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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Krascher told USA Today, my wife never parties. But if we’re out to breakfast in Hawaii and she goes, what’s this kolua coffee thing? This sounds good.
It might be eight am and I have no plans for drinking, and now I’m like, all right, we’re getting wasted today. It’s the energy that I love about partying, the spontaneousness of it. And every friend group has that one teetotaler who never wants to go out or have fun. And the second you break their spirit, you have permission to party, which happens to be the name of his tour. Funny how that worked out.
It’s the permission to Party tour, and Sure says he will continue to make fun of his wife, Leanne. I love my wife, but if I have a good joke where I can trash her, I do it happily. We have a rule in our relationship. If it’s funny, it plays. Gary Goleman talked to you Third Coast Review about the old NBC series Last Comic Standing.
I used to hate that show because I was running comedy. It’s serious and people would watch it and be like, Hey, how come you never play anything by the guy that has eight seconds of material that I saw on TV last night? And the answer would be, because he has eight seconds of material, Golman, Who’s got more than eight seconds? And I just remember I was feeling pretty good at the time, and I really had nothing going on in terms of my career. I couldn’t get any roadwork.
And this sounds like an exaggeration, but I don’t think I had three hundred dollars on the bank when it started. I just remember I went into more credit card debt to buy clothes so that I could look good on TV.
And then I just kept getting passed further along and it was really exciting.
It was interesting because it gave me a touring career for about a year and a half, and then it was back to where it was. I felt like it was going back to the beginning. It was a little frustrating. I mean, most people never get to have that kind of exposure, so I was grateful for it, but it was also like, oh, it didn’t set you up for the rest of the life in terms of touring. Whereas it turns out, it was an appearance on Conan that kind of set me up for that.
Specifically, Paton Oswald shared my appearance on Conan where I talked about abbreviating the fifty States, and that gave me a foundation that I feel like has grown. But it was strong enough just on that that I could tour the country and pay my rent every month, which is really as you know, all we want is a comedian to be able to give it our all, not have to split our energy and brain power the day job all the time, so that was really helpful. Gary talked about his current sure Grand Delinquent, saying it’s a little bit of a prequel to the Great Depression, but it’s a little more theatrical, and that it’s not all hilarious stand up. This is some stories that are real bummers, so it’s more of a challenge to perform it because our oxygen as comedians is laughter. And there’s a part where it’s hard to say where the audience is enjoying themselves because it’s not a very funny story.
It’s sad and it’s just straight information rather than a joke or would you comment. So it was challenging, but not so challenging that it was overwhelmed. I felt over my head when we were rehearsing it, and that’s a really good place to be as an artist, or an athlete, or really anything. You should give yourself enough of a challenge where you wonder whether you’re equipped or whether you’ll be able to rise to the occasion. So I think the show’s really fulfilling.
I mean, it was critically acclaim but I think more importantly, it was a little bit out of my comfort zone. My comfort zone is saying funny things, and this involved me not being funny for part of it. It’s still a comedy show, but there’s a lengthy story about a half an hour where people gasp about and really take it away with them. I think it’s sort of a gradual evolution as a performer and writer. Just start doing these observational jokes and then do something very personal with the great depression.
Then do this, which is personal. I’m also out of my comfort zone in terms of acting and performing. Starvaros Halgi has caught up with GQ about masculinity and Starvarro said, I definitely have a glaring difference from the traditional idea of what a masculine man is I’ve been fat my whole life. I received the scorn of traditional masculinity. I definitely felt that growing up.
I’m pretty lucky that the funny fat guy’s an archetype. Every crew of bullies is a fat, wise cracking guy. That’s there. I played football, I was athletic, whatever, but that was also me trying to fit in a way that sometimes probably wasn’t that good for me. I was in school plays my whole life, and then something shifted in seventh grade.
I remember getting an offered a part, and I think it was you’re a good man, Charlie Brown or something, but I wasn’t Charlie. I got offered some other part, and I was like, theater is gay, dude. I was like, our theater teacher’s gay. I don’t want to be around that guy. It was afft up.
It was pure sour grapes, the fact that I wanted to be Charlie Brown. Then I was like, I’m thirteen, it’s time to get strong, it’s time to be a football player. I certainly would have been better off in the long run for my life i’d stuck with theater. I would have still played sports. Don’t get me wrong, but I just admitted I wasn’t good enough to get the part, and I should have worked her bounce my life out that way instead of pretending like that’s stuff’s not for me when I got my feelings hurt and lashing out in a very traditionally negative way.
That is a fantastic answer. That’s somebody who understands themselves. I like that answer a lot, he continued. I think about with myself. When I was fourteen fifteen, I was a loser.
I was nervous to talk to girls. I didn’t feel comfortable in my body, was getting attacked for being fat. Luckily, I was going to make fun of people. But if there’s some ripped dude who’s good at beating people up, was like, and I had to get chicks. All you have to do is control women and treat them poorly.
If they shot me with that, Andrew Tait ray when I was fourteen, stuff might have been bad for me. All we had was Dane COOKSDS Mark Norman caught up with al dot com. They were curious about one of Mark’s jokes and how Mark Norman found out how Werner von Brown and other rocket scientists who helped the US reach the moon were Nazis. Mark said, for me, he was just driving around Huntsville and seeing all the von Braun signs everywhere. Then I googled it.
I was like, who the hell’s von Braun? How do I not know this guy?
And then the rest is his.
I was blown away. And plus, when you do a gig somewhere, you need some local stuff to riff on. So that’s all it was. And I said, this is perfect. It killed.
You can’t go wrong with Nazis. I was cooking with gas Chamber and everybody liked it. Wow.
And then you know, Huntsville is such an anomaly because like, I’m from Louis…
And you’ve got the smartest people on the planet as well, so it’s a nice economy. Mark self spoiled about his current tour and said, I’ve got a whole chunk on a zimpic. I’ve got a whole chunk on AI new advances to technology and chat GPT and all this stuff. And I’m also trying to go more personal. I just had a baby, so I’m doing a bunch of baby stuff.
But then you also don’t want to be the baby guy, so I’m always tweaking and tinkering. Let’s go at Cosca cut up with Philippines Vogue. She’s writing her third stand up special and it is taking a different approach. She explains, for the first two stand up specials, I always chase the joke, but now I’m trying to do this thing where maybe I service the whole story first. She finds that writing jokes first can be limiting.
She explains, sometimes she’ll go, oh wait, that joke about dogs doesn’t fit into this hour of themes. You have to take that out and you do with that joke. You have to live in the drama first for it to become funny. Eventually, Greg Guttfeld got up at the LA Times. He was gloating about being number one.
Of course, his show was on at ten pm Eastern, not eleven thirty five pm Eastern, a fact that the Gutfeld camp loves to ignore, and also on the West Coast, Fallon and Colbert and Kimmel air at eleven thirty five and Gutfeld airs at seven pm. Anyway, Gutfeld is number one in the ten pm time slot and says, I get ratings every single day, so I was able to watch us win. I guess it wasn’t that surprised by it. I just knew there was going to take time. I thought, yeah, maybe in a couple of years, but it was like in a matter of months.
He talked about the difference between Red Eye and the current show. Red Eye was operating on the assumption that you really had a select group of people awake at two or three in the morning. It wasn’t trying to be a cult like pleasure. It just happened to be that way. We did want it to be for everyone.
Though now we have ten times the viewers and we’re number one, So on my mind, I’m going I want the same sensibility, but I don’t want to completely confuse the viewers. I realized that my humor on Red Eye was deliberate, up tuse in some ways, and not really deliberately. It was just surreal and bizarre, and maybe that one fly in primetime or late night. But like Red Eye, our shows now is interesting and unpredictable as that show was. And that’s ninety percent of the fight.
Now, this next section here, I’ve sat on this story for weeks. I don’t know if you noticed. It was busy. But all this happened before the Kimmel gait, but I think it happened after Colbert Gate. Gottfeldt said, I think the key is that nothing you should say should warrant an apology, Meaning if I were to insult you, you’re not going to demand an apology for me.
When somebody wants an apology for comment, I always ask them, how would that apology sound? I’m sorry that the jokes I made hurt your feelings? How insulting is that to the person you’re apologizing to. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings with this insult. It’s like the people that are demanding an apology don’t even see how absolutely insulting it is that they’re asking for it.
Santem Johnson is one of vulturous comedians You should and will know or whatever that thing is called. Anyway, I like it a lot, even though I can never remember what they call it. That’s funny. I mean, she’s been around for a minutes. She was on last Comic Standing in twenty fourteen was a just for laughs new face.
That same year, Welter asked, what was your worst show ever? The answer. Probably the first time I did a main spot at the Comedy Store. It was year one and I was ambitious. I’ve been doing five minute spots to warm up the show, and I thought, now that I’m doing a main spot, which is fifteen minutes, I needed all new material.
I went up after Gerrod Carmichael, and I watched him turn a bomb in a win, so I thought I’d have the same luck. Nope, they didn’t boo, but the silence was deafening. The friends in the audience who came out to support me were confused and embarrassed. I was literally because I clearly didn’t have the confidence or experience to get through the bombs. I think the audience had said good night.
When I tried leaving the stage, the host was nowhere to be found, so I had to stand there an awkward failure. Ooh, that’s brutal. What’s your biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since becoming a comedian? Interesting answer here. I was under the impression that if you tell me you’re gonna pay me, you’ll just do it.
But I learned very early that if you don’t speak up, people won’t offer it to you. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Toronto comedian Brady Coyle. Brady’s favorite comedian growing up George Carlin. I listened to his albums, particularly Complaints and Grievances and Jamming in New York saw I’m Live when I was fourteen. I was the only one in the crowd under fifty.
I love Carlin’s ability and willingness to analyze politics, dissect the English language, comment on human behavior, extrapolate where societal trans will lead us, and then also make sure to spend five minutes on for jokes. Ah, who are your favorite comedians right now? Brady Coyle, I’m a big fan of John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, Pete Holmes, Apergetzi, Luis k Dean Cole, and Tom Poppa. Mike Birbigley is probably my favorite. He’s a hilarious and captivating storyteller.
To find new comics, Brady says, nothing beats seeing comedy live at the venue in person. Alternatively, I like watching full specials because it allows the viewer to get a sense of who comedian is and you get to see jokes they crafted over a long period of time, and that it’s your comedy news for today, see you tomorrow,