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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Good lineup tonight for Comics for Kamala. Mark Marin Already it’s a great show, right, Kevin Neilan, Lori kil Martin, Danny Zucker, Mas Jabroni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso and Tom Arnold tonight at seven thirty at the Comedy Store in a, Los Angeles. Let’s see general admission of forty six dollars and forty cents.

I’ll tell you though, Comics for Kamala needs a better website. I hope the administration runs a little better than that. All right, another show if you want to turn against all your favorite comedians get mad at their politics. Gary Goleman doesn’t care. He’s doing Comics for Kamala on Monday in New York City, Gary Goleman and Friends.

The friends are Zach Zimmerman and Britney Carney. That’s at Stand Up New York, the new location at two twenty one West forty sixth Street. Oh wait, there’s another show on Tuesday in Miami. This one’s at the Miami Improv in Esther Coo Larry Dog of Freddy Stebbens, Larry fish More, Christopher Sharon Pfeiffer, and Bear Clarker Webb not exactly the name brands that are performing tonight. That’s Tuesday Night and Miami.

So I want to keep things fair here. I don’t see any sort of Trump comedy festival. If I see what I will tell you about it. I try to think to myself, who would even be in it? I googled comedians who support Trump.

Roseanne came up, and no one else came up, And I’m like, all right, from memory, who could be on comedians for Trump? I guess we could get Nick Depollo and Jim Brewer, Rob Schneider, Guttfeld. I’m sure Gutfeld would love to come. I mean, google conservative comedians. See what comes up?

Really, nothing other than the headline. Rob Schneider’s comedy is so bad it’s even offending Republicans. Somebody put together a tourist I can talk about it. Paul Starr did a big giant article about kill Tony Tony Hinchcliffe said, I want our audience to be able to hear these different perspectives from everybody where they’re from, how they grew up, what they do, what makes them different. It’s all critical to the flow of the show.

I got to remember to watch those kill Tony MSG shows. They’re up on YouTube. We’re all different, but we all laugh at a lot of the same stuff, and it brings us together. The show’s so raw, so organic, so live. There’s never been anything like that before, and I can’t believe that I’m the one that did it.

A little white trash Italian kid from an all black neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio. It’s just the America dream and I couldn’t be more ecstatic about it all. Tony told Theo Vaughn on the This Past Weekend podcast about when Tony made his comedy debutt for months and then blanked out on stage. He was honest. He turned into his own forgetfulness and turned that into a three minute improvised set.

He bombed in the weeks after with the jokes he’d rehearsed. To this day, Tony is more comfortable off script. As for his recent performance at the Tom Brady Roast, Tony Hinchcliffe said, I was adapting it until the very last second. Everything was changing. I was making edits, adding things, cutting things out, repositioning things, I’ve ppared a lot of those jokes for the roast, but I didn’t know how and when I was going to do it.

I decided very early on when I got there that I was going to do them from left to right and be the only one who moves around. I was trying to figure out where the main camera was seeing so they could see me and also the person I was roasting, so I was directing that while performing. It was a lot of work and a lot of adrenaline, a real blur, but also an absolute blast in one of the highlights of my life. Tony’s one of those fifteen year overnight successes, and said, fifteen years of writing on ROAs and performing stand up led me to this position. To be able to just execute up there.

It wasn’t a magical moment. It was almost two decades of continuous practice. The kid that used to roast everybody in school fully grown forty years old up there doing what I was built to do. Tom Brady deserves all the credit in the world for even letting me have that position and giving a young buck a chance like that. The first episode of Kill Tony was shot back in twenty thirteen in the belly room of LA’s Comedy Store in front of fifteen people with four sign ups.

Hinchcliff’s manager Alex Murray. I know Alex a little bit from way back in the day. Alex said, the Netflix Comedy Festival made us a low offer, not necessarily financially, but in terms of venue capacity. We told the booker, you’re really underestimating the power of this audience. We just kept passing and passing, and only they made us an offer for the YouTube theater, which is six thousand seats.

We sold out in ten minutes on the pre sale. The booker called and was like, what is this and we were like, I told you. The second show we had it was at the Kia Forum that sold out within days. We’re being careful of how many of these live shows we do because Tony goes out of pocket for production. Sometimes we want to make them special and unique.

Madison Square Garden, same thing. The first show sold out in a day, then we added the second show, which ended up selling out. Not a single dollar in advertising was used to achieve this. The Kill Tony YouTube channel has one point six million subscribers. They only got to a million back in April, so that’ll show you how fast it’s growing.

Alex Murray said, I represent other big ax. Yes he does, and we got to promote those shows. But when it comes to spending money on promotion, Tony’s like, nah, trust me, I got this. We listened and he’s right. He’s been right one hundred percent of the time.

Tony said, in my mind, we’re at times absolutely eating Saturday Night Lives lunch she and gillis doing. Is Donald Trump amen on that it’s so much fun when Chane shows up on Kill Tony, it is so much fun. Adam Ray, Is, Joe Biden, doctor Phil and many more they could have had. That these are the new stars, the backbone of modern day comedy, and having work with these guys forever and finally putting them in positions to be seen in their finest light doing their funnies stuff, watching on the break character because they’re cracking each other up. It’s just priceless.

It’s not written now, it’s not rehearsed. Everything is improvised and that’s the secret sauce of Killed Tony. Tony moved the show from la to Austin during the pandemic and says it’s made me a happier person. The people are nicer, the artists better, the food is better. My spirit is filled, which makes me a better host who makes better decisions for the show.

Normally go to New York or LA to make it and try to take things to the next level. You don’t go anywhere else to thrive. But that’s what we did, and there’s nowhere I’d rather be that at home here in Austin, Texas. It fills in my heart with so much joy and it’s my favorite place in the world. Joe Rogan said, it’s a better place for comedy, and you don’t have the traffic.

It’s not a grind. The club situation is amazing. There’s cap City, there’s the Creek in the Cave, There’s the Vulcan, There’s the Sunset Strip, the Mothership, the Black Rabbit, the Velveta Room, Shakespeare’s You realize you don’t have to be stuck in this crazy city of insane traffic and crime. Hinchcliff added having Shane Gillis here as a death blow to the other cities. Even the few people that we really want that I haven’t moved here.

They’re all coming here all the time. It’s like a Vegas residency. I apologize here to mister Dorfman, who works for Outback and is quoted here. Somewhere in my collection of the notes, I lost mister Dorfmann’s first name, and I keep googling out Back Dorfman, and all that comes up is a hat you would wear in the Australian desert. But mister Dorfman said, it’s easy to say Austin.

But the truth of Mather is over the years, La or New York were the gatekeepers, and now there are no gatekeepers. You’re watching the best at a craft just put their stuff out there and let the people decide. Before, in order to get the word out, there had to be somebody who tell you who was good and not well, the people have decided. We did twenty six thousand people in Madison Square Garden. This is the greatest moment comedy’s ever seen, and it’s because the comedians are running this.

Alex Murray agrees and said Comedy Central made a lot of comedy shows that people watched. It launched comedy stars and created new careers. It was a whole thing. But viewing habits changed during COVID. People started migrating the YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, watching on their phones and Tony show.

It was literally the only comedy show that was meaningful, original, fun and cool that exists. Did The audience felt like they discovered the show organically. It wasn’t ever promoted or marketed to them. I can’t even remember how I discovered Kill Tony. And I think Alex Murray brings up a good point.

Comedy Central boy, I mean, and I helped launch Comedy Central Radio, that brand you know in the aughts, super strong. What Happened The next Killed Tony live stream is at Resorts World Arena in Las Vegas at September twenty fifth. They’re also working on a New Year’s Eve show. I could see a pay per view coming, can’t you. Yeah, Now that the show’s popular, the big streamers are coming.

And Tony said, I’m just happy to have complete creative control and not have to deal with network notes from some executive or director. Everybody’s listening to me, and that’s why I think it works. It’s not watered down by a bunch of other people’s opinions or any old school stuff that’s going to drag it down, make it to safe, or make it resemble anything else. It’s brutally original, even though it’s technically a talent show slash open mic. It’s so raw because truly anything can happen, and everything is improvised.

It maintains its loose, dangerous, live feel, and it’s too late for anybody to catch up. Nobody can even do a rip off of the show because they have to play. It’s safe. If you look at your American idols, and your America got talent, and it’s made for grandmas and grandpa’s. It’s meant to be on the TV at nursing homes.

No cool eighteen year olds want to watch that.

Meanwhile, you got eighteen year olds watching kill Tony with their parents, …

Man, that kill Tony article is longer than I thought.

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All right, let’s bounce a whole bunch of things.

How about this from the Express News from Maria Bamford. Whenever Maria Bamford wants to try out new material, she asks her fans for help, She’ll put out a call on Twitter offering a T shirt to anybody who’s time to meet for a cup of coffee or over zoom and listen to her to go through her act. Bamford said, the great thing about human beings is that if you give people an opportunity to be delightful, they often are delightful. So anytime I’ve met with somebody, it’s been really fun.

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Also, it’s a public form, so they’ve said in some way, I’d like to do this, a…

It’s not like it’s pushed upon them, which is my least favorite kind of comedy, which is ambush comedy. She notes that some might be misled by her looks. She says, I’m a white cis heater, a woman in my fifties. They might think they might be able to relate to her point of view. She said, maybe not.

You might want to google it. I’m the used bookstore of comedy. I probably won’t have what you want, but I’m pleasant and I try to find you who you might want, and I bet it’s someone else, and I’ve been sitting on this one from the av Club, Rosalind Chow talked about her time on Mash and After Mash. Remember she was on the last few seasons of Mash and then both seasons of After Mash, and then later she was on Star Trek the Next Generation. Rosalind said, Mash, that’s kind of one of my first real things, And I think that’s one of the reasons people on the internet.

I think I’m like eighty years old because I got hired and then I got fired. Unbeknownst to me. When my paperwork came in, they basically said I needed to be ten years older than I actually was to be able to keep the part, and I obviously wanted a job, so I said whatever they needed me to say to be able to regain the role. So that’s why I’m eighty or wherever old people think I am. My lawyer just asked if I want to have a change.

I was like, you know, well, they have considered me for three body problem if they knew I’m not really an old lady, so I don’t want to jinx it. You know, how old is she? Actually? I didn’t think she was eighty. Let’s see, let me do loose math before I look it up.

All right, Mash ended in nineteen eighty two, So if I make her, I’m doing lazy math here from I make her twenty in nineteen eighty two, she’s sixty. If I make her twenty five, she’s like sixty seven. I’m gonna guess she’s like sixty seven. Is seventy sixty six? Not bad?

Johnny Mack born September twenty third, nineteen fifty seven, about to be sixty seven. Johnny Mack nailed that one high five everyone. So if you want to be like, she’s only sixty six, you listen to this podcast tomorrow. She’s like sixty seven, is what I said. She’s sixty six and three sixty four, three sixty fifths close enough.

Oh, I’m glad I slipped that in today. I see that was fun, accidental whatever the Evy Club said. Hey with After Mash, I heard it was being pitched as a series with a tone resentling the film of the best years of our lives. See, I thought it was pitched as boy. I wish Allan Aaldo would have kept doing Mash.

What do we do now? That’s what I think the pitch was. Roslind said, oh yeah, I didn’t know what that meant then, but yeah it was. Look. I had fun on it.

I learned how to drive while we’re doing it. And my biggest memory was that nobody wanted the parking spot next to me on the twentieth century Fox a lot, so they kept moving me. First, I was parked next to Harry Morgan. Remember his face when I got there and said, Oh, I’m parking next to you, and look I did a really good parking job. His face was just like horror.

Lee day, I got a note saying you’re parking next to Jeanie for tomorrow and Jamie last like a week and the next thing I knew, I was parked next to somebody I didn’t know at all. That is your comedy news today. Happy birthday, Rosalind Show also tomorrow. Happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jenny Mack, you never give any attention to Roywood Junior’s news show. Have I got news for you on CNN? I know, and the CNN publicists put out so many articles about it, and I’ve barely talked about it.

The La Times spoke to Roywood Junior. They talked about his time playing sports in high school. He warmed the bench. Roy said, your job as a bench of warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other fifteen year olds.

If I could get the umpire to laugh, that was like an applause break. If I got the parents to laugh, that was the standing. Oh. Roy says, We’re a very interesting piece of real estate with this new show. In between say a Jimmy Fallon and a daily show, it’s an opportunity to talk about the news, but we get to season it for taste in terms of the depth in which we want to go on a particular topic.

A sidebar here. The La Times writes, as roy Wood said that sentence, he was alternating tips of two smoothie. Is one a fruity pink, the other a healthy green, fascinating. I might head over to the smoothie place after I record this. They have this new cinnamon smoothie that’s so good.

I might have to go get one. Where he says, the burden of making the argument every single time is not on my shoulders anymore. It’s a chance to live within the jokes first, the opinions. Second. The conversation turned to his time at The Daily Show, and he said, the biggest thing I learned from watching Trevor Noah’s not to let anger pollute your sense of humor.

It’s infuriating what’s happening in America, But the moment you allow yourself to be consumed by the anger, you lose your ability to make fun of everything. I remember Trevor allowing not anger, but compassion to drive his segment about a police shooting. As I recall, there wasn’t a single joke in the first act. He just spoke sincerely to the camera about where we are as a country. There were so many moments where Trevor could have used the pulpit to cuss America out, and he never did it, but instead he used calmness as a more precise scalpel.

Interesting. I’m going to use the word spin here. This isn’t the way I remember it, But the La Times rites. When it became clear that one time front runner Hasan Minhaj wasn’t going to get the Daily Show job, Wood started to worry that there was no plan for the Daily Show as it headed into an election year. Roy says, at that point, John Stewart coming back was not in the conversation.

For me, it felt like, well, what is life going to be for me after the Daily Show? If they picked somebody that doesn’t want me it as a correspondent, then what am I gonna do next year? If I’m gonna have to eventually find a place to land, I should just start that process now, all right? That is fair. I think my point is that the La Times left out the part where they weren’t obviously not considering Roy for the desk either.

Amber Ruffin said, Roy knows every current news story but also the history of them, which is amazing to me. Even when you think, oh, he’s not gonna have the backstory on this, he does. Roy has a kind of gravitas. He feels like he belongs in the chair. He just feels like a dude you might be hanging with around the grill at a barbecue, Whereas on the jerkvase, who’s gonna be like, do you have impossible burgers?

Roy Wood has been preparing for the show by watching Steve Harvey host Family Feud. Why because he’s the king of hearing something ridiculous, pausing and reacting to it, and then getting the game back on track. He’s keeping in open mind about the future and said if the Daily Show called, I’m not gonna send them a voicemail, but I am dating someone. The CNN press team got Vulture to write about the show, Hey, Amber ruffin, how did you wind up getting hired as one of the team captains? Amber said, they had a bunch of us tests for it, and it was just the most fun little reunion.

It was everybody who’s kind of in this space, was all the late night people, the funny news podcasters, the people who had late night shows. Well, should be asking her pals to be on her team. No one’s asking me who should be on the show. I don’t have any control of who’s on the show or not, or else it’d be all my friends, which I guess it would be fine. I don’t even know who’s going to be on this Friday.

They tape Friday and at air Saturday. How’s the show different than the UK version? It’s a little more game show. Esk gets overflowing with punchlines, the goals to give your fastest answered many times that’s wrong or silly, and because we’re all comedians, it’s very much like an improvised late night show that’s out behaves. We’re spitting out punch lines at a teams and sat down and thought through, which makes it more fun and truer than your regular show.

It’ll be different that the segments are way tighter than your run of the mill British panel show. I think it’s very segment heavy and bit heavy, whereas the other panel shows can get to yepping. How do you decide who wins? Roy is deciding who gets points and he can be bought before every show. It’s on the whims of Roy.

It’s how he’s feeling. So yeah, I’m gonna bring him presents. I want to win. Let’s stay political for a second. The Daily Beast spoke to Samuel Wiles.

He does stand up comedy in La and resembles jd Vance, and he has started doing a jd Vance impression. Wile said, I’m always kind of clocking guys with big round heads and beards and media, the fact that we both have light eyes and kind of high school teacher speaking voices. With a bonus coincidence. He started doing his Vance impression on TikTok on August seventh, while channeling jd Vance In a recent video, he had Vance reading letters from constituents and said, dear future VP Van s, a Haitian illegal broke into my house and ate my dog between two slices of wonderbread. He was wearing nothing but a cape and a sinister top hat.

He escaped on a skateboard powered by dark magic. How does he come up with ideas? He thought about how much I don’t like JD Vance, but also how awful would be to be him. I started writing down stuff I thought he would say, because I thought I could talk about it as stand up. But then I wrote for like ninety minutes straight.

It was so easy. I read Hillbilly Eligi when it came out. I remember liking it while I was reading it, then putting it down and going, oh wait, what an a hole. Then when he became an outright conservative media figure that it seemed really logical. It’ll never not be funny to me that he’s a huge fraud.

No one likes him. He doesn’t even get the benefit of this weird lying. His life would be so much easier if he could be honest, but there’s so many layers that he can’t have an honest moment. Now part of what makes a good advance impression mascara, He says, My fiance works in beauty and did my eyeliner for the first round of videos, and we both kind of realized it needed to look worse. So now I just get the three dollars wet and wild from Walgreens and mash it into my eyes on my own.

Shout out to Walgreens. Nick Swartzon spoke to the eight hundred pound Gorilla, and he said, one of my favorite stories is I did a performance arts center and I show up backstage. It’s about two thousand seats. I look up the walls and big murals of the Lion King and Phantom and Wicked, and I go to the manager and I go, do you guys have comedy? Here and he goes, oh, yeah, I have comedy.

Sometimes we had Lewis Black and I go, oh, no, do you have security here? And he goes no, but we have ushers. And I’m like, you don’t understand. There’s going to be a crapstorm coming in here. My fans are gonna be rowdy.

And he’s like, we’ll be fine. And it’s like, now you don’t understand what I’m saying to you. The Nick Schwartz and crowd’s gonna come in hot. And he’s like, I’m not worried about it. Okay, whatever we go.

I do my show. It’s chaos. Girls got in a fight in a balcony. This brawl. People are being insane.

It’s super fun. I had a blast. And after the show, I got back to my green room and the manager goes, what the f And I’m like, yeah, I told you. People are doing cocaine in the crowd. There’s vomit everywhere.

Usher just didn’t know what to do and I’m like, yeah, I know, I told you. Literally said that. I called my agent. I was like, maybe let’s take a break from the Performing Arts Center. Like what am I gonna do?

After the ballet slates has a big article on the arts of clowning, a little too deep for me to cover on this podcast, but a good read on Slate. The part I’ll highlight here is they spoke to Natalie Palomides, who I think is fantastic, and the setup here was about how clown performers dress, and they said Natalie, by contrast, often isn’t dressed in anything. In one of her more shocking Bitsmedies takes the stage dressed like the little mermaid looking for her true love. An audience member of volunzear is to fill that role. Natalie locks them in an aggressive tongue and make out, pulling their shirt over their head with passionate post nuptial Gusto, writes Slates.

Later, Balamedes strips down completely and discovers that with the wonders of m enjoying yourself, maybe she doesn’t need true love after all. She says, so much of the clowning in the modern scene is naked and horny, and that’s not part of being a clown. Traditional clowning is supposed to be innocent, childlike, and playful, and I’m frustrated that I’ve become an example of this. It’s become a creature people. If you’re going to do nudity, you have to earn it.

She’s anxious that she might be bastardizing the form. She would rather say that I was a physical character comedian. I think more people on the outside started to refer to me as a clown before I called myself one. One of her friends made the case that clowning, just like any form of art, is subject to reinvention and deconstruction. Deal and went electric, Natalie, it might ditch your clothes in the middle of a show.

Leslie Lao is one of Vulture’s comedians you should know and will know. Oh. When they asked her if she were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would her outfit be? Interesting question? Stylish ath leisure, high waisted sweatpants, sports brawn a cool baggy vintage jacket, sexy clean sneakers.

Sounds like, uh, Pouci from The Simpsons, didn’t Pooci dress like that? What comedian’s career trajectory would you like to follow? Bill Burr? I want to do stand up forever if you known for that first, and be competitive with myself and see if it can be better than it was there before. I want everything I do outside of stand up writing, acting, podcasting, directing, voice over, et cetera.

Tolign with my voice in comedic style. Worst show ever. I recently did a show to college, so beforehand I assumed it was for college students. That is a good assumption. When I arrived, it was for a summer camp of high school students touring the college decide whether or not they wanted to apply.

The average age had to be sixteen. They spent the entire day doing activities and were restless. All of them were on their phones and either talking to each other, shouting at questions that the comics, or trying to make each other laugh. The sound was awful. They were too young to grasp the concepts of my jokes, loneliness, isolation, agonizing over whether or not to have children, et cetera.

They were not listening or laughing at anything I said, so I started doing Q and A. Questions range from what’s your favorite movie? Too? Does life get worse? To what’s your Snapchat?

The lineup was stacked with amazing and talented comics, and one by one we were demolished emotionally by these children, and I hated it and it was amazing. All right, what’s your joke writing process? She says, trying to be funny can backfire on me. When I first started, I naturally thought of what would make an audience laugh, and work backwards and tailoring the premise to it. Now I realize if I try to be funny first, my truth will get lost.

If I start with the truth first, and I rant about my honest feelings and experience off in the humor On Once he relies on its own organically all right, comedy opinion hill that you’ll die on, Leslie says, let’s experiment with earlier show times. Shows that start past nine pm are challenge to us all. Everyone’s pushing their limits to be awake and full of energy when reality we’re all fighting there to doze off. Amen, preach Johnny Maco’s to bed at nine point thirty half the time. Let me take a crack at a four pm show.

We can all have a laugh at dinner at a reasonable hour and tuck ourselves in by nine pm. Oh, I think that’s awesome, She says. I also love the no phones and shows policy. A stand up show is not a concert. It’s a time to listen and laugh.

When you’re holding up your phone in front of your face and block other people’s view and filming our sets, you’re neither listening or laughing. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best, don’t try to lead with being relatable. Just focus on what’s true for yourself and hope that connects with people. Worst.

When I had my day job at Netflix, a few comics would find out and tell me that I was already in. All I had to do is get acquainted with someone on the stand up team and pitch myself and get a special that way, I’m well aware that’s a backward, awkward and unprofessional strategy. These industry people have to come to you. If the comics approach them, they’d be a line of comics of the Netflix lobby waiting to pitch themselves to creative executives every day. Just be so good, funny, professional and special that someone who can change your life will notice you and come to you.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Michael Jay and Colin Jokes apparently have a good relationship, but seems there was one joke Michael Jay didn’t like. He told this story to Dana Carvey and David Spade. They were curious if there was any punchline that he didn’t like.

Chase said, I think jalapagno business. I was pretty furious about that one. Joe said, you were just upset that it worked so well. The joke in question related to a twenty fifteen Ohio criminal case, which saw a woman charged with stabbing her boyfriend because he ate a tub of sauca they were meant to share. Chase said, I remember and run through when you did it because I’d never heard it before.

I don’t remember what the setup was, but the punchline was halapano business, a play on words on the saying all up in your business. On the final airing, Jose recapped the crime and concluded by saying you’d be angry too if your boyfriend was jlapagno business, and Chase said, I was like, if you tell that joke on the air, I’m leaving him quitting the show, and he did it on air and it destroyed. I was so frustrated. I was like, I don’t even know what we’d do anymore. On the original airing, Chase shared, first of all, I hate you for laughing at that.

My joke got pulled after dress rehearsal because they said it was too offensive and way over the line. Man. The PR people over at CNN, they definitely worked hard at getting word out about how I got news for you. You’ve got a couple of stories today, and I’ll do some more tomorrow. Since the show airs on Saturday.

And look it’s canceled because it’s scheduled on Saturday night. I know if anybody’s gonna watch it. Micha Lee and Black told Inside Hook, I’m so plugged in, like annoyingly so, I know so much about the news, mostly as a function of being unemployed. I live on Twitter discuss even me. Black appeared in a pilot for an NBC version of the show years ago that never took off.

When CNN came calling, he was like, why see it in doing this? This doesn’t make any sense to me, So I asked that question to CNN. I’m like, this doesn’t make any sense, and they said they’ve been airing Bill Mahers show on Saturday nights and reruns and it’d been performing really well for them, and they saw an opportunity there and they were looking for something to pair with it to expand their weekend programming from just Sunday Originals to Saturday Originals. Seem like a good fit, some one was explained to me. I was like, oh, you’re smarter than I thought you were.

They’ve been really respectful of Roy Amber and I in terms of letting us do what we want, never saying well, in the British version they do this or they do that. I think they’re very cognizant of the fact that this has to stand on its own two legs with an American cast doing it the way we would do it. So I’m sure the architecture of it, the way the show is constructed, and the design and the games that are all within it, that’s all lifted from the British one. But in terms of how we executed here, they haven’t give us any notes other than go as far as you want to go, which is the best possible note to receive. He said.

The crew instantly connected. While filming a test episode, even though they didn’t know each other, Black says, I felt so familiar and so comfortable, and they were so funny. It felt to me like we’d be doing it for years. I was shocked, it really was. I think all of us have enough experience in the format sitting on a stage, there’s an audience, there’s four or five cameras, and you’re just like shooting at the stuff.

I think it felt natural for all of us and a very easy place to fall into. The X factor is always like, well, what’s the chemistry going to be? Like? So far is so good. I mean they were making fun of me.

I was making fun of them. They were making fun of each other. That’s all you want. That’s all I want. If some tragedy or something, or I should say, when there’s some tragedy or something, it’s entirely possible we will be preempted that week, depending on the nature of whatever’s happening, and I’d be fine with that.

I’m not trying to get up on September thirteenth to joke about September eleventh, you know what I mean. I think my approach would be to treat the events with the seriousness they deserve. That doesn’t mean you can’t find the humor in them. But then there’s just some things that are not going to be funny, and I won’t try to make them funny. If a school shooting happens, you’re not going to see me up there making armpit fart noises over it.

I’m just not The CNN press machine got Rolling Stone to write an article. Roy Wood Junior said, I wouldn’t mind RFK Junior as a guest. It would be funny, I guarantee you that, and at times it would be very what the f is happening, but informative at the end of the day, and I think that part of it’s fun to see. The thing that I’m trying to remain conscious about the American version of this is there’s still a lot of people suffering under a lot of these policies that are quarterback by people that were thrown around a pure as guests, and so there’s a way to tend of the wins of the people that are in pain while creating a sense of accountability or explaining yourself for people that have pushed some of these policies. I don’t want to laugh at stuff that’s insensitive.

At the end of the day, I’ve had six days to yell, curse and cry. On Saturday nights, we will laugh. In the Daily Mail, Alexa Semino talks about being at participant in Kill Tony. I found this very interesting, Alexa writes. I had waited in the sign up line on the first day of the show, even convincing my editor to let me out of work early.

I arrived at four pm, thinking an hour was plenty of time to screw my place in line for the five pm sign ups. I was very wrong. At least eight hundred aspiring comedians had been waiting and sweltering ninety five degree heats since eleven am. By the time I arrived, only three hundred to four hundred lean in and I didn’t make the cut that day, but I was determined the next day. I came prepared.

There were only twenty or so people in mind when I arrived at mid day, so I was golden. I chatted with the other comics who had flown in from all over the country. Wow, it felt like a comedy tailgate party, where instead of football, we discussed the kill Tony bump. Referring to the possible career boosts that would come from being selected to perform on the show. When it was time to sign up, we were herded like cattle through metal detectors made to sign waivers.

We were given wristbands and ushered beneath the arena on the left side of the stage. Especial section was reserved for comics who had entered their names in the bucket. A live man fired up the crowd. The show kicked off as Tony began explaining the bucket poll system. That’s when I realized I had willingly signed up for three hours of anxiety because no one knew who was going to be called.

I whipped out my trusty red Joke book, frantically flipping through the pages and knowing I’d be so shocked I’d probably forget my own name. I needed to strategically select jokes that were second nature, like the kind of jokes I knew so well I could recite them in my sleep. Eventually, her nerves calm because she’s not being called, and then she writes it turns out my chances of being called were far higher than I thought, for one reason. I was a woman. Tony wanted a woman and had one last bucket poll left for Saturday night show, so he kept drawing names until he found one mine.

I was rushed backstage by the production crew. My face pale, my hand’s trembling. The production assistant laid down the law. Don’t touch the judges, don’t go over your time. When you hear a kittens me owt from the soundboard, wrap it up, Tony says, make some noise for Alexa Semino.

I walked up the stairs, picked up the signature red microphone, looked out to the sea of twenty thousand faces stretching out before me. You could hear a pin drop. I launched it into my set. The words tumbled out with a confidence I didn’t know I possessed. The crowds laughter echoed throughout the arena.

In comedy terms, I had killed it. I managed to banter with Shane Gillis, dressed as Donald Trump. I was awarded a big Joke book, a prestigious symbol that the bucket pull had impressed the judges. Stepping off the stage, I was greeted by some of the most famous names in comedy. After the show, I was bombarded with congratulations autograph requests and so much love, especially from female audience members.

It took me nearly an hour to leave the venue. In a few weeks I’ll find out if the Kiltny bump is real or if we’ll be back to climbing the stand up ladder from scratch again. I gotta remember to watch those shows. The MSG shows are up on YouTube now. You know this football like nine nights a week now.

There aren’t nine nights in a week, John, There’s like football like eight nights a week now, and I was having a time to watch kil Tony. But the MSG shows are definitely up there out today. Anna Valenzuela’s a new comedy album, A Murder Puss, is available from a burn This Records. There’s going to be a book about Lauren Michaels entitled Lauren Then, who invented Saturday Night Live. Get ready for nine solid months of SNL talk starting with this movie ending with the fiftieth anniversary show.

This new book, written by Susan Morrison from The New Yorker, will introduce you to him in full for the first time, with unprecedented access to Michaels, who has spent his career mostly avoiding reporters and the entire SNL apparatus. The New Yorker’s Susan Morrison takes you behind the curtain for the rollicking, definitive story of how Lorne created the institution that would change comedy forever. Sidebar Mark Maron had lorn On at one point, I think two episodes worth, maybe only one. That was a great listen. I know Maren put stuff behind the paywall after a while.

I don’t know if that’s still available, but that was really good if you can still get it. Other people interviewed in the book Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Amy Poehler, and Jason Sadeikas, Bill Hayter Buck, Henry Chevy, Chase and Moore. The book will be out in February. Forbes spoke to Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline’s Comedy Club in Caroline Hirsch is a big part of the New York Comedy Festival. They spoke to her about how comedians dress.

Airlines said to me many many years ago, Robin Williams always presents it himself in kind of a you know, it was a cool way on stage in the beginning, he wore T shirts with suspenders. It was kind of his look after get rid of the Hawaiian shirts. Later he was a very chic dresser. She says. JB.

Smooth is the coolest dresser around. Tracy Morgan also make sure he’s dressed to the nines. Kevin Hard as well is dressed to the nines. Those guys really do out there and make sure they have a look, very very much a look on what they do. Caroline says, once comedians get the means, they dress up, that’s their thing.

I watch people go from jeans and T shirt to there are many suits. You could see the transition of people going through it. Her favorite is when comedians wear bling. It’s almost like do they dress up so people take them more seriously or is it a way to show their status that they’ve made it. It’s really about making it.

Look at Nikki Glaser, she’s impeccantly dressed on stage all the time. As for the now closed Caroline’s Comedy Club, she says, it lives on through the festival. That’s what we’ve been doing. And look, when the news went out that we were closing club, I had so many offers from different real estate people around New York saying, Oh, come work with us, open another club. But I needed sign a step back a bit, and we’ve been exploring other ideas about the Caroline’s brand.

Speaking of the well dressed JB Smooth, The Port City Daily caught up with JB, who said, people forget how short life is, and people really focus on too much stuff that keeps them stagnant and keeps them at a certain mindset for a long time until they realize that being in that mindset has affected them long term. By the time they get to a certain age, they realize they can’t fix it. They can’t repair it because they’re locked into it. They presented someone to everybody and now everybody knows them as that personality and that person. But if you can’t find a way to laugh, find a place in there for humor and growth, we’re in trouble.

And I think comedy is a departure from the normal world. You should put your phones away and be in the moment with somebody. It’s kind of like an intervention. We as humans have definitely attached ourselves to a different speed of the world, and there’s something really intimit about a setting like comedy when somebody leans forward in their chair and I’m like, oh, I got them. That’s the fun thing about stand up man, sat yourself to the heartbeat, and that it’s your comedy news for today.

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Ricky Gervais is being accused of bullying by fellow comedian Robin Ince from when they toured together. Robin claims Ricky Gervay’s backstage jeers took a physical toll on his health when they toured together. Robin says, I look back now and I think it’s bullying. Really it is. I’m very good at tizing to things in which you go Actually, this is really weird, but people who knew me didn’t like the way that relationship worked.

I’m not saying it was a traumatic experience, but after two weeks I came out in red lumps that my doctor said was a stress rash. The fifty five year old was on the Starting Line podcast and said Jervas’s bullying was so bad that Mackenzie Crook, also from the office, stepped in and confronted Ricky about it. I gotta download this thing. Hang on, I’m for real, taking out my phone and grabbing it face id unlock code. No, I’m not telling you my code.

Were you crazy done? There seemed to be several podcasts with the title the starting line, this one the salmon covered cover. Art Ince announced his retirement in twenty fifteen, saying that he was starting to go mad with self doubt, insomnia, and orgret over not spending enough time with his family. He remained friends with Ricky Gervais until twenty twenty two, when he wrote a blog post criticizing Ricky for making jokes about transgender people in his Netflix special. At the time, he wrote, anti transpunch a lines seemed to have become highly profitable, and it ignores the dehumanizing effect of a swath of already martialized people.

I think Ricky believes it is him just being a naughty boy. I believe it makes him a pin up and role model for the alt right.

Meanwhile, Amazon has released the first trailer for the Australian version o…

The Office Australia will be available on Prime in two hundred and forty countries starting October eighth, except the United States. You might want to get a VPN. They released a clip which I’ll share with you in a second Hannah Howard is the boss, the managing director of Sydney based packaging company Finley Cretick, trying to win over her employees with her natural charisma, girl boss vibes and visionary leadership. Sounds familiar, right, Well, well it’s the office. What do you want?

Also trapped at Finley Cradicktor Hannah the receptionist productivity manager Lizzie, which is kind of the Dwight Gareth role. Sales rep Nick, he’s the guy that mugs for the camera and greta eight episode season. You want to listen, Let’s listen. I had to trim this a bit to make it work for the pod, so let’s listen. Big announcement.

Can I have a drum roll? Plase drum roll, Lloyd, that’s our drum roll. People ask me how can I become a great boss? And the answer is having a happy staff that love you. This is a proper hhon night, ma’am.

As of today, we are all back in the office full time. What that’s not good news? We lost one of our own last week, Ryan died. We were so close. He’s always in my heart.

I was he the tall third one? Yeah, no, he was the short and Smiley one. Yeah, that’s what I meant, what actual identity is. He doesn’t feel relevant, does it. He kind of reminds me of if David Brent from the UK office worked at the Scranton branch and then we made it all Australian.

I’m definitely gonna watch this thing visually. It looks like the US version for sure. Thanks to Von for putting this Dean Cook thing as I have at my notes in front of me. Deane Cook was supposed to perform at the RPM Theater in Vancouver last weekend, but the show was canceled based on some comments in Deane Cook’s most recent Instagram post. Shows and several locales have been canceled.

People are wondering why. Some folks who said they were to attend the Portland show said they didn’t learn the show would be canceled until they were standing in front of the doors. One redditor said, I’m sure all four people will be refunded. Someone alleging to be a theater worker said they had sold under three hundred tickets for a two thousand seat venue. I find that hard to believe.

I don’t I would imagine Dane could easily fill two thousand seats like you do. Just play the garden. I hope everything’s okay with Dane. Met him once, he was cool, got him some sunshine hips. True story.

The ticketmaster page gave no reason for the cancelation, neither did Live Nation. All Right. Out today on YouTube James Adomian’s Path of Most Resistance. I got a screener for this thing, oh like two months ago. It’s one of my favorites of the year.

Please watch James Adomian’s Path of Most Resistance on YouTube. You will like it.

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Also out today, Ben Kushenbaum’s Best Picture.

That’s on YouTube starting at six pm Central Time. Ellen has her special coming out on Tuesday, and she has released a trailer for it. You’ve heard me tell you many of these jokes. Now you will hear Ellen tell them. And I have clipped this down for pacing.

You’ll never guess you jumped on stage with Dion Cole on Tuesday night. You can guess for ten million years. You’re never going to guess Paul McCartney what Dion was working on new material at the Hollywood Improv. He pulls Paul McCartney up on stage. He introduces Paul as his friend to the crowd.

He tells the crowd that he and Paul smoked a little weed before the performance. Those who I’ve seen the video go, yeah, that’s probably true. Deon tells the crowd, I had a smoke and that’s why this is happening, and all you mfers didn’t give any love to me tonight. Paul said, I’ve just been enjoying you working through this material, and you’re right, some of it bombed. Deon’s new special came out on Netflix on Tuesday.

It’s called Okay, mister, I haven’t gotten too yet. Oh what did I watch? I wanted to tell you, Oh, I watched them. Have I got news for you? The Roy Wood Junior thing.

It’s okay, it’s watchable. It’s not horrible. It’s not great. It’s not funny, but it’s not horrible. It’s not great, it’s not funny, it’s not horrible.

It’s not great, it’s not funny, it’s not horrible. That’s my review. Jimmy Fallon is putting out a holiday album later this year. Justin Timberlake was his guest on The Tonight Show, and they revealed the title and teaser of their new holiday song called You’ll be There. Jimmy described it as a silly song, noting it’s kind of about a bromance.

Justin. Timberlake said, I mean it’s us. Fallon added, Yeah, it’s like I was saying, Hey, you’ll be there. You’ll be there for me this Christmas. The currently untitled album is released November.

First, I got to find out who what label this is on. Maybe get Chimmy on the show. That’d be awesome, all right. From Gossip Corner, Nikki Glaser posted on Instagram. People were saying that her dress was a little see through.

So you know, I like to keep you guys abreast of what’s happening in the comedy scene. So I had to click on this post to do more research. I did see the photo, and I will tell you it is a very nice photo. CBS hasiled a new comedy campaign, adding a chuckle to the I logo and poking some fun and it’s Tiffany Heritage. Chief Marketing Officer Mike Benson said CBS is ready to break some Tiffany glass.

People will say that CBS is old and stagy, but actually, if you look at our programming, it’s really not. I just turned fifty five, so it’s the only TV station that I’m allowed to watch, and nobody else cares about anybody under fifty five, so I have CBS on all the time. Blue Blood Season thirty nine, Bring It, Mike Benson said, I think we’ve got a lot of work to do from a brand perspective, to show that we can have a lot of fun, that we’re willing to poke fun at ourselves as much as we want people to come in and laugh at the shows. We’ve got the tagline You’re laughing at CBS. We’ll focus on returning hits, Ghosts in the Neighborhood, as well as the new Young Sheldon spinoff of George and Mandy’s First Marriage, any comedy from Damon Wayne’s and Damon Wayns Junior called Papa’s House.

As part of this new brand, CBS is introducing a smiling version of its eye logo, which it has nicknamed chuckle Boy, And you thought hilarious was hack to be fair? Chuckle is a sli nod to Chuckles, the clown from the famous episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show that in itself a half century old reference. CBS, you’re not helping yourself why not call the logo I don’t know Chester a Arthur. Chester a Arthur was the twenty first President of the United States, serving from eighteen eighty one two eighteen eighty five. Oh, it gets worse, Benson said, CBS will start referring to the term sitcom as sit down comedy to differentiate it from stand up comedy.

She thanks Mike Benson, thank you for clarifying that, And Mike Benson said, there’s a lot of stand up comedy out there, but we’re looking at this not from the point of view of what comedians do, what value we’re providing our audience almost every day. Boy, this brand just sounds super hip. You know, it’s sit down comedy and half century old reference. Mike, you get it, You totally get it. You’re totally gonna make this brand younger.

Great job, I mean, CBS just trying to get young. They’re also promoting their new Kathy Bates version of Matt Locke. Yeah that screams Generation Alpha, put down your phones, kids, and NCIS prequel called NCIS Origins, and something called the Summit. Oh, Mike Benson, good luck to you all right, This next story sucks. Scottish comedian Genie Godly revealed she’d canceled her upcoming tour, which was called why is she Still here?

I mean ongoing treatment for terminal ovarian cancer. Godly is sixty three. She was going to tour this fall. Doctors have advised her to stop working quote for the foreseeable future. Statement from Jane’s team says that it was with huge sadness that we must announce the cancelation of Janie Godley’s Autumn twenty twenty four tour.

Janey’s been living with stage four ovarian cancer for the past few years, and the treatment has kept the disease at bay, but sadly, in the last few weeks, the cancer’s returned and there have been a few added complications. Her doctors have now advised her that she must stop working for the foreseeable future. Previously, Godley had sold ITV’s Lorraine that it was Jimmy Carr who convinced her to continue her tour despite her diagnosis. Janey said, I decided to cancel the tour and then Jimmy Carr said, is your mouth not working? And I want yeah, my mouth works, and he said we’ll get back on tour.

The high planes a comedy festival kicks off tonight. I won’t read every performer, but some names you may know. Rory Scovell, Chris Estrada, Dina hasham Ian, Carmel Caitlin Cook, j McBride is fantastic, Josh Gondleman, Joan Oharray, Adam Clayton holland you know, I’m just skimming here. Mandal He’s one of the comics you should and must know or whatever Variety’s thing is called. It’s the eleventh annual High Planes Comedy Festival, running tonight through the twenty first at multiple venues on South Broadway.

The headlining shows are at the Paramount Theater. High Planes Comedy Festivals held each fall in Denver, Colorado, and I showed by Autism and Entertainment. They partnered with The Miracle Project and The Laugh Factory to host Let It Out, a stand up comedy show for neurodivergent fans that this happened last week. Let It Out featured comedians Will Hunter, Krueger Dunn, Josh Myrowitz, Lori kil Martin, Jeremiah Watkins, and Eric Griffin. Producer Mike Rotman told Variety he wanted to create a stand up program after realizing there were no comedy shows that his neurodivergent relatives would feel completely comfortable at.

Some of the tweaks for Let It Out reduce the volume of music, allowing patrons to wear headphones during the performance. They also had a private space in the back for guests to take a break at any point they wanted. During Walkin’s set, he took time to dive into trains after a suggestion from a fan in attendance, rather than just doing his prepared material. Walkin said, I definitely want to try to cater the crowd and what they’re excited about. I love trying to connect with as many people as possible, and there shouldn’t be an exception for people who are on the spectrum.

Eric Griffin said, the language of laughter is universal. We’re all different more ways than race, gender, sexual orientation. There’s a spectrum and that is your Daily 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 Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Oliver talked about the Emmys playing him off, and he revealed he actually felt a slight relief when the orchestra began playing him off. Oliver said, I’m not well versed in sincerity as a British person and as a comedian, so I didn’t really want to get upset, and thankfully whoever was on the board said you can’t carry this off and walk me straight into a joke. I’m very, very grateful that they gave me the parachute so I could avoid my feelings once more.

Jesse Collins is one of the producers of the Emmys and told the rap I apologize to John and his family for playing the music. We turned it off at his request and turned it back on when he said he wanted to be played off. Colin said, we didn’t know that the dog had passed. Fellow producer Janney Rousson Clay said John always gives us a fun moment. When he was going on about his dog, which was very sweet.

We’re like, hey, you gotta wrap it up, and the music starts playing and he’s like, my dog is dead. And we were like, oh my god, just mortified.

Meanwhile, they asked the producers who came up with the idea of roasting Lor…

Colin said, I believe it was Seth Meyers’s idea. Roussean Klay said yeah. He wrote that the cast out a huge hand in that you might want to volunteer for jury duty. Why that way you could be on a jury with David Letterman. Maybe Letterman was up to be possible juror in a criminal trial.

Judge P. Kevin Castell interviewed Jurer sixteen with questions, just as he did with three dozen other potential jurors to determine who’d be on a panel of twelve jurors and four aldernates. Those jurors, including Dave, had already survived a general round of questioning in which individuals are dismissed for hardship reasons like medical issues or jobs from which they can’t be spared. The trials expected to last less than two weeks. The judge asked Dave, where do you live?

Letterman said Hartford. Then Letterman realized not the time to joke it said no, it’s a joke. The judge said, nice try. You figured you’d forego Queen’s. Dave revealed his true residence area, west Chester County.

We’re told there were then three dozen or so exchanges between the judge and the lawyers. The judge and lawyers learned Dave was born in Indianapolis, obtained a degree from Ball State University in Munsey, Indiana, and has a twenty year old son in college in Massachusetts. Dave was asked what he does for a living. He said he’s currently working for a company called Netflix. The judge asked, spouse or significant other.

Letterman said, I’ve had both currently, I just have the spouse. Dave’s bold there in front of the judge, cracking wise. Dave was asked now he gets his news? He said every morning. I used to pick up the paper off the front porch.

Now I turn on the computer and it’s an aggregation of new sources from all over the United States and around the world. He was asked what he likes to watch besides any Netflix programs. Dave said, I like sports. I’m happy football’s here. I’m happy it’s this time in the baseball season.

I like motorsports. I like pretty much what most Americans watch on TV. The judge asked him if he’s a fan of the Indianapolis Colts. Dave said, big Colts fan, oh and two, but still a fan, Dave. Have you ever been called as a juror?

Ave said, been called many times, just couldn’t make it happen. The judge said, you know, this may be the charm. Dave said, it would be a pleasure. In the end, Leutterman was ejected when a prosecutor exercised what is known as a strike, which allows lawyers on either side to release a certain number of jurors from the panel for any reason at all. It was the third of four strikes used by the prosecutors.

No reason was given. Nick Swarzen is out on the toilet head tour. Great name there the eight hundred pound Gorilla caught up with Nick Swartzon, who said, that’s right, toilet heead brace yourself. A lot of people ask me why the toilet heead name? And I think of it like this.

The country’s so divided, and my comedy brings people together. I don’t get political, I don’t get crazy. It’s really absurd and fun. I just realized to bring people together. We all have toilets, and we all have heads, and I think that will bond people together when they realize, you know what, we’re all in this together.

Toilethead Nick Wartson twenty twenty eight. Nick says, my show’s really loose. I have a set act, but it’s like I have fun up there. I started improvising before stand ups. I can roll with anything.

It was funny. In Austin. I just did Joe Rogan’s which was great, phenomenal. And I remember this guy, older guy like sixty. Hey watch it.

I just turned fifty five. I’m very sensitive about calling people sixty, very old people who were sixty, you’re quite young. And I remember this guy, older guy, like sixty, and he was so hammered. And I think the thing about Heckler’s that people have to realize is I don’t care. I rarely throw people out, but the people around that person.

That’s why you have to think about when you’re screaming and yelling, the person next to you paid money too. So this guy in Austin is so belligerent and this woman started screaming at him. So I had to stop the show and be like, hey, what’s going on here, and she’s like, this effing a hole won’t shut up. He yelled at her, and I was like, dude, you got chill out. Man.

Security came over and said you gotta go, So I started kicking him out, and he said get your hands off me, and they’re like, dude, you gotta go. Man, you’re being insane. So he kind of insulted a security guard and they kind of got him in a headlock. Great description.

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And then my favorite part is the guy screamed, Nick, help me, and I’m like, d…

You pre self in that position. And the last thing he said as he was being dragged out, I love you. The New Yorker has a big giant profile of Bo and Yang, which you can read. Most of it not about comedy, more about Bowen’s life growing up. But I like this paragraph.

The New Yorker writes the season of SNL had many thorny moments. In January, Dave Schappelle blah blah blah leaped on stage as the cast was waving good night. Yang lurked on the far and of the set, looking surly. Yang said, I was just uncomfortable on other people’s behalf. It wasn’t a big protest.

The next month, Sheen Gillis showed up as host. Social media dissected Yang’s body language. The New Yorker writes he felt like a character in a culture war pageant. Bowen said, it’s taught me about my place on the show, being kind of strange and unique. I never expected to be a Nora Dunn being furious that Andrew dice Clay is in there.

The backstory there back in nineteen ninety, Nora Dunn, cast member on SNL, left the show after Andrew de diyce Clay hosted the show. Bowen said he’s learned to distinguish between the show and what people say about the show. Hey, nice lineup for comics for Kamala. Donnie Zoldan is a former We weren’t really coworkers where we had the podcast studios. He owned the building and the comedy club on the first floor and our studios were on the second floor, so we were Yeah, I guess we were co workers.

I don’t know. I would more describe him as friend anyway. I know the guy, and he’s been putting together this comics for Kamala thing. Whatever your politics. As we approach this from a comedic standpoint, you gotta admit this is a pretty impressive lineup.

This is Sunday in West Hollywood at California. Your lineup ready, Mark Marin, Kevin Neelan, Lori Kilmartin, Danny Zucker, Mastra Bronni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso and Tom Arnold. Showtime seven thirty, Doors open at six thirty. If Trump throws a big comedy event, I’ll be more than happy to tell you about it. Boy, you think I could get a coffee sponsor for this show?

I mentioned coffee enough. By the way, buy me a coffee dot com slash a Daily Comedy News Chloe Feynman is teaming up with a coffee brand. She has partnered with Ninja to promote Ninja Lux Cafe, Espresso, coldbrew and drip coffee maker Ninja what are we doing? Hit me up? Chloe Feinneman will appear in social media content for Ninja that puts a caffeinated twist on popular trends.

She gave a quote between late Chaotic Knights in the Writer’s Room in many different roles, having a three to one espresso, drip coffee and coldbrew machine with a drink for every vibe is a dream. Joe Gaddo’s a special came out last night on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube and channel. It is called Messing with People. Is there going to be a Scrubs reunion? Judy Reyis says, I haven’t heard a thing about except for what you’ve heard.

There’s been lots of talking and lots of excitement. I think Bill Lawrence is incredibly busy, but definitely wide open. Raya says, I’m not as in touch with the cast. I’m very close with one of the writers, Angela Nissel, as well as the hairdresser who actually does my hair. On High Potential, her new series, Rayes said, I feel very fortunate I forged incredible friendships with people that I’ve worked with from Scrubs on down.

I guess putting shows in the workplace setting creates a space where people could be more themselves. Late Night with Seth Myers has spun off a new podcast. This is a Closer Look back Election twenty twenty four kind of lame, though. We’ll revisit old installments of the Closer Look segment from Trump’s time in office and discuss what those events will tell us about another four years with Trump in the White House. It’ll be hosted by Sal Gentilly, the head writer and producer of the A Closer Look segment.

Sounds like somebody somewhere said, hey, we can make some more money on podcast. You guys got another idea, and they handed in the laziest idea. I can possibly think of old clips with a writer doing raps, not even Seth doing the raps. Little am guys. Anyway, if you want to check out A Closer Look back Election twenty twenty four, it’s available wherever you get your podcasts, although I suggest you listen to Ballot much more fun.

Lucy Beaumont’s says she believes gender equality and comedy has regressed. By quote fifteen years she had posted on Twitter and now deleted it, Where’s all your Women? Basically you can search every city for comedy this month, I reckon about ninety percent have either no woman or one woman on the bill. Some have one woman a month back to fifteen years ago. And don’t get me started on TV panel shows, it’s become okay again.

Let’s just call most of them what they really are, male banel shows. That book a woman. In male comedy clubs that tolerate women, the banter changes, the atmosphere becomes competitive, and women don’t grow or shine or get equal employment. She says, comedy is the biggest gossip sever so everybody knows, or if you don’t know the ones I know yet, you will soon. It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw edgy, wounded people, but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years, and they get a bit of fame and displayed his behaviors.

There have been times when I’ve just wanted to go on Twitter and let people know everything we talk about, but we’re not allowed to say. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, a te a friend about it, they might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruptions, there’s a link in the show notes, so that’ll tell you how to do that. You have an awesome day.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel not happy with the results of the Emmys. He tweeted, the results of the Emmys were totally unfair in the category of Late Nit Show to exclamation points, sad rigged polls, say I won by a lot. He tagged John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers on it.

I think I did when I was half asleep the other night. Get all the winners in except the winner of Outstanding Comedy Series. The nominees Abbott, Elementary, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Murders, Palm, Royal, Reservation, Dogs, what we do in the Shadows, And obviously because the Bear, which is not a comedy at won like almost every award, surely the Bear must be the Outstanding Comedy Series, right, No hacks, So let me get this right. Everybody in The Bear, which is not a comedy series, was fantastic and won Best Comedian, m E’s, Best medic Actors and all that, but overall the series is not the best. How does that work?

Loraine Newman was not happy with The Bear. She said, every time I think about the Bear being in the Comedy category for the Emmys. I can feel an ulcer developing. I agree with you. I’m also going to point out many things can be true at the same time.

Lorraine Newman’s daughter is named Hannah Einbinder, who stars in Hacks. Yeah, Hanna is one of those low key NEPO babies. You know, if she were Hannah Newman, you might be like, hey, I wonder if her mother is a famous Hollywood actress. You know, use somebody else’s name and nobody notices. Doesn’t mean you’re not tented.

I’m just saying it’s a little easier to get a better agent, and if you have a better agent, you know what’s actually going on. And there’s also a little bit of like a you know, hey, fellow radio executive friend, would mind, you know, giving my kid an internship. That kind of stuff happens. Doesn’t mean you’re not good at it. But let’s be real, a lot of Neppo babies out there right now in Hollywood.

Wow, no luck for Larry David and curb your enthusiasm. Curb if it is indeed over, and it looks like it is has ended its run as the show with the most outstanding Comedy Series nominations eleven without a win. Kerb was nominated for four Emmys this year, including Outstanding Comedy Series Loss Outstanding Lead Actor for Larry David a Loss in the End. Kerb went twelve seasons a total of fifty five Emmy nominations. They won two Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series in twenty twelve and for Directing way back in two thousand and three.

Maya Rudolph seth Meyer’s Kristen wig and Bow and Yang were the presenters for the Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. Before they gave the award to Alex Edeman, they gave the business to dear friend and mentor, Lauren Michaels, who’s been nominated for and lost the Emmy eighty five times. He’s never won. Kristen Wiggs said, Lauren, look at me. You do a value.

You are worthy, you or not, and have never been a loser, even though you lost a lot. Maya Rudolph said, each and every one of those eighty five times you lost, you were rob bow and Yang said, Lauren, it gets better. Just because SNL didn’t work doesn’t mean your next idea won’t keep dreaming. I like how he said Lauren, because anytime I run a transcript on this podcast, anytime I say Lauren, it comes up as Lauren. It often also transcribes my own name as Chenny max eh e n n Y Mac.

John Stewart won the twenty third Emmy win of his career. So was he part of this Emmy? I feel like this was the year he wasn’t on. I’m confused anyway. He’s reconsidering his future with The Daily Show and said, my feeling is this election will never end, so why would I leave?

How could I leave? I won’t be allowed to leave until this election. So we’re all on ground to some sort of calcified nubs. We’re looking forward to being awful. Now.

This article here says the Daily Show’s name best talk Series for the second year in a row after Trevor Noah’s final season. Last night’s award marked Stuart’s first Emmy win in over decade. But wasn’t there a full year of no John Stuart? I’m confused anyway. Stewart gave the acceptance speech, so I guess he did win.

He said, to have the opportunity to work with this incredibly talented group once a week. It really made my mondays, adding that Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa, Jordan Klepper, and Dozzi Leidek kick ass. Michael Ian Black part of Have I Got News for You on CNN. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. I’ll watch that on the DVR maybe tonight.

Black posted a note of gratitude to his sub stack a few hours before filming the first episode, thinking about the fact that it’s been literal years since I had a steady TV gig and the fact that I was ready to give up entirely when this thing fell into my lap. Most of us are just trying to figure out something about ourselves in our world. Maybe that sounds high falutin, but isn’t that the nature of all art To cast our line into the wide waters of the world and see what we catch. Isn’t that the crux of being a human? He then joked how the show we’ll probably be canceled in six to eight weeks.

Yeah, I’d love to have for the same kind of culture cachet that John Stewart did during the Bush years on The Daily Show. That’s sort of did you hear what John Stewart said, if we get at some of that, I’d be thrilled. I’m not an activist. We’ll never be an activist because I don’t have those kinds of organizational skills. I don’t have the kind of footwear where I’m going to be out here marching around holding up placards and shouting this is what democracy looks like.

It’s just not me. But I do think I can make contributions the way I make contributions, which is by saying dumpsty on Twitter or now on CNN. Colin Joe spoke about the ferry he bought with Pete David Seddon and said is absolutely the dumbest and least thought it through purchase I’ve ever made in my life. The way I justified it is for the amount of money we’re putting it in a buying it on just a basic square footage level. If he found the right place for it to be, you were essentially buying a building on its side that’s sixty five thousand square feets around New York.

That’s a very good price per square foot. Despite two years of renovations, it still looks like a Staten Island ferry. Joe said it’s possible the ferry could still end up being functional as a boat. It would just require a staff to run it. That he was not sure that’s something he wants to worry about.

He joked, I’m sure our insurance company would love it. Maybe they’d love it because it would get them out of the contract because it requires a lot of people to move it. At this point, the ferry has to be Doctor two. The engines aren’t operable, but Joe said it could be operable within weeks if they wanted it to be. He said he had soft floated the idea past his wife, Scarlett Johansson.

She was just like, wait, so you own this boat now. She obviously sees the value in it, but I also think she’s like, it’s interesting because now it’s becoming a defining thing for you guys and an interesting thing for you guys. So you should take it seriously and figure out the best version of it, because for better or worse, it’s gonna reflect on you. Joe said, we don’t care because we’re comedians. Deon Cole’s got a Netflix special tonight or today.

I don’t know what time do they post these things. They probably post them at midnight. It’s probably up now. I want you to watch it now. This one is called Okay Mister Dion Cole recalls the telltale signs of aging, bedroom mishaps, dating deal breakers, and more.

This was filmed back in May as part of the Netflix As a Joke Festival. Jessica Kerson is getting a special on Hulu. By the way, I saw that Hulu is branding their comedy things huluius as in hilarious hilarious, as I posted on threads where I’m at Daily Comedy News. Did no comedians say to the Hulu executives, Dude, that is really hacky? Or is the money that good?

Anyway, Jessica Kerson is getting a special. The premier date is being kept under wraps as if it’s like some big secret. That to me means they’re planning on signing some other people and they don’t where they’re gonna slot Jessica yet. Like, for example, if they sign I don’t know, Dave Schappelle and Joe Rogan, maybe they’ll move Jessica’s date. That’s what that means.

In a statement, Jessica Curson said, I’m honored to be part of the Disney family and that Hulu has chosen a feature MYNX special as part of their comedy initiative. People always ask me, is it hard to be a female comedian? I always say, I don’t know. You should ask them. Hularious kicks off in November with Jim Gaffigan.

They’ve also signed up Bill Burr, Roywood Junior, Alana Glazer otsco At Coonska. They are not messing around. Kathy Griffin believes for President Trump would quote pick comedians off one by one if elected to another term. She fears a list of personal targets, including comedians. She said, He’s gonna pick us off one by one like bowling pins.

And I’m not kidding, and I’m not being paranoid. You’re being paranoid. Verd Oz will host the International Emmys, which apparently is a thing. Who knew they take place November twenty fifth. Where would you host the International Ms?

Please? New York City. I mean, I guess New York City is part of the world. I just thought that get a little more international. Who knows Viewers says, I’m so happy to be hosting the International Emmys.

It’s a massive, prestigious night to uphold makers from across the world that I believe is making the best content I know firsthand. It could be life changing. And The Holly Reporter wrote an article about Late Night and they spotlighted some numbers. Five years ago, the Late Show finished first in total viewers with three point eight one million, Jimmy Fallon had two point four to four and Kimmel two point zero four million. In twenty twenty three, slash twenty four, Late Show was down to two point six million.

Again, that first number was three point eight that’s a decline of about thirty two percent from twenty eighteen. Kim Will moved into second with one point eight two million viewers, still down eleven percent. He also had a Monday night football lead in once a week. Fallon down the third one point four three million, losing forty one percent of its audience. Wow.

At twelve thirty, seth with nine hundred and eighty three thousand viewers was down by about four hundred and seventy thousand viewers. That’s thirty two percent. Feels more like half. I guess it’s not. Somebody’s better at math than I am.

After Midnight is averaging about seven hundred and thirty thousand viewers. Over its first five months, Bryan Stettler reported in LA magazine that James Corden’s show was losing fifteen to twenty million dollars per year. Yeah, that’s why you don’t replace that. Yikes. And that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Busy one today. Right, this first section I’m recording because I’m falling asleep on the couch on Sunday night. Let’s cover most of the Emmys anyway, we’ll catch up on the rest on Tuesday. I think Eugene Levy speaks for all of us when he said this.

I know some of you might be expecting us to make a joke about whether the bear is really accommedy, But in the true spirit of the bear, we will not be making any jokes. Yeah. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, your nominee is Matt Barry, Larry David, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Defara Woon Attigh. Your winner Jeremy Allen White for The Bear. The Bear is awesome.

The Bear is not a comedy, Guys, what are you doing? Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Your nominees are Quinna Brunson for Abbot Are you at a Barry for the Bear? Selena Gomez Murder is my Rudolph Lute, Kristen Wig Palm Royal the winner, Gene Smart for Hacks. That was my pick, A good pick. There, everybody.

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Your nominee Lyone, Olboyce for The Bear, Paul w Downs Hacks, Paul Rudd Murders, Tyler, James williams Abbot, Bowen Yang SNL The Winner, Evon Moss Bacher Rock for The Bear. He’s awesome. I like him a lot. The Bear is not a comedy.

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, Carol Burnett for Palma Royale, Hannah Einbinder for Hacks. You can hear me stuttering, I’m falling as leave Guys Channel, James Abbott, Sheryl Lee, Ralph Abbott, Meryl Streep Murders. Your winner, Eliza Cologone Zayis for The Bear, which, as you know, is not a comedy. What are we doing? Best Talk Series.

The nominees are Jimmy Kimmel Live Late Night with Seth, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Your winner, The Daily Show. Really, that’s a terrible pick in a year with it they didn’t have a host. No terrible pick. Best Writing for a Variety Special.

The nominee as were the Oscars and Mike Berbigley, The Old Man on the Pool, John Early Now more than ever. Jacquelin Novak’s Get on Your Knees. The winner Alex Edelman for Just for Us from HBO Max Yeah all right, and the nominees for Best Descripted Variety Series were Saturday Night Live or Just some One Another pick Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. John Oliver won Congratulations and he started to tell a story. I’ll let John tell.

It’s just one of things, gonna be very silly. Odd dog. We had the most fantastic dog and she was at our wedding and she got us through a pandemic. She was with us for the two pregnancies and perfect choice of music. We ought to say goodbye to her.

And now this part of the audio is believed. He looked into the camera and said, f you it is. I feel like Sarah mccachlan right now. Sorry to hear about your puppy there, John Oliver, all right, that’s the Emmy. He’s a section of today’s podcast.

Let me throw it over to the A week version of me for the rest. It’s really I say this. Kevin Hart has less work to do. Remember he had the vegan restaurants. Harthouse suddenly closed all four of its la locations.

Last week, Hearththouse CEO Andy Hooper gave a statement to eatter La which read, the response of the product has been incredible, and we thank our committed team, our customers, and our community partners for helping make the change we all craved and for their unwavering support of Hearththouse. He didn’t mention why it closed, though an Instagram post from Hearthouse thank guest with a HEARTFELTZ goodbye for now as we start the next chapter. Now. What’s interesting is a few days earlier Hearthouse had started promoting T shirts with the slogan change You’ll Crave. The first location of Hearthouse opened just blocks away from the always busy in and out near lax I was there recently It is always busy.

I drive the mile and a half to the slightly less busy one, also sort of your LX. Then they opened a larger Hollywood flagship complete with a drive through, in May of twenty twenty three, and then two more locations. What could you get at Harthouse back in the day when it used to exist plant based burgers, chicken sandwiches and nuggets, kale salads, and sides like fries and tots The company also tried to reinvent the labor model with higher wages and healthcare for hourly workers. That’s cool, as well as a lifestyle spending account with access to things like Netflix subscriptions and access to an interest earning savings account to which the company contributed. Not bad.

That’s according to restaurant Business Now. It’s not just Harthouse. Shake Shack recently closed five LA locations. The Army’s on Sunset hung up its famous sign back in June. Fast casual chain Veggie Grill closed a bunch of locations in twenty twenty three.

It’s unclear if Kevin Hart will bring Harthouse back. In another iteration, don’t worry. Give me forty eight hours, I’ll be telling your story. Kevin Hart has a new gig. He just announced.

It’ll happen. Meyer Rudolph got a wax job from the Hollywood Reporter. That is a former coworker. Before you know, you have a car there and your friend goes, hey, let me whax your car for you. Nice thing to do.

Well, The Hollywood Reporter wrote one of those articles. Maya says it’s a huge compliment being part of the Kamala Harrison news cycle. But it’s also very bizarre because I woke up to an article saying I was confirmed a player and I hadn’t spoken anyone. This is so much bigger than me, and this is about something very important. I’m thrilled to be associated with it, and I’m also glad that I’ve played her and everyone’s cool with that.

She likes it. The secrets are her version of Kamala Mayas says when I see her, I see her having fun. And so the fictional Comala that we created tapped into her fun.

And then SNL producer Steve Higgins said to me that his wife called her a fun…

Now, that sounds like fun, so we went from there. That was the moment when you realize, oh no, I know how to do this. By the way, today’s episode of Ballot very very funny. Check out Ballot’s podcast Wherever you get your shows. Chelsea Handler, she used to date Joe Coy and Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes one time and told joke about Taylor Swift.

You may have heard about it. Relax, not doing a bit. Chelsea will tape her next special at the Well Month Theater in Montclair, New Jersey, November twenty third. Chelsea Handler is a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Really, okay, should we look?

We should look? Oh man, there’s a lot of people in this Is there a list? So I went to the New Jersey Hall of Fame website and they had, you know, two thousand and eight inductees, two thousand and nine inductees. And I don’t feel like clicking on ten trillion things, so I asked chat Chept who is in the New Jersey Hall of Fame? Now, this being AI, the information may not be accurate, but who cares.

It’s a comedy podcast, all right? In the Hall of Fame. Bruce Springsteen. I will believe that John bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, Meryl Streep, Shaquille O’Neill is in the New Jersey Hall of Fame, Yogi Berra, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and Tony Morrison Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author who I’m sure is fantastic. But when the first nine names were Springsteen, bon Jovi, Whitney, Houston, Sinatra, Meryl Streep, Shack, Yogi Einstein, and Thomas Edison, Tony Moon, you are tenth.

I’m sorry, Tony Morrison. Fans send your letters to Deacon Mike in Cleveland. He handles all my correspondence. Thanks Mike for fielding those. Kathy Griffin got half a wax job from the Hollywood Reporter.

As you start to read the article, like, oh, here’s another one of those, you know, fluffy articles that the Hollywood Reporter puts out, But as you dive into it, it took a sideways turn. Kathy seems to think there’s a large conspiracy against her getting a special. She tells the Holly Reporter, it does make me feel that in Hollywood, I’m still canceled. If I can’t make a deal for a special, people tell me the same thing happened to me and Gina Carano. Please don’t like in Kathy Griffin taking a protest photo to a Holocaust DENI are.

I didn’t whip out my penis like Louis C.K. I wasn’t canceled. I was investigated by the Department of Justice for something I don’t regret. She talks about taking a jet to her shows and jokes that she’s losing money on the tour because of the jet. I know it’s spoiled, but it’s worth it.

I get to sleep with my babies. Those are some dogs, and avoid the airport where a lot of Trumpers still feel the need to come up to me and tell me how horrible I am. The Holly reporter says. We talk in the SEV heading to the tarmac about the special. In her mood, tarket see the I told you there was a twist here.

Kathy says, there’s not going to be a special. Everyone’s passed. Her manager clarifies, well, no one’s actually passed. No buyer has ever attended the show in comedy specials, which is kind of like me saying that back in the nineties, Kim Delaney never turned me down for date. Factually true, Kim Delaney has never turned me down for date.

Boy. I left Kim Delaney on NYPD Blue. Did you pick that up there? I digress. The other reporter tells us Kathy holds the record for most televised stand up comedy specials by one artist, twenty one.

All right, everybody out there, name one Kathy Griffin special. Go right, there’s twenty one of them. Kathy says, I’m dying for special. There’s so many platforms out there, and Peacock can’t be off the table just because of Andy, right. I’m assuming she means Andy Cohen in that case.

Matt Rife and YouTuber Elton Casty have made an official offer quote unquote to the real Conjuring House. This the house from the Conjuring film series. In a Twitter post, Castiy tagged the official page of the Conjuring House and revealed that he and Riife are quote ready and willing to buy it if you’re keen to sell. He added that the two are willing to pay all the money o to employees and compensate for loss of goods any date we’re ready to make it happen. Rife reposted an added this was an official offer.

He was asked, why do you want to buy this house, and they both replied joined to comment however that works as if now it’s just a wonderful thought slash offer to be able to give that location, it’s staff, and it’s customers the respect they all deserve. If you enjoy what I do here, one way to support the show is you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com Slash Daily Comedy News, So I was there this morning six forty five am, and I don’t know why they had a street sweeper machine. You know the trucks with the brushes on the front. If you live at a city, definitely know what I’m talking about.

One of those was cleaning the parking lot. Maybe not six forty five at the place you go in to get I own it’s in coffee, you know, maybe do that at four in the afternoon. Parking lot’s a little busy at six forty five. Street sweeper. What do you guys doing?

Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash a Daily Comedy News the second annual because their Funny Comedy Festival is coming back to DC September twenty seventh through the twenty ninth. Comedians Leslie Jones and Dion Cole will headline this year’s festival. And that’s quite the understatement. Because I went on the website, I was like, Oh, this is a cool festival.

Let me talk more about it. Here’s a list of comedians performing, Leslie Jones and Dion Cole. I mean, there’s a showcase. Dion’s hosting a showcase with up and comers. But I think the word festival here is a bit of a stretch, Johnny Mack, you are sarcastic today.

Alex Moffatt looked back on his time at Saturday Night Live and talked about how he got the job of Donald Trump’s middle son. He said, when I was in the process of possibly getting hired by nison Al, a friend of mine called and said, you know, you kind of look like Eric Trump. You should work up an impression. I didn’t have one insign from my screen test, so I didn’t audition it. But once I was hired the first week, I went over to mikey Day and he was like, Yeah, this is great, let’s do something.

There was a photo in real life of Eric, John Junior, and Avanka Trump. Moffett told Vulture, we wrote an update that was loosely based on that picture of the three elder Trump kids that they put out that was like millennials for Trump. It was Avank in the front and then the two boys in the back just looking like, you know, American psychotype dudes, and Eric had a look on his face that I based most of the impression on. Vulture also spoke with Langston Kerman and they were curious about a recurring bit in his special where he talks about managing his mother in law’s dating profile, and they want to know how that works, Langston said. My wife and I would spend about a day to small talking with these gentlemen.

How are you what are you up to today? Would ask all the basic getting to know you stuff to see if they were capable of basic conversation, which is all you can ask from a sixty year old man on the internet. Hey, Langston, watch out there. I’m not that far from sixty anymore. Numbers are starting to get big.

I mean even Kim Delaney’s sixty two now. Then at some point when they seem even remotely capable, we would screenshot a conversation as well as their profile and send it along to the mother in law with their phone number and be like, called Joseph today at this time, as you’ve agreed to in this email, and then she would call and should report back on whether or not she enjoyed the conversation. And you bet your bottom dollar she never did. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media Helloom. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Today, Another look at Vultures twenty twenty four comedians you should know and will know. I did part one last Sunday in the September eighth episode, so I’ll pick up where I left off last time. If you’re just diving in. Every year, Vulture puts out a list of comedians you should know, and they tended bad about I’ll roughly call it fifty percent on these, so it’s a pretty good list regardless.

It’s a good way to uncover some names that you might not know. I had shared the list in the Facebook group, oh, probably two weeks ago at this point Daily Comedy News podcast group, and some of the more active members in the group commented that they didn’t recognize most of the names. I got to say, I think I recognized when I first went through this, maybe six or seven or so. So this is a great job by a Vulture. Let’s start with youngb Mayor.

She’s got a memoir coming out called I’m Laughing because I’m Crying. She describes her appeal as that effect and I’m a failure in fing nuts and also constantly bring it up. Walt says she’s a whirling dervish of off the cough neuroses, our latable queen on TikTok, and a blunt and brash storyteller on the page. She’s a master at taking would be cliches, for example, a front facing comedy video on which she adopts a Korean accent to imitate a Korean uncle, for example, and elevating them into intergenerational character studies through sheer specificity. When Korean uncle takes long cigarette drags while staring at the distance, he’s not just getting a nicotine fix.

He’s remembering the IMF crisis. Then Wiltra has Dropouts Breakouts Vick Michaelis, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Raka Shankar. They were all streaming on something called Dropout, which spun out of college humor. Walter tells us Brendan Lee Mulligan, the most recognizable of the streamers stars, has become a phenomenon in the online tabletop gaming community thanks to the popularity of his show Dimension twenty, in which he plays tabletop role playing games with a rotating series of guest players as the show’s energetic coast and game master. He builds whimsical wars for participants to play in and breeds life into them with an array of silly voices.

Vic mchaelis known for their chaotic appearances on Game Changer, the premise of which changes every episode, hence its name. Vic serves as the host of Very Important People, a talk show in which Michaela’s interviews comedians who were transformed into characters by makeup artists. And Raka Shankar made the jump from being a sketchwriter and performed at college humor to utility player dropout. She’s competed on Game Changer, created the Chef’s Table parody Gods of Food, and hosted these shows a celebrity slumber party and erotic clubhouse. Kathy Peruso is part of the clown community in Los Angeles.

Clowning is a comedy subgenre and which performers commit to over the top character work marked by borish physicality and purposely exaggerated stupidity. Courtney Peruso got her start at The Groundlings, and then it felt creatively lost when she left that behind. The twenty twelve until La Clown. Natalie Palamedes, who’s amazing and listen to Natalie’s episode on JN marco Seres’s podcast, Very Very Funny Highly recommended. Natalie introduced Courtney to the art of clowning in twenty sixteen.

Brusso spends years developing clown shows, flushing out the character she plays in the worlds they inhabit to probe deeper questions. We are deep here? Is anybody still doing stand up? Chloe Radcliffe. Vultra says one of the lines Chloe Radcliffe often uses during a set that wasn’t a dig at comedians, It’s really hard for me to explain like a theater show as opposed to just telling you a couple one liners from a stand up Chloe Radcliffe.

One of the lines Chloe uses during sets is a fast jab design explain and then quickly dispense with the fact that she’s a birthmark on her face. Chloe says, for those that don’t know it’s a birthmark, that’s what it is. Doesn’t lower myself esteem enough for me to have sex with you. She says it in a different way someone might express that sentiment. Vulture says, it’s a natural way to do the Yes, I’m aware of what I look like joke that most comedians need to do in some form or another.

Radcliffe says her comedy style developed out of her nerdy high school and college career as a speech and debate competitor. She talks about the insecurities and miscommunications that drive her relationships, about her own flaws as a partner, and about how hard it is for straight women to have satisfying sex lives. In one set, she realizes a group of guys in the front rail were Swedish, and she goes into a digression about a Swedish guy she once dated who didn’t take his condom off for an hour and a half. She finds herself chanting in her mind reduce, reuse, recycle. Veronica Slowakowska is on TikTok.

She leaped frogs from one idea of the next. She’ll improvise a song about friends, or invented intense, too committed, fantastical excuse for why her roommate can’t use the bathroom after her. She has some comedy shorts in which she plays a version of herself with no sense of social awareness, a randomly incredible singing voice, and a deep and abiding crush on her roommate. Kyle, played by her podcast co host Kyle Chase. She elevates cringe comedy to high art.

Next up, fans of Daily Comedy News podcast Know This Guy, John Marco SIRESI check out the September seventh interview where I did just about an hour with John Marco. His TikTok has seven hundred thousand followers. Bulcher says he has posters, disease, and the best possible sense. He’s constant developing new material and he’s relentless about getting it out in the world. He’s got a joke about mister Beast and says it’s kind of pathetic filming strangers to build up your YouTube.

Following then his moment drops in a moment of self awareness. The crowd laughs because they get it. Next up on Vulture’s list of comedians you should Know Emil Jakim, Vulture writes some comedians to talk about politics with a sense of gravitas. The humor has an edge of anger. The point of the joke is to clarifying justice.

Emil Woakim’s comedy’s often political and is often about injustice, but his political focus has an unusually gleeful tone to it. A bro pleasure that often lends on a note of happiness or at least a sense of excitement that he’s gotten away with something fun. Vulture then shared a naughty joke about Greta Tuneberg. I don’t even know a way to clean up this particular joke, but like I said, I share the article in the Facebook group Daily Comedies podcast group. Eagle Wit is a trickster.

He creates tension in his jokes by slithering around the different, often contradictory sides of an argument, and he’s a gift for living in pockets of uncertainty. Being infuriated when one of his white friends called Bob Dylan the greatest lyricist of all time, and he says until he actually listened to a Dylan song posing to the audience, you ever lose an argument so hard he become a fan. He then reads some Bob Dylan lyrics to the audience and says, isn’t that beautiful?

And then says, yeah, that’s Jay z f Bob Dylan.

He has a joke about Kanye being president, to the joke being he’s the black president white America deserves. That sets up a story about a time a Heckler believed he was making that argument for real. He told the Heckler, it’s a joke. I’d never vote for Kanye West. He’s my favorite rapper.

I trust him with beats, not the button. I have a question for you, dear listener. You ever been recording her podcast and you’re just scrolling down a list of comedians and you go to the next one and you find out on the fly you had reached the end of the list without reading it. Has that ever happened to you? That happened to somebody recently and they didn’t know what else to do other than to say, that’s your comedy news for today, C Tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Emmys are Tomorrow night, which means for me, I can’t finish off Monday show until like halftime of Sunday Night Football, when I jump in my office and put a new top on Monday’s episode. I don’t like working that way. I like working a little in advance.

You know what I’m saying. Yes, the Emmys. Here are the nominees for Best Comedy Series. They are Abbot Elementary, The Bear, curb Hacks. The Bear is not a comedy stop curb Hacks only murders in the building.

Palm Royale from Apple TV Plus remember that reservation Dogs, What we Do in the Shadows, Let’s see. I’m going to give a Lifetime Achievement Award to Curb. Not sure it deserves it for the recent seasons, but that’s how things work sometimes. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Matt Barry, What We Do in the Shadows, Larry David Steve Martin for Murders Martin Short for Murders. Jeremy Allen White for a non comedy The Bear Tofaraoh won a tie for Reservation Dogs.

Let’s see Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry David Is my vote. Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Quina Bruson for Abbot. I you had a Barry for non comedy of The Bear, Selena Gomez for Murders, My Rudolph Loot. That’s an Apple TV Plus thing. Gene Smart who I’m gonna give it to for Hacks, Kristen Wig Palm Royal, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Lionel Boyce for non comedy series The Bear, Paul w Downs for Hacks, Ebon Moss Bocherock for non comedy series The Bear.

He’s fantastic but not a comedy. Can’t do it, dude, Paul Read for Murders, Tyler James Williams for Abbot, Bowen Yang for SNL. Huh hm. I don’t like any of the choices there. Can I hand it in a blank ballot.

I don’t get a vote anyway. I don’t know. Vote for if your want Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Carol Burnett Palm Royal, Liza clone Zayis for non comedy series The Bear, and an Einbinder for Hacks. Janelle James for Abbot Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott, Meryl Streep for Murders. Let’s just give it to Carol Burnett, because we love Carol Burnett.

Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, John Bernhal for non comedy series The Bear. I mean you mentioned giving John Bernthal a Comedy Emmy for what he did in The Bear, Matthew Broderick for Murders, Ryan Gosling SNL, Christopher Lloyd Hacks, Bob Odenkirk in The Bear. I have no strong feelings there either. Let’s give it a Christopher Lloyd. Why not?

Oh?

And also Will Poulter for The Bear.

Sorry, I put a break in my little list there where a Breake didn’t go. But The Bear not a comedy series. Sorry. Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Olivia Coleman The Bear, Jimmie Lee The Bear, Caitlyn Olsen for Hacks, Divine Joy Randolph for Murders my Rudolph, and Kristin Wigg both for SNL appearances. Let’s give it to Kaitlyn Olsen because they’ll probably never reward her for It’s always Sonny and I have in fact checked that maybe she’s won ten Emmys for Sonny.

I don’t know, but let’s give it a Kaitlyn Olsen best talk series, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmellive Seth and Colebert. I would give it to Kimmel. Roy Wood Juniors CNN show Have I Got News for You? Makes its debut tonight. I’m rooting for your Roy, but boy tough time slot again.

The way the show works, two teams of comedians, new makers, actors, and media personalities use news clips and headlines to drum up jokes and gags, all improv style through a round of different segments. Amber Ruffin hosts one team, Michael ian Black the other. Roy Wood Junior says the desires to get newsmakers, even polarizing ones, to take part. Roy says, in America, we’re not always the biggest fans of the bad person being given the microphone. But above all, this is about laughing and what have we got to say?

And if we can get those two things to connect every week, then I think we’ll have a product that’s going to be on the air for a very long time. Roy, this thing’s going to be on the air for ten weeks. It is not again, I’m not saying it’s not good. I’m saying they scheduled it on Saturday night. Ten weeks.

Write it down, sorry. Buddy. Roy says this was the type of scenario I was hoping for when he didn’t get the Daily Show. If there was a good opportunity for me, I believed it would happen in an election year, not after. And that’s what’s gonna happen with the show.

Ten weeks takes you just too about the election. I’m telling you, sorry, Buddy. Michael Ian Black says the show’s format offers a late night vibe with fast paced topical humor, even though it’s airing in prime time on set Saturday night. He highlights how the panelists don’t know the topics beforehand, which means they have to react on the spot. His first reaction to the show being on CNN, he said bizarre.

He was intrigued by CNN’s desire to branch out. He says, we want people from all walks of life as long as we can make fun of them. Colin jos and Michael Jay did their live special on Peacock Thursday evening. Boy, did you feel the buzz? The earth practically shook from everybody talking about this thing.

Man, Wow, Peacock, what an impact this thing made. John, you’re sarcastic today. Joe said, tonight’s gonna be like group sex. If it goes well, then we can do it again every couple months with our friends. And if it goes really bad, it’s a disaster.

We’ll never talk about it again. And either way we’re gonna film it. Good joke. We’re on Peacock. You guys know Peacock, right.

You know Peacock from the phrase I can’t believe the NFL made as a download Peacock. Michael Jay said, what the f is wrong with you? Man? The checks didn’t clear. This is the experience that we have to when we go to drop to places.

We want to give that to the country. Does Peacock play all over the country? Jost? We wanted it to be the second funniest line I’ve event this week after the debate. Nothing sounds more presidential than screaming they’re eating the cats and the dogs.

I think that was Thomas Jefferson. The Special, which you know everybody watched. Everybody’s buzzing about it. Oh peacock, man, give it up. The Special saw a previously unannounced lineup of comics take the stage one by one.

They included Alex English, a Eita Rodriguez, Amina Amani, and Carlos Miller. Good closer Mike Birbigley, who grabbed the mic and forced Jost into a Q and A for Biglia said I recently texted Colin and asked him to be on my podcast working it out? Do you remember what you wrote back? Pause? Nothing?

Salvolcano made an appearance, so did Sarah Sherman, who said about Joe’s this place is close to my apartment. Looks like you didn’t respect the restraining order. Stephen Colbert with a good joke, and to see an ND poll taking immediately after the debate, sixty three percent said Harris won. Thirty seven percent said Trump one, which of course means that thirty seven percent of Americans don’t own TVs. Jimmy Fallon, following his rough debate, Trump’s inner circles now doing damage control.

I’m sorry you work for Donald Trump? What are you not doing damage control? Hank Azaria took to Twitter as Chief Wigham, Let’s listen. Spring Fair Police Chief clans Wigham speaking, I’m gonna have you people are eating dogs? What do I mean a hot dog.

Oh cats, mister Katz is eating hot dog. Nah. People are eating dogs and cats. People are eating dogs and cats in Springfan? Are they good?

Some sag After members, including romy Yousef, are among the hundreds of union members calling on their organization’s leadership to keep people from being blacklisted for their views on Palestine. Friend of the Show Scott Beckett sent me an article from the Wall Street Journal. Norm Dwormann, who owns the Comedy Seller, says, I curate laughter. Nothing should be off limits, but there’s obviously a very very very high degree of difficulty for certain matters. The topic at a hand here.

Gaza Noom says, the Israel Palestine war, maybe more than any issue in my lifetime, has been really something that people have not found a way to really joke about and totally get away with. In June, he had to refund a large party check because a comedian made an offhand joke about the war. Nothing anybody would think was offensive, but people are so sensitive on the subject they complained and I gave them their money back. He says. Most comedians are staying away from it.

The few that have tried are not really succeeding. One comedian who is an exception to that. Andrew Schultz. No Onman said, I saw him in Masson Square Garden do cemetery about kaza and he was destroying. He was fantastic, but of course that was his crowd.

His audience is very diverse who enjoy politically and correct humor, so they weren’t offended. An example of one of his jokes, which of course Andrew Schultz would tell better than me. I saw people protesting the Israel Palestine war was wild. All these white Australians out there, shout and give them back their land. Noeman told a story about comedy being therapeutic.

He was speaking with Nick Apollo. Noem tells Nick, I don’t if my father’s going to make it much longer. Nick Nick said, oh no, who gets the lexus? Noa said, my father’s dying and he’s joking about who’s going to get the car, and everybody starts laughing. In a situation where everybody unders and each other, nobody suspects the worst about where somebody’s coming from, then you talk about anything and be okay.

The best comedians, like all the great composers, will break rules. Dave Chappelle’s name came up, and what’s gonna be in Dave Chapelle’s obituary. Johnny Max says one host of The Chappelle Show two controversial comedian trans something something, Well, they talked about that, and Torman says the transhumor controversy doesn’t seem en have to to Dave Chappelle’s career in any way whatsoever. When he comes down and performs at the Seller, nobody complaints, and why would they. There’s a wonderful culture at a comedy club where you can talk about anything.

And I don’t mean on stage. I’m actually talking among the comedians, and that’s why many of them say, I don’t want to hang out with anybody but comedians. Joda Rosa is taping a special tonight at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The Columbus Underground caught up with Mike Camplan. They were talking about the Edinburgh Fringe.

Mike said Edinburgh was like putting the show through boot camp, like really working out in one place the whole time, but there were a variety of completely different audiences. There’d be some Americans, but it usually be majority non American, often English speaking, but not always English as a first language audience members over there, they don’t have the same TV show references. Necessarily, they get American TV and movies, and our culture pervades the worlds. I had one joke about family feud, but in Britain it’s called family Fortune, and they don’t have Jeopardye. The only people wh knew what I was saying about had seen the movie White Men Can’t Jump.

It’s a different part of the world. But additionally, there are thousands of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. I think I went to about sixty shows that weren’t mine, and I did my show every night, plus a few other spots around town here and there. Those sixty included other comedians, storytellers, dance magic, a couple of amazing clown performers. The clown seed in Edinburgh and Europe is massively large, something that certainly doesn’t exist in our culture in the same way.

It’s a beautiful art form that’s different from stand up and from communists. Dot read your home for communist news see what I did there? They wrote about the Fringe under the headline no laughing matter, Thoughts from a Communist comedian. The communist comedian rights the commodification of comedy shifts its purpose from generating laughter through providing a unique perspective on life, to generating profit. It becomes diluted by the need to appeal to mass audiences.

As promoters, mainstream comedians are pressured to conform to market friendly content, avoiding material which may alienate promoters. In Britain, the comedy scene has become increasingly commercialized, with a focus on corporate sponsorships and high profile TV deals. It offers a sanitized version of comedy, one that avoids critiquing any element of CAPITALI society too Sharply, after all, the only comedians are willing to echo the opinion of the British establishment have any chance of making it. The contemporary comedy scene is also a majority of gig economy performers work under conditions of harsh financial instability and job instability, particularly for working class comedians at the start of the career, as most comedians will go at least six months before receiving even five pounds per performance. This makes the industry inaccessible for working class acts who don’t have a cushion of money to fall back on.

Sadly, the Edinburgh fringe festival, despite being celebrated for its diversity, continues to starkily reveal these economic disparities, participation costs including accommodation, venue, higher fringe registration, and promotional materials racking up into the thousands. Furthermore, the many times offered to new or non mainstream acts tend to be either in the middle of the day or middle of the night. You know, I’m not sure I disagree with the communist comedian. On the other hand, we do live in a capitalist society and in all formats play the hits. So if I can put I don’t know, Nate Bergatzi at eight o’clock and some obscure comedian doing something a little avant garde.

Yeah, that’s not getting the eight o’clock room. I don’t have a solution for you. I’m not going to advocate that we turn this into the communist comedy society, but I do think Communist comedian did make some points. And that’s your comedy news for today tomorrow, part two of vulturest Comedians You should and Must Know or whatever it’s called. I can’t even remember.

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Caloroga Shark Media. It appears to be Friday in the thirteenth, which is neither here nor there. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tommy Tiernan was on Bill Burr’s podcast and explained the Irish people became natural comedians because we had no choice. That’s why we’re like that.

It’s not like we had to choose between being masters of the world and singers. We had no choice. We had no money. We’re good at talking. We love music and drinking and singing and crying and fighting amongst each other.

Bill Burr said, you get what life is about. Teternian explained, when you have no money, when you got nothing, what do you do? Burr said, over here, you got a gun and start robbing people. Tiernean said, in the old days, the Irish would concoct a drink made of rain and tears and old potatoes. There was nothing to do except drink it and see what happens.

And then somebody’d make a fiddle out of an old cat and it’d start making music. And that was our culture for eight hundred years. We were so downtrodden and our only refuge was the spoken word. Music and drink, and to this day, Irish people aren’t great at architecture or any of the obvious hallmarks of an empire.

Meanwhile, Kathleen Madigan, we’ll hit the road for the Day Drinking Tour.

We are reinforcing all the Irish stereotypes today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack by the way, Irish American. It’ll be her thirty fifth year as a touring comic. It’s the Day Drinking Tour. It kicks off January seventeenth in Omaha, twenty nine dates.

Interesting note from ball Star here, Madigan has regularly performed at two hundred and fifty dates a year. Highlights from twenty twenty four submitted to ball Star include a seventy eight thousand dollars grouse against nineteen hundred and thirty nine tickets at Clow’s Memorial Hall on the campus of Indianapolis a Butler University More sixteenth. So if somebody wants to crunch the numbers there here, let me be lazy. Nineteen hundreds like two thousand and seventy eight thousand dollars is like eighty thousand, so forty dollars a ticket something like that eighty grand two hundred fifty days a year two hundred grand minus expenses. Are you w in the math right there?

So eighty thousand dollars two hundred and fifty times would be twenty million dollars minus expenses and I rounded up there. But sounds like Kathleen’s doing okay. Kathleen Madigan often tours with Lewis Black. He’s wrapping it up after thirty five years. He says, I want to get back to writing.

I do a rant cast. I want to do more of that live. He was doing one hundred and fifty shows a year, but says he will misperforming. Yeah, well, because it’s something really nice about showing up at a city where you know, maybe two people and a thousand show up really excited that you’re there. It really is something the energy you get from them.

The l eight Times writes, though Matt Riif’s dream has been too entertained at the highest level, Raife says he’s used to being a target for backlash, and it’s no coincidence that two of his favorite comedians are Dave Schabelle and Ricky Gervais, two of the most popular and criticized comedians. Raife says it’s lots of juggle. In the beginning, you mostly only hear the positive, and then a very select people go, oh, this person’s very well loved and respected, and I myself might lack that love and respect in my own personal life, so therefore I don’t want this person to have it. So then comes in influx of negativity. You then have to really appreciate the good because the bad’s gonna come with it.

Guaranteed, nobody is universally loved. I used to avidly respond back to people nobody could be meaner than me if I really want to be. But you can’t do that because it’s whether or not you feel like you’ve won that interaction or you had the better roast. What this stroller hater said doesn’t matter. You gave them exactly what they want, and all they want is intention.

Raif talked about his grandpa passed away in twenty twenty two and said he never got to see me have any of this. He’s the reason I have any of this. I’ve been so happy to be so distracted and keep busy and keep my mind off that kind of stuff. But through therapy and this book, which has been a massive form of therapy, It’s forced me to take time and reflect on all the things that got me to this point right now. His book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me.

It will be out in December. Raife says, that’s a new anxiety, by the way, because that’s the hardest thing. How many viral sensations are there at a year thirty. Anybody can have a high year, a hot moment of their career. So many musicians, actors, comedians have them quite often hard parts maintaining Joe Rivers daughter Melissa has announced two upcoming shows.

On November seventh, eight list comedians will gather at the Apollo Theater in New York for a living tribute to Joe Rivers, benefiting God’s Love We Deliver. That’s part of the New York Comedy Festival.

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The play will follow the life of the edgy comic from getting her start at a small Greenwich village nightclub to being a regular act on the Tonight show I Wonder Who’s playing Joan. Joan says of mom, she was shy She hated social situations, but she covered that up by being funny. What’s interesting is a lot of performers are very shy. One of her biggest fears was being in social situations outside of her friend group, because she was always concerned she was going to disappoint someone that they were expecting her to be Joan Rivers rather than Joan Rosenberg. Up until the day she died, she answered the phone Rosenberg residents.

Kathy Griffin spoke to EW dot com about her upcoming show and said, you don’t want to know what I’d do to sell tickets. I don’t want to use the term have sex with a donkey. Whatever it takes. My hustle game’s never been stronger. She will joke about her PTSD, which includes twelve hour panic attacks and NonStop vomiting and dry heaving.

Kathy says, I’m gonna make it funny. I make fun of my remedies. I have a whole team of people trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. She uses affirmation saying I’ll go look at Mirren say like you’re gonna be okay today, Kathy. It’s me.

Kathy’s talking to you. Kathy You’re gonna be okay. If anybody ever walked in there and’d have me committed on another fifty one to fifty psych hold I have to min after me making fun of celebrities being on fifty one to fifty psych holds. I’m a little bit excited that I’m now in the company of Brittany and Kanye. Six time Grammy nominated Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan will host the twenty twenty four Al Smith Dinner on October seventeenth.

I love the phrasing. Six time Grammy nominated. I meane it Max. It sound like he’s oasis. I mean yeah, but no.

The Al Smith Dinner is an annual event organized by the Archdiocese of New York. You know who else is going to be there? Deacon Mike. Now, Deacon Mike’s not going? Are you going?

Deacon Mike? Maybe he is. He knows everybody these days. Well, who is going to be there? Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both noted Catholics?

Why are they there? What is happening at this thing? Jim mcgaffigan posted a copy of an invitation on Twitter that Liz Trump and Harris Is the guests, Jim Hilarious as always, joked that he was unfamiliar with the names of the two candidates. In his caption, he said, I’m so honored to be m seeing this year’s Al Smith Memorial Dinner on October seventeenth. Too bad, I don’t recognize those two names.

In the middle of the invitation, anyone ever heard of them? Hilarious Jim Colin Jose to Michael Chay went by Howard Stern because apparently it’s nineteen eighty eight, and Howard asked them if they have a plan to leave SNL. Joe said, we definitely don’t have a game plan. We never had a game plan every year. It’s sort of like you just reveal you’re seeing if you still like it.

Stern was curious if they’ve had a discussion, you know, if you go, I go. Chase said, we’ve had that discussion at different times. Stern said, Michael seems like a guy whoever year wants to leave, but he sticks around. Chase said, yeah, but it’s not a matter if I want to leave because I want to leave. It’s like I want to leave because I always feel like I miss stand up and all this stuff.

It’s always that. Sterne asked Jay if you do the news by himself? If Joe departed and Chase said no, same question to Jost. Joe said no, Chase said, in a heart beat, he wood he’s lying through his teeth, and then Joe said, I’ll do three years. Joe Coy, who once hosted the Golden Globes, by the way, made a joke about Taylor Swift.

I don’t know if you had heard about it. New materials literally the job, he says, always, hands down, the surprise element is the best. It’s so important to not do what you did on TV if your audience is coming out because they sell you on Netflix. They pay all this money to see you live, and then I just do my Netflix special live. It’s like they’re not coming back.

What is this an unplugged version. It’s not like music. Music you can do that. You can write a hit song played for the rest of your life and people keep paying to hear it. It’s a different vibe.

Comedy can’t do that. The most important part is to punch. If you know the end of the book, why are you gonna watch the movie? Can’t kill doing an old bit for new material. He says, I have the most maduskull idea of where I want to go, but as far as when I’m on stage, I love to improvise.

I love to be in that moment. Sometimes the audience will create something off an idea for me and it turns into this thing. Unconsciously, it starts to write itself when it hits and lands the way I know it’s supposed to land, and I know it’s not just a joke for this particular group of people. And by the way, I mean locally, like they’ll only get it here in dallatreet Houston. I want them to be able to get the Omaha joke in Hawaii.

If I can hit that moment genuinely, then I’ll keep it. I do know vaguely where I want to go, but unconsciously it develops on its own. John Earley has an album out today, them dot Us I wrote a lot about John Early, and they say in previous iterations of his comedy, John Early felt like he had to decide between being confident or self deprecating, between singing songs and telling jokes, or between collaboration and going solo. With his latest special Now More than Ever, which is the basis of the comedy album of the same name, which comes out today. John early decided he could do all the above.

He says, to finally blend music in comedy was groundbreaking privately, because I was suddenly like, oh, there’s a motion and there’s musicality in my stand up. There’s a yearning aching quality to my stand up that I have only let out in the music. John Earle, what comedy albums inspired you? He said, I listened to all of Maria Bamford’s comedy albums quite a bit. My family used to listen to Andy Griffith’s comedy album.

In my twenties, I used to listen to Sandra Bernhard’s live album that was certainly influential. He was asked about his band The Lemon Square Is being part of the album. John really said it really started when I first started doing stand up. You do like little ten minute sets or ten minute open mics, and after I’d been doing it for a couple of years, I want to do a bigger solo show. But I want to offer something more than just stand up, which maybe belies that I don’t think my stand up is enough to offer.

I really wanted to put on a show, and it felt exciting to do. Sincere covers like he does serious music songs, I’ve never had the impulse to write songs or comedy songs. I wanted my live shows to feel a little more groovy. Do you feel the John Early on stage persona changes between telling jokes and singing, He said, I feel like it’s more fluid. At the time, I was making a special, something finally integrated.

For the ten years prior working with the band doing live shows, there was something disjointed about it. Then COVID happened. I didn’t really perform for a while. I forgot how much I loved doing it. When we came back for the special and started rehearsing, I realized the sincerity of the music was pulling the comedy in a more direct, generous direction.

It was nice. It all started to blend into something more unified. John Early now more than ever video version on Imax. The album of the same name out today from my Denim Records. A slash of thirty tigers, And that is your comedy news for today.

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