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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late night writers still on strike now, the late Bot, one of you Wisenheimer’s must be feeding it material about my actual off air personality because these are way too close. So in real life, I’ve got Taylor Swift tickets tonight. That’s right, I know you’re jealous. I sat online for four hours and got them.
Late Bot says, tonight, Taylor Swift’s concert, it’s about to get a dose of cranky cool as Johnny Mack races the audience with his presence. Brace yourselves for some serious eye rolls and disapproving nods. Late Bot says, I could already see Johnny Mack in the crowd, awkwardly attempting to dance like no one’s watching. Spoilert we’re all watching. Taylor Swift’s concert is known for its energetic atmosphere, but I have a feeling Johnny Mack will be the one guy in the crowd muttering can we just get to the encore ready?
I just want to go to bed, pretty much true. Bert Craisher’s movie The Machine opens today. I’ve been excited about this one, but as I’m recording one thirty pm on Thursday. There are no reviews available yet. Now Sebastian Maniscalco’s movie, which also opens today, plenty of reviews and those reviews are pretty good, so I’m wondering why the movie company is hiding The Machine usually not a good sign.
The trailer look pretty good, the cast is pretty good. We’ll see rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug use, and some sexual references. The Machine is one hour and fifty two minutes long. If you are not familiar with the Machine, It’s based on Bert Kreisher’s comedy Routine from twenty sixteen, where he recounted his real life college experience in Russia with some Russian gangsters. The movie features a plot spoilers light spoilers where Bert and his father, who’s played by Mark Hamill, are kidnapped by the mob.
They want revenge on Burt for how we wrong them all those years ago, Bert Krescher’s old movie web Working on the movie was refreshing. It’s really fun to watch someone as talented as our writers do their work. The coolest thing and the thing I took the most away from the movie is letting people do their job and not trying to micromanage as a stand up you micromanage everything. You’re the writer, producer, actor to you do everything. I get my own beer from the fridge, like I do everything.
And so getting on that movie set and watching Assassin’s Kill it was awesome and inspiring. He told Paul Star. The big inspiration for the movie was Romancing the Stone. That was such a great movie that it didn’t need to be funny because it was a great movie. Bert says, I think going into this, we thought, let’s make a great movie that also happens to be funny, and I think we accomplished it.
In case you’re worried if Bert Kreischer is going to go big time Hollywood now he’s a film star, he says, nah, he likes performing in front of thousands of fans. You don’t get it in acting. You don’t even get it. In podcasting and podcasting you’re kind of doing it on an island, not even realizing anybody hears it. Reforming live is very immediate.
I’m a junkie for immediacy. I want things delivered yesterday. I don’t think I have success. I think I just worked really hard and it looks like I’m successful. But I bust my ass on the road.
A lot of comedians like to take time off. I just don’t understand that, what are you gonna do with your time? Why wouldn’t you want to work? So we will see what the reviews are. Sebastian Maniscalco’s About My Father also opens today.
RATEA PG thirteen one hour, twenty nine minutes, perfect, Sebastian, perfect, enough with the two hour forty minute movies Everybody an hour twenty nine Yes, reviews for this one pretty good. Sebastian was a preview in Chicago the other day and look back on growing up in Chicago and said, growing up here and getting ripped to shreds. Chicago likes to bust chops, and that gives you a thick skin. I know a couple of friends in Chicago were funnier than I am. They should have been comedians, and I just grew up with a fun group of people, a fun family.
When people come to my house, my parents would always make them laugh. Sebastian discussed the acting process and said, I’ve noticed it’s very hard to act say lines and do something else at the same time. For example, driving a car and pulling the car over while talking to someone else is something that I have a hard time doing in real life, let alone when we’re doing it in a film. They actually gave me an activity to do in the script, and I found myself becoming more concentrated on the activity than I was on the film, so it was definitely a learning experience. I also have a problem with memorizing my lines.
I have to continually say them. I know some people can read their lines once and boom, they’re off to the races. I actually found rehearsal it’ll be really helpful. We would burn through the lines few times. It was all a lesson in filmmaking for me.
Sebastian said, if somebody’s saying lines that are funnier, better than what’s in the script you wrote, let’s have at it. The reason you hire actors in the first places for them to bring their own spin of the characters, and if they want to improvise, we’re totally game for it, just as long as it’s done script the storyline. It’s a sort of collaborative process where we’ve got a director, a cinematographer and other actors involved. You just have to be open and letting people play in the sandbox and build their own castle. I definitely had a great time just playing in this movie.
There’s no stand up. In Sebastian Maniscalco’s about my father, he said, I never really even thought about it. Stand up didn’t really have a story here. The story was a relationship between my wife and I and me being a hotel general managers. What I would have done if I wasn’t a stand up, So that’s where that came from.
But I didn’t see stand up being an integral part of the movie. But I did for a living. Really didn’t matter. It was more about the relationship with dad and go to meet my wife’s family. As for the movie itself, Variety says Sebastian plays quote himself, the successful Chicago based manager of a batique hotel who falls for a painter and artist, Ellie Collins.
Sebastian, the character is the son of widowed Italian immigrant hairdresser Salvo played by Robert de Niro. Sebastian is slightly uneasy with the affluence of his love interest family, which owns an international chain of resorts and hotels. Light spoilers here. When Ellie invites him demeanor parents over fourth of July. He decides it’s a perfect opportunity to propose.
The only hiccup is the family ring Sebastian and hope to use for his proposal is held tightly by Salvo played by Robert de Niro, who insists on vetting the Collins is himself before agreeing to hand it off. Right, you can kind of see where this is going, right to meet the parents. Yes, there’s an inevitable culture clash between Ellie’s family and blue collar Salvo. Sebastian navigates each social opportunity with clenched unease. The Hollywood reporter not as positive.
They say the film feels like the pilot for a network sitcom, pointing out it’s not dirty enough for streaming that you wonder why the cast isn’t smiling In a montage scorts where perky theme song during the opening credits, little spoiler here coming up to quickly bring the audience up to speed about his persona, Mattascalco narrates a short lecture about his family history and Sicilian roots, complete with images of Italian men wearing tight speedos. At last piece of information should immediately clue you into which comedic route the film is going to pursue two words for you, lure clash. You can pretty much figure out the rest. Holly Reporter summary is about my father. Isn’t nearly as funny as it aspires to be, but it’s saving grace as its lack of mean spirits.
Most of the characters are characteratures to some degree, but they’re never viciously mocked. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting a comedy show tonight to support ALS research as his godson Joey’s currently battling the disease. Perella was diagnosed with the disease about a year ago. He spoke to Katsie Envy and said, my life is perfect in every way. I feel tremendously fortunate.
He says his biggest obstacle in living with ALS is losing my voice, my inability to interact with other people and to be able to express my personality. Jimmy Kimmel said, you can’t imagine that something like this would happen to anybody but somebody who’s so alive, and we need to do something about it. The benefit tonight six thirty at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on the Las Vegas Strip with the holiday weekend coming up. Just want to point out I will have normal episodes at the normal times all weekend long. Drew Carey has announced on Twitter he’ll pick up the tab for all striking writers at two restaurants in LA that includes the tip.
Drew said, show your WGA card at Bob’s Big Boy and burd Bank were Swingers Diner on Beverly near Fairfax, and your meal is free for the duration of the strike. Dine in only tip included. The Paley Center for Media announced on Thursday that the screening of the season three finale and possible series finale of Ted Lasso and a panel with the cast that would have included Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt, who place Coach Beard that’s been scrapped due to quotes unforeseen circumstances. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the quotes unforeseen circumstances are the strike, as Jason Sadekas co created the series and along with Brendan Hunt, serves as a writer. The Writer’s Guild as asked members not to participate in press events that were organized by studios, So yeah, unforeseen circumstances.
Ivan Decker was planning on filming two specials last night. I will assume they actually happened, heats all the times colonist. We live in a content crazy society now. That time in which you have to release something is getting shorter and shorter. Comedians are now having to release a new hour of material every year.
Let’s just enough time. There were three years between Chris Rocks Bring the Pain and Bigger and Blacker, and those were two of the best specials of all time. He says of his special his goal is not to make a lot of money. His main goal is exposure, getting my name out there and finding people who like the kind of comedy I do. I just want to perform live and getting do that in larger and larger venues for more and more people.
That’s the main idea. He’s been working on the set for three months, tinkered with the routine over twenty performances, and said, I wanted to make sure the material is something that will work across all different environments, and very thankful for all the prep and rehearsals I’ve had. It’s like a baseball player working on their swing. You want to make sure you get a hit as often as possible. The new Zealand Comedy Festival winds down this weekend.
If you can make it there by Saturday, go see Sreen Nairs, Sree shows called upside Down Uber and Uber Eats sometimes have the same drivers. How do I know this because last week I got delivered to a white couple and the curry day ordered Venture Town and had a blast. It was great. Could you imagine one curry in the middle of the dance floor. Everyone’s like that looks hot.
Little hecky, little hack. Maybe not worth the flight to New Zealand. Why don’t you go to Idaho instead? This weekend Idaho’s Best, Worst, and Weirdest Comedians. Local comedian Beth Norton told The Idaho Statesman that last year’s competition, which featured a one thousand dollars award for the best comedian, wasn’t the best for the comedian’s mental health.
So this time each night will award the best, worst, and weirdest comedians. Norton said, there’s a competition element, but it’s a spoof. It’s kind of like making fun of competitions. She wasn’t quite sure what the categories would be, but some of the possibilities Idaho’s Best Lesbian, Idaho’s Worst Christian and Idaho’s weirdest take on Pearl Harbor. And The Guardian went to see Phil Lang, one of my favorite comics.
He was at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Guardian gave him four stars out of five and they said, in a quietly confident show with gangs from the sophisticated to the stupid, Phil is consistently enjoyable. Yeah. Finally his special, I think it’s on Netflix. There’s one of those out there.
You get a little bit of everything he’s good at is. Phil kicks off with cross cultural British Chinese material of the type that made his name. He’s got riff on the British fear of reheating rice and one about requiring nipples to be covered even when the quote unquote boob blob is exposed. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify.
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