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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Right, We’ve got that big bird Kreisher special coming out on March fourteenth, so he’s been making the rounds on The Hollowed Reporter did that big fluff piece with him a couple of weeks back. Bert said, I take my shirt off naturally. I’m really just not a big fan of shirts. I remember I went to a big meeting in Hollywood and I had to wear an FFF and college shirt, which is the worst We got done, and I walked out and ripped my shirt off immediately.
I was still in the CBS a lot, and I didn’t realize the producer was walking out behind me and saw me take my shirt off. He was like, dude’s the real deal. He does it for real. The Hollowed Reporter asked, bird Kreisher, do you feel like Hollywood knows what to do with you? Bert said, no, I don’t think they have, but I also don’t think it’s their fault.
Listen actors are so much better than comics in almost every respect. Like they don’t mind waiting around, they don’t mind getting a line read, they don’t mind listening to a director. It’s like they really love the collaboration comics. Comics are like, no, I know what makes me funny. This is what I do, and I know I felt that way, Especially when you go up on stage and make people laugh every night.
You feel like I know what my recipe is. So it’s hard for us to fit in that mold. I’ve certainly had a hard time sitting at a trailer and a call time like, hey, we’re not going to need you until two. I start going, how come I can’t get there earlier? In help when we make our thing where the producers, the directors, the writers, the actors.
So is a learning curve for me. I will say the people who I worked with that legendary on the Machine were so much fun to work with. I said to my agents and managers, I had a blast. If they’re going to be like this, line me up from movies for the rest of my life. Brian Reagan has some advice for people starting out in comedy.
He says, surf where there’s waves. I always say, try to make yourself laugh. When you’re on stage. You can go in the wrong direction. If you’re trying to figure out what other people laugh at, you should be on stage saying what you would laugh at.
Pretend you’re sitting out in the audience and make yourself laugh. And if there’s people out there who agree with you, that’s great. But if you’re up there just trying to figure out what other people laugh at, to me, that’s kind of boring. It’s more interesting to listen to stuff that comes from inside people. And if your set starts feeling like it’s going off the rails, remember nothing’s perfect.
If it was, there’d be no challenge. I’m going to use a metaphor. Every once in a while, you’re out there on your surfboard looking back and no waves are coming, and you can’t surf if there’s no waves. You just try to be in the moment. You make light of the fact it’s not going great.
You don’t want to go too far in that direction either, because then your audience will lose faith in you if they feel like you don’t have faith in yourself. So sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do the best you can with what you have. Kevin Hart said, for people to act like comedy isn’t important, or to not have a high level of understanding for the need of comedy, it’s ridiculous. We need it. The world can be dark at times, there’s a heavy weight a lot of people have on their backs, on their shoulders, and sometimes the weight is lifted with a refreshing laugh.
So those that can provide her or give a service to provide it, We’re just needed, We’re important. So I will never stray away from the world of comedy because I know how important laughter is. It really does heal. I saved this one from during the week. Joe Rogan was on his podcast, which is called The Joe Rogan Experience.
Rogan argued that construction workers should be selected based on merit, not race, and criticized Pete Bootagage. He said, you know that Mayor Pete gave a speech the other day and how there’s too many white people working in construction sites where those construction sites are set up in these communities where the people in the community can benefit from it, which shows a profound lack of understanding of skilled labor. Because if you’re talking about people that are carpenters, people that are plumbers, and people that are electricians, and people that are framers and roofers, like that’s skilled labor. Like you have to hire people that are really good at that, and if they don’t exist in that community, you have to hire them from outside that community. That’s why those unions are important, and that’s why it’s important that Look, if you see what happens when you have unskilled labor and unskilled people working on buildings, you have effing disasters.
The fact that Pete talked about that and they didn’t talk about the derailment, this derailment is a colossal failure on the part of the Transportation Department. CLT Tampa caught up with Jim Gaffigan, who said, you want all the jokes to be as ripe as they can be, but you know, with five kids, in the case of life, every special has been kind of unique challenge. They asked Jim about his son Jack trying his hand in stand up comedy, and Jim said, I want him to get good grades and all that stand up is not the real world. I want them. Oh with stand up, you peek at night.
Stand up in the entertainment industry in general so weird. You have to have the appetite for rejection. So I don’t want to only show him the pretty sides of the industry. Jim talked about his TV show that came to an end only because Jim wanted to spend more time with his kids. He described the show as a bit irresponsible to do with so many kids around.
He said, there’s the element of how it’s one thing to be autobiographical in a show, but if you’re doing an autobiographic thing about your relationship, meaning a husband and wife or people with boyfriends and girlfriends, gets a little complicated. And we’re playing characters with our names, so that kind of complicated it. Now you’re playing yourself and the woman playing your wife kind of put a restriction on how ridiculous the show can get. If that makes sense. You kind of paint yourself in a corner.
Stand up really gives me such a fulfilling experience on the comedy end that when it comes to acting, I usually prefer to do something a little more dramatic, where maybe with a little deeper substance. Ricky Gervais has revealed when his next stand up special will come to Netflix. You’ve got a couple of minutes here, he said twenty twenty four. This one is titled Ricky Gervais’s Armageddon. Ricky tweeted loads of people couldn’t get tickets.
Asking me if Armageddon will be on Netflix, the answer is yes. I will continue touring Armageddon throughout twenty twenty three, and then it will stream on Netflix around the world in twenty twenty four. Ricky’s Humanity came out in twenty eighteen SuperNature. In twenty twenty two, Kate Roland spoke with The New Yorker. They asked her how she began to find her comedic language.
Kate said, I used to monologue into my photo booth app trying to find with cereal to free associate. I started doing an open mic in East Village that wasn’t just the stand up show, was poetry and music, and it’d be maybe four comedians in three hours. That’s when I started doing the stream of consciousness stuff, because I felt like the expectation was just more abstract. There wasn’t this thing people waiting for a joke, but I would get a big reaction. I think it was just a relief in those environments to have someone’d be funny because it was kind of serious streams place.
I was also doing that at comedy shows, and it wasn’t like I was bombing, but I’d come off stage with people would be like, what the hell was that. They asked Kate Roland about how she’ll improvise on stage, and she says, I always know where to start. You have an opening and you have an ending. The goal is always kind of go off track. That’d be the best part.
I thought of it more as improvising around the spine that was there if I needed to go back to it. Ahead of shooting my Fax special Cinnamon in the Wind, I went to Edinburgh and did a whole month of shows. That’s when I was really like and ives to have more written. I remember feeling that that’s what’s really liberating about this show is that I know what’s going to happen. I know what words are going to come out of my mouth.
And what’s been remarkable is within that structure there’s a lot of spaciousness. Repetition inevitably breeds difference of course, so these little shifts are tiny changes, feel really significant. I love doing it. I’m going to slip into such a depression when it’s over. Red and Black dot Com spoke to Dmitri Martin, who was raised in Tom’s Revenue, Jersey.
I did not know that he studied law in New York before pursuing comedy. Dmitri was accepted in a Harvard law school, but he chose to attend NYU, then withdrew from NYU to pursue comedy. He said, I went to law school in ne York. I suddenly near these comedy clubs, and I thought, I gotta try that before New York, just to say I tried it for comedy. It was freedom from the linear and quantitative world of academics, he said, I go for whatever.
Comedy was kind of a nice surprise feeling because it felt free. Once I took the leap in a stand up I thought, what else can I do? I know I’m never going in to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix, I’ll never paint like Matisse. I understand that I’m not an idiot. I know what my certain limitations are.
But knowing that has made it really enjoyable to pursue these things and just offer the best I can offer. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, but wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see tomorrow. Hello. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue.
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