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The Shark Deck. Hey, you remember last year when Dave Chappelle got curfewed at NAPPA and said it never returned. Hig, I’m trying to make with your daily comany news. Well, I guess money tucks because Dave is on the slate to MC. The festival’s triumphant return to nappis Silverado Resort July twenty eight through the thirtieth.
It’s the Blue Note Jazz Festival, Dave Chappelle. Your MC headliners include Mary J. Blige, Nas, and Chance the Rapper. Three day passes for the Blue Note Jazz Festival start at five hundred and fifty dollars from USA Today. Bobby Lee has responded to backlash over resurface videos of the comedian reportedly telling a story.
It’s talking about this yesterday. It’s a little icky and you. Most recently teld the story on a twenty twenty podcast episode about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. The story that Leads told I’ll condense it here has him going to Tijuana scutting for prostitute and hooker alley. He found a girl that seemed scared.
Bobby Lee has addressed the criticism on his Tiger Belly podcast. He said, the last couple of weeks have been so bad. I just need to say something. It’s easily explainable, he said. In twenty thirteen, he was forced to do press after not selling tickets to a second show at Caroline’s on Broadway.
When Lee saw Opie and Anthony on his schedule, he recalled telling his team, I don’t want to do that show. It’s just not my brand. It’s edgy shock Radio. The following year, he was scheduled to go on Opie and Anthony again, and he said he decided to do self deprecation and crazy jokes to avoid being skewered by o Na. He said he combined two unsuccessful jokes from his tour to form the Tijuana story.
The first bit was about going on a date with a young girl who looked like twelve year old Natalie Portman from Leon the Professional, and the second joke was about speeding up the process of sex with his girlfriend, who started crying about her recently deceased Grahama during the act. Li said, I was encouraged to say crazy stuff without thinking about it. When I listened back to it now, it puts a chill down my spine. I changed with society and I look at that story and feel guilt over it. It’s terrible.
It was stupid to say it as many times as I said it, including a currently as late as twenty twenty on theo Van’s podcasts. So we’re throwing Ona under the twenty thirteen bus. That’s all fair, but it’s sold it. In twenty twenty, Bobby Lee said, I understand the uproar and why people are upset about it. I’m upset about it, and I punish myself over at every second of every day.
At the end of the day, it’s not real and I didn’t do anything well that is good. Leslie Jones tells people she would like to be the host of The Daily Show. She said it was one of those in the pocket fits, you know, how you get fitted for suit and you’re like, yeah, this suit looks nice on me. I don’t mind wearing this style on me. The Daily Show was that, I would say.
My writer Lenny Marcus said to me that we’ve been trying to find a place that’s actually going to be fun and in fishing place to work at. Everybody calls themselves world renown, and they’ve done this and done that. But we haven’t ever had totally good experiences on productions. A lot of times people are crep that’s floating, or just not as good as what they think. They are messy.
But on The Daily Show, everybody there was good at their job, and everybody there was staying in their lane and did their job. Even when we were editing jokes and bits and stuff. They were so respectful and then they were very good at what they did. There were lines that I was like, Okay, how am I trying to say this? And I’m telling you the writers would say, and I’d be like, gush, darn are you in my head?
They were good. I remember asking Chris Rock. I was like, is there any advice? And he was like, first of all, I’m never worried about you, and second, don’t try to be John Stewart, don’t try to be Trevor. Be you be who you are.
I already kind of knew that, but you know how you just need maybe a little permission to do that. So that’s really what it was. Donald Glover is profiled and GQ and he said Amy Poehler told him that he didn’t get on SNL because his stand up lacked a point of view. Glover said, me being on SNL would have killed me. I got friends who made it on SNL, and at the time I was like, damn, But if I got on SNL, my career wouldn’t have happened.
Glover has claimed that Tina Fey confirmed to him that he was only hired as a writer on thirty Rock because of NBC’s diversity initiative Wow at twenty three years old. Donald Glover got a job on thirty Rock in two thousand and six. He told g Q it was a diversity thing. There’s no animosity between us or anything like that, but Tina Fey said it herself. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.
I didn’t know was between me and him until later. Glover said. Kenya hit me one day and he was like, I hated you for years. Glover said, it definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there. I used to have stress dreams every night where he’s doing cartwheels on the top of a New York skyscraper with the other writers watching me.
The Good One podcast had on Kathleen Man again and they said, you know you’re Sometimes he’ll announce a new tour, but it seems like you’re actually on the same never ending tour. Kathleen said, it is never ending. People are like, oh, how long has this tour been, And I’m like, thirty five years. I’m not Black Sabbath. I don’t get to take two years off and think of an album.
It starts when you’re in theaters. Let’s say I do the Chicago Theater once every eighteen months. They don’t want to put the same poster up. They don’t want the same ad. That’s what’s driving all that, And that makes sense, but usually it’s new jokes by the time I get back there.
But tour names for comics, I’m just grasping anything. Call it boxwine and a Tanny Banjo. I don’t want it to be a title where a press could be mean, what’s it like on the never Ending Tour? The first few times I went around, I did all the touristy things, and then you start making friends in those towns. It’s a chance to see my friends again.
If I’m going to Columbus, Ohio, I’m not going to the zoo. I’ve been there a bunch. I’m going to see my friends. She said about working, She and Ron White have the same theory. You’re either working or you’re not.
It’s like going to the gym. Oh really, you haven’t been in three months. I don’t know all these stand up comedians, so I haven’t heard their name in two years. All of a sudden they have a special Really, where did you do that? It’s incomprehensible to me.
I’m not saying it’s wrong. I’m not saying they’re not necessarily funny. I just don’t understand. I have to be in a rhythm. Even if I’d take a week off that first show, I’m going to forget a few things.
It’s just rust. And Ron White is such a pot monster that his memory shot. He’s like, I can’t remember anything about ten minutes in my whole life. And I was like, well that’s enough. You could be my opener.
Why not just go out there and do ten minutes. It doesn’t even matter how good it is. McCall caught up with a Jay Leno. He’s at the State Theater tonight. Are you doing, Jay?
Well, let’s see, I’ve got a broken collar bone, two broken ribs, and two crack kneecaps ore than that, I’m okay. It’s actually not too bad. When I’m on stage, it’s fine. It would be far worse if I had slipped in my pet boone walking bathtub. But when you’re seventy two and crash your eighty three year old motorcycle, it’s kind of cool.
As for the show, I guess it’s what you’d call classic stand up comedy. I decided to take the politics out of the act because it’s so divisive. I’ve found that when you’re on stage and you mentioned either candidate, people always wait till they hear the joke before they react. If the joke was for their candidate, they laugh. It was against their candidate, they boo.
It’s funny how you can have a wonderful cross section of America a regular audience. You’re doing fine, and then twenty five minutes and you start talking politics and they start booing and yelling. I understand, Jay, I get podcast comments. I just read late night jokes. I don’t write them.
Jay said, when you’re a comedian, you’ll always lose half your audience if you give your opinion. That’s why I make fun of both sides equally. One of my favorite guys was Roddey Dangerfield. I knew him for forty years, and all that time I had no idea if he was a Democrat Republican because we never discussed politics. Was the hardest part about being a comedian, Jay Leno.
He said, there’s nothing harder than writing a joke. You always need to come up with material, and that’s why I like being a road comic and having that interaction and one on one with the live audience. I don’t want to do a Netflix or HBO special. With those you make a ton of money, but it’s only that one show. I’d rather do one hundred shows and learn something.
I honestly thought I’d do this until I had to get a real job. I grew up in a little town in New England. Had an English teacher who pulled to the side once and said, I saw you in the hall making jokes. How about instead of writing a paper for my class, you get up and give a talk. For the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed doing a homework because I had to think about what I was going to say.
It wasn’t hilarious, but I got a few laughs. My teacher gave me an a My mom was stunned. She said, have you ever getten thought to being a comedy writer comedian? I said, no, not really. He told this wonderful story.
I remember when I was in fifth grade and mister Simon’s class, I had to write a paper about John Glenn circling in the earth. So I wrote the paper and I got a C minus on it. Forty eight years later, I had John Glenn on the Tonight show. So I called mister Simon, who was still lived in the area, and I said, do you remember the paper I wrote where he gave me C minus? Well, I have the second part of my report we’ll be talking about on the tonight shows.
To be sure to watch. I had told John Glenn about it beforehand. He thought it was funny. The next day, mister Simon called me up and told me he’d upgraded from a C two an A. Oh man, listen to this.
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The headliners for Norfolks fourteenth annual Great American Comedy Festival have been announced. Vicky Lawrence will headline the closing night gala. She would perform as both herself and her famous character Mama. That’s Saturday, June seventeenth. Michael ian Black headlines the night before, and the festival kicks off on Thursday, June fifteenth with the traditional family comedy magic show.
This is in Nebraska. Check out Great American Comedy Festival dot com. The Sydney Morning Herald shared a season to performers Guide to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Ally McGregor suggests, by early evening tickets to a big name you’re familiar with, then take a flyer on one of the fresh faces doing this set at town Hall. She says, the show’s only an hour long, so if you’re going to go into the city and make a full night of it, see someone you know, then get a bite to eat or drink, then go to town Hall to grab tickets as someone you never heard of. I agree that is a great plan.
You’ve heard me say several times now. Melbourne is a fantastic city. McGregor says. The festival takes over the whole city and it feels like everyone’s totally vibing. I would suggest going to bars that look over the city so you can have a drink and look down and see people walking around.
She likes Madame Brussels. It’s a bit of an institution for me. You catch a lift to a roof garden that’s decked out like an English tea garden to play croquet in, and all these bartenders are wearing tennis whites. It’s hilarious. The age took a look at a bunch of shows at the festival, one of them Sashi Pereira.
She started in twenty eighteen at the Raw Comedy competition and said, raw comedy, it’s such a great weight experience stand up for the first time. If you get up in an open mic, there might only be one or two three people in an audience, whereas this was packed with people’s friends and family and everyone’s on your side. She made it to the state finals that year. Eventually he got approached by producers to peer in group shows at the festival. She says, when I started, I didn’t want to talk about being a woman.
I didn’t want to talk about being brown. I was just like, I’ll talk about doors and automated voices, things everyone can relate to. But I found the more of myself i’d put in, the more personalized I made it, the more I was connecting with the audiences. Her show endings is at the Chinese Museum through April ninth. Dan Rosario found out when he first tried stand up he didn’t suck.
He said, some of my best mates did comedy every day for two years before they got a laugh. But I was the only boy of eight cousins and I used to wake up in the morning at age six and think, how will I make the girls laugh? He didn’t want to rush into his first full length solo show. He said, I got a lot of advice from comedians who’ve been in the game longer. They were like, when you want to do an hour show, wait a year.
His fans a lot otherwise, people kept saying, when can we see you? We’re sick of seeing give you five or ten minutes. Well, now you could see him do an hour. White people needs her relax, as the name of the show said, trades Hall Through April twenty third, The Age also took a look at Braun Lewis. Her previous career was as a high school English teacher.
She decided to try stand up and said, there’s a bit of a midlife crisis stench about someone in their thirties starting comedy. My friends were like, we think you’re funny, but that sounds terrifying. So she moved to Brisbane. In Brisbane, I didn’t know anyone. It’s nice to perform for people who aren’t worried about you.
There she figured out how to get good at comedy. Her take on hour long shows you don’t have time to do a story in a five minute spot. You don’t have the time to work with Cadence. It’s bang bang bang. But now she’s got an hour.
Broun Lewis, it’s called Probably. It’s at the Weston four through April twenty third. And let’s open up the schedule. How long do you think it’ll take to load today? It took about a minute.
All right, Let’s see what I can tell you about today. A lot of children’s shows in the morning, tomorrow being Saturday. I guess that makes sense. Let’s listen to Ivan Arista Gietta. He was the winner of the Best Comedy award from the twenty twenty three Adelaide Fringe, also the winner of the Best Comedy in the twenty twenty two Adelaide Fringe.
He must be pretty good, say Olah. So Australia’s newest Aussie is happy immigrant has just come one of us, craigy amigo.
All right, let’s listen.
I’m from Venezuela. I’ve been living here for four years. Four years. I already feel I’m becoming Australian because I’m relating to food in a more Australian way. Last month, I went to Bunnings on a Saturday morning.
As soon as I smellow sausage Szel I was like, oh my god, Sausagezel was like, oh my goal, what’s happening to me? That wasn’t me four years ago. The first time I smellow sausage thisele, I was like, oh my god, there’s someone burning inside a car and it’s a hairy man. It’s a fat hairyman and his dog. They’re burning inside of cars.
Not anymore. I love a sausage thisl. I love them. You pay coins for it, just coins? How good is to pay with coins?
I love pairing with coins. When I pay with coins, I don’t feel I’m giving away money. I’m just getting rid of coins, all right. I found that really funny. I had the Mico, but I was holding back laughter to not step by the jokes.
That was pretty good. Now I want to play another clip, but the website froze, so let me just get out on tops. That was actually funny. That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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