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The Shark Deck. I’m Shnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreisher was on with Pardon My Take. He started talking about Aaron Rodgers and he said, let me tell you something right now. Aaron Rodgers is one of my favorite hangs because that guy’s heavy with secrets.
Oh yeah, and we had secret times on the bus to the point where I was like, yo, cameras are on, bro, Like someone turned the ff and cameras off. He was great. The best thing about being friends with Aaron he’s the first number in your phone. Yeah, because it’s a a ro o n that’s true. Yeah, And anytime anyone grows my phone, they’re like, f effing Aaron Rodgers.
What do you think the secret times are? Samurel is at the Burgota tonight. This from Atlantic City Weekly. They asked Amarell, did you grow up funny as a kid? Sam said, I think I was funny.
I mean it’s hard because your friends think you’re funny because they’re your friends. But then as a comic you have to learn to be a different type of funny. You can’t just go back to inside jokes. As a comic, you have to learn to connect with strangers pretty quickly, or they’re like this guy sucks. And his recent special, Samuel mentioned and that he loves movies and the Dog Day Afternoon is one of his top five.
What are the others? Sam said, it’s really tough. I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is just so perfect because it’s pure in New York. I love old New York movies that era. I think they made the best movies around that time, because you’ve got The Godfather, Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde to Graduate.
That era is so cool. Sam was in the movie The Joker. He is the comedian that performs right before the Joker doesn’t stand up. Sam said, it’s been brought to my attention that the Joker’s origin story is that he couldn’t follow Sam Mourel on stage. Well, Sam Mourell, you seem to do a lot of audience interaction.
Sam said, it’s funny people think I do these CrowdWork shows, but it’s not true. I did over sixty minutes of material on both shows last night in Utah. What happens is I do so many shows, and I record every show, so I just get these moments. I don’t want to burn material on social media. If I don’t have to.
I don’t like burning jokes I’m gonna put in my next special, So I just put up little moments on social media that are funny. But I like writing jokes. Sam added that he doesn’t want the people in the audience to feel scared to cooperate. Sam said, you want them to feel like it’s gonna be a funny interaction and that’s it. Kathleen Madigan’s new special is out.
It’s called Hunting Bigfoot. You’ll find this on Amazon. In Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, she tackles her aging parents, millennials, and Hunting Bigfoot. Ready steady Cut reviewed the special. Spoilers they say.
Kathleen opens the special with a bit about a tiny town in Georgia. Then she tells a story about how she was looking for something to do and they told her they could zip line into another state for fifty five dollars. Ready steady Cut says, honestly, for an opening joke, it was classic because she hit a home run with a funny Southern redneck story that’ll make everyone laugh, but she makes the jokes relatable and funny. Ready steady Cut says, I didn’t have Madigan having jokes about sports betting on my bingo card, but I couldn’t help but laugh. Finally, she closed it with a joke about a lady in a gas station that got a big laugh.
They wrote, she has this relaxed demeanor on stage, highlighting the veteran prowess the most comedian show. But what impressed you about her work is that as time changes, so does Madigan and her material. We don’t have a comedian stuck in the eighties trying to deliver funny jokes or a particular crowd. Instead, Madigan tackles millennial sports and the South, all more relatable than ever. It’s one of the more creative specials I’ve seen from a veteran comedian in a long time.
While that’s high praise, they did have an issue with the run time. They said, you’re looking at an hour and fifteen minutes, which is a long time to make people laugh. Because of this, some of the jokes start to wane off towards the end. It feels like she’s overstaying her welcome. They gave it three and a half stars.
I don’t know how many that is could be out of one hundred three and a half out of one hundred wouldn’t be too good, right, Three and a half out of four pretty good summary. Kathleen Madigan strongly adapts her jokes to fit the generation in a way that makes these special creative and relatable to anyone that will watch. All right, I’ll try and get to that. This weekend, Monique has a special coming out. This one’s coming on Netflix.
You may recall a few years ago Monique and Netflix had a little squirmish. There was a lawsuit in twenty nineteen that alleged that Netflix’s treatment of Monique began with a discriminatory, lowball offer and ended with a blacklisting act of retaliation from an article on Deadline a few years back. At the heart of the ten claim, injury seeking documents contention that the five hundred thousand dollars that Netflix offered her back in twenty seventeen for a special was not just an insult, but illegal. The complaint said Netflix’s business practice of paying black women less than non black women for substantially equal or similar work causes harm to the plaintiff that outweighs any reason Netflix may have for doing so, quoting from Deadline here, as if To further prove the point, the filing lists off the tens of millions that the likes of returning Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais, Ellen de Generes and Dave Chrappelle supposedly riked in for their Netflix specials. I’ll jump in here.
I’m not on the jury. Do you think that Monique should get paid as much as say Ricky Gervaise, we’re Dave Chappelle or Ellen de Generous. I’m not on the jury. I’ll let someone else decide. Anyway, they eventually settled the case and now they’re friends because she’s got a special on Netflix.
Monique said, why did I title this special? My name is Monique? Well, after seventy two minutes, you’re all are going to know why. You might say, damn, we didn’t know we were going to find out all of that. This one right here is personal.
This one right here, when you walk away from this one, when you turn your TV off from this one, you’ll say, now we understand that. And there are things I’m going to say in this comedy special life I thought would take to my grave. But they were mine. They were my thoughts, they were my secrets. It’ll be mine.
Before I was just focused on being funny. Now I feel like I have something to say. My name is Monique Netflix, April fourth. If you spend any time with me in real life, like if you spend more than five minutes with me, I will somehow start telling you that I’m trying to run the marathon again. Real quick.
I ran it ten years ago, real quick. I was training last year and then my body kind of fell apart there for reasons I want to get into you, I had an iron efficiency. In case you’re curious, It’s not like I was dying or anything. And I’m planning on running it again this year, which is why today’s sponsor is perfect. Today’s sponsor is The Power of the Streak.
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I was no, and wait, maybe I’m at six days. Sunday’s work out this week, I might be at six days. I’m definitely not at twelve years. Good for you. Care As story is funny, relatable, and inspiring.
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I’m actually in because I deferred last year. But Glenn has a lottery spot. So we’ll see if Glenn can get going. We’ll see if we can get Glenn to start a streak. The Power of the Streak.
Check it out, Hey, big shout out to Tom. Two things Tom went to buy Me at Coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News bought me a couple of coffees much thanks to Tom. He also shot me a note a week ago, and I’ve been meaning to bring this up, and I kind of spaced on it because I record did a few days early for the long weekend last week, and then the email got buried, so Tom I apologized, but he had sent me a note. I mentioned a comedian and suggest that the comedian was from Canada, and Tom reminded me quite correctly, Dude, Ryan Hamilton may seem Canadian, but he’s from Ohio. It’s been a big part of his stand up.
Tom is correct. I don’t know why I thought Ryan was from Canada. Maybe because I was talking about Vancouver, and isn’t Hamilton’s someplace in Canada somewhere. If there’s a Hamilton’s, right, Hamilton is a fourth city in Ontario. Of course it is.
Canadians are throwing their phones across the room right now. He is stupid Yankee. No, Canadians don’t call us Yankees. What do you call us? Anyway?
Speaking of Canada, let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival last weekend. Here. I’ve really been enjoying pretending going to the festival seven o’clock. The Office Ladies. Yeah, Pam and Angela are there.
I guess they’re doing their podcast seven o’clock. Ari Shaffer at seven, Steph tole Of at seven, Comedy World, one of those shows that has eight or so comedians at eight o’clock, Nick Thune at nine thirty. Tim Dillon, all right, and I know where we’re going there at nine thirty, Dan Soder at nine thirty, and Crowd Working the Round hosted by Mike foul Zone at ten thirty. All right, if we were at the festival tonight, I can’t remember, did we see Ari Schaffer yet? Should we go see The Office Ladies?
Do we want to see a podcast taping? Live? Podcast tapings can be kind of annoying. I can’t remember if we saw Ari Shafer. If we haven’t seen Ri Shaffer yet, let’s go see Ari.
If not, we’ll do The Office Ladies nine thirty. Tim Dillon, I’m not even arguing with you. We’re going to see Tim awesome surprise. There’s no like late show Hero. I guess Crowd Working the Round is ten thirty.
Maybe after Dylon we could catch the tail into that, But there’s no like midnight show like Montreal always has like a midnight show that you can hit. Party Down is back. Have you watched Party Down? Nobody watched Party Down, including me, and then I started watching it when I heard it was coming back. So Party Down was this show from twelve thirteen years ago on Stars which no one has, and now it’s back on Stars which no one has.
So as much as I like it, I’m not going to see season three anytime soon. The first two seasons are on Hulu. A couple articles here about Party Down TV Guide remember that, Yeah, that’s still around. Apparently they wrote it’s difficult not to approach everybot reimagining and remix with some amount of skepticism. There’s been a relentless influx of bad revivals lately.
All we can hope is the best ones, honor the original material, refresh what needs updating, and proved the original show still has a place in today’s culture. Party Down’s third season, premiering today on Stars with a Z, is largely able to achieve all those things. That’s good. If you’re not familiar with the show, it is from two thousand and nine. It follows some caterers who work in La Southern California, and they all dream of becoming famous actors or screenwriters, and it doesn’t really work out.
Some of them had already accepted defeats, some are still dreaming. They float around the edges of fancy events, balancing trays of hordeves and mingling with the rich as they were repeatedly confronted with the threat that their lives might never turn out the way they envisioned. Season three picks up ten years after season two, bringing the gang back together, except Lizzie Kamplin. She was off taping that Fleishman is in trouble. Yeah, that’s the name of it.
Fleischman is in trouble. So she’s not on the new season. Now I haven’t seen the new season. I can’t imagine she doesn’t at least cameo, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, they’re back together to celebrate Kyle’s newly acquired role in a corny looking superhero movie.
He’s hired his old catering company, still led by Ron played by Ken Marino, to work the party, which Roman immediately susses out as Kyle’s way of taunting them with his success. So we got the gang back together. There’s also some new characters one played by Jennifer Garner. Yes, Jennifer Garner, you heard me correctly. Ken Marino spoke to the last Laugh about the absence of Lizzie Camplin.
He said, yeah, it sucked. Lizzie was a huge part of why the first two seasons Party Down were so special, work so well, so it was a real bummer. He’s holding out hope that if they get a fourth season, Lizzie Camplin will be able to come back. Ken Marino said, when we finally got win, we were actually doing it. Of course, I had to go back into my file cabinet where I have all the folders with the breakdowns of all the characters I do.
When I pulled out the folder of Ron, blew the dust off and opened it up, and man, it took me six seven eight months really get back into the headspace of who Ron is. That’s crazy dude, and what he’s all about. Once they did that, I had taken eleven or twelve months just to stay in character, so I understood his mindset. Dude, that’s insane. And you guys know, I’ve been down on the basement a lot with the door closes what he’ve been doing.
I’m on only fans. Wait what, Yes, of course there was the big comedy competition and they have announced to the winner, Mary O’Connell one hundred thousand pounds. The winner of the Only Fans Comedy competition. Mary O’Connell, who’s twenty seven years old, said, it feels amazing. I don’t even have the words.
I wanted it so bad. I’m so grateful. It really means a lot because I was distinguishing my voice. I was finding my voice. It’s something I’ve been working really hard on and I’ve struggled with.
For the judges picked me. The fact that they said I had the most distinctive voice is priceless. How this worked. Ten comics were selected to take part in the Only Fans Creative Fund comedy edition. They were whittled down to six over a number of reality style tasks, such as being ordered to write the most approved materially could not knowing they would then have to perform it to an audience of pensioners.
The final six did actual stand up in a club in East London November. They filmed it, they held the results back and now we know Mary O’Connell is the winner. So now I am in the basement with the door closed. Well, I’m only fans, of course. What what what do you do?
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