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Caalorokashock media. Wow, big hot news just came in. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. So I just in in my world.
I recorded Sunday, and then what you do is you recorded. I use a program called Logic on my MacBook and you then you have to bounce the file so it mixes down everything, and then you send it off somewhere and that takes like a minute. So during that I did what I usually do and I checked my email. Now this is not in my script. This just hit my inbox.
I’m doing this as cold as it gets. The headline Netflix is a joke festival. Just added one hundred and seventy plus shows added to Netflix is a joke festival. So you’re getting this as I’m getting it, unless, of course, you read the email on Friday afternoon. Again, I’m not working with a script.
Let me scroll down here. Is there actual No, there’s just a lot of artwork. So I’m gonna have to see if they sent this out to deadline or something. But let’s just do it. This way.
This is fun. This is how the show gets put together. Okay, this is a graphic thing. They have announced comedy for the community, the Altadna Eaton Fire Relief, hosted by Dion Coldion’s Fantastic Timmy No Breaks at the Comedy Store on the fourth of May. Individual shows from rosewud Baker Cheryl Underwood.
This is an interesting title. The end Ari Shaffer’s renamed Storytelling show. I guess others on the rights to the various this is not happening. Tag it with the scar Brothers, Chris O’Connor, Jay Jorden, Ron Funches, Cristella Alonso and friends, Guy Tory and so many more and in the end, so many more, Box Mally, Kearney, Yakoff, Smirnoff in a bunch All right, let’s bunch over our deadline. Let’s see if there’s a story there.
We are producing the show live on tape, my friends. Nothing there, We’ll check variety. This is how the show gets put together. I could edit this out. No, no there either.
Also, Friday afternoon is a weird time to announce anything. No, hasn’t hit the wires yet. Maybe I’ll have more for you tomorrow. My original number one story very similar south By Southwest Unveil’s twenty twenty six comedy line up their lineup Bill Burr, He’s back from Riot as you know, Chelsea Peretti, Devin Walker, Eric Andre, Frankie Conunius, and Natasha Lazeriro among dozens of participants. It is the nineteenth edition of south By Southwest Comedy.
Let me see who else hear? Some names you might know Jared Freed, Pete Lee Nope, I think i’ve I mean, I could read you fifty names, but I think I read you the big ones. During south By there will be an edition of Don’t Tell Comedy All Stars featuring alumni of the Don’t Tell Comedy Secret Sets series. That’ll be the Creak of the Cave on Saturday, March fourteenth. Some of the events include Bombing with Eric Andre, eric Andre Hanks with Friends to Talk About You Say with Me, Bombing, Comic Relief, and The Moth Present Funny Story Two Paarhouses unite for an Unforgettable evening of stories.
The Moth, whose live storytelling events and Bloff podcasts have broad over sixty five thousand true personal stories to audience as worldwide partners with Comic relief. Dropout will host crowd Control, a live stand up show where the audience is the main material. Looks like dropouts all over this thing. They’ll also host Dirty Laundry, which is for guests telling secrets and then you have to guess who the secrets belong to, and you can also have some beverages. Drop Out improv in this show, hosted by Kurt Maloney.
Improv skills will be on show for a night of varied games and freewheeling comedy. Facebook Presents Stand Up Comedy. Now maybe like twenty years ago, that sentence sounds cool. That just sounds really vanilla corporate. It’s titled Facebook Presents stand Up Comedy.
Could you just suck all the cool out of that sentence? Facebook is excited to present an unforgettable evening of stand up comedy where the global stage meets the comedy stage. Exclamation point. With three billion people connecting on Facebook globally every month, comedians are able to showcase their talent and grow their audience around the world. Now we’re bringing this vibrant community to south By Southwest Comedy.
Oh my god, that is so corporate. Please south By has gotten really, I mean, this is just this is like the establishment pretending that they’re all the next up. Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring The Dress Up Gang and Friends. Let me read that again because I deliberately skipped the last four words. Look be the full title this time.
Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring The Dress Up Gang and Friends, hosted by Bill Burr. Bill Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, you had a terrible You had a terrible, terrible twenty twenty five. You had I think the worst year of any of the big comedians. Last year. You just lost the plot, Buddy.
And now Bill Burr’s hosting the Fox Entertainment Studios Comedy Showcase featuring the Dress Up Gang and Friends. Bill, just call your nex special. I’m in this for the money. I know we’re all in this for the money. I’m hosting this podcast right now so I can run some commercials during the break.
I’m in this for the money. But let’s just be honest, Bill, the coolness is gone. What are you doing? Bill? Hosted Biami and Grammy nominated comedian actor and director Bill Burr.
The evening embodies the bold, fearless spirit of the Fox Comedy brand. Guys, The Fox Comedy brand is Dennis Leary’s military show. What is that called Going Dutch? That’s the Fox Comedy brand. The Fox Comedy brand is Joel Mchall’s Animal Patrol or whatever that’s called.
That’s the brand if you want to tell me, but the Simpsons. The Simpsons came out in the eighties. Guys, Bill Burr, face of the fearless Fox Comedy brand, Funny or Die Approved, in partnership with the stand Funny or Die is resurrecting their legendary live comedy legacy. Think the spirit of the original epic oddball festivals back and blessed by the comedy gods themselves. This isn’t just another stand up show.
It’s a handpicked, ruthlessly curated night of comedy that’s earned the ultimate stamp Funny or Die Approved, and it’s hosted by peat Lee The Gotham Comedy. For nearly thirty years, Gotham has been one of New York’s top stand up venues. That is true. They’re good guys over there, like them. Used to regularly see them back in the day when I worked at the Old Place.
My favorite lyrics live. Welcome to the first ever live recording of Devin Walker’s podcast, My favorite lyrics, the show where we talk about music lyrics. The Stand is producing a couple shows. Okay, now we’re doing on time. I feel like I’m long already.
Now we got some time still. Okay. You know who’s coming out with a book, Dusty Sligh. Yeah, you know what Dusty Slay called his book. That’s right, he’s calling it We’re having a good time.
I guess that makes sense. What else Wouldusty Slay call his book? That’s his catchphrase in We’re having a good time. Dusty Slay looks back in his early days, including dropping out of college at age eighteen and getting arrested at nineteen, which interrupted his plans to join the army. In his early twenties, Dusty Slay left his Alabama hometown for Charleston, South Carolina, where he worked in a seafood restaurant while building a stand up career.
During evening open mics, Dusty Sleigh recounts his journey from pesticide salesperson to touring comedian, along with stories from his childhood performances and more. The book teases his trademark humor and wit I have it on my calendar this morning to reach out to the publicist and see if I can get Dusty Sleigh on this show, which reminds me I forgot I got distracted by the Netflix email. If you skipped the weekend shows Saturday, Pete Holmes for forty minutes was really good. Make sure you go back and listen to that one. Love Pete, Dusty’s and I wanted to write this book to capture some of the stories that I think are really funny, orterest thing, but have never made it to the stage.
Now this next one, I might have to leave my house, which would just be amazing. And I’m not going to leave my house, but just down the road for me. At the Horseshoe Tavern in Morristown, New Jersey, ron On Hirschberg is performing at Horseshoe. I hang out at the brewery, which is differently. It’s the breweries where the trivia guys go horseshoes for the young kids.
Although sometimes this if you’re from this area, you know who the nerds are. They’re like, this is a local legend cover band. They’re really a lot of fun. They play horseshoes sometimes, but horshes for the young kids. But tonight it’s poor him.
A comedy night at the Horseshoe Tavern Ronnin Hirschberg will be there. Rabbi Moishe Gerwitz as Purim is about joy, resilience, and Jewish pride. Comedy night is a way to celebrate the holiday in a fun, meaningful, and uplifting way. I love this. So if your local head on over to the Horseshoe Tavern, we’re told security we’ll be present to ensure it is safe and welcoming environment for all attendees.
Now, as it turns out, I happen to have a Ronin Hirschberg. Oh my god, I was about to tell you that people keep calling me. Hold on, I have to take this phone call. Hey John, all right, I made an edit there. I’m all discombobulated.
I even get to tell you that my wife called in the middle of the Ronin Hirschberg story. But that was the hot tub guy I’ve mentioned. It was like negative of forty degrees for like six months. I think hot tub sprung a leak. Can have to run some more ads.
Buy me a coffee, you might have to buy me, let me do some math. You might have for buy me four hundred coffees and buy me a coffee. Dot Cops last daily comedy. It is to fix the hot tap. Oh my goodness, first world problems, where worry.
I’m trying to tell you. I could edit all this out, but that’s not fun. I’m trying to tell you this Ronin Hirschberg story. But my wife called and like now, and I scrolled down and I lost it and I’m all discombobulated now and I had this all pulled together? Where did that story even go?
Ronin Hirschberg was found it. Ron Hersberg was profiled by the Telegraph in twenty twenty two. Hirschberg opened for Louis c. K in Germany, and he said they laughed at every joke because they feel so guilty. I said I was Jewish, and they gave me a standing ovation.
He had a little more serious. I think there was a time when Germans couldn’t laugh about that stuff, but now they’re happy to let me make fun of them. Hirschberg says his early tries and stand up. We’re just trying to make rednecks laugh. Then he moved to New York.
He talked about his complicated relationship with the arts and said, I think as a Jew It’s a little easier for me to separate the art from the artist because I’ve had a love so many great artists who are anti Semitic, Shakespeare, Dickens, basically any writer before nineteen fifty. Hirschberg appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and said, I hate Joe Rogan. I think he’s a danger to society. He’s always spreading misinformation. The only way I’d ever go on his podcast is if he asked me.
Rogan did ask, and on twenty twenty four they talked about everything from having children to conspiracy theories. Hirschberg says Rogan was extremely nice to me. A lot of my anger towards him started later. I didn’t make fun of him until hen On Elon Musk defending the defunding of US aid that was such a horrible atrocity, and to see him there with Joe Rogan laughing his stupid jokes and made me furious. I don’t think Joe Rogan has bad intentions, but I do think he’s an agenda to attack the credibility of academia and mainstream journalism, and that’s really dangerous.
Like endorsing Trump using his influence to help him get elected. If you can’t get mad at someone for that, who can you get mad at? I’m exhausted. I don’t know why this particular episode that you’re listening to right now is taking a lot out of me. I don’t know if it’s the phone calls or the distractions, or my computer’s jumping all over the pages.
I’m trying to read a script I don’t know. Coming up at noon today, Comedy Survivor. The results are incredible. I had so much fun recording the results of Comedy Survivors. So you’ll find out who went home.
But there’s also a new fascinating twist in all this. And I didn’t invent the twist. The AI did. The AI pointed something out. Every week I throw the votes into the AI just to check my work, and the AI has identified you know what.
Come back at noon and you’ll find out what the AI identified. If just I’m fascinated by this. It’s so much fun. If you’re new to Comedy Survivor, it’s a distinct legal parody of whatever you think I’m at, distinctly legally parodying. It’s called Comedy Survivor Or.
We put sixteen comedians on an island and every week the Facebook group votes someone off the island. What you do is you go to Daily Comedy News podcast group after noon Eastern today Monday. You’ll see a drawing of me and the latest person voted off the island, and in there you will write down the name of one of the people who remain. Come back at noon. I’ll explain all that then currently still on the island.
Only I know if she’s been voted off or not. Otsgo at Cotska is becoming a celebrity man. She’s working to pair two lucky singles and transport them to an anti approved first date to Singapore thanks to the Singapore Tourism Board. Hey Singapore Tourism Board, you got any extra ad money? I got a hot tupper pair.
Plus I’ve never been to Singapore. I’ll go. I’ll read anything. Otsko says it’s more important than ever to lean on the matriarchal support system of anties, especially in dating. She explained her thought experiment to People magazine and said, imagine them going swimming.
That’d be good because if she was always looking for someone who has her back, and she felt like that never happened, putting herself in a dangerous situation like swimming, can really test chemistry having a common enemy. She talked about her own dating experience. One time, I was at a grocery store and this guy bought a raw squid for me. She was initially flattered and agreed to the date, but he was super immature and he was like, do you like my house three stories? And I’m like, yeah, I do like your house.
And then I started seeing photo of him as a kid everywhere. There were a lot of family photos about, and then I found out it was actually his mom’s place. He’s like, we have to hurry with this date because she’s gonna come home. And I was like, can you even afford that squid that you bought me? That’s really funny.
And from Nola dot com we learned that Catherine Blandford enjoys the Kentucky Derby. Catherine Blandford learned that name that is a comedian to watch. Catherine says, my parents started let me go to the Derby by myself, maybe sophomore year of high school. I understood why they were hesitant. As soon as I walked in, I saw a bunch of men in suits in a circle.
I was like, what’s going on. I pushed through and there were girls in nice pressby dresses diving into a mud pit for one hundred dollar bills for her special Catholic cowgirl. She wanted to film it in Louisville and have a painted horse on stage. The Louisville filming didn’t work out. She decided to do it at the Riot Comedy Club in Houston, but still wanted a horse.
She said, Once I had my heart set on having a horse on stage, it wasn’t going to not happen. I flew down there to look at party rentals and I couldn’t find one. Then I found one on Facebook Marketplace. It was the Renaissance Horse from Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour. I was like, oh, I’m not buying it.
I’m just renting it for a day. And she was like, yeah, just don’t sit on it. Ah, And my voice is shot. I have to edit like five of these things, and hopefully I don’t have jury duty, because if I do, I’m gonna have to call the hot tub guy back and be like, yeah, don’t come Monday. After all, I’ll let you know what happened eventually.
And that is your very messy addition of Daily Comedy News on a Monday, see at noon for Comedy Survivor