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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon said, Trump made history. The only good news for Trump in Florida. All their history books been thrown out, so it’s all right.
Seth Meyer said, that’s right. Former President Trump wasn’t rained in Manhattan, and like everybody else, Trump has presumed innocent until the outright confesses on truth. Social Colbert at that point, of course, he was ready as Miranda rights. Then he claimed Miranda wasn’t even his typeaster to sign an nda and got indicted again. The late night host thought Trump looks sad.
Roy Wood Junior, finally getting a chance to host The Daily Show, said, look at how sad Trump looks. My man looks like somebody told him his dog died, or that Mike Pence is still alive. Fallon, he looks like he’s watching another table at Applebee’s get their food first. Looks like he had to sit through unskippable ads on YouTube. He looks like Ben Affleck at the Grammys.
Hey, great news. Bobcat Goldthwaite is coming out with his first album in decades, says the press release. Now that confuses me because in twenty twelve, Bobcat golthweight released a compilation of jokes called you Don’t Look the Same Either, and it came out on album because I know I’ve been playing it on Slacker turned Live one for a long time twenty twelve. Hey, I was still at Serious Sexam playing it there. So I’m wondering, is this an actual album album?
You know, like, if Taylor Swift puts out Folklore, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. The stuff Dave Chappelle does, the stuff that Jim Gaffigan does, those are Netflix specials. You can put them on vinyl if you want. But I know a comedy album when I see one.
So I’m guessing Bobcat Golthwaite’s new thing it’s just an album, which means I’ve got your back to be the Grammy of the Year for Comedy Album because I’m a snob and I think it should be an album, not a Netflix special anyway. It is called Soldier for Christ. The album is a mix of personal stories never told along with observations and reflections, revealing the warm hearted, punk rock human behind the wild nineteen eighties persona, a self described VHS comic, and a TikTok world Bobcat share stories about everything from childhood, family and old friendships, to touring with Nirvana and aging. The album will be out on April twenty six. You can pre order it now.
He’s also going to celebrate the release at Lincoln Lodge at Chicago, that’s where Soldier for Christ was recorded. Tickets are on sale. Tickets will benefit the Trevor Project.
Also appearing at that show Eugene Merman.
That’s pretty neat. I like these guys. They even sent over a track listing. Are you curious? Of course you are.
Track one is called Hello, When do you think Hello is about? What kind of jokes do you think? Hello? Track two old Bob Behavior. The next it says, my name is Robert Goldthwaite, balloon on a grave, Cigars, nuns and Viagra, cowboy colin oscopy.
Now we’re up to track seven. F these guys, then UFOs opening for Nirvana. Don’t repeat this story, fu AARP check your oil. Nickelback’s manager is a Penis. I met Grover, my big brother Robert, and I do the voice in all caps swimming Towards the Shark track nineteen bonus, Intro track twenty bonus, I’m in Love with a Duck track twenty one bonus, The Vigilante Nun They even sent over a bio or You’re curious, I’m excited about this album in case you can’t tell.
Since Bobcat Goldthwaite’s first appearance on The David Letterman Show at the age of twenty, now it says The David Letterman Show. Does that mean Bobcat was on the daytime one? That’s pretty awesome. Bobcat has gone on and maintain a thriving career as a writer, director, actor, voice actor, and stand up comedian. As a comedian, Bobcat has starred numerous hbos slash Showtime specials, performed in venues all over the world, and even went on tours and I’m gonna read this next sentence verbatim, and even went on tour as an opening act for the Nirvana, Yes, it says the Nirvana all Right.
Well known for his roles and scrooged with Bill Murray and Z and the Police Academy franchise, Goldthwaite has gone on to become a well respected award winning director, then a bunch of stuff about his directorial credits. After fleeing Los Angeles, he now lives somewhere in the woods in Illinois with his girlfriend Nora and their five cats. Anderson Coop Her Love It, Alice Cooper Love It, Tina Sparkle, Bruce Wayne, and Robert Smith. John Stewart was on The Daily Show. Is he coming back to host?
No? No No? He was dressed in full Obi wan Kenobi outfit, and he appeared to help guest host Roy would Junior go viral? Vulture observes feels sort of Kingmakery. No.
John explained that he used to host The Daily Show. Roy Wood said, wait, the Daily Show had a white host. Look, Johnny Mack. You can hate on Adam sandler comedies as much as you want. You could sit there in your stoop basement recording your dumb podcast saying Adam Sandler’s movies are terrible, but Netflix says Murder Mysteries Too.
Debut was the second biggest opening weekend for a comedy film on Netflix. It was watched by forty two million households in the first three days post release. That’s slightly more people than listen to this podcast. I will give you that, Adam. According to Netflix, Murder Mystery two accumulated sixty four point four million hours streamed over it’s debut weekend, a figure that catapulted it into the top ten of the streamers movie section in ninety one countries.
So there you are. You’re in Luxembourg and you’re locking in Netflix and you watch Murder Misty two. It was also the most watched English language Netflix movie on the service for the week running March twenty seven to April second.
Now, let’s parse that sentence, the most watched English language Netflix mov…
So something in another language beat Murder Mystery two. There still is hope internationally for us. All good job people who speak different language. Remember last week I told you Trevor Noah is going to host one of those Amazon l L last one laughing things. Well, Graham Norton is going to host one.
He’s doing the Irish one. Ten comedians locked in a flat together and I have to try to make each other laugh. Anyone who laughs, you’re expelled. The Irish version will shoot and Dublin this spring and it will air next year in all two hundred and forty countries where Prime Video is available. So say you’re in Luxembourg and you’re like, I didn’t really like Murder Mystery two?
What else is on? You’ll be able to watch this, Graham Norton said. And don’t think I didn’t almost say, Jim Norton, I almost did. Graham Norton said, I’m thrilled to be working on home ground for the first time in many, many years. I’m so proud of our comedy culture and it’s wonderful to have a platform to showcase Irish talent to a global audience.
I can’t wait to see what our comedy masterminds do to get the laughter going. This press release did not mention any sort of prize. I don’t know if the Graham Norton Show is giving fifty five thousand dollars to Irish comedians or what they’re doing. Who knows. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
He could there was some money in the tip jar. You know who did that, Kara? Would you know? Kara with the whole power of the street woman, that’s gilding me into running. Hey, Kara, I just got back from a three point three mile run.
That’s five days in a row in case you’re counting, but you’re not counting, because that’s what we do on Mondays. We’re not doing that today. Today we’re talking about how Kara would bought me three large ized coffees, but she added to be misappropriated on beer only. That’s because she listened to yesterday’s podcast and knew my plan for Wednesday night was, of course, to go to trivia night at the brewery and three largeised coffe phase. That’s fifteen bucks.
That’s two beers at the brewery. Perfect because as anyone who knows me, I am on my soapbox about two beers, not eight. Two beers during a three and a half hour trivia game. Perfect eight beers. What are you doing?
Karrowood? Thank you for going to buy me a coffee? Dot com slash a daily comingy news Kevin Hart said, I’m forty three, so I hope I got a little bit at SIME left. I definitely want to go out while I’m on top. But I’m finding new fun, like in the space of interviewing and podcasts, that’s something that’s evergreen.
Like I’ve actually interviewed a lot of people I’m also artist friendly. I don’t believe in the space of sabotaging talent. I amplify talent. So coming on any platform of mine is about celebrating you and what you’ve done in your world of success. And I don’t do any prep, no prep, no pre interviews.
Now here’s what we’re talking about. Here’s the marketing premo. I don’t do any of that stuff. Come on my show and we’re just gonna talk. One talent that he says he amplified is Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
That’s right. He said, Well, his career was over, he needed help, So what did he do? Called the old Khart came on board and changed that man’s life. By the way, you’re welcome. You’re welcome because we know the truth before me.
Yet that stupid movie tooth Fairy. We all know what was happening after then then boom, Central Intelligence shoots to the moon. There’s a comedy festival in Montreal. But no, it is not the just for laughs, I mean that still exists, of course, hoping to go, got to check my calendar, hoping to get up there. Are you’re going to join me?
We can hang out. We could have a beverage. Starting tonight through the ninth, Montreal’s inaugural giggle Fest will host over thirty shows and feature more than eighty local and international performers at the Montreal Art Center and Museum. Now, why are they doing this? Gigle Fest says it seeks to spotlight and elevate local English comedy producers and artists with a business model that allows producers and comedians to see real profits for their art.
Local comedian Michelle Forrester said, what’s crazy is that we’re a city known for the behemoth that is JFL, and yet when people come up here they have a hard time accessing English stand up comedy. There are so many amazing independent shows that uplift overlooked talent. Giggle Fest gives people centralized access to all those shows and artists in four day. Is pretty cool. Giggle FESTMTL dot com if you want to check that out.
Steph Curry, Yes that’s Curry. He is coming to television. He’s going to costar with actor Adam Paley. It’s called Mister Throwback, a mockumentary comedy on NBC. Mister Throwback will focus on a down on his luck memorabilia dealer.
Looking for redemption, he reunites with Steph Curry, who is his sixth grade teammate. Here’s Today’s Horrible story from USA Today. Bobby Lee under fire for resurface videos of the comedian telling a story three years ago. In that story, he talks about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. It’s a clip from THEO Vaughan’s This Past Weekend from January twenty twenty.
Bobby Lee tells the O Van that he frequented a brothel and Tijuana with go workers while working in the food service industry. For this report, Bobby Lee said, this is going to be a hard story to tell. I don’t know if I can get around it. Honestly, if you think this is going to ruin me, we had cut it out. I was walking down Hooker Alley and there was a girl.
It was a girl that seemed scared. That was the one I wanted. Bobby Lee then clarifies the woman’s age, having early referred to her as a girl and said, this is not a kid. This is an adult, fully grown woman. He then the story and says, while having sex with the woman that she’s this is horrible, crying snot bubbles the whole thing.
He goes on to describes speeding up the process to get over with it. Another clip from the podcast Tiger Billy Clips has also surfaced. He tells the same story of desiring a quote girl facing the wall, the one that doesn’t want to be there. USA Today writes it’s unclear if the story is factual or a comedic bit. USA Today reached out to Lee’s reps for comment.
At the time of this recording eleven twenty five am Wednesday, April fifth, I’m not aware of any comments from Bobby Lee. Let’s take a look at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. A review of Lara recotes GRL slash latnx slash d EF that shows playing until April twenty third. So Girl, a teen x deaf dage said, once you started getting noticed in Britain’s comedy scene, interviewers would ask for certain things, then ask if I could talk about my hearing aids, and I realized that being a minority is very in This is horrible, but I’m a good combination of the things. I’m disabled, but I’m not too disabled.
I’m Latin American, but I speak English. So I’m in this terrible but perfect place between all these minorities where people say, I went and listen to this deaf girl, but I can understand her. In Girl Latine’s Death, she uses storytelling to explore intersectional identity and what it’s like to pass as a hearing person and as white. It’s also about how cynical we are in terms of what’s allowed, what isn’t, what’s in, and how it feels to be brought in, but also in some incidences, taken out when people find out. With both her disability and heritage not immediately obvious to others, she says, she often feels like she’s being sneaky.
I feel like an undercover person of color. She used deaf in the title of the show because Heart of Hearing is not a snappy but I’m hyper aware that I shouldn’t be saying deaf. I don’t belong to the deaf community. I will eventually, but not yet. Let’s open up the schedule for today and see who’s playing.
Let’s see how long the website takes to load today. Boy, I did do an edit there that took over a minute. All right, I’m kind of into talking about the things where I can play a clip that’s a little more fun. So I’m taking a look at Friday’s line up at the International Comedy Festival, because again, if you’re in Melbourne, by the time you’re hearing this, it’s already Friday, even though in New York City it’s Thursday. Yeah, a lot of time zones in between there, all right, how about Carmen Ghetta in Carmenacha a Corona infused disco barbecue, but it’s Carman Ghetta.
The Cougar has left the Hubby and Brighton Bay mansion on a mission to achieve social media celebrity, serving up so much more than fish and chips in Corona better. Corman fuses high energy clown routines, impeccable opera serenades, and a diva menu you had no idea you needed. Is it cabarets and a catwalk? Is it a cooking show? Is a game show?
Is it everything anyone could ever want it? Soylet block one oh seven? Yes, it is, my friends, that sounds really fun. This cougar escate starling. I’ve got the jewelry.
I don’t worry about the house. You’ll take care of itself. I’m out of here, Rada, I’m gone it, I’m gone. I’m not your property. I’m not your property.
This is not your ring, these are not your bottles, this is not your house. Already that was a little different. About the racist immigrants, Oh my, what’s this? An hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you knew about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes.
A review from a Chinese proverb says he will come out feeling a lot less racist than when you went in at five stars. Let’s do a clip, right, Yes, picking up women for men of my kind is really hard, right, like it? It’s really hard because apparently women only like this accent when I’m offering them cheap deals from waterforn. That sounds fun. A lot of the audio was a little subpar so that’s why the short clip there.
One more. Let’s see Claire Hooper Sweet Charity Australia. Sweetheart takes a break from emotionally scoring her children with graphic descriptions of the Heinlich maneuver to tell you all about the kind and worthy things she’s done lately and hope they’ll outweigh all the times that she’s wished people dead. Let’s listen. Are we hugging no?
We’re not? No? Ye know, that’s one of those questions where if you’re not sure the answer, just don’t ask, you know, those questions like are you going to ate that? What will you marry me? And are we hugging?
No? In the last couple of years, it’s been possible to be friends with someone for months and still not have seen the inside of their house, friends with someone for months and not know who’s better. All right, I mean a bit of a slow start there. For the clip that you chose to spotlight no from Onward States internet sensation Trevor Wallace sing a Little buzz On. Trevor Wallace this week performed a self deprecating and largely improvised comedy set as part of a free comedy show hosted by Penn State’s Student Programming Association.
Wallace began his set by waltzing on stage wearing a miniature foam finger on his hand, which he quickly removed and revealed his outstretched middle finger. He said, always gre to come back to schools. He didn’t get into I had a two point six GETPA, so their loss after a Jerry Sandusky joke didn’t land, he wondered if he was still going to get paid. Wallace then talked about his impressions of Penn State’s campus, saying there are cars all over the place and students just don’t seem to care. They’re walking around like I’ve priority here.
I played lacrosse for one season, so f off. He joked about a childhood and said, one time my dad actually pulled the door of my bedroom off. That son of a bee turned my room into a jeep wrangler. And from the department of Please, don’t you know what’s on today? On Paramount Plus Greece, Rise of the Pink Ladies.
Yeah, boy, have you seen the trailers for this thing? Sat in nineteen fifty four, four years before the nineteen seventy eight film You Know Greece with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Hope you’ve heard of that one. Pink Ladies explores out a group of four ridel outcast forged a friendship then became the title Girl Gang fourbears to Rizzo, Frenchie and the other beloved pink Ladies from the movie I can’t wait to see the reactions to this thing. I think it’s going to be velma level. That is your comedy news for today.
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