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Caloroga Shark Media. I am Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A slow news day. To be honest, let’s put our feet up. We’ll take it a little slower today and going to be a little more conversational than usual.
Jimmy Fallon had a good joke. He said, I’m not sure Biden’s border plan is going to work. Forget the border, we can’t even secure the deodor and at Walgreens. Vulture profiled bow and Yang and Keenan Thompson. Since they are comedians, the topic of course cancel culture.
Bowen says, everybody’s highly personal about what they find funny, so it’s everyone’s value systems meeting at the same time. That makes it completely ripe for conflict. Vultra says. He then stops and reconsiders his choice of words, not conflict. I always boil it down to a healthy discussion about what’s going on in the world.
Bowen addressed the accusation that he distanced himself from Dave Chappelle. You may recall that Chappelle showed up in episode ten of this season. Some viewers noticed that Yang was standing on the opposite side of the stage from Dave and had his arms crossed. Yang said, I stand where I always stand on good Night, So it was not a physical distance that anyone is creating. It had to do with so many things that were completely internal.
Ultra dug in asking if he was unhappy with Chappelle’s appearance, Boone said, it was about other people’s response in the show. I was just confused. That was it. People were confused because Chappelle wasn’t part of the episode. That episode was hosted by Takota Johnson.
The following week, episode eleven, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley appeared. Then episode twelve was Shane Gillis. All right, it’s a little run of controversy. Thompson laughs and says controversy. Yang chimes in, I’m gonna give Lord Michael some credit to that meta narrative.
There’s a story around the show now, and it’s his show. He gets to do whatever he wants. How did they feel about Shane Gillis being brought back? Yang says he’s used to their names being mentioned together since they joined the same year. Ultra points out Gillis never actually appeared.
He was fired before the premiere. Anytime our names are in the same sentence, at least in a journalistic way. It always feels a deally turious. What does that word even mean? And I definitely didn’t say it right.
Apparently it means causing harm or damage. It feels like one person’s trying to undo the other. I was just really curious about what the show would be like and if it would were an opportunity to really move past it. He and I have done enough things in our careers now to really not have that be the definitive beginning or the thing that casts up all over everything else that we do going forward. Thompson praise the writers, saying the show is doing an incredible job, in my opinion, just allowing for the times to dictate what’s appropriate, what’s funny, and what’s not.
It feels like the New York Dinner Table. He’s honored to be the longest running cast member and jokes until I get into a group of black people and they’re like, we don’t watch SNL. I’m like, you know, I’m representing for y’all. But when says that’s what I run into too, with queer people and with Asian people, Oh, we don’t watch this one Developing probably has developed by the time you’re hearing this. A Quebec judge has approved the sale of Just for Last assets to Comedy High.
I talked about this the other day, but it looks like the festival will come back. Comedy h will not acquire the company in its entirety, but it will take possession of the Just for Last festival, zoo Fest, Comedy Pro and the Gags brands, plus the audio visual catalogs. So when you take all those things out, I’m not sure what Just for Laughs is without the festival and the audio visual catalog and the stuff. I don’t know. The Comedy Ha CEO said, I remember the times I used to come to Just for Laughs.
So today it’s a great day for us. It’s the first day of a new era for Comedy Ha. Or maybe it’s pronounced comida ha. There’s an ee there come d I capital ha exclamation point commiita ha. Who knows, Yeah, I think it’s comiita Ha.
Comiita Ha says they intend to redefine its development plans and order to support growth in all sectors of activity, including festival’s production of live shows, TV promotion, tour promotion, distribution and monetization of content. Comida Ha has a festival in Quebec City that’ll have its twenty fifth edition from August first to the twenty fourth. Maybe I’ll go to that. I’ve been to Quebec city yet, and I’m not clear here. I’ve read two articles.
It’s a little unclear. I think they’re doing a festival this year. The Comitaja Salute in Montreal festival will take place July eighteen to the twenty eighth at the usual places they’re in downtown Montreal. The CEO says next year we should be back to as it used to be. So I wonder if they’re doing a mini festival here.
I’ll let you know when I find out. All right, if you listen every day, I have kind of two halves of the show. Usually in the front half I do all the big names. In the second half I do more esoteric stuff. There’s nothing to load the front block today.
I have plenty for the second half. So this is where I mentioned I would get a little more conversational. I got a note from a listener who DM me. So when listeners dm me, I don’t use their name, so, but thank you listener who was curious about how I feel about Joe Koy, and it reminded me not everybody listens every day. Do I not like Joe Koy?
Do I not find him funny? So let me clear this up. I like Joe Cooy. I think Joe Coy is funny. I haven’t seen the New Specialty.
I’ve been watching Star Trek this week. I have had conversations with Joe Koy, nice guy. As for the bit, A lot of my influences are from eighties Letterman, and I like beating a joke to death. As I’ve explained a few people lately, the Joekoy bit where I head into a new story, say Joe Koy, and then I do something like, you know one time he did this horrible thing, and then I played the club I’m not gonna do it today. That is me beating the dead horse.
I have beaten the dead horse. It has gone from it was funny to not funny at all to John will please stop, And for some of us it has come back up to being funny again because I’ve beaten the horse so badly. But along the way you get new listeners who might not realize that I’m just goofing my real take is it’s a harmless joke and Taylor Swift should have just smiled or something, and nobody would be talking about it, especially one idiot beating a joke to death. What six seven months later, So I do like Joe Coy, I haven’t seen a new special. Fit Fugitive saw it and they wrote, do you know the famous meme where something is supposed to be funny, but when you’re watching it, it’s a whole other story.
Most of the time I was watching Joe Koy Live from Brooklyn, and that’s how I was feeling. And that’s quite ironic considering the opening ten minutes of Jokoy’s Netflix special literally ask you to laugh out loud. Coy explicitly talks about people who he terms energy vampires. These are the people with whom you hang out with and then end up feeling miserable. He jokes about people who aren’t quite laughing even while watching a comedy special.
Then Joe goes full boomer and starts talking about the effects of social media. According to Joe Coy, your social media friends are not your real friends. You should get out more and put effort into real world friendships. I don’t think that’s ridiculous at all. But this writer writes, I obviously can’t agree, because all the genuine friends I have are actually the ones I made on social media, and hell, the same goes for relationship as well.
Yet you might argue that’s my personal thing. Why should I bring it up when a comedian is blatantly generalizing and it’s quite stupid, to be honest, especially the bit where Coy seeks to out how he used to get scared when talking to a girl and just talking to her compared to how people just slide to dms these days. La da da da da. So I’m guessing here the special touch to nerve with the writer, who then adds, at this point, I should clarify myself. I’m not out here to launch a skating attack on the comedian.
I’m just doing my job here, which is honestly telling you how I felt after watching Live from Brooklyn. Now, if you ask me, I’ve seen worse stand up sets compared to this. Joe Coy might be unfunny for the most part, but he’s certainly not boring. There’s a review, all right, I’ll have to actually watch this thing.
Now here’s one that would normally be weekend filler.
But let me use it. Here a slide show from MSN dot com. John, Are you recording your podcast in two thousand and two? I know right, this one is the richest comedians in the world. There are twenty one slides.
I haven’t looked at it. Let’s see number nineteen. Terry Fader. You know the famous of ventriloquist and impressionist. He’s had a residency in Las Vegas for quite some time.
Okay, and add slideshow Cotini the next slide, Oh, MSN, what are we doing here? Nineteen Stefan Rob. It’s a tie for nineteen. I didn’t mess up there. I was curious about why Terry Fader was number nineteen.
Okay, now I’m interested. Who’s this? Once known as the most powerful man in German television, Stefan Rob hosted the comedy based talk shows Evasion and TV Total. He’s also contributed to the Eurovision Song Contest as a performance songwriter and producer. In twenty fifteen, he retired from television, who focused primarily on production.
Networth on hundred sixty million dollars. Interesting eighteen and I didn’t even recognize this person. A picture came up and I’m like, who is this another German comedian? No, it’s Drew Carrey. Drew Carey no longer looks like Drew Carrey.
Networth under at sixty five million. Seventeen Bill Murray. You know that is? Slideshow continues after this ad. A tie at fourteen Steve Harvey side with Ray Romano, side with Conan Another AD thirteen, Dan Ackroyd twelve, Seth McFarlane.
A tie for number ten Larry David four hundred million, side with David Letterman. Another AD number nine Adam Sandler worth four hundred and forty million dollars. Actually, I meant to bring this up as well. As much as I’m joking about Jokoy, I’m not joking about Adam Sandler. His movies are terrible.
Anything I ever say about Adam Sandler, do I stylize it to be halfway entertaining? Sure? Do I dislike Adam sandler movies? Absolutely? A tie at number seven Kevin Hart and Jay Leno number six, Ellen number four another tie.
Come on with the ties here, guys. Trey Parker, HM, who do you think Trey Parker from South Park’s gonna be tide? Let me guess nope by slad joke at that next slide, MSN, Come on, bro, this is ridiculous. Matt Greening part of the TI see not who was expecting there? Matt Greening from The Simpsons.
Number three is Matt Stone and they have addressed this, they write co creator Matt Stone is reportedly worth one hundred million dollars more than series covisionary Trape Parker why. Stone is known for his savvy real estate investments. Interesting number two Byron Allen. Yeah you may remember him if you’re old like me. He was on a show called Real People a zillion years ago.
He has done a lot of investing. He owns TV networks. That dude is super successful and number one Jerry Seinfeld. If you like these programs ad free. There’s a link of the show notes.
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Pretty cool, right? Yes? I mentioned the other day that Stand Up New York was moving or had moved out of the Upper west Side and that it had been a cool location because comedians could just jump in there a little out of the way as much as out of the way Upper West Side could be. Well. Apparently the folks at the New York Comedy Club have listened to me.
They’re buying the location two thirty six West seventy eighth Street near Broadway. New York Comedy Club is taking over, revamping and rebranding the existing stand up New York Comedy Club, so folks like Jerry and Amy Schumer will have somewhere to duck into on the down low. Kevin James is going to play bad boy golfer John Daily in an upcoming limited series Why I don’t know either. Heidi Gardner spoke to the La Times about auditioning for SNL. She said, you get five minutes, and they said, don’t go over.
So I did twelve characters in five minutes. I just tried to wham bam them. Then I heard they wanted me to come back with this time I it’d be a whole new set, and I was like, but those are the twelve those are the ones I had. I was just performing at the Groundlings and so many shows and failing a lot so for that second edition, and I was like, well that’s sketch. Didn’t work at the groundings, but I think people like this one little part of a character.
I could do that for fifteen seconds. So I always say in my second audition, I did my bench players, and they got me the job. Tim Minchin, who is fantastic, is touring the States the first time since twenty eleven. It’s unclear how serious or not this is. It is titled an Unfunny Evening with Tim Minchin and his piano.
The subtitle does add, however, the promoter can’t guarantee the artist will not inadvertently amuse So is he playing serious songs from his album Apart Together, is he playing stuff from Matilda and grownhog Day? Or is he playing the funny songs? Anyway, super talented guy, I’m sure he’lle plays something funny. You should go. Tim Minchin, as statement said, it’s been over a decades since I played solo in the States.
I’m so excited to be back at nothing compares to us audiences. It’s a pre sale that starts today, Tim fan is your code. The tour kicks off August third in Vancouver, which is not in the United States US Premier Portland, Oregon. On the sixth, Seattle, San fran La Danver, Austin, Dallas, Toronto, Minneapolis, Boston, Washington, d C. And it wraps up in New York City.
And that is your comedy news for to day. Tomorrow my wonderful hour long interview with Mark Malcoff, we talk about Late Night. I hope you really enjoy it. I know I’ve been hyping it up. It’s pretty good.
That’s tomorrow in a normal episode on Sunday. See you there.