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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. John Mulaney’s first stand up special in five years doing really well on Netflix, So streaming ratings are delayed a little bit. This is for the week of April twenty four through the thirtieth. No, I didn’t record this a month ago. That’s just how long it takes them to put these out.
John Mulaney’s Baby Jay gathered three hundred and seventy nine million minutes of viewing that first week. It ranked tenth among original series. It’s the second stand up special to make the Nielsen streaming rankings this year, after Chris Rock’s Special. Chris Rock Special had four hundred eighteen minutes his first week, although that was in thirty six hours because that came out on a Saturday, so Saturday and Sunday, Mullaney had a couple more days that week. That following week, Rock had seven hundred ninety eight million minutes.
So we can compare those two in case you’re curious what else does well. The Diplomat was the number one overall title that week, and over on Apple TV, Ted Lasso had a series high growing seven hundred and ninety five million minutes of viewing John. You never talk about Bert Craish, I know, right. He spoke to the La Times about Mark Hamill playing his dad and they were curious about their chemistry. Bert said, our first week of working together was on Zoom during the pandemic.
We started talking about the movie. The first thing he said was, why do you perform with your shirt off? Couldn’t you wear a nice collared shirt or a blazer? And my dad says that to this day. Mark was my dad through the whole movie, even off camera.
Remember one time asking Mark for parenting advice and he gave me advice, And that night I was on the phone with my dad and he gave the exact same advice Mark Amil did. He talked a little more about doing his own stunts. He said anytime they were like, we’re gonna need you to do like a flying double kick, or are we gonna have a stunt man do it? And Burt was like, no, I can do it. I was really good at that.
I think it’s because I grew up in Florida and we all practiced professional wrestling growing up. I did way more of putting my body into harm stuff than I thought I would do.
And then the stuff I thought it’d be good at, like the fight scenes.
That took a lot of work, and memorizing it right because it’s a fight sequence. Just memorizing the choreography, it’s hard. If you don’t do it correctly. You can punch people’s faces, which I did a lot, and all the fight scenes I punched someone. I paid the piper.
When I got home, I went to get an MRI and they’re like, you’re ruptured your tenants. He needs surgery. So I did the surgery and then I sold out a show at Red Rocks in Colorado. What are you gonna do? Mark Hamill told the Music dot Com there’s no off switch with Bertie’s so genuine and so authentic.
It’s not like he created a character. And he’s very much different on stage. What you see is what you get, and I think that’s what’s so appealing about it. He just has an exuberance that’s infectious. So Bert tells the story is Colade in the film.
I’ve a Babbic. She’s from the Eastern Bloc and she has never seen Star Wars. She says to me, I’ve never seen Star Wars. Don’t bring it up. Bert goes really, and she goes, yeah, I don’t want to be embarrassed.
So we sit down for dinner and I go, hey, you’re a big Star Wars fan, right, and she goes, I love it. It’s such a wonderful film. And Mark Hamill goes, what did you like about it? She goes, ah, you know, typical good guy baguy thing. Bert goes, what’s your favorite character in Star Wars?
She says Chewbacca and then he says to her, can you do an impression of Chewbacca? And she goes, of course, and in a weird gravelly voice, goes, Hi, I’m Chewbacca. Mark Camill goes, you’ve never seen the movie, have you? The smart List guys have a documentary streaming on Max. Hey Max, people put the HBO back.
Max just looks like dime store streaming service. It just looks so cheap. You’ve ordered it down with crap but not crap. Is SmartLess on the Road a limited series currently streaming. It was directed by Sam Jones, and he follows the SmartLess guys as they travel across the country to Boston, Brooklyn, DC, Chicago, Wisconsin, and La.
How to come about? Sam Jones says, Jason asked me if he thought there was a documentary. I kind of pitched them with the trust me enough and give me a key to your hotel rooms. I asked if they’d stay in the same hotel and travel together and not of a big crowd of people with them, if they could let me have access at all times, that could be really cool because it’d be like we’re on the road together. And they agreed to it.
I think they’re all such brilliant comedians. They’re all very open to being themselves. That was the thing, whether camera’s on them or not, those are the guys. They did have some questions before showing to them, wonder if they’d want me to cut things they felt were too personal when they’re not in the public, but they wanted to be transparent as possible. They have minds are quick enough to find the humor without prepping anything.
Ricky Gervais has directed his first BBC project in a decade. Ricky has directed Seven Minutes, a show about two people awkwardly contemplating suicide. The description a desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end at all until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward The head of BBC Comedy, John Petrie, he’s spending in the year identifying quote a package of measures that industry, government and regulators can come together on a safeguard comedy’s future. He says, comedy producers remain concerned about the rising costs of making comedy for TV.
As the chief corporate clown in TV comedy, I feel a huge sense of responsibility to help try and protect our incredible genre from TMZ. Congressman Adam Shift tries his end at live stand up comedy once a year. I had no idea. He was working on a set at the la Improv that one hosting a fundraiser introducing professional comics, and he likes to mix in a few jokes of his own. He says he’s performed full stand up acts at his annual fundraiser in the past, usually writing his own jokes during a cross country flight.
Keep an eye on that one. Roy Wood Junior remembers his first set. He said, I had a joke. I was about nineteen, and I was mad because my roommate would eat some of my food but not all of it. That joke, eat all of it if you’re going to eat it.
I had a seven up. He drank six of them. I had a one up, he said, in nineteen ninety eight. That’s what I had. It was the best I could do.
This is interesting. He got a journalism degree from Florida A and M, but he said it fiscally made more sense to continue comedy after college than pursue a straight up career in journalism. My love was print, but print didn’t pay. I had two print officers for fourteen grand. But my projections for stand up I was going to make seventeen that year, twenty two the next year, and the second year I wound up making twenty seven.
He says, I’m a stand up but also within my jokes, I’m trying to inform you, I’m trying to give you new information. I’m trying to give you a different way of looking at something and at its core. To me, that’s what journalism is. New Jersey stand up Emily Page recently found out that her ex boyfriend has been stealing her tweets and kind of tweaking him a little bit and then passing them off as his own jokes months after she originally posted them. Emily tweeted side by side screenshots at the original jokes and their knockoffs.
In an attempt to reclaim custody of her comedy Wow and from The New York Post, a comedian has ignited a debate over the best karaoke songs to perform. Ben Brainerd has three million TikTok followers. Huh. He says, if you don’t know what makes a good karaoke song, that’s fine. I’m here, and I’m objectively correct when I say these things.
He didn’t name the songs in any particular order, but he did name some songs. He said. One of those songs Kelly clarkson Since You’ve Been Gone, obviously, also Aretha Franklin’s Respects. He calls it a great song, even better karaoke. The next one up one of my favorites.
But I don’t know how people do this one, because what the heck are the lyrics? I know you think you know the lyrics, but think about it, do you? Dexi’s Midnight Runners. Come on, Eileen, now, I know you think you know the song. Here, I’ll do it for you, all right.
Poor old Johnny Ray, you’ve got that line sounded sat upon the radio, moved a million hearts in Mono. You don’t know that line. Next one, our mothers cried sang along. Who’d blame them? But I’m sure the end of that song is very good.
Okay. Next one up, Weezer’s Island in the Sun. It’s kind of a I love Weezer. That’s kind of a flat song. Is that a good karaoke song?
See? He’s got me doing it now. And the most controversial song he listed rims it’s the end of the world as we know it. He said. Listen to me.
If you get on a stage with a mic in your hand and you don’t know every word, the audience is going to find it the worst thing they’ve ever heard in their lives. No saving it, all right. Social media users him, Dan, I know you’re thinking about the list. One said, how about the I Would Walk five hundred miles song? That’s a good one, Sweet Caroline, kind of hackey, mister brightside piano man living on a prayer, and one commenter said, any song by weird Owl’s a good karaokee song, even better if you choose the song it’s a parod of, but still sing weird Al’s lyrics.
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