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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Deadline did a big article about how stand up comedy has never been bigger. Comedians are setting records for attendance. Take Nate Pergadsey, for example, who earlier this year set an Amazon streaming record before going on to sell a record number of tickets to a show at Nashville’s Bridge Done Arena. Yeah, remember he sold one extra seat to break the record.
He also brought ESNL it’s highest rated episode of the season and easily the best episode of the season. They talk about Matt Rife, a quote young up and comer with ten plus years under his belt. Pick one, who hit the upper echelons of comedy seemingly overnight after blowing up on TikTok.
Also operating at the highest level as Gabe Fluffy Iglesias, who sold out Dod…
According to German data gathering platform Statista, I put a little Latin spin on that is Germans would say Statista, where they’d be like Stastata or something mean sounding. Anyway, those guys say yearly revenue from the comedy market in the US has increased from one point seven billion dollars in twenty seventeen to three point one billion in twenty twenty three. Paul Star’s top touring comic of twenty twenty two was Do you want to Guess? It? Was Sebastian Manescalco at over forty four point nine million dollars whoo.
Deadline spoke to a few comedians, including Trevor Wallace, whose debut special Terodactyl debuts on Prime Video November fourteenth. That’s Tuesday. Trevor says, stand up is cool again. I feel like ten fifteen years ago you would kind of go, oh, there’s comedy on the cruise. We could stop by.
But now it’s like all these clubs are packed every night. Fahim Anwar says, the way people were excited to discover bands, people are excited to discover new comedians, and that never existed before. The conversation turned to Late Night. Fahim said, Late Night’s great. I grew up with it, but it did feel a little more antiquated after the pandemic, right, there’s something about it.
COVID kind of accelerated its dissent, but it’s still fun. I don’t know it’s a story, Ki, It’s like baseball at this point. Fortune Fimestra ass what does Late Night look like going into this new era podcast or interviewing everybody all the time. So what they did that was unique, now everybody’s doing it in some fashion. Deadline asked the comedians about the trade off between licensing your stand up special or producing yourself and keeping the rights.
Fortune said, I think people have to decide what they want to do, what they want to invest in. Are they okay with paying for the production costs? This business is all about looking down the road. What’s the big picture. If your big picture is to make money off a special, then that’s not the way to go.
If your big picture is I want all these eyes on it, I want to sell tickets, then that’s an option. Andrew Santino said, you want to own your own material. I think the music industry taught us one thing about owning your own IP. Not to talk crap, but yeah, Comedy Central, for a long time you were kind of a slave to their game, and that worked at the time. But now it’s changing for the better.
So people get to own their own stuff, distribute how they want. That only opens us up for more opportunities. Whereas a movie in a sitcom deal was once the be all end all for comics, that’s not necessarily the case any longer. Faiman War said, I’ve been doing stand up and live long enough to see it change. It’s weird because the blueprint was the same for so long and things have changed at light speed in the last ten fifteen years, and I think it’s liberating.
I think it. But who’s the stand up comedian? Because back in the day you had to be the whacky neighbor on a sitcom or have a sitcom for people to come to see you do the road, whereas now that’s not the case. It’s almost a hindrance. I have friends and stuff who were on sitcoms and they couldn’t draw on the road just because pop culture is so fractured and segmented.
Now things are getting very very niche, so acting has become less integral to our job. Sam morel So the Columbus Underground. I wish I was just better at sitting in front of a computer and writing. Occasionally I’ll come up with stuff. I used to be really good at it.
Now I think a lot of my jokes come from just like walking around doing stuff and then I’m like, wait, this could be funny.
And then sometimes I’ll just write it down.
And sometimes I’ll be with somebody and I say, and I kind of gauge your reaction, and either way, even if they don’t laugh, I write it down because if I think it’s funny, maybe there’s something I can do with it.
And then I just throw it in like a word dock and try to punch it up, make it …
I’m pretty bad. Sometimes they get stuck in a routine and you’re just like airport. White comedians have so many airport jokes. Well, that’s where we are constantly, so you do need new experiences. I went out on vacation, which I never do.
You get some joke ideas out of that, a little open up different parts of your brain, you know. I never thought about that about the airport. Very insightful. The aforementioned Matt Rife was on Jimmy Fallon during the week. Raife talked about doing comedy for eleven years, not being able to get a special or get a TV show, not even being able to get on the Tonight show.
Raife said these things just wearing adding up and a certain point you go, am I delusional? Maybe I’m not funny, maybe I’m not supposed to do this, And then just one random video kind of changed everything. Raife said. He reluctantly began posting videos on TikTok At the beginning of twenty twenty two. He was invited to Just for Laughs in Montreal.
Later that year, an improv comedy show he started with comedian Paul Elia was invited to Just for Last Montreal, but not the Matt Rife part. Oh Ouch. Organizers told him he could perform, but they wouldn’t pay him for his work or pay for his travel at all. He sucked up his pride and went anyway. He had an edited video called The Lazy Hero ready to post, but was feeling pretty down, starting to wonder what the point was.
A friend told him go ahead and post it since was already edited. They went out for the night. The video went quote insanely viral over the next couple of days, got twenty to thirty million views. Where I’ve said, it’s been unreal. My entire life has changed in a matter of fourteen months.
I’m so grateful, going from playing clubs for thirty five people who got free tickets to breaking ticket Master is insane. Good for him. I’ve listened to a few interviews with him. He seems really grounded. Westward to ask Jay Farrow what inspired him to get in a comedy and do impressions, Jay said, I started doing impressions when I was six.
The kids at private school were corny. I would just roast and cook everybody because I realized, y’all aren’t gangsters. All your parents at Bentley’s and your members of the country club. There’s no gangster stuff going down with you. Once it game to that realization, I just started getting up in front of my friends to perform.
What are your favorite impressions? He says, I don’t really have a list, but I like when people asked me to do the obscure ones like John Mulaney, Jason Momoa, Jason Statham, or Joaquin Phoenix. I like those because they’ve been asked a million times to do Kevin Hard. I’ve been asked twenty million times to do Ddie Murphy. I’ve been asked forty or fifty million times to do Denzel and Barack.
So when I get a chance to do the weird ones, it’s much more rewarding for me as a performer. Apparently, Kamil nan Gianni has good watch game. This from the rob Report. Kamil was playing at the Ice House Comedy Club in Basadena and the robber Report noticed he was wearing a watch, specifically a two tone GMT watch reference number sixteen seventy fifty three, which, as you know, hails from the early eighties and mostly follows the design ethos of its direct predecessor, the sixteen seventy five, which debuted in the seventies. Yeah, everybody knows that, Robber Report.
Come on, everyone knows that. For those of you who don’t, both feature a forty millimeters stainless steel case that’s capped by acrylic crystal no kidding, a yellow gold crown and matching gold bezel ring. The dark brown nibble dial includes protruding hour markers alongside Rolex’s signature Mercedes hands and a cyclop state window at three o’clock. All that and circled, of course by a striking split colored brown and gold bezel insert that’s become synonymous with the root beer nickname. As you guys know, the sixteen seventy three five is no longer produced, but you can get a pre owned one via Bob’s Watches.
It will just run you twelve four hundred ninety five dollars. The Robber Report add if you want to complete the Camail Nanjiohnny look, who was wearing a blue knit polo, you can get that at Todd’s Nighter four one hundred and sixty nine bucks. Final day of the New York Comedy Festival. Zarna Garg plays Chelsea at three point thirty seven o’clock. Good Eggs presented by Mark Norman to Gary Veder and Matt Ruby.
That’s a Grammar seat. Brett Goldstein at the Beacon at eight, Andrew de Smuke’s at the New York Comedy Club East Village at eight, and a bunch of smaller shows. And once again I could delete a book mark. As I mentioned yesterday, my browser gets quite crowded. Steve Martin took to Instagram.
He’s happy that his book was banned by the Florida Public School System. Steve Martin instead so proud of my book Shopgirl Band in Collier County, Florida. Now people who want to read it will have to buy a copy. Tommy Tiernan shared a terrifying mid air experience. So there’s Tommy.
He’s on the plane, he’s minding his own business, and suddenly a passenger attempts to open the plane’s door. According to Tommy, he heard roaring and shouting before watching the person try to open the aircraft’s door were mid air. Tommy said the person in question shouted, I’m not a terrorist as he was tackled to the floor. Tommy said, I would suspect he’d either taken a drug a couple of days beforehand and was now in the horrors and wanted to get off the plane, or he’d taken something getting on the plane thinking it’d be great to crack, crack being an Irish slang term for fun. The edibles are everywhere in California.
The captain then made an announcement to inform passengers of an incident on board and was forced to reroot to Winnipeg. Apparently, the police handcuffed the man before removing him from the plane. Tommy said, we landed in Winnipeg and the police came on. He was a bit sad and concerned, but he wasn’t fit for flying. He was more than drugged and more than hungover.
He was a stranger to himself. He wasn’t right in the head. Everybody was relieved when he left, and everybody felt sorry for him. But once you start to open the safety door, you know, California was a treat lads. Tommy McNamara’s debut comedy special and new album Smoldering, now available on YouTube and via a special Thing Records courted live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn.
You can hear Tommy’s stories about free hot dogs leading to Diet’s Harry rock Bottom becoming a regular at the Shell Station, and bonfire misapps. Tommy McNamara Smoldering. I was checking out some clips. It’s pretty good. John Klees is at the Peoria Civic Center tonight.
I love the title of a show. It is called an Evening with the Late John Klees. The show’s framed as a funeral for John. He pokes fun at false reports about his own death earlier in twenty twenty three, Clees jokes, I died several weeks ago, and you’ve probably read about it in the papers. But fortunately I was able to rise again on a third day, which is an old trick which my maternal grandmother taught me which is very useful because I need the money.
John said, when I go out on stage, the people who hate me haven’t bought tickets. Only the people who like me have bought tickets. I always got a lovely, warm reception. If I made everybody laugh in the past, then I’ll make them laugh on the evening. In question, part of the show is a Q and A John said, a lot of the mask about Monty Python.
I’ll ask who my favorite python is and who’s gonna die next. There’s all sorts of dark humor that I enjoy, and we always get something about what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I looked it up, roughly twenty point one miles per hour. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, popc Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocketcast, wherever you get your shows.
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