everyone celebrated with applause. Leanne’s got Georgia in her lap, Georgia’s got caught. She’s still asleep.

I’m standing watching. All of a sudden, the door opens to that room. It’s the same woman from earlier in the story. Remember that woman, and you know who it is. It’s Whitney Houston.

And Bert says, Whitney paid for the whole thing. This is you know, a long time ago. Bert’s not a famous comedian. She paid for the whole thing. We didn’t have the money, and Whitney Houston, God Rest her soul took care of us.

Cameron Asposito has a new stand up special out today pills on the streaming platform Dropout That’s the former College Humor. Cameron guides the audience on a surreal journey through the ups and downs of her bipolar disorder diagnosis, with detours to talk about marriage, divinity, school, and one extremely unlucky dog. Oh. Cameron says, when you do this job, the number one thing people say is I don’t know how you can do the jobs. Man.

Stand Up’s my biggest fear, and I’ve always said, well, it’s not my biggest fear. Stephen Rogers’ new special is out today as well. Half of We will premiere on Nate Berghetzi’s YouTube channel. Produced by Nate and Brian Reagan, the new hour sees Stephen Rogers blend wit and vulnerability as he shares relatable mishaps, personal struggles, and stories from his engagement, all building to a shocking twist. Should you tell the audience there’s a shocking twist coming?

Like can’t we just I know, I just ruined it, but I’m just reading the press release. They want you to know there’s a shocking twist, But like, I don’t know if you want to see one of those m night movies back in the day. Now we all know the gimmick, but you know when you first went to see one, do you want everyone going, Hey, there’s a shocking twist you’re never gonna believe. I don’t think you want to know. I always loved the phrasing and press releases in his career.

So far, Rogers has opened for comedians such as Reagan, Joe List, Tompapa, Napergetzie, and Taylor Tomlinson, such as is such a fun wording. Camil and Gianni will be in the upcoming season of poker Face. He told the story, I just got a text from Natasha Leona on a Friday. Kamil and Natasha were on one of those famous people panels, you know, everybody’s sitting at a table and the reporters asked them questions and then Vulture writes about it something like that. Yeah, Camel said, I just got a text from Natasha on a Friday, and you were like, hey, you want to be in poker Face on Thursday?

And I was like, how long can I wait? So that it doesn’t seem too desperate, Camille gave us a tease about what we could expect his character spoilers. He says, it was this cop and the Florida panhandle with tattoos and frosted hair, and his name was Gator Joe and his best friend is an alligator. I was like, did you send this one to me? By mistake?

People don’t see me and go, hey, that looks like a Florida cup. But adds I love playing Gator Joe. I love this guy. I had to shave my arms and legs to get tato on, and then I just walked around with all these tattoos. People were scared of me.

Poker Face season two returns May eighth on Peacock Chelsea Handler, who once dated Joe Coy, who once hosted the Golden Globes and made a joke about Taylor Swift. But we’re not doing that bit today. She says, if you travel with her, you better be ready to play by her rules. She said she once had to send a really severe letter to her entire extended family. Chelsea told Kimmel, I was like, listen, you have to make eye contact with every person that comes inside the house, whether you know them, whether they’re cleaning your room, whether you have anything in common.

You have to make eye contact with people and say hello, thank you, and acknowledge someone to standing there. And don’t leave beer bottles under the deck. Don’t drink the last margarita’s without filling up the picture. There’s a lot of finishing alcohol without replenishing the alcohol, because half of them are underage drinking our alcohol. This worked with her family.

Chelsea said she sent the letter to friends as a template they could use on their own vacations. A couple months go by, I get the letter from someone. Someone emailed me and goes, hey, I just read this letter. This is a great letter for you to send to your family. And I’m like, it’s my letter.

I wrote it. That’s a fun story. Dennis Leary is taking this Going Dutch sitcom very seriously, definitely much more seriously than I’m taking it. Remember this one, Dennis Leary plays Army Colonel Patrick Quinn who gets reassigned to a base on the Netherlands. Larry said, I know we’re supposed to be funny, but we’re also supposed to be soldiers.

We’re all dressed that way. Even if we’re just in the hair and makeup trailer, generally we’re in our uniforms. It’s a constant reminder. He got seriously into his character and explains there are certain props the audience will never see that I want my character to have with him. In this case, there was a challenge coin I wanted made that comes from my character’s background, back when the character was winning medals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The audience will never see it, but my character has it with him every day. Going Dutch filmed on a real Dutch army base, Lary says, there are jet planes, cargo planes, tanks, and there’s real soldiers advising you off in the distance. They’re really drooling for something. You feel really intimidated. Let’s see what’s happening at the comedy festivals.

I guess we’re starting in Mootower because that’s the tab that I clicked first. Got all these tabs saved, and I just randomly clicked one seven o’clock May Martin’s at the Paramount. Caitlyn Riley is at the State Theater with the wonderfully titled Kitlin Riley Bullies the audience, Paulie Shore at nine thirty. Guess my take there would be let’s go see Kitlyn Riley and then grab some drinks in Nashville. Jim Jeffries at the Ryman at seven, Dan Cummins at Zany’s Proper at seven, Jared Fried’s at the Lab at seven, Pete Lee and Zanies at nine to fifteen.

Caroline Benowitch homeschooled. The Freak is at the Lab at Zanie’s at nine to fifteen, eleven o’clock Connor Larsen’s Big Fun Riff Show. All right, you want some recommendations for me, gotta go see Jim Jeffries, he kills, and then for middle show, I guess Pete Lee and then let’s see what this Connor Larson’s thing is. The Riff Show is a show of completely improvised stand up comedy on the spot, in front of a live audience. Comedians have to be funny with whatever comes up.

Okay, that could be fun. And it’s only a sixteen dollars show. And where’s my Travers City bookmark? Did I not bookmark it? We’re going to have to use Google.

Traver’s City Comedy Festival they’ve got many, many shows. Tonight, I’ll just read you the bigger ones. Six point thirty Jay Farrow seven o’clock a clean comedy showcase. At eight o’clock a roast Battle starring Kevin Johnson as your host, Brett Haydon as a judge, and Ella Horwdell as another judge. I’m not familiar with any of the comedians performing in the roast Battle, doesn’t mean it’s not funny.

Nine o’clock Natasha lazerro at the Park plays Hotel, and at ten pm comedy karaoke. So I think out of those three, if you’re making me pick, we are hanging in Nashville tonight. A lot of talk this week about Tony Hinchcliff, boy, who well from theborbedwire dot com we learn for a few years now, the Austin comedy scene has been dominated by a new ecosystem led by Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliff. The city’s now nationally known as a haven for their style of say whatever crappy thing you want, It doesn’t even need a punchline comedy. For these guys and their disciples who move here during the pandemic.

The slur is the funny part. But that doesn’t mean the old guard, the people who are doing stand up before twenty twenty, has gone away, and veteran Austin comic Duncan Carson is taking Austin back. He told The Barbed Wire. They just think anybody that laughs is an inherent good, and I’m like, not if it’s a clan rally. Carson is launching a new late night show to showcase the city’s old school comedy scene, signing off A Comedy Show for the End of the World runs Friday’s at ten pm and Today’s a Friday.

Carson said, I think if you counted, I’ve hosted the most comedy shows in the history of the city. Maybe that means I’ll never get famous, but it also means I never sold my soul. Carson explains, I don’t want comedy that’s like preachy or always that’s a sports, social progress or something. Just don’t be a monster. It’s very easy to be funny without being mean.

Comedy is inherently political, and I’m tired of us acting like it’s not. The show’s head writer Mendoza told The Board Wire, We’re just trying to do what makes us laugh most of the time. I think all of us that work on the show have always tried to punch up rather than down. But adds Hingecliff is right. It only takes a minute to decide you’re not a fan of somebody, and from bearworld dot com you’re home for comedy news and one of those things in my browser.

I’m gonna have to explain to my wife like I got her to believe, like I’m in the basement. The only reason I’m on OnlyFans is because they started doing stand up comedy. Well, John, why were you on bearworld dot com? Which is not a site about the types of bears you might see in the zoo. No, this is a totally other kind of site.

But they interviewed comedian Chris Knight, who explained his comedic influences. Chris says, being in Australia, we got to see the best of the UK and the US on our TVs. Growing up. I fell in love with well written, fast paced jokes on shows like The Simpsons and the Quirkiness and shows like Dork Place. He explains how Australian crowds are different.

Aussie crowds are wild, British crowds would be some of the most supportive, and Americans will cheer you so loud you think your rockstar. Aussie crowds are wild and an rulely bunch while on stage. I’ve been offered threesomes and drugs, but I’ve also had to dodge of glass bottles. I think humor is universal. We all like to pokepund at ourselves and those in power, but the delivery of that humor changes country to country.

Australians tend to be much rougher and use some very foul language. We’re all descended from convicts, so that shouldn’t be a surprise. And that is your comedy news for today. So if you want to check my browsing history, it’s going to say things like New York Times. So I’m seeing what Jason’s Inteman’s up to, bear World OnlyFans, the Hollywood Reporter.

It’s a very eclectic mix. Who knows what’s even going on in the basement. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with Tony Hinchcliff again, sourcing here from coutahoulic ITR Wrestling and a fight ful select but apparently backstage at WWE Raw the other night, Tony Hinchcliff’s appearance came across as a dud. Some fans did not think Tony was funny during his appearance. I thought he was okay.

Some also didn’t like the one joke that suggested that the only things differ than announcer Michael Cole was big E’s neck. Big E has not wrestled since suffering a broken neck in March of twenty twenty two. Big E addressed the joke during WWE’s Raw recap and said, I guess at might big age of thirty nine years old, people will say what they want about you. The opin interview has nothing to do with me. It’s not my business.

Looks. Say what you want. He was given a mic, he was given opportunity how they want to feel. There’s a lot of discourse oftentimes as a public figure, people say things about you, whether the joke or not, and that’s their right. And I think the one thing is I’m on here.

It was set on the show. I’m supposed to talk, you know, especially when things are mentioned about me, I should have an opinion about them. It’s just tiring going to have to weigh in on everyone’s opinion or whatever they say. Look, I’m not hurt. I’m good.

I want the discourse to be had without me. Honestly, I have no desire to weigh in on this. I didn’t sign up for this. It wasn’t aware of this. He did what he wanted to do.

People signed off on. It has nothing to do with me, truly. MSNBC’s headline Netflix is killed Tony Special proofs the entertainment manisphere lives on. They write in Trump’s America, neither getting canceled nor refusing to say you’re sorry amounts to career suicide. It might even land you a three show deal with Netflix.

Oh is this thing? Only three shows? And one’s already gone and they already played the Shane Gillis card I don’t who knows? Actually, let me go on. I’ll see how the show is doing.

Got the Netflix Top ten. My source here is at netflix dot com. As I record this on Wednesday at eleven twenty four am Eastern Gone Girls, Adolescence Love on the Spectrum, Paul’s The Medical Show, which is awful, The Residence, which is fun. W W E RAW at six Miss Rachel Devil May Care, Million Dollar Secret, Survival of the Thickest, So Kill Tony not up there and MSNBC rights. To my mind, the comedy was mostly predictable, derivative, and formulaic, but that misses the point exactly.

I’m glad. He added that that misses the point because I was going to hit you with that as an artistic endeavor. Kill Tony is not cutting edge, but it is culturally irrelevant and massively so. Monday Night was definitely for the boys. Killer Be Killed featured lots of men, men who were happy to be in the company of other men as they ridiculed other men.

Of the twenty or so comics who partook and Killer Be Killed, nineteen of them were dudes skipping ahead. Then there’s the show’s manly visual aesthetic. The set is dark, it is lined with beefy, shiny bald guys and others in weird hats. There’s a live man whose musicians perplexingly crack up at every joke. The audience stoked prime for an endless cavalcade of hot man on man smackdowns.

The episode in parts of basic bro code fellas, crave, competition, and combat. These stand ups who do well are sometimes invited back. There was also a Mexican drum off, a killed Tony tradition apparently Yes Yes, MSNBC rights. At some point in the episode, Hinchcliffe eventually noticed that few women were on his Netflix special. In an attempt to diversify the proceedings, he forsook the bucket and called one amateur female comic to the stage.

Even though her minute was unremarkable, He later invited her to perform at his Madison Square Garden show this August. I was surprised that Gillis slash Trump didn’t dub him Tony DEI Hinchcliff in response. In all, it was a very manly night. Okay. Newsweek wrote about kill Tony.

They saw what the civilians are saying, and the civilians are echoing what I forgot to put in yesterday and had to have the AI voice once I realized I forgot to make the point. Joe Rogan was there for two hours, and I’m sure he spoke at some point, but he sure wasn’t participating. On the kill Tony subreddit, one user wrote, Joe Rogan is the worst guess ever why they keep bringing him on? Somebody replied, the guy owns the place. He’s gonna be there if Netflix is going to come out to film the episode.

Someone else said, like, I get it, he kind of has to be there if he owns the club, and you know it’s on Netflix, But come on, at least engage more. I feel like he’s like that on every episode he’s a guest on. I feel like you should have definitely engaged more. No, it’s gonna air on Netflix. I feel like the whole Netflix show was unauthentic.

I spoke my pec yesterday in case you missed it. I think the show works better for me as an audio podcast. I can listen to a double speed and hit skip six times in a row and something’s not working. I also feel that the first ten minutes was way below par, and they put a roadblock to the casuals. The casuals are never going to make it to minute eleven.

When Shane Gillis’s Trump came out, David Spade will have a new special for Amazon out May sixth. It’s called Dandelion. In Dandelion, David Spade takes on the pearls of flying charity auctions, the evolution of porn, and more. They put out a trailer and here are the jokes David’s bade chose to share. How’s that for a lead?

I was eight years old. I almost got kidnapped. I’ll make it funny. I came out here blonde hair, look like exactly mcaulay culgan and I was kind of tan. I was like shorts.

I mean it was almost in trapman. I’m a bit of a dandelion. I don’t know if you can tell. I looked tough on TV, but these quads are deceiving. Down ladies.

Okay, that’s Dandelion May sixth on Amazon. Put it on your calendar. Status tells the story of Rob Schneider paying a visit to the Los Angeles Times headquarters accompanied by Cheryl Hines. Schneider was active talk with the owner of the La Times about launching a conservative version of the view. He envisioned it as a talk show with a rotating panel of host that would appeal to the mega crowd and would be filmed live in front of a studio audience.

Status says the talks fell apart for one big reason. In particular, Schneider proposed a budget of fourteen million dollars to pretty use the show. The two sides could not agree on a budget. Fourteen million dollars is excessive. Seth Myers and John Oliver are extending their residency at New York’s Beacon Theater.

They’ll be there through the end of twenty twenty five. You can go see them July twenty seven, September twenty one, October twenty sixth, November twenty third, or December fourteenth. If you want to see them in August, you are currently out of luck. Each performer does forty five to fifty minutes of stand up, and then they come on stage together to take questions from the audience. Seth.

If somebody actually offers you that SNL gig, take it. Twelve thirty talk shows are dying.

Speaking of twelve thirty talk shows today in New York City conversations Dav…

Yeah, they’re at the Perlman Performing Arts Center. The official description Late Night Legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence and sincere curiosity back to Pack NYC for conversation with his longtime friend and former music director Paul Schaeffer. You know we could film this, guys. I’m just saying, Okay, let’s see what’s happening at the comedy festivals tonight at the Rhyme and Nikki Glaser there again, seven o’clock, Jared Freed at the labt Zeni’s at seven at main Zanies. Right now with John Goblcan.

I’m not familiar with John. I don’t recall ever seeing the name before you guys can shout at your phone all you want and just being honest. Apparently Right now with John GOBLICHN is the official podcast from necro Goblet Cohn singer John Goblcan. He interviews his famous friends from comedy, music and entertainment. Seems he dresses up as a goblin and four weeks ago had Dan Soder and that video has one hundred and thirteen thousand views.

Hey, you learn something new every day hosting this podcast. Huh. Jared Freed is another show at nine point fifteen, and that’s it for tonight. All right. If we were in Nashville, did we see Nikki yet?

I guess we’d go see Nicky in uh, I don’t know, go get some drinks again for the late show at moontow or tonight seven o’clock paul Is Shore, nine thirty, the not so Cancel Disease. I’m sorry nine Trevor Wilson. So I had said last night we would go see k Trevor Wilson, So I guess would go see AZ’s tonight for the late show and Paulie not many other choices. The Trevor’s City Comedy Festival is up and running tonight through the weekend. The big show there is at seven o’clock Josh Blue at the City Opera House.

So if you gave me a transporter machine and you were like, hey, John, we’re gonna go see some comedy. Should we go to Nashville, Trevors City or moontower? Out of all the things I’ve talked about, and picking Josh Blue at Trevor’s City Comedy Festival, good lineup, though some other headliners scheduled. According to the press release, Mark Maren J. Farrow, Natasha Laziro and a bunch of others will take a look at that.

Over the next few days, I did hear from Dan Bubletz Junior, who tells me he’s working on the Melbourne Florida National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six. We were texting. Yesterday. I went to the brand new Bjay’s wholesale club that just opened near my house and I was out there shopping and I was in the car and I got a text. Wife’s like, who’s Dan Boobletz.

And I’m like, he’s a comedian. He Litsen’s show and he has your number. I’m like, yeah, he has my number. We text sometimes anyway. So Boobletz is working on this thing.

I have asked him to book Adam Sandler as the headliner. I will keep you guys posted Melbourne National Comedy Festival this time next year in Melbourne, Florida. We are working on this. It is definitely going to happen. No chance that this is a bit.

We are doing this. The folks at the Age went to see Randy Adiva’s show Killer from Manila this at the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival. They give it four and a half stars out of five. Killer from Manilla is about Randy being proud of his rich Filipino origins his identity as an Asian Australian being under society’s Western microscope. Guilty if they gat too much.

A self confessed knowledgeable movie buff and a super diehard sports fan. We’re taken through several what if scenarios movie scenes and we meet Randy’s favorite celebrities that he looks up to. Sounds like a fun show.

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Falling in love Sammy Jay Is The show is called the Kangaroo Effect. In The Kangaroo Effect, Sammy j essentially brings the Charlie da meme from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It’s a life clawing through an archive of VHS tapes and blurry polaroids to set out a series of suspects that are to blame for him turning up at a house party in a kangaroo onesie. That’s fun. They gave that one four stars.

Luke McGregor’s show Okay Wow, is a fifty five minute show, well paced through seemingly random thoughts with just the right amounts of audience chit chat. Topics include flat earther ADHD diagnosis, step kids, the shape of his appendage, and finding the love of his life. The age gave Luke McGregor OK Wow four stars. Shanna Christmas will have a new special out on Amazon and YouTube May twentieth, and as an album album on Comedy Dynamics May twenty third. You know how I know this?

Shanna Christmas publicist sent it to me. See if you work for Hulu and you send me something, I’ll read it. Shot live in an intimate jazz club in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, the special captures Shanna Christmas doing what she does best, making people laugh so hard they forget they’re in a dark room with strangers. There is a spoiler here. I don’t want to tell you what it is, but Shanna says, I wanted to make a special that it felt like me.

Loud, fast, honest, funny, but also full of real life because comedy is how I take my power back. There’s a for YOUA and I want people to feel theirs too. Highly intelligent YouTube, and Amazon May twentieth, all remind you as we get a little closer. And that is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, we’ve got some Netflix synergy going on over there. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with WWE RAW. Apparently there was some sort of after show.

I’ve seen the video clips of it, but the announcers weren’t sticking around. Bert Kreischer jumped in the ring. There’s a fun clip if you want to go search it out. During the main show, Bert was seen in the audience drinking and chugging beer. He did a backstage interview that was interrupted by the faction American Maid, which as you know are Julius Creed, Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, and Ivy Nile.

But then a different faction showed up, the Alpha Academy, who as you know, are Otis, Maxine Dupree, and Akira Tozawa. They showed up. Luckily everyone got along. Kreischer and Otis both tore off their shirts. But then after sign off, CM Punk was in the ring.

As I understand things, Grace and Waller and Austin Theory you know them as atown down Under. Of course, they targeted CM Punk and try to take him out. Krazier jumped the ringside barrier to confront Grace and Waller. Luckily, Cempunk recovered, Punk invited Krasier into the ring. Then Bert Krescher executes a choke slamb on Waller.

The crowd loved it. Not sure why that didn’t make the live show. I don’t know how wrestling works, but a lot of fun and I love the crossover. It’s just such an environment to have the comedians on. For example, say you were promoting a fellow show on Netflix, you could have Tony Hinchcliff on ww RAW.

What would that sound like? Hmm, let’s wonder Tony Hitchcliff. I am happy to be here. This is so exciting. I’ve been watching since the Attitude era.

Michael Hole has been watching since the Jurassic era. So West, congratulations on your show, Kill Tony debuting on Netflix today. Couldn’t be happier. Happy to be here on Rock. This is a childhood dreams come true.

This is absolutely unbelievable. Mcfee’s the man, Michael Coole. I’ve been watching you forever. The first match you called was David versus Goliath. I did watch Kill Tony’s Netflix debut, and I think they blew it.

There’s no way a casual is going to make it through those first ten minutes. Maybe the Hinchcliff crew doesn’t care, but somebody should being on scene going, hey, it’s episode one, to a lot of new people, don’t introduce the band, nobody cares, get right to it, and the first comedian out of the box was horrific. There’s no way a casual watch those first ten minutes when oh, I really like this show. This is good, which sucks because if they had made it to minute eleven out comes Shane Gillis as Trump and I will tell you as I watched and skimmed the two hours, Shane tried really hard to carry the show. Luck of the draw.

The names coming out of the hat weren’t that good. The set pieces that were planned Shane of course, Adam Ray coming out, Ron White as your clothes, those were all good as expected. But the civilians, it was a particularly poor group of civilians. Ai Johnny mack here Hume and John forgot to record his observation that Joe Rogan is there, and did Joe Rogan speak at all? He was silent.

Tom Sagora also joined the panel at one point and didn’t add all that much except suggesting a landscape or get a website. I’m not sure how much the casuals are going to like episode one of Netflix Kill Tony. The show looked good, but I’ll tell you I was trying, and at some point after an hour in Now, I did watch the first hour entirely, but then I just started skimming ahead to is Shane gillis doing Trump right now or not? I think for me the show works better as an audio podcast, where I can listen at two x and if a comedian isn’t working for me, I can go SA sape, safe, Sape, sape, sape, sape, say Scape, which is a little easier to do on a podcast app than my Roku. Anyway, I do like the show a lot.

I am a fan, as I just I think it works better for me as an audio podcast. And I feel bad here because I think people would like the show if exposed to it, but they’re not going to get through that first ten minutes. Shame production. Somebody produced it wrong. Sorry, guys.

Let’s stay down in Austin for Now podcaster Sam Harris is getting into it with Joe Rogan on his own podcast, Sam Harris recently discussed Joe and said Joe is a genuinely good guy who wants good things for people, but he is honestly in over his head on so many topics of great consequence. Harris says society is politically shattered in part because of how Rogan has interacted with information. Quote A lot of this is inadvertent, but it’s also voyable. Rogan could actually take the responsibility that really is his to take at this point to get his facts straight. He could have two brilliant journalists who’s full time job.

He could pay them each a million dollars a year to just sit there and make sure he doesn’t put his foot in his mouth in a colossally irresponsible way. Harris criticized comedian Dave Smith, who was recently on the show. I have not listened to that episode yet, but I did listen to last night they had on the Guy that is bringing Back the Dire Wolves. That was a really good listen. I do like Rogan’s podcast, especially as a late night listen.

Among other reasons that the volume doesn’t go up and down so as I drift off to sleep. And this is actually a compliment, not a dig. I find Rogan very calming. Last night, I was having a lot of trouble falling asleep, so I enjoyed the company. And did I tell the story of when I was in Antarctica?

If not, I’ll tell it again really quickly. So we went out camping overnight on the ice in Antarctica. I’ve never been so cold, and I’m not doing a bit here. I was so cold at one point that I was starting to blink out, wink out, and I contemplated, is this what dying feels like. I’m not doing a bit.

I’m not being melodramatic. I’ve never been so cold in my life. Now. I had brought my headphones and my phone, but to operate such a thing was an ordeal because I just wanted to keep I was wrapped up on the sleeping bag, so so cold. So I hit play on a four hour Joe Rogan episode because I knew it would get me until four am when the boat would come back and get us off this iceberg.

Actually it was an island, it wasn’t an iceberg. So I got my hand out of the glove and I hit play on Rogan and Tulca Gabbard and I listened to the whole thing as I sat there miserable, shivering. But it was four hours long, So thank you Joe Rogan for that particular night. But back to Sam Harris versus Joe Rogan, Harris criticized Dave Smith, who was recently on the show. Smith wrote back on Twitter, Sam’s correct.

The only reason that anybody even knows who I am is because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the old fashioned way by having my mother create the Golden Girls. That reference is that Harris’s mother is Susan Harris, a TV writer and producer who created The Golden Girls. It is a busy news day on a lot of other days, this would be the lead. Mike Birbiglia will have another at Netflix special.

This one is called The Good Life. It’ll be out May twenty sixth on Netflix. Interesting to me, May twenty sixth is Memorial Day, a Monday. Normally Netflix specials come out on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted to pull it into the holiday weekend. In the Good Life, Verbiggs combines jokes and storytelling as Mike talks about his father suffering a stroke and how that led to Mike reevaluating his own ideas about fatherhood.

Berbiglia said in a statement, over the years, I’ve done a lot of personal shows, but somehow this one is the most personal because it’s not in my past. It’s my life right now, so there’s really no filter. At certain points during the hour, I literally thought, on stage, WHOA am I really going to tell the story? But that’s sort of the idea behind these shows. I try to probe in it what’s most painful in order to figure out what’s most funny.

Personally, the Verbiglia storytelling shows don’t grab me. I understand. I’m in the minority there. I really liked his early stand up comedy when it was stand up stand up, but I try and watch these specials and I’m just like, eh, it’s just not my thing. It’s fine.

He’s very popular and he’ll do fun without me going, hey, I’m excited, but you know, not my thing. Dave Chappelle did a show Saturday night. On a lot of other days, this would be the lead Dave and musician y Clef Jean. We’re celebrating the Haitian community. This happened in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

You may recall there were some false rumors about eating cats and dogs, you know, about a year ago. Chapelle said, the negativity has been so loud, and this celebration was to amplify positive voices. Dave said, I think they hear so many negative voices that it’s good to hear some positive voices. And let’s see a hero from Haiti meaning white Cloff Sean saying we love y’all. All these people were brought here legally, all the unrest in Haiti, and they put this extra burden of xenophobia on them.

Chapelle said he called Jean as soon as those rumors spread. Sean was on tour at the time, but Dave says he stayed on me. I stayed on him, and finally this thing happened, and I think it needs to happen. I think it’s an important lesson, not just for the Haitian community, but for all communities, like look, there are people trying to assimilate in America. It’s a very difficult thing to do.

I think would all be better by embracing our new neighbors than marginalizing them. And I think that why Cleff was the perfect combassador. Amber Ruffin, who was disinvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner, has a new gig. Pen America I announced that Ruffin will host the Free Expression Organization’s gala fundraiser May fifteenth. Penn’s co interim CEO praised Amber Ruffin for her brilliant social commentary, satire, and exceptional talent.

She is truly emblematic of the talented creators who we need on stages and in writers rooms during a time of unprecedented censorship in this country. We’re both delighted and honored to have her here with us. Ellie King was on the Dumb Blonde podcast. She talked about her father, Rob Schneider. King said, I go like four or five years without talking to my dad.

If I would ever spend a summer with my dad growing up, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. She described herself as quote a really, really heavy child and said Rob sent her to a fat camp. She also said her dad forgot about every single birthday, including when she turned eighteen, and called Rob Schneider very toxic and very silly. Tonight, on the John Mulaney Netflix show Bill hater Chelsea Peretti Johnny Knoxville human Resources executive employee coach Katie and music from Bortize Strange.

After I watched kil Tony the other night, I put Melanie on to give it another shot, and it’s not good and people are on threads. You’re very upset at me for voicing that opinion, anyone who’s listening to the show four years. No, I like John Mlanie’s comedy, but this show is not good. The Atlantic wrote a funny article about it, and I’ll just push back that, sure, we should all applaud John mulani for trying and trying to do something different, but at some point shouldn’t the show actually be funny? Don’t we actually need results at some point?

Let me give you a straw man argument. What if the show was called Everybody’s Live with Spike Ferristed. Would people be like, boy, Spike’s really trying hard, He’s trying to do something different with his late night show on Netflix. No, the show would be panned Mlanie’s coasting on the Goodwill. I’m just calling a straight shot here.

The show’s not good and I like John Mulaney. Both things can be true. The Mountawer Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and goes until April nineteenth. Over one hundred media spanning stand up, sketch and musical comedy will be there. Some of the comedians include Disease I’m Sorry, Tiffany Hattish, Alex Moffett, and Michael Yo.

Tonight, Alex Edelman at seven o’clock a Porner and I’m sure allowed get to see her back on stage it’s seven. AZA’s I’m Sorry not So canceled at nine thirty, and Kay Trevor Wilson at nine thirty. If we were in Austin, I would make you go see Aparna and Kay Trevor Wilson, who deserves more theme. Plus, I thought we canceled Disease. Didn’t we cancel Disease?

Disease is back.

Meanwhile, down in Nashville, if you listen to yesterday’s podcast, you know …

Yeah, she wasn’t there last night. She’s there tonight Wednesday, April ninth, at seven pm at the Ryman. Nikki Glaser over at the Lab at Zanies at the same time. Jared Freed also at seven. Robert Kelly is the headliner at Zani’s nine point fifteen at the Lab Story Wars with Big Jay Ogerson and Louis J.

Gomez. If we were in Nashville tonight, I would say, let’s go see Nikki Glaser at seven and let’s skip the late show and go take in some country music and a couple beverages and maybe some hot chicken. Nashville runs all the way through Sunday, which is cool, planned to talk about. This week, The lgbt l L Queer Comedy Festival announced their lineup. Co founder Ryan Rodgers said, while extremists try to erase us, we’re making it impossible to ignore us.

Comedy has always been a form of resistance, and right now, queer joy is revolutionary. This year’s festival is more than a celebration. It’s a rally cry against censorship, discrimination, and the silencing of lgbtqia plus stories. This festival runs May twenty ninth through June first in New Orleans, kicking off Pride Month. Your headliner is Corey O’Brien, Paris Sachet, and Gabby Watts.

More than one hundred comedians from across America apply to perform to do a couple of reviews of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Still haven’t heard from Booblitz. I don’t know if the Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six is happening or not. Dan’s probably one of those guys that catches up and listens to like seven episodes in a row, and all of a sudden hear himself called out every day for a week. Aye, Dan, all right, The Age has been hitting all the shows in Melbourne.

I haven’t figured out a way to get down there. You know, I could probably go down there and write it off, but I’d have to, you know, work it out with the family here, Like, Hey, I’m going to Melbourne for a comedy festival for months. See you who’s watching the dogs exactly. Tom McCusker’s show is b Gay Do Crime, Gay Spell Gae. The Age gave it four and a half stars out of five and tell us about dom from being born and raised in Hong Kong and living in the UK or Filipino Scottish upbringing and unique adoptive family to coming out as bisexual and even keeping the youth entertainment on a tall ship without the Internet.

Tom McCusker really has lots of detales to tell. Dressed in a pirate themed outfit, Dom opens to the show with a lovely solo shanty to the tune of Last Saskatchewan Pirate. See this all sounds like a lot of fun richeld. Each shanty has two sets of lyrics to form the chorus. At the start of each shanty, Dom sings through the first two lines with some call and response called toosies twosies.

How it works is Dom sings the first two lines, you and the audience sing back, and then finish the chorus off for the last two lines. That’s fun. Sarah Pesco’s show is called I Am a Strange Goop. As for Sarah, she’s gotten married and had two kids. She’s a family woman now and she wants to talk about it.

The age says, in most cases, yawn. Is that some commentary on like what’s going on with a lot of American women comics around age forty right now? I don’t know that’s the age in most cases? Yeah, and the audience really doesn’t care about them. Of your domestic life with the nocturnal bubbs and a man who feigns ignorance to escape chers.

We’ve heard that one a thousand times, but not in Pasco’s adroit hands. She waves mirth out of monotony. Be it the allure of polygamy simply to divide housework, or the juxtaposition of sexual inclinations of both men and women once they hit their forties. Four stars. They gave that one and let’s do one more.

Lil Winker’s show is called Bang That Tale. Lil Winker’s name Real bank Tail, jumps into character as Alan, aka the Baddest man in Texas. Strets on the stage in leather chaps, face a dorn with drawn eyebrows and a mustache. This show as well, has audience participation. You could find yourself portraying a heifer, a cactus, the saloon doors, or the nemesis This one woman clown at Western Blinds.

Physical comedy and silliness and a tightly constructive narrative. They gave it four stars. That’s a lot of fun too, And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercials five bucks a month commercials go away link in the show notes, or if you’re on Apple Podcast, click that link that says uninterrupted listening and you and the phone can work all that out meet you back here tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, if you sign the petition yet, Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Over twenty thousand people have signed a petition to get kill Tony off Netflix. That horrible kill Tony with his amateur comedians doing one minute of comedy and then getting slammed. You know, they put their names in a hat and didn’t get forced to perform this comedy and then kill Tony and his mean cohorts made fun of them.

Sign the petition. It’s at move on dot org. Ted Sarandos, he’s the Netflix boss. He recently did Beyond the Stream a conversation with Ted Serrandos, a big time event, and he said, I knew that the art form itself, comedy always needed a safe place to try things out. Comedians to find the culture in a bunch of ways, and they do that by figuring out where the lines are and what the joke is.

It’s the only art form that you know is working because it’s defined by the audience. If the audience laughed at work, you can’t. That’s not funny if eighteen thousand people are laughing. But what if twenty thousand people have signed an online petition. You could say you disagree with it.

You could say that it offends you, you could say that it hurts you. But you can’t say it’s not funny. If someone wants to stand on the street corner and talk on they want, that’s not a Netflix show. If you’re attracting a large audience and people are laughing at the work and it’s jokes, they’re just jokes. At the end of the day, I think if we lose our ability to laugh at ourselves, we’re in trouble.

You look back at Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. It’s amazing we’re having this debate about sensory comedians today. Sarando’s added that Chappelle is clearly in that class. You might not like all the jokes, but there’s no denying this is one of the greatest comedians of our time. Kill Tony out on Netflix.

Speaking of kill Tony, who you know is just ruining comedy apparently, go on threads. It’s just going threads and type in Tony Hinchcliff and see what you find. Tony Hinchcliffe has another Giggy’s teaming up with those wrestling people I missed this one when I was in Ireland. Tony and the WWE are working together on the roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Friends April twentieth, ten pm West, as part of WrestleMania Week. Often remember to check out the WWE show and see if Tony makes an appearance.

Netflix is using the wrestling to do crossovers, very very smart. Now, this press release is pretty favorable towards Tony writing Hinchcliffe, the internationally renowned comedian, one of the top roasters in the world, and the mastermind behind kill. Tony will bring together top comics and entertainers for an unforgettable night of laughs and huge surprises. Some of the WWE superstars joining are Sammy Zain, the Miz Braun, Strowman, and Paul Hayman. And I probably got at least two of those pronunciations wrong.

Play a good wrestling podcast out there, this is not one of them. Sadly, the event will be non televised. Why they why you to go to this thing? Huh? Can’t you record it and show it to us?

Let’s see how much tickets are here ticket Master. I could get in right now. A very so I’d resale ticket one one hundred and thirty five dollars. That’ll get you in section four zero one. Not awful.

Hopefully they’ll change their mind and televise this thing. Bill Burr. Still in the news, Burr went on Seth Myers, which, Hey, Seth, By the way, if somebody offers you that SNL job, grab it. I’m just telling you. I’m telling you just grab it while it’s there.

Don’t wait too long, Seth asked Bill Burr. If Burt was able to mend fences with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, they were sitting together at SNL fifty, Burst said, I did in good nature. I was like, man, I hated your band. You edit my thing. Burr, like some of us of a certain age, liked the old time rock and roll that went from I don’t know, Chuck Berry all the way up until I think the last album is officially the Guns and Roses album, and then you know, the Pearl Jams came in and did other stuff with the Nirvanas and all that.

You kids today and your music, Burs said. Vetter was cracking up. I go to you know how long it took me to admit how great a band Pearl Jam is because now I love them, But it was twenty years ago and I was like, I’m not listening to these guys. Burr explains, I was watching all hair metal ice bands. I was loving them, and they were on the countdown.

Then Nirvana came in and I was like, what’s this? They would say Nirvana knocked it out. It was Pearl Jam. When Pearl Jam came there was another one of those grunge Seattle bands, and that’s when I was like, oh my god, this isn’t ending. They’re just gonna keep coming.

Then all my band skid Row, all of them were gone. It was just the sad guy singing about being on our bridge not being happy, and I’m like, what happened to? Nothing but a good time and ignoring all your problems with cocaine? Right like that was all over. On his own podcast, Burr recently explained that Vedder told him he was glad that Burr came around.

He was actually asking white metal bands I listened to and we got to talk baseball. What a sweetheart of a guy. Conan O’Brien revealed he considered not going to the Kennedy Center to accept his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on his own pod, Cone and said there was a question of should I go should I not go? And I felt like it was important to show up. Johnny Max trying really hard not to be political on the podcast.

I don’t know if you guys followed the news. I’ll let you follow the news on your own. It’s really hard not to talk about, you know, the thing and the stuff con had said. First of all, we were brought in under the old regime. The people who brought me in and no longer there, but I thought we honored their decision.

Conan said, I didn’t have the strong urge to die afterwards. It’s like, what are you gonna do now? But then I realized, oh it’s on Netflix. People will see it, they’ll forget. I need to get the next prize.

I’m glad they recorded that evening because if there wasn’t a recording of it, I wouldn’t believe it. My love, and thanks to everybody who came out. I mean really busy. People flew across the country to be there, and I’ll never forget it as long as I live. I think we knew this already but more confirmation that Nate Brigetzi will make his film debut with the family comedy The Breadwinner.

Nate describes The Breadwinner in the vein of Mister Mom and Home Alone. It will be out March thirteenth, twenty twenty six. Get online for tickets now before they sell out. Nate says, it’s going to be hard to make something and then have to wait to see it. I’m used to immediate reactions.

Plus I don’t know the first thing about making a movie. I’m excited to figure it all out, what works, what’s funny when he’s tweaking. It’s gonna be a whole new world, and I can’t wait to learn. Nate talked about the changing landscape of comedy. When I was coming up, comedians out a system.

I was in New York. You do eight minutes on Comedy Central Live at Gotham, then you do a half hour special. Eventually you get an hour. There was a clear path. You were always worse looking towards.

There are rumors from Radar Online that they want to give regular Jeopardy to Colin Jost. A source says the ratings for Jeopardy have been very hit or miss so of course they’re looking to make some changes. The most important thing to understand what the franchise right now is that Colin’s hosting efforts on Pop Culture Jeopardy represent a major creative and business win for the studio, and it’s working out better than anybody anticipated. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, is it? Are people like, Hey, did you see Colin Jost on Pomp Culture Jeopardy?

I mean losers hosting podcasts in their basement will occasionally mention it, but I haven’t seen any actual civilians talk about that show, have you. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, and it’s brought a load of young new fans into the Jeopardy universe. If it were possible from a business perspective to just hire Colin as the full time nightly host, the studio would do it in a heartbeat and replace Jennings in the process. But Colin continues to be under contract at SNL and he still wants to live full time in New York City. Well, I got news for you.

The buzz is off SNL. Although if I were Colin, I would say at that news desk, as long as Lauren will have me. That’s a nice steady visible gig Ai is telling me Jeopardy tapes five episodes a day on two days of taping every other week, resulting in approximately two hundred and thirty new episodes. So I can solve this for everybody, Okay, and no offense, Ken Jennings. But hey, how about in the summer, will film like three days a week for like a month, and then when SNL’s on, will film on Monday and Tuesday.

Hear me out in New York. Yeah, we could build a set in New York and film it there. That will solve everyone’s problems. And Colin Jost, if somebody offers you the Jeopardy job, take it. You can do that for thirty years.

You see what Drew Carries doing over there, nice steady work. Seacrest, they were like Wheel of Fortune and great by the way, you know how you know Ryan Seacrest is doing a great job on Wheel of Fortune. Nobody talks about it. That’s exactly what you want. You don’t want anyone having a conversation like Colin jose to take over Wheel of Fortune.

See, you don’t want that conversation going. No one is talking about Seacrest no one is complet anything about Drew Carrey Colin. If they offer you this gig, no offense, Ken Jennings, take it and someone else do the math. Okay, SNL wraps up what may so say. In June, we taped three days a week, and then we did Monday and Tuesday while SNL’s on and Colin can hang out with Scarlet and go on vacation in July and August.

You know, at some point you gotta work, Colin, But you know, two full months off and we could make this work. Phil Wang comedian I really dig. He’s hosting the BAFTA Game Awards. He’s a lifelong gamer. He started with the Sega Saturn in the mid nineties.

Nube I had the old Pong games before the Atari. I mean I had an Atari, a Klico, a Nintendo with the robot and the gun. I don’t want to hear about you people that came later got a Sega Genesis. By the way, I still have always have a Colleco vision. I can go upstairs right now and get a Colleco vision.

If you want to play Donkey Kong. It’s sitting in the closet next to the Atari. Twenty six hundred. I’ve got PlayStation one, two, three, four and five. I only got on the XP this generation because I liked my PlayStations.

Honestly, this generation, I’m spending all my time on the Xbox because of game Pass PlayStation. I think it’s a better machine. But you know, no games or games on the game Pass or quote unquote free as opposed to making me pay seventy dollars. I digress. Phil Wang’s games were Rome, Total War, h Vampires and Theme Park Tycoon that makes Johnny Mack want to bust out sim City.

Phil said, I’m so thrilled to be returning as host of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Last year’s show is such an uplifting celebration of this incredible industry. Looking forward to continuing in that spirit and honoring another year of superb games. I played games all my life. Blah blah blah statement statement.

The ceremony today in London. It’ll be streamed live on BAFTA’s YouTube channel and on Twitch if you want to watch.

Speaking of Phil, he is one of those comedians making fun of Megan Markle, th…

And on the recent episode they all made fun of Megan. If you’re not paying attention, Meghan has a new podcast out today, which is great because I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast and we will make fun of Meghan’s podcast, Endless easy Content. I will barely have to work this week because Megan will put out something that people will make fun of and we’ll report on they’re making fun of. If you want to keep up on the royal family, especially Megan, this week Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows. So there’s the crew on Have I Got News for You?

They showed a mocked up image of Megan wearing a chef’s hat while making jam. Yes, she’s selling designer jam. And by the way, we’ve learned through the reporting on Valace Intrigue, it’s officially not jam. It’s officially fruit spread FDA something something not enough something to qualify as official jam according to government standards. So she’s not even making jam, she’s making fruit spread.

This is how much fun Palace Intrigue is because we get into that kind of nonsense. Team Captain Ian Hislop Boy, Jenny Mexican, and all the names wrong today. Ian said her jam immediately sold out, which I thought was good unless there are only two jars. Phil Wang got in on this. He made fun of Megan’s beekeeping.

Did you see Megan going beekeeping on her Netflix show? There she held each honeycomb like it was covered in crap, and she’s like, I love coming out and getting in touch with nature, but you could see she was about to throw up. Amber Ruffin said she’s glad that she’s not doing the White House Correspondents Dinner. She was on the American version of Have I Got News for You? She told that panel I could talk for the next three hours.

What I choose to say is it’s like I lost the gig because I was out here talking crap. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig because I wasn’t going to show up there and act all the way out. It’s not anyone’s fault because when we were hired, I was like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. Ruffin says she would have had a hard time biting her tongue. Telling CNN’s panel they started disappearing people to prison in El Salvador.

They wrote back civil rights, so I was like, if we make this equal, then I’m also a piece of crap. I cain’t effing do that. Poor Jeff Ross was in the hospital. He had an allergic reaction to eating ice cream. He shared some photos.

He said it was his first allergic reaction ever, and he joked that despite looking like Mickey Rourke at the end of the wrestler, he’d be back on stage soon. Jeff explained on social media. I had a fun opening night performance of his tour. Take a banana for the ride up here in Mill Valley, California. Afterwards, me and the band celebrated with some Barrata ice cream at a restaurant down the street, courtesy of the nice owner.

It was delicious, seriously yummy. Despite the yummy dessert, his lips quickly blew up. Jeff won up in an EERI spent the night. It’s my first allergic reaction ever. I guess that’s pretty remarkable considering I’m constantly shoving whatever food is in front of me into my face.

Thank you to the overnight shift at the Marine Health Medical Center for only roasting me lightly. Oh my goodness, I just checked the clock. Johnny Mack went super long there on the first half. But I am having fun. I like hanging out with you guys.

Hey, you know what it is? Over on five Daily Trivia Questions. This week it’s Villain’s Week. That’s right, it’s a theme week. Monday was Bond Villains.

I don’t know what today is. I only write the thing, but I forget what I scheduled. I think today’s Star Wars Ville. Anyway, I could tell you what they are. It’s Bond Star Wars movie.

Scary guys like Freddy Krueger. Like that’s one of the themes. Anyway, every day there’s five daily Trivia questions and this week’s theme is Villain’s Week. Check out five Daily Trivia Questions wherever you get your shows. Jay Leno said he almost backed out of an upcoming booking in Canada.

Jay I told everyone, I’m trying not to be political. There’s a lot going on, Jay, and people are very upset, and I don’t want to upset anybody. Jay. Why wouldn’t you go to Canada? Jay was on Berrew TV.

I’m sure I pronounced that right with Canadian journalist Bill Berrew. Late Night Reports, Jay said I was almost not gonna do these Canadian dates because I didn’t want to be the ugly American coming in. Jay made fun of his recent fall down a hill, saying it’s been great for ticket sales. Tonight at the Nashville Comedy Festival six o’clock show, Dusty Slighs show is called Dusty Slays six o’clock perfect. Dusty Sleigh at six o’clock perfect.

I could see a comedy show, have two beers head out the door at seven forty and be in bed by eight fifteen. Amazing. I love this comedy festival. Jared Freed’s also at the Lab and Zanies at seven. Over at the Ryman, Nateland presents pretty good line up here, Ryan Hamilton, longtime listeners know I dig Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, derk Stroop, Lace Larrabie, Mia Jackson, Paula Kazinski, and special host Aaron Weber.

Boy, you’d make me choose between Dusty and a bigger show at the Ryman. I would go see Dusty and then I could be home early. At Zane’s at eight fifteen That Deprived, hosted by Lewis J. Gomez, Big Jay Ogreson, Robert Kelly and Zach Amiko on that one nine to fifteen story Wars with Big Jay and Gomez. That’s at the Lab and Zanies.

Nikki Glaser is at the Ryman. No, No, that’s tomorrow. I could delat it, but that’s not fun. Nikki Glaser not at the Ryman. If you’re at the Ryman and you’re like, hey, Johnny Max said, Nikki Glaser is here tonight, she’s not.

Sometimes it’s just more fun not to edit things out. And le’s talk about the Melbourne Comedy Festival because there’s so many reviews. It’s such a big festival and if I don’t start doing these, I’m never going to get to them. Josh Glank did a show called Family Man. He’s at the Chinese Museum until April twentieth.

By the way, Dan Booblitz, what’s going on with the Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival twenty six? Are you on this or not? Text me? You texted me like last week. You’ve got my number.

Don’t act like you don’t have my number. You texted me. The Ah tells us Josh Clang’s a Family Man is a ritous hour of musical comedy, audience interaction, and lanyard appreciation. His preacher man and French pervert characters keep the pace of the show lively and allow for a surprising multimedia callback that has everyone in the room glad they spent their heart earned money on this clown. Clown being a compliment four Stars Gary Stars show is called Classic Penguins.

He’s at the malt House until April twentieth. He can sing, he can dance, he can perform an entire show without pants. That’s one of the lesser known Doctor Seuss books. By the way, the Age tells us Scary Stars. Humor is physical, silly, and uproarious.

The interpretations are mostly literal riffs on titles. Moby Dick, for example, or Around the World in eighty days. Around the World in eighty days was one of the trivia questions last week from the Trivia Guys on Wednesday. I’ll see you guys tomorrow night. Trivia Guys, Best Men Trivia there if you’re like, if you live somewhere near New Jersey, look up and you want trivia guys Hire the Best Men Trivia Guys.

I don’t know how far they travel. Maybe we’ll book them at the Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival in twenty six. Get on that booblets, So I just actually pause there. I’m really impressed by my microphone. It is not picking up the barking dog.

Let’s driving me nuts as I’m recording here. She does not care. Then I have a podcast. I think if you boost your volume the ninety nine you might be able to hear her. But say you were in the basement talking about comedy shows in Melbourne, you would be able to hear her.

Believe me, just take my word for it. And I guess she’s not going to stop. So that’s it. You could have had a couple more Melbourne stories, but you’re not getting them now because Johnny Mack needs to go upstairs and be like, what are we barking at? The answer is going to be nothing, but I gotta go do it.

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Calaoca Shock Media. Boy. Second week of April. Already this year is flying. Hello.

I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Parental discretion advised on this episode after the commercial break, gonna talk a serious subject, right, so get rid of the kids. Let’s start with Bill Burr. Did you see this video circulating on the social media’s? Bill Burr was there at the Mark Twain Conan O’Brien thing mine in his own business more or less the most a canon on a red carpet of sorts, and a reporter asked Bill Burr a question.

I will let Bill Burr handle this himself. How about your reaction to Beligi MAGGIONI is reading up you know that perhaps you’ve been supportive of what he did. What is your take on that? If you were reading up, I don’t get you read up on it because I said what I felt about it, and I said what a lot of people he said took it that way? So could you clarify how?

No, I’m not going to just have some controversial moments you can get clicks. I’m not doing that. I mean, I’m here to call it. I’m not I’m not doing all of this. What are you gonna bring up next to the Middle East?

I went to summer school three out of four years in high school. I’m not qualified to talk about this. What are you warming? He said about Elon that he was ruining ear if I saw in the view, you’re critical of him? What do you think of all the boycotts, even the violin?

I don’t watch the news. I don’t watch the news. I have no idea what’s going on. I watch Instagram. I watch people wipe out on motorcycles.

I watch lions and hyenas fight each other. This is the things that I do. And I don’t think you should be asking a comedian. Your journal medians are on top of current events. You’re a no, no, that’s that’s weak that you guys passing the buck.

You guys need to have balls again, which you don’t. You guys always goes. Should we be thinking this? You guys present stuff like that. You guys used to have balls.

You need to get your balls back. And it’s not my job. I am a dancing clown. Wow, how do you really feel? Bill Awful Announcing was checking out the Flagrant with Andrew Schultz.

Currently Andrew and retired NFL safety and NFL analyst Ryan Clark had been going back and forth as Offlin announcing recaps it. Schultz had riffed on the idea of Megan Marko cleaning up the British royal family and described the Black Girl for An Effect as women stressing their boyfriends out and slapping them a sidebar, palace intrigue. Wherever you get your shows, we talk about the Royal Family. I’m the writer about it. Today’s episodes about Megan.

Megan’s Big podcast is out tomorrow, so tomorrow is gonna be about Meghan. Wednesday’s gonna be about Meghan. It’s gonna be a Megan kind of week. But back to Schultz. Clark had responded to the original Schultz segment on The Pivot, claiming that Schultz was racist.

Schultz sat down for an interview on The Pivot himself and acknowledged the joke didn’t land as well as it could have, but defended himself against the accusation that he is racist or the joke is racist. Andrew said the joke wasn’t funny enough for how much it hurt people and their titles over they wuldn’t feel about it. I just don’t like getting into territory of that’s how he really feels, and he’s just using it a smoke screen for he really feels.

And now what happened is I just wanted us to laugh.

Clark explained that he believes can perpetuate stereotypes and give the audience permission to harbor negative views of certain types of people. Clark explained he believes Schultz can perpetuate stereotypes and give the audience permission to harbor negative views to people that might see that, they’ll go, well, Andre Schultz made this stroke about black women and there were two black men sitting across from them. This must be true, so I can go behave like he behaves. Clark explained his intention was to use Schultz’s comments to have a discussion, not to paint Schultz in any particular way. Schultz said, I hope that people maybe learn more about me and they say that I don’t have bad intentions for people.

I make fun of everybody. I hope that they learned that. But I understand that as I get there, we’re gonna have these little things that we stumble across, and people’s feelings are gonna be hurt, and it sucks. Well. That situation I thought people would see is I’m not doing that choke in front of two white guys in a room.

I’m doing it where there are two black guys in the room as well. I thought it would communicate that there’s good faith here, there’s no real animosity or that kind of stuff. Joe List announced two projects. One the documentary Tom Dustin Portrait of a Comedian, also Joe List’s fourth special small Ball, will start with the four Tom Dustin Portrait of a Comedian will hit theaters in LA and New York City on April twenty fifth. That’ll go to nationwide May ninth.

The indie documentary is directed and produced by Joe List. It offers an intimate glimpse into his enduring friendship with fellow comedian Tom Dustin through cannon conversations on anxiety, depression, and addiction, interwoven with intimate comedic performances film Key West. The film sheds light on the highs and lows of life and stand up comedy, and the complexities of a lifelong friendship.

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Meanwhile, small Ball, where can we see small Ball?

Theaters one night only May twenty first. That’s an aggressive play. I haven’t heard anyone do that. We’re going to go to the theater and watch Joe List comedy special in the era of Netflix, YouTube and even hilarious. You’re asking a lot there, Joe.

I root for you, but you’re asking a lot there. Day of the week is May twenty first, a Wednesday. I have volleyball. I can’t make it. Small Ball finds Joe List, tackling themes of fatherhood, friendship, and the absurdities of everyday life, shortly after the birth of his first child.

Filmed at two separate Illinois Zanies clubs over the course of back to back evenings. It is Jolis fourth Special. Liz said, I am so overwhelmed with excitement to be releasing both my film and my comedy special in theaters across America. Going to the movies has always been my favorite thing to do since I was a little kid, and I’m so proud to get to show these in a cinema. To me, there’s nothing more special than watching a movie in the dark with a strange group of people w come out.

Bell discussed his return to comedy with The Herald Times Online. Bell said, I started my return last year. I’ll tell you how quick American history moves. I think the conversation I started a set with was I think Biden might be told to be president. I think for me, the need to come back was that my wife saw me walking around the house talking to myself and laughing and was like, maybe you need to come back to comedy.

I really thought I was retired. That’s interesting. I didn’t realize that. I just thought he was off doing TV projects. I really thought I was retired.

But then I realized I sort of had the edge. And I’ve been away for five years, which is five years of personal stories to tell that I hadn’t shared with an audience. Last time I did comedy, had two kids, and now I have three. So it’s like, what’s going on in the world, What’s going on with me? How old is w come out Bell.

I’m gonna guess forty seven. Answer is fifty two born January twenty sixth, nineteen seventy three. A little early to retire. You gott at least do a podcast out of your basement. You gotta keep yourself busy, trust me, come, I says in this era, I really love watching George Carlin because it does a great job at balancing where you can do this one liner that’s amazing, and can also talk for ten minutes and not get one laugh and then get the laugh at the end.

I think there’s different ways to do comedy depending on the subject. They also asked him about Celebrity Jeopardy. Belle said, celebrities Jeopardy is always funny because people look at it and go, these are celebrities. I don’t know any of these people. Well, we’re the ones who are available.

Tom Cruise isn’t taking a call from Celebrity Jeopardy. You get come out Bell and his friends. Okay, I’m gonna do one more story, and then the second story here is going to be the one that I don’t want your kids to hear. Okay, so get rid of the kids. But first, while you’re kicking the kids out of the car, don’t kick the kids out of the car.

That’s not a good thing to do, you know what I mean. Turn it off, hit pause, go in the other room, do something, but don’t kick the kids out of the car. That’s very dangerous. Daily Comedy News officially is again kicking kids out of the car. NBC is doing a tribute to Joe Rivers It’s called Joan Rivers, a Dead Funny All Star tribute coming to NBC and Peacock in May.

Joan passed away in September twenty fourteen. The special will premiere Tuesday, May thirteenth, ten East ten West on NBC, recorded at the historic Apollo Theater in New York City, will feature comedy titans like Rachel Brosnahan. Comedy titans like Rachel Brosnahan, one of the great comedians of our I mean, come on, you can’t lead with Rachel there. I’m looking at the press release and they went in alphabetical order by last name, But you can’t have the sentence. Comedy titans like Rachel Brosnahan.

I’m sorry. Wonderful actress well known for her role in The Marvelous Missus Masel, but comedy Titan Carlin pryor Rachel Brosnahan, Is that what you’re telling me? NBC press release? Come on, Margaret Schow, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Chelsea Handler, Neil Patrick, Harris, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, Joe McHale, Tracy Morgan, Patton Oswalt, Aubrey Plaza, the Comedy Titan Sarah Silverman Melissa Rivers, who is Jones’s daughter and perfectly wonderful but not sure. Melissa Rivers is a comedy Titan, like also Jean Smart and Rita Wilson.

The performers will deliver a mix of classic Rivers singers and modern stand up, and there will be musical bits. For some reason as well, I added the for some reason, an extended, uncensored version of the special premiere at May fourteenth on Peacock. It will feature more comics who will be announced later. Good Press releasing here. I’ll read it verbatim.

Given that I’m dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it’s about time, Rivers wrote in a letter she left for her daughter, Melissa Rivers. That’s fun. I knew Joan. I worked with Joan.

I’ve got Jones stories. I only have good things to say about Joan, even though we clashed heads. But I’ll save those for another day. All right, you got your headphones on low. Kids are in the other room.

You hit pause, they went to sleep. They’re not around. Arguably this should have been the lead story today. But again, you know, this show’s supposed to be fun and upbeat. It’s Monday morning, so I didn’t want to wake you up with this one.

Russell Brand has been charged with rape and decent assault on sexual assault for incidents that took place between the years of nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and five. On Friday, the Metropolitan Police Service announced that the Crown Prosecution Service authorized them and to charge Russell Brand with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral repe and two counts of sexual assault following an investigation by detectives. He’s set to appear at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on May second. The charges are from four separate women. Brand is accused of raping one woman in England in nineteen ninety nine, indecently assaulting a second woman in London in one, orally raping and sexually assaulting a third woman in London in four and sexually assaulting a fourth woman in London between four and five.

Russell Brand responded on social media. He posted on x I’ve never engaged in non consensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes. From there, there’s nowhere to take this podcast today, so let’s wrap it up and I will see tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Jennie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m feeling good on the mic. I just recorded the Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the weekly show I host on the Live one app.

The app is free. The show is free, and it’s like this, except I can play full comedy bits from comedians. I just recorded that, So I’m feeling pretty good and loose. Let me tell you about Sarah Silverman. She’s coming back to Netflix for her second Netflix stand up special.

This one out in May twentieth. It is called post Mortem. In Post Mortem, Sarah Silverman finds comedy in the darkest corners of life. It follows the recent death of both her parents. Sarah hilariously navigates the absurdities of death with her signature wit, from unexpectingly finding the deal of a lifetime while planning their funerals to cherishing the bittersweet experience of hearing her mother’s last words.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch that one. Honestly, even that sentence there, of hearing her mother’s last words, I flashed back. I happened to be in the room when my own mother passed A little over a year ago. It might be too soon for me. I’m not offended if you watch the special, but I might just choose to pass on that one, and I’ll ask Dylan in the Facebook group how it was.

We’ll say, sometimes I can power through these things. I digress. My initial reaction to this is, while I do like Sarah, same note, I’ve been giving a lot lately, I kind of feel like I know what Sarah does. Can we get some new voices? Where’s Netflix just gonna go?

You’ve heard of this person? I mean, Hulu is clearly doing Okay, you’ve heard of this person. But Netflix, what happened to Discovery? We’re not doing that anymore? Was playing the hits the algorithm like Sarah Silverman.

I guess, all right, opportunity for someone else to swoop in and be the current face of comedy. Just saying nothing against Sarah, nothing against Netflix, nothing against Hulu other than their publicists, of course, who don’t get back to people who owe comedy podcasts in their basement. They should. I bet they get back to Jason’s and his fancy New York Times business cards. Huh.

Nikki Glaser spoke to the New York Post New York Post. What are you doing here? Let me read a sentence from the New York Post. Nikki Glaser article. New York Post may be compensated and or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links.

So they did a piece about Nikki Glaser so that they can have you click on links and buy things. For example, Nikki Glaser says, sagging skin is a universal horror that we can all share in. Just remember that fun fact. It’ll come back around here. Nicki shares that her fashion muse is Adam Sandler.

Glazer says, Adam Sandler is always comfortable and confident. I’m jealous because he doesn’t have to do fittings ever, wear spanks, and he constantly gets to promote teams and things he likes, Whereas my assistant made me retire ninety percent of my tailor swift merchandise. I still wear my tortured poet’s earrings, ring and bracelet. Though we learn that Nikki Glaser has thirty plus pairs of jeans in her closet, but only three pairs are in heavy rotation, she can’t bear to purge any of them, Glazer explains, in order to get rid of them, you have to try them on, and I’m too scared to see what fits and what doesn’t, So I keep everything. All that’s fun and all that remember was just an excuse to have affiliate links.

We learn with an affiliate link. Nicki likes a Miko bikini seventeen. This is a podcast, so I don’t have a link for you to click. I mean I could put one of the show notes. I’m not going to.

I’m not here for the affiliate marketing. But as for the bikini, Nicki says, I found this swimsuit at the boutique of the Four Seasons Resort Lnai, as regular folks do, just saying, and then the brand wrote to me next week and offered to send it to me for free, So now I have two. I love a scoop neck line on sports bras out of touch. I’m sorry, it’s something I threw there, and swim where I wish I could find more of them. Nicky enjoys do You or a Highlighter Powder?

Seventeen and explains I could be heavy handed with makeup, so I like something that doesn’t transfer that easily. I can use it liberally when I’m applying it on the go. I know that I’m not going to look crazy for whatever podcast I’m runn laid for. If you had the print edition, well, I don’t know how this would work. In a print edition.

You would somehow click on an affiliate link in the print edition and get some so host Polarized Aviator sunglasses that would take you to a link on Amazon. And we learn from Nikki Glaser. I buy these sunglasses in bulk. And that’s only because my most stylish friends once said they were cute. She could have just been being nice or saying the opposite of what she was thinking.

But now I have one hundred pairs of Sohos polarized Aviator sunglasses. Such Sorry, I got a cold today. Niki enjoys the Sherlotte Tilbury pillow Talk Lipliner seventeen. By the way, it is not a slow news day. I’m gonna be bumping things left and right today.

I’m just having fun. The pillow Talk color is classic. It’s just a safe nude liner that I can trust to put on blindly in a car and not fear I’ll look insane. I always just use it to color in my entire lip again. Why does this article exist for the affiliate links?

Can’t you guys do some journalism like The New York Times? Jason Zenniman, He’s down, he said. The Mark Twain wars he’s doing stuff. Hulu publicists probably call him back when he asks a question. Dear Hulu, my name is Jason.

I work for the New York Times. I just want to know when your specials are coming out? Could you add me to a press re leat? I bet they ad them. I bet the you they do.

Niki Glazer likes white shoes. She says, I wear them on stage. I don’t show my toes because I have bunions and I’m not ashamed of them, but I found that people find them disturbing and I’d rather not have more pictures of my disfigured toes on Wiki feet That is very funny. Her favorite bedtime tool is the Manta Sleep sleep mask. Nikki explain, sleep masks are the most important thing in my life.

I couldn’t go to sleep with that one. This is the best I’ve found. It doesn’t push down on your cheeks and just covers your eyes, which I feel is really important in a sleep mask. One I’ve used in the past, pushed down on my cheeks and dinted my filler. Oh no, now remember the wrinkles.

Nikki likes the ordinary one hundred percent plant derived Squalen serum. Nikki says, I use this for everything day, moisturizer, night cream, lube. It’s cheap and it’s the thing I’ve reckoned the most in life to my friends. Oh there’s more, but the bit has been beaten to death. Oh my god, I’m scrolling down.

I could do this bit for three more days. I’m not going to, and you’re welcome, but I could. Her favorite listen is the Las Culturista’s podcast, which won a Big Podcast Award earlier in the week. Matt Rodgers was there to accept Bowen Yang wasn’t able to make it. I guess Chelsea Handler, who used to date Joe Koi, relax, got back it.

I just did a five minute bit. I’m not doing the bit. Relax got Chelsea Handler used to date Joe Koi wants to have lots of men all over the world. You know, ell she dated I’m learning right here from reading this. Fifty cent didn’t know she dated fifty cent?

You know, one time fifty cent hosted the Golton No he didn’t, Chelsea told Extra, I want lots of men all over the world, in different areas. I want to port in every call. I got through the time in your life when many people decide to get married have children. I look at like the twenties to forties as a tunnel. I came out of that tunnel.

I don’t have a child, and I don’t have a husband. Now I’m free and I can do whatever I want. She turned fifty in February. She celebrated turning fifty by skiing in a bathing suit and then posting a photo of herself on social media. She explained, I know I’ve skied topless.

I know I have. I just want to say that I haven’t done a topless video in years because my nephews asked me not to because they’re friends at college. Were you know seeing it? But I do? Hey, Hey, hey, bro, dude, check out Aunt Chelsea.

She’s on well she wouldn’t be on instant are Where are they seeing these photos? That’s my question? Like if I went out of my way to find a photo of Chelsea Handler skiing topless, which she apparently posted to the social medias. Where would I find it to show it to her nephews? How would that work?

I don’t know, Chelsea says, but I do wear a bikini top. I just like to scan my bathing suit and just be free to demonstrate freedom to women, what you could do and how much fun you can have when you listen to who you are. Whitney Cummings at forty, jokes about having a geriatric pregnancy. Whitney explains, they start calling it geriatric at thirty five. I’m grateful that I did it at forty years old.

If I had a kid even a year sooner, I would have sold it for Taylor Swift tickets. Whinnie had frozen her eggs at age thirty three, ended up conceiving naturally. She’s co parenting with her child’s father. They are not a couple. She explained, Let’s start co parenting from the beginning so the kid will never know anything different.

She reflected on how parenthood has affected her. She explains, once I had a child, I was like, oh, I like myself when I only think about myself like thirty minutes a day. I don’t know what’s going on with Paul Rodriguez Two stories both from TMZ. The newer one his TMZ has learned that Paul’s best friend, who was found dead inside Paul Rodriguez’s home back in November, remember that one, died from a fentanyl overdose. Separately from that, Paul was recently arrested.

As the story goes, the police pull over Paul’s car for I forgot what the phrase is, but like code violations are saying like, you know, like a tail light out or something, you know, poop and you know they pull you over. Apparently, when they pulled Paul over, Paul was in the passenger’s seat asleep, said the car was his. Somebody else was driving obviously because Paul’s in the pastor’s seat. Thanks for clearing that Optionhn, thank you, thank you. So somebody else is driving Paul’s car, Paul’s in the car, Paul’s asleep.

Anyway, the cops do their thing and found narcotics. Apparently, Paul was released with a citation to appear in court on April twenty fifth. Paul apparently is claiming that a quote Caucasian unquote officer who Paul describes as being on a quote power trip unquote, slapped Paul awake during the incident. I don’t know what’s going on. I hope everything is okay there.

Country superstar Mason Ramsey is becoming a comedian. Yeah. Mason Ramsey teamed up with The eight hundred Pound Gorilla to release his first ever stand up comedy special. The eighteen year old comedy superstar tackles topics from growing up in rural Illinois to his yodeling breakout moment in the industry, and rise to start him with his signature country sound. You can find that special on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel.

One of the great hoaxes of our time will continue. Bob’s Burgers has supposedly been for four more seasons. Bob’s Burgers seasons sixteen to nineteen are gonna Aaron Fox. They totally are. The fifteen season is on right now, totally is now.

Longtime listeners know what I’m gonna do here. But if you are new, all right, pay attention now you’re like, what is John all about? Okay, new listener, I’m gonna ask you two questions. Okay, I’m gonna ask you two questions very serious here. One have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

Yeah? Have it? Ye? Have it. I know you’ve seen artwork.

I know you’ve watched a football game and, like Joe Bucker, somebody’s like coming up after the game Bob’s Burgers. I’ve seen the promos. I get it. I’ve seen the artwork. I’ve seen people talk about the show.

But my question to you is, have you ever actually seen the thing? No, this hoax. There’s even cover art on like Hulu or something. I could reach out to the Hulu publicists and be like, is Bob’s Burger is real? But they’re not gonna get back to me anyway, So that’s part of the hoax.

Maybe there aren’t even Hulu publicists. Look at the people supposedly on this show. Kristin Shawl, she won the Andy Cow Award. It’s a prank. People, you’ve never seen Bob’s Burgers.

I get it. Joe Box says it’s gonna come on after football. Nobody watches Fox on Sunday night. We all switch over to the other football game. That’s my first question, have you ever seen Bobs Burgers?

The answer is you have it. My second question for you, and this one really proves the point. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. Has anybody ever walked up to you and be like, hey, just see Bob’s Burger’s on Sidney. You haven’t because the show doesn’t exist.

This is a prank and the Fox people are having fun with it, going yeah, we were neweded for four more years now they could sell merch. This clearly Bob’s Burger’s merch. Maybe Hulu doesn’t even check. Maybe like they’re like, oh, yeah, this is a show and Hulu just loads blank files. Probably nobody checks anything over it.

Hulu. I would ask the public says, hey, when you guys get a show, does anybody actually make sure it’s actually a show? But they you know, nobody gets back to me, so I don’t know. At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which is in Australia, don’t go heading off to the Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival because booblets and I haven’t put that together yet. That’ll be next year.

Remember Raygun, the breakdancer from the Olympics that some people made fun of, So somebody wanted to do a comedy show about Reygun, and then the Raygun people were like no, no, no, no, no no. So Stephanie Broadbridge’s new show is called Breaking the Musical and it’s totally not about Reygun. I don’t know why you think it’s about Raygun. It is not. The Age tells us that Rachel Gunn aka Raygun was not in the house on Tuesday for the first of three shows of Stephanie Broadbridge’s legally challenged musical, and her name wasn’t even mentioned, but she was kind of there in the vibe in this entertaining, messy, incisive, sympathetic, critical, and occasionally hilarious production that the audience rewarded with a partial standing ovation.

Great writing there by the Age, there was a disclaimer. All characters in the show are fictional, even the ones that seem like they are not. The ones that seem like they are someone really specific and you’re pretty sure they’re based on someone real.

Also, their name sounds heaps like the person’s name that you thought it was …

Everything is pretend. Great disclaimer. We then get the tale of a young woman thirty six years old from the outer Sydney suburb of Hornsby who goes on to represent Australia at the Olympics. That person is known as spray Gun. Spray Gun gets mocked for her signature kangaroo dance moves.

Spray Gun’s real name is Sprachel. I love this. This is so much food. Sprachel appears to have no aptitude for breakdancing, despite having a PhD in breakdancing, but her husband does, and he lures her away from ballroom dancing to the street sport, and somehow she manages to reach the top and then the bottom. This is a fully fledged musical with a three piece band on stage and a cast of twelve.

They have some sound issues. This is horrible and this is not a bit. Five minutes in, the narrator asked the audience directly if they could hear. The audience said no, and the audience suggested they start the whole thing over. They started the whole show over.

That’s awful, and the ah says that’s a huge shame because the writing is sharp and the world and lyrics deserve to be heard. Maybe somebody at Netflix should film spray Gun. I would watch that and it would at least be different, or maybe Hulu, but you know, then again, I wouldn’t have any information about it. Would just kind of come on, because who pubbas don’t get back to me. Okay, I’m silly today.

I’m leaving. I’ve made enough people mad. Bye,

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Caloroga Shark Media, Heidley Ho Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Nate Forgatzy said, when I was younger, someone said you always reminded me of Bob Newhart, and I thought about that and like, I can totally see it delivery wise, the low keenness of it all. Nate said, they meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums in sitcom, so I like that.

I was way more deadband at the beginning, and I didn’t move around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel like I’m getting more in my voice now. I’m still not convinced Nate is the greatest actor.

But if you told me the new Heart sitcom where Bob owned the inn, if you for some reason remade that and you had Nate as the straight man in that, I could totally see him crushing in that. Kelsey Cook told Fox News Digital. I think the thing that probably helped comedy explode. The most was the pandemic. You know, everybody was inside on their phones, watching TV, watching their phone, and that became a time for comics to make as much content as you could because there was such a demand for it.

I think you saw people finding their new favorite comics over the pandemic.

And then once things open back up and people could start touring again, peopl…

I’ve been cooped up inside forever long. Now I want to go out and do stuff. And I think a lot of us saw a big touring boom, especially once people could go out and kind of resume normal life again. Yeah, there was Initially it was hard to get an arena because everybody was booking dates and everybody was out, so some big comedians had to play smaller rooms. I think now a few years later, we’re seeing it cool off a little bit.

Tom Papa has talked about that on his podcast, and Jim Gaffigan didn’t agree with him. We’ll see. I think comedy is hot now, but maybe we’re starting to step down from everybody playing huge places. Russell Peters talked to the LA Daily News about social media elevating comedians at a rapid piece. This one comes up a lot, Russell said, it’s a double It’s great for the kids that get to be seen sooner than they normally would have.

The bad part is they’re not really getting to put the time in, so they don’t have the chops they need when it happens. There’s definitely an incubation period that needs to happen. Think of comedy like a baby. Each year is a month in baby years, and in about the nine to ten year mark, you should be comfortable with who you are and what you’re doing and have a much more stable way of navigating through this game. When these kids come in after a year or two because they’ve been successful because of popular clips on TikTok and Instagram, congrats, but that’s not sustainable.

The News said you were one of the first comedians to go viral on YouTube early in the platforms start. This must be a young ling who asked this question. I saw a lot of comedians there for the first time, including George Carlin. I know you met him and worked well them. What was that like?

Russell said, he was my everything. I met him in ninety two and I’ve only done stand up three years. At this time. At the end of the meeting, I said, hey, George, maybe we’ll work together, and he said, you never know a kid, it’s crazy business. And there we were working together ten months before he passed away.

Was a great way to book end that story. He was extremely nice and so gracious with his time. He gave me some real good advice. He could have pulled rank or done anything he wanted to, but he didn’t. From when I hear from everybody else who met him knew him, he was always that guy.

That’s probably why he stayed in stand up and avoided the Hollywood we’re at race to. People who were always survive in the long run are the ones that keep it real. George was able to cut through the bs. He was always on the side of John Q every man. That’s something that politicians can’t do because they may try to make it sound like they’re there for the people, but really they’re there for themselves.

George was definitely not. He was literally there for us. He was our voice. Chappelle is great at doing a similar thing, but Chappelle is also skewed. You know which side he’s on.

George is definitely anti establishment. NPR and talked to Ronny Chieng about death and how his feelings about death have changed over time. Ronnie said, Oh, yeah, it’s become more real. It used to be this kind of conceptual, abstract, right, and then it’s become very real the last couple of years seeing it up close it becoming more real was kind of frightening. I was studying Buddhism recently, and there was this very interesting concept that I’m going to butcher because I’m gonna give you the ciff Notes version of it in like five seconds.

But the idea was something like, we’re a different person in every moment anyway. Our thoughts are different, our cellular makeup is different in every second moment, meaning we’re different people in every second of every moment anyway. So the concept of me doesn’t really exist because I’m constantly changing anyway, and so when I die, it doesn’t matter because I never really existed. That’s kind of like the Buddhist dancer, one of the Buddhist dancers to that. In Sebastian Man of Scalgoes reason special is at me.

He wore a tucks. The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Sebastian what happened to the day is when standard comics dressed up. Sebastian said, I grew up in the eighties looking at the showmanship of it all, Eddie Murphy with that full leather suit or Prince. Today, the guy on stage could be a guy in the crowd. He can’t distinguish the two.

I try to pay homage to the rat pack in the sixties. He didn’t see a guy gambling in Vegas wearing flip flops in a swimsuit. You dressed up, and I hope that comes back. Sebastian talked about the physicality of his act. I’m very conscious of the way I’m moving proud across the stage.

People today have no attention span, so you have to be active out there. I need room to run around. Clubs are the best place to do comedy. But when I do that, I often look at the stage and think, geez, that’s all the space they’re giving me. I’ve always expressed myself through body language.

Even as a kid at the dinner table, I’d stand up to ask someone to pass me in the mash potatoes. I don’t see a lot of other commit using their body this way. Brian Reagan does, but I think other comics want to look cool, cool us to go out the window. We’re not musicians. Philippea Sparza talked about life on the road and said, it’s a young comic.

You’re like a baby out in this world, you know. But it’s different from being a singer, actor or a Broadway performer. When you perform as a comedian in a small town, you’re usually there for five days, two or three hundred people see you every night, so you’re pretty famous in that town. For that week. Everything’s new and exciting.

I remember being on the road in al Paso and Paul Rodriguez was headlining somewhere nearby. He was doing a corporate gig or something like that where he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we’re performing at a regular club where they’re paying us chicos tacos. Paul Rodriguez kidnapped us. Bro He kidnapped us and took us to Jures. He didn’t even ask if we had passports to grab.

One random guy said a man, you want to go to Juarez and nev tacos. The guy said, are you Paul Rodriguez? Oh yeah, let’s all go. So Paul Rodriguez made me and the other comedians go in a van. He had picked up two girls and he took those two girls and us to Juarez def Tagos.

When we got to the border, though, there were already too many people in the van and nobody had luggage, and of course we’re only there for about an hour and a half. The border patrol us over and they were searching us and stuff, and they were just busting our chops. They wanted autographs and photos. And there’s a picture of us, you can look it up. It’s Palward, Vegus, Gabriel I Glacias, Armando Cossios and me in front of the border with our hands on the hood.

I remember when we made it back and he was changing his clothes. Gaby Glacias and I were still in the room. He never told us to get out, so he finally closed the door on us. Our friend was standing outside waiting for us and said, bro, I thought you guys were going to go with the shower with a pall. Riser described his act to the oc registered and said, let’s just say on the opposite of circ dosilat, no jumping, no acrobatics, no singing or dancing, nothing out of the ordinary, just straight up comedy.

I do nothing out of the ordinary. People have seen comedians before. I have a good filter system. I sorted out what makes me laugh in private and what I want to share. And I’ve always avoided politics or social commentary.

It’s not the way my brain works. Some are good at poking sticks and the sacred cows. That’s not my personality. I’m not smart enough to make things up. I tell people what happens in my house stuff that happens at everyone else’s house.

We look at people as friends. People enjoy knowing they’re not alone. I talk about my life, my marriage. It’s all very cathartic. I tell people about an argument with my wife.

I convent and hope the audience my side. How does he dress on stage? I dress on stage the way I dress in life. Jean’s rolled up at the hem, he says. I like to cut out as many decisions as possible.

Paul, you’re going to retire. Sometimes I’m tempted to stay home and take it easy, but I do stand up every other weekend, and it invigorates me. Really, I’ve been very lucky. It’s true what they say. I work for free.

And only get paid for the trip to the airport. And Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glenn ross Odinkirk told Playbill, I’ve wanted to do this play for years. I wrote to David Mammot twenty years ago and I said I have two requests. One can we do an all comedy version. Two can we change it from land at they’re selling the pots and pans.

I never got a response. He’s very excited. He said, I can’t effing wait, and then smiled and said, feel free to use the word f in Playbill. It’s certainly in the effing play. Andy Haynes was down in New Orleans.

He had been there before and said that time it was from Mark Norman’s wedding. He rented out Tippettinas. It was all comics who were guess at the wedding, so everybody was there. Haines also spent a year in England with a weird job. He had created an animated show The Champions for the sports platform bleacher Report.

The show was based on the teams and players in the European Champions League. When a bunch of crypto investors bought a British soccer club, they wanted a comedian to generate online content for it. Haines got the gig, but he explains they hired me to be their in house comedian. I made content for them, but the team was so bad and the fans hated the owners. Everything I made never got released.

His Instagram, Brio says he’s a libtart, but says that’s a misunderstood joke. For the longest time it said Patriot as a joke, and people were like, you guy, call yourself a Patriot, so I changed it. I’m from Seattle. The second he leave Seattle, it’s the wilderness. Most of Washington is rural, conservative, gun and all that cowboy stuff.

In Seattle, I had a rowdy adolescence, would go to the woods and shoot stuff. We shot up a porta potty. There was a husk of a burnt out van that we used to go shoot. He left Seattle for la and staid being unemployed in La is how cults start. Everyone’s looking for spiritual guidance to get their next audition.

I was gonnahit, pause on everything and go back to Seattle. I went to New York on a whim and had an amazing experience. He’s got a podcast with Mike Cannon called Beautiful Boys Chevyhardcore dot Com You’re home for comedy News. They talked about Kevin Hart’s nineteen sixty six Chevy Chevelle and said it’s no joke. Chevy Hardcore tells us whether it’s his nineteen fifty nine corvetteor is nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National.

Kevin Art seems to find the coolest cars and some of the finest builders to shape them to his automotive desires. Kevin sixty six Chevelle started as an original SS three ninety six car. Work on the car, dubbed Darkness with two capitals’s at the end, was completed by Timeless Customs. What they created was a true work of restomad art, built upon an Art Morson chassis. The work involved keeping the car relatively simple, but in the best kind of way.

Emblems were exchanged for Darkness in the same type face as the original Chevelle, but the menacing side of Darkness comes under the hood. The classic three ninety six was replaced with an LSx four five four topped with an LS nine blower. Can you tell I have no idea what I’m talking about that’s right. With seven pounds of boost, the car makes six to twenty horsepower the wheels, but it’s capable much more. However, the Ideata was keep the car drive and comfortable, makes plenty of power for cruising the boulevard or the highway.

The four Lady transmission adds to the driftability. The engine bay of the Chavelle is as clean as they come, with fabrication from Timeless that truly highlights the power plant. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. After last weekend and all the talk of Hebburg. If you’re like, you know, I gotta like that style of comedy, check out Chang Wang. He recently spoke to review wm dot com and he talked about how he spends time on the road connecting with nature.

He told Review, I enjoy the infinite diversity and beauty of plants. I find that to be very relaxing and inspiring and grounding. It brings me to the present, want to just stop and lean in and look at the details on a flower or a leaf. The review rights a mix of universal observational humor and ultra laid back slacker charm. He gets compared to Mitch Hedburg.

Wang said, my kind of humor, my approach to life, and my approach to my stand up. Essentially, it’s kindness and joy. So that means being present, paying attention to finding all the little joys that are everywhere. I mean, there’s disasters, it’s chaos right now, especially in the news and everything. It’s just crazy out there.

But there’s so much good and beauty and joy that we just overlook because it’s everywhere, and it’s so small, we’re too immersed in it to see it. Sometimes. He’s one of those guys that you know, you’ve never heard of, that’s been grinding it out for twenty years already. I hope he pops his career did step up in class when he had his Netflix special in twenty two. That one’s called Sweet and Juicy.

Watch it, it’s funny, Wang said. I’m more of a people pleaser. I’m not a big trash talker. I don’t like punching, especially punching down. I prefer sharing things that might bring a little delight rather than aggression and violence and conflict.

I’d rather delight people. I feel like I had a really chill upbringing, But I think there’s something about being an immigrant or being an other in your youth. You pay attention to what’s the vibe in the room. Whenever we go out somewhere, you pay attention to who’s looking at whom, what’s the energy. I felt like immigrant kids they just have a superpower to have that sensitivity and that awareness.

But it’s also a bit of a rougher way to grow up to be constantly considering these things. To get back to the plants. Wang says, I think eventually there’ll be some sort of possible creative convergence between my jokes and my performances and my love for plants. Give them a cable show. Jeopardy fans, they’re all in a ker fluffel.

You see today on Jeopardy. Comedian Guy Brainam will be competing on Jeopardy against Mike Dawson for Portland. Reddit users noticed Guy’s name and face on the Jeopardy website. One redditaur said, check in the lineup for this week’s contestant. I was a bit surprising the name Guy Brainum.

At first thought, maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe there’s two Guy Branham’s, but nope, seems to be the same guy. Since it lists writer and comedian as his occupation. Some wondered why is he on Jeopardy and not celebrity Jeopardy. One theory he must be smart enough to get on normal Jeopardy. Paullie Shore is opening a comedy club, which is interesting because Polly is the son of the legendary Mitzi Shore, known for operating the comedy club in Los Angeles.

So is Polly opening one in La Nope, Texas, Austin, Texas, Sean Nope, San Antonio. Shane Quaid is Polly’s business partner, and they’ve been transforming the Woodlawn Theater into a comedy venue. They hope to produce at least two hundred and four shows each year, so let’s see fifty two weeks in eight years. That’s four shows a week, more or less. Most will be stand up, but they also envisioned doing occasional concerts as well as movie premiers.

Tonight is the soft opening San Antonio. Comedians will be featured at eight o’clock. The first five hundred tickets each night are free. After that, tickets are ten dollars eighty three cents. Random number guessing when you have the tax that comes out to like an even number, like twelve or something.

So that’s the soft opening. Tonight. On April twelfth, it’s the grand opening. Your headliner Paully Sure, He’ll do shows at seven and ten. Those tickets go from thirty two forty eight to sixty three eighty seven.

Then on May third, Tom Cotter and Carrie Louise will do shows at seven and ten. Their shows cost twenty one sixty five to fifty three oh four random numbers. The Woodland, opened in nineteen forty five, is a movie house and was the site of the world premiere of the movie The Alamo starring John Wayne That happened in nineteen six. They ripped out the seating and put some custom made leather seats. That’s not gonna go well, those are gonna get torn up.

What are you doing. That’s a mistake, Quait said. We want people to be able to sit here for three hours because the other theaters we’ve been to you just don’t want to. You say that now that first tear in a leather seat’s gonna kill you. You can’t have drunk people watching comedy shows on the leather.

That’s not a good idea. I’m sorry. They’ve betted space between the rows to make it a little easier for patrons to slide past one another. You are Elcos will be posted on the back of each seat, allowing folks to order drinks from the bar and have them delivered by servers without having to stand in line. That’s neat.

A forty five panel led wall will be installed at the back of the stage, meaning comics can have any kind of background they want Mary Picaorisi is hosting the soft opening and says everyone talks about Austin and Austin is fantastic. Don’t get me wrong, but I think people are sleeping on San Antonio prepping the show. I stumbled across this one. I’ve never seen a note like this. I just thought it was interesting.

Ali Wong is coming to Portland. You were a show at Helium being advertised as a workout. The show’s called work in Progress. Ali will return to her stand up roots to workshop raw and unfilled her new material in an intimate club setting. Ali will also do work in progress sets in La and San Jose.

The Helium shows are May twenty eighth and twenty ninth. One hundred and thirty one dollars for reserve seats, one hundred and six for general admission for a workout, plus eleven dollars for the service charge. You could take your service charge and uh was the helphrase stick it up your nose with a rubber hose. That’s what you could do with your eleven dollars service charge. So one hundred and seventeen dollars for a workout?

Are you kidding me? No? Absolutely not. Get out of here. With that, I can go see Pauli Shore for thirty two dollars and forty eight cents and Pauli will be doing as a material.

And they have leather seats. What do you have Helium? Anybody know what kind of seats they have at Helium? Let me look at a picture. Looks to me like Helium Comedy Club has shares, wooden shares.

You don’t want to sit in those for three hours. Put in some leather seats if you get to charge you one hundred and seventeen dollars. What are you doing?

Also, the May twenty ninth show is at four forty five pm on a Thursday.

What are We doing? Stephen Rodgers has announced his new stand up special. Half of We will premiere on Nate Bergatzy’s Nate Land YouTube channel on April eleventh. The specials produced by Nate and Brian Reagan. The new hour has Stephen Rodgers blending wit and vulnerability as he shares his relatable mishaps, personal struggles, and stories from his engagement all building.

No, there’s a spoiler here, I’m not no, no, no spoiler. Watch it erase that from your brain. He stares stories from his engagement. You just sit there. Why I’m not gonna tell you.

Come on, what kind of article is this? I could edit that out, but as you can tell him, silly. Today Hattiesburg wants to be the city of one hundred murals. So if you want to be the city of one hundred murals, you gotta have some murals. So they put up mural number sixty two honoring Fred Armisen.

Why wouldn’t you. Luckily Fred happened to be in town on his comedy tour when this miro went up. That really worked out. Fred said, to see myself as a musician. He’s doing that drum thing highlighted on this wall next to the other artist.

Is an honor, of course, it’s a double honor that I was born here. Hattiesburg is a constert miner in my life. I am proud and honored to be from here. Let’s stop off on gossip corner. Louis c.

K selling some real estate. He apparently has sold his three bedroom, three bathroom apartment in a four story walk up in Greenwich Village, New York City. Gimme Shelter says it was sold for two point three six million dollars. It first hit the market last May at two point four to five million. So somebody got a nice little deal there from Louis c.

K. Three bedroom, three baths, three level apartment inside a four story, ten unit walk up at three forty five West Fourth Street. Now can this be right? He bought the co op with his then wife in two thousand and six for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, according to property records, two hundred and fifty thousand, and he sold it for two point three six million. Nice job, Louis c.

K. We’re told the home opens to a large living room on the parlor floor that leads to a small L shaped kitchen with a vintageile that could used for prepp and storage, as well as a breakfast bar. Another large room with three windows and a fireplace can serve as a dining room, and additional bedroom stairs rise to a second floor bedroom with another fireplace and views of historic Jackson Square Park. I’m from New York City. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the phrase Jackson Square Park, and I would dare you to send letters, but again, I grew up there.

I don’t know what this is. It might be historic, but it ain’t famous. Let me look this up. Bordered by Eighth Avenue on the west, Horatio Street on the south, and Greenwich Avenue on the east. The park interrupts West thirteenth Street.

I mean it’s nice looking at all, but not the most famous park. And for those of you not from the York City, when I’m saying park, you’re picturing like big giant thing. This would be the size of a roundabout in your town. Okay, I digress. There’s a third bedroom at street level that’s accessed by a spiral staircase from the parlor floor, and that has its own private entrance, and it could be used as a home office.

So you wanted to get away from everybody and work on your stand up comedy. C K apparently loves buying and selling things. In December of twenty two, he sold a fourteen hundred and fifty square foot co op on twelve Street for one point eight million after buying it for two point four to five million. Oh took a big loss there, leiy, what are you doing there? He also sold his five bedroom home at thirty five Charlton Street for five point eight million.

That’s less than the six point five million he paid, so what’s going on? He was really terrible at real estate until very recently. Who knows. Let’s see what’s happening at that Nashville Comedy Festival. Uh oh, people gonna be really upset.

Bridge done Arena to night seven o’clock, Kill Tony, destroying comedy. But they’re hilarious jokes. Ooh. The man is fear is getting up and doing one minute jokes by amateurs and then Tony and the gang slam them and we all have a good time. Stop doing that, Tony, what are you doing?

You’re destroying comedy. It’s fun show, folks. Check it out over at Zanies at seven viered Oz Kurt Metzger. He’s been known to be in a controversy or two. He’s at the Lab at Zani’s at seven Veer again at nine fifteen at Maine Zanies Kurt again at the Lab at nine fifteen.

If you’re in Nashville tonight, go see Kill Tony and uh if you can hustle over to Viera, do that. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been rocking and rolling of it had a chance to tell you about it. Luckily, the Age has seen a bunch of shows let’s see what they’re into. Broden Kelly, you know him from Anti Donna. He’s playing Bear Deluxe until April twentieth, The Age tells us Broden Kelly is officially a cult figure.

In this wildly unhinged but completely focused hour. He starts by presenting us with three different Facebook groups where fans those pictures that may or may not look like the Anti Donna star. Oh, that’s like. One of my favorite Facebook groups is people that vaguely look like Adam Sandler. I love that one.

I can’t get enough of that one. The Age says. Kelly definitely holds our attention through the use of a four part structure. He knows when it hit us with an obnoxious banger, and presents some jokes as facts. One line, apparently he told Funnier than I will.

I found out during the research for this show that this is the worst song ever made. Five stars. They gave it all right, Freddy Billa Moria. Freddy’s show is called Allow Me to Interrupt Your Doom Scroll and you’ll find Freddy at the Theory Bar until April sixth. Uh, let me check you, caunty here.

What’s today? Today’s the fifth but Melbourne’s out of us, so it might be the sixth in Melbourne. By the time you’re hearing this, get move and everybody the age tells us his newest show. Allow me to interrupt your doom. Scroll runs the gamut of topics.

Dogs hitting a high school, reunions, dating, go into the library while it all sounds runn of the mill. Billa Maria injects each scenario with a layer of unpredictability. One of the topics spoilers. Don’t act like you were getting on a plane going to Melbourne. Don’t get mad at me, and I’m spoiling the show you weren’t going.

Where does one milk a scorpion? Four stars? And let’s do one more. Julian Cosgriff is at the Art Center Melbourne doing her show Fresh New Worries. She’ll be there until April twentieth.

See if you’ve got some time, book a flight. I watch your flights to Melbourne. Let’s look, I’m in a silly mood today. In case you can’t tell, I’m gonna go on kayak. We’ll fly out of La all right, you guys get to La on your own and let’s fly out on Friday.

The eighteenth because it takes a minute to get to Melbourne. We’ll fly economy. I assume you’re between eighteen and sixty four. Let’s see what we got here. You want to fly direct, right, I’m not stopping over a NonStop?

Are there no non stops from LA to melbourn Oh? I picked Melbourne, Florida wrong, Melbourne, leave it in. I was gonna say, because I’ve flown from LA to Melbourne, Australia. Wait, have I not been clear? Are some of you heading to Melbourne, Florida going?

I heard there was a big comedy festival here. No, no, no, no, no no, this is the one in Australia. Don’t add to Melbourne, Florida. There. As far as I know, there is not a Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival.

They word international was your clue. We should start one now right, We should start dan booblets out there. You know how to do festivals. Let’s start a Melbourne comedy festival at the exact same time. But we’ll do it in Melbourne, Florida, and maybe we can get some guys.

Kayak’s telling me, no flight’s found. I think this bit is over. Move on, John, Okay, let’s go see Jillian Cosgriff. Even though there’s no way to get to Melbourne, apparently from Los Angeles. She’s there until April twentieth.

The age tells us Jillian has already won this festival’s top awards. Upon entry to the show, you’re invited to contribute to her Pindora’s box of concerns. At irregular intervals, she serves up those anonymous problems back at the audience. The clever hook is how common our most private fears really are. Four Stars booblets, get on this Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival.

Let’s do it all right, see you tomorrow.