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Caloroga Shark Media, No Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I am psyched for today. As I put it together, there were different names in the news, which was just so refreshing for me. And as I so searched about that, I started thinking about Bill Burr and how has Bill Burr gotten us to a place where it’s like, you know, Bill, you need to disappear for three months now. You’ve heard me say this in the past about like gaffing and needed to tap the brakes, and he has.

Jim took my advice right. We haven’t heard from Jim in a bit, but Bill needs to go away for a little bit now. It’s just so weird. I’ll talk about Conan tomorrow as I don’t have the information as I record this in the middle of Sunday afternoon, and often I don’t record on Sundays, so it’s nice and the news cycles a little different. I’ll start with The Times of London, the Sunday version of The Times, and they had a profile with Jimmy Carr, who explained how to get a laugh.

I think Jimmy might actually be my favorite living comedian. I try to see him whenever I can I always find his shows excellent anyway, Jimmy says, to get a laugh, you do the opposite of what is expected. So someone who doesn’t do physical comedy doing a pratfall is funny. It’s the thing about jokes being the sudden revelation of a previously concealed fact. Every joke has two stories, and the first story sets up an assumption that turns out to be erroneous.

It’s the same structure whether you’re doing clever wordplay or falling over that’s really smart, obviously. Jimmy, a top top comedian the Times, was curious why music vidues are struggling and stand up seems to be thriving. Carr said, because comedy clubs deliver week in week out. What do you want from a night out? A couple drinks, something to eat in a great laugh.

But I think about comedy as a function in society is that it opens up the window of what you can and can’t talk about, not just edgy topics. Even if you do mainstream observational stuff, the audience go, oh, we can complain about life a little bit. It gives you permission to have conversations you wouldn’t otherwise. It’s like you put on magical glasses and see everything in a slightly funnier way. It was an interview with a comedian, so of course you know you can’t say anything anymore.

The Times phrase that is are there things people used to find funny they don’t anymore? Car said, I think there’s a broader church now than ever before. Britain’s Got Talent last year was won by a clown act. There’s mine too. Comedy feels much more open.

It’s weird. While ITV and the BBC were fighting over a Saturday night ratings, YouTube just stole their lunch and streamers are stepping up to Netflix has done a tremendous amount for stand up though. I did realize the other day that Jeffrey Dahmer has more Netflix specials than I have. It’s an interview with a comedian, so we’ll talk about getting canceled. Jimmy explains, intention is important with me.

It’s clear what the intention of the evening is. But the way you can get reported is if you’re shouting jokes through someone’s letterbox at nine am. I subscribe to the benign violation theory that jokes are benign violations. You take a violation to matter how extreme, but make it benign by joking about it. Jokes can be a way of making sense of stuff.

Think about how we use humor in our lives when something terrible happens, never mind on stage. There’s a lot of laughter around grief, death, and disease. There’s a real functionality to it. It makes something okay. It’s slightly playing with fire, but you don’t choose your sense of humor.

It choos you. It’s like sexual taste. Some like it’s spicy. Others prefer milder stuff. But you don’t fake a laugh.

And Jimmy talked about clapter, quoting him exactly. I have this thing I call clapter where an audience are just applauding clapper, not laughter. I watch out for that because that’s just people agreeing with you. Too easy. It’s too easy to say Trump’s a dummy.

There’s nothing in that. But also, I don’t want it just to be a shock and inhalation of breath and a nervous laugh. It’s got to be a belly laugh followed by an intake of breath. It has to be the right way around, because shock is nothing. It’s got to be funny first and foremost good stuff there.

Chris Gethard had a note for John Mulaney again, I haven’t seen episode two of M’LANEI yet, but I’m seeing mixed buzz at best. Some people are like, Okay, it’s quirky, but I’m not seeing anyone saying it’s great, which is a shame. Some people are comparing m’laniy show to what Chris getherd it used to do on his show, and Chris tweeted, I really love Everybody’s Live, and I’m probably more fascinated at its existence than anyone on earth, and I wanted to succeed on a massive scales. So please, guys, let’s get John an in ear monitor for the phone calls, and just let me know if I can help in any other way. As somebody who has produced a lot of talk radio over the years, I can tell you and I screen calls better than anybody in the game.

I challenge all of you. I will screen calls better than you. I’m really, really, really good at it, and i will tell you after the first sentence out of the caller’s mouth, it’s diminishing returns and you have to prep the caller and go Okay, surely when you get on, make sure you tell host you know, hey, I just wanted to say that I think blue umbrellas are stupid. Just get right to your point and then from there it’s diminishing returns and John is putting civilians on the air live and that’s why it’s a mess. So I’ll give the same note from I did from the LA series.

Stop doing the segment. It doesn’t work. That said, I don’t think Millenni cares that. He just wants to do this quirky, weird show and Netflix is paying for it whatever. Steve Byrne talked to Fox News Digital thanks to dr who shared this on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

I had just put together the show and then popped on Facebook really quickly because I wanted to tell you guys. This week I’m speaking to Jason Zinnemann from the New York Times. He’s going to be one of my guests about Hebburg. But I want to ask you guys anything you want me to ask Jason while I have him, So if there is something, throw it in the Facebook group. You’ll see the post there.

And I just put together the show with the Steve Burn thing, and I saw dr had shared the interview, so we’re thinking of each other. Thank you for sharing it. Steve Burn told Fox News Digital Hollywood today it could do a better job allowing comedians to be funny. I fear that my kids are growing up in a generation that isn’t going to have those kind of like communal jokes or communal scenes, or all these cultural references that we all grew up with. One hundred percent on that, and I think that’s just gone.

Burn said, Hollywood’s not making comedies, They’re not taking chances. Comedians were never selling out arenas to degree we have multiple comedians out there that are now arena acts. That’s because Hollywood has failed in terms of filling the void with comedies, and so people are getting their fixed in arenas. That’s interesting, right, because you’d like to go out for a night and back in the day, you’d be like, oh, well, Bill Murray movie, thanks for the fifty year old reference there, John, you know what I mean. But we don’t do that anymore.

And I guess it gets back to what Carr was saying earlier. You know, it’s nice to have a night out. I went out with the boys on Saturday afternoon to watch them college basketball. I had just spent a week in Doublin of the bars every night, and I want to see my friends. And we sat there and we had a beverage or two and some food and stared at sports and it’s nice.

It’s nice to go out, you know what I’m saying. Yes, Burn said, I think if Hollywood was smart, they let some of these guys go for it and not be too restrictive in terms of like, obviously, what Bill Burr has done, what Shane Gillis has done, those are blueprints. Obviously there’s a desire for someone to let them take that into a narrative form make films. Burn finds the entertainment industry progressive and left as a whole. I think that’s why people are leaving traditional outlets to go to your mom’s house or Rogan’s podcast, because they’re getting their fixed from these other mainstream elements that you know, pretty much only primarily support people that agree with them and play in their same sandbox.

I think you gain stand up is the greatest job of the world. The fact that you could take something relatable or something you just pull out of the ether, and you bring it to a roomful of strangers and elicit just a single emotion, which is laughter. This is nothing better than that. Steve burns favorite comedian, Brian Callen makes me laugh like nobody else. He’s so smart, so gifted, so talted, and he just genuinely makes me laugh.

Joe Gatto released a statement after a woman accused him of sexual assault in a TikTok. Joe said he had quote used poor judgment unquote in the past, but quote wouldn’t assault anyone unquote. The TikTok users said she had met Gaddo in twenty twenty three, when she was nineteen. Her claim is that she began texting him after approaching in a restaurant in hopes of getting a free ticket to the show. She ledges Gaddo gave her a pair of tickets, and they continued to text.

She claims they eventually wound up in a hotel room and some stuff happened. She didn’t go into detail what occurred. I’m not pulling my punch there. She didn’t share it. In one of her subsequent posts that day, she wrote, I got sexually assaulted by Joe Gatto.

The Impractical Joker. Gaddo issued a statement on Saturday which reads, iveeu’sed judgment and as a result, have violated the trust of the people I love most. But anyone who knows me at all knows full well that I wouldn’t assault anyone. Working on myself is an ongoing process, and I’m now going to take some time away from the public eye to focus my energies where I need to. Joe had left The Jokers in twenty twenty one.

At that time, he cited issues in my personal life and announced that he and his wife had been splitting up. In an Instagram post, he wrote, sorry in advance for the long and more serious than usual note below, I just wanted to let you all know I’ll no longer be involved with Impractical Jokers. Alongside my friends. I’ve devoted a decade in my life to building the franchise and couldn’t be prouder of what has been accomplished. However, due to some issues in my personal life, I have to step away.

Bessie and I have decided to amicalle port Ways said how I need to focus on being the best father and co parent two or two incredible kids. Rob Schneider has suggested that Kate McKinnon’s presidential election called open. The one where she’s sang Hallelujah as Hillary Clinton was the end of Saturday Night Live. Schneider told Glenn Beck, I hate to crap on my own show when Hillary Clinton lost, which is understandable. She’s not exactly the most likable person in the room.

And then when Kate McKinnon went out there on SNL and the cold opening and all that and started dressing as Hillary Clinton, she starts playing Hallelujah. I literally prayed, please have a joke at the end, don’t do this, Please don’t go down there. There was no joke at the end, and I went, it’s over, It’s not going to come back. He then talked about the late night hosts, specifically Kimmel and Colbert. You could take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the late night hosts and you could exchange them with each other.

That’s saying, you know, it’s not interesting anymore. Andrew Schultz sold Dak Shephard the secret to Trump’s success is that Trump doesn’t sound rich. Schultz said, that’s what people don’t like. Technowledge. Trump doesn’t sound rich.

When he talks, he sounds poor. Schultz continued and said the face of the Democratic Party should not be like a fourth generation trust fund neppo baby who’s never had a real job, like telling working class Americans what they should do. Trump talks like he’s from the neighborhood. Schultz talked about a press conference where Trump was asked and what happens if Russia doesn’t do the ceasefire? What will happen?

And then he goes, what if someone drops a bomb and it blows on your head. That’s how Frank from the neighborhood would answer a question. So he communicates in a way that is super relatable to these people, despite his life not being at all relatable. Jeff Dunham told Fox Trump’s win is a weight off comics back so they can get back to joking around. He says, you feel like you can now joke about the things we used to joke about.

Dunham calls comedy one of the last forms of free speech, and the fact in the past few years that was trumped on tromped. That’s not a word that I’m familiar with. I’m getting what it means from the context. Clues it’s an interesting word to use, especially when we’re talking about Trump. Let’s see.

Oxford says, Trump is an informal North American word that means trudge or stamp on, an example being Larry took a step forward and trumped on his wrist. I feel like I’m going to hear from people from other parts of the country who were like, don’t you know what trump is? We didn’t use trump in Queens anyway, Dunham says, to me, a comedian takes it to the line. He knows his audience, his or her audience. You’d take it to the line and you may step over it a little bit.

So to me, I’ve always believed that if I’m offending three to five percent of the room and that’s the entertainment that everybody else is laughing the hardest. That and that’s why to keep coming back, because they’re hearing stuff they don’t get to hear anywhere else. Some of Dunham’s characters include Jose Hallapeno and a Command the Dead Terrorist. But speaking of Jeff Dunham, when I was programming serious that, Hey, you guys can drink. I know you guys are like stop to Bowood Road, series.

It’s kind of relevant to what we do here at the show. But in the aunts, Jeff Dunham was huge. We had the Daily Request show and Dunham would get requested every day and you know that’s a ventriloquist on the radio and people couldn’t get enough of the characters. Dunham said, Well, when it comes with characters, you know, inventing the characters responding what’s going on. Like I said, it’s responding what’s going on in society and what I think the audience is to laugh at.

And then it’s literally coming up with tops because the subject matter that people can relate to say, with the character, they have to be relatable. And people, as you know, accuse me of having stereotypes of my characters, like yeah, that’s the point. You’ve got this grumpy old man, he’s a grumpy old man. You’ve got this redneck, you know, borderline white trash. People understand that, and then they expect a certain kind of material and a certain personality and it works for you.

It’s just like a sitcom. I don’t disagree with anything he said there. People need to lighten back up. It is nice to see the sea change. We can goof on each other and still be friends.

It’s wonderful. So yeah, Walter dressed up like Trump and then he dressed up like Biden. With the videos, he talked specifically about Ahmed, which he said was his response to nine to eleven. Dunham said he refused to play it safe with the character, stating at the time he decided, I’m not going to go to Hawaii or Alaskar or someone in California try this. I’m going to go to where it counts, and I was booked at a club called Bananas Comedy Club, six miles from ground zero.

He introduced the character as Osama bin Laden at the New York club. It was like God took a vacuum and sucked all the air out of the room. However, he recalls, as soon as he brought out the funny looking skeleton puppet and ned lived, the character is infamous I kill you catchphrase. The show could not have gone better, Jeff says, I mean it couldn’t have gone better, and just went from there. Jeff is not happy with the States of California, telling Fox I feel this beautiful state has been politically run nder the ground and it’s unfortunately because it’s one of the most beautiful dates in the country.

The La Times profiled Trey Crowder, Isn’t this fun? We’re talking about different people today, the headline too liberal for the South, too redneck for La. The La Times asked Trey about his liberal positions on politics. Tray said, people are definitely bummed out and feeling weird. The response has been pretty positive after the shows and whatnot, because I do talk about politics a little bit, but then I also talk about a whole bunch of other things that have nothing to do with that, and it’s a welcome distraction for people.

It’s take it a little bit of what they expect, but then also a little bit of diversion at the same time. But when I’m actually talking to people off stage, that morale generally is not super high right now. I’ve never really believed the comedy changes too many people’s minds or anything like that, but I do think it can serve an important purpose when it comes to things that are too hard for some people to talk about or think about. Comedy just kind of takes the edge off that, So I do think that can help and be important.

Also, people find it relatable, but I don’t think there’s too many comedy con…

Ali Wong was seen with Bill Hayter at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco, Turtle Tower. Thinked Wang and Hater for stopping by the Financial District restaurant. They posted on social media’s great food and even better company. We’re thrilled to be back in San Francisco and so grateful for all the love and support. A huge thank you to Ali Wong and Bill Hayter for stopping by this week and showing love to our small business that truly means the world to us.

One grew up in San Francisco and named Turtle Tower is one of her favorite restaurants of the city back in twenty nineteen. Cameron Esposito has announced a new stand up special, Four Pills, will debut on the streaming platform Dropout on April eleventh. I’m not familiar with drop Bell. Let’s see what they got. I feel so refresh today talking about other things.

Let’s saye dropout, independent, ad free, uncensored comedy. Oh, I should befriend these guys. I’ll reach out to them after we’re done recording here, maybe it’ll be nicer to me than the Hulu publicists. Girl Ah Cameron’s Posito special guys the audience on a surreal journey through the ups and downs of her bipolary disorder diagnosis, with detours to talk about marriage, divinity, school, and one extremely unlucky dog. Oh Cameron says, when you do this job, the number one thing people say is, I don’t know you can do that job.

Stand up is my biggest fear, and I’ve always said, well, it’s just because it’s not my biggest fear. Nice job by Michael Blaxon. He donated ten thousand dollars to his old high school, John Bartram High School in Southwest Philadelphia. He graduated from there in nineteen ninety. Blackson said, I tried to tell these kids every time, listen, man, you could be from the streets, but you don’t have to be in the streets, you know, and you have to think about ways of getting out of the street.

And hopefully I got to them today. Sometimes they need people like me to come talk to them. And I hope a lot of other people will go to their alma mater and talk to these kids and give them hope. Robert Smigel has released a lost TV Funhouse from two thousand and three. It had been abandoned in the middle of production.

The topic was George W’s invasion of Iraq. In it, they depict Bush attempting to take down a hive of honeybees. Smigel posted on the Triumph YouTube channel too many people the idea of liberating the civilians while killing thousands of them and destabilizing the region. It seemed hollow, especially with Dick Cheney’s conflicts of interest regarding the valuable oil resources there. So we started to make a TV Funhouse cartoon marking the endeavor tune Bush, voiced by Robert smigels in the Oval Office, presenting alternative programming that Americans can watch to avoid the stress of war coverage, specifically a show called President Bush’s World of Adventure.

In it, George W. Presents the Honeybee as an international threat who attacks innocent people. He teams up with Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld remember those names, boy, taking me back here to take down the root of the problem, the dictator Queen Bee. Dick Cheney reassures viewers it’s not for the honey Smigel explains why it never aired. Within a few weeks, Bagdad fell and any skepticism about the war was drawn out by the majority, energized by the civilians taking down Saddam’s statue.

So I hesitated, concerned about taking on the prevailing wind, we bailed on finishing the cartoon the only time that ever happened. It’s not our funniest and it would a shirly bomb with an audience at that time. But yeah, it doesn’t feel great. I backed oubt And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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But the pistachio is delicious and so far not causing kidney stones. Hello from old Man Mountain. I know, as I remind my kids, I was twenty once I met up with a friend in Dublin that used to hang out with me in the nineties. So it was interesting to see my kids meet someone else who like new stories from when I was their age. It’s like, yeah, I went out with my friends on Saturday.

I mentioned that earlier in the show, and we had a couple of beers and what were we talking about. We talked about something about health that was just like so old man, and I’m like, listen to us, old funny buddies. It happens kids, It will happen to you too. Right now, there is some nine year old kid who’s gonna hate your music. Yeah, all right, I’ve acee tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack and I missed you. I’m back from Dublin and I’m back live, back in the mix. I had actually pre taped today to give myself a break coming back off the trip. But I want to catch up with you guys.

There’s so much going on and I miss you and I do like doing the show. So today I’ll take a minute here and kind of catch up on stuff I missed during the week. It was keeping an eye on stuff. It was like, oh, it was pretty busy. Tonight.

Tonight, Conan O’Brien receives the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy. You talk about that in a second. I have not yet seen Bert Kreischer’s special. I did watch Bill Burr right before I hopped on the plane, not feeling it Bill. So I was thinking about this.

I haven’t really liked any how many specials this year, and I was thinking about it, and I’m like, all right, you just like cranky and I’m not cranky. I think what’s going on is that everybody who’s released so far this year is on like their fifth or sixth special, So like, all right, yeah, Bill, I know what you do and Gaba Glaciers. Yeah, I know what you do, et cetera. And I think it’s that that comedy needs some new voices out there. I think the big streamers are putting the same people in front of us over and over and over again.

You know that’s the algorithm, right, You put up a special and people watch it. And I haven’t seen Burt. Maybe it’s the best special year. I haven’t seen it yet. But you put up Bill Burr and people watch it.

You put up whoever I’m not here to bash, and you have people watch it. And I just think maybe it’s the comedy snob in me, or maybe doing this every day or the fatigue, but I just feel like we need some new here. I’m also getting the vibe that the buzz on The Laney Show is pretty bad. I haven’t seen episode two yet, but I’m not seeing glowing reviews that this is the greatest thing ever. That’s kind of surprising to me.

So we’ll get into all that, but let’s start with Conan O’Brien. He receives the Mark Twain Prize for Comedy tonight. They’re keeping under wraps who the lineup is, so that should be pretty interesting. I’ll catch up on the on Tuesday’s program. You know, I don’t have tickets, so I can’t even stay up late Sunday and tell you what happened.

I’ll have to have others tell us what happened. I’ll tell you about that on Tuesday Show. This is the first major ceremony asked at the Kennedy Center since Trump took control. The media is curious whether or not anyone will take shots at Trump at the event. We’ll keep an eye on that.

That should be pretty interesting. Kapy McGarr, who co founded the Twain Prize, calls it one of the cornerstones of the Kennedy Center. Peter Marx from The Washington Post calls it the Nobel Prize for comedy. Wow. The Mark Twain Prize started nineteen ninety eight.

Year winners Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner. Whoopy Goldberg was the fourth in Wow. That’s just of all the people you could honor, Whoopy Goldberg fourth. That seems way too early. No offense, Whoop bey, but way too early.

Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lauren Michaels, Steve Martin, Neil Simon, Billy Crystal, George Carlin not until two thousand and eight, and it was posthumous two thousand and nine. Bill Cosby rescinded in twenty eighteen, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell Ellen, Carol Burnett, Jay leno, Eddie Murphy in twenty fifteen, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia, Louis Dreyfuss, Dave Chappelle in twenty nineteen, John Stewart in twenty twenty two. I guess we had a COVID gap in there, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, and now Conan O’Brien. Conan was not their first choice. Apparently they wanted to award it to Catherine O’Hara, who originally accepted.

O’Hara then declined the awards. Some speculated that was because of the presidential election results. Her manager, Mark Gerviritz told The Washington Post it was nothing more than a scheduling issue. She had to decline way before all the crazy Trump stuff happened. They scrambled and then picked Conan just two months before the ceremony and much later than usual.

My spidey sense is tingling. I hope everything is okay in the O’Hara family. But if this thing is scheduled months out, Like if you came to me today and said, hey, you’re gonna win the Comedy Podcast Award it’s in August, Like okay, I’ll block out the date and I’m definitely not gonna go. Yeah, and then be like, oh no, I want to go on vacation week. I would just move my vacation.

I don’t know. Maybe some of the families getting married, or grandma’s not feeling well. I get it. There has been a lot of Conan press. He will return to host the Academy Awards next year.

That is good. He also revealed an opening that got cut, saying the Academy refused to let him put clothes on an oscar to lay it down horizontally. On his podcast, Conan said the Academy refused to let them put clothes on an oscar. The bit would have been, we’re fighting about things couples fight about. At one point, I thought, wouldn’t it be great if it’s just on the couch.

Let’s lay it on a really big couch and I’ll be vacuuming and say, can you at least lift your feet or could at least get up and help load the dishwasher. I want to do it, and they said no, no, no, that can’t happen. One of the people from the academy came forward and said, Oscar can never be horizontal, and that blew my mind, like wow, this is like the thigh bone of Saint Peter. This is a religious icon. Conan wanted to put an apron on the statue to depict it as a housewife serving Conan O’Brien some leftovers.

The academy said, no clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always naked. There was also a plan for an opening to the Oscars. The bit would have been Conan’s gonna goof on all the movies. It starts with Me and Wicked and I’m all green, finishing defying gravity or one of those songs, and I finish it, and then you cut to the next thing, which is gladiatdord claning, clang with swords, and you see that I’m a gladiator, but then you notice I’m still green.

And then you go to conclave and you see people voting with their ballots and one of the hands is still green. Conan said the whole thing was that the dye wouldn’t come off and we had to shoot it in one day. Conan was also at south By Southwest talking video games with Blizzard Entertainment. Conan was interested how entertainment companies now treat video games seriously. Conan said, what I found fascinating to me is that when I started in show business a long time ago, I was trying to get as many people as possible in a superficial way.

Now it’s about me trying to get to fifty million people with people who are really paying attention to what I’m doing. It’s less horizontal and vertical. Conan talked about visiting South Korea. They’re screaming kids, and it was because we found out later on a lot of it was through the gaming videos. You think, more than ever, we need this connectivity.

There’s a way that people connect through video games. There’s something that’s special and unique. He added, I want to be in the next Diablo. I want to be a demon or necromancer. My wife when we met, thought I was a necromancer.

If I’m in Diablo, people get to decide if I live or die. Very quickly, the boss of Blizzards said, we’ll get the writers on this all right. Vulture had a big piece backstage with John Mulaney, and apparently Netflix agreed with me that the guest list for week one was a little light. Malaney talked about the mix of weird guests and said, I can protect myself by acting like we just think it’s weird, and that way you can’t criticize it in the same way whether something’s good or people like. It is so ephemeral, they could possibly predict it with data that have more hits.

I don’t mean Netflix, I mean everybody. In the profile, we learned that Mullani is contemplating a stage version of his twenty nineteen documentary Now episode original cast album co Op. Can you hear the dog barking? I gotta keep recording today, dog, I got stuff to do. It just got back from Dublin.

You should know that Millenne’s going to tour again in August. He says he enjoys doing everybody’s live, but we’re not looking to stay on for thirty years. Mulani starts talking to the writers in this profile and said, we just had the funniest call with Netflix. Apparently, when Netflix learned the premier’s guests would include Fred Armison and Joan Baiez, they were worried that the show hadn’t booked talent that would make the premiere buzzy and exciting. Mulaney describes an unnamed executive saying, this is not the show we sold.

It was great to see someone kind of apoplectic, like, oh, honey, do you know what you bought?

And then they go, we don’t even understand what this rundown means.

I’m like, yeah, you think you’ll feel better when I explain telescope murder. If I walk you through that it’s a body double parody. We feel better about the spend. Writer Langston Kerman asked what name would actually be big enough. M’laney said, no, one knows.

He has a hard time imagining a potential view who has no interest in a millenniy show then changes their mind after they hear like someone’s got Tom Hardy to be a guest. Watch you a book, Taylor Swift, and watch what happens. That’s the thing about the show. It’s not like, oh, this is awesome. It’s great, but it’s not good.

The Week two guess where Nick Krol, Ben Stiller and Quinta Brunson, Like I said, I haven’t watched it Yet Splinter wrote to a review saying they think the show is more of a nice to have than I gotta have for John Mulaney at this point in his career, They write, Mullaney has intentionally or not given us a bit of unique counterprogramming and an indirect mind slash heart slash soulsaver. They then discuss a famous political figure who takes up a lot of media attention and then tag Mullaney might spare your sanity with one hour of meandering conversation about ghost helicopters and aquatic luxury living. For that reason, it’s hitting in the right way at the right time. Right, I have to catch up on that one story that I really wish I had been around for on Gossip Corner, Tracy Morgan throwing up at the Knicks game. How much fun as we get back into live shows here, you know what I mean?

Here? On Daily Comedy News, TMZ Sports has learned that Tracy Morgan is planning to go to another Knicks game as soon as he can. Is he busy? I mean, the next play like three times a week doesn’t seem that hard. In case you missed it, In case you were out drinking in Dublin every Night.

Tracy Morgan was hospitalized on Monday after a bad bout with food poisoning caused him to throw up all over the MSG floor during a Knicks game against the Miami Heat. The Garden has made it clear they’ll welcome him back with open arms whenever he’s ready. Fifty Cent gave him the business and posted a graphic photo and commented, Damn Tracy, wtf going on? Bro too much Branson koonyak lol. Tracy, in a statement on Instagram said, thank you for all your concern.

I’m doing okay now and doctor say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me. And I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you more importantly, the Knicks are now one to oh when I throw up on the court, so maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs. Nicks one sixteen Miami ninety five.

Bill Burr was on the View on Thursday. Can you think of anything less cool for Bill Burr to do? Why is Bill Burr going on the view? Our view viewer is going to be like, Oh, I really like this Bill Burr personally, He says, what is that booking? Why did you do that?

Bill? I’m trying to do synergy. No Hulu, Yeah, Hulu is Disney is ABC. That’s what that’s about. Okay.

In the industry, we call that a car wash tour where you go on everything owned by your corporate overlord. So that’s what that is. That’s Hulu ABC making him do the View. It’s just a stupid booking for Bill that it’s just dumb. He doesn’t belong there, seems missus.

Bill Burr agrees with me. He told the cast of the View, my wife’s freaking out that’s coming on the show. She’s like, who the hell booked you on that show? You say all this dumb stuff about women, don’t go on that show. Joy bay Are asked Bill Burr, is there anybody getting your eye up these days?

More than usual? But replied, the nerds. The nerds are on the politicians, all these tech nerds that want to build robots because they don’t know how to talk to hot women. They’re gonna take over the world. They’re literally gonna replace us.

We’re like Beta right now, and they’re coming out with the VCR, and I think Elon’s got the rockets going because they realize it’s other art’s out there and they’re gonna trash this one, so they don’t have any concern for it, and they’re gonna move on that next the Earth, and you know everybody’s gonna be standing down here with their blue and red ties going, wait a minute, I was on your side, and they’re just ready to leave. Sounds like Bill was trying out a new chunk on Troy Bahar. Bill was also on The Tonight Show telling Jimmy Fallon billionaires are not happy having a billion dollars. Why does Elon musk dressed like he just got out of a hot topic. I’m so sick of that guy trying to rewrite his origin story like he was Matthew McConaughey.

Pulling into the High School Times profile Bert Krascher as part of the media campaign around a special The Time said to Bert, congrats, I’m looking more svelt these days. Bert said, sadly, I’m still morbidly to the Obyese. That’s the craziest thing about the BMI scale. Have you looked at yourself on the BMI scale? My first time I ever did it was a long time ago on a podcast when Sigora and I were fat shaming each other and we were so morbidly obese.

Even at my skinniest, I’m morbidly abyese. I only work out so I can party. I look at the guys who party and don’t work out, and that kind of bumps me out, and I go, hey, man, not allowed to do that. That’s not the way it works. Every dad avenue growing up, if they had beers, they were very active.

Maybe they have drinks on a night out, but in the morning they wake up and go play basketball, go fishing in the morning. My dad ran marathons, so it got ingreened in me. If you’re gonna go out and have fun and party, then you got to pay the tax. In the morning. I’m still fat, and I work out really freaking hard.

I just bench three hundred and twenty five pounds, but I’m still just doing it so I feel better about myself when I wake up in the morning and I’m like, last night was a long night, but I’m gonna go work out. I got a canary in the mine, and that’s my wife, Leanne. There have been times when she’s been like, all right, let’s pull it back two years ago in July. She was like, I think we’re gonna pump the breaks on this one.

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And then I didn’t drink for like three months and I lost fifty five pounds by…

She’ll be like, have a glass of wine. Don’t be a fool. We’re only in Venice once it’s snowing. Let’s have a drink, have some champagne. My wife won’t let me be a teetotaler and won’t let me be an alcoholic.

The only times is curious does he run wife jokes past her before he does them on the stage, But it says, no, I just write them. But you gotta remember I still do stand up the way I did when I was a kid, where you just write stuff and say it and if it didn’t work with the audience, then you stop doing it. But it works for the audience, you figure out the tax on your family, and you’d be like, are you guys cool with this? But you gotta find out if it works first. So I just tried them all and then she came and sought a few times, and there was a little process in this one because I wrote material on the road, and I told it so much and it was an aggressive tour that I kind of lost the smile in it.

So the material specifically, if you can’t tell them joking, if you think that I’m mean, or if I lose the little and her words Rascal in it, then all of a sudden, it’s mean jokes about women. But if you know that I’m a loving husband who adores his wife, then it’s okay. And my wife, my producer, and my director were all like, we just want to make sure we see the smile in it. That’s really smart. So then I think we achieved it.

In the special. My wife edited it. She edits all my specials, top to bottom. I’m gonna be honest with you. I look at like the first five minutes, then if I like the first five minutes, I watched all special.

But the first five minutes is what I’m really specific about. Streaming is like grabbing their attention right away and saying, don’t leave, don’t go anywhere. I know even a million options, a lot more to that. That’s in the La Times. Let me back up.

The Malaney thing is in Vulture. You definitely want to catch up on that one. That was a really good read and I just barely skimmed it. What else happened? Brett Goldstein announced a special for HBO.

It’s titled The Second Best Night of Your Life. It will debut sometime in April on HBO. In a statement, Brett said, I’m so excited to do my first special, not on TV but on HB FINGO Nina Rosenstein, Executive vice President of HBO program and gave this extremely cool quote. We all know Brett as an incredibly gifted writer and actor, but his roots are in stand up. He has a razor sharp, dark sense of humor and is the perfect combination of British gentlemen and cheeky troublemaker.

And did you catch this one? A Russian commedie and apparently was arrested while trying to leave the country after he was publicly denounced for allegedly mocking war wounded serge A Zeitzev leads a public movement called Call of the People, said comedian Artemi A. Stannin made jokes mocking an invalid, especially our soldier who lost his legs in the special military operation that crosses all boundaries of morality and ethics. Austintin, in an online interview, apparently deny the accusations and said there was not a word in the joke about the Ukraine War. On Tuesday, Investigator said in a statement that he had been arrested on suspicion of inciting hatred and debasing human dignity, an offense that carries a jail term of up to six years.

That is your comedy news for today. Good to connect with you all again. I have no travel whatsoever planned, so you shouldn’t have any pre tapes for a little bit anyway. Later this week, well, my voice is to upbeat here, you can tell him a little frazzled. I’ve just got home from Dublin and flew and jumped in and did a podcast.

Next weekend is the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Mitch Hebburgh, So I’m working on two special episodes for next weekend. But the rest of the week should be normal, and I’ve got plenty for Monday and then Tuesday we’ll talk about the Conan thing. So I’m gonna stop babbling and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ari Shafir caught up with Fox News Digital and tell some stories about the dark years starting out in La. Ari said his early days learning the ropes in West Hollywood’s Comedy Store were the dark years. It was evil.

We were like doing crazy stuff. We had like gambling rings in the back. People would be hooking up in the back. It was just like crazy stuff would happen there, drug use and it was awesome, but there was no crowd. Every two weeks would have a show where there was just no show because nobody showed up.

But because of that we got used to failure. Ari said, it’s harder to break in in La compared to the other big comedy cities. It’s so disheartening. The open mics, the little level stuff is so crappy. It’s so crappy that almost all my funny friends like failed out.

There’s no positive feedback ever. It’s just terrible. Eliza Slessenger is going to be down in Sydney and at Sydney Fest. She caught up with The Sydney Morning Herald and explained her morning I have a strict tied of two cups of coffee and at least nine hours of scrolling in the morning before even talk to my children. I try to remember how much of this is not real.

I think, especially in the past few years, you’re an idiot if you think what you’re being fed is based in any kind of reality. She does like social media. It’s allowed more international fans to discover her work. She had just recently played some dates in Japan. Eliza said, at its finest, social media has a connective tool.

The Internet is a credible thing, but at its worst, the way most of us experience it, it’s our sugary demise. If you go see her at Sydney, she’ll be doing her latest hour get ready, and she enjoys the up for anything energy of Australian crowds. You guys love a good time. Anyone who’s ever gotten drunk while in Australia knows this. You’re like tropical British people.

I’m really looking forward to coming back down Under, though please note I did cringe when I just said down Under. I sound like such a tourist. Gabeglacias talked about one approach to his comedy which is nobody wants to hear about you having a good day. They want to hear about the struggle. Gabe collects watches.

He also is known to collect cars and Marvel memorabilia. Neil E. Times is curious where does the drive to collect stuff come from. Gabe said, that comes from not having stuff. When I was a kid, I always wanted this, this, and Mom’s like, now, we can’t afford it.

So when I got in a position where I could get those toys that I wanted as a kid, I made sure to do it. I figured out I don’t have any crazy habits. There’s no drugs. There’s just nothing that’s like, you know, I’m spending money on. So I’m gonna buy the toys.

I’m gonna buy the goodies, the collection from Marvel. That comes from me being a fan of the brand. I love Marvel. I watched DC, but I’m pretty one sided on that one. I even got offered an opportunity to be in a DC film, and I turned it down because I’m like, I’m gonna be a hypocrite if I do it.

That’s crazy. Gabe. First of all, I wonder who he would have played in a DC film. And that’s crazy, dude, that’s like really crazy. You should have said yes, game said, I’m gonna hypocrite if I do it.

As far as the buses go, my first car was a sixty eight Volkswagen Bus. Many years later, I got my ex her first car back. I said, you know what, I want to get my first car back. I got one, and the guy who got me the car, I said, if you want another one, let us know. And I was like, well, if you come across something to cool, let me know.

And it kept going and going and going, and now the whole building’s full. I recently got a free car from Volkswagon because they found out about the collection. They came down here and said, wow, you aren’t battinate about our product. Gabe’s grateful that he still has his career. He says, this career as a shelf life.

It’s not supposed to last this long, and I feel very fortunate that I’m still able to do it. And the fact that we’re still going up it’s insane to me. So I’m enjoying every day and I want fans to know that I feel lucky and I’m grateful. And if this goes away tomorrow we can all say we did all this. Felipe as Sparza also spoke to the La Times and said, I think as a comedian, you can make a joke about anything you want, but you got to be prepared to take the consequences of your words.

You can’t forget that part. One time, early in my career, I was asked to do a clean comedy show and I didn’t cuss, but he did some jokes about racism and religion, and I said the wrong thing, and it ticks some people off, and the microphone was cut off. And I had a lot to do with the content, not necessarily the cursing. But it’s important as a comedian you know the audience, especially when you get hired for private or corporate events. Now though, if I’m hired when he do shows, people know when you you get what you get.

If you know my shows, you know I’m gonna make jokes about drug, sex, marriage, race, religion and more. I’m gonna use vulgarity. But it’s a stand up comic. I’ve evolve from a one liner to comedian that tell stories, and it’s some really dark stuff, but I find it all funny. I don’t like to be too political.

But I do touch on immigration and race somewhat in a soft way to make people laugh. For instance, in one joke, I noticed how white people don’t work all month at their jobs then send money back to Scotland or Ireland. White people don’t have immigrant relatives from Germany or Belgium showing up the door with blankets saying they need a place to live. If I get people to laugh at some of the topical jokes, that’s a good thing. One thing we proved in this last election is you can’t put Hispanics and Latinos in the same category anymore.

We’re not all the same brown people. There are some Mexicans that want other Mexicans and Central Americans deported from the country. It’s insane. But overall I try not to take the angle where I come out saying all whites are racist and kill all white people, because that’s not really funny. There really isn’t a joke there.

I try to make little jokes about the topics and get people to laugh. Trenmarco Ciresi, a friend of the show, described how his comedy has evolved. He said, coming up, I worked at a club in Times Square called ll that no longer exists, Thank god. Yeah, John Marco’s not kidding there, you know, wasn’t the greatest New York City comedy club, just saying a lot of the crowd was not paying attention for some English was their second language, some were drunk or just noisy, and he had to cut through all that. So your jokes had to move quick, and he tried to really pop.

I got a lot of skills out of it, but the turns and twists had to be so sharp, they were less true and relied on being a little extra dirty or edgy. It was tough to build a world or tell a story. Now that I could tell a story of paint more of a picture, the punch line’s more meaningful. Explained it. In his newest work, He has a joke about feeling suicidal and having a friend who’s suicidal and explains if I’ve done that in at ten minute club set, people say, dude, I just want to have a good Friday night.

What are you doing? But my fans know my point of view and like darker things, so I can explore these topics. But almost every comedian, even the greats, gradually get worse. One factor is performing for your fans who like you and will laugh even at a failed joke, you lose the fear about keeping their attention and having to write something so sharp. Stand up is it’s a tricky art.

For him, you can feel like a try hard. In the beginning. You could have accused me of being too theatrical without the jokes to back it up. I got labeled as two to one man show at one club, which was frustrating. But for me, it’s pretty natural.

When attention is thrust upon me, a flamboyance emerges. I’m trying to lean into that without exaggerating it, always asking how can this be funny and serve the storytelling? As my stages literally get bigger, I look at the real estate and think, after use it for something, what can I use the stool or the mic stand for in a way that doesn’t feel overly choreographed but still adds a dimension that a lot of comics in the generation above me veered away from. Gary Owen thinks we’re in a golden age of comedy. He says, you don’t need the machine anymore.

It used to be when I started, you needed a producer or director or somebody to see something in you to put you on something. Now, as long as you got your phone, you can record anything you want. If you can put any stand up clip you want out there, you never know what’s gonna go viral. That brought the conversation to Matt Rife. Wife’s a guy.

You post something on TikTok, goes to bed, wakes up the next morning and it’s like, seventy million people saw this joke, and he’s like, what happened? I think you got more comedians right now, selling tickets, doing theaters, doing arenas. Comedy clubs are packed. You see Andrew Schultz, you see Shan Gillison. The way they’re pushing the envelope, you could see this is what we want.

We want to go into these rooms and be uncomfortable. We want this dark humor, and nobody’s taking it personally. Chelsea Handler was on Zack Shephard’s podcast and said she did not want to break up with Joe Cooy, but felt like she had no choice. She explained, I felt like it was a decision between having a relationship and being full honor, choosing myself and my sanity. Sanity is an overstatement, but I would have compromised my own value system.

That’s interesting, She explained. What I thought was a mature, healthy relationship and what he thought was a mature, healthy relationship with two different things. I know have had to compromise everything I stand for, and I wasn’t willing to do that. We had a couple instances where it was obvious that we had different ideas about togetherness and the amount of time would spend together in the expectation of me as his girlfriend, which to me were very outdated, old fashioned and not gonna work. The biggest takeaway from that relationship was that I was able to be in love in a vulnerable, mature, healthy way, and that when I realized it wasn’t going to work out, I was able to end it in a healthy, mature way and not divulge all the stuff and the ugly that might have happened in between, because I didn’t want to focus on that.

Chelsea said, Joe Cooy got me to point in my life where I needed to be reminded of my strength and my power of who I am, and he reinstalled that in me because I had kind of lost interest in my work in the job and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media at the home Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Sam Morrell sold the story to WAMC about Dave Attell, who’s one of Sam’s favorite comics ever, if not his favorite comic of all time. Sam remembers opening for a Tell a long time ago at Terrytown Music Hall and Dave would bring me out on stage. You know, it’s so intimidate and go out there and riffle them at the end, because you literally feel like you’re up there with Obi Wan Kenobi. Like nothing he say is going to be as good.

But I remember we’re driving back in the car, like he’s the only one who doesn’t realize he’s great, Like every comic thinks he’s great, and obviously so many fans. But we’re driving a car back and he was like, I’m a hack. I suck And I was like, dude, we all think you’re the best, and he goes, well, I’m better than you guys. The PGA Tour Instagram account has been sharing photos and videos of Nate Brigetzi out on the golf course. Nate said, this is how the pros do it.

They unpackaged the glove on the first tee, I just bought these gloves this morning. He gave the empty glove package to Rory McElroy and asked Rory to hold my trash. Nate teed up for the first soult and said it should be said that I was asleep twenty minutes ago. In the next video, Nate asked Rory McElroy what times you get down here. Rory says five forty five am.

Warm went off at five. Nate couldn’t believe it and said, oh, but tomorrow you have like a one pm. Rory said, yeah, late tea time. Yeah, Nate could have done a late tea time today, but no, he chose with me. He goes, let’s do seven ten am.

I was like, why can’t I come on with you tomorrow to the tournament at Won. So they’d see off. They hedge their balls and it turns out Nate was in the bunker. Nate says, I’ll be honest with you, that one might not be mine. It says Nate Brighetzi, but there could have been another.

Nate hits the ball again. It winds up to the next bunker and he chokes him. Keeping the fairwayes pristine for the tournament tomorrow. The filmer asked Nate how many warm up swings did you have? Nate said, I mean you saw the first swing, so that was it.

There’s never a warm up, to be honest. Terry grow said that great interview with Bill Burr last week. Bill talked about his hair and said, the greatest thing I ever had at me. So I went ball for my acting career because then I shaved my head. Look a psycho idiot that I am back in the day when I actually had hair.

You know, Hollywood, you know they talk about you just racism is sexism. It goes beyond that. Like they even divide up redheads. They were like rules about redheads. I was in the redhead drawer.

Okay, I was in the Opie Ron Howard Howdy duty drawer, Brooks Laine. I didn’t get the gun, I didn’t win the fight. I didn’t get the girl. I was a mugging victim. I was just there for the cool guy.

And I was saying I used to do joking my act, like I’m not the hero of the action movie. Like I was the nerd in the van when Tom Cruise is going, you gotta give me more time and I would be in front of the keyboard. All right, I’ll try click click, click, and you know you could totally see Bill Burr in the Simon peg roll. All right, what’s going on with Kevin Hart and Mike Epps. Kevin Hort’s entertainment production company is planning for the w NBA All Star twenty twenty five events that will be in Indianapolis.

President and CEO of Heartbeat Entertainment Kevin Hart told the Breakfast Club radio show, it’s an opportunity for our company. Our company is a creative engine for any resource that allows us to beat the pacers. We’ll use that as an example once we do it well, and from that example, I’ll go to other fing NBA teams or the NBA in general and’ll be like, I’m looking to be a better partner for the NBA. How do we better tell stories for your brand? How do we better promote market you?

How can we amplify and activate differently? These are words in the business the companies desperately want to hear from potential partners. Now. A few days earlier, Mike Epps had been on the Breakfast Club. They asked him about the Kevin Hart deal.

Epseid he should have called me hmm. You see, Mike Epps had a high profile during the twenty twenty five NBA All Star Weekend, which Indianapolis hostedpset, it’s politics. There’s a lot of times people that are not in business like comedy, or people who aren’t in the rap game that run entities. They don’t know. They think me and Kevin are sitting in the backyard drinking iced tea together.

So you really can’t get upset about it. It’s enough for everybody. Kevin’s put on enough young comics and people, so I don’t get slighted about it. Kevin Hart is stressing that his company will run the show in Indianapolis, not Kevin Hart, the seventy six ers fan, or it said, it’s not a Kevin Hart thing. Everybody as seems that Kevin Hart is the driving factor of the source.

It’s the entity. The entity has to do things outside of me for an entity to thrive, that’s a fact. Whether it’s the Pacers, I got business with the Falcons, I got business with the Eagles. Our business thrives when we can implement ourselves in places to create where elevant to brand a company, an entity and activation, whether it be live entertainment, storytelling, at etc. Will Heartbeat reach out to Mike Apps, Kevin Hart said, absolutely, if All Star Weekend’s coming up and we’re like, okay, we have ideas to serve a bigger process that people can probably gravitate towards a little different from when they done in the past.

Absolutely, does Mike want to bring in and be responsible for comedy from Indiana. Absolutely, that’s where you tap in. All we at Heartbeat are servicing the hub. We’re the hub. Now.

It’s our jobs go and grab everybody and make this thing underneath our hub better. You desperately need that. So in this case, hell yeah, Mike. Come on, Mike. By the way, this is your city.

What’s dope about the city that we can do with you? What do you want to do? How do we help you? That’s partnership right now. The priority between me and Mike is figuring out the thing we’re going to do together.

And I think now having that as a priority, his fans will be happy. My fans, I think will be happy. I think it’d be dope for the culture when we do it. Tom Poppa talk to Seattle Magazine the subject of the news. Tom Papas said, here’s the big stuff we can’t get away from.

Like you just want to look at your phone for something fun and you’re innundated with bad news. Your friends are now your news source. Even if you swore off the news, your friends will pop up and tell you. It’s like all my friends have become wolf Blitzer. And there’s small stuff like people watching videos on their phones in public without any kind of ear butter headphones.

Oh yeah, we need to throw pies at those people. I still can’t believe somebody will stand an introm new boarding a plane and watch a video on full volume Pies everybody. We need to throw pies, you know, like soft shaving cream pies on a paper plate. I don’t want to injure anybody, but people need to get a message here. Airports are even making announcements about it now, and you know the bad behavior has gotten worse when they start to include it in the run down before takeoff.

Jennifer Coolidge told the story about Pete Davidson, two people they work together during the filming of Riff Raff. Jennifer said, I remember one day was freezing and I was on a house where filmed, and then this Rolls Royce bulls up and I was like, who’s that. It must be the owner of the house, right, and it’s Pete Davidson in his Rolls Royce. The car didn’t quite go with the neighborhood or any of the experience. But then I thought, he’s doing his own thing.

I was never as interesting as that, you know, showing up at a Rolls Royce in the middle of winter at some job. It’s a very fancy car to roll up in the dead of winter. You can’t tonight. It’s a crafty way for the young comedian to impress the star studied ensemble. There’s everything wrong with the person doing their own thing and traveling around in style.

Brian posain teld The Sonoma’s Son. In comedy, it takes a while to find your own voice. You start out acting like other comedians. The comedians I love, which Steve Martin and Robin Williams. I’d listen to the records stand up recorded right across the bridge in San Francisco.

They were my comedians, connected and local, using references that I understood that it became obsessed with all the eighties movies, the Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma, where Brian was playing was different. Then the same movie would stay in the theater for weeks, and I’d go watch them all more than once. Late Nighter was excerpting from Joe Piskovo’s book, in which Joe Piscopal tells a story about his Frank Sinatra impression. Joe explains, I’d record Sinatra from TV on a VHS tape, then I’d record the audio onto a cassette tape. Between the video and the audio at my source material, I’d drive around in my Ford Fairmont great detail there, listening to the cassette and repeating it over and over.

When you do that, you just start to catch it or you don’t. It was trial and error. Piscopo points out that Sinatra’s accentes Hoboken, North Jersey, which is distinct from the rest of Jersey. Joe said he’d loosen it up a little bit and make it a little more stre Eventually, Joe winds up at SNL they want him to do the impression. Joe sen Sinatra letter that said something like this, mister Sinatra, I send this with the greatest of respect.

You’re my hero, like my father’s my hero. He told me you’re the number one entertainer of all time. I mean no offense when I do the impersonations. They’re done with complete respect, first and foremost. If you find them would be offensive anyway, I’ll cease it and assist immediately.

Joe said he never heard anything. All right, this is cool And starting tomorrow, Vulture has a show called Guaranteed, a new bi weekly comedy show at LA’s Lyric Hyperion Theater, hosted by two of twenty twenty four’s comedians you should and will know, Mandal and Skyler Higley. Nice lineup tomorrow. The first show Emily Catalano, she was on this very program, naomiic Peragin, Yes, Heer Lester, and Robin Tran. A few weeks back in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, one of the main crew over there, Dylan posted question for both of you, the other person being Mike Chishom from the Letterman podcast.

Of the group of the late night host since ledone Letterman who be remembered as the best. I think it’s Conan or John Stewart. I was busy that particular day and said, you know, I’m gonna hold this in cycle. Back to it when I have a minute to think. Mike from the Letterman podcast wrote to me, Conan was really the third man in and he is a different place in history than Strike Force five does.

He’s in a league with Letterman Carson as far as I’m concerned, Yeah, I feel the same way. You know, clearly Conan taking over for Letterman and Letterman going to eleven thirty. So there’s the Johnny Carson generation. You know, if you want to throw Decavot in there, if you wanna throw or Senio shooting Star show in there, you could. Uh, then there’s Letterman leto and Conan’s at twelve thirty there.

But I feel like Conan is a half generation later, Like if we were seniors, he’s a freshman, So I would kind of put him in his own generation. As for the current group, Mike wrote, Colbert has a classiness about him that I think will only deepen with longevity. Kimmel has a case because his tenure and resume alone. Colbert host at a phone news talk show and morphed into late night talk show guy John Stewart. Wait from late night talk show guy to a fake newsguy.

That’s really interesting. Fallon is and always will be a quandary to me. He’s got massive talent and a big following who love what he does, and a bigger following who loves what he does in small doses? Is he the best at that? Now the cordon’s gone, He’s the clear winner of the viral video portal of late night?

But does that make him the best host? Good thoughts for Mike. So the question here is who will be remembered the best? So if he asked me which is my favorite late night talk show? I think I would answer Jimmy Kimmel.

And I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched an episode of Jimmy Kimmel on a television. I’ve seen tons of clips and I like what Jimmy’s about, But I do feel he’s like somebody who makes the Baseball Hall of Fame because they play twenty three seasons. I’m not sure what Jimmy’s signature moment is. Is it hosting the Oscars? So I don’t know.

I feel like he’s gonna put up the stats and make the late night Hall of Fame. But I don’t know. Colbert, I don’t know. I’m not feeling it. I know he’s winning the Late Night Wars Fallin.

I’ve worked with Jimmy a couple of times. I never encountered the Jimmy that some of the rumors were bad. I found a nice guy. I think he’s immensely talented. I think he understands what hosting the Tonight Show in twenty twenty five is, and the game and the gimmicks and the social media clips.

I think he understands the mission. And maybe in another universe where he was unshackled the way Conan has been, maybe you could see what Jimmy Fallon can really do. But right now, based on the body of work, or we’re going to look back at Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. I mean, let’s rank the Tonight Show hosts. What are we gonna do?

And I’m winging this and you can send letters and tell me I’m an idiot. We’re gonna go Carson, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Jay Leno, Conan only because he only hosted it for five minutes and Fallon in sixth, right, So I don’t know there. So I guess the answer is j Stewart and more. For John Stewart’s original ten year rather than this coda that he’s tacking on, And is the coda going to be one of those things where Aaron Rodgers played for the Jets. We’ll see.

I think the hope was that John would have a major impact on the election last year, and I’m not sure the show registered the way it had in the past. So if I had to answer John Stewart, I guess so that’d be my answer might not be the right answer. And you can always comment in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. All Right, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Krasher shocked about how he writes his material down. He told Variety, I’m an old school pen to paper guy. I love being on a plane, getting a cocktail and writing during takeoff.

I have a certain kind of book I use, and a certain kind of pen I use. The jelly roll oh Age is my favorite pen. Back in the day, i’d carry the book on me all the time. Now I just have my phone. I have a note section that says new material, and it’s probably twenty pages long.

It’s everything I find funny. Like I talked to a guy the other day who said he and his wife went to Paris, and I asked what they did, and he goes Disneyland in Paris was so awesome, and I was like, what, who goes to Disneyland in Paris? I write that down? Then, when a building an hour, I might pepper those observations into a story to make it a little richer. I collect them.

It’s almost like a spice rack. Bert, do you ever do corporate gigs? Never? You can’t get me to do one. I have no interest in that.

I don’t like being told what to do. I have what my wife would acknowledge as bad behaviors, and I’m not a good employee. I’m not good with a bunch of millionaires telling me what to do. I did a corporate gig in Aspen. That’s when I really needed the money.

I got paid twenty five grand, which is still a lot of money, but back then it was take care of us for a couple of months money. It was for a hedge fun and I got up there and they’re like, well, kind of watch you wearing. I tried doing some material on my watch, and then one guy in the front row goes, dude, do the machine, let’s barty. So I did twelve minutes, I told the machine and we went to a bar and got wasted. Having said that, I did do a gig for a company called Planeter back when they were just a startup.

They gave me five grand. I just came in and rost with them for an hour. Broady said you should ask for equity when you do these gigs. Bert, I almost guarantee you they offered me equity, and I had no idea what planet or was these two dudes. We smoked cigars drink whiskey and talked about securities or something.

Bert what about international gigs. He said, there’s one gig I’m toying with an Abu Dhabi, but the rule is you can’t take a shirt off. I don’t trust myself. I think every comic has this weird anti authority behavior. If you tell me not to, I’m gonna it’d be weird to see Bert with a shirt on at this point, right, that’s kind of like his image.

Or I’m gonna get so close to it that the Hall monitor is gonna get a little upset. But every other international gig Dublin is probably the best show I’ve ever had. It’s so funny how small the world has gotten. Netflix has changed the game with comedy because people come out to hear your show in Dublin and they look like a dude from Omaha. They just sound different.

Greece was a little weird. I was getting ready for my Razzle Dazzle special and I had this joke it wasn’t working about getting some manscaping done. Let me leave it there, and it’s quite aggressive man escaping, but it said I did it in Greece, and it was like I was reading the Bible. They were losing their minds. It made the joke better because they really experienced it.

Patton Oswall talked about touring the country. He tries to separate people from politics and welcomes almost everyone to his shows. He says, I never go to a place in dreadite like Ugh, I’m in Mississippi now. There’s always pockets of coolness and resistance everywhere in the red estates.

Also, five minutes outside of LA you’re basically in a red state.

Then you can be an Asheville, North Carolina, which is one of the most left wing progressive places on Earth. So it depends where you are, and now you treat the people you meet. Brian Possayin spoke to the Sonoma’s Sun. Brian was excited about returning to Sonoma, where he grew up. He said it was a big gig for me.

Usually when I have performances coming up, I’m not thinking about what to do because I already have an act. But to be performing in the theater where I first saw Jaws is next level. My mom used to drop me off at the theater with movie money and be gone all day here. I remember that kids from these seventies and eighties. The Sebastiani Theater was a big part of forming who I’ve become.

The first time I performed comedy in Sonoma was ninety one on the stage at the Plaza. The last time was in ninety two. I had to do it at the theater where I may or may not have written George Washington’s slept here on the seat in front of me during a Clint Eastwood matinee. Is pretty cool and kind of a full circle moment from me from the Coin Telegraph, your home for comedy news. Explain why TJ.

Miller wants to be a trustworthy face for bitcoin. And if you can’t trust TJ Miller, who can you trust? He explained. It all started with a casual coffee run in Manhattan. While in town for a Bitcoin investor week, Gareth stopped by the Romeo and Juliet Cafe where his bitcoiner Radar went off.

Tells us the Coin Telegraph sitting nearby in that cafe TJ. Miller, who it turns out, was happy to dive into an impromptu conversation about all things bitcoin. TJ explains, you can tell that I’m passionate about it, and so That’s what I’d like to do is sort of be able to be somebody that brings cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring more people to it. Because it’s important for people to buy bitcoin, but it’s all important for people to understand why and not just buy bitcoin, but why bitcoin. Rosebud Baker spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her decision to work her miscarriages into her material.

Her recent special shows her both pregnant and then after delivering a healthy child. Rosebud explained, Look, I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t have a lot of faith that she was going to make it. I’ve never had a superstition about it where I thought, oh, if I talk about this, something bad could happen. It was more like, if I talk about it and then something bad happens, how do I address that. I really sat on my original material and then the jokes that were in it, so I could talk about what this feels now asposed to what I thought it would feel like when I was pregnant.

The special something I would have really appreciated when I was battling with whether or not I wanted to have kids. I made something for my former self. I joked about my miscarriage the week hand happen. I was going on stage and doing those jokes. That being said, after about three weeks of running those jokes, I realized I hadn’t processed enough to be telling them.

It went for being excited to I need a second with this alone before I can bring the topic back up. So even though I can write a joke about something sad right away, until I’ve actually dealt with it, it’s not fun. Audiences need to feel safe to laugh at this stuff, and if I don’t feel truly cool about laughing at it, they don’t have a shot. At the beginning of my tour, when I was pregnant, I knew I was going to tape that hour because I didn’t think i’d have a lot of time afterried the baby. It’s not a good enough reason to actually put a tape out there.

But then I was talking to my comic friend Ryan Hamilton, and he suggested holding onto it and revisiting it after the baby whenever I got to it. So then I filmed a whole news special with the updated material and decided to just send both tapes to my incredible editor Killie and told her pit whatever works and just airr on the side of funny, So it became a combination of the two specials. Andrew Schultz talked about one man shows and said, I have respect for the one man show people, but sometimes I feel like you’re asking the audience to lower their comedic expectations. And that’s okay because there’s another component that might fill that void. But for me, it was like, what could I do to make you laugh as loud as you’ve always laughed when you come to my shows?

And one of the most rewarding things that I get these dms to this day. People come to the show. They had no clue because I didn’t promote it like this. They probably saw the Life tour and they thought I was bragging like I’m living a life. So they come to the show expecting one thing, and then they leave and they’ll DM me like, oh my god, we just started our IVF journey.

Then they’ll message to me months later like here’s a picture of our baby. We just got pregnant, where some people were struggling and they say this gave him a little more hope. And again that’s not what you go in expecting. I just wanted people to come laugh, but have that kind of connection with people on top of it. It’s been awesome.

Bill Burr was talking about his special drop dead years, and he said, sometimes late at night, I put the kids to bed and I can’t go to sleep. I think about them and I get sad. But I don’t look at death as something to be feared. And I don’t think there’s this angry, invisible guy that’s gonna be upset. Who has the time to watch the tapes of my life.

I don’t want to be up there just pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows I was guilty of that early in my career, but that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you realize that you’re bring some of the problems to the table and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way. Much like Schultz, Burr has heard from fans.

He says, I hear it in the way they’re laughing, and it’s good for women here. That’s understand there’s perception that men are just dimensional. Get man sandwich a man happy. There’s a little more nuanced to guys than perhaps they thought. One of the fun things about getting older is your perception changes on things.

For me, we was starting to understand women a little bit, which is crazy something I never thought I would do. I thought forever they’d be confusing to me. Maybe it’s because I can communicate better, or the women in my life communicate better with me. Still, God knows, it’s Alwa’s going to be our fault. Spoiler for the new special.

He talked a little bit about Israel and Palestine, and Bill explains, if you listen to that bit, it’s apolitical. I’m just saying we need to come up with a way to solve our differences without dropping bombs on children. I don’t think anybody would have a problem with that. The great thing about travel, if you travel with your ears open, is you see way more similarities than differences. Everybody kind of wants the same thing, to chill out with people they love, to have enough money for food and clothing and shelter, and to be able ex hail and not worry about what’s coming around the corner.

What really bothers me when I travel is the level of angst and worry out there from hardworking people. That’s why when I tour, go to the twenty five cities you’re supposed to go to after you make it. I just did a whole tour of the Central Valley, and I got to tell them my perspective on things, and I got to listen to theirs. I learned a lot more about California than I ever knew. I’ve been out here for seventeen years.

It’s interesting seeing what they find funny and what they don’t. Bill has asked what’s the worst trend in comedy right now? He says, I don’t tell people how to do things. What I feel like I should be doing is making fun of both sides. My job’s not to pick a side.

You come to see me because you want to forget about your problems. Even if I do make fun of a politician, I always make sure I get them both. If I’m gonna make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of Fox and make fun of the whole thing, because I don’t feel like politicians work for us. They work for the super rich, and they’re grossly underpaid, so they’re open up. Bribery gives regular people something to get mad at.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Burt Kreischer. Did you enjoy his special? He was talking to Variety sold a cool story.

I was walking in Savannah, Georgia one time before playing the arena, and I saw my fans partying before the show down by the river. I was jealous. I was like, dude, I want to be with them, and I think they know it. I love getting into stuff and being a fan of something. I love discovering something and then becoming obsessed with it and buying tickets for me and ten friends, like, Hey, have you guys heard of the Red City Strays.

They’re coming to town. They’re about to be a new favorite band. I bring all the comics, Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, Big, Jay Ogerson, my wife, my whole team, six of my friends. I get his tickets. We saw Jimmy Buffett, we saw Goose, we saw Wilco.

So I’m lucky to have fans that are like me. Variety talked about that cliche that rock stars want to be actors and actors want to be rock stars. Back when I was working at Serious, I remember comedians were in the mix, there was it. The comedians wanted to be rock stars, and the rock stars wanted to be actors, and the actors want to be comedians. I think that was the triangle anyway, Bert, do you feel that way about live music?

Bert said, oh yeah, I’d love to be able to just have a set list that I know is going to murder instead of going up at the comedy store trying to figure it out. You could play your hits for years. Look at Creed, they’re doing stadiums now. I think all comedians wish they were rock stars. We all wish we were taken seriously and sexy.

We’re goofballs. Ironically, the sexiest thing about us is that we’re not sexy at all. At the beginning of this special Spoilers, Bert rips his shirt off and throws it in the air and it lands perfectly on the mic. They were curious how many times on tour did that workout versus not? And Bert said, it never worked.

That’s why you could see the look on my face as sheer exuberance. We had that ridiculous outfit made because I noticed in all my specials I’m wearing the exact same thing, jeans, and no shirts, so they all look identical. Netflix would brand my specials with different outfits on the thumbnail to draw people in, but then I’d be in jeans, so I wanted to have a VERSACEI Miami style suit made. The taping was special, if I’m not mistaken, we use the entire set front to back from that taping. With comedy, you can get a little bit of magic.

That’s why crowd work is so fun. When my shirt landed on the mic, everyone went crazy. We had one taping where someone out a stroke, so we’re not gonna use that one. Oh that’s awful. They were curious about how he works in his family, and Bert said, I write everything in the hopes that my daughters and wife will like it.

Land saw the act a couple of times. It definitely had notes and doing that material. There was a certain point in my act where it became less jovial. It wasn’t coming across the right way, and she had a note about that. She was like, all I need is a little bit of Rascal smile on your face.

You’re doing it so much that you’re losing that. Remember the way you did it the first time. Great note from Leanne similar discussion between Samarl and WAMC, who said, when a rock band goes out on tour, people just want to hear the old stuff. With comics, it’s the opposite. Sam said, yeah, I was just watching that Bob Dylan movie.

The big scene is that he wants to shake things up and go electric, and he’s like, yeah, screw you, I’m going in electric and it was so funny that, Like, no disrespect to musicians, but boy, they have it easy, especially the big ones. You know, obviously if you’re struggling musician, having a middle class lifestyle as a musician’s probably harder than a comic. I think they’re the easier trajectory. But then if you’re like Billy Joel, you’re like, oh, I don’t have to write for forty years. That’s incredible.

Topic of podcasts came up and how every comedian has one. Sam said, I think the problem is there’s so many things you have to do. Remember years ago, David tell told me like enjoying now when all you do is wake up and write jokes, and he was right. But now it’s very hard for me to find time to work on my act. The hollyw reporter asked Andrew Schultz, you have a lot of success, why don’t you just post on YouTube?

Schultz said, I did the first Netflix special during COVID, and that was just based on these turn your phone videos that I do. And the last one I did where we sold it ourselves, was really supposed to be on Amazon, but they gave me push back about a couple jokes, and I don’t even blame them. I’m like, hey, you’re a billion dollar company that sells toilet paper. Why would you risk tarnishing your brand over my Michael Jackson take or whatever the joke was. So my initial idea was to do that one with the streamer and see how that worked and see if that brought it in a different audience, etc.

But then people were able to rally behind me and that was pretty sick, all right, So why go Netflix this time? Schultz explains there was a time during COVID when people were so engaged online with creators where we were buying these live moments and live events, and it became part of what we did because there was so little content out there. Then the second that COVID ended, the studio started pumping stuff back out and people were like, all right, I don’t need to buy that little moment. I’ll just watch Severance on TV. Culture changed in the way we consumed in my estination, So I was like, yeah, I think it makes sense to go over here to Netflix.

But one of the cool things is that I had a number that I could do on my own, meaning I knew how much I could generate. No comic really knows their worth. You just think of a number, you go, Okay, Chapelle got that, But I had a number having had that experience on my own. But even then, in order to get an offer, you need another offer. That’s the other thing I realized about this business.

Rody asked him about all the various streamers getting into the business. Hi, Hulu public says, how you guys doing today? You know you don’t have to answer, It’s fine. Schultz said, this is the best thing that can happen for comedians. I’m putting this special on Netflix, but every comedian should be rooting for Hulu right now.

They should be rooting for Amazon. My dog is apparently rooting for Amazon. I can never tell if the directional Mike picks up the dog, but she’s barking, which is a story I recently did an industry podcast, and I asked my wife, I’m like, can you just take the dogs for an hour? Because I need to seem like an industry professional. It’s one thing when I’m doing my own silly comedy podcast, I can reference the dogs or make a bit out of it.

When I’m trying to come across as guy that owns podcasting company, I need to be an adult and I can’t have crazy dogs. I was on a job or interview lately and an online teaching course was looking for me to teach a class about podcasting. In the middle of it, the dogs went bananas, and like, I’m texting her on the side, so it’s a zoom call and I’m trying to keep eye contact with the person interviewing me, and I’m texting her like with my phone, blow the camera, like will you get rid of the bleeping dogs? And she ignored my texts. So it was very embarrassing.

I digress. Andrew Schultz said every comedian should be rooting for Hulu right now. They should be rooting for Amazon because the more people out there, the more competitive they have to be. We created a competitor in YouTube, and what I think that partly did is it loosen the constraints? Netflix has always been good with putting out content, not censoring, but it made comics go, oh, I could potentially get more for myself, not even money wise, just to get more reach on YouTube.

I often tell comics that are younger in the game, putting your stuff out on YouTube and clipping the whole thing and putting it out everywhere before anybody knows about you is more beneficial for you. Variety variety, push, and the stamp of approval then Netflix seemingly provides. Doesn’t outweigh that, Schultz said, I think it depends where you are in your career. I think early on people want to find you. If somebody sees you at Madison Square Garden, they’re gonna be like, oh, he’s popping.

We don’t want to feel part of that discovery because you represent their dreams. Good follow up A few years ago, apparently Andrew on Rogan’s show said Netflix is done. Andrew explained awestly anything, it’s why he can’t take me too. Seriously, Ry was curious if that impacted the negotiation. I’ll answer having worked at companies, and I haven’t even read his answer yet.

Talent wins. If somebody wants to be in business, you could throw pies on the boss’s face. And if they think there’s money to be made off somebody, they’ll work with somebody. Let’s see what Andrew said. Oh, that didn’t matter.

They don’t care. They’re in the business of putting out the best comedy and they want to make sure it’s on their platform. Yep. So they’re not gonna let me say Netflix is dead. Before the last special I put out get in the way of me going to Hulu or Amazon.

They were right by the way. I thought I was right, though, I was like, how can they win this race? Everything’s going to be on YouTube? But they figured it out. Man Bill Burr was on Terry Gross’s show last week.

He was doing some therapy. It sounds like he said, I’d get off stage and just feel like, God, what was that? What was that? That didn’t feel good? Meaning the laughter, even though the response was good, it just kind of felt like it didn’t feel good.

It was gross. It’s just dark, ugly, just plain hurt, just coming out the wrong way. Where it’s so funny because some comedians that I love the most, the way they process their pain was a very empathetic short way, which I’d say Richard Prye was the king of that. He just really had this ability of talking about his mistakes that he made in a way that you could see that it bothered him that he did some of these things, and it also made you root for him, Like I felt like that was the biggest thing I had as far as being a fan of his work was beyond finding it hilarious and jaw droppingly brilliant, was that I found I was rooting for him in his personal life as he was going through all these marriages and vorcees and problems with the cops and abuse and lighting himself on fire. Like you know, I love the guy, and I was just hoping he was going to find peace.

Where my comedy act right now is I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other. I talked about that last week. Remember when Billy Corgan showed up on Howie Mandel’s podcast and they started floating the conspiracy theory that Billy and Bill Burr are brothers? Was it a bit? Is Billy Corgan for real?

Apparently he for real? He told people it was one of those rare moments where I think all three of us really didn’t know where it was going. And you see that, and that’s what makes it sort of interesting. There’s enough energy there. That’s why it’s not a bit, because it’s really about confronting something in a way that none of us really knew what that confrontation would lead to.

And you see it play out. You see jokes, but you also see like, oh, there’s something there. A really good friend of mine said to me, all right, tell me the truth, and I said, I don’t think so. I don’t think we’re related.

And then my friend said, well, I think you are, and I said, well, I guess it’…

So then my friend goes, we’ll get a DNA test. No word on a DNA test yet, or if Bill Burr would be interested in that. Corgan said, it’s taken out a life of its own. It’s sort of strange. It really started from honest things, which are my father may have fathered twelve other children, and the facts of Bill’s life actually do match the story that I was told.

So there’s no invention there. MOA Mayer talked to the BBC for his show. He said he wanted to keep the greater context in mine and didn’t want to focus on October seventh and its aftermath because that almost insinuates that this just started. Mo explains that couldn’t be farther from the truth. He spoke about the final episode, which I won’t spoil.

Originally it was sixty minutes long and they cut it down to thirty nine. He says it was almost like we filmed a movie. He wanted to cover the main strokes, which included how difficult it can be to enter and live as a Palestinian. Once over there, Mo explains, immediately, you’re not on vacation, You’re on edge. Actually, he says he can’t walk away from being seen as a spokesperson for Palestinians.

I think everyone just needs to manage their expectations. But I’m not going to shy away from it. Those that agree with me or disagree with me. It’s important to continue the dialogue and have a conversation. He has that he’s always hopeful that things can get better.

Seattle Magazine caught up with Tom Papa the topic touring and when he toured you get some weird meals. What’s the most depressing tour meal you’ve had, Tom? Papa Tom said, what’s depressing is when you’re in some hotels and you see they have room service, so you get room service, which seems like a good plan because of the timing. You know, I got to get to the show. I’m coming home late, or at least they have room service.

And then they show up my door with a paper bag with the room service in it. It’s a leftover from COVID. I’m like, oh, I thought it was actually going to eat and now I’m just burrowing through the trash looking for food. Zach Zimmerman will premiere their debut comedy special, Surprise Me, on April twenty seconds. Zach has been hailed as a rising star by The New York Times and was named in Vultures Comedians You Should Will Know.

Filmed at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, Zach takes a look at the definition of love across evangelical Trump trained family members, Romance gone Wrong, and Donuts Done Right. You won me over at Donuts. The special is described as sweet and salty. I see what you’re doing there. It’ll be on YouTube Tuesday, April twenty second, eight pm Eastern.

Surprise Me will also be available as an album. Johnny Mack likes when people put things out as albums. Out tomorrow on Amazon if you’re in the right geographic location. I don’t think this will air in the States, John, Why are you talking about it? Because John likes Jimmy Carr, who’s the host of Amazon’s Last One Laughing.

Hopefully they show it here. On Last One Laughing, comedians are put into a reality TV style house, and chill should keep a straight face while other contestants try to make them laugh. Jimmy says the format plays into stand up strengths, as we’re competitive and we don’t like our colleagues to be funny. It’s strange should be working for Amazon, a soulist, capitalist, dubious money making machine, but Amazon still thought I was the man for the job. Last One Laughing is based on a Japanese game show, prompting Jimmy to joke.

Amazon are continuing their policy of supplying cheap knockoffs from Asia. Some of the contestants names you may know include Richard Ayoade. He didn’t watch the show at the screening. He chose to read a book. Trotle tells us the book is Absolute Beginners by Colin McInnes.

Richard said, I still haven’t seen it because of psychological problems, but well done everyone. I have a strong policy about seeing my own face, and it’s a no for me. Richard Liken the show to a hostage situation, Last One Laughing on Amazon tomorrow, depending where you live. Susie Eddie Hazzard is going to tour Shakespeare this fall September thirteenth through November fifth. His art will perform Hamlet.

Not really comedy, but I thought it was an interesting item. Took fifteen seconds for me to tell you. A Nashville scene caught up with Andy Marie Tillman two and a half years ago. She began posting clips to social media and the guys of various original characters. They became a hit.

Tillman has around five hundred and seventy three thousand followers on TikTok another four hundred and sixty nine thousand on Insta thanks to characters like Papa, who’s an ornery, overalls clad Appalachian, Pam, who’s your southern aunt who’s prone to oversharing, and I love this Nashvaratu, a Countree count count Country Countree musician and vampire trying to fit into the Nashville scene but having a rough go. I love that as a premise, Tillman says, you know, maybe, perhaps possibly it’s been inspired by some of her family. She says, my family takes bets on who’s who, so all of them think they’re everybody, and I think they like the down home kind of stuff. Nashvaratu was too weird for them. They’re like, I don’t get the vampire stuff.

You’d probably do better if you did more, Papa, that’d probably launched you somewhere else. I’m like, okay, don’t need the no. She said, when the check started coming in, I was able to quit cleaning houses the thirty hours a week that I was happy to do that to make the ends meet.

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And then I thought, all right, maybe this social media thing isn’t so bad.

There’s something about getting a check that just makes everything. You put your soul on the line for that money. She is Andy Marie Tilman, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreischer’s specialist on Netflix Today. It is called Lucky, and Bert says, I’m a glass half full m er. I feel very lucky to be alive and working at this point, he told Variety when asked about the state of the industry.

TV and movies are about to explode in Hollywood in a really fun and crazy way. He believes comedians are entering an era of financial independence and creative freedom. Dudes, they’re already there. Except those Netflix paychecks are pretty nice. Let’s be honest, Bert, I’m sure you could put something up on YouTube, but let’s not act like we don’t like the Netflix paychecks.

Bert says, it’s like the gold rush right now. Look at Hollywood, and I see massive opportunities coming around the corner for all of us. Be careful. Ask the TV series producers what happens when you tear down the establishment. I would kiss Netflix as a ring.

Bert, be careful. Variety said that they noticed watching Bert’s special there were shirtless men in the audience. Bert said it started happening was doing clubs. Dudes ripped the shirts off and watch the whole show shirtless. When I did Red Rocks for the third time, we had a top off camera that was shooting the way they would women ripping their shirts off for a kiss cam.

We did that for the whole arena tour. We just go to big dudes who ripped the shirts off. Not one camera ever hit a woman. Bert says, I idolized Jimmy Buffett. We’d go to his shows, and there’s something really cool about getting lost in a group of fans seeing them dress up like crazy.

Yes, Buffett shows were fun. I never thought the thing on have was going to be that big, obviously, but it’s kind of cool that I get a bunch of overweight dudes with body positivity ripping their shirts off. These are guys that wear a shirt to go swimming, you know. Bert said, I wish I knew my brand better. It’s hard to see from the inside of the forest.

I think I give them permission to party. That’s a good name for tour. Permission to party. That’s a really good name for tour. I think I just named my next tour.

I’ve always been the guy who like at the kid’s birthday party, the dads will come to me and be like, if you open a beer, we can all have a beer. I’m also unapologetically in love with my wife. Not cheating on your wife is cool. My fans are guys who feel lucky to have the chick there with, lucky to have the life they have, lucky to have the kids they have, and that one night is the night to cut loose love this interview, we’ll pick at this at the next few days. The Hollow Reporter caught up with Andrew Schltz.

So they were talking about audiences and you know, where do you steer your comedy and they pointed out in Aperghetzi, who subscribes to the steer clear of anything that offends philosophy. Andrew said, exactly, But I don’t know. Trump is a specific thing. There are a lot of people who could be critical of platforming somebody like Trump and they say they’d never do it. But you also didn’t have the opportunity to So you really don’t know what you do until you’re given that opportunity.

And yeah, I don’t know. I had three things that I wanted to tell the person that might be the leader of the free world. They were three things that are important to me. One was I wanted him to say on camera that he would protect IVF and he did. Another was stopping not all the foreign wars, but if there’s ones that are senseless that are just to line the pockets of the military industrial complex, that maybe we could curb that.

And then the last one was some empathy for illegal immigrants that aren’t breaking the law, like maybe a pathway to citizenship. Doesn’t look like you listen to me much on that one. I’m not saying I have any impact on him. But if you have the opportunity to be impactful and you choose not to do it for whatever reason because you’re concerned about I don’t know what your friends or your supporters might think, you’re allowed to do that. But for me, I just thought it was something and I could sleep at night doing and I’m proud of myself for doing it.

I agree with everything he said there. Kelsey Cook spoke to Vony Land about the difference between opening for Jim Norton at the Wilbur and headlining the Wilbur. She explained there’s a level of pressure with either situation when opening for someone is where you want to make sure you’re doing your job and setting them up for as much success as possible. But there’s something extra special about headlining because it’s your crowd, so there’s a little bit more built in confidence in a sense that people came to see me, to have the chance to be at the Wilber and have it be my crowd, it’s just really cool. She talked about her current material and said, I’ve had some things happen last year that I’ve become part of the material in a more natural way.

I stopped drinking last year, so I talk about being sober, being diagnosed with depression, and I go a little bit into my mom’s dementia. I don’t go into it as much as I did in market territory, but those themes are sort of connected here, and I’m just trying to find the silver linings and all of it and bring humor to it. I feel really fortunate because the Hustler was received so well and that helped my ticket sales boom, and I was touring so much and got right to work on the next thing and was able to turn around a lot of the new material and get it to a good place. Was also exciting to have this new added fan base for me to work the Mark your Territory material out too. That hour gave me more confidence and permission to just be myself and talk about the things I really wanted to talk about, opening up and talking about depression.

Especially. It’s been cool enough people come up to me after shows and thanking me for talking about my struggles with it and antidepressants, intrusive thoughts and all that. It’s definitely not a taboo as a topic as it used to be. But I do you hope for anyone dealing with any of those issues they can walk away feeling seen. Matt Friend tells the Chicago some times, if you go see him, it’s something for everybody.

Old references, newer references, everything from Milton Burrel to Timothy Shallamy. Friend got famous walking around New York City. He’d encounter celebrities, people like John Oliver as a bashi in Madscalco and talk show host Andy Cohen. He would take videos of himself impersonating them. He’d upload them to TikTok.

No celebrities he said ever told them to get lost. Matt explains, I’m not ambushing people, it’s out of respect and admiration.

And then it kind of organically happens.

He can’t I quite explain how he does what he does. He says, I’ll walk down the street and King Charles comes out. I don’t really think about it. It’s just sort of part of my life. He told a story about meeting a representative from the Obama team when a friend was in d C for the Correspondence dinner.

A few months later, Obama’s team reached out to meet in Chicago before the DNC. Matt says, I’m like freaking out. Suddenly I find myself in a room with Obama and I’m doing all the greatest hits. It was an insane, insane moment. He’s not worried about cancel culture.

I don’t fear that. I just do what I always think is right. If you’re living a life like that, fearful of one side or the other, you’re not going to go for Michael ian Black sometimes gets called a progressive and says, I don’t really think of myself in those terms. They feel sort of self limiting. But anybody who follows me or knows anything about me would call me a liberal progressive.

Some have called me a communist, a term I would not apply to myself. He does add that we’re living in a fascist healscape. We’re in a very catastrophic way re examining everything about the nation. There’s a way to do that. I do think we’re long overdue for a constitutional convention.

I think it would be an excellent, excellent exercise for the nation to participate in. I think it could have potentially very beneficial outcomes if people take it seriously. If you go see him these days, he’s not going to make fun of Trump. He says, give me an Obama, give me a Jimmy Carter, give me a Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was funny.

Trump not so much. Felipe, as Barza said, George Lopez and Paul Ardriguez have always been the coolest people to be. They’re the kind of people who always up my back even though they don’t get along. But who cares now because I’m friendly with both of them. George Lopez took me to World Series Game five against the Astros, and we were right behind the Dodger dugout.

I was high five in Kershoff from my seat. Bro Paul Rodriguez gave me good advice twice. He was the first comic to give me a lot of money and take me on the road. He even bought me a suit. Paul Rodriguez taught me this be nice to everybody, because you’re gonna meet the same people on the way up in your career as you will on the way down.

That was the first thing. When I started. There were a lot of Latino comedians who would never play Latin rooms. They’d never walk in a room with their whole audience was a Mexican American in LA because they wanted to cross over to a wider audience. They wanted to perform the improv the comedy store of the ice house, so they never wanted to go to the East Side to perform.

They’d go, Now, bro, I don’t do those beaner rooms. So they lost out on a lot of fans by not going to those rooms. Paul Ardriguez. But you know what, man, don’t worry about crossing over in a mainstream audience or white people. If you’re funny, like really funny, they’ll cross over to you.

That was the second thing, and that’s been the model for my career. Moa mayor was recognized by the Arab American National Museum. The Mayor of Dearborn honored Mo with a framed attribute for his contributions to storytelling and representation. The mayor said, the way you’ve shattered stereotypes has opened up doors for us as public servants, as people who want to give back to the community. Oftentimes it does take the comedian, It does take the notable actor.

It does take the individual who’s speaking to our narrative, who understands our narrative because they grew up in it, student it and understood better than anyone. So on behalf of the entire city of Dearborn. I want to say thank you and welcome home. If you watch Mo on Netflix, good series, you should watch it. Moe is often seen carrying a small bottle of his mother’s homemade olive oil.

Mo explains, some people carry hot sauce, I carry olive oil. But beyond that joke, the bottle is a symbol of his Palestinian heritage and the traditions that anchor him. But toul Azin is a Palistine Nian American who grew up in ann Arbor and is a fan of Mo, and explains, so often we’re depicted so negatively in Western media, either our stories about war or worthy enemy. But I think this show depicted what it’s like to grow up with the trauma of understanding the family history of occupation in war, but also trying to find happiness. You don’t see a lot of Arabs and popular media being happier laughing, but the show did that really well, letting you laugh but also reminding you of the struggle, what it means to be Palestinian, but also the beauty.

The Laughing Buddha Comedy Festival is back for its third year. Baby It features the best emerging stand up comics in New York City. The festival takes place today through Friday, April fourth at the Saint Mark’s Comedy Club. Laughing Buddha will be giving away more than five thousand dollars in cash, including a grand prize of three thousand dollars in a year’s worth of spots to the winning comedian. This year, one hundred and twenty comedians will be chosen to showcase a diverse lineup who will compete in front of fans, industry pros, and comedy legends.

Winners will be decided by a panel of judges and audience responses. Each show will feature professional hosts and headliners including Jeff Lawrence, Kevin Dobrowski, Alexis Carbono, and Moore. Judges will include comedy club owners and industry professionals. Eric Walsh won the festival in twenty twenty four and said winning the festival has been a game changer for me. A year of spots has been invaluable for developing my material and growing as a performer.

It was incredibly well organized and gave me the opportunity to perform alongside some seriously talented comedians. That sounds like a lot of fun and looking ahead, get this one on your calendar. Comedy is going to have its own film festival. The The inaugural New York Comedy Film Festival will take over Asylum, New York City, February of twenty twenty six. Write This Down and YCFF celebrates both seasoned creators and emerging voices in comedy.

The CEOs says, when things are going good, people want to laugh. When things are going bad, people need to laugh. The festival will feature red carpet arrivals, world premiere film screenings, TV pilots, original digital content, private parties, and live performances, including a special live celebrity tablescript read of a beloved comedy classic. It is the New York Comedy Film Festival February fifteenth through the twenty second, twenty sixth, and that is your comedy news for today. Go watch Bert Chraser.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daly comedy news. Vulture had a big piece about the state of Netflix comedy in twenty twenty five. They interviewed Robbie Bram, who oversees Netflix comedy. I worked with Robbie and everything back at Serious Now is fifteen plus years ago, back when we used to do stuff with just for laughs.

Got to know Robbie a little bit. They opened up with Mullany and this article came out before Mullenie’s show debuted last week, so they were talking about everybody’s in LA from last year. It turned out the audience for LA wasn’t huge rights Vulture and average of one point one million views an episode. What made you do the show anyway? Robbie said, well, there’s only one John Mlaney.

He’s such a singular artist that when presented with the opportunity to do this with him, like you said, it was a no brainer. That number seems low, and maybe that explains why when I was watching it live Onnesday night, there wasn’t really all that much buzz on social media about it. Interesting, good follow up, Is it really more about gut and taking a chance on talent, and I’m a big believer in taking a chance on talent. Absolutely, Robbie said, if you look, John mullanie is not only one of the most viewed stand ups on Netflix, he’s one of the top tickets selling stand ups in the world. So we had a lot of confidence of the new show we’re doing, Everybody’s Live is going to break through.

These types of shows have always grown over time. And look, there’s nobody like John out there. If you watched SNL fifty with fifty years of some of the biggest stars in comedy, John Mulaney stood out in that room and on that show. So we have a lot of confidence him and in this new show that’s not crazy. How soon after LA did you start talking to Mallani about doing more, Robbie, I don’t want to use his words, since I don’t remember what the word exactly, But John had a lot of fun with the fact that there were no stakes and everybody’s in LA because he couldn’t be renewed.

But he came to this. Honestly, what we did last May wasn’t a pilot. It was truly being done as a six day show.

And then he was so great and so natural in the seat.

I think we started the conversations pretty much immediately to see if he’d be interested. Then they got into how Malanie is a collaborator on the show. Again, this is Unvulture. You should read it new topic Vulture. Netflix has done weekly talk shows and Talk to Jason shows with everybody from Chelsea Handler, Joe McHale, Norm Michelle Wolfe other than the Letterman’s Project.

They didn’t really stick. If this one works, we make a lot more talk shows. Again, Robbie said, it’s not something we’re focused on. I mean this show. We weren’t looking for a show like this.

The show exists because we had an opportunity to work with John Mulaney, and we think there are things you could do live that are just really, really exciting for the viewer. We’re definitely gonna be looking at doing some things live when it makes sense, but it’s not necessarily a concentration Vulture. What about a live sketch show now? Bill Simmons talked about this. Bill flowted the theory that Netflix is waiting for Lourene Michaels to step down, at which point SNL would be theoretically vulnerable.

Simmons also suggested that the SNL calendar leaves a lot on the table, specifically in the election cycle, when the big conventions are happening and all the fun stuff is happening, SNL is dark. Maybe Netflix does something in the summer, which I think would make a lot of sense strategically. I don’t have any insight into Netflix view patterns in which months are more or less popular. I do notice they tend to drop a lot of big, shiny things around holiday weekends. Robbie said, I think down the line would be open to it.

Down the line, Simmons, maybe right there, you’re bringing up SNL in fifty years as some of the best TV of all time. I’m sure we’d love to one day be in that business, but no plans for it at this point. That’s a pretty clear answer. Great question by Vulture. Does having that big library of stand up specials have an impact on how much you green light?

Now you don’t need as much as you did early on when you’re starting from zero. Great question. Robbie said, it hasn’t affected our volume at all. What it has done, it’s given more of a journey to when people discover the new favorite comedian on Netflix to be able to see more from that comedian or similar comedians. A recent example of that is Nate Brighetzi or Moa.

Mayer just released his comedy series last month, and you’re seeing more viewing on his old specials. Another great question by Vulture. Nice job, Vulture. You used to make headlines for paying crazy sums of money to comics for their future specials. I’m sure you’re still writing Big Chicks, but you’re trying to spend less on stand up.

Robbie said, I think it’s that different. We’ve always bought shows that have been produced and put on Netflix. I mean, for example, Chappelle’s for specials, well us, we’re produced before we purchase them. We’re just looking for the best specials out there for our members, and people have such different tastes that sometimes quite frankly, it’s really great opportunity where you see something that’s pre produced because you gets sense of exactly what the creative lens is. But I don’t think the strategy has changed.

It’s still about trying to find the best things out there, whether we do a deal in advance or whether it’s licensed. Fultcher brought up Bert Kraser, saying he seems to be everywhere on Netflix. Does having talent all over the service help them attract talent? Great question? Or Robbie said, it’s probably the thing I’m the most excited about.

I mean, Netflix is obviously a really big company, and you know all the buyers across film and nonfiction and series. We talk a lot about this with talent. You mentioned Bert Krascher. Bert was just all over the NFL Christmas Game. We talked about Mulaney.

We have a sketch show coming out with Tom Segura and season two of Michelle Butteu’s Survival of the Thickest. And this is the way we’ve thought about things since we start in the space with people like a Zi’s and Ali Wong. I know that was the serious model. It was a great way to attract talent because you could come up and say to anyone from Bruce Springsteen or a NASCAR driver or I don’t know, a comedian, Hey, come on up, and you can go on the country station, the rock station, the comedy station, the sports station and hit all these different audiences and they could do like a big media tour just walking down one hallway at series make you know, come up for three hours and you could hit eight different audiences. It’s one of the reasons we were able to get so many people.

Vulture asked about the competitors, Amazon, HBO, Hularius, Hi Publicist, how you guys doing. Hulu even did a deal with Bill Burr, who’s been a regular on Netflix. How much of a threat to your dominance are these other players? Vulture, You crushed this interview. Robbie said, I think the eyeballs to come to Netflix to watch stand up and the deep bench of library titles that we have in our festivals and radio stations and all that make it pretty clear we’re invested in the space and are very proud of had this leading role in the comedy business.

But the truth is it’s very good for the stand up business that there are other buyers in the space. I mean, first and foremost, we’re huge stand up fans. Boy, this is a nice polished answer, Robbie, good job. So all these great comedians having homes is great. Oftentimes different comedians go to different places, like Nate Pergetzi, he went to Amazon and came back to Netflix.

We think the fact that competition is out there is a great thing and just shows how big a business. Stand up has become Vulture again. Good question. Was there a bidding war for Burr’s special and was Netflix interested? And is it something Netflix was interested and went after?

Robbie said, I mean, Bill’s one of the best stand up comedians of all time. We’ve had a lot of business with him, so yeah, there was definitely interested in that, and we look forward to working with him again down the line. Vulture, one person you said you have no plans to work with again is Louis C.K. But last fall you bought a special he directed from Adrian Appolucci. I know that’s not the same as doing deal directly with him, but something changed.

Sounds like Robbie was ready for this one. Adrian is such a hilarious comic that our team’s been tracking for a really long time. Who were thrilled to put out that special, But there are no plans to work with Louis at this point. Yeah. Is there going to be a Netflix comedy festival at twenty six?

Robbie said, I have nothing to talk about right now, but we love a big comedy festival at Netflix. More news to come. Vulture. Uh poked him in the ribs and said, uh, so you just confirmed it, and Robbie said, I understood the nature of your backdoor question and I appreciate it. Nice job.

Vulture people. Deadline spoke to Amy Gravitz, who is HBO’s head of Comedy. She says, I have full support inside the comedy to continue to keep the HBO comedy brand thriving. This is a broader interview, not just stand up. She spoke a little bit about untitled Steve Carell comedy that’s about to start production.

It centers on Steve Carell’s character, who’s an author. That character’s complicated relationship with his daughter, which told the character gives some crazy, stupid love vibes, which is a twenty eleven movie Steve Currell started. Amy said, I’ve always wanted to do a show set in a college environment, and adding Steve at the center of it is a way into that world as a character who’s exploring college experience for the first time later in life really felt like the way for us to do it. And of course working with Bill Lawrence has been a really fantastic partnership. A lot of pedigree there and could curb your enthusiasm come back, She says.

Larry David has not spoken in HBO about doing another season, but she’d love it. We’ve been chatting. It seems like he’s got some good ideas for me. Hmm. Outdoors Comedy Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan not coming.

He’s quotes unavailable to perform at the three day event July eighteenth through the twentieth. I wonder what has changed on Jim’s schedule. They sub somebody in for Jim gaff again, now performing Martin Short, who will co headline alongside John Mulaney on Sunday, July twentieth. They also announced Short will replace Jim Gaffigan at the Winnipeg Festival on July eighteenth. Verydas told Yahoo Canada, you know, comedy is always sort of counter cultural.

Trump brought a different kind of comedy into the mainstream, and I think that will make more nuanced voices counterculture. And I think that will make more thoughtful voices counterculture. So I actually think what’s happening with that will be very good for comedians. What I do know is your content can become controversial, but controversy should never become your content. Smart, he says, you can’t predict what will go viral, and if you try to second guess that as an artist, you drive yourself insane.

Your best bet is just to have it and go at it and then deal with it when they’re upset. I don’t think there’s any predicting what makes people upset. Russell Martin is starting a US tour today at the House of Blues in Dallas. He told the Dallas Observer. The thing about gigging internationally is it gives you more strings to your bow because you’ve got street level knowledge of what it feels like in Holland, Denmark, Auckland, Wellington, whatever it might be.

You’re not getting material from the interne out of your country. Traveling as a comedian gives you more spices to add to your comedy cast role. He declared himself the king of adapting to different crowds and comedy styles, conceding that American humor can be a difficult bridge to cross for some British acts. He explains American audiences of such a reputation as being big fat laughers. The big difference between US and British comedy is it maybe we’re a bit less high status can take the seriousness.

It’s a word this little vulgar in the States and not so vulgar in Britain. One of those words starts with the pee, rhymes with hiss out of ourselves in a way that doesn’t happen broadly speaking as much as in the US. That’s self deprecating. Humor is a big part of being British. He believes the only way to test new materials to show up unannounced at smaller venues.

If people already fans, they have a vested interest. There’s no point in getting rid of that and being statistic and going out of your way to perform people and make it hard for yourself. There’s a useful amount of dress when you’re creating new stuff. If you just do it in front of your fans, it makes you a wee bit narrow. He’s taking an advantage of the US comedy club scene.

I figure out what works and what doesn’t, what needs changing. Otherwise you’re leave me it to chance. It’s a real kick in the ego. Teach sometimes to rock up a comedy club in New York. We’ve just done ten nights at the Royal Albert Hall and broken the record, and then we were in a comedy club in New York and there’s sixty people there and you’re dying thinking, oh, Ef, this worked a week ago.

But that’s the process, man, You just got to do it in order to make the shows great. I would rather go to a comedy club and try out new jokes than go to a red carpet event, unless it was a film I wanted to watch. If you’re just gonna be photographed to be in the Daily Mail, I couldn’t think of anything worse and happy Saint Patrick’s day. Let’s catch up with Enia Martin the Irish Times did. She explains she was named after the singer Y but I honestly never heard her played once in the house ever, so I don’t know if that was a spur of the moment thing.

But thank god my parents didn’t like meat loaf, because I would have been a target for bullying at school. She says, I love the Irish sense of humor. You could say something so offensive to someone Irish and they’ll just laugh it off. They’ll know you’re not serious. I think I got my mad is from my mother.

She’s not shy at all. I would say if she were born in this generation and she had the freedom I did. I definitely think she’d be in this industry and she’d be graded as well. I would say the highlight of my previous year was being able to buy my own car. It was my third car, but being able to buy my dream car was a symbol of how far I’ve come and how hard I’ve worked.

When I was coming home from the US recently, I asked at the desk how much was to upgrade Supremium Economy. She told me, and I was like, yeah, I’ll upgrade two do things like that. When I grew up in a working class area, I thought, there’s not much I’m gonna a mount to. I’m probably just gonna have a great job like everyone else. It’s something I thought i’d never be able to do.

But now that I’ve broken in the UK, I try not to play the comparison game. Don’t compare your chapter one of someone else’s chapter ten. Good advice. She want to go see her. She’s at TF Royal Castle Bar on the twenty first, Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

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Caloroga Shark Media find they own Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The media has changed so much. John Mulaney, as part of his press tour, I mentioned, you know, he did CBS this morning, and I’m like, that just seems weird to me. But we live so long that it also seems weird to me that John Mulaney did Rolling Stone, like in nineteen eighty five. Ooh, John Mulaney’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Let me see what he’s up to. Ooh, a Van Hagar article I’ll read that. Can’t believe David ly Roth quit the band shocking Anyway, mullany talk to Rolling Stone. They tell us it’s the Last Word column where pop culture icons reflect on their work, success and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Okay, John said, please feel free to include literally anything we discussed, because it’ll be far more interesting than anything about my career.

They asked John what are the important rules that he lives by. His answer, never planned more than three months in the future. Live by, not work by dony crackers or anything like that. In bed, even if you keep the plate run under your chin, they’ll on up at your feet and an easy one. But nobody knows nothing.

No one’s an expert. We have a complete inability to ever discuss scenarios that actually will happen, and we’re off on the wrong thread. He told an example one of my first agents we had to call in two thousand and five with ABC. They were hearing pitches from comedians that were twenty three years old, and I asked him what kind of shows do they want? And he paused and said, oh, they want hits.

That really stuck with me, like, oh right, they just want whatever would work, and they want the thing that no one else would do that it seems like it won’t work, but that works. I used to laugh. When I was younger, people would be like’s your girlfriend pretty? I’d be like, what kind of question is that? No?

All I can get is trolls. I’m lucky I even have this one. Me’laney said. The horse being a loose in a hospital joke was about Trump, but it’s more about a joke about how we’re not good at predicting anything. Seven minutes before nine to eleven, we’re all looking for Chondra Levy.

We’re just not really on it. We’ve never been on it. I guess they were these psychics back in the day that would make their New Year’s predictions some of them won’t contrue, but that’s probably not true either. Best advice John Mulaney ever received, my dad told me, if you’re on the phone with someone in a business conversation you don’t like what they’re saying or how they’re counting, just say nothing. Silence makes people crazy.

They’ll pause waiting for you to talk. You won’t. Then they’ll continue to talk and they’ll go are you still there? And you go, uh huh, and then they’ll start talking again. He goes, they’ll probably walk back everything they said, or meet you with the terms you wanted, or they might even go above what you wanted because they’re so uncomfortable.

John admits to trying that in his career and it working. Worst advice John Mullenie ever get. I won’t name them, but in twenty fifteen, an extremely powerful person in Hollywood was telling me that I always have to own all my IP which is not possible. The guy’s looking at me and he goes, I know people were famous, not rich, and they’re miserable. And I know people were rich and not famous and I John Mulaney say, and they’re happy, and he goes, no, they’re miserable.

And he looks at me and goes, you need both. You need to be rich and famous. It was like a parody of meeting this person. I was like, is this a cut scene from The Devil’s Advocate? Good question here from Rolling Stone?

What advice would you give to two thousand and eight John Mulaney, who’s auditioning for SNL and working on his first special, The advice as soon as you’re ready to leave SNL, stay one more year. I wish I had. I didn’t realize that when you feel burnt out, that’s not the moment to make a decision like that. In terms of other stuff. There are a lot of twists in terms of my life after that, but I don’t know if the advice would have stuck.

Funny answer here, what do you wish somebody would have told you about being a celebrity growing up? Mulaney said. I would have said to my child’s self, it’s exactly like you picture it. And I would have said to my twenty year old self, it’s exactly like you picture it. Best and worst parts of success.

Melleney said, The best part’s easy, it’s what you think. The worst part is your instincts were rewarded, but your instincts aren’t always right, John, do you get imposter syndrome? No, listen. One of my problems is not that I don’t feel really at home doing entertainment. I have other problems.

Then they talked about the infamous rehab skipping ahead and have you heard of Chekhov’s Gun? This is Chehov’s podcast. Mulaney said, I like David Lee Roth’s bluegrass albums of covers, which is called Strman with the Devil from two thousand and six. I’m embarrassed to say it’s kind of in my shuffle. Terry Gros said Bill Burr on her NPR podcast, Good question build us.

This special market change in your public or private self the topic, and I’ve been talking about this all week, kind of the new Bill Berber said, it’s something I’ve kind of been going towards. But like most people that get on stage, they sort of watch what you do and then think this little sliver of you is what you are or whatever, like the Rolling Stone thing saying that I was the King of Rage comedy, you know, and it’s in rolling Stones, so everybody listens to it. So then I think I’m just walking around just fearus all the time. It’s two dimensional. I’ll jump in there.

I’ve been in the podcasting industry getting a fair amount of attention in the first quarter because I have the sub stack and it’s free and link in the show notes, and I’ve been, as I call it, throwing fastballs on the substack. I’m commenting on the podcasting industry and I’m just throwing heat, nothing but heat, and people are paying attention.

And then, as I wrote in the substack, when you go, hey, look at me, you can’t…

However, then I get invited on podcasts about podcasting, and the first thing I say is I’m glad we’re here to have a new onance conversation, so you can hear the tone of voice. And don’t think I’m walking around kicking garbage cans all day going. I can’t believe everybody’s making video podcast girl, I’m not like that at all. So I totally hear what Burr is saying about your public persona, including Johnny Mack, who is ninety nine percent John McDermott, I’ll explain. Johnny Mack clearly doesn’t like Adam Sandler movies, right, John McDermott also doesn’t like Adam Sandler movies.

But I don’t walk around going all day. I can’t leave Netflix, cave Adam Sandler another deal, Like, I just don’t care and I move on with my life. But you know, it’s a podcast. I’m trying to be entertaining, so maybe I ramp it up a little bit. Back to Burr, there’s also part of me that really hates the fact that I’ve been so angry and had a temper and stuff.

It was never something I wanted to be and something I grew up with, and you know, you think to yourself, I’m not doing that. I’m not gonna be this person because they’re making me feel bad as a kid, and then you grow up and you end up. It’s a weird thing. Gross asked, who’s the person who told you was your wife a therapist? Burr said, everybody in my life, everybody people reviewing my act, my wife.

You know, like, you can only argue point for so long when one hundred people in the row are going like, nah, you’re pretty angry. Good Stuff. I haven’t been able to live to that one yet, but it’s definitely in my cue. Good show in Los Angeles tonight is a benefit concert called Let’s Get Laid, Get It Elaid, Yes Well, combined stand up comedy and live music. It’s at the United Theater Weird Now, Margaret Show, Bob the Drag Queen Al Jardine.

As I’ve joked before, I assume it’s the Beach Boys, Al Jardine and not some comedian off my radar. Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, Eric Idol, Maria Bamford, Mark Prosch, and Neil Hamburger will make appearances. Other guests include Paul Schaeffer, Peter Asher, Puddles, Pity Party, Reggie Watts, Rufus Wainwright, and Tim Heidecker. That is a great, great lineup a night of music and comedy for La wildfire relief. Proceeds will benefit firefighters who battled the various fighters as well as those who’ve been displaced.

The Houston Press caught up with Tom Papa and asked Tom about growing up in New Jersey. And this is such a stereotypical New Jersey question that I love that the Houston people asked it, Tom Papa. Being from New Jersey, how much was Bruce Springsteen’s chef in your face? Tom Papa said, didn’t feel shoved, does so much as it was a presence like everything else. You had the skyline of New York in the distance, the Jersey Shore waiting down south, and Springsteen was the soundtrack everywhere he went.

When I was in high school, he was hitting the peak of his fame, so it was kind of cool. Yeah, pop is my age, so yeah, born in the USA. Big. Then Springsteen had the Lost Years that the big reunion in two thousand. I know, I personally won tour, saw twelve shows.

You drive up and down the Garden State Parkway in the summer listening to Bruce, it just sounds right, Absolutely, Papa says, New Jersey’s always been a punchline. I always said the reason I was a comedian is you had a good sense of humor about yourself being from New Jersey. What music is Tom Papa listening to? He says he still listens to Arim and Prince, but he’s left Culture Club and Duran Duran in the eighties. Dude, Deuran Duran is fantastic.

Tom put On Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf. Come on, those are bangers, as the kids say. Tom also loves Ren DMC and Public Enemy, but says, now, I guess jazz is the thing I listen to that now, But I would hope that the young Tom would understand that someday he understand jazz. Kevin Hart has revealed that he’s traded in jeans for all bands, all slacks after turning forty years old. He was on with Jennifer Hudson and he said, I’m over forty.

I feel like a good pant is necessary. Jeans aren’t the same. Jean’s hurt and are not comfortable. Sam Morel talked about the Error’s tour to w AMC. He’s on a bus.

Sam says it’s a pretty efficient way to travel because you see what happens with airplanes now and just the stress of misflights and all that. You eliminate that, so that’s nice. When my daughter was in school in Chicago, I used to drive from New Jersey to Chicago. People thought I was insane, and I’m like, dude, by the time I got to the airport and the delays and all that, I’m halfway there anyway, and that’s when I would catch up on my podcast. I would like to drive Chicago right now.

I could listen to Bill Burr with Torry Gross. Sam talked about the country at this particular moment in Times and Your Letters to Sam Morrel. He said, I mean, you see how toxic everything is on the internet, and now bad everything is on the news, now mean and racist everyone is on Twitter.

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And then you go into like a cafe and you’re like, I think it’s all right.

You know, it’s confusing because you just go around things seem to be okay, but you know things are tough from short Old Phil Wang is going to host the BAFTA Games Awards for the second year in a row. Video games we’re talking about here. Phil said, I’m so thrilled to be returning as host of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Last year’s show with such an uplifting celebration of this incredible industry. Blah blah blah.

I played games all my life, and these awards feel like my opportunity to think the people who made them. Because of games, I never had time to learn the guitar well enough to play at house parties, and I think that is a public service thank you games. C two E two twenty twenty five announce their comedy track. C two E two will be in Chicago April eleventh, of thirteenth. Maybe I’ll do one of those twelve hour drives.

Who knows. Paton Oswalt’s will be on the main stage Friday, April eleventh, eight p m.

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Also doing an appearance Second Cities Live Improv Group.

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Caloroga Shark Media Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News both today and tomorrow. Pretty robust for the weekend. Tons of news. We’re in this little comedy cycle now where we’ve had Melaney Burr and coming up on Tuesday, Bird Chrysler special. So plenty to talk about in the next few days into all of next week.

Actually, Bill Burr caught up with NPR. I’ll drop in and out of a half assed Bill Burr impression here and not impression, but I try and capture his bite. You know, he’ll speaking short said, it’s this little bit at us, So I’ll do that. In and out Bill tails NPR. He traces some of his rage and his dark humor to the emotional abuse he experienced as a child in Massachusetts.

Bill said, every way that you can be abused as what I’m talking about, I don’t know if you can ever undo things that were done to you. He realized at an early age if he could make people laugh, he was less likely to get hurt. Since then, he’s tried therapy and silo they’ve been aka magic mushrooms as a way of dealing with the past. He says both helps and lately has felt lighter on stage. Let me jump in here there is clearly let me back up.

I posted this on the Facebook group Pretty Daily Comedy News podcast group. A few things. As I’ve aged, I have increasingly been using the phrase many things can be true at once. For example, one, we should all try to be a better person today than we were yesterday. Absolutely true.

Two, many things can be true at once. There appears to be some sort of PR campaign right now to let us know that Bill Burr is a better man than he was yesterday, and that he softened and he’s changed or whatever, that he can dial the rage on and off. That is in every messaging I’ve seen for this current promotional cycle. And again go back to point one. I think we should all try and be better people.

But I’m noticing the PR campaign is what I’m saying. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just telling you i’m noticing it. Bir said that whole myth that you can’t be happy and still be funny’s a myth. I’m a mess of a human being still, this far into life.

That is my existence to day, week to week, month a month. It’s just what it is. But it makes for good comedy. If you want to hear a good, solid hour bilburt Is on Terry Gross’s Fresh Air, you can grab that as a podcast. He talked about the mushrooms and said, I started tripping and it was goofy and I was laughing.

I was like, Wow, this is wild.

And then all of a sudden, like this feeling came over me and I couldn’t reall…

It was this profound sense of loneliness. I think I asked the question, which really is a cool thing to do when you’re on mushrooms, to kind of say, what are you trying to tell me? And it’s weird, like the answer just sort of comes. The answer is basically, this is how you felt growing up. It’s the weirdest thing.

For like a week after, I was who I would have been if all this stuff didn’t happen to me. It was like this honeymoon phase. This euphoria made me want to become a better person, made me want to fix my life. So seven days of that, oh my god, I’m not angry anymore. I felt this lightness in my chest.

But then after seven days the anger came back tenfold, and then I had to work through that. That was only like a three week thing, because I kind of saw who I could be. Bill has asked about some of his early career jokes about women. Bill said, if you watched my earlier stand up, all that crap that I said had nothing to do with women. It had to the fact with it.

I didn’t know how to get on with my life that I wanted to get married, I wanted to be in love, I wanted to have kids, and I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t understand what my problem was, and I didn’t know how to fix it. One of my biggest fears when I was on her comic and I looked at older comics and never got married, never had kids. They were still doing shows and then hanging out afterwards, trying to pick up chicks at the end of it, and I was like, oh my god, I don’t ever want to be that guy. I wanted to get married at twenty six and I have like five or six kids, but I didn’t know how to do it.

Good stuff there, We’ll pick at that over the next few days. Brad Paisley Country Music Store. He’s doing a comedy benefit at Zany’s in Nashville on April thirteenth to benefit a free grocery store he operates with his wife. That store is called The Store. The show was called Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without.

Brad says, it’s such an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything. Most charity events are too long. Most of them are asking a lot of people that attend. You’re asking for money, you’re asking for time. You usually feed them a badly catered meal.

There’s an auction that takes too long. None of that is part of this. This is literally what we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without. The Store is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based grocery restored at Nasville Families with Food Insecurity.

They open up their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, I reveal plans for a second store. Brad said, we really thought this would take off, and it’s great to see that it did. No details yet on who’s appearing. The date is April thirteenth.

Doors open five point fifteen, show starts at six. It said. Zani’s in Nashville. Ticket price two hundred fifty dollars general admission. Before you’re like two hundred and fifty dollars, please remember it’s a fundraiser.

I don’t know what’s going on at Amazon. George Lopez’s special came and went, and I didn’t see any press about it. So as I was putting the show together, I saw, oh, Eliza Slessenger spoke to the La Times because her special came out last Tuesday. Now, aside from that, I suck and I’m terrible at podcasting, and I don’t know how to put a show together. I do every single day, type in the words even if I don’t record, I type in the words comedy and comedian into Google, and I visit five six seven websites.

And I didn’t say a thing about Eliza’s special coming out, or I would have mentioned it. Somehow fell off my radar.

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Also, what I normally do is if I don’t know if Joe Comedian announces as spec…

And what I will do is I will start a file labeled June sixth, and I will put in there Joe Comedian Special out on surface today, and that way, when the day rolls around, I know it’s there. Eliza came and went so Amazon, I don’t know what’s going on. You make the Hulu publicists look awesome. Haley Times asked Eliza the title of your special, which apparently came out last Tuesday, A Different Animal is an aggressive title, but it also seems like it’s got a bunch of layers to it. How do you think the title relates to your comedy?

Eliza said, I wanted to do something that was very me, but also my comedy is a little bit of force, that aggression built into it. But I did want to sort of announce that I’m on this new platform, Prime Video, and I think what I bring as a performer is different. Every comic should feel that they’re bringing something unique. Otherwise, why are you an artist? In a literal way?

My comedy is a different animal because I do these animal sounds during my show, and I’m very theatrical, and what I do this is different comedy than what you might get somewhere else. I think I create a very special product. She then talks about putting on a show and says somebody came up with having Eliza and big letter behind me because the ideas you’re watching this and just in case you forget who you’re watching. We always wanted it to be on screen, and I wanted to be fun and polished and visually appealing. I thought about doing everything in white, and Amazon was like, that’s gonna be a little hard to watch the whole time.

They’re like, you should be the whitest thing about your set. She explains, I’m the first one to perform in leggings and sneakers when I’m on tour, but for a special it should be special. Ela Times said, having seen around town in La you do multiple sets to night and you’re very focused, stressed down, and very inconspicuous. What’s your mentality when you’re in that mode? Eliza said, I believe in loving the work, so when I go out at night, I’m there to get something out of it.

Always do the set, even if you don’t feel well, even when you’re tired. If there’s no real reason to stay home, like if you have flu, maybe okay, stay home, don’t spread it around or due I think maybe COVID was started by a bunch of male comics just breathing on a microphone, but I’m there to do work, and I’m there to find all the little weak points. I’m there to find new things. I’m there to find tags. So if I’m not on the road, I’ll get up like two three times a night.

I don’t do three sets as often as I used to you because by the third set, even if it’s only a twenty minute set, I’m still like, did I already say this to you? Or was that the other club boy? I know that feeling, especially when I record by out of sequence, I’m like, did I say this one yet? I either can’t remember if I’ve told the story or if I’ve told the story two days from now, if you know what I mean. Plus, I also host the weekly comedy thing on the Live one app and some stories get done here and there, and it usually happens when I’m recording that show.

I’m like, did I say this already? I feel like I did this one already. I try and keep good notes, Eliza said, I try to get up a few times a night because I don’t write anything down, so it’s all in my head. And so for me, it’s about retaining remembering the muscle memory of what gonna laugh last time? The only times thought it was crazy that she doesn’t write anything down.

She said, I write down like a word, like I’ll say gello, and then that’s my mental cue to remember the entire bit. Even though my memory feel shot since becoming a mom. I’m a big believer in the repetition that is the workout. So I’ll do a lot of shows where I riff. If you come see me in Hollywood, chances are I’m making up like a third of what I’m saying there, and then I feel like whatever’s good sticks, and that’s how we arrive at the hour Gavie Igleacias got his hands in the cement over at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Gabe said, the emotions are going, It’s very overwhelming. He paid tribute to other Latino entertainers who came before him with a shirt featuring photos of Vincente Fernandez, Chess Burrito, Desi, Ornez, John Like Guizamo, George Lopez, and Freddie Prinz. Gabe said, I thought, if I could find a way, how do you say a lot without saying anything? So I had this shirt made to showcase this. I love it.

I spent my childhood coming down here with my family. So the fact that I’m here now means a lot, not just me, but being Mexican. It’s like, this guy can do it, why can’t I do it? Everybody is a dream? What’s your dream?

And what are you doing to make it happen? People are mad at Jennifer Huts and she did a promo about her guest, Kevin Hart. They put out picture out on social media. You see Jennifer’s why the queen’s accent came out there? Uh drop the accent.

You see Jennifer smiling brightly in the frame where you can only see Kevin Hart from the forehead and up. One person on social media said, for the first time in my life, I have felt secondhand disrespect. Johnny. You never talk about John Mlanie. I know right.

Late Nighter had a cute story. David Letterman has given an Emmy statue that Letterman won for him. My next guest needs no introduction. He gave it to John m’laney’s father, who appeared in the episode that won the award. Lanie’s father recently got a package from Lenorman.

Dave wrote a note, I found this extra Ammy in a closet. I told the kids. Let’s give it to Chip, So here you go. I hope you love it the way television people love it, and it’s solid gold. Spinal Tap two The End continues a sequel to the nineteen eighty four This Is Spinal Tap is heading to theaters this fall.

September twelfth is the date, once again, directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap two the n continues as Christopher Guest, Michael mckeinn and Harry Shearer, all in their original roles as one of England’s loudest bands. The plot this time spoiler spinal Tap is reuniting after fifteen years for one final concert. Reyner returns as Marty de Bergie, the documentarian who folls them on tour making Cameo Zelton, John Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival will take over Auckland and Wellington throughout the month of May over one hundred and fifty comedians, delivering more than six hundred live performances.

Some of the comedians Nish Kumar, whose name has been coming up a lot lately, comedian and podcast host Olga Kach Australia stand up and presenter, Becky Lucas, TV writer Adam Kaye, also Jen Brister, Laura lex here Shaw, Sarah Keatworth and Moore, UK comedians making their way to New Zealand. Lucas will host the Best Comedy Show on Earth at the sky City Theater, presenting an evening of hilarious comedy from a selection of crowd favorites and rising stars. Closing out the festival is Last Laughs, hosted by Eli Mathewson, also at sky City Theater. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just wanted to touch on one thing that’s been creeping up a little bit, specifically in the Apple podcast reviews.

Some people don’t seem to enjoy the feed drops that you get on Apple podcasts that say you may also like and then you get an episode of something. Let me just be transparent here. So why did I start this podcast? A few reasons. One, I was already hosting the Weekly Comedy Thing.

That’s a weekly show I host on the Live One app. I’m paid to host that show. I put the show together and I was noticing increasingly as they put the show together, I had all this extra material, and I’m like, Eh, why don’t I turn a podcast to that? So that’s one two emotionally, and I’ve talked about this when I was serious. I built all these comedy channels.

I put my heart and soul and I build this thing. It’s super popular for ten years, and then I get tagged out because I got a new boss who wanted to hire his assistant from Philadelphia and I basically got fired for no reason, so kind of annoying. So emotionally, this show you’re listening to right now, it’s mine. It’s not for sale. You can’t have it.

I’m not going to sell it to you. Maybe it sucks, maybe you hate it. I don’t think I hated if you’re listening this far in, but it’s mine. So emotionally, this is mine, right And then also I like to make money. Podcasting is my job.

I’m making money off this and the other shows on Caloroga Shark Media, including Palace Intrigue and Five Good News Stories. We put out the shows, we put commercials in the middle. If you don’t want the commercials, we have the premium subscription. Totally get it. But you know, I put a couple hours into this every day, specifically this one show, and it’s nice to turn a buck.

So the feed drops they pay really well, Like they pay really really well. I wish you could see my face right now. I’m looking at you in the ass going. It pays really well. So I get it.

I personally, I listen on podecasts and I don’t see those drops at all. They’re specific to the Apple Podcasts app and they go in as bonus episodes. So if they’re annoying you, Pockecast is a pretty good app. But like, I totally get it, and I hope you can understand where I’m coming from, all right, see tomorrow