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The Shark Deck. I’m Shnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreisher was on with Pardon My Take. He started talking about Aaron Rodgers and he said, let me tell you something right now. Aaron Rodgers is one of my favorite hangs because that guy’s heavy with secrets.

Oh yeah, and we had secret times on the bus to the point where I was like, yo, cameras are on, bro, Like someone turned the ff and cameras off. He was great. The best thing about being friends with Aaron he’s the first number in your phone. Yeah, because it’s a a ro o n that’s true. Yeah, And anytime anyone grows my phone, they’re like, f effing Aaron Rodgers.

What do you think the secret times are? Samurel is at the Burgota tonight. This from Atlantic City Weekly. They asked Amarell, did you grow up funny as a kid? Sam said, I think I was funny.

I mean it’s hard because your friends think you’re funny because they’re your friends. But then as a comic you have to learn to be a different type of funny. You can’t just go back to inside jokes. As a comic, you have to learn to connect with strangers pretty quickly, or they’re like this guy sucks. And his recent special, Samuel mentioned and that he loves movies and the Dog Day Afternoon is one of his top five.

What are the others? Sam said, it’s really tough. I mean, Dog Day Afternoon is just so perfect because it’s pure in New York. I love old New York movies that era. I think they made the best movies around that time, because you’ve got The Godfather, Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde to Graduate.

That era is so cool. Sam was in the movie The Joker. He is the comedian that performs right before the Joker doesn’t stand up. Sam said, it’s been brought to my attention that the Joker’s origin story is that he couldn’t follow Sam Mourel on stage. Well, Sam Mourell, you seem to do a lot of audience interaction.

Sam said, it’s funny people think I do these CrowdWork shows, but it’s not true. I did over sixty minutes of material on both shows last night in Utah. What happens is I do so many shows, and I record every show, so I just get these moments. I don’t want to burn material on social media. If I don’t have to.

I don’t like burning jokes I’m gonna put in my next special, So I just put up little moments on social media that are funny. But I like writing jokes. Sam added that he doesn’t want the people in the audience to feel scared to cooperate. Sam said, you want them to feel like it’s gonna be a funny interaction and that’s it. Kathleen Madigan’s new special is out.

It’s called Hunting Bigfoot. You’ll find this on Amazon. In Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, she tackles her aging parents, millennials, and Hunting Bigfoot. Ready steady Cut reviewed the special. Spoilers they say.

Kathleen opens the special with a bit about a tiny town in Georgia. Then she tells a story about how she was looking for something to do and they told her they could zip line into another state for fifty five dollars. Ready steady Cut says, honestly, for an opening joke, it was classic because she hit a home run with a funny Southern redneck story that’ll make everyone laugh, but she makes the jokes relatable and funny. Ready steady Cut says, I didn’t have Madigan having jokes about sports betting on my bingo card, but I couldn’t help but laugh. Finally, she closed it with a joke about a lady in a gas station that got a big laugh.

They wrote, she has this relaxed demeanor on stage, highlighting the veteran prowess the most comedian show. But what impressed you about her work is that as time changes, so does Madigan and her material. We don’t have a comedian stuck in the eighties trying to deliver funny jokes or a particular crowd. Instead, Madigan tackles millennial sports and the South, all more relatable than ever. It’s one of the more creative specials I’ve seen from a veteran comedian in a long time.

While that’s high praise, they did have an issue with the run time. They said, you’re looking at an hour and fifteen minutes, which is a long time to make people laugh. Because of this, some of the jokes start to wane off towards the end. It feels like she’s overstaying her welcome. They gave it three and a half stars.

I don’t know how many that is could be out of one hundred three and a half out of one hundred wouldn’t be too good, right, Three and a half out of four pretty good summary. Kathleen Madigan strongly adapts her jokes to fit the generation in a way that makes these special creative and relatable to anyone that will watch. All right, I’ll try and get to that. This weekend, Monique has a special coming out. This one’s coming on Netflix.

You may recall a few years ago Monique and Netflix had a little squirmish. There was a lawsuit in twenty nineteen that alleged that Netflix’s treatment of Monique began with a discriminatory, lowball offer and ended with a blacklisting act of retaliation from an article on Deadline a few years back. At the heart of the ten claim, injury seeking documents contention that the five hundred thousand dollars that Netflix offered her back in twenty seventeen for a special was not just an insult, but illegal. The complaint said Netflix’s business practice of paying black women less than non black women for substantially equal or similar work causes harm to the plaintiff that outweighs any reason Netflix may have for doing so, quoting from Deadline here, as if To further prove the point, the filing lists off the tens of millions that the likes of returning Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais, Ellen de Generes and Dave Chrappelle supposedly riked in for their Netflix specials. I’ll jump in here.

I’m not on the jury. Do you think that Monique should get paid as much as say Ricky Gervaise, we’re Dave Chappelle or Ellen de Generous. I’m not on the jury. I’ll let someone else decide. Anyway, they eventually settled the case and now they’re friends because she’s got a special on Netflix.

Monique said, why did I title this special? My name is Monique? Well, after seventy two minutes, you’re all are going to know why. You might say, damn, we didn’t know we were going to find out all of that. This one right here is personal.

This one right here, when you walk away from this one, when you turn your TV off from this one, you’ll say, now we understand that. And there are things I’m going to say in this comedy special life I thought would take to my grave. But they were mine. They were my thoughts, they were my secrets. It’ll be mine.

Before I was just focused on being funny. Now I feel like I have something to say. My name is Monique Netflix, April fourth. If you spend any time with me in real life, like if you spend more than five minutes with me, I will somehow start telling you that I’m trying to run the marathon again. Real quick.

I ran it ten years ago, real quick. I was training last year and then my body kind of fell apart there for reasons I want to get into you, I had an iron efficiency. In case you’re curious, It’s not like I was dying or anything. And I’m planning on running it again this year, which is why today’s sponsor is perfect. Today’s sponsor is The Power of the Streak.

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Thank you for sponsoring the show, The Power of the Streak. All right, everybody get moving. By the way, you know Glenn that I talk about that I use in the bits, Well, we were at the brewery last night. Glenn signed up for the marathon. Now he’s in the lottery.

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Check it out, Hey, big shout out to Tom. Two things Tom went to buy Me at Coffee dot Com Slash Daily Comedy News bought me a couple of coffees much thanks to Tom. He also shot me a note a week ago, and I’ve been meaning to bring this up, and I kind of spaced on it because I record did a few days early for the long weekend last week, and then the email got buried, so Tom I apologized, but he had sent me a note. I mentioned a comedian and suggest that the comedian was from Canada, and Tom reminded me quite correctly, Dude, Ryan Hamilton may seem Canadian, but he’s from Ohio. It’s been a big part of his stand up.

Tom is correct. I don’t know why I thought Ryan was from Canada. Maybe because I was talking about Vancouver, and isn’t Hamilton’s someplace in Canada somewhere. If there’s a Hamilton’s, right, Hamilton is a fourth city in Ontario. Of course it is.

Canadians are throwing their phones across the room right now. He is stupid Yankee. No, Canadians don’t call us Yankees. What do you call us? Anyway?

Speaking of Canada, let’s hit the Vancouver Comedy Festival last weekend. Here. I’ve really been enjoying pretending going to the festival seven o’clock. The Office Ladies. Yeah, Pam and Angela are there.

I guess they’re doing their podcast seven o’clock. Ari Shaffer at seven, Steph tole Of at seven, Comedy World, one of those shows that has eight or so comedians at eight o’clock, Nick Thune at nine thirty. Tim Dillon, all right, and I know where we’re going there at nine thirty, Dan Soder at nine thirty, and Crowd Working the Round hosted by Mike foul Zone at ten thirty. All right, if we were at the festival tonight, I can’t remember, did we see Ari Schaffer yet? Should we go see The Office Ladies?

Do we want to see a podcast taping? Live? Podcast tapings can be kind of annoying. I can’t remember if we saw Ari Shafer. If we haven’t seen Ri Shaffer yet, let’s go see Ari.

If not, we’ll do The Office Ladies nine thirty. Tim Dillon, I’m not even arguing with you. We’re going to see Tim awesome surprise. There’s no like late show Hero. I guess Crowd Working the Round is ten thirty.

Maybe after Dylon we could catch the tail into that, But there’s no like midnight show like Montreal always has like a midnight show that you can hit. Party Down is back. Have you watched Party Down? Nobody watched Party Down, including me, and then I started watching it when I heard it was coming back. So Party Down was this show from twelve thirteen years ago on Stars which no one has, and now it’s back on Stars which no one has.

So as much as I like it, I’m not going to see season three anytime soon. The first two seasons are on Hulu. A couple articles here about Party Down TV Guide remember that, Yeah, that’s still around. Apparently they wrote it’s difficult not to approach everybot reimagining and remix with some amount of skepticism. There’s been a relentless influx of bad revivals lately.

All we can hope is the best ones, honor the original material, refresh what needs updating, and proved the original show still has a place in today’s culture. Party Down’s third season, premiering today on Stars with a Z, is largely able to achieve all those things. That’s good. If you’re not familiar with the show, it is from two thousand and nine. It follows some caterers who work in La Southern California, and they all dream of becoming famous actors or screenwriters, and it doesn’t really work out.

Some of them had already accepted defeats, some are still dreaming. They float around the edges of fancy events, balancing trays of hordeves and mingling with the rich as they were repeatedly confronted with the threat that their lives might never turn out the way they envisioned. Season three picks up ten years after season two, bringing the gang back together, except Lizzie Kamplin. She was off taping that Fleishman is in trouble. Yeah, that’s the name of it.

Fleischman is in trouble. So she’s not on the new season. Now I haven’t seen the new season. I can’t imagine she doesn’t at least cameo, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, they’re back together to celebrate Kyle’s newly acquired role in a corny looking superhero movie.

He’s hired his old catering company, still led by Ron played by Ken Marino, to work the party, which Roman immediately susses out as Kyle’s way of taunting them with his success. So we got the gang back together. There’s also some new characters one played by Jennifer Garner. Yes, Jennifer Garner, you heard me correctly. Ken Marino spoke to the last Laugh about the absence of Lizzie Camplin.

He said, yeah, it sucked. Lizzie was a huge part of why the first two seasons Party Down were so special, work so well, so it was a real bummer. He’s holding out hope that if they get a fourth season, Lizzie Camplin will be able to come back. Ken Marino said, when we finally got win, we were actually doing it. Of course, I had to go back into my file cabinet where I have all the folders with the breakdowns of all the characters I do.

When I pulled out the folder of Ron, blew the dust off and opened it up, and man, it took me six seven eight months really get back into the headspace of who Ron is. That’s crazy dude, and what he’s all about. Once they did that, I had taken eleven or twelve months just to stay in character, so I understood his mindset. Dude, that’s insane. And you guys know, I’ve been down on the basement a lot with the door closes what he’ve been doing.

I’m on only fans. Wait what, Yes, of course there was the big comedy competition and they have announced to the winner, Mary O’Connell one hundred thousand pounds. The winner of the Only Fans Comedy competition. Mary O’Connell, who’s twenty seven years old, said, it feels amazing. I don’t even have the words.

I wanted it so bad. I’m so grateful. It really means a lot because I was distinguishing my voice. I was finding my voice. It’s something I’ve been working really hard on and I’ve struggled with.

For the judges picked me. The fact that they said I had the most distinctive voice is priceless. How this worked. Ten comics were selected to take part in the Only Fans Creative Fund comedy edition. They were whittled down to six over a number of reality style tasks, such as being ordered to write the most approved materially could not knowing they would then have to perform it to an audience of pensioners.

The final six did actual stand up in a club in East London November. They filmed it, they held the results back and now we know Mary O’Connell is the winner. So now I am in the basement with the door closed. Well, I’m only fans, of course. What what what do you do?

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The Shark Deck. A question for Dave Chappelle, Dave, do you really want to be known as the trans joke guy? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was on Vulture and they were recapping this year’s Roots Picnic, and they wrote, this year’s Roots Picnic looks like a convention for some of the most problematic, loudest people in hip hop. It starts right up top with Dave Chappelle, who will perform.

Was marketed as a seismic, first ever comedy set of this magnitude back by the Roots. All right, that sounds pretty cool, and then they tag it with wonder how many anti trans jokes they’ll let him make? And Dave, Yeah, Like every article about you isn’t about what a great comedian you are, how you try to make the world a better place. It’s all about how you’re dug in on trans jokes. Why not move on, Dave, just joke about something else.

I’ve talked about this recently when I was back at Series six Ham and around the comedy channels. There’s a difference between censorship and choose differently, and I think this is what David Cross was getting at yesterday. When I tell a story about David Cross, just choose differently in your next special. You don’t need to dig in and do fifteen minutes about trans people just to prove that you won’t be quieted. Just Dave, your whole legacy is going to become this move on Buddy.

The Roots Picnic takes place June a second to the fourth in Philadelphia. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times. So sometimes I think about this podcast, and all right, why do I host it as opposed to someone else. I’m not a comedian, you know why you Johnny Mac and I always explain I know more about stand up comedy than ninety eight or ninety percent of the population. I don’t mean that to be like, oh look at me, I’m cool.

It’s just I’ve been working in comedy radio for twenty years now, and over time you learn stuff. But the people that know more about it than I do, and I’ll include Jason all on that list, no way more than I do about it, and they pay way more attention to it than I do. Jason’s one of those guys, So he wrote, Richard Belzer didn’t get famous as quickly as many of his peers, but he was a cult figure with wide influenced comedy. You can hear his clift cadences, not to mention his use of the word babe as a nickname in the act of Dennis Miller, who once referred to Belzer as the dark Prince of Catcherizing star. Andy Kaufman’s alter ego, Tony Clifton, was also partly inspired by Belzer.

Noticed the Glasses, adds Jason, I never knew that I’m gonna go on a tangent here. When I saw the Tony Clifton mentioned, it reminded me of spending some time with Bob’s Muda. Bob was Andy Kaufman’s writing partner, and there are some who think that perhaps sometimes Tony Clifton was played by Bob’s Muda. Bob will never quite admit that, and we’ll refer to Tony in the third person as if there’s an actual Tony Clifton out there somewhere who was never ever played by Bob’s Muda. Really, anyway, I hung out with Bob one day and he was telling wonderful stories, including one which will totally blow up the premise that I just shared with you, So I won’t tell that story today, but I remember Tony Clifton was supposed to come up and visit the studios at SIRI Sexham, and the security in that building is just like ridiculous.

It’s one of those places where you could be best friends with the security guarden. God forbid, you forgot your idea in a particular day. You had to go and sign in and fill out a form and it’s a big headache instead of like, oh, hi, John, who I talked to every single day. Anyway, Tony Clifton showed up, and Tony Clifton did not have any ID suggesting that he was Tony Clifton. It’s possible Tony might have had some ID suggesting he was Bob’s muda.

Who knows, but they wouldn’t let Tony up, and Tony and that Tony Clifton way went over the top, making a ruckuss down at security. I had to come down. I think Tony eventually stormed off in character and never came up.

Also that week, you know, we had Bob’s mood up to record a bunch of things ab…

I forget if I’ve shared this one on the podcast. If I did, it was a long time ago when there were a lot fewer listeners. Anyway, we were talking about doing something for an Andy Kaufman theme special, and I met his brother, Michael Kaufman for lunch. Now, the first thing that hap and was Michael was late, and as I was standing there, I was like, Hm, is the guy just late or is this some sort of kaufmanesque bit. Then Michael Kaufman shows up, and Michael looks enough like Andy Kaufman might if it were the twenty Tents.

And the whole time I’m sitting there eating with this guy who’s perfectly nice and wonderful and we did business together and love him. I’m looking and I’m like, huh, I wonder if this is Andy Kaufman sitting here with me, And I just went down this whole rabbit hole of paranoia. Probably wasn’t, but there was enough doubt in my mind to make me go hmm. Anyway. Jason Zieman wrote about Richard Belzer in The New York Times.

Jason wrote, even as an mc Belzer was his own star traction. He became famous for taking in incredibly long time to introduce a comic and an interview for a documentary that as he had to be released. Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty five minutes to bring up the next comic. That’s amazing. More than any joke.

What stands out from a deep dive in a Belzer’s online comedy was an attitude impatient, sarcastic, friendly but quick to jab. There was a percussive sounds who was running with torts of the crowd. Yeah right sure, These moving along interruptions had a rhythm and sound that was quintessentially New York. When he dove into a familiar premise, his voice could move from dry to rye in a blank mocking himself. It’s no wonder that David Letterman, another ironist whose attitude perpetually commented on and upstage his own jokes, booked him so often.

Today crowd work is much easier to see in specials but also all over social media. But in the nineteen eighties, unless you went to a club, you didn’t often find people turning where are you from into spontaneous comedy, So it’s striking then, in his nineteen eighty six HBO special. Belzer included plenty of such interactions. He said to one guy from New Jersey, there’s a lot of parts in New Jersey that are very nice. I can’t think of any right now.

Attention getting headline from the sf Gate. Former SNL comic David Spade battle’s illness at San Francisco show. Apparently Spade was under the weather Friday in San Francisco. He told the audience every joke gets a ten percent better reaction because I’m on my deathbed. The Gate rights Spade’s voice was so shockingly hoarse that the audience to give him a pass on multiple jokes that didn’t quite land Wow.

Spade battled through his illness thanks to quote some Pink Floyd stuff they’ve been jamming into me. But the Gate says, the obvious effort it took him to deliver each joke didn’t exactly make for the best comedic atmosphere. Throughout his hour long set, Spades stuck mostly to classic comedy topics like the trials of air travel and the annoyance of shopping at CVS. Unlike many comedians these days, Spade did not make the audience lock up their phones before the start of the show, God bless you, David Spade. I have had it with the Yonder pouches.

I’ll talk about that in a few minutes enough. But they added maybe Spade was aware his material wasn’t worth stealing. Wow. He did a number of California specific bits. He mocked meteorologists who insists that recent rains won’t help with California’s drought, and made an incredibly forced joke about running into rapper Nelly while evacuating from wildfires.

The inevitable punchline it’s getting hot in here, got a smattering of applause. That is a pretty ackey joke, and after a quip about how we can’t say the words husband or wife flopped, Spade appeared to admit defeat, telling the audience all right, I won’t use that joke moving forward. Despite lacking particularly original content, the set was peppered with one liners that sometimes made the show greater than the sum of its parts. For example, I don’t even know how to drive without texting anymore. That one seemed to make the crowd chuckle in spite of itself.

Philadelphia Weekly, they have a really strong comedy section. They caught up with Todd Glass. He was talking about how good comedians support other good comedians, and Class said, it’s the same now as it’s always been. If you want support from fellow comics, you have to give it. During the pandemic, Todd Glass did some work on zoom and wishes he had actually taken part in some of the drive in stand up shows.

He said, the zoom thing you begin to tell or your work to the art form itself. I have a comic friend who would smoke a little pot, get high, do three minutes and just tweet that out. The pandemic was about adaptability. I try to tell comedians this. Like six months into the quarantine, I was doing my podcast with my stand up sensibilities.

He read, the room without compromising our craft and move forward. Do what you think is funny. You don’t need an audience in front of you to know you’re funny. A punching agg is better than nothing when it comes to staying loose and keeping the skill set up. And it’s not like I’m grading myself above the curve with an A plus.

The process was Cathartic from Cairo, a show by comedian Kevin Hart that was supposed to happen on Tuesday, was canceled due to quotes local logistical issues, according to the organizers, They posted on Facebook, it’s with a heavy heart that we share with you due to local logistical issues, the cancelation of our Kevin Hart event scheduled for February twenty first in Cairo. Now the Middle East I jumped in on this. I’m going to stop here before I tell you the story. I’m really, really, really under educated on this subject. If you have more knowledge about it, please chime in on the social media.

The links are in the episode description as the Middle East I analyzes the story, they say, Kevin Hart faced a flood of criticism in the Arab world’s most populous country for promoting afrocentricism. The movement seeks to promote the role of black people played in history and the creation of Western civilization. Hearts. Critics, however, accused him of distorting history and robbing Arabs of their claim to the country’s ancient pass, saying he claimed that black Africans were once the kings of Egypt. This article has a quote that even the article isn’t sure where it originated, So I’m not going to repeat it because maybe Kevin Hart never said this.

The Middle East, I says many Egyptians criticized Heart’s financial backing of an afrocentric animation series by the company Black Sands Entertainment, which some have accused of blackwashing ancient Egyptian history. So why was the show canceled? I don’t know local logistical issues. Interesting note from the Time Record News. City of Wichita Falls officials said extra security precautions will be taken for a performance by Nate Brigatsy tonight at the Memorial Auditorium.

I was like, what’s going on there. Nate doesn’t seem like the most controversial comedian in the world. I don’t know if it’s just a general security thing or if there’s a reason, but this was in the Google search as I put the show together today. Anyway, it seems pretty basic. All patrons will go through a screening check with a security wand prohibited items include weapons.

All right, I think that’s reasonable. Backpacks, I get it, but it’s annoying. Like sometimes when I travel for work, I have a backpack with a laptop with me, and if I want to go to say a Mets game, and they’re like, no backpacks, then I’m like, no Mets game, audio and video recording devices. Glass cans. What’s a glass can?

Plastic bottles. There’s no comma there. It’s glass cans, plastic bottles, food or beverages. Explosives, Yeah, no explosives at Nate Bergassi’s show. Probably a good rule.

Laser pins, signs, posters, and banners. Joe Rogan is at the Creek in the Cave tonight in Austin. They wrote Joe Rogan his back babies one night only, and I was looking at their venue policy and Joe, I’m done with the Yonder pouches. Just let people come to the shows. Man, it’s twenty twenty three.

I have a cell phone. What am I gonna do? I’m gonna stand there and hold my arm up for an entire hour and put a low quality version of your workout set at the Creek in the Cave up on YouTube. Even if I do so, what, You’re still getting one hundred million dollars from Spotify. Man.

Doors open one hour before showtime. General admission seating is first come, first served, derive early to cure a great seat, blah blah blah. This is a strict no cell phones allowed show. Anyone who brings a cell phone, smartwatch, or any other recording device will be required to place it in a locked Yonder pouch. Anyone call with a cell phone inside the venue will be immediately ejected.

Line up subject to change. If you hate Yonder pouches, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s stick it to the man and buy Johnny mcacoffee five bucks. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and leave me a note saying I Hey, Yonder pouches, Let’s use that Vancouver tonight. If you’re new, this is the just for last Vancouver Comedy Festival.

And what I like to do is pretend you and I are there, and I look at the lineup, and I make some recommendations as to what you and I would go see if we were there. Seven o’clock Nick Thune seven o’clock Sarah Silverman seven o’clock Jared Free Low Key Comedy at seven. Low Key Comedy Show is LA is premier comedy show created by comedians Paul Elia and Matt Rife. Do You Unique Off the Cuff? Format and secret special guests have attracted sold out crowds all over North America.

Past surprise guests include Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Eliza Selessenger. Yeah maybe when you’re in LA. None of them are showing up in Vancouver tonight. So if you’re going there and you’re like, I don’t know, I could see Eliza Selessenger just popping in. Not gonna happen in Vancouver, guys.

Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy Our Show is a woman run lively weekly event at an intimate seaside oasis featuring authentic Caribbean food and drink. So yeah, I talked about this in the past. All Right, eight o’clock Essay Atsawo’s Comedy Hour. Improvisers and stand up comedians are given a specific amount of time to perform whatever they want on stage with inspiration from the audience. Looks like about ten twelve comedians on that one, all right.

Eight thirty Campy Comedy CEAMPI a monthly comedy and drag cabaret show that features the best emerging and professional performers in Vancouver. Bossom Usef at nine thirty, Matt Rife at nine thirty, Step Toleev Canadian Dorling at nine thirty. All Right, Hm, let’s do Nick Fune at seven o’clock. I don’t feel like seeing Sarah Silverman. That’ll take us to about eight thirty late shows, bossom Usef, Matt Rife, Steff Tolev Howe of those, I’d probably want to see bossom Usef and that doesn’t start till nine thirty.

All right, let’s do Nick Fune. Grab a couple of beers and go see bosom Usef. How’s that sound? And from all kpop dot com, you’re home for comedy news. Comedian Leek Young Shill has been reported to police after making lude comments about Lee Jay Hun on the radio.

Yes, Lee Young Schill was on SBS Power FM’s radio program Cults Quo Show. She commented on a shirtless scene and Lee Jay Hun’s new drama Taxi Driver Too. I wonder if that’s a sequence to the Pacino film. Probably isn’t, but it’s fun to think it is, said fifty years after the original Taxi Driver two follows around a guy driving a cab in Seoul in twenty twenty three. I don’t know why we would make that movie anyway, Lee Kong Schill said, you see that space and his chess cleavage if you drip water down there and drink from it.

It’s like medicine becomes sacred water. The host then jokingly asked her if she was going to drip water on her TV screen and try to do it herself, woll whoa relax over there. That comment quickly became a hot topic across Korean media outlets for its sexual nature, and on February nineteenth, a Yun Say University student reported the comedian to the police, citing the obscene acts by using means of communication under the punishment of sexual crimes. Since the controversy, SBS has removed the portion containing the remarks from broadcast recordings on both YouTube and the show’s official website. Lee Kong Schill has yet released a comment in response to the matter.

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The Shark Deck got some fights for you today. Hi, I’m Chenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Cross has slammed some fellow comedians who worried about being canceled, saying that they bitch and moan. Cross specifically mentioned comedians who make jokes about trans people. Wonder who that could be?

Could it be Dave Chappelle? Cross said, and now you’re protecting yourself as the BS voice of They’re not going to cancel me. You can’t silence me for what you’re dumb joke about trans people. Who gives a hoot? I mean, is it that important to you?

Just move on? Not you know, hundreds of thousands of people. David Cross was on MSNBC when this happened. The host asked him if anyone has ever come up to David after show complaining about his jokes. He said, yeah, absolutely.

It was something where it was like talking about the phrase the N word or something. This woman was black. She explained why that upset her and explained why I thought it was kind of defending it in the idea behind it. The two of them came to an agreement after a long conversation, but Cross said he has no problem dropping those kinds of joke to PE’s sensitive crowds. He says, it doesn’t hurt me, doesn’t affect me in any way to not do the line.

Meanwhile, Ralph Barbosa was on Andrew Schultz podcast. If you’re not familiar with the story, so last week, George Lopez was on his podcast talking to Steve Trevino. Trevino mentioned Ralph Barbosa as an important up and comer. Lopez says, nobody knows who that mother effer is. Why you’re saying his name.

They little fight about it. Lopez says, I don’t think you should be worried about anyone else, especially Jeremy Barba saw Wow. I don’t know who he is. I don’t mean no disrespect, but I don’t know who he is. Lopez caught some heat on the interwebs apologize to Barbosa Barbosa, but on Instagram it saw a good baby.

The future is now old man. Barbosa sold Schultz. I wasn’t mad when he said it. I have a whole lot of respect for him. Still, when he said it, I wasn’t like what the ff or heard about it.

It’s an effing podcast. You’re talking crap? So what. Barbosa opened up about the phone apology he got from George Lopez and said he’s nice. The dude called me.

He was super cool. I wasn’t expecting it. Barbosa said. The call one something like this, Hey, Ralph, this is George George Lopez. I want to call and apologize.

Barbosa said, My first words were what the F?

And then I was like, my bad.

I didn’t mean to be rude, just caught me off guard. Lopez told him it was in the heat of the moment shooting the crap with Trevino kind of fired up about it, but I didn’t mean to talk badly about you. I apologize. Barbosa prefers that it was a private apology. If not, it said, it would have looked like Lopez was doing it for public opinion points.

Lopez told him comic comic man to man, I just want to apologize, and Lopez said that Barbosa could call him if he ever needed help with anything. Barbosa said he’ll only take George up on that when he really needs it, though, he added, when they compare him to other Latino comedians, he thinks it’s funny. That they’re assuming. I looked up to George Lopez. Bert Kreischer was on Monday’s Pardon My Take.

He’s in the second hour. It’s a very good listen. I recommend you check it out. They talks at length about the origin of the machine joke. Bert said, I was not the comic I am today.

I was a little more hacky. It was a little more derivative of Dean Cook. I think we all were. For the record, we were ripoffs of David Tell and Dane Cook, Mitch Hedberg, those were the goats. And I started to podcasting, and I did a podcast with Rogan.

I had like bits prepared. He’s not a bit guy, you know, Joe Rogan gives you a look when you do a bit in front of him, like a girl gives you when you I don’t even know how to clean this up, do something that could make her pregnant. That anyway, Bert says, you know. They wrap up the show and says to Joe, when I come back next time, I’ll tell you the story about when I got involved with the Russian mafia. Rogan was like what Rogan calls him like three weeks later and it’s like, I need you back.

Everybody’s hit me up about the story. Bert goes on, Rogan tells the story. Rogan says, you need to tell us on stage. Bert says, I was like, oh no, no, no, I don’t do that. This isn’t for the stage.

It’s just like hanging out. Rogan said, are you out of your effing mind? When Bert here? Joe Rogan, This man changed my life. Joe Rogan said on that podcast, ladies and gentlemen, if you go to a show, yell out the Machine until he tells it.

Do not let him do anything else. From this point forward, he is only to be known as the Machine. Bert does his show in Columbus, Ohio. Rogan says, everyone make him tell the Machine. This is in the early early times of Rogan.

Like in the beginning of the cult, they showed up in droves and the whole show chanted the Machine, and this guy in the front row comedy fan goes, hey, man, it’s okay. We know it’s not gonna be funny, but we’ll fake laugh. I was like what, and he goes, you gotta tell it, man, you gotta tell it to make it good. And so I was like, all right, I’ll tell it. I told that for like four years.

Then the day I posted it on Facebook was like the lowest day of my life, Like lowest month. I even had Tom Seguram my best friend. He’s fat shaming me and it’s going viral. It’s like the funniest thing that’s happening on Twitter is everyone fat shaming me. We’re gonna weight loss challenge that I know I’m gonna lose on Rogan I couldn’t stop eating and Tom was losing a ton of weight.

I know I’m gonna have my beard shaved. My wife’s rey doing a house I got fired from the Travel Channel. My house is in destructions. She wants me to get a sect to me and I remember getting in a fight with her. Were getting a huge fight, and I get pulled off tour for a Funnier Die I was supposed to host it.

Tom called me. Tom says that really sucks. It’s a lot of money to lose, and I go, it’s only two grand a week, and he goes, they’re paying you two grand. I go yeah, and he goes oh, And I go, oh, how much are you getting? Pivotal moment in our friendship.

He goes, I don’t want to tell you because I think we can’t be friends anymore. I go, what, and he goes, I mean, I’ll tell you, but you gotta promise this won’t have our friendship up. I put my phone on the table and I go, all right, tell me your number, and he goes, I’m getting twenty grand. And I went a weekend. He goes a show, and I realized where I stood in the pecking order of stand up comedy.

I was supposed to do Oxnard that New Year’s Eve. I sold no tickets. They were paying me twenty five grand for the weekend. I sold no tickets, and they said, we’re gonna have to reassess your guarantee for the year at a ten thousand dollars guarantee with a thousand dollars bonuses. The story goes viral and overnight it changes my life.

Changes my life into the next weekend, January tenth, I got to do a show and it was sold out. I remember saying, why are you guys here? Is there a convention or something? And the guy goes the machine and I was like, oh, I’ve retired that story. He goes, the f you have.

The only reason I’m here is for you to tell the FFing machine story, tell it twice. I was thinking about the Daily Show, like last week Sarah Silverman hosted, it happened? Did it matter? Is the Daily Show relevant on all right now? Are you paying any attention to the guest House And here’s my point here, because I was as I was thinking about the Daily Show, it feels like Sarah Silverman is guest hosting for John Stewart.

Like it doesn’t feel like it was ever Trevor Noah’s show, like that came and went. It feels like everybody is subbing for John Stewart. And that’s kind of the way I feel like when I see Falon, I’m waiting for Johnny Carson to get back from vacation. Johnny hasn’t been on in over thirty years, and jay Leno happened, and Conan happened, and jay Leno happened again, and it still feels like Johnny’s show, And I feel like John Stewart still has this big shadow over the Daily Show. And I don’t know this guest host thing.

I don’t get it. Pick somebody already. If you enjoyed what I do here, go to buy meat Coffee dot Com. Slash Daily Comedy News. There as somebody in the tip jar much appreciated.

Let’s see who’s at the Vancouver Comedy Festival tonight seven o’clock by seem Usef seven o’clock, Christa Stephano, Matt Rife at seven, MSG Comedy at eight. MSG stands for make some good comedy. It’s at the Cold t restaurant. Looks like their thing is Asian fry chicken two pieces for seven fifty Canadian. We can get some curly fries poutine for an eight dollars for large if you want to split it, maybe we’ll do that.

We can see some comedy and eat at the same time. Let’s keep looking at the schedule. We don’t have to decide yet. Nine thirty The New Wave of Stand Up TV Taping CBC gem’s New Wave of Stand Up Futures. A diverse lineup of Canada’s hottest new comics gathered for one hilarious night.

Everybody will do ten minute sets and there were three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Might have to do that one. That’s a good value. Jared Freed at nine thirty and Matt Rife again at nine thirty. All right, what should we do tonight?

What do you think? MSG comedy? We’ll get some food at eight o’clock and then we’ll bounce on over to new wave of stand up TV taping at night thirty. That sounds like a plan, doesn’t it. Well, that’s on on over to you gossip corner.

Did Emily ran a couscap break up with Eric Andre? Remember last week Eric Andre was taking naked pictures in front of Emily. Well, fans are questioning whether or not they’ve broken up after Emily posted a TikTok video. It’s selfie, she’s lying down on her bed and the tech says, what should you do when a situation? Ship ends?

Jason Zineman writes about comedy for The New York Times, and he echoed something that I have said. I said on Monday’s podcast that we have stopped using the words special for everything, and we should use the word hour more often. Jason wrote, when it comes to stand up specials, it’s the best of time, worst of time situation. There have never been more being made, released and available to a global audience than right now. According to Sean mccartey’s newsletter Piphany, there have already been fifty five released this year, more than one a day.

Yikes. Jason writes, while most Hours are terrible, wrote or entirely mediocre, there are gems that would have remained entirely obscure. He used as an example, Nathan Mackintosh’s special describes it as an inauspicuous looking blond guy dressed in khacupants, a white tshirt and buttoned down. His new Hours did not get picked up by any major platform, but you can watch it free on YouTube and if you’re like Jason, convulse with laughter. I watched it and it was fine, and I just didn’t care, and I bailed after about ten minutes.

I’m not saying it’s horrible. It’s not going to make mine of the years. I didn’t think it was anything quote unquote special, but it was fine. Nathan is very high energy. I was actually wondering if the video’s sped up, and I still i’m wondering if it’s sped up.

So you can check out Nathan Macintosh that’s on YouTube. Marlon Wayans has a special coming out March second on HBO Max. It’s called Marlon Wayans God Loves Me. Here’s the logline. Though on March twenty seven, twenty twenty two, Chris Rock cracked a joke on Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith got up and slapped the crap out of one of the greatest comedians of all time.

That had nothing to do with Will, nothing to do with Jada, nothing to do with Chris. It was my faults. Wayans delivers a hilarious hour long performance, unleashing his spun on impressions and fearless physical comedy to address one of the most infamous recent events and pop culture at the slap Blah Blah Blah. Wayne’s skillfully weaves anecdotes from his own life with stories about his long time friends, from divulging his teenage crush on Jada Pinkett Smith, getting humbled by Chris Rock in an early stand up set, and examining the impact of Will Smith’s long career. Marlon Wayans God Loves Me, hbo Mac March second.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News eight. Tom sigour Are you’re doing a lot of dates this year? Why? GQ said to Tom, You’re always nagging Bert Kreisher.

In the past, were always being gone. Then all of a sudden you announced the biggest tour ever. Sigoura said, I signed up for too many tour dates. I’ll admit it. I think the only way it had happened the way it did was because of the pandemic.

Because we’re not working at all, and you start to go, what am I gonna work again? For a minute, it felt scary, like is touring done? At the time, we were booking out a tour that was a year away, and it didn’t feel real until it started. But I’ve definitely overdone it. I wish I had not done quite what I signed up for, because it actually has been exhausting and taxing on me and my family.

It’s too much now. I’m coming towards the end of it. But I would never organize a tour like this again. More from Bert Kreisher in The Hollywood Reporter. He said, I was stumped one night on stage and my daughter called me randomly, and I answered the call from stage.

The place went nuts. Daughter says, Dad, you do talk about the escape room. Then she told the story on stage. I did the escape room with her, and I actually tried talking about on stage, but I was so far off from what really happened and why it was funny. She was like, we only brought you there to watch Papa loses stuff and you have a manic attack, Dad, And I was like, oh, that’s right.

And she’s like, don’t you remember popa through Nana into a steamer trunk. You’re probably too busy crapping your pants and the place is falling apart and just crying listening to her say to stuff. Then she goes, mom saw the whole thing, and then that old lady scared the crap out of Papa. The place explodes. I literally said to someone, grab her a chording of that.

That’s how I want to write the story. All right, how about doing politics on stage? Bert He said, My ticket is always this is how I view the world. Comedy first, and I’ll always defend comedy. The most horrible thing you could say in the most awkward situation, sometimes it’s the funniest and if it makes one person laugh.

For me, it’s always worth it. I largely move away from politics because I don’t know anything, because my job is to make you laugh. But there’s an overwokeness that happens in LA where it can get a tad bit tedious. So if anything, I’m calling my hometown on their stuff. These people take themselves so seriously.

And by the way, I’m in Omaha telling the story. When I say I think every kids should feel awesome one hundred percent of the time, the place goes nuts. And when I say I don’t care whether my daughter dances with her boy or girl, I’ll do everything in my power to love her and support her, and the place goes nuts again.

And then when I say, as long as it’s white, the place goes nuts again.

The joke was right there. How do you not go for it? And those people in the audience they get it. They get it’s a joke, and we all love each other and we’re here for the right reasons. The Pitch KC caught up with Brian pos Say, Brian, what was your last live show before the shutdown?

Do you remember it? Saint said, I don’t know. All I remember is hearing about it meaning the pandemic and not knowing what it was really going to mean. You know, I have a feature act who’s coming with me to Kansas to the shows this week, and Johnny Taylor. He and I had a couple of things booked and last one, I remember, I didn’t go to because I actually got sick, not COVID, I just had flu symptoms and I didn’t want to get on a plane when all this other stuff is going on.

That was March of twenty twenty. That’s when everybody knew was kind of freaking out. My manager was like, we don’t know what’s going on. The club’s closing. So as soon as I canceled that gig, my whole schedule went away within the next week.

Brian, do you have any physical or mental preparation before going on tour? Brian said, I probably should train, but no, I’ve just done it for so long. I just kind of get out there. Back in the day, I just had to get over everything I hated about flying. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I do it a lot more than most people, and I want to lean on anything because I like to be in control.

I tried ambient like ten years ago, but I never wanted to be on something outside of weed. I just kind of trained my brain and now I’m usually asleep before the plane takes off. It’s like time traveling. I like going to towns and finding record stores and some comic shops. That was one of the things I did do during COVID.

Within the next year or two, I’ve got three books coming out through Image Comics. Two of them are going to be ongoing, so it’d be like the first five issues telling one story, but from there they’ll take off and continue for as long as people buy them. So I’m gonna be doing some signings. But that’s a fun thing for me. I mean, I genuinely love being in comic shops and hanging out for a couple hours with people who want me to sign a Devil’s Reject picture.

You know, I always love writing comics on the side. I made it sound like it did nothing, but I actually did quite a bit getting these books going. And I have a TV show in development and some other stuff, and I can’t actually sit around. I just had to do things creatively or I would have gone insane. Writing for the La Times, Fidel Martinez says a few months ago, I got an email from a PR person asking if I had any interest in covering the release of Lopez versus Lopez.

I replied sure, and agreed to watch the pilot to see if there’s a story there. If I liked it, I figured it I could write about George Lopez’s triumphant return of primetime TV. Suffice to say, I passed. I think the PR person for the pitch, but said it wasn’t for me. Ultimately, I reasoned that writing a takedown of George Lopez would be a dicey move.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a verse to being a hater. I believe that trash talking is an art form that doubles as a love language for the Mexican diaspora when done right, which is to say, with moderation, Martinez writes, But this trait also gives credence to the sad but true stereotype that we’re all just crabs in a bucket, creatures unwilling to let others climb over, so they use their claws to keep them down. Throwing the jabs at Lopez wouldn’t have been worth whatever clicks the story might have gotten. I figured my time was better, it spent writing something else. The knee jerk reaction to hate was there.

Though. I tell you all this because months later A Lopez himself is in boiling hot water for being a hater. Told you a couple of times last week about this thing where Lopez disc Ralph Barbosa. Martinez writes, Lopez’s disc didn’t just miss It had the unintentional effect of introducing a new audience to Barbosa’s comedy. Yeah.

Like I was vaguely aware of him. I’ve done a few stories over the years about him, but now I’m zoned in on him. He’s really funny. One person on Twitter wrote, thanks to George Lopez hating on Ralph Barbosa, I found me a new favor Latino comedian. Let’s go Ralph Barbosa learn his name, folks, hashtag comedy, hashtag hilarious.

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My friends, Let’s see who’s at JFL Vancouver tonight at seven o’clock. Joe Para. I don’t even have to look. We’re definitely going to see Joe at seven o’clock, which means we’re not going to see the new wave of stand up warm up at seven Comedy Feast. At eight Comedy Feast is a tasting menu of fine, freshly prepared jokes.

I get it by some of the best comedies in the city. All right, So that’s a showcase with eight comedians nine o’clock, full pints comedy, nice logo with a beer. There, I’m intrigued and acclaimed stand up Comedy show where Pal’s Ryan Williams and Colin Sharp bring you outstanding professional comedians every Tuesday. We can go see eight comedians there. That’s a Castaway.

Let’s see what Castaway Vancouver is. Maybe they have like good beer selections. We’ll go do that large patio outdoor area. I’m on the drink menu here. Bargar Rita’s Mahito picture on Tap, Castaway, Lagger, pll Malson Canadians works Oen Dark Matter.

That sounds I don’t even know what that is. It sounds good. Dames Fellow’s Talisman pale Al, Grandville Island, Kitsilano, Juicy Ipa. I can’t even pronounce these beers. I want to go here.

Bomber Passion, Fruit Park Life, Phillips, Dino Sour Hop, Valley, Bubble Stash, Ipa Green Hill Cider and a Guinness twenty ounce for nine bucks Canadian. Oh wait, there’s bottles too, all right, Canadian Cores, Light Core’s original Zinga Lager, which is from Thailand, Soul Pacifico dosekis Heineken, Modelo Especiale Love Modello, Madela Negra really Love Madela Negra, Whistler Forager Lager. It’s Accatte Tall Can, Strongbow, Tall Can, Guinness Tall Can, and it’s Taco Tuesday Man four dollars. Tacos. You have to get two of the same flavor excluding steak.

Might have to go back tomorrow two. It’s Wing Wednesday, have Brice Wing six dollars. Hmm. I like this place. Vancouver’s awesome, by the way, like really really awesome.

What’s the name of the park, Stanley Point? So Stanley Park is I don’t know where it is, it said in my mind it’s the edge of town. Anyway. Across from Stanley Park was a bike shop I rented bikes. I wanted to move to Vancouver and buy the bike shop.

I’m like, I’ll be perfectly happy here just standing here the bike’s, looking at the park, looking at the water. Vancouver’s beautiful city. Rent some tourists and bikes. Oh would be so good. Then I could hang out castaways at night.

If you want to hear me talking about Vancouver. There’s an episode of my travel podcast, Travel is Back is the name of that podcast, Travel is Back, And there’s a whole episode about Vancouver. Vancouver is awesome. All right. Back to the Festival.

Where were we before I started daydreaming? Oh yes, Full Bind Comedy at nine o’clock, Normal Good at nine. What’s that Vancouver’s hottest new stand up show? This one has five comics on it. Joe Parra again at nine thirty and New Wave of stand Up warm Up at nine thirty.

All right, this is pretty simple to me. Let’s do Joe Parra at seven, and let’s go to Full Pine Comedy at nine, and I’m keeping you out until the place closes. All right, it’s gonna be fun. I’m glad we stayed in last night. And it’s Tuesday, which means you’ll find Jeff Foxworthy at the Atlanta or Rescue Mission.

I did not know this about Jeff, and I know Jeff a little bit. We’re not best friends, but I know Jeff. This from Baptistnews dot Com. Jeff Foxworthy has served as a small group leader at the Atlanta Rescue Mission for twelve years. He goes every Tuesday morning.

Jeff said, I think the only thing we could do for God is to say yes when he whispers an invitation to us. That’s all we can do. Whatever he wants to get done. He’s going to get done anyway. Wow, he’s inviting you along because he knows it’s going to be good for you.

In ninety percent of the cases, something really bad happened to the people at the mission. So whatever their addiction is that makes them where they can’t get work, that’s not what it is. It’s the symptom, but it’s the hurt they can’t deal with. So you know, if you ever get to the point you can get then all go down to the basement, unlock that door and drag the heart up the stairs and pull it out of the front yard and call it what it is, whether it’s sexual abuse or physical abuse or whatever it is. Then they have a chance to get well.

And anybody on the street is no different than you or me. We all want the same thing. We all want to be significant, and we all want to be loved. Nice job, Jeff, And I’ll leave you with an anecdote from Jeff from the same story. Totally new topic, but he said, we started a tradition thirty five years ago about taking our mom and going to Christmas brunch.

Of course, back then it was just me, my brother and my sister and my wife and my mom.

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It’s gotten very expensive for me on Christmas Eve. That’s your comedy news for today. I wish we were actually in Vancouver. We could have a really nice night. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Last week the presidents had a little press conference about the balloons, and he also had his annual physical. Jimmy Kimmel said, if any other eighty year old came out of a medical exam talking about aliens, he’d put him in a home. Kimmel added, while checking the president’s prostate, they did find more classified documents.

The Hollywood Reporter did a lengthy fluff job about Bert Kreisher. Is this going to be the year of Bert Kreischer? That’s not the Hollowed Reporter asking, that’s Johnny Mack asking, because he does have the Machine movie coming and I think it’s going to do really well. And this was a really fluffy piece in the Hollywood Reporter. I’ve shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

It’s a good read, but it’s a little fluffy. The Hollowed Reporter writes, less than a minute into Bert Kreisher’s latest special, this one’s coming out in March. He rips his shirt off. The move is met with thunderous applause. So you get the sense that that’s response wherever Kreisher goes, After all, the married dad of two is and performing bear chested for as long as he can remember.

It’s not so much a gimmicky, says, as it’s the way he feels most at ease. Bert says, it’s my comfort zone, all right. The new special Razzle Dazzle March fourteenth, it’s his fifth special. What’s so special about it? By the way, time out, I’m guilty of this as well.

We have to stop calling everything a special. We have to start using the word hour. Just because you filmed yourself and threw it up on YouTube, it’s not a special, okay, everybody now, To be fair to Burt, this one’s probably a special. Board asked him what’s special about it? Bert said, I wanted to give my girls a bit of a voice.

I don’t know if I totally accomplished it, but that’s what I wanted to do. I’d started writing the material in January twenty twenty, and then they grew up so much during the pandemic. At first, I couldn’t figure out why I was running into a roadblock with the Hour. But what had happened was by the time I recorded it, one daughter was in college. The other was driving.

They had matured so much. I felt like I needed ways to show that and to show the fact that they bully me now. They asked Bert, since the family features prominently in the hour, what are the conversations like before it goes out on stage? Effing awkward? One daughter has become hype.

Were aware of making sure she’s represented the way she wants to be represented. I made that kid famous by accident. I didn’t think it through, and she definitely had final edit of the special and the jokes. I said, let me tell him, if you don’t like him, we’ll take them out of the special in the end, if I’m not mistaken. She only took out one, and with that one she went, that’s a secret.

But she always had the ability to say that to me. I mean, some of the funniest things she’s ever said about her growing up. She was cool enough to let me talk about like her period, but there were other parts of her growing up she wasn’t comfortable, and she’d say to me that doesn’t go on stage. I remember one time saying, I’ll give you a thousand dollars. That’s the funniest thing anyone’s ever said in the effing world.

I mean, there was a joke in the special that I pulled out and I offered her ten thousand dollars for I was like, I’ll give you ten grand, it’s so funny, baby, and she goes nan, I don’t like it. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he shredded fired CNN anchor Brian Stelter, labeling Stelter a prostitute. This from the New York Post, Oh My you see Brian stelter ost Uday panel was titled the Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan commented on some of the people on the panel, saying, he’s with evil lizard people that are trying to control the world. That’s his bosses.

They want everybody to eat bugs and he will own nothing and be happy. That’s the effing people he’s working for now. Because he’s basically a prostitute, he’s probably very excited just to be working again in any way, shape or form, you know. And he’s not a guy that’s really supposed to be in front of a camera, right, He’s supposed to be a journalist, but he’s not even good at that. So what he’s doing now is holding water for the evil leaders of the world who want to institute hates meach policies nationwide and you know, centralized digital currency.

Yeah. Joe Statler was asked for a comment, He told The New York Post, Joe Rogan got it all wrong again. The World Economic Form did not hire me to work at Davos. I was there on my own dime to write about the conference. If he wants to tell his listeners the truth, he can call me.

I was thinking about you guys as I drove to the National Donuts chain this morning. I just want a cop to. I do a lot of Joe Rogan stories. And here’s why. And I’ve talked about this before.

If I put Joe Rogan in the title, it boost the downloads, and we boost the downs. You move up the charts, and when you move up the charts, you get more downloads. So every now and then, and it’s it’s like riding waves. So like the show will spike and then there’s a little bit of a trail. Then it’ll a spike and there’s a little bit of a trail, and over time the spikes move up and the show grows.

And that’s what happens. But you do have to throw on the spikes, so say there are days like I don’t know right now, or throw Joe Rogan’s name in the episode title Guilty is Charged, people type in Joe Rogan they discover the podcast high new listeners. Hey, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Mark Marin. I know, right, but this one’s a little different. Marin was talking to Variety about perhaps being in the Avatar movie.

Have you seen Avatar The Way of Water? In the movie, Jermaine Clement, which time out Mandela effect. I’m convinced where I’m from, this guy’s name was Jermaine with an R in there somewhere until this year when I apparently jumped from parallel worlds and his name has become Jermaine. But where I’m from, he was Jermaine Clements when he was on Flight of the Concords. My cousin tells me, I’m crazy and it’s always been humane, But no, no, no, this is not my earth anyway.

Jamaine Clement plays doctor Ian Garvin, a marine biologist working for the villainous Resources Development Administration. That role could have gone to Mark Marin. On his podcast, Mark Marin said The idea was ridiculous. Why they f would I want that job. There’s the assumption that we’re going to do for Avatar movies.

Dude, I don’t even remember the first one. I don’t know what this all means of the world. James Cameron built the city down there at his Long Beach studio. There’s people doing acrobatics down there, people flying. It’s like circud to sleigh down there.

During his visit, Mark Marin had to lock up his phone. He couldn’t take photos of the screenplay. Marin said, all of a sudden, you’re in this zone with people Cameron has there just to read parts and fly and be on dollies. I’m on camera. I think I got a picture of a boat or whatever the f it is.

I’m in the middle of this thing and I’m totally untethered and I have no sense of character. I have no idea what’s happening other than there were several unidentified actors and acrobats all around me. Thank god I didn’t get the part. I don’t like being away from home. My agent was like, you’re probably gonna go to New Zealand for four years or whatever the f it was.

Some ridiculous amount of time. I was like, it’s not happening. Then Cameron sent me a box of cigars because he didn’t cast me. That’s nice. At this age, I have no problem saying now, how much was Jamaine even in it?

Like I would have had to go to New Zealand for a year and people would have been like, were you even in it? But Jamaine lives in New Zealand, he was family. There was a no brainer. That’s pretty funny. Jtaid dot Org was paying attention to Sarah Silverman, who guest hosted The Daily Show last week.

In a bit, Sarah took to the streets of Manhattan in search of Jewish allies, where she called the segments pro Semitism. Sarah was in front of the Union Square Green Market, saying there’s been a rise in anti Semitism. I’m hitting the streets looking for a little pro Semitism. Let’s hope it doesn’t end in a hate crime. She began asking New Yorkers what they like about Jews.

One woman said they make bangin Christmas albums. Another man said, what’s there not to love about Jews? The food, the culture of the celebrations. She then met some tourists from Belgium and asked them if they’ve done any Jewy things during New York. They’re confused, and she says a bagel and they go of course.

Sarah said, Jews, have you ever been vaccinated for polio? They said, yes, Jews. She then asked one of the Belgian dudes, what would you do to protect me? And he said, I would light the manure with you Saturday Night Live. We’ll be back on Saturday.

When did you think it was gonna air? Woody Harrelson will become a five time host. I guess that means we’ll see the other five time hosts in cameos, right, so Steve Martin and Tom Hanks and whoever else it is. Jack White is your musical guest. Then on March fourth, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelsey is your host.

SNLS been slumping all season. Is that a good idea? I don’t think so. The week after March eleventh, the star of Wednesday is Janet Ortega. She will make her hosting debut.

It’s a Monday, so the just for last Vancouver Comedy Festivals Little Light Tonight. We could do JFL originals at seven o’clock and again at nine thirty they are recording some albums there. I guess you want to just see Vancouver tonight. Maybe we won’t hit the comedy festival and we’ll just have a couple beers, movie grips with dinner, have an easy night. Yeah, let’s do that.

Josh Johnson’s new special came out on Peacock last Friday. I’ve not seen it. Peacock, I think is the one streaming service I don’t have. I gotta draw the line somewhere. It’s not even about the money, it’s about the time, folks.

That special is called Josh Johnson up Here Killing Myself. The set is loosely based around real life situations Johnson was sharing with his therapist. The interstitials take place in a therapist office, then cut directly to the stand up Josh Johnson, who is really funny. You should pay attention to him, said, if you feel out of place in the world, you feel like it might only be you having those feelings. Being able to say those things to anyone is a life changing thing for a lot of people.

But even talking to somebody professionally that could be a placeholder. Therapy is playing a role but you should be talking to people. It’s not replacement for community. I think there are six stages of grief. They talk about five stages.

I think when you can truly laugh about something, that’s the most definite stage of being over something. Josh Johnson’s up here killing myself is on Peacock. Kelsey Grammer is bringing back Frasier. He wouldn’t confirm or deny that the bar you know, Cheers will appear in the new series. He said, there’s a mention of a certain bar, but I added, but I had heard had a kind of gone belly up.

Someone recently told me they were there, so I guess it may still be happening. So people were like, wait, on the show his Cheers closed. That’s weird. But people think what Kelsey meant was so there’s Cheers the Bull and Finch Pub over by Boston Common. That’s the bar you see on the exterior shots and the original Cheers.

Then in Faniel Hall they had made a replica that looked like the Cheers in your mind from the TV show. So the Bull and Finch slash Cheers that inside doesn’t look like the TV set at all. The one at Faniel Hall looked like the TV set, but the one at Faniel Hall closed recently, so maybe that’s what Kelsey meant. He tells us later in his life, Frasier Crean is a little more mature. He’s got a little more wisdom about him.

But he’s a little bit silly and takes certain things more seriously than most people do. That’s his character. It’s been really fun to play him again. It’s always sunny in Phillip if you start. Kaitlyn Olsen will star in a remake of the French series Hip On Hip, We follow Morgan Blade by Caitlin Olsen, who’s a single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind who helps solve an unsolvable crime when she re ranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department.

When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order. Because of her high intellectual potential, she’s brought on as a consultant to work with a buy the book seasoned detective and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team. Can I save everyone a lot of time and money? Cancel this now? That’s your company news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Richard Belzer has passed away age seventy eight. Richard passed away Sunday at his home in southwest France. A long time friend of the actor, Ruyter Bill Scheft, said Belzer had a lot of health issues and his last words were FU mother, Effer. Many fans know Belzer from his role as John Munch on the TV show’s Homicide, with them later on Law and Order SVU.

I know I was familiar with Belzer from hearing him on The Howard Stern Show. Back in twenty sixteen, TV producer Barry Levinson recalled listening to Belzer on The Howard Stern Show and liking him for the character of John Munch. Levinson said, we were looking at some other actors and when I heard him, I said, why don’t we find out about Richard Belzer. I liked the rhythm of the way he talks, and that’s how it happened. Belzer played Munch on all seven seasons of Homicide that show ended in nineteen ninety nine.

Belzer said, when Homicide was canceled, I was in France with my wife. She said, let’s open a bottle of champagne and toast. You did this character for seven years. Then I remember that Benjamin Bratt was leaving Lawn Order, and I called my manager and said, called Dick Wolf, maybe Munch could become Briscoe’s partner. That didn’t work out, but as they developed Lawn Order SVU, John Munch was on the show.

He played the character for fourteen more seasons. The character announced his retirement from the NYPD in twenty fourteen. Belzer also showed up as John Munch on a nineteen ninety seven episode of The X Files. Belzer as a comedian and started doing gigs at Catcherizing Star in New York. He performed on the National Lampoon Radio Hour alongside Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, and Harold Remis.

When Lorne Michaels started SNL in nineteen seventy five, he tapped Richard Belzer to be the warm up comedian for the audience. In nineteen eighty nine, Belzer said it was thrilling in those days to be part of that because regardless of what anyone said, a lot of people didn’t know how that was going to be accepted. This was like giving the kids a key to the store to have those anti Estayleish people have a TV show on Network, so they asked me to do some sketches and do the warmups. I just kind of did what I did at nightclubs. I talked to the audience and did some my material.

I tried to improvise an adeleb as much as I could, and it was fascinating doing that in a television studio, not in a nightclub. Belzer hosted a show on Lifetime in nineteen eighty five called Hot Properties. His guests included Hulk Hogan and Mister T. Hulk Hogan put Belzer in a front chin locks as the Hollywood reporter and knocking Bells are unconscious. They’re re listening to the floor.

Belzer told Roy Firestone at nineteen ninety he came very close to killing me. I was told by a sports medicine expert that if I had fallen a few inches either way, I could have been crippled for life. I could have been dead. Bells Aer sued Hulk Hogan, Mister T, Vince McMahon, and what was then called the World Wrestling Federation for five million dollars. Reportedly, they settled for four hundred thousand dollars, which Belzer said he used for down payment on his house in France.

Much thanks to the Hollywood Reporter from where I cribbed a lot of that reactions on Twitter, Lorraine Newman tweeted, I’m so sad to hear of Richard Belzer’s passing. I love this guy so much. He’s one of my first friends when I got to New York to DUSNL. We used to go out to dinner every week at Sheepshead Bay for lobster. One of the funniest people ever, a master at CrowdWork, Richard Lewis wrote, old pals are disappearing.

Belzer passed away today. Love to his family and happier times. This is us. A few days before selling out town Hall with an accompanying picture. Sam Murell tweeted, I loved how genuine, funny and compassionate and performance Richard Belzer gave his detective Munch a classic New York character.

Also read that his last words were fu Motherffer A pretty badassway to go, Rip Mark Marin. Richard Belzer died. He was an original, one of the greats. Babe. I love the guy, ri ip Bill Burr a simple rip Richard Belzer.

Patton Oswalt. Ah, gosh, darn it, clean that up. Rip Richard Belzer. I just always thought he’d be around because it seemed like he always was a true original. George Wallace nineteen seventy six at Catcherizing Star, I was called on to a stage for the first time by Richard Belzer.

Farewell, love you forever, Eric Idol. I always adored him as a starving comedian out on the fringes. He would come in to my dressing room whenever I hosted SNL in the seventies and eat all the cheese and fruit plates. A very funny and dear man. Richard Belzer has passed away at age seventy eight.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Joe Rogan had Punky Johnson on his February seventh episode. They started talking music and the subject turned to Kanye West. Joe Rogan said, Kanye create some bangers, but he’s also said some crazy stuff about Hitler. Rogan added, I don’t think he’s a bad person.

I’m assuming he meant Kanye there, and I think Kanye the mistakes he’s made, he’s pretty honest about it. He’s mentally ill, and that mental illness allows him to have insane productivity with music. You can call it an illness or you can say instead, he’s got this gift. And this gift sometimes effing shoots off live rounds and all sorts of different directions. But what a Candy was produced some of the best effing music ever.

His mind is like a runaway train. The eddeas are coming in way fast. He’ll go from one idea of the next idea, and people say he’s rambling, But I’m like, buddy, is he or is he diffused with way more ideas than we are? You may or may not recall Kanye was on Alex Jones Info Wars on December first, Kanye said that he, Titler and Nazis had invented microphones and highways, quoting Kanye here, they did good things too. We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time, all right, Yeah, no, No, Daily Comedy News is officially anti Nazi.

EYSM. Sagora. There’s a segue, Johnny Mack, How have things changed food and workout wise since you first started comedy? This was a question asked to Tom Sigora by GQ. Sagoora said, It’s been a journey.

I’ve been a comic for twenty years now, and I think I’ve done everything wrong you can do, but I’ve kind of morphed into doing everything right you can do. You learn that a heavy touring schedule could break you down in many ways, and if you don’t take care of yourself physically, everything else kind of goes with it. When I was starting as a club act, I’d fly in and stay up in the hotel or the comedy condo until four am, and then wake up at like noon, eat some bs like fries and a burger, then try to nap and go the club and eat like crappy mozzarella sticks or something. Been there, done that, You’re in the cycle of doing that, And of course I was gaining weight. Been there, done that, and I was feeling worse physically and mentally.

I didn’t really start to prioritize health again until my first son was born at the end of twenty fifteen. Took a little while, but I started a tour and I would go to cardio and I’d feel better if I did elliptical or something. What I realized is between twenty seventeen and twenty nineteen, I’d gained twenty bands. Again, I didn’t feel like I was living that mindlessly. I didn’t think I was being reckless, but it was really because I was just not dialing in onto tails.

So this time, when I saw what tour is coming up and now heavy and daunting, the whole schedule was I just needed to go through it physically in a healthy way. Tom now brings a trainer on tour. He said, there was a trainer I’ve known for a few years and work with Sean Nicks, and I was like, I want you to come with me. I’m lucky because he’s actually a legit professional photographer, so he’s my photographer on Tour two. That’s awesome.

It’s great to have somebody like him. We’re similar in age, similar in build, and I have this living example of how to do it right. We kind of like the same foods and we like the same types of workouts. Like I got up by a yogurt with mixed berries. We also do omelets with tomatoes and mushrooms, a little bacon, no cheese.

We make protein shakes orl of meal bars. Sometimes we basically eat the same thing. I’m weighing the lowest I’ve weighed in almost twenty years. And it’s not even because I’m like, ah, I gotta weigh this much. It’s literally happening because I’m just living like this.

My portions have started to decrease, and I’m not hungry. It’s just that I realized how much I was overeating. I must have been overeating just every day. Sometimes now I’ll order a seven or eight ounce filet and I won’t finish it, and it’s because I’m not hungry. I will jump in there.

So last year, when I was training for the marathon, I eventually pulled out. Long story short, but I’m planning on doing it this year. We’ll talk about this some other time, and I want to block down on that. But I was telling people, like, you’re losing weight, and I’m like, I’m just not hungry from the running. I just was less hungry, and I was having salads and smoothies and I was just good.

I wasn’t on a food crusade. I wasn’t dieting. I wasn’t like I must eat salads and smoothies. That was just all I wanted. And when I wasn’t hungry, I didn’t eat.

Dropped twenty pounds. Was great. You know what happens when he stopped training? You put ten pounds back on? Oh, well, net minus ten.

But I am planning and doing the race in November. We’ll talk about that some other time. Tom Segura, what kind of workouts are you doing? He said, When we’re on the road, we work out every day. Yesterday we did a boxing workout.

He brought mits. We have gloves on the bus. We lift probably four or five days a week. If we don’t lift, we try to do heavier cardio. A lot of the things are contingent upon the type of gym we encounter.

This hotel right now has some dumbbells, a couple of machines, and some cardio stuff. So our workout cater state equipment that exists. That’s interesting. We were in a place a few weeks ago they had one of these elaborate gyms that had squat racks and full gym equipment. Whenever we encounter those, we incorporate heavier lifting.

We do squats, deadlifts, bench presses, and inclines, but when we do with barbells, you realize the difference between lifting with barbells as opposed to just cables and dumbells. One more question, do you cook on the bus? Tom? We don’t really cook on the bus. Sometimes we’ll do oatmeal with banana and we’ll put protein powder into it, or we’ll do protein shakes on the bus.

We have a blender. A lot of it is eating out, but we also got Piedmontese steaks. I don’t know what that is. Those really go to the house, but they make these really great beefsticks that are high quality. So we have a bunch of those.

Two with a lot of food. We just try to find the best place for dinner. And you’re basically on a rotation of chicken, salmon, and Steak Johnny Mack. You never mentioned Mark Maron. Hey, I think on Friday’s podcast, I actually did not mention Mark Maron.

So there, but today Mark Marin mentioned. Friday asked him, did you miss performing during Lockdown? Marin said, I didn’t miss comedy at all. I didn’t do any of those weird outdoor drive in zoom shows. I reel felt like maybe I’m over it, maybe I’m all better and I don’t need this anymore.

But as soon as other people started working their race was on. Friday asked him, after Rovie Wade was overturned, did you feel like you wanted to weigh in? Mark said, I needed to talk about abortion without sounding over the top lefty crazy. What I’m saying is practical. I don’t think it’s political.

It comes from personalizing the mail experience. You can make a joke about anything, But should you That’s up to you. Are there consequences to doing certain jokes? Yes? Is it worth the risk?

Again up to you. Should you respect other people? Of course? Does that mean you can’t do a joke about them? Not necessarily.

There are a lot of people who are ANTSI woken who believed that making jokes about marginalized people and using slang that is outdated just for effect. Is Sam and now pushing the line comedically that’s a cop out. Do you think he means Dave should hell there, I’m gonna go first, I do. They asked him about global warming and he said, what makes me optimistic is I still might be out of this world before he gets really horrible. Wow.

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You’ve heard the deal. I’m gonna take your money in the donus chain and all that. You’ve heard that rep before. Joel McHale, he’s got that new show Animal Control. Stop calling it animal cops, Johnny MC animal controls that right.

I don’t have notes in front of me. I think that’s right. He was doing some press for the show, spoke to the News Daily and he said, this is definitely a weird group. I was drawn to it because the characters are so darn well drawn, and it’s something we don’t really see, similar to how we never saw Community Colleges on TV. H Are you telling me the new show is Community esque?

I haven’t seen it yet. I’m recording this on Thursday. It is on my list of things to watch Friday nights. Plant watching that card. There’s two new shows on Apple.

I want to watch Big TV Night planned for Friday night. Joel, have you ever called animal control yourself? Joel said, honest truth, I’ve never called animal control, but I have captured two baby rattlesnakes, one of my old house and one of my neighbors across the street. I like snakes. My cousin grew up in Calabasas, California, would go in the desert and catch snakes, so all fear of snakes left.

They’re totally docile if they’re not hungry. He was asked if there were any real animals on set, and he said there was a real kangaroo, and we were obviously with the ostriches. Right. I did learn about ostriches teenage. Ostriches are like golden retrievers.

They’re very happy and really interested and they’ll just walk up to you and be like, hey, what are you doing. Let’s take a look at who’s playing the Vancouver Comedy Festival today. Let’s see seven o’clock, Pat Reagan, Ryan Hamilton at seven, JFL Showcase at seven. Sunday Nights, Stand Up Comedy seven thirty. Let’s see who’s there.

It’s a special edition of the weekly Sunday Showcase of the funniest comedians in Canada. No names that you are likely to know. Pete Holmes eight o’clock, Becky Robinson nine thirty, Ali Mkofski at nine thirty, another Showcase at nine thirty, and a second version of the stand Up Comedy Showcase at ten.

All right, let’s play this out for the early show.

Well, I’m gonna want to see Pete Holmes at eight. What do you say we hit the JFL Showcase at seven, we’ll leave early, we’ll walk on over to Pete Holmes at eight. Then for the late show we can do Sunday Night Stand up comedy. It’s local people and I always think that’s good to see when you go to these festivals. And with eight comedians on the bill, do to make for a nice night show and a serious topic here to end today’s show.

Comedian Ramesh Raganathan has admitted he has regularly thought about taking his own life due to a horrific voice in his head. He was on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Ramesha’s forty four, and he opened up and he said, I was thinking about taking my own life regularly, and I’d fantasize about it. I think that all comedians are wired slightly differently. They’ve had something happen to them that has made them an outsider in some way. We lived in a nice house, we had a nice car, all the stereotypical things that work success with then in a period of six months, it was a complete one eighty.

I’m addicted to doing stand up and it makes me better at everything. But I’ve got this inner voice that is horrific. It’ll say you’re not a very good dad, You’re not a very good husband. I had a run of about six panel shows. It was in a really bad place.

I turned up to each one of them with the steadfast belief that I was crappy at this. He was asked what happens when things go wrong on stage? He says, it’s horrible. The silence that never gets easier. Man, we learned from those gigs.

I just need to do the best I possibly can at this gig, not in control of anything that happens after that. Don’t think about this goal down the line and trying to get to do this thing brilliantly. And if you love what you do and you do that, you’re on a good path. If you need someone to talk to, The nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is the United States based suicide prevention network of over two hundred plus crisis centers. They provide twenty four seventh service via it’s whole free hotline just down nine eight eight nine eight eight, available to anyone in crisis or emotional distress.

That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You’ve been listening lately, you know, I’ve been obsessed with artificial intelligence. Well, Whitney Cummings she had a robot made to her likeness in twenty nineteen for her Netflix special Remember that. Yeah.

Well, Wired caught up with her and Whitney’s not surprised that ais tell awful jokes. She said, why are people shocked that robots aren’t funny? Most humans aren’t funny. The only funny robots are rumbas when they get stuck under the couch. She’s pro robot in general.

She still has the robot version of herself in her house. She hasn’t expected to make her laugh. Comedy is one of the few things that’s so specific to the essence of a human being. Comedy is about the trauma that comes from a humans lived experience and how they cope with it. Robots can’t be traumatized.

Wired asked Spike Ferriston, he wrote for Jerry Seinfeld back in the nineties. They asked, Spike, why the nothing Forever? That’s the Ai Seinfeld thing I’ve told you about. Why isn’t it hilarious? Spike said, it’s like asking why Spock isn’t funny.

Spock is hilarious. Do you not watch Star Trek the original series? Spok is very very funny. He’s also very very funny in Star Trek three. What are you guys talking about?

Spok is hilarious? Pay attention, gang, Johnny Mack. You ever talk about Mark Marin? I know, right? Collider asked Mark Marin what was the process like of taking a raw show and then tightening up for a filmed TV special.

Marin said, that’s the biggest trick of all, and that’s the hardest thing. Usually comes up to literally the week before when I’m in a panic and I’ve got to get that down to an hour, So I really have to decide what stays and what goes, and it has to be big pieces. So I knew that the fifteen minutes of COVID riffing could go, because every comics do in their take on that stuff, and it’s not necessary. You also have to come through and find through lines and find a couple of callbacks and sort of tighten up things that already there. It’s tricky, man.

There’s a lot aloof stuff, and some of it was really pretty good. But I think when I ended up with was as tight as it could be, and some of the stuff that it took out was distracting from the emotional and comedic power of some of the stuff. The La Times asked Roseanne, Hey, you once ran for president in the United States of America. Any thoughts about running look offs again? Roseanne said, some people are saying, why don’t you run for president again?

That made me really happy. I did run in twenty twelve, and everything I was saying in my speeches then is exactly what’s happening now. I’ve ready declared myself president for life of the Republic of the United States of America. I don’t really need to run again since I’m president for life of the working people. I ran as a socialist and I’m still a socialist.

I do not remember this at all. Vulture from twenty eighteen in the headline, remember when Rosanne ran for president? Vulture? The answer is no, Vulture, what if I told you? She did?

Okay, Bar stage in national campaign back at twenty twelve, which was the focus of the twenty fifteen documentary Roseanne for President. The doc follows bar as she attempts to secure place in the national ballot versus the Green Party candidate. Later is the ostensible face of the Peace and Freedom Party. She came in sixth place in the popular vote, behind the Constitution Party. It’s a very long article anyway, you’ll find that on Vulture.

The New Yorker caught up with Kate Berlant. How did she went up in New York. My senior year of high school, the SNL Oral history book came out and I remember clutching it, crying to my English teacher, being like, I have to go to New York. The New Yorkers like, so the idea of S and L brought it in New York. Kate said, I never auditioned for S and L.

That being said, I was asked to test once. I was obsessed with Chris Forley, but really I was more focused on the alternative comedy scene. In my senior or of high school, we could do an independent study, and I chose to do one on comedy. That’s when I started writing stand up for the first time. That’s the last time I was sitting down and writing out stand up.

She says, I have footage of the first time. They were curious about it. She said, Ah, I came out in a wheelchair. Then I stood up. That’s kind of the first joke.

I’d be instantly canceled for it, and I was wearing a kimono. All the jokes were quite abstract. I told. Jokes about the Pope was bizarre. I was like, if the Pope sleeps on his side, does the word of God get in?

It was really borsch belt and totally psycho in my mind. It was half an hour, but there’s no way it was. It was probably like fifteen minutes. At the end, I remember I got kind of soulful. I talked about here, I was on the custom of going to college.

I was really obsessed with Sarah Silverman’s Jesus’s Magic, and I think one of the last jokes I told was sort of something talking about my fear of going to college or growing up. In the end, I was like, mostly I’m just scared that some of you think I’m fat. Just kind of a classic Silverman joke. I was just trying to find out what the hell to do, which takes forever. It’s Saturday in Vancouver.

Just for last, Vancouver must be rocking. Let’s take a look at the shows seven o’clock Jordan Carlos seven o’clock JFL Showcase Love the Show details the comedy industry big shots are in town for Just for Last Vancouver and they’re looking for the next big thing. That would be a show to go see. Sugar Sammy pretty popular in Canada. He’s playing at seven.

Ryan Hamilton also Canadian at seven, Margaret Show at seven, Mufaro Mudsy’s schedule Meditation at seven thirty. Let’s see what this is. Scheduled Meditation is the comedy, meditation and fashion brand Slash Agency founded by stand up comedian and fashion designer Ufaro and Budsy. Six comics on the bill That’s different eight o’clock. Citizen Hurricane David and Ken or Citizen Hurricane.

Citizen Hurricane is a one of a kind improvised comedy show and rock concert. Real stories, ridiculous characters, spontaneous songs. It’s whose line meets Tenacious d That would be something I would be interested in. Cutie Pie Comedy at nine o’clock, a bunch of locals, Another JFL showcase at nine thirty, Sugar Sammy at nine thirty, Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Broone at nine thirty, Hannah Burner at nine thirty, and Joe to Rosa at nine thirty. Okay, let’s reverse engineer this.

None of the late shows really did it for me, So let’s do the showcase at nine thirty. That leaves the front of the evening free. Ryan Hamilton’s really good, He’s at seven. Want to go see Ryan Hamilton’s. Maybe we’ll try and catch the end of Citizen Hurricane at eight, and then we’ll leisurely make our way to JFL Showcase at nine thirty.

Then we can be back in the hotel room at eleven thirty. Hey, you get your own room. We are not staying together. What do you think’s going on here?

Speaking of improv sort of kind of, Vulture talked to Colin Mockery.

He said, when I first started improv, nobody knew what it was. That’s true. I remember dating a girl in college right after college who’s really an improv and like really wanted me to go. And I always look back and I had no interest in it at the time, and I’m like, huh, I probably would have liked that. She was pretty cool too.

Stupid me. When I first started improv, nobody knew what it was the theater we were at. We were running into the McDonald’s next door begging people to come see our show. They said, what’s it about? And we said, we don’t know.

We have to yell at us and then we’ll make something up. There are times I still think, how did they pitch the show to a network and have it get picked up. There’s four guys who’ve never seen before, and we don’t have a show until the end of the taping, and it’s twenty two episodes of that. I’ll answer Colin because the UK did it, and you guys brought it to the States and swapped out hosts and put Drew carry on it. You’re on the British version.

You know this anyway. I’m proud. Then I got improv in the public mindset. I know there are a lot of people who looked down on Whose Line, which I understand. We never said it was the end all be all of improv.

I was always like, here, it’s the gateway and all these different forms of comedy there are. But I got the word out and there was a show that families could watch together. I watched the heck out of that back in the day. Whose Line once it became popular. Kids really seemed to be drawn to it, so there were improv club starting in college.

In high school. It’s not like any other kind of art form. People kind of played around with it to see what formats could be done, everything from an improvised one act play to improvise dungeons and dragons. I think the surface is still kind of being scratched. I always say the guys on Whose Line are pretty good.

They are fantastic improvisers hauling around the world who just haven’t had a series showcase them, and they’re constantly finding ways to play with the format and do different things. Well, Whose Line comes back? Some of this, he says. The short answer is, if it comes back, it probably won’t be with this cast. There is a complicated relationship with the show.

The cast love each other, and the actual shooting is always fun. The downside is we’ve never received fair compensation for the success of the show. We provide the content but don’t get paid as quote unquote writers. We’ve never received residuals for a show that’s been shown around the world since its inception. Seeing announcedence about the sale of the show overseas or to HBO, Max can get irritating.

I hope I don’t sound bitter, but I learned long ago that this business is not fair, and being bitter about it gets you nowhere. The longer, more vague answer is it’s like the mafia keeps pulling us back in. So who knows and Seattle King five they stop by the Disabled List Comedy Fest to tell me about this a couple weeks ago. One of the sacred rules of that festival is don’t hate yourself for laughing. Comedian Dan Hurwitz has a hand missing most of its fingers.

He gestures and says, I know there are certain things I’ll never be able to do, like use chopsticks and play chopsticks. Both got a laugh. Hurwitz and friend at Caleb Brown, who has muscular distrophee, have spent their entire lives using humor to put people at ease. Brown said, I truly believe comedy is a way to get to know people. On stage, she tells the story of a woman trying to be helpful by opening a door for her.

That door led to a staircase, and she said, is this at the rats? Comedian Greta Gimp said, anybody else in this room gets tired? Of being told they’re inspirational because they have a disability. They sit on my butt eighteen hours a day. I’m supposed to be able to inspire able bodied people to get off their butts.

The Disabled Liz Comedy Collective will put on another show April fourteenth at the Northwest Film Forum. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows tomorrow. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family. These short daily episodes cover the latest news and scandals involving the likes of Prince Harry, Megan, Michael, Kate, Middleton, King Charles and the rest.

From back room sources to public controversies, We’ve got you covered. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just curious about the royals, Palace Intrigue is the perfect podcast for you, so join us as we explore the lives, legacies and dramas of the British monarchy. Subscribe now and never. This an episode of Palace Intrigue.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Chenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I thought i’d do something a little different this morning. I woke up check the email. Aaron had gone to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and hit the ten dollar donation, So let’s go get a nice coffee.

In the meantime, I watched Jim Jeffrey’s new special on What’s that one on? See I’m not in front of the laptop, I have to use my actual brain Netflix. It’s on Netflix. It’s called High End Dry. Liked it a lot.

I’m going to spoil the content in a second, but let me babble on about the title. I thought I was going crazy because I had made a point that the name of the special was high end Dry with an end in the middle, and then I hit play on it and it’s high ampersand dry, and I’m like, am I crazy? But I did some googling and I went back to the trailer and it used to be called high End Dry. I also noticed, as I was putting together the show on Tuesday that there were no articles about the new special. I thought about a little bit in retrospect for the spoilers I’ll tell you about in another few seconds.

Here, I was thinking, how that’s a little odd because usually there’s a bunch of articles on Vulture or the Comics Comic where people have gotten screeners at these things. And I’m wondering if Netflix did not put screeners out because and here come the spoilers. Jim does a lengthy section, a very funny section, but a lengthy section about the LGBTQ community. He follows a similar path that Chappelle did two specials ago, where he breaks the community up into the individual letters and starts analyzing the individual letters. Get some good belly laughs out of that.

Jim even addresses whether or not it will be controversial and makes the joke that he likes press. I’m curious to see if this will start a firestorm or not. And this makes me wonder did Netflix deliberately not send out screeners because you know, it’s Netflix and that topic and they’ve been in hot water about that topic before. Is that going to happen again? We’ll see regardless.

Jim Jeffery’s high end dry on ampersand in the middle, very very funny special. It’s not better than Nate Burgatzy special, but it’s definitely going to make the end of the year list, so I recommend that you checked it out. So from memory, the list right now is number one, Nate Burgatzy, number two, Jim Jefferies number three, the Roast of Mister Peanut not qualifying for the End of the Year list, Mark Marin Nor Andrew Santino. Netflix also put under me a special by somebody named doctor Ken Leong. I think it was Ken.

This one was filmed in Singapore, seemed to be targeted at the Malaysian community, a lot of local references, so I wasn’t really feeling it. I’m not saying it’s bad. I was just like, all right, I don’t understand the local humor here, so I bailed on that pretty quickly. All right, I’ve now reached the National Donuts chain again. Aaron, who support of the show, she went to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and she hit the ten dollar donation.

So I’m going to use half of that donation right now and get myself a large ice coffee with caramel and milk, and here we go. Have a good day. Alrighty, Aaron, I got my ice coffee here.

Also picked up some stuff from my mom.

Gonna jump back in the car and let me hand you off to future me, who’s back in the studio on a proper microphone. Thanks eron, So that’s buying meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m seeing a lot of good reactions to the Jim Jeffrey Special, although Vulture pointed out that Jim’s joke about balding spoilers wasn’t the most original thing in the special. Jim jokes take a tablet every day to keep my hair looking this effing crappy. But I can’t take it every day anymore because if I take it every day, my penis doesn’t work.

So I have a couple of options in life. Either I have hair, or I can’t have sex with people anymore, or I’m bald and no one wants to have sex with me. I clean that up, obviously, but Vulture says comedians have been making a version of that joke for years. In twenty twenty one, Dry Bar Comedy put out a thirty one minute compilation about the subject titled Losing Hair Isn’t Fair. Some examples.

Ornie Adams in two thousand and six, he joked, you lose your erections. That’s what I need my hair for. What a great solution. Sorry about my penis, honey, but did you see my hair? Twenty thirteen, Master Browny, what’s the point a full head of hair?

But nothing’s working down there? Pete Davidson twenty sixteen. He says, I have all my hair and girls still want to get with me. But I’m infinite, so I could care less. Mark Normand at twenty seventeen I got paranoid.

I was losing my hair. I started taking prophetia, could not get a direction. This girl I was dating at the time was like, hey, gotta get off those pills. I’d rather you have an direction than hair, which is nice to hear, but only makes sense when you’re dating somebody that doesn’t work in the beginning, Like if I was a ball guy that hit on her at a bar, Hey, can I buy you a drink? She’s like I’m good.

I’m like, ah, I have a boner. Charles Gould in twenty nineteen, in his joke he speaking with a therapist. I could take a pill, but what’s the point of having hair if he can’t get a boner? Boy? Everybody has done this joke.

Huh is there a side effect that would stop you from taking it? What if you lost a two? Matthew Brossard twenty two two. He joked about the side effects, saying, that’s like if adderall made you dyslexic. Nice job, drybar, Nice job of Vulture.

Dave Chappelle put out a new episode of The Midnight Miracle that’s his podcast. Dave said, I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. There’s two things I think about, what does that feel like? And of course the greatest cultural impact? Right.

He then applied his logic to awards, saying Michael Jackson swept for Thriller. He won every Grammy he was up for, except for one, which was Best Song. What beat Thriller for Best Song? Anybody? Does anybody know every breath you’d take by the police take it easy, my boy?

Is what difference does it make? The best song is a completely subjective metric. He discussed Kevin Hart and said he’s very impressed with Kevin Hart as a comedian. He’s like, actually incredibly good at it. But Kevin from early on had a very specific notion about who and what he wanted to be, and it was big.

You know, he plays stadiums. Everything in his mind is big. It was a choice him being big, was a skilled shot, was a hole in one. I want this, he said, exactly what he had to say the way he had to say it to be exactly what he wants to be. One of his co host said, everything is not for sale.

Everybody pays a price. Chapelle said, that’s why I quit Chappelle’s show. If I finished the show one of the circumstances at that time, I don’t think I would have ever been the same. He said he grew uncomfortable with the socially irresponsible sketches he was doing at the time something inside of me that I needed. I would have had to let go of it for that, and I couldn’t let go of it to keep going.

Very interesting there, Ella Magazine in the headline, Remember Roseanne Barr, not for her Fox special, but for who she once was. Interesting. Take let’s take a closer look, Elle mag writes. Early viewers of the special, I have not seen it, have said the thing is like fingernails on a blackboard. But Roseanne sold Fox News the stand up stage is a great place to discuss cancel culture itself and how horrible it is.

It was made in response to being fired. LGBTQ Nation says, Roseanne Barr’s fresh comedy routine is addressed a Fox’s target demographic, old people whose kids don’t talk to them anymore. Clips of the seventy year old jokes Wow, She’s seventy released online so far have also drawn ire, whether it’s for digs about gender or just generally sounding out of such with jokes that land with a thud. But La mag points out Roseanne broke ground with her portrayal of money’s major role in the American family. Talking about her sitcom.

In towns that sit between the working class in the middle class, most of the men labored in the local plants, the women, mostly mothers, stayed home work part time, found a side hustle like running a daycare out of their house. This was basically the background of Roseanne. Her various part time jobs, combined with her husband Dan’s ins and outs with financial insecurity. Money was always a necessary through line and one that hadn’t been shown realistically on TV before either. They add since it aired.

Roseanne has been sighted several times over the decades since its bizarre ninth and final season as having been far ahead of its time in terms of the inclusion of everyday folks who happened to be gay or bisexual. Sandra Bernhard’s Nancy, a regular character on the show, came out in season five, and Barr’s character at one point shares an on screen kiss with Nancy’s girlfriend, played by guest star Meryl Hemingway. Later depicted the wedding of Rosanne’s boss, Martin Maule’s Leon to his boyfriend Scott. Back in twenty ten, Joshua Kirpet wrote in Vulture, Rosanne did more for the ways homosexuals are portrayed on television than any single gay character a couple has done in the years following. In twenty twenty three, Fox Nation may have been willing to give her a chance, but there may not be more to see hear of her late period still pro maga comedy stick.

Yet no one’s ready to get the hook and pull her off stage either, as long as it’s profitable for that, We’ll have to wait and see.

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Speaking of Fox News, some comedians are upset at Tucker Carlson.

He has a new documentary called The Death of Comedy. Overreact Much Tucker. In the trailer, Tucker Carlson says, comedy’s the hallmark of a free society. The one thing that people currently in power can’t stand is being made fun of. Is that comedy it is now, Come on, man, give me a break with that.

The trailer features quotes from a number of comedians, including Jimmy Doer, Adam Carolla, and Louis c. K. A clip of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock is also included. Nimish Patel is featured in the trailer. He said, this is non sens comedy is thriving.

There was a reason I didn’t due Sucker Carlson back in twenty eighteen. No one hears a martyr for comedy. Everybody featured in the trailers selling out theaters and making money. Myself included stop this fake victim bs from my San Antonio. George Lopez has privately apologized to Ralph Barbosa till the other day about this one.

This version of the article cleans it up a little and just says, you know. On the podcast, George said he didn’t know who Barbosa was it didn’t understand how he’s blowing up. The actual quote was, nobody knows who that mother effer is while you’re saying his name. The Only Times reported that a representative for Barbosa confirmed that Lopez called Ralph personally and they spoke about what happened. Barbosa’s manager said, George apologized and acknowledged the hard work that Ralph has been putting in on the road.

It was a very amical conversation that Ralph appreciated. Apparently there’s an anecdote going around how comedian Eric Estrada blew off George Lopez when Lopez was seventeen years old. Lopez said Estrada refused to shake his hand, and from that moment, Lopez publicly said he would never treat someone like that at the start of their career. After seeing the comments from Lopez, Borbosa went on Instagram and rope It’s all good, baby. The future is now old Man quick Kid from Gossip Corner.

Eric Andre and Emily Radikowski they went Instagram official on Valentine’s Day? How did they do it? There’s a photo eric Andre is laid out fully newte on a couch. He’s hold on a glass of wine. There’s a hard emoji block in the good parts.

He did not tag Radikowski in the post. However, she can be seen in the mirror only wearing a bra. He post is captioned Happy Valentine’s Day. Did you see South Park? Oh my goodness, I gotta see my face right now.

I’m trying to describe the face I’m making. I guess it’s like the John Stewart popcorn gift or jiff if you’re one of those people, Oh, this is so juicy. Now you know. I’m the writer on Palace Intrigue at Daily podcast about the British royal family. Follow show wherever you get your podcast.

South Park destroyed Prince Harry and Megan Markle. Of course, they weren’t making fun of the actual Prince Harry and Megan Markle. Oh no, they’re making fun of the Prince of Canada and his wife. Spoilers for the episode, but you gotta see at least the clips. Oh my goodness, it’s so funny.

So the Prince of Canada and his wife, they’re on the Worldwide Privacy Tour. They go on Good Morning Canada. They’re holding picket signs that say we want our privacy. The host of Good Morning Canada says to the Prince of Canada, some people might say that your Instagram loving bitch wife actually doesn’t want her privacy, And another scene, Kyle says, I’m sick of hearing about them. I can’t get away from them.

They’re everywhere in my effing face. An he mentions they keep trying to sell them a book. The book, by the Way is called when Eric Cartman says, we don’t care about some dumb prints and his stupid wife. The Prince of Canada meets with a branding manager and the Prince gets described as royal prince, millionaire, world traveler, victim, his wife sorority girl actress, influencer victim. Wow, check that out South Park destroying them and let’s you follow Palace Intrigue where you get your shows.

Romy Yuseff will be hosting two shows today at Lester Square. The press of both shows would be going to the Karam Foundation, helping thousands of displaced Syrian refugees. In Tricky the US and Jordan, Johnny Mack, did you just segue from like ripping the British Royals and giggling to like a serious story about Ramy Yusef. I did, and I probably could edit the podcast, but I’m leaving it in. You know.

One of the tricks of editing is you don’t want to make the show too perfect, right, You got to leave some stumbles in and a couple of mistakes, and like, yeah, I could have cleaned it up, but I’m trying to have a relationship with you and let you see that. You know, I’m an actual human being that hopefully alike, especially if you’re this farm in the podcast, I guess you kind of liked me, so yeah, I probably shouldn’t have put those two stories back to back. It’s a Friday night in Vancouver. Seven o’clock, an intimate evening with Adam Pali seven o’clock, Sugar Sammy seven o’clock, Dersey and Jarre Irl parteses that means in real life, please don’t touch us. Sarah Sherman at seven Puff The Magic Improv Show at eight Millennial Line at eight thirty, Let’s See what That is, a live comedy and poetry series that’s different.

Baron Vaughan at nine thirty Festival of Kicks nine thirty, Hannah Burner nine thirty.

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All right, let’s play the what should we go see?

Game? Now? I probably should have planned our nights better. We didn’t need to see Sarah Sherman last night. We could have seen her tonight.

All right, Let’s look at the early shows. Adam Palley, Sugar Sammy, Darcy and Jarre Irl, Sarah Sherman, who we’ve already seen hypothetically. Hm, nothing grabbing me. Adam Palley’s show, song, stories and jokes come together, just like Mom used to make enjoy the stories. Sing along to the songs.

Let’s taking it closer. Look at Darcy and jare Irl jumping off your phone and into your hearts and relive. Join comedian Accidental TikTok stars. All right, I’m out, you know me? Hmm?

All right. I wish we hadn’t seen Sarah Sherman last night. We could have done that early. I kind of don’t want to see Sugar Sammy. Let’s go see Adam Palley at seven.

You know what, we’ll leave early and at eight o’clock, let’s go see Puff the Magic improv show. First half the comedy stone called second half is Lava Hot. Come get baked with some of Vancouver’s best improv comedians and watch them fly. All right, we’ll go see Adam Halley for a wild around seven forty five. I’ll give you the should we face and then you can go yes or no, and if you say yes, then we’ll head over to Puff the Magic Improv and that’s our eight o’clock show, and then at nine thirty Hannah Burner, kick Ass Asian Comedy or Baron Vaughan.

I kind of want to do kick Ass Asian Comedy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine comics on the bill, Yeah, let’s do that one kind of I don’t know when to use the words subpar, but there’s no real headliner tonight, right, Sarah Sherman would be the biggest name on tonight’s bill, all right, And I do have a sad story to end the show with. Today. San Antonio based stand up comedian and comedia A Go Go Kill founder at Larry Garza has passed away at age forty one. All Larry ever wanted to do with his life was make people laugh. He did that until the very end.

He passed away Tuesday after a nearly seven year battle with cancer. He was forty one. Leaves behind his wife and two children, seventeen and two. Well. Larry was first diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in twenty sixteen.

He didn’t want to let the disease stop him from doing what he loved. A month after doctors removed his right kidney, in less than two weeks after the removed a portion of his lung, he went on stage to a packed house and told the audience and it might sound cliche, but I didn’t want it to beat me. I didn’t want to go dark. This is how every true comedian copes with the bad stuff. We joke about it, make a joke about it, so it’s not heavy.

It’s a true example of he’s in comedy to lighten the load and let everyone know we’re okay. Nothing’s going to take our sense of humor away. He was asked what he wanted his comedy legacy to be, and he said he wanted to be remembered as that hilarious San Antonio. Comic life’s an ass kicker for everybody. You have to laugh about it and celebrate it while you’re here.

That’s your comedy news for today. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue. The podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family. These short daily episodes covered the latest news and scandals involving the likes of Prince Harry, Mega, Michael, Kate, Middleton, King Charles and the rest. From back room sources to public controversies, We’ve got you covered.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or just curious about the royals, Palace Intrigue is the perfect podcast for you, so join us as we explore the lives, legacies and dramas of the British monarchy. Subscribe now and never. This an episode of Palace Intrigue.

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I loved Brian Possain’s special Possana non Grata. I’d love to put it on the Best of twenty twenty three list, but it did come out at the end of twenty twenty two. He released it as not a pay per view, but you know, it was like one of those specials you could buy for a limited time for like fourteen days. But it is up on YouTube now with commercials now.

Note to Brian and all other comedians who post your special on YouTube. I get that you want to make a couple of bucks. I get that you want to monetize, no problem, I’m with you, meet too, but can you or someone on your team take one minute and place the markers that tell the commercials where to go? Could you just place them so they’re not mid sentence. Maybe find when you’re segueing from topic to topic, maybe put them there.

That said, Brian special was so good that I fought through the various commercial breaks. Absolutely loved it. Now, maybe it’s because I’m also a star wars nerd who likes the rock music, but it immediately drew me in. It’s filmed in a room, I guess I would call it. So Usually a comedy special is at like a big theater, right, you’re picturing like the big wide stage and there’s a balcon and all that.

Now this is a room picture, something more like the shape of a shoebox, so not that wide, but deep and not that deep, and it’s just Brian at the other end of the room. And I felt like I was in a club in Montreal or perhaps Chicago where this one was filmed. This was filmed at the Beat Kitchen. I think it’s a little bit over an hour. I really really liked it.

So check out Brian Possein, Posena Non Grata, Tina Fe and Amy Pohler. They’re going on swore together. It’s the Restless Legged Store. A limited run four shows so far. I bet they wind up adding more.

It is described as a celebration of thirty years of friendship with an evening of jokes, iconic stories, and conversational entertainment. This will start April twenty nine in Washington, DC. They’re us playing Chicago, Boston, and Atlantic City. Maria Bamford is trying to get a web series started. This one is called no CD.

It’s built as a comedy series about intrusive description. At the age of ten years old, Maria Bamford began getting unwanted intrusive thoughts, a type of OCD. By the age of fifty one, she was unable to leave her home. She made the following internet content as a cry for help. She says she wants to tackle this specific type of OCD because it’s really kind of really creepy, sometimes stigmatized.

That the therapy is really funny, it’s really quite scary. In the first episode, she struggles to go to her friend’s house for simple meal. Her intrusive thoughts are played by Maria Bamford in a clown wig, and they keep butting in with violent fantasies and unwelcome commentary, which she tries to ward off and weighs both silly and dark. She has launched a Kickstarter to try and produce two more episodes and in the future up to twelves soor so far there’s only one, and that’s depending on audience interest. On her Kickstarter page, Memford breaks down the cost of shooting a web series while paying a crew fairly and making a living for herself as well.

Let’s check that out on her Kickstarter, it says, what is intrusive thoughts? Ocd Well, have you ever had extremely creepy, unwanted thoughts something grandam that weirded you outline my guinea pig looks sexy? Or I wonder if I’m a serial killer despite the fact that I’m a vegetarian, agrophobic with a master’s degree in library science and I haven’t left my reclusive yurt in a decade. Or I always say the words bless this Jesus Mohammed Yahwei Oprah thirty four times while squeezing my buttocks to prevent myself from driving my Harley into a grunt of senior citizens. Or do you avoid looking into your mother’s eyes when you high five her for fear of poisoning her liver?

Or do you have your spouse get the ice cubes for your drinks so you want stuff hundreds of ice cubes down your throat being the first person a self suicide by drowning upright on land. Or do you never drink ice tea because tea stands for boobs and you’re a concerned you’re going to reach out and touch the server with boobs who brought you tea, which stands for boobs. She then gets serious. Instead of had several versions of the stabilitating mental health symptoms since the age of ten. After googling the symptoms online when I was thirty five, discovered it was a type of OCD and finally got helped to change my life.

I was finally able to participate in important activities such as friendship and being at parties thanks to exposure response prevention therapy. I wanted to share my own experience so others who are too scared to ask for help might have a few laughs and get the courage to be free of suffering from something that is absolutely ridiculous. She writes, Why doesn’t Maria pay for this herself? I sort of have. I fronted the cost of one episode, but I only want to make the series if there’s enough interest to fund it.

Kickstarter budgeting and feedback from showbiz professionals have told me how to budget this. It’s a ton of money, but it’s not that much here in Holly Weird, and I need to pay artists. Rent runs two thousand dollars a month for a shared a beanbagged chair. I will also pay myself so I don’t have to travel on the road every week as a comic. Taxes and ten percent fee from Kickstarter.

Here are the real numbers per episode budget director slash camera fifteen hundred second ad slash camera fifteen hundred, production supplies five hundred, editing twenty hours three grand, acting a thousand, writing a thousand, producing a thousand, Social media management thirty five hundred. I think we can find a better deal than that, Maria. Total thirteen thousand dollars for one episode. Three episodes makes it thirty nine thousand, forty percent estimated tax rate on funds received as only six thousand Kickstarter fee processing fee, so she’s looking to make seventy two thousand, three hundred. Then it says, wait, who are you again?

I’m right? So I’m a person who Stephen Colbert called the funniest person on Earth and Judd appetaw was called the funniest person in the world. Is that something? As I record this looks like she’s well on her way with two weeks to go. My san Antonio asked Joe Koy, Hey, you haven’t done your podcast The Koi Pond since late twenty twenty one.

A you’re taking a break or is it over Joe KOI said, I really just stopped doing it, even though the name is so great. I found myself doing it only because it was this trending thing that people were doing. In my heart, I don’t want to be known for a podcast. I want to be known for stand up. I only want that to be touching my name.

That’s my passion, that’s my love. Just for Last Vancouver starts tonight, runs through February twenty fifth. Let’s take a look at who’s playing tonight. I’ve done this in a while. I like doing these.

Seven o’clock John Marcos SERRESI. I saw him up at Montreal and he was fantastic at seven thirty Maestro, which is an elimination style improv show that brings z mixed bag of improvisers from around the city. Elimination. I like it. Eight o’clock Vancouver Special looks like that’s a bunch of locals.

Eight o’clock New Moon Comedy also Locals. Eight o’clock Sunset Comedy. This show features authentic Caribbean food and drinks with a view of the beach. Camilla Clease you know her from the Faulty Towers reboot. She’s on the bill with a bunch of other comedians.

Very nice. Eight o’clock. Ola Data’s Blackout Comedy.

Also locals a thirty comedy Bucket.

Your favorite comedians lead their act at the door and do a set based on audience suggestions. Love it. Dave Man Hedge plays at nine thirty. Sarah Sherman also at nine thirty.

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All right, let’s play the game where you and I are in Vancouver and we’re gon…

Hmm. John Marco’s really good. I do want to see the locals. Let’s do John Marco at seven o’clock. Figure that goes an hour or so, and I think at the back end we want to see Sarah Sherman at nine thirty.

So we’re gonna have to find like an eight thirty show. So let’s do Comedy Bucket at eight thirty, and we’ll know that we have to leave early. Sorry performers, but that’s the way the schedule dropped. Just for last Vancouver, Looking forward to that one. Starting from brew Bound, You’re home for comedy news the legendary Zini’s Comedy Club in Nashville.

They’ve teamed up with Kraft Brewery Tennessee brew works. They’re going to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Zeni’s with a beer named Laughing Guy Lagger, brewed with Tennessee source greens. Laughing Guy Lagger’s a light body blogger with subtle maall sweetness, bounce by honeydew and a floral hop aromas and flavors. The finishes crisp, refreshing. It’ll satisfy any beer drinkers thirst four point two percent ABV.

Ted Lasso is back baby March fifteenth. Apple TV still not saying that it’s the final season. Don’t you think of over the final season, they’d be like, hey, final season of ted Lasso. There’s some speculation at the show will continue one way or another. Vambred Goldstein.

I am riding this thing for fifteen years, then buying a house next to Kelsey Grammer. Know what I’m saying, Don’t walk away from a hit show. People keep going. Joel mccale understands that logic. He’s waiting for Community to come back in the meantime.

Animal Control, you know the show that I’ve been calling what was I calling it? Animal cops? Pet Cops? I forget what I was calling it. Animal Control is the name of the show on Fox tonight.

The av club saw it and they said Joel mccale in Jeff Winger Mode plays veteran Seattle animal control officer Frank Shaw, a lone wolf stuck with an open hearted rookie and former Olympic snowboarder nicknamed Shred. They look at act like TV cops, wearing about donuts, budgets, and drugs, except the shows about animals. Animal Control makes a case for cop shows without cops. They say Animal Control is a perfectly enjoyable sitcom and one that’s destined improved the further gets into its run. All right, I might have to set the DVR for that one.

I also I gotta watch Pocard tonight. I’m going out to dinner Busy Night for Johnny mac Amber Ruffin She’s getting a sitcom from NBC. This one’s called a Non Evil Twin. It follows a woman played by Amber Ruffin, good guest there, who’s forced to step into her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune five hundred company. Spoilers, wasn’t that the plot knives out too?

She steps in her sister’s role as the leader of a fortune company despite knowing little about business and even less about the way her sister’s been running the corporation. Are you in Salt Lake City? Former Utah Jazz All star Donovan Mitchell Comedy Night. Yeah you didn’t expect that right. All the proceeds will be donated to Kern’s High School.

On the bill de Ray Davis, Chris Spencer an earthquake. That is a good list. Let’s finish up. On gossip Corner, Will Farrell was pictured having a pint of beer with soccer fans. He was at Wrexham you know the soccer team Ryan Reynolds and Rob mcleanny own Will Farrell will spot it and joining a drink at the Turf pub.

Who’s also seen pitch side at the race Course ground to watch the team’s three to one victory in the National League match against Wildstone FC. I suspect we’ll see all this on an episode of Welcome to Wrexham in the Future and a video posted on the club’s official Twitter account. Before kickoff, Will Farrell asked are we recording as he combs his hair with his fingers. After long pause, he says, Hi, this is Will Farrell. It’s my first time here.

Where are we again Wrexham. I’m really excited to see the match, and I’ll be honest with I’m a little nervous. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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