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Caloroga Shark Media. I kind of feel bad for Joe Coy. Hi, I’m Johnny Meg with your Daily Comedy News. Joe Coy’s performance at the Golden Globes is just getting destroyed, and I’m wondering, did Taylor Swift murder Joe Coy’s career? Listen to this joke.

I don’t think this joke is that bad. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to.

Taylor stared him down and drank champagne. That became an internet meme and I’m wondering if Taylor smiles at that joke or even laughs, then the room probably smiles and laughs and we’re fine. I think Joe’s material wasn’t that bad, and I think the room was brutal, and I’ll share some evidence of that as we go. The media coverage not kind. Rolling Stones headline Golden Globe’s host Joe Cooy booed during monologue, blames his writers.

They remind us that some of the people who turned down the gig, Chris Rock, Ally Wong and Will Arnette, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes as a trio. The joke that got some booze was, and I’m sure JOKOI told it better than I will, But the joke Oppenheimer and Barbie you’re competing for a cinematic box office achievement. Oppenheimer’s based on a seven hundred and twenty four page Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Manhattan Project, and Barbie’s based on a plastic doll with big boobies. He followed up with this one that just did not go over well at all. The key moment in Barbie is when she goes from perfect beauty to bad breast cell you light and flat feet ah or what casting directors call character actor.

Some I wrote, some other people wrote Robert de Niro’s here, Yo, I got the gig ten days ago. You want a perfect monologue? Yo, shut up? You got You’re kidding me right slow down. I wrote somebodys, and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.

Look. Slate went with the headline the Golden Globes were a mess and not in the fun tipsy way. Joke after joke fell flatten so many that Joe Coy was forced acknowledge that he was bombing in the middle of his opening monologue. Reporter Nicole Spurling said she’d never seen an audience rebel against an EMC so quickly. Joe Coy said.

The lesson he took away from Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon was that white people stole everything, not like ninety seven percent. You guys stole one hundred percent of everything. You took the land, you took the oil, and took the premise of the movie. That got a mixed response from the crowd. Joe said, what that was your premise?

That’s hilarious. I don’t care. It’s just the room is really white. Joe didn’t get one laugh, and it was at the expense of Harry and Megan. It turns out Harry and Megan Markle were still getting paid millions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing.

And that’s just by Netflix. Same topic, different joke. How great was it Melda Staunton in the crowd? Wasn’t she amazing? Her portrayal the Queen was so good that Prince Harry called her and asked her for money.

That’s a solid joke. By the way, you can follow all about the royal family and if you like making fun of Harry and Megan, Allis Intrigue is the podcast for you where if you get your shows. I’ll circle back to the Golden Globes real quick. But Glenn Howardton, he plays Dennis on It’s Always Sonny. He says Prince Harry is cool and very down to earth.

They apparently hung out at a soccer game and Glenn tells people he’s cool man, a very nice, very down to earth, normal dude in a lot of ways. I mean he’s not a normal dude, but he presents as a normal dude. Okay, back to the Golden Globes. Reactions on social media brutal. Somebody tweeted as a filipido American, this Jokoy monologue is like watching a car crash.

He looks like he’s about to have an aneurysm. Some of the other jokes that didn’t fly Again, Joe Koy probably told him better than I did. But a quartering to the reviews, maybe not. I loved Oppenheimer, just needed another hour. My New Year’s resolution in twenty twenty four is to finish Oppenheimer by twenty twenty five.

I love Oppenheimer, especially the first season. Robert de Niro, your last performance is your greatest performance. How’d you get her pregnant at eighty? I’m not sure about this one. Kevin Costner’s here, He’s never here.

He’s on a mountain with a cow. This next one’s pretty bad. The color purple is what happens to your butt when you take ozipic. So I’m wondering, is Joe Koy now post peak and is he destined to have Russell Peters’s great career? Russell Peters sells out everywhere he plays, and I’m talking basketball arenas.

He’s internationally huge and yet ignored by the mainstream US press. Is that Joe Coy’s destiny? Now he’ll play Filipino American audiences and have quite a nightless life. But this was your shot and it didn’t work. Somebody who had a much better night and is now being talked about on social media.

Anyway, Hey, let this guy host the Golden Globes. Jim Gaffigan. Jim got up and said, this is the first time stand up comedians have been acknowledged at a major award show for eighty years, good looking people through a party, and now you’ve finally decided to invite the talented people. But the joke that got all the attention is this one golden globes. I mean, I I can’t even believe I’m in the entertainment industry.

I can’t, you know, it’s so unlikely. I’m from a small town in Indiana. I’m not a pedophile. George Lopez and gab Iglesias got up, they did whatever this is that. You know, the cereal is not very good, but you can hear how tough the room was.

Or two guys who have been in this industry for a long long time, so we know when someone’s got that special it factor, you know, like us, Yeah, yeah, you know. And we’ve been asked to make sure that all the nominees in this category also have that it factor, starting with Bill Hayter. Yeah he’s got it. Yeah, Jason Siegel, he’s got it. Jason said Deacas they got it.

Yeah, now the Jays got it and got it. Yeah. Jeremy Allen White, Yeah yeah he’s got it. Yeah, he’s definitely got it. He got Steve Martin Martin short, they got it.

Yeah, Pedro Pasqual, Pedro Pascual, Yeah, he got it, he got he got good parking too, got they invented it. So now you know what. Let’s check and see who wins. Some of the winners for Comedy Anyway, Best Television Series Musical or Comedy nominees Abbed Elementary Barry The Bear, Jury Duty Only Murders, Ted Lasso the winner of The Bear, and Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television the nominees Ricky Gervais, Trevor Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes. The winner Ricky Gervas for Armageddon.

Ricky tweeted, thank you so much for all your lovely comments and kind words about my Golden Globe win. Best fans in the world. I’m playing at two hundred Seedter tonight in King’s Cross doing new material The Glamour. Have a great day.

In other news, Pete Davidson has a new special ad on Netflix today.

It’s called Turbo Fonzarelli. I’m seeing zero press about this, which is suspicious. Now. Pete had recently canceled a week of shows. I’m guessing he’s been unavailable to do press.

I’ve also been trying to figure out did he actually perform at Foxwood’s the other night, And I haven’t seen that he hasn’t, which makes me think he did. But nobody who attended the show was tweeted about it. There’s nothing about it, so I don’t know. I’ll let you know when I figure it out. Remember Aaron Rodgers shot at Jimmy Kimmel from last week.

Aaron plans to discuss it today on the Paton McAfee’s show. He was asked by reporters if he any regrets, and he said, I’ve got to talk about it on the show. Tune in a comedian that I’ve been digging a lot and playing him on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is my show I host on the Live one app is Djdammers in the Winnipeg at Free Press spoke to DJ. He’s willing to joke about almost anything, although it took him a while to feel at ease poking fun at his hearing loss. DJ was diagnosed with severe to profound hearing loss at age four.

He said, I didn’t necessarily want to talk about my hearing aids right away and stand up, but I didn’t want it to be a gimmick or a crutch. But then once you feel confident in your ability, as you go all right. I don’t find a way to make this funny. It’s a big part of who I am, so I learned pretty early on. There was a lot of humor in it, and a lot of people would relate to it.

I like to believe I learned to make it relatable for people who don’t even have hearing loss. He’s got a new show out today on the CBC. It’s called One More Time, a half hour comedy. He plays Dja, hard of hearing, manager of a secondhand sporting good store, and like any good sitcom, he works aside a ragtag team of eccentric employees. In the pilot, DJ’s hearing aids malfunction after he loses a dunk tank competition, and he proceeds to give customers bad advice based on his poor lipbreeding skills.

That’s fun. In another episode, he gets jealous of another character for being deafer than him. DJ says, it’s like, oh man, this person’s stealing my deaf thunder. I think we cleverly played with the hearing loss in the show. I think not taking it too seriously is actually what makes it.

I don’t want to say powerful, but palatable, somewhere between powerful and palatable. I’ve never seen somebody with hearing aids in such a prominent role on TV, so I’m hoping that some ten year old kid watching TV sees me with hearing aids and feel some sort of positive way about that. From chort old, Andrew Bird has been named the Comics Comic of twenty twenty three over there in the UK, Andrew Bird a longtime opener for Russell Howard. He won the vote from his peers. Andrew Bird said, I can’t even pretend to act casual about this.

I am so chuffed, thank you for voting for me. Usually i’m worried that the other comedians are slagging me off, so for a good time to say that they think I’m good. That’s going to get me through at least the next six to eight rough gigs. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart fired back at Kat Williams Friday night on NBA Unplugged, Kevin riffed another fun fact about the Knicks. I don’t know if you guys know this, but Kat Williams bought the Knicks, and it’s rumored he took the Knicks back return them without a receipt. He’s the first person ever do that.

He bought them for fifteen days and return them. I’m sure how funny that is, and I’m sure he told it better, but okay. In a nine minute video posted to social media, Ice Cube has responded to Kat Williams. Cat had been talking about a scene in the movie Friday After Next. The scene features Cat’s character Money Mike cornered in a bathroom by Terry Crew’s character.

Cube said, it’s been over twenty years since the movie came out and people have different perspectives. I would never shoot a rape scene in a movie, especially Friday, where you can actually see this happening on camera. That ain’t my style. The plier joke was always in the script. We would never ever show that.

That’s not my style. If you look at any of my movies. So that was never a discusson and ice Cube added there was a discrepancy in how he and Williams remembered how it went down. Quoting ice Cube, at that point in everybody’s career, we’ll listen to a certain extent, but we’re not going to change the movie for it for any actor. You know, we do what we feel, and if it was a rep scene, it would have been in the movie.

There’s no reason not to shoot it. But that’s not my style. Another claim by Kat Williams was that the role of money Mike was written for Cat. Ice Cube said the role was written, but he enhanced it, which is why Kat was so dope. In the movie.

Money Mike had a small role, about as big as the Santa Claus role, but when we started the filming, he was giving such magic that we kept expanding the role and giving him more to do because he was on point. As for compensation, if any actor is mad about what they got paid, then look at what you were doing. Look at where your career was at the time and where it is now. And I believe Friday has something to do with that. I put a lot of people in movies, but they ain’t never put me in a movie.

You can take that for what it’s worth. I gave these guys a lot of opportunities, and I still act, So I’m waiting for a call. I ain’t got a producer write anything. Ice Cube ended the video with saying he has love for all the comedians he has worked with. Tiffany Hattish hit back at Kat Williams.

Cat had told Shannon Sharp they think they can rewrite history. Guy Tory did a beautiful special about the Comedy Store in Fat Tuesday, where he said Steve Harvey and Centric, the entertainer Kevin Hart, and Tiffany hatishall came through there all lies. Tiffany performed live on Thursday until that audience, I’ve been doing so much stuff. I was on That’s So Raven, I was on White people TV shows, Black People TV shows. She then ran off her resume as a comedian and actor.

I’ve been telling jokes since nineteen ninety six. I’m not mad. I just wish you would get his facts right about me. Dang. I guess I’ll send him a reminder text.

But we sure that’s Kat Williams. He looks a lot like Charleston White. Charleston White is a fifty three year old YouTuber and comedian who I was unfamiliar with until five minutes ago. And the joke’s not funny. Lavelle Crawford waged in and said, I think Kat he’s just gonna talk.

He’s one of those cats man. He ain’t afraid of nobody. He says what’s on his mind, and he probably had some confrontations. You got to remember, the more the money go up in your life, the more the spike comes out of other people. And if you all on the same scene.

See the one thing about black entertainers, we think it’s only one bag. We don’t even understand. And that’s all these beefs come up when talked about his experiences, and some of it might be far fetched. It might be that some of it’s comedy. You know, he’s a comedian, you’d be thinking everything he says it’s beef.

And some of the stuff he’s probably got beef with. He knows these people. Median is that he named. When you chime in on stuff just makes it more valid. You know, if it ain’t true, you know, all the money you got and all the blessings you got why you’re going on Instagram saying Oh, that ain’t true, that ain’t true.

You’re making yourself look guilty. TMZ caught my attention with the headline trick Daddy to Kat Williams, mention me come a Ricky Smiley again and facal meat fist. The Miami rap legend hopped on Instagram to defend his friend Ricky Smiley. I watched the video trick Daddy’s in a car. I noticed there’s a beeping sound that I usually associate with someone driving a car without a seatbelt on, but I’m not sure.

I don’t want to share the video as I want everyone to get along, so you can check out trick Daddy’s Instagram. Charles Barkley referenced Kat Williams on Inside the NBA he was getting into it with Shack. They were arguing about the qualities of an NBA championship team. Shack tried to bring Kenny Smith on his side of the debate, and Barkley said, Kenny can agree with you, dumbass. Shaq said, dumbass got four, meaning four NBA championships to Barkley’s nun how many you got?

Barkley shot back riding on Kobe’s and Dwayne Wade’s coattails. Don’t maybe call Kat Williams on your ass?

And then he said, Okay, Kat, go get a fun, fun fun other news.

I will deal with the Golden Globes tomorrow. On Saturday night, Pete Davidson was scheduled to perform at fox Woods. I’m recording this on Sunday, and as I prepped the show, I don’t see any indication that Pete Davidson did not perform at fox Woods. So hopefully everything’s on track with Pete. Let you know a random thought that I keep forgetting to share.

Hey, remember that Kevin Hart Chris Rock special on Netflix that kind of came and went and had no buzz right other than the initial press of the day or two. I don’t think that made any impact at all other than with Kat Williams. Congratulations to Weird Al. Weird the Al Yankovic Story won the award for Outstanding TV Movie at the twenty twenty three Creative Arts Emmys. Weird beat out Fire Island, Prey, Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, and Focus Pocus II.

Weird Al is now halfway to having egot status. That’s an Emmy Grammy. Oscar and Tony al said it only took me forty years, and another forty years I’ll be there. Are you familiar with the film The Day the Clown Cried? Jerry Lewis stars as a clown in a concentration camp performing for children.

It was never released. Well, it may screen in public for the first time. The Day the Clown Cried was shot in nineteen seventy two, never released. I’ve seen clips here and there, and a recreation. It is definitely bizarre.

Several years before Jerry died in twenty seventeen, a copy was given to the Library of Congress in the United States, with an agreement it could not be screened in any capacity until twenty twenty four. The film tells the story of a German circus clown who’s imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for mocking Adolf Hitler and then is forced to lure children to their deaths as punishment, Starring Jerry Lewis as clown Helmut dork do r K. Lewis showed it to some friends and colleagues in private over the years. Harry Shearer back in nineteen ninety two told Spy magazine that he watched the rough cut and branded it a perfect object. In twenty thirteen, footage of Jerry Lewis showed up on YouTube in which Jerry says it was bad.

It was bad because I lost the magic. No one will ever see it because I’m embarrassed at the poor work and in awkward segues. The Washington Post wrote about TikTok comedians Nimish Patel’s been getting a lot of press lately, and he asked his audience, who’s here because of TikTok and tells The Washington Post, the first thing I noticed was the diversity. It was eye opening thing that this platform for all the evils I’m sure lurk behind the scenes. It’s made comedy a lot more accessible to people who would never go to a comedy show otherwise.

Wendy Curtis owns Comedy Works in Denver and is quoted as saying we absolutely see audiences who haven’t been here before. When a comics agent inquires about booking her club, her staff will first check the comics following on social media as an indicator whether or not they can sell out the club. Curtis like social media clips because anywhere they send or use the clip, there’s my name in the bad that’s my brand and logo. They also talked about Sam Morrell, who try to get people in twenty eighteen to watch his special on Comedy Central. Sam said it was like speaking another language because some people don’t consume entertainment like that.

It wasn’t until Comedy Central posted a clip from a special on Instagram that he gained new followers, so he started doing the same. He posted his third special on YouTube as quote an Active Desperation, and then clips from his club performances on Instagram. Sam says, when you’re building an audience, you have to make it as easy as possible for people to find you. But Warren’s about feeding the algorithm. If you base your comedy around the algorithm, you’re doomed.

You have to do what you think is good for comedy, not think about the sharing. Mark Maren has put his house on sale, you know, the one where he records the podcast. According to b n N Mark’s Highland Park, Spanish bungalows on the market for seven hundred and forty nine thousand dollars. That doesn’t seem like a lot of money. I thought Mark would have a more expensive place.

He’s got a famous apartment. Therapy dot com tells us the comfortable, mid century to core clad stucco home, built in nineteen twenty seven, features a refreshingly normal byelebrity standards, if perfectly appointed nine hundred and thirty two square feet, full of vintage character and sure that listing gave the address which I won’t share, and had a link, but the listing was gone last time I checked. Hm who knows? For once? Let me remember to tell you about the Weekly Comedy Thing.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Golden Globes are on CBS tonight. Joe Coy’s your host, Talk about Joe in a second. The nominees for Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television are Amy Schumer for Emergency Contact, Chris Rock for selective Outrage, Ricky Gervais or mcgeddon, Sarah Silverman, someone you Love, Trevor Noah’s Where was I?

Wanda Sykes. I’m an entertainer. I have no idea who they’ll pick out of that. I think I’d pick Trevor, but I don’t know. They’re all fine.

Well, Amy special is not good. From the Hollywood Reporter, Jimmy Kimmel has five months to prepare for the Oscars. When it came to the Golden Globes this year, Joe Coy had less than two weeks. He said, I haven’t slept and I’ve never watched this many movies and TV shows in my life. Over the holidays, he was busy binging everything from Oppenheimer to Maestro.

Interesting frustration came out here, they write, Joe Coy has been selling out arenas well a stand up comedy, but heead of his twenty twenty two Netflix specially. He told The Hollywood Reporter that the industry been slow to recognized his success, quoting him from twenty twenty two, or what is it that you’re not seeing? These numbers are as clear as day. I’m gonna list that a lot of people aren’t comics who were selling out arenas. It’s like Elton, John Billy Joel, Joe Koy and Coldplay, Like what are you guys seeing?

And it heard? It hurt a lot, and yeah, I was offensive that I still had to convince a lot of people that what I’m saying is relevant and funny. So Coy said he had less than two and a half weeks to prepare because it took a day for the contract to go through, and then the writers those had to come through, so we’re looking at like nine days. This has definitely been a crash course on how to embassy a major event. He’s super excited.

I’ve been smiling year to ears since the day I found out that I got it. It’s surreal and I’m enjoying every single moment. It just means so much, and not only to me. I’ve got a lot of weight in my shoulders that have got to carry. I got my family, I got my culture, I got the Asian community.

I got the halfers out there, the half white, half Asian, half black, half Asian, half Latino, half Asian. There’s a lot of halfers out there that need some representation. And I fill that void. And I know that because when I was a kid, all I did was watch award shows and watch TV, and the one thing you always thought out was to be inspired by somebody who looked like you, or somebody who said something that kind of sounded like you. And I know that’s what this moment is for me.

You know that there’s gonna be a kid going Okay, it’s possible. Cool. He did that, so all right, I can do it too, And to me, that’s everything. That’s all I want. How will he differentiate this award show from you know, other award shows?

Joe Coy said, this is the fun one. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a fan of every single award show. It’s just in our blood. As far as Filipinos are concerned, We’re addicted to award shows.

We’re addicted to talent shows. Growing up, as a kid, would watch award shows, says family would bet on who’s gonna win what category, and out of all the award shows, this is the one that everybody enjoys watching. By the way, I’m a fan of everyone who’s hosted this show. I’d be lying off, I said differently, And in no way am I replacing anybody some of the recent hosts. You may recall last year Drug Carmichael, I no, no, no, how could that was Ricky Gervais, who was awesome, Tina Fane, Amy Poehler.

They’re always solid, Joe says. The bosses said, be you. We like what you do and on stage, so let’s try and bring that to the globes. Will there be any roasting? Oh, I’m still gonna do what I do.

I want to do it in a celebratory way and i want to have a good time. But I’m still gonna make fun of a lot of people. Joe also got advice from Chris Rock. Did Chris give him any advice, say somebody to come out of the audience and try and slap him? Joe said no.

But out of everything he said to me, this one stuck out the most. He goes, screw the wardrobe, screw the costume change. Watch the show, Watch the entire show. You don’t know what’s gonna happen. That way, you’re ready.

If someone says something wrong, You’re not gonna walk out on stage and act like you saw it. You saw it, you can react to it, be prepared. The Intero Bang is a comedy website. They kind of lean into the New York City cigarettes smoking, scorched earth kind of comedy, and they did some end of the year comedy listener polls. It’s been a pretty slow news week, as you could tell.

I just did five minutes on Joe Koy Other than Kat Williams, Kat, can you scorch some more earth? That would be awesome, That would really help me out. So let’s take a look at what the Intero Bang had their album of the Year Best Comedy Album, Bob the Drag, Queens, Woke Man in Address interesting pick by the listeners there if you want a sense of their taste. The previous winners from twenty twenty two and back to twenty fourteen. Jen Kirkman, James Matturns, the check Spot talk about James much around here, Bonnie McFarlane, Rich Voz, Adam Ferrara, Joe DeRosa, Rich Voz again, Jmore and Big Jay Oakerson.

So that’ll give you a sense of that website’s reader’s sensibilities. Their best comedy Special of the year. Not despite everything I just said, this makes no sense to me, because this one I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with anything, you know what. I’m gonna wait a second and tell you who they named best comedy Special because it makes no sense based upon everything else we’re profiling here. Okay, Starting in twenty fourteen, Jim Jeffries, then Jim Norton, then Barry Krimmin’s Whatever Frightens You, Judah Friedlander, Gad Almela’s American Dream, in twenty eighteen Weird One.

Then follow the pattern here, Mark normand Shane Gillis, Christa Stefano. So you got kind of the vibe, right, Well, what’s the best comedy special of the year according to their readers this year? Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot? What must have been a writing campaign and they’re a stand up. Comedian of the Year this year went to Brit Kraser.

Previous winners Christtephanie Ownateperghatzy, Colin Quinn, she and Gillisburg, chrischer dju To Freelander, Jim Jeffreys, Natepergatzy and Bill Burr A. John dor did an interview with the Guardian and Dude, when somebody’s trying to give you press, just be gracious about it. I’m gonna read this entire transcript here, and John, you just sound like a jerky face. The Toronto Guardian asks, how would you describe your comedy style? I would use words.

Who are some of your influences? Buffy Saint Marie from Mighty Massachusetts. Who’s your favorite comedian growing up? David Letterman? You know you can elaborate.

Dude, you could say something about these people. Who’s your favorite comedian right now? Matt Rife, you could say something about it. What’s your pre show ritual? Threecams of Miller Lytton try to arrive on time?

Thanks John.

Speaking of Matt Rife, Vogue recently profiled him.

They were curious how he’s handling internet trolls. Rife said something I need to work on. I’m so immature. I have such hard time not replying back. We live in a world where everyone has such a false sense of security and confidence hiding behind a computer screen.

I have a huge problem with people not having to pay some kind of physical consequence. And obviously, because you’re on a computer screen, can’t slap the crap out of you, but I can at least check you. Sometimes I can roast you right back. Can’t let them get away with it. Trives me absolutely insane.

They were curious if people in his life are worried about ending up in his act now. Matt Raive said, I don’t talk too much about stuff close to home. I’ve always been that way. Like sometimes I’m so close to things I don’t find them funny at all. Like when I talk about my upbringing, where I’m from, all that kind of stuff, people are so fascinated and it’s not funny to me at all.

They asked him about his biggest fear. He said, the joke answer is spiders. I hate spiders. Spiders and heights. I’m not good with either one of them.

Deep answer, job security. That probably gives me the most anxiety. Bit what’s happening right now, It’s like, yeah, obviously it’s incredible. I’m trying to soak it all in and enjoy it. But this is a fickle business.

Yes, Matt, I think you have learned that fun tidbit from the recent Cliff nester Off book Outrageous, A History of Showbiz in the Culture Wars, contestants on Family Feud during Richard Dawson’s tenure had to undergo herpi’s tests on set. Currently back in the day, the game show implemented a policy stating that both male and female contestants had to undergo a mouth test with a magnifying glass from the medical staff. During one contestants experience, a production assistant announced, Okay, everybody, a line up for your herpes tests, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Kevin Hart has responded to Cat Williams high, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed Friday’s episode, I highly suggest to go back and listen to what Kat Williams had to say about everybody. Kevin Hart took to Twitter and wrote, gotta get that anger up bout your champ. It’s honestly sad.

In the meantime, please enjoy my movie trailer from an X film Lift, which will be dropping on Netflix in eight days. On The Ricky Smiley Morning Show on Thursday, Ricky told his radio audience that he was originally meant to be Money Mike, but in hindsight thinks Kat Williams was the better choice. He said, I had no reason to lie about that. They added that whole pimp twist to that character, which was actually a better decision and made it funnier. There’s no way in hell I could have executed that role like that, and I’m glad they made that decision.

Personally, I like to pimp roll better, but the Santa Claus role was just perfect for me. He added. We want to wish Cat Williams nothing but the best Kat had taken a shot at Joe Rogan, saying, Joe don’t want me there meeting Joe’s podcast, Joe got six comedians that ain’t ever been funny that he wants to push out. I wonder who those six comedians are. I could do some research.

He’s got some regulars on there. But Joe tweeted, I love Kat. He’s one of my favorite comics and I’d love to have him on. We talk about him all the time. If he’s down, I’ll make it happen.

That would be amazing. Please do that, Kat Williams. Ludacris responded to Kat Williams on Instagram. He released a freestyle and I wanted to share it with you, and some of the language is not language that I’m comfortable sharing. Some of the language I’m not comfortable reading.

And plus me reading a freestyle is going to be all kinds of corny. So let’s not do that. Johnny Mack just go to Ludacris’s Instagram. Will Yeah.

Meanwhile, having nothing to do with the appearance on Shannon Sharp’s podcas…

I watched this clip I wanted to share it with you, but again, lots of naughty language. I’m not comfortable sharing. But Cat talked about Jamie Fox’s recent mystery illness. Kat asked the audience, you know who got a lot of money. The audience says who, Cat responds Jamie Fox.

Kat then talks about the lack of details surrounding Jamie’s recent illness and insinuates that the Illuminati is probably behind it all and suggests that Jamie Fox bought himself a membership with its money. Kat william says he wouldn’t mind being a member of the Illuminati. He would like to know the secret to McDonald’s French rise.

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In other news on the av Club website, Matt Schmikowitz writes Dave Chappelle’…

I was curious about Matt. Matt’s bio says that Matt is a staff writer and a little stinker in residence. Those are the words on the website. Former senior edisone know your Meme. He has appeared on Indy Wire, Vulture, and in Your Worst Nightmares.

All Right, Matt writes Netflix gave the gift of hate this holiday season with The Dreamer. There’s nothing thought provoking or incisive about The Dreamer, despite Dave’s best efforts to work in some half baked line as who we did there about how he’s a dreamer and how his audience is filled with dreamers too. Doesn’t make much sense, But it wouldn’t matter if he made perfect sense, because whatever groundbreaking idea Chappelle thinks he’s reaching with this turred is lost in this distracting obsession with trans people and his supposed cancelation. The prim ry feature of The Dreamer is Chappelle’s impish smile. It’s the same Anaia Staker smirk that Grace is the poster of Half Baked.

It’s long been how he can connect with his audience and let them in on the joke, but now he does it to let them know that he’s daring to say something he shouldn’t be. The self described turf lands one transphobic, homophobic, enablest joke after another, frequently returning to his most tired callbacks, and as Ricky Gervais did the week before, he’s ran out of d minus trans material and has moved on to people’s disabilities. But bluntly, what the f is this guy trying to tell us? Why should we listen? Is this even the kind of already wants to create every three years?

Is this even art? It’s more than every three years. It’s been one special a year again. I suspect that he must have owed Netflix something because this special just seemed undercooked. I won’t use half baked.

And it came out in New Year’s Eve. It was like, hey, Dave, you owe us one more and he went okay. But pure speculation by me. Back to the av club piece, writer Seth Simons recently suggested that we stop calling Chappella comedian at all, since his primary profession these days is an anti transactivist. Taylor el Mundsen’s new version of At Midnight, which is called After Midnight, kicks off Tuesday, January sixteenth at twelve thirty seven am.

After Midnight is based on the premise of At Midnight, that program run on Comedy Central between twenty thirteen and twenty seventeen. That should create some more material for the podcast, as that type of show tens that have a lot of comedians on also coming back soon no date yet, but Max, HBO, Max whatever we’re calling it. They’ve announced that season three of Hacks is happening this spring. If you haven’t watched Hacks yet, you should. It stars Gene Smart as Debra Vance who’s not quite Joan Rivers, and Hannah Einmender as Ava Daniels, who are writing together.

It’s a very fun show. There’s a new podcast comming out. It’s the history of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Susie s Men and Jeff Garland will host this recap show. They’ll tackle every episode, do out in January.

They hadn’t given a date on that, but maybe it’s out now. It’s January enough. Curb is back the first weekend in February, so there’s the timing there. You can’t imagine anyone doing a better job than James Andrew Miller did on his Origins podcast. He’s got a whole series there about Curb Your Enthusiasm, So James Andrew Miller’s Origins.

I slightly worked on that project. I don’t know how much work Jim put into it. So I would recommend you check out James Andrew Miller’s Origins podcast, Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes, and we’ll see if this new one is any good. Fox News has given Saturday Night over to Jimmy Fala. He’ll take over as the permanent host of Fox News Saturday Night beginning January thirteenth.

That program promises a lighter take on the news of the week. The press release tells us Jimmy will add comedic commentary on cultural, political, and lifestyle topics that people across the world are buzzing about. Jimmy says, Fox News Saturday Night is a show for everyone who realizes that our country doesn’t need more Republicans or more Democrats. It needs more comedy, good sentiment there and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple bucks in the tip jo if you know what value for value and podcasting two point oh means you can use the fountain ap and throw some That’s my way to see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, thank you, Kat Williams. Get out your popcorn. Everybody. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Cat Williams must have known that yesterday was a slow news. Dane boy did he hook it up from the Hollywood Reporter And I’ve got audio for you. Wait you hear the audio. Just wait. You’re not gonna believe any of this.

Cat Williams went after a lot of people, but the Hollywood Reporter are focused on Cat going after Cedric the entertainer. That’s the least of it. Hollywood Reporter for allegedly stealing one of his jokes. Cat Williams was on the Club Shay Shay podcast. That’s Shannon Sharp’s podcast.

You know, I’ll read the article in a minute. Let me, let’s just tee this up. I can’t wait.

All right, here’s now.

I don’t want to hang myself, so I’m just gonna let Cat Williams speak for himself. In the first clip, cant Williams discusses Kevin Hart stays in the clubs and fifteen years in Hollywood, no one in Hollywood has a memory of going to a sold out Kevin Hart show. There being a line for him ever getting a standing ovation at any comedy club. He already had his deals when he got here. Have we heard of a comedian that came to LA and in his first year in LA he had his own sitcom on network Television and had his own movie called Soul Plane that he was leading.

No, we’ve never heard of that before that person or since that person. What do you think a plant is? Maybe people don’t understand the definitions of these words. He just did his documentary with Chris Rock where he shows you that his whole upbringing in comedy was on the East Coast. So how simultaneously was he here in Los Angeles doing the same thing.

It didn’t happen. It didn’t happen. And I hate to seem like a petty individual for picking apart lies, but just see slow leg on Keapling until you say we don’t believe you. Okay.

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Now here’s Kat Williams discussing some sort of program.

I’ve listened to several clips that I’m gathering here that Kat believes there’s some sort of I don’t know. You enter in something in the Hollywood Illuminati, hook you up and you make millions of dollars or something. Kat explains, if you sign up for the program, you get a light skin, weird face wife that never do an interview. Listen, in twenty years, won’t do an interview. Nobody’s ever talked to her, and she’s never been interviewed anywhere.

And now understand, I’m not talking about one person. When I just told you applies to seven people. How they all end up with that, that’s part of what you get. Kat also discussed celebrities selling their souls. Let’s listen, that’s why you know what the number one job of somebody that saw their soul in Hollywood is is to act like it didn’t happen.

They all do the same job. Why do you think Gary Owen can’t cross over and he already white and been in comedy for twenty five years. If what I say ain’t the case, it’s a cabal, it’s a consortium. They rock with who they rock with, and they don’t with who they don’t. But I’m not scared of being the competition anymore than you were when you lined up across from a superior team.

Yeah, on paper, they’re a better team. They have all the assets and resources that we don’t but let us get on the line, boy boy, and see if that factors in. I guarantee you it won’t. Wow. Kat talked about Chris Chucker.

Now during this clip, he’s mugging for the cameraon’s a big smile on his face as he tells the story. Chris Tucker didn’t want to be the poster child for smoking weed. He don’t smoke weed like that. He and the church. Michael Jackson’s best friend Christmas.

Michael Jacks call him Christmas. You ever met a man? Yeah, you a little nickname like that? Me? Neither.

And one more here’s Kent Williams discussing ludacrous. There was a crossroads where we were both invited to an Illuminati thing and it had to be one or the other of us, and decisions had to be made. So it was both of us. We were equal. One of us had to cut off all their hair and couldn’t do the sideburned thing no more with the points.

And the next person they said was going to get two hundred million dollars because they were gonna pay him ten million a movie to do twenty movies. And that’s how the conversation happened. One of those persons turned out to be ludicrous and the other person turned out to be Kat Williams. Now one person ended up with a light skinned, ugly faced wife. That’s never done it.

Remember I told you that if I say that it applied, I sell him. Pier is part of when they give you all. Right. Back to the reporter who picked on After all that they went with the Cat Williams has gone after Cedric the entertainer, for allegedly stealing one of his jokes. I think that’s the least of it.

Hollywood reporter Kat said he thought I was just a no name comedian and that he could take this joke and nobody would know. The issue was that I’d already done this particular joke on be ET’s Comicview twice. I had done so well on Comic View that they made it part of the commercial. This is not just a random joke. This is my very best joke, and it’s my last joke, and it’s my closing joke.

Nineteen ninety eight. I’m doing this joke. It’s on Comicview. Ceder comes to the comedy story, watches me in the audience, He comes backstage. He tells me what a great job I did, and how much he loves the joke.

Two years later, he’s doing that as his last joke on the Original Kings of Comedy, and he’s doing it verbatim. He just changed my car into a spaceship. Cedric was on that same podcast in November twenty twenty two, and at that time said, I’ve seen this guy Cat Williams thirty times like dog, if you literally were that upset about it, Like why didn’t you say nothing like that? Don’t even make sense? This some internet stuff.

That’s all I could say. So you know, when I responded to him, he didn’t respond back to me, and I left it at that. Kat had responded to that, saying, why are you downplaying me like that? Why would I give you a pass if you were just gonna lie. He went on to say that Cedric specials are so bad they’re not available on Netflix.

It has been pointed out that at least one of Cedric’s especials at that time was on Netflix. In twenty twenty one, Cedric and I the accusations on Instagram, saying, look, I have no idea what this brother’s talking about. That joke is over thirty years old. Close to thirty something years old. I did Kings of Comedy in nineteen ninety nine, probably been doing that joke six seven years before that.

I don’t even know if Kat was doing comedy then. So you know, again, he’s a telliged brother. I have no idea what he’s talking about. I’ve never seen Kat do a space shuttle joke. That might be something he believes is true.

I’ve written a lot of jokes, and I’ve had a lot of comedians steal my jokes as well, So I understand if you feel slighted by that. But that’s my joke. That’s my joke. Dog Kunt Williams has claim that Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, and Ricky Smiley work in a group to shut Kent and others out of the industry, saying they aren’t three random guys, they’re co entwined and they share seats. Elsewhere in the episode, Kat takes shots of Steve Harvey, saying this is like Steve Harvey telling people he used to be homeless.

That’s my story, that’s not his story. Steve Harvey was never homeless twenty five years ago. He’s making three thousand dollars a show in cash and doing five shows a week. They just tell the stories. Who cares that they wrote a plot card for you to do family feud on like you’re successful, because we’re surprised you could talk for a living, and it’s entertaining that you say some funny country things but not a writer and I shared a lengthy, like sixteen minute clip in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

The official description. The legendary Kat Williams, hailed by many is the greatest comedian alive, joined Shannon Sharp at Club Chay Schaef for an explosively candid conversation. Renowned as one of America’s most exceptional entertainers, Kat fearlessly takes shots at fellow comedians like Ricky Smiley, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, and Kevin Hart. He opens up about his turbulent life, revealing his homelessness experience after moving out of thirteen, and shares the financial challenges he faced and kickstarting his comedy career. John Marcos Siresi tweeted, I feel like more careers are going to be impacted by Kat Williams list than Jeffrey Epstein’s all Right More controversy new topic.

Pat McAfee apologizes over Aaron Rodgers Epstein claim about Jimmy Kimmel. McAfee said, some things obviously people got very ticked off about, especially when they’re that serious allegation, So we apologize for being part of it. I can’t wait to hear what Aaron has to say about it. Sounds like somebody at ESPN gott in bands here if he asked me, what do I know? McAfee said after the Rose Bowl game he and his team were rolling on two hours of sleep going into Tuesday show and added that the free wheeling nature of the show is his hallmark.

Quoting McAfee, there could be some things that were certainly probably I mean, we’re gonna have to hear from Aaron on that meant to be a S word talk joke that can then become something that’s obviously a very serious allegation, and that leads to a massive overnight story, one in which I put the baby down to sleep, I haven’t seen her in a while, and to pick up my phone and oh boy. We obviously don’t like to be associated with anything negative. Ever, would like our show to be an uplifting one. I happy one a fun one, but it’s because we talk crap and try to make light of everything. Some things, obviously people get very ticked off about, especially when they’re serious allegations.

We apologize for being part of it. I can’t wait to youar what Aaron says about it. Hopefully those two will just be able to settle this, you know, not work wise, but be able to chit chat and move along. I can understand why Jimmy got incredibly upset. I definitely completely understand that, especially with his position.

But also I think Aaron is like, hey, this guy has said some stuff about me in his monologue and he’s just trying to crap talk. I don’t think he meant anything else, but he’s gonna have to clarify for that fun, fun, fun new topic. Netflix released a trailer for Pete Davidson Special, which is out next week. Interestingly to me, there are no joke clips in the trailer, which is uncommon. Netflix trailers almost always have jokes in them, although the recent Dave Chappelle one also didn’t have any jokes.

So we’ll see a different trailers for Dusty Slay’s upcoming special on the sixteenth. I think Dusty’s gonna have a huge year. This guy’s great, and hopefully this will propel him. I’ll play clips from that in a second. The Spokesman Review had a nice profile of Dusty.

I like this description. The clever comic with a soothing baritone looks the part with his trigger hat and data glasses that could have been borrowed from fellow comic Judah Friedlander. I never noticed that before, and now I won’t be able to unsee it. Dusty said, Jeff Foxworthy’s the best. I can’t tell you how much I admire him.

I’ve always been a big fan. We couldn’t stop telling Foxworthy’s redneck jokes on our trailer. I believe the Jeff fox Worthy’s first two albums, You Might Be Redneck If and Game’s Rednecks Play are two of the best comedy albums of all time. Jeff fox arew Worthy was a big inspiration. So is Billing Vall, who was part of Foxworthy’s blue collar comedy group.

Chris Rock, who was always on HBO back then that during the nineties, was an inspiration, and so is Ellen DeGeneres. Dusty’s at the Spokane Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow. At one point, he had developed a live action sitcom for ABC inspired Bury’s Family that was not picked up. He also had a script for an animated series for Hulu that was never produced. But Dusty says, the great thing about stand up is that I don’t have to depend on anybody else.

There’s no one preventing me from delivering my material. Maybe one day I’ll have a TV show, but I’m not going to wait around for that since I’ll be out there doing stand up. Dusty Slay working Man on Netflix, January sixteenth. Let’s listen. I’ve got a lot of jobs.

I was the sauce guy. Wocome my way up to dishwasher, and I came in one day and the dishwasher had not shown up, you know, so I was gonna be making sauce and washing dishes. So I was like, well, let me go ahead and go on break.

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And then I never came back because I don’t do two jobs.

You know what I mean, You’re gonna be short handed. You’re gonna be real short handed because I’m jumping off this sink and shit. Great stuff. I like him a lot. I hope you do too.

All right, here’s a Terrible Idea, a sequel to the movie Twins. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shared a photo on Instagram posing with Danny DeVito’s seventy nine. Arnold is seventy six. My brother was fantastic to see Danny on Broadway, and I need that he and Lucy and everybody involved kept the audience entertained, laughing and loving every minute. One of the best players I’ve ever seen, a true spectacle with heart.

I can’t wait to work together again the movie I supposedly called Triplets. It’s been delayed several times. At one point Eddie Murphy would have played the third brother. Eddie peers to no longer be part of the project. Tracy Morgan reportedly set to take on the new port.

That is an awful idea. Fellas all right, some more details about that Tom Sigory, Berg Krascher five K I talked about yesterday. It is the five K by May Challenge. The goal is to run it in under twenty six minutes. Any minute that Tom sigor and Bert Krascher go above the twenty six minute five K runtime challenge, they will each donate one thousand dollars to a charity of their choice.

Bert’s planning on throwing a big party after the five K. All right, so Bert is fifty one, So Goore is only forty four. Wow, I would have guessed he was a little older.

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Also, Bert, I didn’t think Bert was that old.

So at some point you’re gonna age out of that shirt off thing, right, Like you’re not gonna be seventy years old on stage doing the shirt off thing, are you? And again, I don’t mean a hate. I like both of their comedy a lot. All right, under twenty six minutes. I don’t know what kind of shape Tom Sigor is in or not, but at forty four, if he puts his mind to it, he should be able to do that at fifty one.

Bert Kraser under twenty six minutes as in twenty five fifty nine. I know at fifty four I would not be able to get there, but I’m slow. I could lose some weight, but even ten years ago I couldn’t get it down to twenty seven. I do have a friend who was seven years younger than me and my running buddy, and he’d be able to do it. But I’m gonna bet Sigura no and Bert no.

We’ll see if I’m wrong so far. Michelle Wolfe, Tim Dillon, Stavarrels Halkias and Mark normandor in tentative yes is are from Shane Gillis and Louis c. K. So that should be a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. God bless you. Aaron Rodgers. Hi, I’m choii magg with your Daily Comedy News. It’s a slow news week, but Aaron Rodgers has hooked it up.

Aaron was on the Pat McAfee show. The subject turned to the Jeffrey Epstein List. If you know what I’m talking about, people who may have visited the island, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Aaron said, there’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, who are really hoping the list doesn’t come out. I’ll sell you what if that list comes out, I’ll definitely be popping some sort of bottle.

That did not go over well with Jimmy Kimmel and I love a good celebrity fight. Jimmy Kimmel went on Twitter and by the way, elon stop with the other name. Every single reference to your platform says formally Twitter. We’re all calling a Twitter. You gotta stop.

You gotta come back to the pack with that one. Anyway. Jimmy Kimmel went on Twitter and wrote, dear ahole. He used the formal term for a hole and spelled it with a as in Aaron, dear a hole. For the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, Nor will you find my name on any list other than the clearly phony nonsense that soft brain wackles like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality.

Your reckless words put my family in danger. Keep it up and we will debate the facts further in court. On the Jimmy Kimmel’s show, Kimmel played the clip and added it might be time to revisit the concussion protocol Aarin. He also referred to Aaron Rodgers as a tinfoil hatter from TMZ. Madison Cawthorne says he loved getting roasted in Dave Chappelle’s special.

By the way, I’ve been on the reddit’s and all over the internet. I am not alone in my review of Dave Chappelle’s Not Good special. It seems everyone agrees with me. There’s like a jokes in the whole thing. Wow, what a misstep by Dave on that one.

I wonder why he released it and it came out near Z Eve. I wonder if contractually maybe he owed Netflix something I don’t know. Cawthorne tells the TMZ that Dave Chappelle is his favorite comedian and he went to one of dave shows in Tampa. Madison says Dave was floored to see him in the audience. Dave invited him backstage after the show, introducing Madison to Chappelle’s family and giving him some drinks.

In the credits of Dave Special, there’s even footage of Madison laughing in the audience and the two posts together for a photo after the set. Wow. Ricky Gervaise tweeted a screenshot of himself and Dave Chappelle’s special logos as number one and two on Netflix and said they should host the Oscars together. Yes, that would be amazing. Please make that happen.

This year’s host is Jimmy Kimmel. Boy, if that could happen in twenty twenty five, you’ll watch. Craig Robinson, he played Daryl in the Office. He’s up for a reboot. Yeah, no kidding, steady work is a good thing.

Craig. By the way, if the Office wants to cast me as you know John who sits in the back and has like one line, I’m up for it. Robinson was asked by the EV Club if you heard anything about a potential reboot, and he joked he only hears about it. While doing interviews, Craig said, I heard there was something going on. It hasn’t been mentioned to me.

If it does, I’d love to reprise Darrel at some point, But right now, I don’t know. I don’t know how you make that show happen. I mean, I guess there’s a version where Dwight is the boss and there’s some new people there, and people like I don’t know, Phyllis still work there for some reason. And what do you do with Pam? But didn’t Jim and Pam move away?

Right? So how do you work Pam back into the show? You can’t unless you want to do something awful to the characters. Are you going to really tune in for the Dwighton Oscar Show? I mean, even Kevin’s a bartender.

How does this work? I don’t know, but I’d watch. I guess I would watch, but it’s probably best left alone. Creator Greg Daniels said in November that no spin off of reboot talks are happying officially. He’d rather make a sister show instead of recasting the characters.

If you’re in Australia. The Office is getting a female led remake. Felicity Ward will play the manager of packaging company Finley Krtik. If you’re on Hulu, there’s an Indian version that I’ve been checking out. That’s not bad at all.

It is a slow newsweek. Mark Norman was profiled sword of kind of by The New York Post. I don’t know what the point of this article was other than the link to buy some tickets to Mark Norman show, and maybe the Post gets a commissioned I don’t know. Mark Noman’s own The New York Post. In an exclusive interview, all right, relax, he’s not exactly Tom Cruise there, Norman said, I got a hot new hour.

We’re cooking Baby. Last night. I did six sets some such a horror for stage time. When I was in Baltimore. I did the twenty five hundred seat Lyric Theater and I had a good set, and then my buddy goes, I know this bar show about thirty minutes away, and we did it.

Then The Post writes to Norman, it’s not just about getting up and telling jokes, though he knows how much of an effort audiences make to go out and see live comedy and wants to deliver an amazing experience in return. Is it a slow newsweek? Johnny Mack? You asked the New York Post? Huh, Norman said, you gotta get people a show.

They got a babysitter, they’ve been on a college shirt, and they’re trying to get laid, So you gotta ring a baby. Plus, I got a hot chunk on culture appropriation. That’s really cooking to me. If I can get laughs on an icy topic, that’s what comedy is all about. That’s the entire article, John, Is it a slow news week?

Why? I wanted to tell you that Tom sigor is playing Hong Kong on the eighth. No, that’s not an interesting Sigora said. I’ve always wanted to go back to Hong Kong. The city feels alive.

It feels like a city that never sleeps, and part of it is intoxicating. The food was outrageously good. We went to a restaurant and had a three hour dim sum feast. When I’m most looking forward to no offense. It’s not performing a show there, it’s going there to eat and just hang out.

By the way, I was too lazy to pull the audio on this week’s Two Bears, One Cave Sigora and ber Krascher. They started talking about organizing a five k Krayser is talking about running a seven minute mile, and Segora goes, you know, do you mean seven to fifty nine or do you mean seven? And Kryscher is saying seven Chraysier is fifty one. I don’t see that happening. I will be mighty impressed, per Kraser, if you hand in even one seven minute mile.

Dude, Johnny Mack, can you run a seven minute mile? No, Johnny Mack can’t. Ten years ago when I did my first marathon, I was doing the Ruckers Half Marathon and I finished the first half of it in like fifty nine minutes and change. You can do the math there. That’s nearly ten minute miles.

And that was a decade ago when I was more fit, and I wasn’t that fit then, And I don’t know. Burt Kreischer, sure, seven minute mile, Good luck anyway. Sigora talked about his wife, Christina p who’s also comedian, said she’s a way better joke writer than I am. She writes structurally better things, and I’m more of a storyteller. We don’t compete against each other.

I know it’s with some comedy couples that have tension in the relationships because they’re competing. That just isn’t very healthy. No matter what the couple does for a living, Well, how does it work out? If Tom Sigore is in Hong Kong, Tom says, somebody’s always home. We’re lucky that we have the same agent, so he knows if he’s booking me this week that he’s not going to book Christina.

But if Tom’s home the next week, he can book Christina. She doesn’t like touring as aggressively as I do sometimes, so it always works out. Johnny Mack, do you have a file labeled leftovers? Why? Yes, I do.

Why do you ask because John Marco SIREESSI you talk to the pit news about crowd work, and John Marco, who’s fantastic comeding, keep an eye on him. He says, First of all, I feel very often I just don’t post the failures. I think it’s like when you do crowd work, you’re performing with someone else. Usually they’re not a performer’s You kind of have to adapt to what they’re giving you. If they answer something weird.

You got to follow them on that track. If they go off on a tangent that isn’t regularly funny, you have to find a way to curve it back to the unique thing. It’s a dance, but it all depends on the audience member. The greatest skill is learning when to bail, learning when to go. There’s nothing happening here.

We’re sticking with it until something funny emerges, which every once in a while you wait a while and then boom. It was all worth it. But it’s tough, and I do a fair amount of it, and I don’t consider myself an expert at it. I think it’s a really challenging skill to always make it good. Good question here from the Pit News their question, I discovered you through social media clips.

Platforms like Insta and TikTok have become powerful outlets for stand up comedians. How have they changed what it means to be an up and coming comic? I like this question. John Marco feeld it well, he said, I ultimately think it changes things for the worst, and the sense that when I perform, it’s no longer just for the people in the room. Crowd work is a perfect example there’s times when I probably could have ended a crowd work interaction sooner, but my mind, I’m going, ah, I’ve been trying to get longer videos for youtubes, so I’m gonna keep pushing it, keep exploring.

Now, I don’t think I’d ever sacrifice a show for the clip, but it’s in my head. There’s a thing that is thinking of the outside camera, and it’s cool in the sense where I can capture the moment, capture topical joke, can share it beyond the audience in the room. On the other hand, you could say that because of social media and having to release more material, that I mix up my act more than I would have otherwise, so you get more fresher perspectives. But ultimately, I think most comedians would admit it hurts the art form where it makes it harder to do well because you have to be functioning on two cylinders. May Martin talked to they Cultured magazine on dating.

This also from the leftover folder. But I saw a news item this week about May Martin dating. May is in a relationship with Parvati from Survivor Remember Porvadi? Will They’re dating? Culture asked May is there one day you’ve been on where we’re like from top to bottom.

This was utter chaos. May said, I went to an Airbnb and big bear with someone I was dating in the middle of winter, snow everywhere. We get in the hot tub and the door locked behind us. We’re in the mountains, there was ice on the road. We had our phones and called the airbnb host and they said we can get you in about an hour.

We huddled in the hot tub and the freezing cold until the chlorine bleached my black bathing suit orange. The guy finally came, but he forgot his key. He ended up taking off the edges. She broke up with me a week later. I don’t think this because of that, but definitely and help.

If you need something to watch, go on the eight hundred Bound Garillas YouTube channel at seven o’clock Central time today and Tommy O’Regan’s Suspicially Nonchalant will make its premiere. And that is your pretty light comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, A couple of things you can do. You could go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your daily comedy. He’s just over a month until Trevor Noah will host the Grammy Awards once again. He told Essence, Can I be honest, it gets more and more stressful every single time because every Grammys is every artist’s most important Grammys. I don’t want to be the host who screwed things up when it’s Taylor Swift’s Grammys or when it’s Bad Bunnies Grammys.

I would say it’s probably one of the most stressful jobs I do because the night is not about me. My job is to keep it going and to keep a connection between the audience and what’s happening on the night. It’s a rewarding job, but man, it’s terrifying esen sasas Trevor. A lot of entertainers, when they reach a certain level, they get away from stand up a little bit. And you you’re staying sharp, you keep doing it.

What keeps pulling you back to doing stand up specials? Trevor Noah said, Man, stand up is a blessing. That’s the simplest answer I can give you. I don’t take stand up comedy for granted. I don’t take it for granted that I can put on a show and thousands of people come out to join me and laugh together and experience this collective feeling of joy.

I really, really really don’t take that for granted. So what’s important to me is appreciating that and remembering what it means.

Also, I think stand up comedy is one of the hardest art forms, and that it’s …

When you make music, you work with a producer, and you work with other artists, and you write together and you collaborate in the studio. By the time you put the song out in the public, you’ve got a good sessence of people have given you the idea that it’s good, and you have a collective to fall back on. When it comes to making a movie, it’s the same thing. But stand up is a crazy beast that nobody can team. You can be the funniest comedian today and you can tell a joke tomorrow and it doesn’t work the way you’d like it to.

I think there’s nothing more exciting in the creation of art than doing something like that. It’s immediate. Esquire spoke to Gary Golman about his first big break Gary did a tight five minutes it just for laughs in Montreal. In July ninety nine, he landed a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars development deal with Fox. He was going to be a sitcom star.

He moved to LA. The network paired him with a writer. Gary said, we sat around, we wrote a pilot, and then they said no thanks. The next summer he did another five minutes at a showcase in LA. Got a similar deal with CBS, again turned down.

The next year, similar deal with show Time, same result. Gary said, it was making a really good living, selling ideas based on my stand up for sitcom pilots that never got shot. It was so frustrating. In two thousand and three, Gary finished third on Last Comic Standing. His last Comic Standing twenty years ago, already Wow.

That burst of fame enabled Gary to sell out shows around the country for about six months. Then that died down. In twenty fifteen, he put together what he knew was his strongest set of material yet and included the abbreviating the State’s bit. He taped a special called It’s About Time, with full confidence it would finally deliver a bigger fan base. The producers had a hard time selling it and wound up on Netflix at a discount eight months later.

Glad to see Gary in his sendency right now. That last special is fantastic if you haven’t watched it yet, it was my number one special of twenty twenty three. It’s also world. Spoke to Kathleen Madigan years ago. She tried to be a flight attendant, but she was told she didn’t meet a height requirement.

I spent time with Kathleen. I never thought of her as particularly short or anything. Kathleen presumes the height requirement is because you have to be tall enough to reach the overhead bins. She said, they didn’t tell me about it until later. He made it through two other interview things.

I’ve worked in restaurants and waited tables. I would have been good at it, but they didn’t tell me that until the third interview, which I’m like, why couldn’t you have put that in the brochure at the beginning. Her current show, if you go See Your Live, includes greatest hits and some new material, and she said, sometimes I’ll do some throwback stuff only because that’s the kind of show I like to see. I like to see maybe a throwback here or too something from I just saw and that a bunch of new stuff, especially hunting Bigfoot, came out last February. Kathleen says there’s lots of bigfoots around.

Florida’s got one Michigan. There’s versions of him everywhere. She’s not scared of bigfoots, but she’s still scared of corporate gigs because a lot of people didn’t pay to be there. Kathleen says, a lot of them don’t know anything about stand up comedy, and it could go sideways. And I’ve had some that did.

There’s nothing you can do about it. And some of them are great. Some of them are like a normal crowd, but any comic would tell you it’s too dicey. But real life going on stage and clubs, She’s not afraid. I think it didn’t bother me because if you’re a bart tender, a survey, you have to walk up to strangers, you know, fifty times a night and go Hi, I’m Kathleen.

You have to be able to be comfortable with that, or you quit w camout. Bell tells the San Francisco Chronicle he plans to get his act together and return to comedy it’s been a five year hiatus, but he’s got a new show. W Camal Bell gets his act together See what he did There, an eight show stand up residency at the Bakery Studio in Berkeley. Each hour long set will showcase new material inspired by current events in his own life. Delimit Engagement kicks off January twentieth, then every Saturday night through March sixteenth.

Howie Mandel spoke to the Press Enterprise about how he got into comedy, and he said it was by seeing a show called Candid Camera. Remember that show. The show is great, how he says, I love pranks and things like that because that’s the most relatable, real kind of comedy there is. It’s fun to do it, to be part of it, and it’s relatable because you can watch it and laugh and think what would I do? Or I’d never believe that, or what if I was in that situation.

It’s just real. We used to watch TV and everything was scripted, and now reality TV, YouTube and TikTok are just real people doing real things, aren’t they. Hidden Agenda Prank is the reality TV of comedy. He talks about the things have changed. There was only one place to go to If you were going to make a living in comedy, it had to come to La and get on at the comedy store.

That’s where maybe somebody was producing TV or film would see you and give you an opportunity to change your life. Today, you could sit in your underpants or your bed in Oklahoma and get one hundred million people seeing what it is you do, and you can actually monitize that and make a living and a career out of it. Look at Matt Rife, a very funny guy who was having a hard time, and so we saw him do CrowdWork on TikTok. The snow Jam Comedy Festival will be coming back, but it’s its final year. That makes me sad.

But there’s a reason. Snow Jam returns to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for its eighth and final year January eighteenth through the twenty first. It’s mission to celebrate comedy in snow while enriching the community by supporting nonprofit organizations in South Dakota. This year’s headliners included Timmy Williams from The Whitest Kids You Know and Sean Jordan from The Late Late Show. Dan Booblitz, Junior Friend of the Show, and Dan and I were texting on the side that think I’m going to do another episode where Dan and I just chat about comedy for an hour or so.

That’s got to clear my schedule and find some time to spend with Dan. But Dan’s said Snowjam Comedy Festival started as a joke and it lasted eight years, which is longer than we thought it would. It’s bitter sweet knowing this is our last year, but it’s better to go out on a high note and leave the crowd wanting more. If you want to check it out, and I’ll talk about it as it gets a little closer Snowjam on comedyfestival dot com. The Guardian spoke to propcomics Bill O’Neal has a solo show called The Amazing Banana Brothers.

It chronicles the pointian attempt of two stuntman brothers to slip on the most banana peels. Bill says, I have this illusion that I’m in charge of what’s going on, but there are all these bananas on stage and there’s sort of landmines waiting. I’ve gotten good at throwing myself around, but every once in a while, one of these suckers sends me crashing to the ground. That reminds me when I did the marathon in November. They were pretty late in the race, like miles sixteen Ford.

They were giving out bananas and people were throwing banana peels on the ground. When you run a race, it’s normal you grab your water and then you just throw your cup and the volunteers clear it up. So you’d go through the rest station and it’d be a mix of water on the ground and banana peels. I had a walk through these things. I mean I had to walk through them anyway.

It was miles sixteen seventeen twenty five and I was exhausted. But I’m like, this is not a good idea. Bill O’Neil’s show requires eighty fresh banana skins for each show. He says that adds up to a lot of peeling and cleaning. Weeks after doing the show at London Soho, theater staff found and aaron banana lounched in the ceiling.

In Lucy McCormick’s show, the stage is so submerged in tomato puret Confettian wine the audience helps her clean up. In the debut show by Sketch duo Grubby little mits, a thousand ping pong balls right down on the audience. Rosie Nichols is in that sketch dew and says, we want our show to be on the line between theater and comedy. Props play a really big part in that. So for Bill O’Neil’s Banana show, part of the challenge again, he’s only using the peels.

What do you do with the banana part of the banana? He had two thousand bananas? What do you do with them? They contacted the Edinburgh Zoo, they couldn’t take them. Eventually they found local businesses making smoothies and deep fried bananas.

O’Neil said, there were shows where my shoulder would pop out and I was writhing around trying to pop it back in. Just another thing that keeps it exciting, all right. If you want to go see the Amazing Banana Brothers that shows in London at the Soho Theater starting tomorrow through the thirteenth, And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. We got to talk about Dave Chappelle’s new special, The Dreamer. It is not good. I am Johnny Mick with your Daily Comedy News. But before we get to that, there’s other Chappelle news.

He stormed off stage the other night. Has that happened? Last Wednesday? Dave was at the hard Rock. Fans had paid over one hundred dollars a ticket.

There’s no video of the incident, but according to widespread reports, Dave Chappelle stormed off the stage after a man in the audience whipped out a cell phone. One fan on social media wrote, I saw Dave Chapelle the hard Rock tonight and he rightfully so dropped the mic and stormed off the stage. My favorite comedian ever, my first time seeing him so excited, and some p is starstar s not sure what that word’s supposed to be. Use your imagination. I’m not sure I had to self insert.

Another fan on social media wrote, some fing a hole pulled out his phone at the Dave Chappelle show at the Hollywood hard Rock. It is unclear to me how far into the show this happened.

Also, Dave had a few other shows over the weekend.

Apparently those went fine. For CNN, Dean Obadalla wrote an editorial titled Here’s who you should Blame for Dave Chappelle walking off stage. Dean writes, typically, I don’t blame the audience when things go off script, but in the case of Dave Schapelle walking off the stage, blah blah blah. In my view, one hundred percent the fault of the audience member. What was it that set Schapelle off?

A cell phone? Not one ringing in the audience, which every comedian has to deal with at some time or another, but a person using their phone record Chapelle’s act in violation of numerous explicit warnings. Not to what anyone who thinks this was an overreaction doesn’t get is that Chappelle and comedians at his level or not just concerned with getting laughs, but also with the business end of their craft. That’s why for years, comedians like Chappelle, Chris Rock, John Mullani, and others have been requiring audience members to lock their phones in a pouch to prevent the recording of the show. The measures are partly to prevent people in the audience from recording new material comedian is developing that isn’t ready for prime time.

Imagine seeing countless videos of famous comedians presenting material that wasn’t any good. Beyond that, there’s also the concern that if people can watch a well known comedian’s current tour for free on a bootleg video, they might not be willing to pay for a ticket. Or people may attend and complain they had already seen the jokes before. But something else is at play. Here’s some famous comedians don’t want to be recorded in case they say something offensive on stage that could hurt their career even lead to them being canceled.

In a case of Chapelle, however, I doubt that was his rationale for being one of the first comedians require audience members to lock their cell phones away during his show. During his shows, Chappelle’s history tells us he seems to love to court controversy even if audience members aren’t recording Zach Chappelle knows his jokes and comments will get pressed. Given a stature and pension for telling provocative jokes that sometimes upset people. Onto Dave Chappelle Dreamer, I’ve gathered a few reviews that I have not pre read other than you know, as I cut and paste them into my working document here that do you do the podcast off. I’ve seen the headlines and it seems people agree with me.

Dave Chappelle dreamer, It’s just not good. I think there were like eight jokes in the entire fifty five or so minutes of the special. I did laugh out loud at least twice. I think three times. I’ve explained in the past my psychotic emperor of rooms and drome that I have.

So when he went for humor, it was good, but a lot of speech giving the last twenty minutes is Dave as philosopher or something. Big long stories that got in one very funny punch line towards the end, but just not a funny special. And the front half when he started joking about punching down and cycled back to transgender jokes yet again, Dave, please let it go. I was watching it and I was thinking, this is pretty hack. This special has not quite jumped the shark, but this is this at least temporarily knocks Dave way down the list of comedians that are at the top of their game as we head into twenty twenty four.

Here I had been frustrated that the special came out New Year’s Eve, so I couldn’t incorporate it into my Top twenty three of twenty three list. It wouldn’t have made it. As I finished the special. I’m like, I couldn’t in good conscience put this on the list if I left off things like Jim Gaffigan or Mulaney or Bigly Gaffigan, all of those I did leave off. I’m like, I can’t put Schappelle ahead of any of those if I had ranked further.

Ah. Oh, this is the thirty sixth the best special of the year, maybe by far Chappelle’s worst. Sean McCarthy for The Daily Beast writes, Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix special proves he learned nothing. Sean writes, it feels so frustrating to sit watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervaise devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ plus community, where they could be doing anything else on stage, and then they have the temerity to question us the audience for not laughing with them. Cracked under the headline, Dave Chappelle mostly moves on from troll to philosopher In Dave Schpelle’s new special, it’s almost as if he has to get the you can’t tell me what to say is out of a system before we can get to the good stuff.

I’m not sure the good stuff ever arrived. Cracked. Minor spoilers here. The Dreamers signature bit is a long story he tells to end the show, to tale about the first HBO showcase when he was twenty two, and then details of that story. I won’t spoil it.

Yeah, it’s a twenty two minute story that has three jokes in it, maybe twenty two minutes. Crack rights. There’s still no excusing the handful of trans and gay jokes that dot the special half hearted punchlines as lazy. Yeah, they are lazy as they are unnecessarily goading. I feel like Dave handed in a special and didn’t have any material.

It’s like, all right, if I hand it an hour, I get a paycheck from Netflix. It almost feels like that there’s just there’s no material here. My Google search surfaced a blog by Ian Thomas Malone. I’m unfamiliar with Ian’s work, but if you go to Ian Thomas Malone dot com The subheading says Transgender comedian, film critic and podcast host Ian writes The Dreamer is a pathetic mess from a man who simply doesn’t care anymore. Ian writes The Dreamer is a lazy victory lap from a man with nothing else of value to offer the world beyond self congratulatory musings on his own legacy, a lethargic effort.

I’m solely it fueling the far right grievance industrial complex for another week. While Chappelle claims early on in The Dreamer that the controversy wasn’t worth the trouble, it’s kind of clear that it was, if only for one sad reason. Trans jokes are pretty much all he’s got left. There’s something fundamentally sad about watching Chappelle reflect on how hungry he used to be while he tries to fill time in a special and often forgets that it’s supposed to be funny. Great review there, I think you nailed it.

Comedian Shecky Green, passed away on Sunday at age ninety seven, is a really good. Oh bit of Shecky in The New York Times. I’m completely unfamiliar with Shecky’s work. Other than just knowing the name as someone who would get referenced when you want to do name check an old comedian, So I’ll refer you to the New York Times. Oh bit.

There. On Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson spotted out in public with current girlfriend Madeline Klein. They were Bobo’s Cafe. They were seen looking at the menu and ordering drinks. Boy, that’s some gossip.

TMZ says. We’re told Pete’s a regular at the place and he ordered an ice macho latte before smoking a cigarette outside while waiting for his drink. This was Pete’s first sighting after canceling last week’s shows. Pete is scheduled to play Foxwoods on January sixth. We’ll see if that happens.

Ricky Gervais has explained why Netflix didn’t bother promoting his new stand up special on Twitter or Ricky said Netflix aren’t doing any posters because they can’t be arst they think it’s going to be huge whatever, and Jim gaff again in his weekly post Force CBS wrote his own oh bit, Jim Wright, So I’m not going to use this time to write about my offbeat good looks. What a great father? Was or my humbleness. I’ll let the President do that in his impromptu televised address. Another issue that might hinder the integrity of this self memorial is the fact that I’m still live.

Therefore, this memorial is certainly incomplete. Sure, as of today, I’m a grossly undappreciated comedian and actor. But maybe in the future I will be acknowledged. I mean, probably not, but I might receive the respect I deserve. It’s possible a reviewer we’ll be able to describe one of my acting performances as something other than surprising.

Then again, I could have suddenly passed away prior to the airing of this commentary. All right, that’s your comedy news for today, Yeah, Chappelle, I don’t know, man. If you enjoy the program, A couple of ways you can support. You can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar.

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Caloroga Shark Media Coming he here. I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Kevin Hart is taking legal action over cheating allegations made by a former assistant. The assistant and made these allegations in an interview with YouTuber Tasha Kay. Heart’s complaint was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by People magazine.

The complaint centers on an online interview between Heart’s former personal assistant and YouTuber Tasha Kay. The assistant work for Heart’s company from August. The interview includes allegations from the former assistant that Kevin Hart had an affair at his office. She also claimed that she told Hart’s wife that Kevin was cheating on her and that the comedian had a gambling problem. A preview from the conversation was captured the interview that Kevin Hart will wish never came out.

The document alleges that November, someone affiliated with Tasha Kay contacted a representative of Heart, informing them that the interview would be damaging the Heart’s reputation. The individual stated that Tasha k would publish the interview unless Kevin Hart paid a ransom of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Heart contacted the police and issued a cease and desist order. It cited an NDA between Kevin Hart and the assistant. In twenty twenty two, musician Cardi b won a libel case against Tasha Kay, whom the rapper accused of making malicious claims against her.

Let’s stop off at Gossip Corner. According to page six, Chris Rock and TV personality Amber Rose were spotted hanging out New York City last week. Page six reports that Chris Rock and Amber Rose were all smiles during their quote unquote stroll and then made their way back to Chris Rock’s apartment. Page six says the couple did not show any signs of PDA and noted that the nature of their relationship is unknown. People are mad at Amy Schumer again.

She named her top film of twenty twenty three. She picked the movie The Zone of Interest. That is a movie about a commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was also a wacky rumor last week that Amy Schumer had been hospitalized after falling down the stairs. Not true at all.

I don’t know if you saw this video. There’s some sort of TikTok trend where you do stuff on stairs. I don’t know. I’m an old man. It’s all stupid to me.

Anyway, I’ve seen the video. In it, you see a blond woman dressed in a black long sleeve top, leggings and white socks bouncing sideways up a set of wooden stairs. Then the woman falls down the stairs. Some people said it was Amy Schumer. The caption was Amy Schumer hospitalized after attempting TikTok trend and sources say she’s in critical condition.

It was viewed over thirteen million times. It is not Amy Schumer. The gang at the av Club apparently didn’t like Ricky gervas as New Special as much as I did. It made my top twenty three of the year. They wrote, Ricky Gervais isn’t David Brent from the office.

He’s worse Aavy Club, writs Ricky Gervais Late as Netflix Special finds a new low for the once revolutionary comedian. Ricky Gervas no longer does comedian. He does grievance. Two minutes and two his latest hour long outrage bait for Netflix Armageddon. He’s talking about the backlash he generates and now he’s putting woke in his Twitter bio.

Later, amid ad libbing about Chinese people eating dogs, taking an applause break for saying that white people invented the inWORD and bragging about his nine bathrooms, he cries out f my legacy Today. Jervase starts jokes within my day and ends them with two genders alone on stage. It’s hard to imagine the types of people Jervas targets. A praid of straw men, women and children populate Jervas’s flights of fancy, but offer no truth. These are just jokes, Jervase reiterates, and therefore don’t have to make sense or, in the case of his musty Michael Jackson material, even be relevant.

They simply have to garner a wave of laughter and applause at the idea that white able body people are really the victims and all this treat people respect nonsense. I don’t think the folks at the Avy Club understood Ricky Special. It’s pretty funny. What do you want a comedy special? Debate?

Like what are we gonna do? Get up and do climate change jokes for an hour. I don’t know what people want from a stand up comedian Jim Gaffigan does his U I think they’re weekly comentary’s for CBS, and the recent one he talked about kids movies. Jim said, parenting as a series of sacrifices financial, physical, and emotional. You know how many horrible kids movies I’ve seen in the theater, Way too many.

I’ve voluntarily driven to the theater, bought multiple tickets, and sat through absolute garbage, objectively bad movies. I didn’t need to read a review. I didn’t need to watch a trailer. I knew nobody asked themselves. I wonder if the Smurfs is any good.

It’s not. They try to warn us by calling it the Smurfs. Hardest part the self censorship. After suffering through a movie like My Pretty Pony, any censured being would need to turn to someone and say, well, that was painful. But you can’t say that’s an eight year old, so you smile and go, hey, what did you think?

Yeah? I hope they make another one too. Vulcher wrote about the rise of crowd work crowd Work. They even have a photo castioned three of the most notable anti CrowdWork comedians. They are Kyle Kanaan, Mark Marin and Joe Parra.

In an October episode of Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird, Pete was speaking with guest Sam Jay about crowd work and they agree that they I hate it and the crowds are roudier. Sam Jay said, they absolutely think they’re part of it now and they’re like, I’m giving you a leg up culture writes. Over the past year and change, comedians have gone meta with the trend by needling crowdwork’s laziest tropes and satirizing CrowdWork using crowd work itself. An example the Gary Golman bit that I told you about yesterday, I won’t do it again. Maren recently started doing some crowd work, but not before offering the caveat that his crowd work would be pure and honest and boiled down to what crowd work really is.

He’s a Dynasty typewriter in LA and he starts asking audience members basic questions, then mocks their responses with intentionally juvenile insults. One tells him his name is Joshua, and that’s met with a reply of that’s effing stupid. Another says he’s originally from LA and he gets a reply of that’s where we are now, stupid content that he’s generated enough content. Mark Maron triumphally collects his phone from the audience member declares there’s like three tittok videos. In Joe Parra’s twenty twenty three special Slow and Steady, he pretends to engineer a spontaneest moment by abruptly asking the audience anyone here bang he used the F word.

Para instructs the camera operator to turn the camera around and proclaim Chappelle would probably like that. Crowd work. Australian comedian Sam Campbell started doing some crowd work and asked an audience a member, what is that a jumper? Or what is that they do that? For another thirty seconds or so, I beat passes in Campbell Declaire’s We’ve got a destigmatized crowd work.

I’m trying to talk to this lady. You think I like her stupid hoodie? It’s the worst hoodie I’ve ever seen. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News for your New Year’s Eve plans. If you’re gonna watch Ryan Seacrest, a couple comedians and beyond gab Iglacias, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Miss Pat We’re told each comedian will appear throughout the show, discussing different topics. Gab Iglesias will discuss his favorite fashion trends of twenty twenty three, Sebastian will touch upon pop culture moments in twenty twenty three that ain’t right, and Miss Patt will discuss projects that went on strike this year. Dave Chappelle specials out on Netflix Today, Dave Chappelle The Dreamer.

We’ll see what comes out of that one. I’ll talk about that one during the week, The Wall Street Journal profiled Dave Chappelle a little bit, and they were talking about his attempts to open a comedy club and Yellow Springs. The Journal tells us the comedy and music club bears his logo a white sea on a field of red, black and green. Outside on a video screen, there’s still construction fencing around the brick building. Restaurant one open for months and the venue’s current name, which is why s Firehouse could change.

But Dave is already breaking in a performance room designed for less than two hundred people. He’s performed there three times over a recent weekend for audiences including locals and family, according to one attendees. As the Journal, Chappelle said the club was one of his proudest achievements and linked to the village’s history as a haven for artists, freethinkers, and the liberal politics of Antioch College, where Chappelle’s late father taught. The Journal’s article then gets into the various controversies Dave finds himself in. They write.

Chappelle’s critics say he’s been using the global platform of Netflix to hammer on vulnerable groups, harping on their supposed sensitivities and social ranking. Former fans call it a fixation that damages his legacy. Chappelle defends such material. Mark Gomez attended a Chappelle’s show in San Antonio. Mark said I just respect him and the way he isn’t caught up in the machine of the industry.

It then gestured to all the ninety dollars Chappelle hoodies that were for sale, said this is all money, but it doesn’t seem like money is driving all his decisions. Meredith intended to show in Mississippi be and said that she’s hyper sensitive to Chappelle’s bits about LGBTQ people because one of her two adult sons is gay. Mereth said they hadn’t informed her son about seeing a comic that he can’t stand. Meredith’s husband, Brent, said he’s in immedia bubble just like the rest of us. He’ll give us hell, but he’ll understand.

I can laugh at what Chappelle says, or I can dismiss it, or I can be offended, but that’s fine because the next thing he says will probably be funny. Nineteen year old Arlow found the show funny. Arlow has cerebral palsy. In that show, Chappelle began with his mock promise of doing all handicapped jokes, and then Chappelle pretended to be a disabled person in the audience annoyed because they wanted jokes about the expensive trans people. Nineteen year old Arlow said that was the funniest part of the set because I could totally relate.

In The Daily Beast, Sean McCarthy writes, that this was the year that TikTok ruined comedy thinks Matt Rife. Sean recaps Matt Rife’s year back in January, and Matt re released his debut special titled OnlyFans on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. Then in February, Ryfe put out his second special, Matthew Stephen Wright on the Platform Moment. He re released that hour on his YouTube channel in April that has gotten more than eighteen million views. Then the Netflix special Natural Selection, Rife’s third comedy special in less than a year.

Maybe that’s why the material wasn’t good. I mean, how much do you have? McCarthy wrote, Because TikTok broke Matt Rife big time. His example somehow broke the brains of many other, mostly older comedians in the industry who suddenly believed they needed their own crowd work clips to replicate Rife’s rise to fame. Sam Morrel included captioning and reaction shots with the crowd work portions of his special.

Joe List made a running joke of hoping to generate clips in his latest special. Even Joe Parra got in on the action. A flood of crowd work only specials hit YouTube, Matteo Lane, Big, Jay Stavros, Jessica Kerson, t J Miller. Kyle Kanade mocked the trend on his social media and told Sean earlier in the year, I hate bad crowd work and the fact that people will perceive it as this easy bounce towards a viral clip. And so everybody’s putting out clips where I’m like, I would delete this from my phone if I took at a show, you put it online.

There’s this mentality of like, just as long as there’s content out there, Kyle says, I’m like, Wow, what a sea of cramp we’ve created. McCarthy wright, So what’s the problem. Gary Goleman lays it out in the opening minutes of his special. Gary says, I just want to let the people in the front rows know they’re safe for me asking what they do for work. I remember going to comedy shows when I was in high school and later, and the comedian will ask somebody what they did for work and then proceeds to ridicule their profession.

And I just remember thinking, if I’m Emverer in the front row a comedy show and a comedian and asked me what I do for work? I’ll stand up and say, what do you do for work? I didn’t come here to be forcibly cast in your TikTok video, you lazy hack. Sewan adds the dirtiest little secret about crowd work, it’s not actually stand up comedy. It instead transforms the stand up comedians to the thing they claim to hate the most and respect the least.

Improvisers Canaine says, if anything, I feel bad for the TikTok stores, like, all right, well you have a lot of followers. How you going to monetize that, Well, we’ll putting you in a comedy club. But they’re not stand ups. They’re TikTok folks, and they go and sell hundreds of tickets and people get there and are like, oh yeah, yeah, ten minutes of material. Now you’re stage for an hour.

I don’t even blame them. I blame the managers. Whoever gets a hold of them just puts them out there to make that quick percentage of follow them before they burn out and realize they’re not stand ups. Man. Late stage capitalism affects us all.

Rolling Stone dusted off what they called a previously unpublished interview with Tom Smothers from twenty fifteen under the headline Tom Smothers made the Variety Show cool, quoting Tom, I didn’t want to do the standard bs. I’ve shared this article in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Some mothers talked about fighting with the network and he had this theme song they wanted to do, and the network was like, no, no, no, you gotta have something like Bob Open thanks for the memories, something memorable. His mother said. We thought, oh Christ, that was the first argument we had.

Rolling Stone asked about booking rock bands like the Who did you get grief for that? No, none at all. Occasionally something would come up, like when Sonny and Share were on and there was this big controversy they could see her nipples through her duress. They wanted to put bandages over them. Jefferson Airplane came out and Grace Slick did Crown of Creation in blackface.

I don’t know why no one said a thing. Some mothers also talked about doing pot jokes. Did the censors flag it? Yeah. We kept making up things for it, like Mary Jane and a couple of different names I’ve forgotten.

And we had Goldie Keith who did the weather report. She said, if you have unslightly roaches around the office, send them in. We’ll take care of them.

And then we got rolled up joints in the mail from the kids.

Brian Reagan is playing Minneapolis tonight for New Year’s Eve? Does he always work New Year’s Eve? Brian said, I used to like to take it off and host a party, but I’m changing my tune on that. It’s good for audiences because they can go and see my show and still go out afterwards and party as long as we don’t have to be on stage at midnight. I used to ring in the New Year at comedy clubs and the staff on hand out noisemakers.

Adults think they’re adults, but they act like children when they’re given something that makes noise. Reagan talked about where he likes to film his specials, specifically theaters. Brian says, as much as I like comedy clubs, they often have people at tables. That means people of drinks and are looking at each other and they start talking to each other. Becomes less of a show and more of a party.

In a theater, the audience is more focused when people are in a place that’s cool and fun and comfortable. It puts them in a good mood. One less hurdle you have to jump over. If I’m not funny, at least there’s some beautiful stuff to look at. And that is your comedy news for the year.

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