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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Boone Yang is taking a step back from his podcast Lost Culturestas to prioritize his mental health. Boone announced taking a very short break. Bad bouts of depersonalization are effing me up so bad, but I’m trying my best to get better.
Please take care be soon. He posted that on Instagram. Depersonalization is a term you might not be familiar with. The Mayo Clinic calls it a psychological condition in which a person regularly feels that they’re having an out of body experience and that their surroundings are not real. Ready, stead Cut watched Tom Segura’s new special and they loved it.
They called it one of the best of the decade. Wow, minor ish spoilers here. I’ll take a pregnant pause give you a second, but not too bad. They’re right. He opens up by asking if they’ll stop taking down Confederate statues.
He follows that up with a bit about meeting a supermodel and how they are equally as freak as a seven footer because they’re unbelievably good looking in person. Sagura has the perfect way of interest, finding his jokes, creating some incredibly funny callbacks. What made it even better was how he incorporated jokes about his father’s final words and to later jokes about his kids. They’re right. There’s something about Sigora’s body language that makes his jokes that much funnier.
It’s not outlandish or over the top, but quite subtle, just enough to add a little oomph on the joke to get it over the top. Another thing is the deadpan look on his face through some of his raunchier jokes, and it’s perfect. Very few comics anymore. Get on the stage, tell jokes, make you laugh, and get off the stage. Tom sagoora Sledgehammer is a masterclass of storytelling from one of the best comedians in the game.
Punchline after punchline will have you in tears laughing at Segoora’s incredibly dark jokes. It’s one of the best stand up specials of not just this year, but this decade. Wow are you in New Orleans? Head over to the Smoothie Center and see Bert Kreisher, Mark Norman, Tiffany Hattish, Big Jay Ogerson, Chad Daniels, Raff Barbosa and Rosebud Baker. Wow, what’s this, Johnny Mack.
It’s Bert Kreisher’s fully loaded tour. Mark Norman said, it’s a party on the bus. He sleep on the bus with comedians their activities. I woke up one morning and there was a slipping slide. It was Jackson, Mississippi.
They had no water in the city. But we’re here to play a dunking contest. Norman says that dividing the torn is several short stints made it survival. He says it’s only a couple of days at a time, Otherwise you’d die of alcohol poisoning. He meshed Pitzel tell the Last Laugh podcast he knew immediately after he got his cancer diagnosis that he’d be talking about it on stage.
He said, the night I went to the hospital, I knew it was going to be something. Having done comedy now for almost fourteen years, you get an understanding of when something’s happening to you that you should be taking notes about. I knew right away that something was happening it was gonna be fun to talk about. I did not know it was going to turn into a forty five minute thing. The Great Hannibal Burris once told me you got to talk about it right when it happens.
You gotta get on stage right away, even if you don’t have stuff written. Just get on stage right away. But sell one up at the comedy sellers all the audience. What happened. It helped that by the time he started joking about it, he was ready cancer free.
Before he got cancer, His biggest claim to fame was getting kicked off stage in the middle of a stand up set at Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance in twenty eighteen. He said, about twenty minutes in, I said something that some of them found a bit offensive, which at the time I’d never found offensive, and I still don’t find offensive. And I think if he asked those organizers if they find it offensive now, I think they may have changed their tune. But they came on stage, kick me off and cut my mic after asking me to make some closing remarks. The joke that got him in trouble, I Know You’re wondering, was premised on the idea that no one would choose to be gay if they were already black.
His joke, nobody’s doubling down on a hardship. No black dude ever wakes up, looks in the mirror and says, you know what, this black stuff too easy. I’m gonna put on a Madonna Halter top some Jordan’s and make some Indian dudes really uncomfortable. He got some awkward chuckles from the audience, but then the events organizers walked on stage and accused him of being disrespectful. Betel says, I could see why you would kind of take it of as offensive, but it’s not at all.
The most offensive part is the tag where I say that the only person who chooses to be gay every day is Mike Pence. That’s homophobic in a way, right. That’s me kind of outing someone who may or may not be gay, and I’m making fun of him. That I know is offensive. That’s not what you took umbrage with.
That part got a much bigger laugh. Are you in the Ozarks Well? Jeff Foxworthy’s at the Black Ope amp in the Lampy tonight seven third the Good Old Days Tour. Jeff said, that’s one of my favorite parts of the country. I always enjoy coming there and I have good shows there.
It’s one of those places where, let me think of the right way to phrase this, I don’t have to worry as much about what I say because I know me and my audience are on the same page from my whole career. Because I’m not mean spirited. I just wrote with the idea of making people laugh because I would always do a lot of women always do this and men do that. And well then I started getting emails from people going, well, I’m a woman and I don’t do that, and I’m a man, I don’t do that. So I’m like, all right, I’ll change it too.
I do this, and my wife does that. And I just kind of got to the point where I thought, when you’re having to edit yourself all the time, because the comics supposed to be a truth teller. We’re supposed to look at things that we do in society and kind of holdled up to people and go, why do we say this or why do we do that? I just kind of reach a point where I’m not out to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I don’t care. I’m just gonna try and be funny and not worry about it.
Another reason he enjoys the ozarks, He says, most people don’t know this about me, but one of my hobbies when I’m not working is looking for arrowheads. That area through the ozarks there is one of the best places in the country to look for them. I don’t want to buy them, I just like to find them much. I didn’t know that. Jeff, all right, what’s the show, he says.
I try to do about ninety minutes. I’m going to do maybe half an hour of whatever was the last special I did, and then a half hour of new stuff, and then a half hour of something older than people really like and request. I figure, if I do it like that, maybe everybody leaves happy. You know. I try to do a third, a third and a third, and some nights it goes a different way.
You know. Somebody will brings something up and you live down a path. But when I walk out there, it’s kind of where in my mind I’m gonna go. I like music, and I always tell my music friends. Art things are totally different, because if you’ve write four hits, you can play it so you’re ninety because people drive a long way to hear those four hits.
Whereas with a comic, especially in the early days, if you did a special or something like that, people would say that’s funny. But I’ve already seen that material. I want to see something new, So you’re always trying to write new stuff. My brain doesn’t hold but ninety minutes at a time. So whatever the old stuff was, I just flushed it.
But then out if people come up and going, hey, would you please tell the thing about the time you saw your grandmother naked? And I’d go, how does that start? Because I can’t recall. But now I’ve come to appreciate that older stuff because not everybody’s seen it, especially if they hadn’t seen you in concert before or something. The Boom Chicago Comedy Festival.
No it’s not in Chicago, it’s in Amsterdam. Yes, that Amsterdam. It’s a night seth Myers wasn’t sold out yet when I recorded this. There were ten tickets left. You could maybe still get in shot of improv at nine thirty.
Let’s take a look at the weekend Tomorrow Night at seven o’clock thirty year Anniversary show, the two thousands nine o’clock thirty year Anniversary Show nineties edition. One ticket left for that one Sunday’s show six o’clock comedy Stuck in the damn eight o’clock The Ladies of Boom Chicago Veil Daily was very excited that Tom Cotter was coming to town. They said his style, inspired by vaudeville, includes innuendos, puns, and double entendres. When he writes his jokes, it’s like a Rubik’s Cube. Teams revolve around family life with three sons, self deprecating jokes like how short, broken, pasty white he is, and that’s such a politics.
Though these days he finds himself gingerly while seeing in political jokes of the preamble at a Shore’s audiences, he split right down the middle. And this won’t be a lecture. Tom says, well does have fun. You can always find the levity somewhere and people want to laugh.
And then here’s a line that just makes me grown.
If laughter is the best medicine, I yearned to be drugged. Hold on, I have to go throw up in red garbage kin in the corner. There catter guarantees laughter. As he packs two hours of material, it’s a sixty minutes. I promised them I’ll be funny, and he adds he loves to chat with audience members after the show, so stop by and say hi if you see him in the lobby.
And here’s one that jumped out at me from an interview with Jamilie Maddox. He was talking about comedians and he said, watching comedians like Doug Stanhope really makes me happy because it’s like an older comedian Doug Stanhope. It’s like an older comedian that’s still like really funny. And this is where my head explodes. An older comedian like Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny.
I don’t think of talking as old at all, but this made me realize I’ve been a comedy adjacent for a few decades now. It’s been more than a minute. And when I first met Doug Stanhope, he was young guy and I looked it up. Doug is now fifty six. Anyway, Jamilie said, when you see an older comedian, like ancient Doug Stanhope, that’s still really funny somehow, because you see a lot of them like falling apart.
All right, I guess I gotta go take a nap. That you’re how many news for Today? Follow the show free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See Tomorrow