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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bert Kreisher about his new special, which drops on March fourteenth. They asked Bert Hey selected Omaha, if you’re special, what factors in the decision of Weird to shoot? Bert said, it’s a really interesting question.
I don’t think enough comics think enough about it. It’s super super simple. I want to go perform at a place that has not seen this hour, and I want to perform in a place where I can sell a ton of tickets. Comics will say I was in Denver two weeks ago. They were cool.
I’ll just do Denver again. It’ll be new people. No, it’s your fans. You gotta be really careful about making sure that you’re showing them what you’re showing the Netflix audience for the first time, so they respond on the same manner. That’s why I’m hyper aware not to mention we’re performing when I get on stage.
I just get up and do the hour you’ll see on TV. Another thing, if you’re having trouble with tickets, you need somewhere that’s got good local radio. When Omaha does, I’m so Glad you asked this question, because I think a lot of people would just assume I chose Omaha because it’s a red state and it has absolutely nothing to do with that. Hollowed reporter fall upset. I assume the laughs are slightly different in different places or in different vioumes.
He’s moved across the country, Bert said he’d be shocked, but my audience is identical no matter what country I’m in. They asked how he would characterize his fans. Bert said, big dudes with beards, with wives that are hotter than they deserve. There’s probably some sort of sports fan. They love beer, they probably love weed, they definitely love a good cigar.
They have a big group of friends that they stayed tight with. They’re big podcast fans, and the majority of them aren’t political. I actually have a buddy who’s running for office in a place that I’m going to. He asked me to bring them up on stage, and I said absolutely not. The audience would be like, did you just bring politics on stage?
Did you really just bring up a politician? I don’t care if you don’t get the f out of here. These are party dudes and they’re looking at a good time, and probably some beer products GQS. Tom Sigora, what are some of your vices? Tom said, this sounds like a BS vice, but I feel like something I’m constantly trying to address his sleep, my vices that I want to stay up and keep watching stuff.
I will not shut down unless I’m told to you or I start to listen to a voice that says go to sleep. I think that’s my biggest health challenge. I enjoyed working out. Once you’re eating healthy and you’re getting rewarded by it, you don’t hate it. But sleep hasn’t talked about as much, and it’s so vital to longevity and recovery and all these things.
People think of it as something that happens to them, but you have a role in that. My favorite indulgence is croissants, all types of croissants. First of all, if you go to just some coffee place and they’re like, yeah, we have croissants, and you realize their package are dry, and I don’t like those. I like going to a proper bakery where they spend a day with the dough and the next day is like proofing the dough, and it’s like a three day process that’s in me is the most incredible indulgence. I’ll have plain chocolate almond paste.
I’ll do the savory ones. You know, my favorite croissant is actually a cornetti, because the Italians called croissants crenettis. There’s an Italian dude in La with this place called Sinque Terra West Osteria, and he does that. He takes three days to make an effing croissant and you eat one and you feel like your life has changed. I would go there and buy them and leave with a pizza box full of croissants.
I found a couple of really good ones in Austin, where I live now. Whenever somebody tells me about a place that is amazing croissants, this light goes off in my head that I can’t ignore. It’s too tempting. It’s my favorite indulgence, the hardest thing to ignore. Bert Kreisher is tempted by booze.
I guess for me, it’s sugar and butter. The pitchkc dot Com talked to Brian Posey and asked him, Hey, what was the best metal album of twenty twenty two. Brian said, I’ll get the title wrong, but the last Amon Amarth has really kind of grown on me. Their newest record, it’s kind of their most commercial, which normally would be something I would love. I used to be the kind of metal head that got mad when a band made a commercial record with them.
It’s just really cool to see death metal. I saw them at the form. It’s nice to see people selling records in that style of music. Were there any bands that got you through through pandemic? Brian said, I watched a couple of people doing pandemic shows in a studio.
I love that. One of my favorite things was the drummer for Anthrax was just recording himself. He played guitar and drums and send it to somebody else. These covers he wound up to do with other musicians were the coolest things I saw. He did a Rush cover that blew my mind.
Brian, how did you spend the pandemic? Well, I talk about it in my act. I freaked out at first. You know, you kind of find out it wasn’t very essential for comedians to run around the country because it’s shut down right away. So I had two years off.
I watched a lot of TV. I’ve always been a movie and I do watch the same movies hundreds of times. First couple of months. I also did all the legos that we have in our garage that hadn’t been opened, big Lego sets that I’ve gotten from my son that we hadn’t gotten around too. We believe through all those my wife was playing tennis every day and I was just hermiting, using a lot of food delivery app I never wanted to tell anybody I actually add a pretty good COVID.
You know, my pandemic was great. I feel guilty about it because we had a couple of scares, you know, kids and family and movers. We know got sick and that’s that good. But everybody was okay for us. I already liked my family and we spent a lot of time together.
I think it was good. My dog loves me more than ever because I never left the house. Ryan was saying, what are your comfort movies? Oh? Anything old eighties horror?
You know, Monster Squad. I believe Diehard is a Christmas movie, but I also screened it all year long. Not a lot of TV outside the Simpsons, but a ton of movies. What kind of material did You’re right? During lockdown, I was about to record a special before COVID and I threw a whole hour away.
No one will ever see it because it didn’t mean anything. You know, I didn’t love that I did a whole twenty minutes about the pandemic and my response to it. But it’s natural. I like my bits to come from a real place, and it was me responding to it. Would have been weird to do a special where you don’t mention the elephant in the room, you know.
I mean, I had gained a hundred pounds through it, so I feel like I kind of had to mention that. I feel like what I do Here. You can go to buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. You could throw a couple of bucks in the tip jar. I will take your money and I will drive to the National Donuts chain.
There I will pick up my order that I’ve pre ordered on the app. It is most likely to be a large ice coffee with caramel and almond milk. Yeah, I’m trying to get off the dairy. It’s just making me sleepy in the almond milk. It’s really helping me out.
So buy me a coffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival tonight, Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, four o’clock Jack, All right, Jack’s got another show at sevens So does Dan Soder, Patton Oswalt at seven, Ari Shaffir at nine thirty. Boy, what a great lineup tonight. Huh Fun and Slutty at night with Jonathan van Ness at nine thirty, Sophy Buttle at nine thirty, Comedy Pants at ten, crowd work in the round at ten thirty, Jack Whitehall again at eleven thirty. All right, I’ve been dragging you to like local shows for the bulk of the two weeks.
Tonight, I think we do headliners. We might as well go see Jack Whitehall at four o’clock, seven o’clock. You want to see Soder or you want to see Patton m That’s tough, really like Patton. He’s at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. Let’s go see Dan Soder at the Rio.
Just got a hunch here nine thirty, let’s do Ari Shaffer and then at ten thirty, if we can catch the back end of the crowd working a round, I think we will have a very very full night of comedy and we will be quite tired. And I will be very cranky about let’s get back to the hotel. I’m sleepy after that crowd work show. The Brisbane Comedy Festival is coming up April twenty eight through May twenty ninth, Brisbane, Australia. Three hundred and fifty plus gigs by more than one hundred and ten comedians across five weeks.
You guys should invite me. I could tell my wife I’m hanging out in Australia for five weeks. I gotta record the podcast. Returning favorites and first timers alike David O’dharty, Danny Boy, Mickey Bartlett, Ed burn Ed Gamble, Sarah Pasco, Chris Parker, Ross Noble, Jason Mannford, Jason Long, Daniel Kitson, Alfie Brown and In Toronto, they recently hosted The Underground Comedy Railroad Show at Toronto’s Comedy Bar. The Underground Comedy Railroad Show is the first and only all black Canadian comedy tour.
For the last eleven years, has had Canadians giggling from Halifax to Ottawa. Daniel Woodrow is creator and host. He said we created the show because the end of the Underground Railroad was in Canada and we joke we’re bringing the underground Comedy Where Road across Canada to cities and towns that don’t normally have black or ethnic comedians at all. Headliner at Tamara Chevan told the crowd of about one hundred people, I don’t know if you know a lot about Scotland. The castles are not enough to make you want to stay Scotland in my opinion, is UK Detroit.
Woodrow said, we used this tour to bring opportunities to unknown black comedians. We have a completely unique story that’s different from each other. Every comic is not the same. How are you ready for it? Cannibal Comedian.
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