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The Shark Deck Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I had mentioned the other day that I was working with the late Bot, and late Bot went on its own and wrote some jokes. I didn’t even ask it to write jokes. But since late Night is off, let’s see what the late bot has for us. I just read that a new study shows that most people who go to the gym don’t actually use the equipment.

In other words, they pay money to pretend they’re going to work out. It’s like going to a tailor swift concert pretending you’re not there for the songs. I’m not sure what that joke reads, but if Kimble told it, you’d laugh. Did you hear about the new iPhone app that helps you find the nearest public restroom. Finally, a way to find relief from both your bladder and you’re crippling addiction to technology.

I wonder why the late bot pick that is a topic. One more and I could see this being a fallon joke. I saw that Amazon is now offering one day shipping on some products. Yeah, because apparently waiting a whole two days for your avocado slicer just isn’t fast enough anymore. All Right, thank you computer.

Let’s go to professional committyans. Wanda Sykes has a new special coming to Netflix May twenty third. I have pre listened to the trailer and I liked to lot. Here it’s your turn to listen. We’ve had a pandemic and insurrection.

Rovie Way got overturned. Kanye’s black ass wearing a White Lives Mada T shirt. I think I’m gonna call this special here comes Jesus. Black people were watching January sixth, like, what in the Wakanda forever is going on here? I mean they were just climbing up the walls.

It looked like a zombie heard, you know, like Julianni bit all over them. They were just confected. Say, you know, I can’t tell you how many Drags shows I’ve been since that. They ran out of hot chairs and boost the seats. You know, my kids asking me once, I say, ask me if they could eat them batists before they go to bed so they could sleep in.

That sounds really promising. We’ll see how far up the Johnny Mack at twenty twenty three list this want a psych special makes it. It’s called I’m an Entertainer. Filmed at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia back in February. The Pressure, he says, the special tackles the challenges of raising gen Z teens and the dilemmas of being a liberal and a hypercharge political climate.

Wanta psychs I’m an Entertainer, Netflix, May twenty third, Jessica Curson. She’s at the Njpackt Theater tonight. This from njarts dot com. Jessica describes her stand up as you don’t have to think a lot. I’m really an entertainer.

It’s very old school. I feel like people just want to see a show now and not have to think so much. They have short attention spans. I don’t talk about heavy subjects like politics or what’s going on the news. I don’t bring up anything that divides people.

Ever, I’m self deprecating. I do a lot of characters, which people love, and it’s more of a high energy kind of show. It’s fast paced, you’re constantly on your feet. I do a lot of crowd work, which I’m known for, and people love that. It’s not just one kind of style.

I do all different voices. The mail comics will always say I don’t see you as a female comic. I see you as a comic. That’s an interesting backhanded compliment. Jessica says, I don’t stick to female centered things at all.

I don’t bash men, I don’t talk about women’s problems. I purposely appeal to men and women. A lot of times guys will come to my shows without their wives or girlfriends, which is very rare for a female comedian. She says, crowd work is hard, but I love it. Some comics would never do it because it’s just not part of what they do, and then there are comics starting out who do it and they’re horrible at it.

Yeah, if you’ve ever gone on YouTube, there’s so much bad CrowdWork or comedian slams, heckler nonsense. Anyway, Jessica says, some comics do it, and we’re very good at it because we’ve done it for so many years and people want to see us do it. There’s some people who are brilliant. It’s sitting down and writing a joke that’s not my thing. Where some of my friends can do that and they wish they could do what I do.

Jessica talked about the changing times in comedy and said when I started out, it was towards the end of this. But if you got the Tonight Show, that was it. You made it. If you’ve got a sitcom, you’re a star. She says, I’ve done The Tonight Show three times and it’s like it’s a good clip to get other work.

But the fact that I have almost five hundred thousand followers on TikTok and YouTube is enormous. It’s everything in your career now. You have to have numbers on social media or else you’re not going to go anywhere. I mean, unless you get a big break somewhere. But it’s the only way to get people to come to your shows.

Before it was television. She’s going to sell for release her new special. She said, Yeah, I’m doing a CrowdWork special and I’m not even trying to sell it. I’m putting it up on YouTube, which is crazy. Years ago, even five years ago, I would immediately try to sell it to Netflix or Amazon or Apple.

And I have like the biggest comedy manager in the business. The fact that I’m not even trying to sell it tells you everything. I’m putting it up on YouTube because I’ll get more out of it because of the fans, and because every comic will push it for me, like bur Kraizer, Joe Rogan, Whitney Cummings. Everyone will say, watch Jessica Special, and with all that sport, I don’t need to put it on TV. It’ll get millions of views, like when you put it on Netflix in one of those channels.

You don’t even know, like you have no idea even if it’s popular or not. You know what is popular? Jessica the eight figure checks. Some comedians were kidding, so I hear you, I hear you, But let’s not act like if Netflix went, hey, gar eighteen seven figures you in, You’re gonna say no, come on, Julia. Louis Dreyfuss talked about the seinfeld curse.

What’s that Well, some people thought there was a curse related to having been a star of the Seinfeldt sitcom For example, Julia sitcom Watching Ellie didn’t do so well, Michael Richards The Michael Richard Show did not do well, and Jason Alexander had Bob Patterson and Listen Up. Those didn’t do well, And Julia said it was invented by the media. They thought it was clever. You don’t need me to prove it wrong. It’s ridiculous.

It made no sense. I was amazed that it had legs. It was so maronic. I don’t know what else to say. Larry David called the curse the most idiotic notion back in two thousand and nine, and he’s had a pretty good thirteen years since.

Larry back in oh nine said, are you crazy? It’s so annoying to hear something like that. There’s no curse. It’s crazy. So there were two TV shows attempt that didn’t work.

Big deal, How many TV shows work? Then they pointed out Jason Alexander was doing commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Larry said, he’s entitled to make a living, but a curse, that’s absurd. Joe List will receive the Comedian of the Year award next week at the Boston Comedy Festival. Joe told the Boston Globe.

I remember the Boston Comedy Festival started in two thousand, right around the same time I started, So it had a special meeting to me. I remember as a teenager being like, oh my god, we have our own festival. That’s crazy. Joe has a special coming out on YouTube this summer. It’s called Enough for Everyone.

He also has filmed a documentary about his film, one time Boston comic Tom Dustin, who now owns a comedy club in Key West, that is titled Too Funny to Hate that’ll be released this fall. Joe’s excited that he doesn’t have to compete in the stand up contest this year at Boston. He says his resume speaks for itself. It’s definitely a different vibe. It’s nice to know I’m going there to win something as opposed to trying to earn my win.

Definitely a lot less stress and anxiety this time. Brian Kylie, who wrote for Conan O’Brien for twenty seven years. He’s also picking up an award. He’d been doing stand up for about a decade when he hooked up with Conan, and now he’s touring again for the first time in thirty years. He says, I’m just doing stand up and I forgot how hard it is.

I mean, I’ve been doing stand up all long, but I didn’t have to go on the road for twenty eight years. I was lucky. I have to work with such funny people for so long, and now I’m spending so much time by myself. I’m not making myself laugh as much as I should be. I need to step it up.

This one surprises me. Fox has picked up a second season of Joe mccale’s Animal Control. I like Joe McHale a lot, and I watched two episodes of Animal Control and I was like, all right, if you have not seen Animal Control. Joe mccale plays Frank Shawn, opinionated, eccentric animal control officer who may not have gone to college, but it’s still the most well reread person in the room. A former cop, Frank tried to expose corruption in his department, but his efforts got him fired, which may explain why he’s so cynical and curmudgeon le.

Plus, he’s played by Joe mccale, and that’s what Joel does. All right, Maybe I’ll have to catch up on that one. I think that shows up on Hulu as well. I know my DVR caught it. I see it sometimes.

All right, I’ll catch up on that one. Macpacker Andy Samberg his show dig Man got picked up by Comedy Central for a second season. That also surprised me, other than hey, dig Man is coming out. I didn’t see any buzz at all about that. Did anyone watch that.

Maybe it’s the bombs burger of Andy Sandberg. H I don’t want to get into that. Today, the Fringe Festival has announced another fifteen hundred ninety six shows going on sale. That brings up the total number of shows to over three thousand, eleven hundred of those or comedy shows. Looks like the Fringe will have more shows than last year.

Last year’s figure was thirty three hundred and eighty five shows. Are you in Dubai at the Dubai Comedy Festival? If you are, go see Sushi Mango tonight, the Australian comedy trio made up of Joe and Carlo Salenttieri and Andrew Manfrey. They’ll be in Dubai with their wildly successful Off the Boat Tour. Their online videos of amassed hundreds of millions of views.

Their characters from their video skits have gone from their parents’ garage to TV screens across Australia. I mean give you a quick taste of them. Here’s a video from six years ago titled Things Ethnic Dance Say. Things Ethnic Dance Says for you? No like this house?

Get we pay cash? How much cash? How much do you give me the oneful cash. All right, I clip right there. What I didn’t submit you to was a fart joke, just fort noise.

We don’t need to do that, all right. That’s sushi Mango. If you want to fly all the way to Dubai to see that. Let’s see what New Zealand is up to. I’ve been getting good results from them.

One show on Saturdays called Becky Umber’s Big Bad Back and the Three Little Pigs. The Big Bad Back is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down. In her debut solo show, she takes us on a whimsical journey through her laughable life as she encounters everything from three blind fish to three little pigs. All right, I’m intrigued. Let’s listen to this guy recently became an adult.

Some people Saturday Night sooner I’m twenty six, you able to lad the nib and now that I’m here, If I’m honest, I hide it. It’s horrible dens out. There’s no take backs. My main grant with it is a I’ve just I’ve had to go to work so many times now, honestly almost every week. It’s relentless.

But I like it’s just it’s quite hard. It tunes out. And see I thought I was getting the hang of it, which your tunes out is exactly when you’re not getting the hang of it. See. It been a few weeks and it got about mid day and I wasn’t freaking out.

Although I’ve nailed this, well, this is great. I can relax.

And then things took a too relax, too much farted in a meeting.

All right, I want to like to slow start fart chokes, back to back fur chokes. Not a fan of fark chokes. But here’s the thing. So, like, this is the clip being showcased. So you’re you’re getting random people like me and you and we’re going, oh, let me check out this show, and you’re hitting play, and that’s the clip that’s being showcased.

Right, we could have picked anything, and we’re picking that clip. So I don’t know.

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All right, let’s see what this Sydney Comedy Festivals up to you.

On Saturday, Beck Charlwood, her show was called good Funny. Let’s listen. I’ll level with you. I didn’t intentionally go for all the guys, right. What happens, right is I have one deal breaker and it cuts out every man under the age of twenty five?

Where am I under twenty five year old? Men in the room, give me a woop? All right, what’s your name? See if you pass this swanbo My one deal breaker to date me, right is that you have to own a bed frame. You got one this year.

I give it up for bar. I was sick of going home with beautiful smooth men like Bow, you know, just being greeted with a disgusting sponge on the grounds. No top sheet, no hopes, no treats, when these idiots will just be like you won’t get dust much unclamidia, So no, thank you already have one of those. See that was fun. She made a lot of the edits that you’d just heard.

But I think that’s good right for the point I just point out on the previous club like, let’s get right to it, doy like you. Yes, I clicked on your thing. You were funny, Beck Churwood. She’s at the Nmore Theater, twenty nine Australian Dollars show, fifteen years old and up. If you happen to be in Sydney, and that is your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. Montreal’s Concordia University, it’s going to offer a course that’s just about Dave Chapelle well late Nights on Strikes. So I asked the late Bots to write some jokes about this one, and late Bott says the syllabus probably includes topics like the art of saying offensive things and getting away with it, and how to quit your own TV show and still come out on top. The Chapelle courus explores his role as a social commentator with lectures on topics like raise politics, cancel culture, and if any students try to cancel the course for being too controversial, you get an f for missing the entire point the actual story. Rapper and professor yes In Nursey Asselman will lead the course.

He previously taught a Kanye West course. Nursey said, I’m writing my syllabus right now and from what Dave in the community around him gave me. I’m gonna kind of celebrate that at the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop as a community. So we’re gonna go through Chappelle’s show, We’re gonna watch some of his episodes, I’m gonna do a Black Star class. I’m gonna do with the roots class.

I’m going to do an Erica Badu class Silquarian’s ass and just talk about the juxtaposition of the responsibility of comedy and music and then the consumption of black performance and what does it mean in North America. I’m going to ask people from the community, the friends of mine that I made in the community, to possibly come and maybe we’ll get Dave. Maybe Dave will come, maybe you won’t. But that’s not really why I’m doing it. The Boston Comedy Festival next week May sixteen, through the twentieth pretty good lineup.

The centerpiece of the Boston Comedy Festival is the Stand Up Comedy Competition. That’s a contest to discover new and emergent comedians from around the world. The organizers say, from a field of hundreds of hopeful comedians, forty eight contestants have been chosen to perform at the festival. That field will be narrowed down over the five day festival, with eight comedians competing to receive a cash prize and perform on the main stage. If I remember correctly, I was asked to judge that a million years ago.

I couldn’t go up to Boston for it, but I think I was asked to do this once, a long time ago. In addition to the stand up comedy competition, the festival will be presenting awards to their twenty twenty three honorees, Comedian of the Year, Joe List, Lifetime Achievement honoree Brian Kylie. Kylie is a longtime Conan writer and TV Award honoree. Topper Carew Google tells me Colin Anthony Topper Carus an American film director screenwriting producer, best known for such films as Talking Dirty, after Dark and DC Cab. He’s the creator of the TV series Martin.

Some of your headliners Todd Barry, Emo Phillips, Zach Sherwin, Corey Rodriguez, Shane Moss, Ron and Hirshberg, Bethany Van Delft, Mike Kaplan, Karen Morgan, Emily Riskowski, Aaron McGuire, two, Key Kavanaugh, Will Noon and Jimmy Cash and Orlando Baxter. Information at Boston Comedyfest dot com quick stop at Gossip Corner, Chase sweet Wonder is talking about boyfriend Pete Davidson. She said, Pete and I became fast friends on Bodies That’s a movie. It was just clear that we could work together super well. He’s such a pro and acting with him is my favorite thing.

We talked about everything, and we’re very open with each other about everything, and it feels like what’s happening in our relationship is very sacred. As for the media, like me paying attention, she said, the first initial shock was super disorienting, but after that it becomes it’s like a video game. Feels like another weird player came into the video game. I feel like I’m still on my own path. My life hasn’t changed that much.

Pete said, she’s the best actress. She’s gonna crush. She’s got a lot of cool stuff going on. I had a blast working with her. From Variety, Pay Attention.

Warner Brothers has announced that Beetlejuice Too will be released on the big screen September six, twenty twenty four. Not much is known about the follow up to the nineteen eighty eight film about a pesky poltergeist, but Michael Keaton returns as Beetlejuice and Winona Writer as Lydia Dietz. Wait for it, Beetlejuice from Al Jazeera You’re home for comedy news. Sharif Holmesy looks out at his audience and a dimly lit Damascus cafe as he describes the ideal man in war battered Syria, an eligible bachelor with attractive supplies of fuel and electricity. His joke marry me, I have a bright future, thousand liters of petrol, solar panels to generate electricity, and three gas canisters.

Homesy is a member of Steria Serious first stand up comedy troup, whose members perform every week telling jokes about daily struggles like power cuts and fuel shortages. To late in the mood for locals despondent after twelve years of war, Homsy says the audience prefers to laugh and forget the problems they can’t solve. Let’s take a look at the New Zealand to Comedy Festival. Melanie Breesewells show is called Forget Me Nuts. This show is about desperately trying to be remembered, love and eggs.

Let’s listen. Hey, little update on my relationship status. Guys. I’ve just moved to this new flat and there’s quite a thin wall between my room and my flatmate’s room. All right, And one morning my flatmate had came up to me and was like, hey, were you hooking up last night?

I think I heard kissing, and I had to explain to her that I was just trying to eat a Kiwi fruit without a spoon. So me and the kiwie fruit are getting pretty serious. That’s great. Does they don’t have any kids in the room? Make some noise?

Nice? You’re so excited. I don’t have any kids? Well that I know? All all right, that was fun.

Now let me point out there. She obviously opened with the Kiwi line that she knows works, and then we’re not even a minute of the set at an abrupt left turn into hey, anybody have kids? So she’s chucking jokes. I’m not sure that that’s a really thought outset. They’re funny, but you know, I’m a comedy snob sitting on my basement recording a podcast like a loser, So I noticed these things.

So you know, you go see Milliani brace well, and you go, I had a great time. I left, and then the snob in the back like me, is like, all right, that was kind of awkward. Why you did one joke and you switched gears. I did like her. Though Barney Duncan’s show is called just Jokes Jolks The New Zealand.

Harold said, Barney is bound for future at ward Glory. You’ll struggle to stop laughing. Wow. Ready to tell you about a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Do you know that there is one of these things?

Yeah, there’s a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Okay, you go home, you look it up on yahoo dot com. It’s incredible. I just wonder what the butterflies are saying to the turtles to make them cry. Hey, turtle, turtle, turtle.

Hey. I was just hanging out with Raphael and Michelangelo and and they were talking about how much they hated you. All right, Can I tell you I’m laughing my hat off here in the basement. You’re not seeing the visuals obviously. When he’s doing the butterfly, he’s flapping his arms almost at wings, flapping his arms like a butterfly would, which adds to the humor.

And when he’s the turtle, he has a shirt pulled over most of his head, you know, like a turtle might. It’s very funny. So if I compare those two, most people are going to prefer the first one and be like, yeah, she’s shucked some jokes real quick. The second one took a long time to build. But the anticipation and the crafting of the joke and wherever he went out of his way to say on Yahoo dot Com as opposed to just saying, look it up, hilarious.

I’m sitting here with a big smile on my face appreciating the build. Now, that was a long way to go for one joke that wasn’t even that hilarious. But I found the latter way more entertaining, and that’s why I’m a comedy snob. Hacks writer Joe Mandy spoke to Chortle about his favorite comedy things. His favorites include The night Man Cometh from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

I have to stop my brain now. If I start singing the night Man’s song and then my brain’s already starting to do it, I’m gonna be spending the weekend. It’s too late. I’m gonna be spending the weekend going day man. Ah, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is one of Joe Manday’s favorite television shows, Night Man Ah, but the final episode of season four, The Night Man Cometh.

You have any idea what I’m talking about? If you don’t go watch It’s always sunny in Philadelphia season four, The Night Man Cometh. I think Sunny is on Hulu. Joe says, I’ve probably seen it fifty times and it makes me laugh out loud. I agree.

He also likes Mister Show with Bob and David. He calls them his comedy bible growing up. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were light years ahead when they made it. The sketches are so funny and executed so well that it’s honestly kind of infuriating to watch sometimes.

And then he said, can’t Williams The Pimp Chronicles of Part one?

Can’t Williams is on my Mount Rushmore of comedy? That fried my brain? And I’m like, huh, the Mount Rushmore of comedy. So if we were going to do the Mount Rushimore of comedy, I have to ask you where we’re starting. I think we’re gonna start with maybe Lenny Bruce and quote unquote modern stand up.

Otherwise there’s a lot of people through history who might have been funny. You know, there was this guy Shakespeare. He wrote seventeen comedies. Is he on the Mount Rushmore? I don’t know.

So let’s just make it easy and I don’t know. Cut the list down to stand up comedians, and how Ford in time do you want to go? Because all right, Carlin Bryor, you have two spots left. I want to put Bob Hope up there. I know, people just judge Bob when he was eighty five years old.

Go back and watch the young Bob Hope, watch those movies, watch him do his radio show. He was great. And how about Johnny Carson doing a monologue, you know, four nights a week for thirty years, give or take some vacation days. You’re gonna put a Carson up there?

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And now everyone’s mad at me because I don’t have any women up on Mount Rushm…

And all right, you want to put Lucy up there? If we’re gonna do stand up? Do you want to put Joan Rivers up there? You gotta tell me Joan Rivers is better than Johnny Carson. And to head, I don’t know about that.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late night off. Because of the writer’s strike, I’ve been training the late Bot. Today, late Bot wrote some jokes for me. I didn’t even ask it to write jokes. We’ll do those ones tomorrow because today late Bot has a bit for us.

You’re ready. My next guest is from Georgia. He’s wearing a purple robe and a crown. He’s a cheesy mustache and was recently named Monarch of the Realm. Please welcome mister Jeff Charlesworthy.

Jeff Charlesworthy, everybody. If people bow down to you when you enter a room, and it’s not just because you’re short, you might be the King of England. If your crown is even bigger than this mustache, you might be the King of England. If you’ve ever referred to your town as my kingdom, you might be the King of England. If your mom got you your job, you might be the King of England.

And if you’ve ever been addressed as your majesty and you didn’t correct the person, you might be the King of England. Not bed late bass me Brigatsy took some time to share some important information about a popular lizard species. Let’s listen. Hey, what’s up. I’m stand up comedian Nate bar getsy and I’m here on behalf of all the her pathologists that get upset when you say HeLa monster.

Instead it HeLa monster. It is pronounced HeLa monster. Even though it’s called g i La, it’s pronounced HeLa monster. This is a serious thing. We got one idea, and yeah, just don’t mispronounce it.

Yeah. The folks at the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary visited Nate at his rental house over the weekend in Lancaster County. Jesse Rothacker of the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary not only corrected Nates. He explained that a Heila monster is not poisonous as is commonly assumed. That’s good, but he explained that the Heila monster is venomous.

Nate said, that’s way worse. Jesse went on to explained, look, if the HeLa monster bites you, you won’t die, but you’re gonna want to die. Variety interviewed Hannah Gatsby and said, hey, you didn’t mention Dave Chappelle and this reason special. Did you purposely leave him out home? Hannah said first starteds boring.

There was a time in the tour when it was certainly in front of my mind, and then it quickly receded. My audience likes me because they don’t like the usual toxic perspective, And to talk about him, would it be center his conversation. I just don’t want that voice to be dictating how I approached my work. I didn’t think he said anything that I was interested in. That’s what I would have had a dude.

In order to talk about Dave Chappelle, I’d have to begin with Dave Chappelle, and I don’t want to. I’m a gender queer, autistic, vagina wielding white person. There could be a really interesting conversation between us, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t think there’s good faith on his part. He’s done three specials grinding down the same points without any change in nuance, So I think he’s on his track.

Good on him. That’s not my track, and I’m not going to go out of my weight to engage with that. And I think there’s something also quite political about a queer gender performer expressing joy on stage. Well, would you be open to having a conversation with Dave Chappelle, and I said, apparently I have to do it on his churn. So no, I just think it’s a toxic place.

I don’t think he’s open. I don’t think it’s constructive. There’s so much cruelty going on, and we both represent communities that are experienced in that cruelty, and I don’t want to stand in direct opposition of that. There’s nuance and there’s intersectionality at play here, but he’s not engaging in that yet, and I’m not going to make him. I’m not also going to be drawn in on his terms.

I do think conversations at a point where we’re not listening to people with lived experience anymore. We’re listening to people who have really hostile, reactive views, and it’s caught up in a moral panic, which also has a very very strong right wing online presence that’s stirring up the debate, and it’s fairly acknowledged. I want to come from a more constructive point of view, Like, I’m gender queer, I have a life. It doesn’t revolve around trying to justify my experience. Variety asked, all right, well, how do you feel about Netflix and its stance as a home for comedians.

With these varying opinions, Anna said, if you want to change the conversation, you still have to be part of the conversation. So that’s what really informed me. We keep trying with this relationship. Part of it is I have the second special that we’re working on now, or I’m creating a lineup of fairly new gender queer performers from around the world, trying to break it out of the American centric idea. You know, everyone around the world as a humor and I’m trying to do something constructive, trying to create more content.

It doesn’t sit easily all the time. But like I said, if you want to change the conversation, you really do have to step into the murky waters, don’t you. The Free Press had a really good article titled can Joe Rogan make Austin the Comedy Capital of America. The writer went to see Joe. Joe’s up on stage drifting on getting COVID and says, imagine if I died, I talk so much stuff about the virus.

Part of Joe set ragged on the notion that men can get pregnant, and that got vigorous nodding and cheers. The writer says she wasn’t allowed to photograph or record Rogan. Were the four other comics who performed. That way they could try out new material without risking online backlash. She writes that gave them the freedom to follow Rogan’s free range footsteps, which they did to the delight of the crowd, with jokes about subjects like Leah Thomas, the Ivy League swimmer who took home an NCAA title as a trans woman, thongs, guns, and abortion.

They meet up in the green room between the seven thirty and ten thirty shows. Rogan says, hey, with the grip of someone who is a double Brazilian Jiu jitsu black belt. She asked if his comedy club has a mission. Joe says, yeah, it’s there on the wall. He points to a sign.

The sign says get it together, bitch. He explains, you’d be backstage getting ready to go, and Joey Diaz, who, by the way, some people have met Joey Daz in real life and found them to be the worst person on the planet. Your experience may vary, and Joey Das would be like, get it together, bitch, shock these mffors, and they’d starts shaking and moving around, and you’re like, all right, let’s go. Rogan says, the kind of comics he’s putting up aren’t the type that’s afraid to touch quotes third rail stand up, and that’s what he lives for. When people do risky subjects is my favorite stuff.

We don’t do it as an alternative to comedy. We do it because that is comedy, Rogan says. The Mothership is his take on LA’s Comedy Store, the club known for launching the likes of Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Robin Williams. His vision is to build up a club is set up for comedians with a strong open mic program that won’t throw performers under the bus for their material. Rogan says, we’re just trying to make it a great creative space for stand up, almost like a laboratory, like the best place to develop material.

The article says it doesn’t hurt that Rogan pays well. By all accounts Derek post In, a former comedy store Dorman turns comic says, I’m rich now I have whole foods money. Rogan says, the more the new people kill the more that people that are above them get better, and we all get better. Iron sharpens iron in comedy when you’re around all these killers, it’s like everybody gets better. On that particular night, the comedians were fahim Anwar, Tony Hinchcliff, who Kill Tony, which if you haven’t check out Kill Tony, please do on YouTuber or podcast.

It’s pretty fantastic. Hinchcliff counts of the Comedy Store and the Comedy Seller in New York is the best clubs in the world except for the audience. He says, krassy you get come from the cities they’re in, and New York is insanely liberal and La has gotten insanely liberal. Hinchcliff says the Comedy Store used to be considered the darker edge of your club in the country until the Mothership was built. On War chimes in, people kind of know what they’re getting into when they walk through the doors of the Comedy Mothership.

Rogan’s rule, be funny, that’s it. And if we could be funny with some stuff that you don’t think should be funny, then that’s wonderful. Let’s explore this, Let’s find out what is that what’s going on here? What’s up with the subject that everybody’s scared of? A cult?

You know, when you start believing things that you inherently know aren’t true, but you say them and repeat them because the cult wants you to do it. This is something you can exploit in stand up comedy, and that’s what stand up comedy is all about. It’s all about that. And it was time to go, and Rogan said, we’ve got to kick you out. It’s almost show time.

I guess this is good news, you know, Please don’t destroy. They do the prerecorded sketches on Saturday Night Live kind of carried the season. I’ll give Bowen, Yang Chay and Joe some credit there too, but I think please don’t destroy. At the most hits well, they are untitled movie. It was gonna come out in theaters now it’s going straight to Peacock.

It’ll be out in November seventeenth. The movie centers on three childhood friends who live and work together and question where their lives are headed, if anywhere at all. Completely ill equipped and out of their element, they set off to find a lost treasure roomor to be buried in their local mountains. Peacock November seventeenth. I don’t like this next item either, The Bear on FX.

Did you watch The Bear? It’s fantastic. Why you upset John? Because they’re releasing all ten episodes at once streamers. Will you stop doing that?

All right? I’m getting on my soapbox. Let me climb up here on the soapbox one. Stop releasing things at three am Eastern. It’s gone awful annoying to wake up and have to avoid the Internet all day so I don’t find out what the mandalorian did.

Release stuff at nine pm Eastern. Succession. You know the show everybody’s talking about. We all watch it at the same time. So stop at the three am two stop with the dump same thing, succession.

If they’d put out all eight episodes at once, some of you be on episode two. Some of us would be like, wait, I found out on the internet. That’s such a thing happened to so and so that’s annoying. Stop with that anyway. FX is releasing all ten episodes of The Bear on Thursday, June twenty second.

That way, there will be no buzz about the show. And like cousin Keith, he watches everything in one second, so he’ll be home and he’ll text me, hey, did you watch all ten episodes of The Barriet? I’ll be like no, I was recording a podcast, which is a ridiculous conversation if you think about it. Season two of The Bear follows Carmen as they work to transform their grimmy sandwich joint into a next level spot. As they strip the restaurant downwards bones, the crew undertakes transformational journeys to their own, each forced to confront the past and reckon with who they want to be in the future.

The only thing harder than running a restaurant is opening a new one. Anyway, The Bear is fantastic. If you haven’t seen season one, watch it and you can binge it if you want. We all watched it last year, but this season two binge thing. All right, John, we get the point.

Shut up. Kevin James is going to start in a new action comedy, Guns Up. Kevin James will play. This is gonna shock you. Are you ready for this?

You’re not gonna believe it. Kevin James is going to play an ex cop I know right, And not only is an ex cop, he’s a family man. I know right. Kevin James x cop family man moonlights as a mob henchman. See he didn’t see that coming.

When a job goes horribly wrong and both of his world’s collide, he has one night to get his family out of the city. It’s a Kevin James movie. I mean, it’s gonna be Adam Sandler quality, right, can’t wait. Tony Danza reunited with his taxi costars. He shared a photo on Instagram.

He was having drinks with Carol Kane, Christopher Lloyd, and jud Hirsch. I was kind of hoping Andy Kaufman would show up and reveal the whole thing was a hoax. Would that not be epic? Like forty years later? Psych?

Oh my god. I still kind of hope Andy Kaufman is doing that somewhere. Tony Danza captured the photo. Love these people so much, and hey, I want to apologize if I got all hyped about the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and you hopped on a plane and you flew down there because you’re like, you know, I love daily communities. Johnny Max said, this show is really good.

Let me get down there. I want to see some shows because Tuesday nights shows were canceled. Yeah, all the festivals canceled Tuesday night, so I’m sorry if you flew all away there, Hey, go see some scenery. It’s pretty. You know you didn’t have to fly home Wednesday morning.

You cut a hung around why they canceled the festival. Severe thunderstorms, heavy rain and gale force winds last of the country roads were flooded across Auckland. Motorists urge to avoid traveling. Around three o’clock a local time, the comedy festival released a statement on Facebook and insta and said We’re devastated to cancel the comedian shows on the opening night of the first week of the twenty twenty three New Zealand International Comedy Festival in Auckland. We’re looking forward to shows going ahead as planned from tomorrow.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, John, you’re not gonna tell us who’s news going tomorrow? No, I feel bad if you fly all the way there and they cancel the show, So I’m not doing that today, Apples, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No?

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night on strike because of the writers. So we have late bots who said, hey, did you see King Charles was on American Idol. Yeah, it’s like the British Invasion, but instead of the Beatles, we get a balding, middle aged monarch King Charles on American idols, like if Queen Elizabeth decided to go on the Kardashians. It’s just weird.

Now. The last one’s not really a joke, but I could see Kimmel saying that I’ve been tweaking the late bot and telling it to get more sarcastic, more letterman. So we’ll see what it spits out in the upcoming days and perhaps months. Over the weekend, I powerwashing and I was looking for a late bot topics. I threw in powerwashing and it spit this out.

Hey. I saw a power washing company slogan that said we’ll blast away any dirt. Apparently they never met my ex. I like that one so much. I tried powerwashing my car, but I ended up stripping the paint off.

Now it looks like a middle aged man going through a midlife crisis. I could see Kimmel with that too. I saw a powerwashing company with the slogan we’ll make it look like new. Yeah, if your definition of new is missing a few shingles and covered in dirt. Hannah Gadsby’s new specials out today on Netflix.

It’s called Something Special. I will discuss that in the second half of the podcast, if you don’t want to be spoiled.

Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle has announced fifteen more summer comedy shows and …

I love looking at all the small town legally stuff that goes on the board of Zoning met and it gave Dave approval by vote for to nothing. Steve Wiig is the owner of the Wiig Pavilion, a rural property in Yellow Springs where Dave Chappelle has performed cornfield shows the past three summers. Guests have included Ali Wan, Chris Rock, Chelsea Handler, John Mayer, David Letterman, Second Mention of the Day, John Stewart, and Moore. According to the request, mister Chappelle and his team would like the opportunity to conduct a limited run of additional shows this summer between June first on October eight to further highlight the success and national recognition of these events in our community. While mister Chappelle could be conducting shows at mass theaters around the world, he’d like to conduct this string of shows to their honor his community.

Weirig said. Chappelle draws crowds from all over the country, and those diverse attendees shop local and lodge near the village. The shows also employ local law enforcement, security, food vendors, production crews, and more. In the application, Werig said, it’s a humorous rest bite in the open field surrounded by native Ohio woodlands. Patrons often cite the peacefulness of the surroundings and the chance for a good laugh as an experience that positively impacts their mental health.

According to the permit, shows that we limited to a thousand ticket holders and only two hundred cars can be parked at the property. Shows will not be held on Sunday unless it’s a holiday weekend, and no more than three shows will be presented in a single week. Spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy three. I’ll give you a second here if you want to hit thirty second skip, I’ll do the story quick, alright. Hit skip if you haven’t here it goes.

You know who’s in The Guardians three? Pete Davidson, Yes, the spoiler. Pete Davidson’s character appears. Towards the end of the film, the Guardians release a bunch of animals from their cages. We see a vaguely humanoid blob of unsightly mutated matter, Flectic, thanks his liberator as he makes his way off the spaceship.

Flectic voiced by Pete Davidson, rendered in CGI. Lucia Ball Comedy Festival Upstate Jamestown, New York, August two through the sixth. They’ve announced the headliners. Gabe Iglesias and Taylor Thomason will be your headliners. That’s pretty good.

Meanwhile, The Impractical Jokers and Eric Andre are teaming up for a comedy cruise, this one next January, to go from Miami to the Bahamas and back. The cruise will feature stand up comedy, live music, podcasts, exclusive panels, karaoke, and of course, NonStop warm weather Shenanigans report support. Here are some of the events lip Sync Battle with Eric and the Jokers, Gung Show with Eric Andre, Live Space Monkeys podcast, Beer Pong and Poker, and the Belly Flop contest judged by Salvolcano. That is awesome. Presale access available now if you want to sign up.

Mark Marrin spoke to KCYRW and lately, as I get older as a comic, and I realized I been doing this most of my life, I really found myself sometimes just sitting at home and watching old comedy clips, I mean really old, like Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, these were the guys when I was a kid with my grandmother and my grandfather, I’d be sitting in their house and they’d be telling me about what they thought was funny. My grandmother loved Don Rickles, love Buddy Hackett. My grandfather was more of a slapstick guy. But it really informed who I was. And when I was a little kid, probably ten or eleven, i’d watch comics on TV.

I’d see Jackie Vernon, it must have been on Dean Martin shows, and I thought it was the funniest guy in the world. To the point where my parents and I must have been eleven or twelve, they knew I loved this guy. They brought me to a nightclub at the Hilton in Albertquerque because Jackie Vernon was playing. I sat right up on front. I was the only kid in the place.

They let my parents bring me in. I’m sitting there five feet from Jackie vernon this heavy set, sweaty guy. I thought it was genius. I thought it was hilarious. For some reason, lately, I’ve been watching when I want to feel better, really reflect on what comedy used to be.

It took me a long time to appreciate this guy, because I don’t think as a kid, I really registered Rodney Dangerfield all that much. But I love watching Rodney on Carson the old stuff, because Rodney not doing well was the greatest thing in the world, where he’d be like, are you sure this is the right Mike. Hannah Gatsby’s new special is out on Netflix today spoilers coming up. Cracked said Hannah is going about it all backwards. After all, their first special, Nanette, was the one where they quit comedy.

Usually quitting comes last, but resigning from the job wasn’t the only thing inverted about Nanette. Gatsby used a comedy special to take comedy to task, pulling apart the very fabric of self deprecating humor. They decided it’s not humility it’s humiliation. Gadsby seems to be following the career trajectory of many of our biggest comedians, Robin Williams, George Carlin, taking Nataro, Chris Rock, but doing it in reverse. Most comedy career arcs go something like this comedian breaks onto the scene with hilarious jokes, bits and characters.

Something gets on the way the trials of success, personal tragedy, self destructive behavior, and the routine’s take on a darker tone. Maybe the comedy becomes more contemplative and less punchline driven, like with Nazaro own Williams. Maybe the jokes get more pointed and political like they did with Rock and Carlan, it gets more honest as goofy exteriors appealed away to reveal the tearful onion chows inside. The anger into spare that drove Ninette are gone, replaced with lines like I do want to acknowledge that the world is ending. The thing is I don’t think I could solve it, not tonight, not that’s I’m allocated, So I’m just going to ignore it instead.

Hannah promises to give us an hour of feeling good. I’ve dragged you through a bit of my stuff over the years. It’s time for some payoff, The Wall Street Journal wrote, My viewing companion remarked that Hannah Gatsby has gone soft, and it’s not an inaccurate observation or a happy one. Among the things that made Nanette such a sensation was the way Gatsby, who uses they as a pronoun, operated as a biting social critic as well as a stand up comic. Even while disavowing stand up comedy.

They could also operate as a spoken word magician in Douglas, and I personally like Douglas better than Ninette. In Douglas, for instance, Gatsby told you what was going to happen, showed their cards up front, and you were still amazed when the Queen of Hearts popped out of the deck. It was performance art in many ways, but unlike much within that genre, both profound and profoundly entertaining. Gatsby opened Something Special with a few good show because I owe you one. With the announcement that they’ve gotten married, it should be a warning shot.

The source of full blooded art is heartbreak, not happiness. Much of Something Special is devoted to wedded bliss, but Gadsby’s feigned dismay at the fuss that straight people make about weddings. Gatsby says, I had no idea. The Wall Street Journal says really to pretend otherwise feels phony, which Gadsby has never been. The problems seem rooted in distrust of the material.

Where Gadsby should be deadpan, the performer’s eniting butt and appreciative grin accompanies each gagline, not waiting for the expected laugh, and thus extorting the audience into giving one up. Interesting review there. I’m not sure what to make of the last part I’m reading it. I’m tempted a panic, but then I remember Bob Open Johnny Carson mugged for the camera and got a laugh all the time, so maybe it’s not bad. I’ll have to see it for myself.

Had a Gasby something special on Netflix from the spinoff eight shows you should see at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Let’s skim through this quickly. Live Parkers shows called Werewolves, Vampires, and Harry Style. That’s a great name. Her debut hour promised to reveal her most intimate fangirl fantasies through a blend of sketch clown and stage challenge dance.

Sounds like a good time. Janey Henry’s show is called Crush Season. Expect infectious energy, endless flirting, and a big serve of social and political commentary buried beneath all the sweetness and smiles. Ruby Ester’s show is called Ruby Ester Comedy. Fester Love It.

She’s goofy and introspective, tells Vinet’s about her family life, which can seem on the verge of meandering until she brings you into an ingeniously plotted conclusion. Samina Zeira’s show is called Immigrunting. That’s funny, This’s been off, writes Zemina Zia is a straight up legend. Her show Tea with Terrorists had to run in Auckland. She knows when to stab the knife, where to twist it, and where to pull it out from maximum effect.

Her new hour, Immigrunting, sees her sharing more stories from her wild life and her struggle to convince Immigration New Zealand that she is in fact a human. Wow. Ray O’Leary, everything funny, all the time, always not quite sure what this show’s about. It’s a great picture of his dog, and I like this dog a lot, but they write with his plain grease suit and slow drawling delivery, it’s confronting how assuredly O’Leary can deliver a punchline and get a big laugh. They have on their list Bobby Woods.

If you met my mum, you’d understand told you about that one in the pro lapse Cow Yesterday Kurat he owena Hoha guy. The blurb promises a unique sense of humor that’s silly, a little bit dorky, and a little bit eft up. And the final one on the spinoff’s list, Jeemes Moostapic into the multimedia verse, still harnessing the hilariously shoddy editing skills and the relentless obsession with New Zealand popular culture that he had way back in his YouTube days. It was mustopics deployment of a certain family member throughout the show that really brought the house down. I’m not going to say anything more.

You’ve just got to see it. So all right, he’s at the Basement Theater in Auckland, May tenth, the thirteenth, So you better get on a plane. And that is your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast. Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show as I’ll see you tomorrow.

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The Shark deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy name as late night is dark due to the writer strike, but we have late bought, and the late bots says, hey, did you see the King’s Coronation? I saw the King’s coronation portrait. It looks like he’s already preparing for his next job as a villain in a Disney movie. I heard the coronation took weeks of planning.

In preparation, It’s like planning a wedding, but with more swords and less open bars. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling these jokes. The chat bot wrote them. I could see these happening. The coronation was so grand.

Even the pigeons on the street were wearing top hats and monocles. Queen Camilla got a new hat for the coronation. It was so big it could double as a parachute in case of emergency. Those aren’t bad, and those were written by the chat chief pt not bad. I was thinking, do you think maybe one of the reasons I’m serious here that Comedy Central didn’t hire a new host for the daily shows because they knew the writer strike was coming.

So hear me out. Anytime you change hosts on one of these late night shows, it takes the new host a little bit to find their feet. And you know, it’s only May eighth. If he had brought somebody in at the beginning of the year, they would have had what counts on his fingers trainer fareymore shape for four months to kind of get in there.

And then if you have a six month strike and you come back in twenty four and …

Plus presumably, and I’m not an expert in contracts, you’d be paying this host to not host the Daily Show because you’re not producing it because of the writers. So maybe Comedy Central was doing that, and now the guest host thing makes a lot of sense to me. What do you think? Yes, maybe Pete Davidson was showing his support for the writers. He brought some pizza pies.

Why did I say pizza pie? I’m leaving that in. Where are you from, John, You’re from New York? What do you mean pizza pies? I’m leaving it in because sometimes I hate myself.

Pete Davidson brought some pizza from Spomoni Gardens. To delighted writers on the picket lines in Brooklyn. He was asked, hate Pete Davidson, why you dropping off food, and Pete Davidson said, got usport the writers. No shows without the writers. Man.

So, as I was putting together the show on Sunday morning, I clicked on this and I really didn’t react to it well, and I thought i’d go back and read it live. I don’t want to come across as a negative Nancy. Sorry Nancy, but I just didn’t agree with it at all. From Vulture, the Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three so far, by Katherine Van Aaron Donk, who does a great job over at Vulture. Enjoy her stuff.

We will agree to disagree. But here’s the list. I remind you comedy subjective. Katherine may like what she likes. I like what I like, You like what you like.

But I looked at this list and I was like yeah. The article notes all specials are listed from newest to oldest, beginning with John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. I don’t even have this on my twenty twenty three list. Look, we all love John Mulaney charismatic, funny, great body of work, but I watched that new special and it felt performative. Maybe I’m just too familiar with the material because I do this every day, and I read about it and I feel like I had kind of heard it, but I was just watching and I was like, all right, it felt like a Colin Quinn or a Micro Bigley, a one man show more than a stand up special.

And it just didn’t grab me. Not on my list. Next up, Monique. I read you an article last week that was describing Monique Special as nothing but horrible. That person who wrote the thing last week had nothing good to say about this thing.

May Martin Special, same thing. I watched it. It didn’t grab me. Fourth on the Listen, we’re doing this by reverse release order. Kyle Canaan’s Shocks and Struts of that actually I have at number one right now, so we agree there.

You’ll find that one on YouTube. I highly recommend you watch it. Marlon Wayain’s God Loves Me another one of those specials that I got, I don’t know, four minutes into and I was like, hey, not grabbing me. Am I that much of a comedy snob? At this point?

Mark Marrin’s From Bleak to Dark, Same thing, I don’t have it on my list. It’s fine, it’s fine, Mark Marrin, but it didn’t do one thing for me. So that’s the Vulture list and I just have I just lost it. So here’s my list. Number one Kyle Cana, Number two Nate Bergatsy is fantastic.

Why is that not on your list? Katherine Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl. You’ll find that on YouTube. Wonderful Jim Jeffries on Amazon came out in February. Wonderful.

Horry Conabollo special, really strong, especially the first two thirds that’s on YouTube. Chris Rock. Remember Chris Rock had a special Vulture. I’m not gonna mention it. No, okay, you can make fun of me in the schooly yard for number seven, the Roast of mister Peanut.

I’m telling you, and probably every time I mentioned it, you’re like, he’s crazy. Go on YouTube and find the full version of the Roast of mister Peanut. The full version, not the thirty second commercial, the full version. Watch the Roast of mister Peanut. And number eight in this will probably get knocked way down the list as more specials come out.

Big Jokerson I put on my list, It kept me nice company not on my List, Melaney Lewis, black Mark Marin Andrew Santino special, Bert Kreischer’s special Not on My List, and the Greg Warren and special from last week. Again, that one really turned me off. What do I know, it wouldn’t surprise me. Some people seem to agree that possibly, perhaps maybe who knows I wasn’t in the room, could have been. They added some laughter to it, and it really turned me off to it.

All Right, Am I just cranky? Have I lost touch here? Should I just stop the podcast and never do it again? The funniest thing of the year, by the way, is Kunk on Earth on YouTube Watch Kunk on Earth wonderful. We lost some good stuff because of this writer strike Kieran Culkin from Succession.

He was going to host Saturday Night Live this upcoming weekend and for the season finale, the Foo Fighters would have been the musical guest. So now that the seasons in the bag, I’m going to rate it as one of the worst SNL seasons of all time. And I’ve liked the last It’s been a good run, like since Kate McKinnon came on, and I know she has been on the last couple of years. It was a really really good run basically from the start of I guess Trump running is when they hit their groove until this season was just awful, like really bad. Am I just cranky today?

Should I not do a podcast anymore? Have a completely lost touch? What’s going on? John? I don’t know?

It’s the topics. Here’s the headline, Yellow Springs versus Dave Chappelle neighbors slam Trump like comedian for buying properties amid shortage. This from the website meaw meaww dot com. Okay, you’re not familiar with meow or perhaps hosting a podcast, and not even entirely sure that that’s how they pronounced their website. They right, It’s not difficult to locate America’s most isolated comedian.

Like any other Yellow Springs, Ohio citizen, Dave Chappelle goes out in the city center, buys coffee and shops in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding the multimillionaire comedian’s real estate acquisitions. Dave Chappelle has been compared to Donald Trump by at least one citizen of his Ohio hometown for his propensity to incite hostility. This comes after Chappelle started purchasing land in the thirty seven hundred person town in twenty twenty. Today he owns twenty structures, including homes, businesses, and old fire station and a former school. Residents are fiercely divided over whether or not he’s operating in the best interests of the community.

Meo writes off the record, Locals of a variety of ages and racial backgrounds claim that Chapelle is a force that’s churning us into the place that we’re all trying to stay away from. Another citizen said, Dave’s gotta be the biggest contentious thing that I’ve ever seen. Put neighbor against neighbor. If you close ranks and then decimate anybody that speaks against an idea you have, then how does that inform community or build community, or has that save a community. One of Chappelle’s most recent acquisitions is a former fire station, which he plans to convert into a comedy club.

He also paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the historic Union School House, with the intention of converting the eighteen seventy two structure into the headquarters of neighborhood radio station WYSO. I don’t live there. Why is that bad? I don’t know if you’re local. I’m happy to be getting more educated on this.

To me, it sounds like a guy is taking old buildings and turning them into thriving businesses. Again, I may be under educated on this. Back in twenty twenty, Day was on SNL and he joked about how his time in Yellow Springs would go to Dave’s joke, Honey, come quick, come quick. The guy from the gross stores on TV. Chappelle then changed his gears and says, no, you big dummy.

The guy from TV’s at the grocery store. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Edmonton. Nice lineup, they’ve announced some names. You’re ready for these names? Edmonton July fourteenth and Sunday the sixteenth.

The first night, the headliner Theo Vaughan.

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Also at the festival, Sam Morrel.

And on Sunday your headliner at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, Bill Burr. Interesting note from the AV Club Jury Duty. If you watched Jury Duty, it’s on free V. When you can’t figure out how to get free V, just go on Amazon Prime and they’ll stick it under your nose. The creators of Jury Duty are going to submit it not as a reality show, but in the scripted comedy category.

Now, what makes that extra interesting is that Ronald Gladden, the guy that didn’t know it wasn’t real Jury Duty, he could get submitted for a comedy performance. He didn’t know he was giving. This next topic little ikey and probably a little sensitive, especially in the States due to some recent news time opics shootings involved here. So I’ll give you a beat to click off the podcast if you’re not in the mood for this. From the Manchester Evening News, Britain’s Got Talent comedian slammed over jokes about shooting his daughter.

Comedian Marcus Birdman joked, kids are the biggest source of joy you’ll ever have. Trouble is, they tend to ruin every other source of joy overhead. All right, good premise, reasonable, he continues. I hear other parents say I’d take a bullet from my child. Would you would take a bullet from my child, put it in the garden and shoot her?

That did not go over well, nor did a joke about being a two time a stroke survivor. Marcus said a couple of years ago. I had a stroke. That’s what happened. People don’t always believe me.

I perhaps don’t look like a stroke survivor to you, what you feel I appreciate is I’m twenty three. Marcus explains he’s done a lot of work with the Stroke Association. Said you’d think as a two time stroke survivor, I’d be able to make jokes about surviving strokes to other stroke survivors. Nope. At one point someone stood up and went stroke victims and feelings too, mate, and I went, I know, but only down half the side of their bodies.

Some on social media did not react well. One tweeted after me, joking about shooting kids is not comedy. A different person tweeted, jokes about strokes are not funny. My dad had one, was paralyzed on his right side, was confined a wheelchair. You should be ashamed.

Judge Alicia Dixon said everything you said tonight on stage, I hold at I’m glad I’m wearing my big knickers. Hanasoi dot Com sent somebody to one of the showcase shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival. They write, we were promised the best up and comers from Australia and around the world. Mc mickey Bartlett had some astute observations about Sydney characters, particularly businessman on scooters and King Street crackheads. Jesse Fuchs kicked us off.

She gave us a lot to think about. No details there other than that. Helen Bauer kept the cringe humor going or CrowdWork was right us and no men were safe from her confident charm despite the US accent. Moses Storm gave us an honest and daring look into his childhood. I’m not sure what the problem with the USX and is Fresh face Olga Kotch.

Her quick wit was almost Aubrey Plaza esque and she had a big presence. She effortlessly carved out her niche between her self deprecating humor and cool girl vibe. She gave us and ernest looking into her dating life and assortest that if we like bisexuals, will like her show Just Friends. Arguably to start of the night, Alfie Brown, his UK accent compounds his dark humor and his delivery just flows. The highlight was his entry on the stage where he spotted somebody eating a crisp in the front row.

He then proceeded to narrate that excruciating awkwardness of eating a crunchy food in a quiet space, extracting it out of the foil pocket, moistening it on the roof of your tongue, and subsequently regretting the whole experience. If you’re a comedy newbie, you’re indecisive about who you want to see. The festivals showcases the perfect way to sample a variety of little tasters. I agree. The Sydney Comedy Festival is dark on Tuesday.

New Zealand’s International Comedy Festival has some shows including Ann Edmonds Why is my Bag all wet? I remember talking about her at Melbourne. Bobby wood show is called if you met My Mom You’d understand and as a great picture of him and his dog looking grimpy, and yes, his dog looks grumpy, so I’m clicking on this. Bobby Wood is one of those rare comedic gems untarnished by the modern excesses of high speed internet, package meet and introspection. His show includes the damaging downstream effects of witnessing your mother forcibly restore a proleps Cow Award winning grass Fed stand up Bring Him voted best Newcomer at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in twenty twenty one.

Get out on top, John, that’s your commedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See at a worrow.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I am running out of time to come up with a birthday president idea from my wife from the Late Bot. Buying a birthday president for your wife is like trying to solve a rubekscube blindfolded. You have no idea what you’re doing, and you just hope it turns out okay in the end. I asked my wife what she wanted for a birthday, and she said nothing.

I have everything I need, Yamp, and she always says that to me too, So I got her a box of nothing. She was not abused. Dusty Slay is at the Blue Room Comedy Club today and tomorrow. He’s loyal because they used to book him when he wasn’t as famous as he is now. Back in twenty sixteen, he played the Blue Room.

It was then known as Billiards because it was a pool hall. Dusty and the owner, Chris hit the streets trying to recruit a Springfield audience by asking patrons want to catch a comedy show for free. That didn’t go so well. A homeless man took up the offer, but he didn’t even bother to stick around. Dusty said there weren’t many people and was the first time the Blue Room was doing Sunday shows.

It was so new that many things weren’t even set up yet. Now Dusty is I don’t know if he’s big time, but he’s definitely medium time. And Chris, the owner, says, it’s kind of sad because this may be the last time we get Dusty for a long time. Now. When Dusty comes to Springfield, he’s placed at the Hotel Vandervoort, the city’s only triple A four diamond rated hotel.

Dusty said, it’s a nice place, kind of illuminati looking. I like to go to a bass bro when I’m in town, walk to mudhouse to coffee and a record store. Dustin Nickerson told a story about playing golf with Nate bergantcy this from the Athletic. This is great. Dustin said, we played this place in Idaho called Circling Raven just to this day, one of the most incredible courses I’ve played.

I’m nervous because Nate’s spending a lot of money to have me out there. We went to the driving range first on a kid. You not, it looks like I’ve never played golf before in my life. Like, I’ve never tried anything athletically before. I’m shanking the ball.

I’m missing the ball one time. I missed the ball three times. Time out. Maybe once a month I’ll head over to top golf with the boys. Boy the last time I went, I was mis see.

I was just I couldn’t even hit the ball. I don’t mean I couldn’t hit the ball, well, I mean I couldn’t hit the ball. It was embarrassing. Luckily, my friends were cool, and they probably wait until I left to make fun of me. Dustin said, I’m missing the ball one time.

I missed the ball three times, only three. Stop braining, bro. It’s like when you bring a little kid out golfing and you’re going eight feet at a time. I think Nate seeing all this was so so bad. And so the first hole we get up there and I hit it two hundred and ten yards in the middle of the fairway.

The next SHOT’s about one hundred ten hundred fifteen yards and it gets within five feet of the pin. I burdie the first hole and has a reverse effect on Nate, who says, why’d you play so bad? Are you trying to hustle me? Dustin shot in the lower nineties, He says, for that course, very good. I’d like to think it was like angels in the outfield.

They straightened my swing on that first hole. That allowed me to relax the rest of the game.

And now I can still work with Nate, thank god.

Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety about the Muppets, and he said there’s a lot of great stuff in the Muppets. They asked him, did he ever subscribe to Muppet Magazine as a kid? Brett said, no, I didn’t know there was a thing. Now I feel ashamed to see some issues. Yes, please, the writer said, for decades, I’ve held on the copies of Muppet Magazine.

It was a monthly magazine that really existed and featured Kermit as editor in chief. I don’t know how to break it to the writer here. It probably wasn’t actually Kermit, because there is no Kermit. Statler and Waldorf wrote about movies and TV, Miss Piggy pend and advice column. This sounds amazing and one issue Fozzy Bear interviewed Henry Winkler.

Oop Google time, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Fozzy Bear, Henry Winkler, Please come up, Please come up, Please, come up, rats, I just didn’t edit there and spared you. My internet search, I saw it definitely happened. I have seen covers of its. People have been selling this on eBay. So on the cover we see a young looking Henry Winkler with his hair growing out.

This from nineteen eighty three, so it’s got very nineteen eighty three part in the middle of hair. He’s wearing a red sweater as if he’s mister Rogers. Fozzy of the Bear is hanging over his left shoulder, and Kermit on Winkler’s right. Boy, I would love to redo that article, but I can’t find it interesting. My Internet search a lot of Japanese links to Muppet Magazine with Henry Winkler anyway.

The writer shows Muppet Magazine to Brett Goldstein, who goes, whoa, whoa. This is quality stuff, solid, thoughtful, subversive, funny. This is why you’re here. The Muppets brought us together. Goldstein says he would love to do something more with the Muppets, and Jason Siegel wants to see him do that.

I gotta try and connect with Harry Connabel, who he talks about queens a lot and from the parts of Queens. He talks about. I suspect he probably grew up right around we were in Queens that I grew up. Although Harry is younger. How old is Harry?

He’s forty, so I am thirteen years older than him. We might have lived in the neighborhood at the same time. Yeah, Harry Connabolo grew up in Jackson Heights, Floral Park and then Jamaica. I’m from Jackson Heights. It’s probably a twenty year old version of me walking past Harry when he was a little kid.

Yeah. Here I see on Instagram a reunion in Jackson Heights, Queens. Oh, I gotta get this guy on all right. I gotta reach out to him for sure. Y’all who asked him, Harri, how do you think growing up in New York City has informed your comedy?

And he says, I see the way people talk about what they fear the country is going to become with multiple languages and a mix of different races. All they’re describing is where I grew up. That’s what Queen’s New York is. That’s what New York City is. It’s every language, every culture, every mix.

If you’ve been being so it’s frustrating because it’s like you like to visit, but you don’t like to stay. That’s what I’m hearing. You like to come here and look, but you don’t want to live in it. It’s such a beautiful place to grow up. It’s not to say it’s perfect and there isn’t racism or homophobia or all the stuff that comes with any place, but everyone’s represented here and present away that you don’t get in other parts of the world.

I feel really privileged, and I feel like it colored my view are he had as the comedy scene in New York compared to LA, and he says, I think New York is a stand up city. There’s so many shows in New York and there’s a tradition of it. Not to say there aren’t great comics who come out of LA, and the LA scene isn’t a healthy one, but I feel like New York you get your butt kicked there and you become a better comic. And I don’t know if that’s the same for LA. I know with New York you go through fire, you become tougher, you come sharper.

I think you see where the bar is when you’re on the road, having started in New York. The road feels so much easier because even through one of the hardest places to play, LA has a great scene. Laurgo’s incredible. You see beat tradition. Obviously, it’s a great all scene there.

It really has a great history, and there’ve been great comics that have come out. You’ll see more comics in LA. You clearly just want to be on TV and do acting work, and they build a material for the purpose of that, which, look, that’s the way to do it. But New York is New York. I’ll jump in.

Yeah. I always felt like the New York City comedians, if they were banned, they’re like the Rolling Stones. I get the Rolling Stones are British, so the analogy is a little flawed, but like you know, the Rolling Stones, we’re gritty rock band. We got a great drummer, our guitarist, a smoking cigarette, and our singer. Yeah, I don’t know what his deal is, but boy, he’s really talented.

Whereas the LA comedy scene, I always felt like, is Devo really good, really entertaining, just not doing what the Rolling Stones are doing? Did I explain that, Well, no, you didn’t. John Harry, do you have a favorite city or venue to perform in. He’s says, it’s either Seattle or Oakland. I recorded in my first album in Oakland.

It feels like Oakland audiences are as smart at San Francisco audiences, except they’re more expressive. It isn’t just like, oh, I get the joke, It’s like I feel the joke. It has resonated with me on more than just one level, and I’m gonna let you hear it. That’s incredible. I started in Seattle, so I always have a loyalty due to that city, and the Neptune Theater is one of my favorite places to play, A beautiful theater where I recorded in my first Netflix special, and that is, without a doubt, one of my favorite venues.

If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I don’t know if you can tell my voice is giving out. Why I recorded Friday, Saturday, and Sunday back to back to back, and yeah, usually when I get around a third one, my voice gives out. So I need a drink and I don’t have a coffee, even though Kara Wood and Becky bought me six coffees this week.

You think I’ll bring one down the studio now, but I have this bottle of water here. I’m gonna take a sip that hit the spot. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Rich Schneider wrote about Chard Belzer for Vulture and said Richard was admired and respected by so many of us, a true comics comic, but that crown could be crushing Outrage wasn’t the marketing tool and brand it has become today, But it made Richard a legend while he was still in his thirties and broke.

I heard where he grew tired of watching lesser comics swim like dolphins while he was fighting the undertow. Whatever the reason, the bells made a strategic shift in his nineteen eighty six HBO special Richard Belzer in concert, and he decided to play nice as crowd work was easy going, even friendly. He showed vulnerability, and it needs to connect with material about his abuse of childhood and a violent encounter with an idiotic Hulk Hogan. Richard still wore the tinted glasses for the crowd work, but they came off for the rest of the performance. He even dropped his standard black suit, white shirt and tie for a sweater and from Forbes the premise phone free policies like Dave Chappelle’s opened the door for better comedy.

Yeah, m Gnome Jorman. He owns the Comedy Seller and says his club’s no cell phone policy was implemented about a year and a half before COVID. He said, Chappelle started doing it, and I had a feeling was to become an industry standard, and I try to get ahead of it. But it didn’t become an industry standard, Thank goodness. He says, many comics we should had.

If you go to the seller, you’re given a padded envelope for your phone and smart watch devices are sealed in the envelopes. Customers keep them in their possession during the shows. It may be a nuisance, but it hasn’t hurt business. Gnome says, we don’t get complaints about it. I don’t think they love it, but they’re aware of it before they get there.

Very few people are surprised by it. Judy Gould tells a story about being on stage at The Fat Black Pussycat about ten minutes twelve minutes in, I’m thinking, Wow, What a great audience. Everyone’s so engaged, and I looked around and realized, Oh, it’s because they don’t have phones. And I almost started crying because it was like the old days where the audience was a unit, where everybody was there for the same reason. They came there to laugh.

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The Shark Deck Chunny Mack with your daily comedy to News late Nights on strike from the Late Bots. I tried to sneak into the Kentucky Derby without a ticket, but I got caught. The security guard told me I can’t just horse around like that. That is awful, late Bot. This is why we need writers.

One more, I saw a horse at the Kentucky Derby wearing a boat tie. Then I read his text messages and was like, oh my, that one’s not bad. That one was half late Bot, and I kind of punched it up a little. Dave Chappelle could have been in Forrest Cump. Now.

The first time I read this story, I was like, wait, Dave Chappelle could have been Forrest Gump. What no, no, no, no, he could have been in Forrest Gump. Totally different story. This from Looper. Chappelle was offered the role of Bubba Blue.

The folks at Comedy Hype posted an old stand up set by Dave Chappelle. In the set, Chapelle explains that his agent wanted him to take on the role of Bubba, thinking the opportunity could land him an oscar. Chappelle read the script and immediately wanted to turn down the role in the upset. He says his decision was racially motivated. His joke, who could be dumber than Forrest Gump?

His black friend? That’s who Lewis Black was on the Last Laugh podcast. As recapped by The Daily Beast, Lewis turned seventy five this summer, and he said I had never considered myself old until the pandemic. Then I was told I was old. He doesn’t think about his legacy.

He never had children, so all he will leave behind is his work. And he says, I don’t know if it matters anymore. I got more successful than I ever expected, So I find myself at this point wondering if I’ve stayed too long at the fair, is it’s time to wrap it up. I’ll stick with it as long as I can learn from the craft. He was scheduled to guest host The Daily Show, but you know, writer strikes, so I don’t know if that’s going to happen now.

Lewis said to be honest, when they first started saying they were gonna have guest hosts, I literally said, I want to be on. Can I sit in that chair? Once I’ve been on the show twenty seven years, can I please sit in the chair. As soon as I started talking about how they we have guest hosts, I was pretty ticked at that that he wasn’t on the list. He said, none of us were, none of the correspondence, and I just thought, come on, guys, throw a bone.

And it really undermines, too, something that I felt about this show for years, which is it undermines the importance of the writers on that show. So it’s not just who’s sitting in the seat, it’s the guys and women in the back room. We’re pumping out all sorts of stuff on a daily basis. Obviously, they started with some big names and that was probably part of the plan. But now it’s great seeing the correspondence in there, Roy with Junior, Jordan Klupper.

I thought it. Roy did a terrific job. Jordan did a terrific job. They’re all gonna be really good. I’m not gonna be good, but they’re gonna be terrific.

Samantha be apparently was surprised nobody reached out to her, Lewis said, which I don’t get. They reached out to Hassan Minaj and I’m not disparaging having these folks on. I think that’s great. I just think they should have started with us. But I’m thrilled to be able to do it, and now he’s not gonna be able to do it right.

Strike Here’s what’s interesting. Lewis does not write his stuff for the Daily Show. He doesn’t even choose the topics for Back in Black. He said, no, they took it for me early on because a couple of producers on the show didn’t feel like I belonged and they didn’t feel I was funny. They wanted to punchline rather than an attitude.

But part of what’s been my bread and butter as a comic is my attitude. The attitude gets the laugh. My initial reaction has always been confrontational when it comes to the workspace. I’m always like, I’m not going to take this stuff, and I’d walk away, and then I thought, I can’t walk away. What am I thinking?

I’m not gonna walk away from this? You want to write it go ed. What I had to do was take what they were giving me and putting it in my own voice. So it was like an acting gig. No all of them know my voice, so it’s never a problem, and I love the way they write.

Pace Magazine spoke to Scott Ackerman. He’s been doing a little tour for his book and his eight hundredth podcast, and he said, when I started podcasting was in its nascent form. The only podcast I knew were comedian hangout shows like Jimmy Parto or Ricky Gervais. I thought my show might be that in the first week, and then I pivoted into interviewing comedians, sort of a proto WTF. Then after the third week, the programming director said that that show was boring and he always thought I’d be doing comedy instead of talking about comedy.

I was like, okay, that’s a good note, so I swung into approaching it. I’m like how Conan O’Brien would do a panel, but on a podcast, I’d have comedians on doing their jokes and I would set them up. That was me not having incredible confidence in my own abilities. But I knew everybody’s act really well, so I knew how to be a genial host who could throw to them. Around the tenth episode, Andy Daley was on and he was doing a character.

We got into a weird side conversation about a code he had bought, and for me, that’s when it came to life. It was less wrote and a little less prepared, and he’s such an incredible improviser he was able to roll with it. So I left that show going okay, that was really funny, and it gave me more to do. Around the same time, Paul ef Tompkins started doing characters, and he’d email me bullet points and what he’s going to talk about for the first year, so that could be prepared anytime would go off on a tangent. It seemed like the most fun to me.

That’s where the show kind of landed. The Charleston City Paper spoke to Horry Kunda Buloo. He spoke about the pros and cons of releasing his film The Problem with a Pooh Or. He said, I feel like the conversation I had to start was useful to a lot of people. The documentaries used in college classrooms and high school classrooms.

It is a value I certainly didn’t anticipate when I made it. It certainly made a bigger imprint than I expected, So I’m grateful for the fact that I contributed to a conversation I value and that it really resonated with people. But at the same time, I’m not particularly happy with a kind of negativity I still get around it, especially from people who haven’t seen it. It was just another thing they could bring up to say everybody’s two sensitive, everybody’s a snowflake, as opposed to watching the thing and coming up with reasons to disagree with it. Harry spoke about his relationship with Hank Azarian said, the conversation I’ve had with Hank is very different from the conversation that’s happening publicly, and that’s because he’s put a lot of work into thinking about the issues that I brought up.

People also missed the fact that I’m a Simpsons fan. It’s one of the big influences on my comedy. The idea that I don’t get the show or I don’t know what it’s about. It’s like, no, that’s the thing. I try to make a nuanced this from the perspective of somebody who loves the show and also feels weird about the fact that the character really kind of painted what my community looked like for the longest time.

Harry said, if he could go back in time and tell his younger selves. Some advice it would be to develop a thick skin. When you’re going out there and trying to be honest about how you feel about the world. It means that a lot of people will disagree with you, and it’s completely worth it because the laughter you get and the joy you bring by far outnumbers the feeling you have when people are being terrible. Every time I’m on stage, it’s still this wonderful feeling that I’m performing for a bunch of friends I haven’t met yet.

That’s what it feels like. We’re not friends yet, but I feel like we’re gonna be friends because we’re resonating. Jason Reitman is directing a film that follows the first night of Saturday Night Live. The film is set October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. The night of the SNL premiere that week, the show’s host, George Carlin informed the show that he wouldn’t do any sketches.

Instead, he just do four stand up monologue scattered throughout the show. Billy Crystal was supposed to do a bit on the show, and that was cut between dress rehearsal and air due to the show not having enough time for the routine. There were also the adult muppets created just for that show. Yeah, that was a disaster a filmed by Albert Brooks and not much for the cast members to do unless you were Chevy Chase. One of the memorable bits from that premiere episode the legendary Andy Kaufman Mighty Mouse Routine.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late Night on Strength, So Late Bot says, Sick of a Miles a great day to remember the bravery of the Mexican soldiers who defeated the French army in eighteen sixty two. Or you know, drink tequila and pretend you’re a Mexican wrestler. Your choice. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling that exact joke.

It’s also a day to break out half ass Mitch Hedburg impression hit the bass guys on sick at a Mile, I’d like to celebrate the Mexican Army’s victory over the French by eating tacos. It’s a lot easier than trying to pronounce a poet Black correctly. Sick of a Mile is the only day of the year where I’m allowed to put tequila in my coffee without being judged. It’s like a fiesta and a mug, all right, that’s ridiculous. I like to think a sig at a miles a day with a guacamoli flows like water, and the margharitas flow like margharitas.

Thank you, AI, half as Mitch Hedberg, John Mulaney wishes he would have been asked to host The Daily Show five years after he was. Millaney said, it was shortly after the SNL fortieth anniversary, so that’s nine years ago. I guess I had a sitcom on Fox. Oh yeah, I remember that existed. Nobody watched that thing that bombed hard.

Milaney said that aired all thirteen episodes, but it was canceled. It didn’t do good numbers, but at least critics were viled it, so it was a fun time. John Stewart was leaving The Daily Show and Kent Alterman, president of Comedy Central, asked Millany if he wanted to take on the hosting role. Mullaney said, I was extremely flattered. I sensed they would be big shoes to fill.

I think I was also gun shy from putting myself out there after the Fox run, and I sensed all eyes would be on whoever came after mister Stewart. It wasn’t the right thing at the moment, but I remember saying to Kent, I wish it was five years from now, and he went, yeah, but it’s not well, John Mulaney, how about now. He’d be a great fit. John, You could you know, you wouldn’t have to travel. You can make a lot of money.

You could kind of stay home. It’s right in New York City where you used to live. Anyway, where does he live now with Olivia? Or are they buy Coastal? I can’t remember what their deal is, but John Mulaney Daily Show they can’t afford him.

Jim Gaffigan spoke to The New York Times. He said, in a strange way, gardening is similar to writing stand up and acting. Yeah, yes, he says, in that every day you know what the task is, but the outcome can be different. So you might know that you’ll be able to grow some cucumbers, but what do you do to facilitate growing cucumbers or help it be different? Every day you have some control, but not all control.

The trial and error of gardening and the meditative time you spend doing it is really coming and it reminds me of writing stand up and building a character for a movie. Bowen Yang is disappointed that SNL was canceled this week. He said, we had a few good shows left. I think we all came back rested and ready to work on Monday. Beat Davidson was very excited a host, even though we knew there was a big astres gone the week and there was a looming possibility it might not happen.

I think we’re all ready to give it her all for the next three weeks before the season ended. Oh yeah, the season is three way all right, So SNL’s done for the year. It’s not coming back. They’re talking to the strike might go all the way to November. So I hope you enjoy late bot behind the scenes here.

I’ve been using chat GPT for that and it doesn’t always come up with good ones. I was trying to get it to do some Kentucky Derby jokes for tomorrow, and it just it was spitting out garbage. So maybe we do need writers.

Speaking of Pete Davidson’s CNN’s headline, I don’t want to even bother with …

She spoke to The Daily Beast and they asked about the appeal of Pete Davidson. She said he has a magnetic personality. The kid is as alive as a person as I’ve ever seen. I imagine he must sleep, though I’ve personally never seen it. He just has an energy that’s contagious.

He had an excitement about making the show that was sweet. And he’s adorable, and he’s self deprecating and humble. He has a lot of very attractive qualities and it pulls people in. I mean, he’s got all kinds of people to be on this thing. Apparently, the first scene of bubb Kiss is quite naughty.

I don’t want to describe it to you because I read it and I was like ick. They asked Edie Falco about Pete’s BTE reputation, which again recently Pete shared average. But as for the energy that comes with the average, Edie said, Indeed, when I started doing the show, I started hearing more of this stuff. I started wondering, like, maybe I should find out what all this stuff means. I have my sources.

I found out she didn’t come it. Hey, great news. Remember that Will Ferrell golf comedy that’s coming out. Guess who’s gonna be in it. They’re talking to Adam Sandler.

Adam Sandler would reprise his Happy Gilmore role. Oh Goody. One way to support the show has become a premium subscriber on Apple podcast. So you open up that purple podcast appen. They’ll look at like a banner ad in front of you and be like, hey, premium subscription, huh, And then you click on that, and then what they’ll do is it’s five bucks a month.

In the first month’s free, so you could try it out see if you like it. If you don’t like it, it goes away. Then you’ll get the episodes commercial free, and you get them early, usually around four pm Eastern, the day before the show is officially released. And I mentioning this on Friday, because on Friday you wake up and you already have the weekend episodes. Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are hooking up their staff.

Employees of both their shows will continue to be paid for at least three weeks of the hiatus, two weeks funded by NBC in an extra week funded by Fallon and Myers themselves. Healthcare coverage has been extended until September. If you were a teenager in the nineteen eighties, especially if you were a boy teenager, remember faces of Death. So if you don’t know what this was. It was a like greeny VHS that like your friend’s cousin’s older brother had a copy of and you made a dub of it and you passed it around, and it was supposedly footage of real people really dying.

It was one of the great eighties vhs is, along with Porkys for obvious reasons, and an underrated one the movie version of mash there’s a scene with hot lips where if you freeze framed it just right and you were thirteen, you could convince yourself you were looking at a naked lady. Too much information Sean Faces of Death coming back in the new version. A content moderator whatever that is, stumbles across a group that’s recreating the murders from the general Faces of Death, but this time the question is are the murders real or fake? Jermaine Faller is part of the cast. That’s why I’m talking about it to see he’s a comedian.

It’s Daily Comedy News, by the way, Daily Comedy News number one in Zimbabwe. I shared the screen grab in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Zimbabwean’s no where to get their comedy news. If you’re listening in Zimbabwe today, say hi, will you you know that reboot of the Santa Claus. They needed somebody to play the Easter Bunny in season two. Who did they ask?

Tracy Morgan? Of course, Duster Nickerson spoke with The Athletic. He started stand up when he was twenty seventy. Said, I’ve been married for nine years, I had two kids. Who was the first time they did stand up?

It was not only a late age start, it was a late life start to be that old and established as an adult and start something as ridiculous as stand up. He thought he wanted to be a sports writer. Then he was a youth bast He moved to San Diego. He’s working at a rec center and he thought, I always wanted to try stand up. So he headed down to the Mad House for an open mic.

Did three minutes to one story, got two laughs, and he said, I finally found the thing. I spent the next two hours asking other comedians how it all works. Friend of the show, Dan Booblitz Junior told me about the Chief Comedy Festival and train tour. It’s today and tomorrow the headline train hoop your way to Trinidad for an epic weekend of comedy Mayhem and Southern Colorado. All right, what’s the deal here?

My, what a robust schedule. Let’s see hey five o’clock today they’re recording the Art of Bombing podcast. You know who hosts that, Dan Booblitz. I think he mind tricked me into promoting his piet I love Dan. All right now, the barta Bombing is at five o’clock at the Chief Comedy Festival.

A lot of shows here. If you want to blow Dan off, head over to the Trinidad Lounge. Those show at five o’clock. Your headliner, doctor Kevin Fitzgerald. But go see Dan.

Some of the performers this weekend, Emma Arnold, Ron Lynch, Rachel O’Brien, Tay Clay, J C. Anderson, Doctor Kevin Fitzgerald, who’s got a picture of himself with a chihuahua. Apparently if you own a chihuahua or your youth pastor get into comedy. M and picture of Dan Boublitz. I feel like he might tricked me into promoting him.

Today Kelly Bugbee, Ag Matthews and a whole bunch more and I see this thing is a touring comedy Festival, and there’s a train involved. Pretty neat All aboard the Comedy Train. Trinidad, Colorado’s annual Comedy Extravaganza returns. This year’s festival will once again be bringing top tier comedians from Chicago and LA to Trinidad on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief Train. Pretty neat the Chief Festival dot com if you want to check out more about that.

Jennifer Wong must be doing well at the Sydney Comedy Festival. She’s playing there on Saturday. She’s added another show in Daily Said, a quick flowing hour of self deprecating, hilariously absurd situational stand up. Let’s listen. Hello, I’m Jennifer Wong.

My new stand up comedy show is called Jennifer Wong has no peripheral vision. It’s because I have a genetic eye disease called rittenitist pigmentosa, which is Latin for please don’t drive. Some people don’t see race, some people don’t see color. I didn’t see edges. When I’m at a restaurant, I only order entrees and mains.

I never order sides. I can’t see them. These jokes are just going to get corneia, So please come to my show and I will see you there if you’re in front of me. Oh my god, I love her. I’m getting on a plane right now.

Can I make Sydney by the time of her show tomorrow? Probably just barely. I’ll be wiped. All right, I’m get going.

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Your all stars are Marcus Birdman from England, Danny O’Brien from Ireland, Scotland’s Ray Bradshaw and New Zealand Zone been early one two hour show. Early booking is recommended as this will sell out. I can’t make it. I’m on my way to Sydney and that it’s your comedy news for today. Hey, tomorrow Coronation of King Charles.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News with the writer strike, We’re not gonna have late night jokes for a while, and I kind of like having them at the top of the show. So Luckily there’s chat cheept Now and the Late Bot. So when you hear me talking about late Bot and the upcoming shows, that’s what I’m talking about. Late Bots, says Tucker Carlson’s text are like a train wreck. You don’t want to look, but you can’t help yourself, unless, of course, you’re a Fox News viewer.

Tucker Carlson’s text were so offensive they even made Fox News executives blush. I guess they’re not used to seeing anything that’s not white and conservative. I hope Tucker Crosson’s text have taught us all a valuable lesson. Never trust a man who wears a boat’s eye. Tucker Carlson’s texts have been called juicy and explosive, which is exactly what you expect from a guy wears a boat tie in twenty twenty three.

Those aren’t terrible. They’re not great, but they’re not terrible, and I think the writers are justified in being a little worried about the Bot because remember, and people keep explaining this about AI. This is as bad as AI is going to get right. AI is only going to get better. So imagine Late Bought a year from now, when it’s really tuned up.

One more from Late Bot. Kevin Costner is getting a divorce. I guess he finally found out that Field of Dreams was a warning. If you build it, they will come, and if they come, they’ll leave. Saturday Night Live will not produce any episodes for a while.

Again the reason the strike. That means the episode with Pete Davidson has been canceled. They’ll be in reruns till further notice. We’ll talk about Pete Davidson the second half of the show. Jay Leno showed up to pick it outside the Walt Disney studios in Burbank, and he began handing out donuts.

Jay was warmly met by union members with cries of thank you and we love you. Jay. John Mulaney has canceled his FYC events which were to promote Baby j Mullaney ready w GA strike rules which forbid promotional events. The WGA’s f a Q says you should let the company know you were prohibited from making these promotional appearances about your work until the strike concludes. For the same reason, John Stewart canceled an FYC event for second season of the Problem with John Stewart.

According to Deadline, Stewart was scheduled for a conversation about the show next week, but there is one late night show still in production. Gutfeld he didn’t cancel, the Daily Beast, says an anonymous source told The Daily Beast it’s part of a larger anti union trend at the network. Gutfeld has quote some writers, but there quotes all non union like everyone else who works there. Are interesting. I watched three comedy specials.

Let me tell you about them. I watched Lewis Black’s Tragically I need you. It’s fine. I just didn’t care. It’s Lewis Black doing Lewis Black.

Lewis Black doing Lewis Black is fine. I’ll remind you. I’m an admitted comedy snob. If you’re a new listener, I run serious XM comedy for ten years, So what did I do there? Among other things, I had a radio on my desk playing stand up comedy for ten straight years, all day, every day.

So my brain is really numb to a lot of this. So Lewis Black special, It’s fine. I just didn’t care. Thirteen minutes and I’m like, all right, what else? I was really excited to watch Greg Warren.

I told you about Greg Warren and the peanut butter jokes on yesterday’s podcast. I was so excited for it, and I think, now, I don’t know this personal opinion. In my opinion, it sounded like they added a laugh track. Was one of those comedy specials where every single sentence he said had a laugh and an unrealistic laugh, and it didn’t sound like a normal human being laugh. Greg Warren, You’re on my suspect list really didn’t sound natural, and that turned me off to it.

I was like, get me out of here. Then I felt bad. I was like, oh, I had this big plan. Let me tell the listeners about comedy specialism.

And then I remembered I hadn’t watched Big Jay Oakerson’s special also on You…

I was never all the way into it, but I was entertained. I was kind of second screening Big Jay and I was playing on my phone on Twitter and check an email, and you know you have a phone. You know what you do with John. Why are you explaining what people do on a phone? You know what you do on a phone.

I was doing that. But Big Jay Special was nice company in the background. As any snob, I really appreciate the crowd work. It shows that he’s naturally funny and doing a lot of material in the moments. Yeah, and he’d go back to stuff he clearly had in his back pocket.

But the crowd work was wonderful and it reminded me of how much John Mulaney’s special. It just felt like a performance with a capital P some solid laughs in there. I wrote down in my notes chunk food. You know sometimes you just want a twinkie or half a box of Oreos? Who would do that?

So? Big Jay it’s the half a box of Oreos of comedy specials. Is it amazing? No? Well, it makes the end of the year list.

That’s a good question. The other two I mentioned or not? Let me look at my list here so far number one Kyle Canade two, Nate three, Jay McBride four, Jim Jeffreys five, Harry six Chris Rock. Is Big Jay’s Special better than Chris Rock? No?

Is it better than the roast of mister Peanut. No, but should it be on the list, I’m gonna say yeah, let’s add it right now. You’re hearing this live typing and being at Ja Okerson now at number eight Live list updated POI are you glad to be download the podcast today? Isn’t that exciting? When I have not seen yet?

And I love this guy so can’t wait for this one. Jimmy O Yang his specials called Guess how much You’ll find that on Amazon? And guess how much? Jimmy O Yang gives props to the old Asian lady in Chinatown has been wearing a mask since nineteen ninety five. She’s not random, She’s a trailblazer, he says.

Everyone followed her fashion lead. She’s the Kendall Jinner of Chinatown. Let’s listen to the trailer. It’s never been a better time to be Asian. I mean, come on, we got BTS now even white people know BTS now, that’s progress.

I’m moved to this like boyfriend stuff right. My girl asked me, she was like, what’s your love language? I’m like what. I was raised by Asian parents. Their love language is verbal.

Appears Jimmy O Yang guess how much looking forward to that. It’s out now on Amazon. Brett Goldstein’s Wonderful podcast Films to be Buried with Switching Networks, joining Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network, upcoming guest Ted Lasso, co star Hannah Wattingham, Chappelle’s show writer and comedian A Neil Brennan, and a bunch of others. So that’s cool. If you’ve never heard the podcast, Brett Goldstein brings on guests to discuss the films that have most impacted their lives, based on the premise that they recently died.

Meanwhile, in podcast land, Dana Carvey and Kevin Neilan. Back in the nineties they were going to do a Hans and Franz movie that would have co starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie fell through, however, the scripts survived and will now be a podcast called The Lost Hans and Franz Movie featuring Dana Carvey, Kevin Neil, and Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel, who co wrote the original script. That one will be out May seventeenth. That should be fun.

Hey, if you want Bobcat Goldway to sign your police Academy poster. He has a surprise for you till the laugh button. I’ll let you in on a secret if you give me a police Academy thing to sign. I haven’t spelled my name correctly in years on a police Academy thing. I’m running behind today in my real life, been a very busy day, So by Meacoffee dot Com, Slush Daiey comedy news.

You know the rap. There. Beat Davidson’s Bubkiss is out and the reviews are not good, and Pete Davidson is very likable and the media enjoys rooting for Pete Davidson, and Pete Davidson usually gets very favorable press. So if they’re writing Bupkiss isn’t that good, that tells me that it’s not good. Haven’t seen it yet, but the av Club did and they said each installment feels like the pilot for a different and frankly inferior show.

Yikes. The first episode chases shock value, while the second plays like a melancholy flashback on an f extramity. Then there’s the one with Charlie Day, which is the most sitcomedy of the gang.

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Yikes. In a series highlight, Pete Davidson sits down with John Mulaney, who’s playing John Mulaney TV’s John Mulaney says, your life is fascinating. I don’t know what it’s like to live it, but boy, we do have fun watching it. It’s a good time. Davy Club says, bupkiss is not necessarily a good time, and a lot of it isn’t good period.

Yikes. Hey, hope my former co worker Jamie FOXX is doing okay. They remember he’s been in the hospital. He’s still in the hospital, and TMZ said it was serious enough that family members who were out of town came to the hospital. One source told TMZ he’s communicating now and that’s good news.

His upcoming film, Back in Action, resumed production with Doubles playing the role of Jamie fox Jamie was scheduled to host a game show called Beat Shazam that’s now going to move forward with a replacement host. Again, I hope he’s doing well, but if they’re moving on a replacement host, that tells you something. Friday, The Sydney Comedy Festival. It’s May fifth aka Sinco to Mile. Are they celebrating now?

Dave Thornton has added another show to his chatter, so he must be doing well and good news for me. There’s a clip. Let’s listen, guys. You know, and he found out about this recently. Did you know that there’s fully grown adults out there and they don’t drink coffee?

Did you know they exist? Yeah, there’s always one, isn’t there? Looking at your smile and gun, I just get up with motivation. But there’s more of a public service announcement than anything for people out there who don’t drink coffee. I just want to let you know in the morning, when it’s early, when the rest of us normal people are getting a coffee.

And I say this with all sincerity, I mean this with love. Get out of the way, just because I found myself in a situation pretty early in the morning. I was in the cafe. I’m behind one guy and he just said this with all the confidence in the world. He just said it’s to the guy behind the counter.

He just said he can make Can I just get a takeaway hot chocolate? What are you doing? We need to get a coffee. You need to go to the supermarket and get some Coco pops. That’s not an adult’s order.

You know, I need Choky and me Tom Tom Yo. I’m yah, he’s Deve Thornton. Right. That was fun. I could critique the piecing a little bit.

Let’s get to it. And I had to get rid of a couple of words that started with F. But that was fun enough. Now you know what starts Friday in New Zealand, the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Some of you were like John, A month of Melbourne, now Sydney, now New Zealand.

We don’t live in the Southern Hemisphere where you stop Australian Beast. Japanese comedian Takashi Wakasugi will be forming his show it’s called Welcome to Japan, And I have a question Austaria. I went to supermarket to get egg right, and there was no free round jag. It’s solded out. The only Kjaggs was there.

Right. The question is can I buy that KJK in the situation I tried to get but that makes me worry. Maybe someone see me and then might think, oh this Asian guys through buying kJ get out it’s not good before the Asian community, right, So I got it. I got it, but I coup up my kJ by other products. Then people cannot see my kJ I caged KJK.

The New Zealand Herald has some good questions for him. First question, what are your strongest memories from the first overseas trip you ever took? Takashi said, I don’t know why people don’t have to dress up in planes, don’t wear skinny jeans when you have a long flight. Worst trip you have ever been on the Gold’s Coast of Australia. The beach was beautiful and I had a super tough comedy gig drunk ausee bogan audiences.

Yes, I love the word bogan when it shows up. Any tips for packing for an overseas strip, always remember to bring a gift. One destination we should see in our lifetime Okanawa, Japan, it’s beautiful interesting. The New Zealand Comedy Festival kicks off tonight, runs through May twenty eighth. One of these years this podcast will be big enough that I’ll somehow be able to go to Melbourne, then Sydney, then New Zealand.

Have the podcast pay for it and you guys, are gonna explain to my wife where I’ve been for three months? Hey, I had to review the show, didn’t I. That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcat Oh, Big Coronation Saturday? Are you listening to Palace Intrigue?

King Charles swearing him in whatever they do over there? Alice Intrigue wherever you get your podcast Daily Comedy News back in the morning. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you then, Once in the generation a new British royal dynasty tastes shape. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the Royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Megan and California to Cayton William in the UK.

Along with King Charles, Quinkermill and Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters. This coronation will be one for the ages and we’ll bring you every detail on every moment in just a few minutes every day. Hear Palace Intrigue on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Writer’s Guild has failed to come to a deal with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and TV Producers. That means there’s a writer strike. Initially, what you’ll see is the late night shows have gone jerk. At the time of this recording, it’s unclear what Saturday Night Live will do this week.

Guest host Pete Davidson keep an eye on that, so we won’t have late night jokes for a while. I’ve asked the chat gept to write some from the chatbot. The writer strikes causing a lot of tension in Hollywood. You can cut the tension with a knife, which ironically is one of the only things the writers are allowed to use. Now, that’s a good joke, but I’ll point out the strike is about using AI to write jokes.

But the a I just wrote a good joke, So I don’t know how this is going to play out here. One more, I’m not saying that relying on an AI to write my jokes makes me lazy, but I asked it to come up with some jokes, and it wrote, why did the comedian cross the road to avoid having to write his own material, Sam or else we did. Writers deserve more respect. People worship actors, but they’re nothing without writers. Writing is harder than acting.

There were child actors, there were no child writers. On the Shoe Rogan Experience. His guest was Dave Smith, and they talked about Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership Comedy Club. Rogan discussed the naysayers. There’s a lot of people saying you’re not opening a club.

It’s BS. It’s all BS. I knew once it got like talk all this crap, because once this thing gets open, you’re all gonna want to come, and then once you can’t, a lot of fear missing out. He complimented Richard Weiss, the designer of the club, saying it’s pretty dope. Well it wasn’t me.

I mean it sort of was, but it was a lot of people and a lot of it. Richard Weiss, the architect and designer, he’s the man. He did an incredible job. Rogan said. The whole thing’s just very bizarre.

You know, if it wasn’t mine, I’d really be able to appreciate it. Apparently tickets are moving so fast that it’s bringing out the egos in comedians Rogan said. It’s been a problem though, because you know a lot of people want to come. Some of them are weird. They want a headline, and you know they’re not really a headliner.

Trevor Noah will executive produce and a mirror conversion of the British series Mock the Week. That’s a half hour program that combines elements from talk shows, stand up comedy sessions, and improv games. Two sets of comedians play each other in a bit to satirize current news and events and popular culture. Mock the Week has run in the UK for fifteen years. Production won’t start till next year.

The host will be announced at a later date, but Trevor Noah said, two things I’m most passionate about in life or paying my landlord and making people laugh. We could all use a little bit more laughter as we continue to navigate today’s crazy world. Conan O’Brien getting his own TV channel. This is one of those channels you’ll find on streaming boxes that place things in real time like in olden times with commercials, you know, linear TV. Kind of going on to Brian getting into the fast lane setting up an exclusive launch on Samsung TV Plus of a channel comprised of thirty minute compilations and other clips from his late night career.

This from Deadline. The twenty four seven Conan channel will feature footage from the TBS shows archives. Yeah you wanted the NBC ones met too?

Also, can we get this for Letterman, but only the NBC Letterman?

Can we do that? These TBS clips will feature Conan’s interviews with John Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Kevin Hart, Will Farrow, Lisa Kudreau, Kate mccannon, Justin Bieber and others. Cool, but I feel like there’s a better version of this to be had, meaning the NBC ones. Bill Hayder, it’s not going to sign your stuff. Here’s why.

From the Hollywood Reporter. I didn’t know that Bill Hayter. By the way, Barry this week awesome, say no more watch it. Barry was credited as a voice consultant for BB eight in Star Wars The Force Awakens. Really, Hayter said, I used to sign stuff, and then one time I saw somebody they had their kid come up to me to sign a BB eight thing, and it was three in the morning.

I was leaving the inside out premiere We went to an afterparty thing and it was super late, and this guy kept his kid up all night. He was like, go over there, so he’ll sign it and I could sell it online. And I was like, that’s messed up, and so now I just kind of blank it, like I don’t sign any of it. Jim Gaffigan talked to The New York Times about Deep Dish pizza. By the way, I was in Chicago last week.

I didn’t get the Deep Dish. Anytime I do a trip to Chicago and I don’t hit one of the main Deep Dish places, I feel like I wasted a trip but didn’t happen, which means next time, oh, it’ll happen. Gaffigan says, I have a long distance love affair with Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Me too. It’s got to be sausage deep Dish, me too, Jim.

They’re all good, but Luminatis delivers, and we’ve done that many times. Love Luminatis. Love it.

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Also they have really good wins.

What’s confusing about Chicago Deep Dish pizza. I’m picturing somebody in Chicago will be like, Luminatis, are you kidding? We’ll na stupid tors I get it. I’m not from there. I don’t know.

Man does a Luminatis close to where my daughter lives, and I go there and it’s good now Tjordanos. The last time I went to Jordanos, it took so long for the pizza to arrive. I had to leave. I had to leave my daughter behind, so she had like all this food finally come I don’t know, seventy five minutes later because I had to catch my flight. And what the what’s the one downtown by the river.

It’s got like a graffiti Gino’s East, right, Gino’s East. That one’s really good too. Again, the locals probably like, you don’t know what you’re talking about, So tell me on the Facebook group. I’ll go to your place. Just telling you loses a couple of blocks from where she lives.

Jim said, what’s confusing about Chicago deep dish pizzas there’s always way too much of it. No one needs to ever eat more than a piece, but you end up eating more than a piece, and I’m ridiculously selfish with it. Good point there, Jim. Plus, I usually have, you know, a plate of wings while I’m waiting for the half hour for the pizza to bake, and by the time the pizza comes, I’m already full. But boy, I eat it.

Jim says, I will make sure there’s other pizza that’ll be given my children said, I can eat the deep dish because I’m not going to waste that on a kid. If you like what I do here, buying me a coffee at Buying Me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, It’s been a great week for the buying me a coffee. I telled you Kara would bought me three coffees. Thank you, Kara. You paid for today’s but I left it upstairs in the fridge.

I do have a bottle of water here if you want to hear me shake some liquid on the mic like I usually do. But thank you care for that. She also shouted me out in her newsletter. You know you can get that for free, right It’s the knock it off sub stack. Her most recent piece, called an open letter to Ronald Gladden name checks me.

Who’s Ronald Gladden? He’s the guy jury duty. I finished jury duty Monday night. Did I finish it really good? Really enjoyed jury duty?

My daughter and I were trying to figure out how you do that again? And the best way came up with was some version of a night at the Museum because we were walking around the Field Museum last week and they closed, and we’re like, what if we stayed?

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And then what if Night at the Museum was like real?

And then we’re like, ah, that’s Jury Duty season two. Thank you for the shout out care and believe me, I’m trying to find a way to read the title an open Letter to Ronald Gladden and read it in a way that makes it sound a little dirty. Can’t figure it out. Best I can do is lean in on the word open and open letter to Ronald Gladden. You can make anything sound nought if you do that.

Also, speaking of Chicago and stuff, Becky, she bought me three coffees. Thank you very much, Becky. I’ll be in Chicago a few more times this summer. I will try and say hi, maybe I’ll buy you a beverage anyway, buy me Acoffee dot COM’s last Daily Comedy News. Isaac left a five star review on Apple Podcast.

Thank you Isaac. He wrote great show, good variety of news about comedy specialists. Thank you very much. Over on the Facebook group which is Daily Company News podcast group Always Happy when You Guys chime in. Becky commented on my thoughts about the Millany special.

Becky wrote, my thoughts in a particular order. Boy sober John Millaney talks a lot slower than strung out John Millaney. I appreciated his honesty and humility. He seemed humbled by his addiction. I hope he’s okay.

I also respect him for trying to change an image he’s outgrown or was never him in the first place. She also pointed out more clappter than laughter. Yeah, I noticed that one. Shannon wrote, I saw the live show twice, so most of them material was already familiar, so it couldn’t really be that funny. Milaney’s delivery is always fun to watch, though, and Michelle wrote, tie Nichelle, thank you for listening.

Michell wrote, you were right, it feels performative. I wish he talked about being a new father, because that’s where his heart is. It’s what he posts about on Instagram. And I thought about it more. I think what I’m picking up here is it felt more like a one man show, like a Colin Quinn show or a Mike Berbigley, A show than stand up.

I’m struggling to express what I’m picking up on this one. Again. It’s fine, it’s entertaining, it’s fine. I last twenty nine minutes. I’m not saying don’t watch it.

I am, in fact saying the opposite. You should watch it. Molini’s very likable. We all know this. I just didn’t grab me.

I was also reflecting on roy Wood Junior as I listened to more and more clips of him hosting The White House Dinner the other night. And I can’t give him the Daily Show. I feel like that’s going to be a swing and a miss. And I know he put in the work, and I don’t know not the choice, which reminds me I lost an article. I meant to put this in the script here.

It is from people. Roy Wood Junior says he’s ready if Comedy Central taps him to host the Daily Show. Roy Wood said, I had a lot of fun guest hosting. It’s been fun watching my fellow correspondence guest host as well. I don’t know how Comedy Central is going to play it at the end of the day, but my job is an entertainer.

It’s like athletics. My job is to be ready. So if Comedy Central makes the call, I’m ready. If they don’t, then hopefully somebody else makes the call, and I’m ready. So at the end of the day, it’s just about being as sharp as possible and as funny as possible, and the rest of it’s out of my control.

Either hemming hawing. You’re hearing my voice, Well, Joe Biden was funnier, So that’s not good. I’m laughing at myself because I was like, oh, yeah, you forgot to put the Roy Woods story in the script, And now I’m noticing, Oh, I have like nine tabs open in Safari with things I didn’t put in the script. Lewis Black does have a new special, the Tragically underpromoted Tragically I Need You. That’s on YouTube.

Maybe I’ll watch that tonight, and I’m going to watch another one that I am about to tell you about. So Lewis Black is out on YouTube and Tragically I Need You Lewis Black tells the world about his life. Since COVID, Who’s Black will be guest hosting The Daily Show in June. Boy, what is wrong with me? There’s like nine stories I didn’t put in the script.

Good news for me though weekend shows are almost done. Then all right back to the actual script here. I’ve been picking away at that Vulture article with Ryan Williams. He was the booker on James Cordon Show. By the way, James Gordon, nice timing there with the writer strike not affecting you.

Vulture asked, why do you think the other late night shows, with the exception of Cordon and The Tonight Show have scaled back and booking comedians? A great question, Ryan Williams. The book I said, when you’re bringing a stand up on the show, you’re really farming out five to seven minutes to someone else’s point of view. And if that’s not important to you, I can see why you wouldn’t want to give up that time to support someone else when you could be creating your own content. For us, we really wanted to make stand up a big part of the show.

It was important for us to prioritize elevating outside voices. But even from a production point of view, stand up is so valuable because it’s basically filling an act of the show where the writers don’t have to write anything. Oh okay, hey, guess what we’re going to see. On a lot of late night shows when they come back, so the right issues like will people cross picket lines? But usually what happens is one of the late night shows decides to come back and write their own material.

Conan came back early, Letterman came back earlier. I’m going to place a dollar on it’ll be Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, book some stand ups on a band and hey, we’re back. I mean they did the show string COVID. They’ll figure it out, all right.

Ryan Williams, where do you see stand up on Late night? Going from here? Ryan said, a stand up set for late night is a very specific animal. It’s almost like a poem or a commencement speech, where it has to be structured in a very specific way and you’ve got to put a lot of time into running it to get it right. I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with this at Midnight show.

I remember when it aired it put many hilarious people on my radar for the first time as a comedy fan. I think as an opportunity to do that again. If at Midnight is able to celebrate those voices and make people look good, it could be a real revolution in late night comedy, but also who wants to be associated with Twitter right now? I don’t know how they’re going to bridge that gap of just having an AT symbol in front of their name. Very interesting.

Okay. The other special I’m planning on watching tonight Greg Warrens the Salesman. This is the one produced by Nate Bergassy. Vulture reviewed it and made me really interested in it. The jokes apparently are all about peanut butter.

Greg Warren as a former Procter and Gammel employees who spent ten years selling Jiff peanut butter, and he remains devoted to the product. Spoilers and some specific jokes come up here. In three two one, Warrens showcases his continued loyally to the brand early on roasting rival peanut butter company Peter Pan. Their mascot’s a boy refused to grow up. Maybe he couldn’t grow up because he was malnourished because he was eating that garbage.

Peanut butter named after a cartoon character. See this is already fun. He pauses and says, listen, I’m going to talk a lot about peanut butter. Vulture rights. Warren has jokes about everything from the layer of oil and organic peanut butter, to the experimental peanut butter flavors he dislikes.

To the differences between crunchy and creamy, he says, I felt guilty because we charged the same for crunchy as we did for creamy. The crunchy we didn’t finish making that. The crunchy guys are probably getting off work at noon and the creamy guys are still smashing up peanuts at five thirty. That sounds like a lot of fun. I’m going to watch that one.

I forgot to look at Sydney yesterday. I realized it late in the afternoon. Here’s a show cashing my eye. It is titled The Racist Immigrants. The reviews are pretty funny.

Five stars. Go see the show. Attributed to Kenyan Slur, an hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you know about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes. That’s a fun show, and I’m remembering now I liked it when it was at Melbourne too.

All right, you know what my tastes are. Move on. Rochester First, says a comedy about Buffalo bills fans has finalized filming in the Queen City. Unbelievable. We got to work on that title, guys.

Unbelievable was shot in the Queen City and it’s all about the ups and downs Buffalo Bills fans have come to know. They finished filming on Sunday at Salvator’s. The coat room was transformed into a casino betting window. The fictional comedy again, Unbelievable, tell us the story of one family with three generations of Buffalo Bills fans who’ve come together the watch of the Bills play in the biggest game in team history. You know they did go to four Super Bowls?

How is this one bigger? The filming schedule will be released this fall. Details on how you watch it still being finalized. All right that it’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube where if you get your shows see tomorrow.

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