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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Hey, if you’re enjoying the show. I feel like it really clicked this week, so this would be a great week to share it with a friend, a great week for new beast to sample the show. So if you wouldn’t mind doing that, appreciate it.

I told you yesterday today would be robust, that I’d bumped a few things. We will get to those in another fight involving Dave Chappelle. That’s always fun. First, a quick joke from Late Night, Seth Myers said at his rally, former President Trump said I do great with suburban housewives. Seth said, in fact, Trump recently found out that was his most viewed category.

I think about it all right. Gerard Carmichael is the cover store in Esquire, and according to Carmichael, a comment from Dave Chappelle about Rothaniel continues to live with them. Carmichael said Chappelle referred to it as the Bravest Special for nineteen ninety six, which sounds nice until you remember that Wherethaniel came out in twenty twenty two. Carmichael said, it’s like a funny enough line but whatever. But I wonder if he gets the irony that the fact that you’re mocking it.

That’s why it was hard. Back in twenty twenty two, Carmichael told The Hollywood Reporter the Chappelle’s legacy is currently a bunch of opinions on transit stuff, which he called an odd hill to die on. I agree. I have said many times on this program, Dave Chappelle’s OH bit is going to be Dave Chappelle, creator of Chappelle’s show, blah blah blah trans controversy. And I don’t know why he wants that to be his O bit.

You know, in the fourth paragraph we’ll get to the Marktwain Prize something like that. But Dave, just move on, Dave. Carmichael clarified his comments and tell Old Esquire that Chappelle is not revealing anything personal about himself, and he’s removed from what he’s talking about. I think he’s smarter than that, deeper than that, he has more interesting thoughts. According to Carmichael, Chappelle did not take constructive criticism too well.

He took it as f Dave Chappelle because he’s an ego maniac. He wanted me to apologize to him publicly or some crap. Carmichael says, so much of comedy is just gay jokes. As long as people continue to laugh at it and mock it, as long as it’s a punchline, it’s going to be scary for somebody. It’s scary for me.

David Letterman is coming back with a new season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. One of those guests, John Mulaney. Netflix shared a clip in it Milanie and lettermanstrol the hallways of John Mulaney Chicago High School. I went to a birthday party and mister MacArthur his name was. He said, that’s a sharp shirt you have on.

I said, yeah, sometimes I use it instead of scissors. Hmmm, pretty good. And mister mccarthury left. Everyone left, and so that and then my dad would have these in the summer. His law firm would have these like summer parties at our house.

I’d watch Doctor Ruth on TV and I was like five, and then I walk up those different partners and I go, I’m going to be a sex therapist, and I go what I go? Sex is an experience of life. It brings joy to the body. I just repeat things, doctor Ruth said, and I was destroyed. Wow.

Wow, that’s pretty edgy, esoteric. Yeah, it was a very funny bit to do. I think I knew. It’s funny that you’re five holding at schweps walking around. That episode will be out on April thirtieth.

Joe Rogan commented on the view and said, it’s the show that people love to hate. They get so much hate watching and viral clips of them saying ridiculous things. It’s a Rabi’s infested henhouse. Daniel Sash is spreading a false rumor. Even he says it’s false, but he’ll spread it anyway.

Let’s hit gossip Corner, gossup corner. On the Toss Show podcast, Daniel Tosh said, here’s something crazy. I went to the grocery store in Malibuu and I was talking to employee there. I tried to avoid it, but I was talking to this guy and I said, why were you guys closed yesterday? The work responded saying, well, I’m not supposed to discuss it.

But according to the story, the Kardashian Jenner crew were filming the season five finale of The Kardashians at the store. Tash had spoiler alert. This random grocery store persons telling me that they rented out the entire store, shut it down, and then acted like they were grocery shopping. That’s the scene that apparently happened. Kylie reveals that she’s pregnant again with Timothy Schala May’s kid.

What a bombshell. Tash added story might not be true, saying, I’m not verifying anything. This is what an employee at a grocery store in Malibu told me. A source of clothes to the Kardashians told The Daily Mail this story is one hundred percent false. Joe Cooy spoke to the Seattle Times.

He was talking about the Golden Globes. I don’t know if you knew that Joekoy hosted the Golden Globes and he told this just horrible mean joke about Taylor Swift, who then justifiably basically murdered Jokoy’s career. Let’s listen to the horrible mean thing. Joe Cooy said. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Wo It’s brutal Jokoy told The Seattle Times, she’s got what be Goldberg face timing me and Jamie Fox face timing me. Do they all have each other’s numbers? Or do you have to like tell your assistant, like, hey see if you can get me Joe Cooy’s cell phone numbers so I can FaceTime him? And do you start with a FaceTime?

Do you text? Like a You’re just sitting home and your phone goes do do Do do doo and you’re like, oh, it’s whoopy Goldberg. Maybe I’m not famous enough. The Internet will blow up anything out of proportion. Look at the gig.

It’s like a corporate gig, and unfortunately this one was televised. It’s all good. I went on to sell out the Kia Form. That’s more important to me. I’m the first comic to sell six sold out nights at the Form.

That’s one of those things I hold close to my heart. Those are the gigs I was thinking about when I saw Eddie Murphy at Climate Pledge Arena sucking up to Seattle. There, con on O’Brien, we’ll return to the tonight show. No, don’t get too excited. He’s not returning his host he’ll be a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s tonight show.

ConA will be on Tuesday Night to promote his new Max series. Conan O’Brien must go the one that only has four episodes because I don’t know. I don’t have access to the books, but I don’t think HBO, Warner etc. Has all that much money. And they said this thing was coming out, and it is coming out, but four episodes seems a litle light to Johnny Mack.

James Cordon was on with Jimmy Kimmel and said, no, he was not fired from CBS. He said, no one believes me that I wasn’t fired. I’ll be in a pub or something and people will be like, so, why’d you come back to England? Cordon said. People will be like, you don’t have to give me that BS.

If you got fired, you got fired because nobody thinks that you’d ever leave. What is, let’s be honest, a cushy existence. Kim Wll said, can’t you get a letter from CBS saying that you weren’t fired, that you left on your own free will. Cordon jokingly replied, it’s hard to convince anybody in England that CBS exists, or that a show whatever is latest twelve thirty? Have you been watching Curb your Enthusiasm?

I am way behind on Curb. I am obsessed with Three Body Problem on Netflix, which is not a comedy, but I am obsessed with that, and Showgun. Showgun is really good too. But I only watched TV the Tuesdays. Fridays and Saturdays tend to be my TV nights, you know, And Tuesday there’s always Comedy Specialist to watch.

So I’m behind on everything. But in the season premiere, Larry David’s character Larry David was arrested for violating the Georgia State election Integrity Law after giving Leon’s aunt a bottle of water while she waited in line during a hot day in Atlanta. Last month, Real Life Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger sent a letter to Larry David addressing the plot line. The Atlanta Journal Constitution obtained the letter in a public records request. I love this podcast.

There’s always something totally random, like that fun fact. The letter apparently read says, the Chief Elections Officer for the State of Georgia would like to congratulate you on becoming the first and to our knowledge, only person arrested for distributing water bottles to voters within one hundred and fifty feet of a bolding station. We apologize if you didn’t receive celebrity treatment at the local jail. I’m afraid they’ve gotten used to bigger stars. That’s a backhanded thing about a guy whose initials are d T.

It’s the TMZ of mugshots. So Johnny Mack was at trivia and he saw us friend Van, Van is the cool one in the group. I’m not the cool one. I know, You’re like, John, You’re not the cool one. No.

Oh no, I’m not the cool one. Van is the cool one. He drinks bourbon. I’m not a bourbon drinker, so I don’t know what I’m talking about. Maybe Jim Gaffigan bourbon is awesome.

So I asked Van about Jim Gaffigan bourbon and I expected him to make fun of it, and he was like, no, I would try it. And I was like what. And we had a whole conversation about Jim Gaffick and bourbon and I’m like, but isn’t it like totally uncool? He’s like, nah, I’d try it, and then night’s on the price point.

And then he was like, no, so I don’t know.

I don’t think Jim Gaffigan bourbon sounds cool at all. How about Danny McBride tequila. GQ did a profile of Danny, and the part I found interesting was about the tequila. It’s called Don Gato. He plans to launch it this year.

Danny told GQ, I drink a lot of tequila. Every one of my circle drinks a lot of tequila, and so we’re like, let’s make one. I know everyone and their mother’s doing that. It’s kind of lame, Ellie. He knows.

New album is out today. It is called Soft Bones. Here’s a clip. I haven’t mantra. Okay, I have this mantra that I have to recite now every time I go to target.

Okay, I have to tell myself over and over. I have to say, Ellie, you are a forty four year old woman. You’re a forty four year old woman. Do not try on a romper by do it? I do it every time.

And then I’m just standing there in the dressing room, just half buttoned, like, what did you think was gonna happen? Ellie? Was it gonna be different this time. You look like a chaperone at Coachella. Good stuff.

I like her material a lot, and she’s very charismatic. Let’s keep an eye on her. She said. I was lucky enough to open for Maria Bamford at a big theater show in Minneapolis, and she told me it was time to record an album. She said, Poop it out, Just poop it out.

Soft Bones is a compilation of stories about being an ADHD mom, wife and a regular human woman. Let’s see what’s happening at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We’re three weeks into this and you would think I would remember to preload the website before I hit record. I don’t. As I’m babbling here, the website is loading notoriously slow.

All right, it is April fifth for you and I probably and those of you in Melbourne. It’s already April six. Let me tell you what you can do on Saturday night at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which continues till April twenty. First, as we wait for the website two load, and what you missed there was the nine seconds of silence that I took out.

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All right, let’s do some with clips Today, Tony Knight’s show is called Mad D…

It’s the world’s first and so far only comedy show about dog behavior, stand up and sit. I like what you did there, suitable for all ages, and the Melbourne Comedy Festival has lied to me. There’s no clip. Ci Alex White show is called Don’t We Look Stupid? Have you ever seen a photo of yourself from yesteryear and cringe so hard that you did associated?

Can you report your mother to Child Services for how you dressed it as a toddler? This is an hour show about life. Kan’t awkwardly on photo. There is indeed a clip. Let’s listen.

And a lot of other jobs have this stigma of doing nothing and being lazy, which is very unfounded. I feel like if you guys said, like council workers, there’s a stigma that council workers are lazy guys out there repairing the roads. Dad will always drive past er these guys doing nothing. I don’t think those guys are lazy at all. After ten years working in office, I just think those guys are really exposed.

Okay, do you know what I mean? I’ll tell you all. I would not look at that crash hot if my desk was in the middle of the Princess Highway. Okay, you know it took a little long to get there, and I’m not sure the peyof was all the good, says the guy. You We’re going to a podcast.

In his abasement, scary Stranger said Alex’s show was the stand up highlight of this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival. His joke writing was tight. Well that’s interesting. Did not find that writing tight at all. I’m sorry, Alex Waite.

Maybe you should start a bourbon sam goerliep. His show is called big Ick Energy, I said ick. It’s a picture of him smiling and he has a guitar with him. Let’s see watch as he exposes his ix in front of a live audience through stand up and song. The Adelaide advertiser said, natural chrisma, good hair, mad rap skills.

All right, let’s listen. I got my pen lie since last week, just like we always talked about. He said that this would make me a big boy, and I hope to make you proud. Now writing a story and it doesn’t rob all right, I don’t think I’m hopping on a plane in Milburn today, maybe tomorrow be a little better. Let’s see if we could start shrinking these shows down.

They’ve been getting quite long, so let’s wrap there. We can meet up here tomorrow, follow the podcast wherever you get your shows, tell a fround about it. See you here tomorrow. Bye.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News. This show has been so much fun to do lately. There’s been so much to talk about, so I just want to get in front of it. I know the episodes have been hitting the twenty minute mark lately.

I just want to tell you that’s not the plan. When it gets back down around twelve, when things calm down, don’t get mad at me, and don’t be like, hey, you hook up the show so short it’s supposed to be. I don’t know around twelve minutes, there’s just been so much. All right, we’ve got to start with Jim Gaffigan. This clip I’m gonna play.

It’s awful. It’s absolutely awful. I made it a minute and thirty eight in. I couldn’t take it, and I was pulling the clip to share with you guys, and then I realized that my little program here called Audio Hijack wasn’t actually recording and I would have to listen to it again. And I actually said f out loud, all right, what’s going on here?

Jim Gaffigan’s got a new product. Let’s let Jim tell you about it. I’m telling you. I’m warning you this clip is awful. Don’t bail on the podcast.

If you can’t take it. Hit thirty seconds, skip twice. But here’s Jim gaffigin but stay with the podcast. I’ve got really good stuff today. This video is actually less funny than an Adam Zaydler movie.

That’s how bad this is. If you said to me, Johnny Mack, we’re gonna watch something, do you want to watch Jack and Jill or this video from Jim mcgaffigan, I would pick Jack and Jill. And I’m not doing a bit. This is awful. Here’s Jim Gaffigan trying to sell you something.

Hi, I’m generous comedian Jim Gaffigan, and I’d like to talk to you about a condition that affects three out of five men. That’s six out of ten men, or nine out of fifteen men. I’m talking about a condition called fatherhood. Now, this can affect all types of men, good looking men, ugly men, it doesn’t matter. One of the only things we have discovered that can help reconcile this situation, there’s something me and a group of scientists have developed called father time bourbon.

This bourbon may not cure you of children, but it makes you forget about those children. Yeah, so Jim tweeted big news. I’ve got my own bourbon. Yes, my own bourbon. It’s called father Time, and it’s available for pre order right now at the website.

I went to the website. There’s some FAQs. One of them who’s behind father Time? He writes, it’s just me, Jim Gaffigan and my college buddy, film director Stu Pollard. We’ve had tons of help making father Time happen, but the investment in all the decisions were made by us.

One of those decisions, apparently, was the pricing. How much is a bottle of bourbon Johnny Mack one hundred and fifty dollars. They’re also selling quota glasses. The website says, we don’t recommend drinking father Time directly from the bottle, but if you have teenagers, you may occasionally feel the desire to do so. There are four handcrafted quo tumblers, inscribe with parenting lines from Jim Gaffigan.

Father Time Bourbon is dedicated to father’s and all parents. I also understand not all parents drink alcohol, but what parent doesn’t enjoy a glass with a quote complaining about parenting. The quote glasses A set of four costs how much wrong? Eighty dollars And here are the quotes. On glass number one, it says, you know what it’s like having a fifth kid.

Imagine you’re drowning, then someone hands you a baby. That would be funny if Jim Gaffigan told it. I agree Jim’s second glass as being a father is definitely the most important thing I will fail out in my life. Hack next one, Most of my fatherhood feels like going through customs with an outdated passport. It’s kind of hacky.

Fourth one, Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. That’s funny. Four glasses eighty dollars plus a bottle of bourbon one fifty So for two hundred and thirty dollars you can enjoy the heck out of this product that I don’t know has sucked all the cool out of bourbon, like all of it. Like if you came over and I was like, on some Jim Gaffigan bourbon in a gimme class, would you be like? What?

So? That’s how I feel about it. Jim has another clip, and uh, he’s either the Andy Kaufman of this and doing an amazing put on where he’s completely self unaware. Let’s listen. Isn’t it weird that celebrities have their own spirit.

I mean, look, you’re a great actor. All right, you’re good looking, but what do you know about tequila? It’s offensive to Mexicans like myself. Okay, you’re a great athlete. You’re one of the best basketball players on earth, but what do you know about rum.

You’re a great musician. That doesn’t mean you should make whiskey. Anyway, I’m coming out with my own bourbon. Now you might be thinking, Johnny Mack, you’re a hater. Why do you hate so much?

Well, because I like my comedy to have quality. Here’s Ricky Gerviz also talking a very similar product. But here’s how you do it. Ricky, show Jim how you do it. Hi, I’m Ricky Gervaias and this is Dutch Bond Vodka.

It’s a beautifully crafted premium spirit. It tastes great and it’s friendly to the environment. It’s known as the posh one in the brown bottle. But if you can’t afford it, just get smirtof get that for fifteen quid. In some places it does the trick.

Now that’s funny. Now I hope you’re still here. I hope you didn’t bail on the podcast because the other day I commented about Billy Joel and how a lot of his songs are gimmick songs, and I might as well have made fun of Taylor Swift while hosting the Golden Globes. It was not people did not react. Well, now we know how Joe Cooy feels.

Now I feel like John, I understand what did Joe Coy say? Here? Let me share with you the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh boy, that’s me.

That’s worse than saying Billy Joel has a lot of gimmick songs. All this to set up a clip from the Bob and Tom Show. Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Frank Calando was on The Bob and Tom Show and he sang Billy Joel songs in character. I’m gonna join this mid song and stay to the end because this all comes full circle.

You’re gonna laugh when he does it. Here we go, Adam Sandler, Here we go Yard at the bar. A friend of mine h me my drinks and he quickly I light up. I Fogboddy Tide it all together a Billy Joel gimmick song, and Adam Sandler love it as planned. On Tuesday night, I PLoP down in the TV cheer and I watched some comedy specials.

I watched three of them, well two and a half. The first one I watched Dimitri Martin on Netflix. Really really good. This he gets into and I talked about it yesterday with an article that sourced the whole thing about is this just an hour taped at the Chuckle Hut and you threw it up on YouTube? Or is this a special Dmitri?

The direction on this is great. The creative choices are great. It’s gimmicky. That’s the word of the week. Apparently the word of the week is gimmick.

It definitely has some gimmicks in it, but the gimmicks absolutely work. The bit he does with the demon is really funny. The closer is really strong, and uh, that’s all I’m gonna say. Either close is really strong. We’ll give you a chance to watch it, so I like Dmitri a lot high recommend on that.

And then I watched Kyle Kanane’s Dirt n app. Wow, I’m gonna give you a chance to catch up on it. There is a chunk about ten minutes in and it’s a lengthy chunk. You’ll know it when you hear it. That I think, listen to me, maybe an all time bit.

It’s really really strong. It is lengthy. I didn’t clock it, but it felt like it was a ten minute chunk and it’s really really strong. So I was watching that and I’m like, wow, Kyle is crushing it. Here is this better than a TELL?

And I had that thought for a minute during the really strong chunk, and I was like, now, because a Tel put on a masterclass, it’s gonna be really really tough to beat out that at Tel Special.

And then as the hour went on and the hour’s amazing, I had a pee, let’s see S…

But you know, I’m like, all right, we’re probably like thirty seven minutes in, we’re forty five minutes in, we’re fifty minutes in. Wow, we’re past an hour. How long is this think, Kyle? It’s seventy five minutes long and like a Tell showed last week thirty seven minutes in Crush. Had Kyle Kinane wrapped this up at around forty five minutes, it probably would be either two or three on my list.

Because he won seventy five minutes. It was actually diminishing returns, too much of a good thing. He probably could have lifted a full half hour and made a second special out of it with a new topper. So my updated rankings number one A Tell to Triumph. Watch the Triumph, you lucky bastards.

It’s on run on Netflix. That’s wrong, it’s on YouTube. Correcting my notes. Three is David Cross were stadding in the world. At one point I was like, ooh, can I Kyle’s probably funnier than that.

Again, it was too long, and I loved the special. Does that make sense? I both loved it and it was too long. It’s like I love beer, but nine beers is too many, you know what I’m saying. Three David Cross.

Four Dusty Sleigh. As I went to actually do the rankings this morning, I was like, can I put Kyle ahead of Dusty Sleigh? And I can’t. If he’d asked me a half hour in absolutely, but all said and done, I can’t, so I’d tell Triumph Cross, Dusty Slay, Kyle Kanayane Dmitri at six. Dimitri is really strong and up in that top group.

Then I’m starting a middle group here. I realized I hadn’t added Hannah Gatsby’s gender agenda. So that’s gonna be like in a middle group. Right now, it’s seven. Some things will wind up by the end of the year, sneaking ahead of that.

Some we’ll fall behind it. And on the bottom group right now, Brian Simpson, Tig Nataro, and Taylor Tomlinson would be your ten. I also watched Liz Meely’s special Now Keep It. I had already been watching two comedy specials that are in the top five six five, so I had to ingested a lot of comedy and I watched it. And I’ll say the same thing about Liz meely special on YouTube that I said about Steve Trevino.

It’s fine. If you’re hanging out at comedy club and Liz Meely gets up and does that exact set, you’ll have a wonderful time. Is it next level? No? Is it great?

No? Is it bad? No? Perfectly fine comedy special, and it’s okay to have a perfectly fine comedy special. It’s not gonna make my Best of the Year list, but I’m not hating on it.

So check check your watch. Look how far we are into this already, and I’ve barely started, and I’ve kicked three major stories I could tell you tomorrow. I’m gonna talk about Mulaney and Daniel Tosh and one other thing at the top of tomorrow’s show, but I’m trying to not have this thing get all the way to half an hour. But there’s just so much going on real quick. In the Facebook group, Dylan has been a very active member of the Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group Dylan, I appreciate what you’re doing.

Dylan posted his rankings. I’ll fly through them, Ettel Canaane, Brian Simpson, Taylor soder Akosh sing A gas Lit on YouTube. Dylan gave it an A minus. I’ll have to catch up with that one. Dusty Tig crossed, Dmitri, Mike Apps selling out at eleven, Kevin James, Kevin Ryan’s Live in Philly on YouTube B minus h Foley A C plus, Pete Davidson Donnell Rawlings, Rory Scovel, hannagats By, Jackie Novak, Steve Travino, fun.

I like that you guys are doing this. I’m really excited that the Facebook group is starting to really take on a life outside of me posting things. I appreciate that Matt Rife not so canceled. It’s got a two special deal with Netflix. The first will be a full length CrowdWork special.

All right, Let’s pretend we’re at the casino here and I have a chip in my hand, and there are two boxes. One says good idea, bad idea. I just put all my chips on bad idea. We’ll see if Johnny Mack’s right or wrong. It’s gonna shoot at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we’ll be directed by Eric Griffin.

I don’t know. I feel like it’s gonna be fake crowd work. I don’t know Matt Rife. I’ve never seen Matt Rife in person, never met him, never seen one of his shows. While I’m sitting in the audience.

But I don’t know. This just seems like a bad idea. I said what I said. Tom Papa says he’ll be filming his next special for Netflix and DC, taping it at the Warner Theater Great Venue June fifteenth. The New York Post tells a Sebastian Manuscalco was upset at fees.

Now wait for the end part of this story, because Johnny max spidy sense is tingling. But as the story goes, Sebastian was on social media that port’s accurate, and he said, I went to a restaurant last night and I got the bill and they charged me a COVID fee. I asked the guy, what’s the COVID fee? He goes, yeah, well, we got to wipe down the menus. Wipe down the menus.

You’re charging three dollars to wipe down your own menus before COVID what you just brought out the menu with spaghetti sauce on it? All right, funny enough. Manuscalco did not identify the restaurant or say where was located. And here’s where Johnny Mack’s Spidey sense tingles. Sebastian said, it’s a real bad look as a business absorbed the fee.

It’s called the doing business. They added, that ain’t right, by the way, that happens to also be the name of his upcoming tour. Hmm.

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Moving on, Kelly Carlin and those people that made that AI thing that Kelly w…

They have a settlement. Fox News reports the settlement reached the demands made by Carlin’s a state in the lawsuits. According to Fox News, those demands included removal of the special and unspecified damages. Kelly Carlin put out a statement saying, I’m grateful that the defendants acted responsibly by swiftly removing the video they made. While it is a shame that this happened at all, I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies and the need for appropriate safeguards, and not just for artists and creatives, but every human on earth.

So big news in town. Another donuts chain opened, this one. I don’t give free commercials for donuts chains, as you know, I go to the National Donuts chain every morning. This one, I’ll just give you a hint. Quack quack, you know what I’m saying.

So the family came home yesterday with a box of quack quack and I was like, oh right, And I had a quack quack and wow. They’re good. They’re like thick and meat. He’s not the right word for a donut, but thorough is that the right word. They’re not airy, you know how the National Donut Chain.

You bite into it and it’s like mostly air, not like the cream guys. The cream guys. That’s like, I don’t know what that is. That’s like icing on a pocket of air. I love those.

I can eat millions of those in one sitting because they’re mostly air. National domet Chain not too much to them. But quack quack, Wow, those are really good. So I don’t know, good thing for me. A Vaughn went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and bought not one, not two, not three, not four, five large iced coffees with caramel and milk.

Avon. Thank you, Avon wrote, I appreciate your opinions on the industry. That’s the best part of your show, you know. So I’ve been a little more candid lately. I will admit that I’ve also been a lot more candid on LinkedIn.

In the LinkedIn part of it is because I’m trying to really build out the podcast company. Now, you know, part of it is being candid to get noticed. I’m not putting on an act that in my real opinions, but in the past I always worked for company, and you work when you work for company to get candid. Usually somebody comes in and eye rolls you and tells you to cut it out because we’re a big, giant, publicly traded company, or you’ve got some boss it doesn’t like your opinions. But now that I’m bossless, I could just shoot from the hip.

So thank you Evon for going to buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News I keep forgetting to promote five good news stories. Number five good news Stories. I host that podcast that’s three times a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The gimmick word of the week is that I tell you five stories and they’re all good news Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Billy Joel calls it a hackey podcast with a gimmick.

Joe Coyce as the only difference between that podcast and The Golden Globes is the Golden Globes has more pictures of Taylor Swift. I agree, I got it, but five good news Stories. I’m hopped up this week about it. Because Apple podcast is promoting it, so the numbers have really spiked. A bunch of new people listening to me over there this week.

That show is actually more popular than this show, which is kind of cool. Don’t root against yourself, Johnny Mack, but five good news stories wherever you get your shows. I put out a new substack yesterday discussing Apple podcasts. My substack is free mcdepod dot substack dot com. Link in the show notes.

Again, if it ash you for money, just click the free option. I’m not trying to make money off that. Houston Red Yards will host the Riot Comedy Festival at the bar’s local comedy Addict. The Riots Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and we’ll go through the seventh. Robert Kelly is one of your headliners.

Ricky dl Davis Paris, Sasha Jordaana Fisher, Tom the Carr Up, and comers like Kim Congden and Casey Rockett the Riot Comedy Festival. If you’re down by Houston. Kelsey Cook will tape her special at Comedy on State in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight, three tapings tonight through the sixth. Kelsey Cook is the daughter of an international Yo yo ch and a professional foosball player. She’s got a special on the eight hundred pound gorilla if you want to check that out.

It’s called The Hustler. And again she’s taping a new one tonight. And let’s see what’s happening at Melbourne. Where’s my favorite bookmark? There you are?

It is April fifth in Melbourne. Because of the way time zones work. By the way, did you see they want to create a time zone specifically for the moon. Yeah, that’s a real news item I saw earlier today. Nick White’s show is called Teenage Dream and apparently has a load to no avails, almost sold out.

Apparently. Let’s see what this one is. I’m doing ones without clips today because we’re a little long again. Creative expression is something Nick White is always hear and for, even if it wasn’t always easy. Join Nick as he looks back on the things that have shaped him from his youth to now.

The show contains occasional coarse language. There were no reviews. I guess he’s nice looking. I don’t know. I’m wondering why that particular show sold out.

The description didn’t do anything for me. Abby Howells show is called La soup coo, and that’s at the Chinese Museum’s Jade Room, which sounds like a cool blak to see a show. Lasuko is the name of a screenplay Abby Howells wrote when she was eleven years old. It’s a romance set in the Navy in the wake of World War Two. No historical research, verification or corroboration was undertaken.

Lasuko was the winner of the prestigious Billy T. James Award at the twenty twenty three New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Periodical the spinoff from New Zealand said she’s a unique voice and made me laugh in a way that’s typically reserved for when I’m with my siblings and we’re just being silly. Stuff said, joyful and authentic, as hilarious as it is transfixing. I’m curious about the Chinese Museum Jade Room.

Apparently there are several Chinese museums with jade rooms throughout the world, this one in Melbourne box office. There’s no dedicated box office at Chinese Museum. However, the Comedy Festival front of house staff can assist with purchasing last minute tickets. The entrance to the Silk room is via the foyer and the performance space is on level one. From the foyer, proceed up the large internal staircase approximately fifteen plus stairs to level one.

Approximately fifteen plus stairs. It’s not one thousand stairs. Can somebody please count the stairs? If you’re in Melbourne, can you go over to the silk room and tell me? Is it fourteen?

Is it sixteen? Is it nineteen? And at what point are we not at approximately fifteen? Like it’s twenty three, approximately fifteen. No, that would be like more than twenty right.

Oh sorry, that’s the silk room. We shouldn’t have even talked about that, but I made myself laugh. The entrance to the Jade Room is via the foya, and the performance space is on level three. See if you’re on level one, you wind up with a silk room. You want to go to level three.

From the foyer, proceed up the large internal staircase approximately three flights of stairs to level three. All right, hold on, I’ll give you the it’s like fifteen stairs. How many flights of stairs is it? You? Just look?

It’s three, it’s two, it’s four. What is the issue here? Melbourne Comedy Festival. I w in the bathrooms. They’re on level one.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Tomorrow is going to be long as well. I’m having a lot of fun.

Thank you for listening. To see you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m laughing about the stuff that’s in the second half. We’ve got all sorts of battles, including a really fun comedian battle, but it’s a little long. I’ll save that for the second half.

Some late night jokes. John Oliver was talking about former President Trump trying to raise some money and said, this is a man who talks NonStop about how he’s one of the richest men on earth, begging strangers for money in a hostage video that looks like it was filmed that a house haunted by the world’s tackies ghosts. Oliver made fun of the various merch options you can buy from Trump, including the infamous Bible and some Trump cologne. Oliver was fascinated by a mini speaker that bears Trump’s likeness. A great joke, Herry goes, I assume it’s way too loud and never dies.

There’s also a gold Trump branded earbud case, and Oliver said, you know, you can never tell which AirPods are yours and which are your friends, because all the cases look the same. You get these, you lose all your friends instantly. Problems solved. Jimmy Fallon talked about this Google lawsuit. You see, they were collecting some data on their incognito browser there.

So if you were on OnlyFans, you know, watching Whitney Cumming specials as we all do in the basement, I get it, Jimmy Fallon said, in order to settle a privacy lawsuit, Google has pledged to destroy millions of users browsing data, and based on your silence, it sounds like there are some very relieved people. Last night, I was planning on having a big TV comedy night. Hopefully that happened. I was planning and watching Dmitri Martin special, and The Daily Beast got me even more excited about it with this headline, Dmitri Martin made a Netflix hour that’s actually special. If you listen every day, you know my whole thing about specials versus hours, and we’re throwing everything up there on the internet, including you know, me doing eight minutes at the chuckle Hut going new special.

I’ve never done eight minutes at the chuckle Hut. I am not a comedian. In case you can’t tell, The Daily Beast writes, many of us fall into the same trap every time we open Netflix’s comedy page watching the latest special from the same mainstream comedians we’ve been watching for years. It can be high risk for comedians to break the mold and warp the conventions of comedy. It can also be high reward, with specials like Hannahgatsby’s and an Adder Bo Burnham’s Inside receiving critical acclaim.

The reimagining of comedy forms the basis of Dmitri Martin’s Dmitri Deconstructed with a black and white trailer that immediately stood out blah blah blah, combined with a jazz theme and plenty of Wes Anderson esque symmetry, Martin Special feels like something that was designed with purpose, streamline for streaming, as comedy specials should be, rather than left as a lucrative afterthought. Following a money making tour ouch, the New York Governor, Kathy Hokeel and Tracy Morgan joined the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to encourage New york Is to give the gift of life by joining the New York State Donate Life Registry. April is National Donate Life Month, which shines the spotline on the urgent need for organ I and tissue donors. I will also encourage you to be an organ donor. I am an organ donor.

My personal philosophy is I’m dead, maybe these parts could help someone else. Tracy Morgan underwent a kidney transplant back in twenty ten. He credits that with saving his life. Tracy said, I’m living proof of the benefits of organ donation and has given me an opportunity to show people that you can go on and live a full life when you find a match. My donor saved my life, and by enrolling in the New York Donate Life Registry, you could help save many others.

One organ donor can save up to eight lives and heal seventy five more through I and tissue donation. Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers are working on the Los Culturista’s Culture Awards. It’s moving to the King’s Theatre in Brooklyn for its third annual show June fifteenth. One hundred or so categories brainstormed by Yang and Rogers. Some mainstays include a Record of the Year and he Kate Blanchett Award for Good Acting.

They were asked if Taylor Swift might participate. If Taylor wants to send in a video, that’d be great. Our message to her and her publicist is help us, help you play ball, but she may not be in her sending videos to fake awards shows there anymore. The ceremony was hosted at Lincoln Center for the past two years and had twenty six hundred attendees. Bowen said, we’re moving indoors so that people can enjoy upholstered seating.

Finally, I think people are too used to uncomfortable posterior resistance. I think they’re used to hard plastic cheers. Since our basement days, we haven’t given them a full award show experience, and we’re aiming to give that holistic packaging of being an honest to goodness award show. The pass shows had been free to attend. This one will be ticketed.

There’s a pre sale April fourth at ten am, General ticket sales April fifth. All winners are determined by Rogers and Yang, but the two hint that, like with Swift, they could be swayed by who decides to participate. Keenan Thompson has spoken out about that quiet on set documentary You Know This One, The Dark Side of Kids TV got into some stuff going down at Nickelodeon. We don’t want to go there on this podcast, but you know you can read it. People caught up with Keenan, who said it’s a tough subject.

It’s tough for me because I can’t really speak of the things that I never witnessed, because all these things happened after I left. Remember John Stewart had a show on Apple that none of us watched, and then he left all of a sudden. Well, the other night, John was interviewing Federal Trade Commission cheer Lena Kahn on the Daily Show. He told Kahn that he wants pitch to have her as a guest on the Apple Show. John said, I wanted to have you on a podcast, and Apple asked us not to do it.

They literally said, please don’t talk to her. They wouldn’t let us even do the dumb thing where we just did in the first act on AI, meaning a segment Stuart did on The Daily Show in which he criticized the rise of AI and spoke about how it’s making human workers obsolete. Stuart asked about Apple, like, where’s the sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere. Kahn answered, I think it just shows the danger of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision making and a small number of companies.

Variety reached out to Apple for a comment and they did not have one open letter to Roy Wood Junior. Let it go, man, you gotta just let it go, Roy, let it go. Roy was on with Samantha Bee on her podcast Choice Words. You may recall Roy kind of wanted to host the Daily Show, so do I, but Roy didn’t get a chance. Do I want host the dailyshal Share?

I’ll host that. I’m free next week, call me, Roy would and sold sam Be I’ve had the gift of choosing to jump out the window a couple of times and being kicked out of windows a couple of times over the course of my career. I have more control if I jump because I know where the grapple hook is. Shows are getting canceled, streamers are collapsing. The industry is slowly imploding.

And I’m not just talking about late night I’m talking about the type of programming that studios and networks will show confidence in and stay behind so that fear is kind of what showers over me. It’s also rooted in if this industry is shifting, and if it’s changing to something different, now’s the time to be first in line for that thing. I’ve always viewed opportunities and entertainment like a grocery store. We’re all in line to be checked out, and then you look over there and a new register’s opening, and you’re trying to decide if that register will be faster than the line you’re And I like this analogy a lot. And I’ve been in this line for eight years.

It’s a good line man. But looking over there and I just chose to get out of line and go to another line. I don’t know if I’m right. I don’t know if that’s the right move. As for the Daily Show, was the best time in my life, but without being able to have an accurate vision for how it can end, I had to choose my ending.

He said when he left, he had no idea that John Stewart would be coming back to host Mondays. That was not in the conversation, that was not even a rumor. Had he known, he might have decided differently. He said, I do hate that I missed out on some of that good John Stewart tutelage that would have been dope. Joe Flaherty, best known for his roles on Freaks and Geeks and to me his sketchwork comedy on SCTV, has passed away at age eighty two.

After serving in the US Air Force, Flowerty joined Chicago’s Second City Theater. He was instrumental in bringing Second City to Toronto. He starred on SATV for eight years and appeared in seventy five episodes, during which he created memorable characters like Count Floyd, Guy Caballero, and Big Jim mcbob. Joe Flaherty was eighty two. All right, it is time for comedian fights.

I was prepping the show. I was on Twitter. I saw John Marco Ciresi’s comment here, and John Marco tweeted, Hey guys, there was a little bit of drama on one of my San Diego shows this past Friday. I made a video response over on TikTok that lays out my side of things, but happen to answer any questions you may have. Thanks, so I’m gonna play it here.

I watched it. John Marco looks bothered by this he seems to be freaking out. He’s not doing this for laughs. He seems genuinely bothered. During this clip, you’re going to hear him refer to his opener.

I will set this up for you. The opener is wearing what to me looks like a red T shirt, but it’s a really really big red T shirt that goes down to like the guy’s knees. That is key to this drama that we’re about to unfold.

Also near the end here when John Marco takes the stage, I have edited out sev…

Okay, here’s John Marco on TikTok. Well, I just want to address something that another comedian has been saying about me on TikTok. Long story short, I was headlining in San Diego this past Friday, and right at the gate, let me say this guy. He’s not my normal opener. My normal opener is named Liam Nelson.

He was not available, so the club assigned me to this guy. He said, I was late. I was not late. It was it was a seven pm show, sold out crowd. The club asked to push it back twenty thirty minutes so they could get everyone in there.

So last number one, number two, he said that I was like, like I made fun of him or his outfit the for like fifteen minutes. I said a couple of small jokes. He had a absurdly large shirt on, so it wasn’t it wasn’t like I wasn’t trying to like haze the Marty thing he had. It was a I haven’t let’s played the video or to that point here whatever, very nice, very nice, could to see everyone. This is good, let’s see this.

I suppose was staying up comedy show before. I’m not gonna say something about that. Here’s one more angle. Just you understand how big this shirt was. Good.

You guys are gonna be a fun crowd. I love to see that. This is exactly what you want. Yeah, thank you. So yeah.

When I went on stage, I made a couple jokes about that shirt because I felt, I think it’s my job to address the elephant in the room. I mean, this shirt was big enough for an elephant, and I just want to play the video for you. You can judge it for yourself. But like, I certainly don’t want to be known as someone who’s bullying or making fun of their openers. I appreciate my openers.

I just so you just play it. Really, guys, I need y’all to truly go bump wild right now for John Marco’s crazy That was a shirt. I was watching the bag. I was like, my openers a three kids in a trench hut. I truly I thought the curtain was just stuck on him like this, and then I was like, oh, I was coming with him.

Give it up for time. Comedian J P. McDade reacted and tweeted, I’ve opened for John Marco a few times. I know his act is basically Dane cooked the musical. What a great line.

Dane cooked the musical. But he’s a good guy and a surprisingly good hang. If you’re an opener trying to get sympathy for him roasting your shirt, which looks like the elbow parade float deflated on you, grow up. John Marco tweeted back, not quite the defense I wanted, but probably the defense I deserve. Persian Cat jumped in and said, Dane cook comparison at a surprisingly good hang, Oh my god, he kind of hates you worst.

Elon Musk responded to a tweeter. The tweeter had tweeted a screenshot of John Oliver, and Elon responded, John Oliver hasn’t been funny for years. Oh, I disagree, and you might want to watch on Sunday night. Elon more streife Dr in the Facebook group not Happy with my Billy Joel Hot Take, Dr wrote, Billy Joel is the best all caps and four exclamation points. I used to sing professionally.

You would always love it when a Billy Joel’s song was requested. My favorite she’s got away about her hashtag lay off my Billy. Another shout out to Aaron. I was thinking of Aaron this morning when I was Q seeing the show. I always listened back to the podcast on my way to the National Donuts Chain, and it just worked out.

I was in the parking lot of the Donuts chain when I heard me from yesterday thanking Erin for buying me not one, but two coffees at buy Me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, so you get double thanks, thanks very much. The Webby Awards are coming out. There’s just too many things. For example, last week I told you somebody won some comedy podcast award. Do you remember who was?

Because I don’t anyway. The Webby Awards, the nominees for Comedy Shows Podcasts are Conen Kevin Hart Hold Up with Dulce Sloan and Josh Johnson from the Daily Show, which apparently is a podcast that exists the Bald and the Beautiful and whatever. Trust Fall from Broadway Video is what’s trust Fall? While I look that up? To be nominated, you submit yourself.

You don’t get nominated. You submit yourself and then they consider you. The application, I understand is four hundred and ninety five dollars. There are some, you know, discounts for students or whatever, but you know this is a money maker, So let’s understand what this is. Trust Fall is a new podcast hosted by Jordan Gleeson and Logan Williams.

In its incoherent ramblings, wanderings and convos with like minded peers, it attempts to explore day to day life blah blah blah. Anyway. So that’s nominated. Are you excited? They also nominated Individual Episodes.

The nominees for Individual Comedy Episodes Individual Episodes by Bitch Sesh, Fly on the Wall, How Did This Get made? Last Culture Reestis and the comment section a Spotify podcast again. You can next year if you want to jump in. Four ninety five dollars will get you an application and you might make yourselves to the finals. Okay, speaking of awards, the Golden Globes have set January fifth for the eighty second ceremony.

This will be on CBS Live eight to eleven. Now in case you’re wondering, would there be a football game on that before? Yeah, on January fifth, they’ll be football on Sunday. And that leads to the next question, what is the difference between the NFL and the Golden Globe Awards? Well, Joe Koi as the answer for you.

As you know, we came on after a football double header. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor swift Boy. What a horrible mean joke. That was so mean.

Oh I didn’t prep here. The next thing on might run down, it says Melbourne, And you’re about to get my daily slow burn about how slow this website loads. All right, where are you, Melbourne? Bookmark? Let’s see I’m recording on April second.

You’re listening on April third, which means in Melbourne it is April fourth. We’re a long again today, so let me do some that don’t have clips. Will save the clips for you know, when I need to pad a little bit. Ronnie Nevill all Irish Storytelling. He’s got a nice logo where he’s standing in front of the Irish flag making a what just happened kind of face.

Caught my attention. Let’s see Come and experience the globe trotting international Irish storyteller Ronnie Neville from Cork to Perth with a suitcase full of stories, Tales from the bogs and streets of Ireland, watered and growing on the floorboards of Irish pubs. Truly, this man is either a genius or a lunatic, you decide. Fringe Feed gave it four stars, saying the set was reminiscent of the style of Billy Connolly. Express mag also gave it four stars and said hilarious.

It’s not much of a review. Here’s one Stuart Dalman into the Galaxy. He’s wearing an orange traditional spacesuit in his logo. Twenty eighteen Moosehead Recipient. Now I don’t know what that means.

And you know I’m about to google it. This has brought me to the Moosehead Awards. I’m on their about page. It says welcome to the Moosehead Retrospective, a year by year review of where it all started and where it is today. We have a keen eye for picking the stars of tomorrow.

As you can see. Twenty twenty three recipients include Prue Blake we played Preu over the weekend. You can apply. You think they get four hundred ninety five dollars. Let’s see.

What is the Moosehead. It’s an organization that wants to get financial support to Australian comedians putting on new shows at Melbourne. Oh that’s cool. Why do we want to help you put on your show? The Mooseheads have a really long history of supporting comedians in the Melbourne Festival, et cetera, et cetera.

How will we help you? One we’ll pay your Melbourne Comedy Festival registration. Two will pay the first three thousand dollars of your venue rental. Three will pay you up to twenty five hundred dollars for you to have creative support. Wow, this is cool.

See John, you were making funny these guys and they’re like super awesome cool. Four, we’ll do some overhead marketing. Five if you live outside of Melbourne at the time of application, meeting more than ninety minutes from Melbourne Central Business District, we’ll continue it up to two thousand dollars torture accommodation. Remember all these dollar amounts are probably Australian dollars, so do like a times point six in there. The Mooseheads try to make it easier for comedians to collaborate and stretch their creative legs.

All right, we like the moose heads. The moose heads are cool, see and I was making fun of them. What a jerk you are, Johnny Mack. Stuart Donalmond’s show was given four and a half stars by the Music who said it’s both cynical and brilliant and on every level it works kind of like this podcast. Huh yeah, Half Beat Magazine four and a half stars, they said, brilliantly crafted the Harold Son four stars.

Dear description Prepper weird all right, and our friend of the show, Dan Boobleitz Junior, he’s been a guest. I gotta have him on again. We’ve been emailing about Dan, I’ve just been so busy. You know what’s going on? Just have it at a minute.

The level end of reporter interviewed Dan. What if Dan’s cringing right now, wondering if I’m going to goof on him. I don’t know if I’m going to goof on you. I don’t preread articles. Dan said, comedy is something that really brings people together.

It’s the thing everyone can find common ground on. How did Dan get in a comedy? Oh no, The short answer is I got divorced. The longest version is I got divorced after a twelve year marriage and felt like I’d wasted the last twelve years of my life. In hindsight, it wasn’t a waste.

Is that experience help shape who I am today, and comedy is something I’ve always wanted to do. So I decided that I didn’t want to be a person that looked back in life and wondered what if. Instead, I wanted to look back and know what happened, whether I succeeded or failed. I also wanted to overcome my fear of public speaking, so I found a local open mic. It’s signed up.

I remember when my name was called and I walked on stage and looked to the audience as I grabbed the Michael. I could think was what I get myself into. Then I told the joke and got a laugh, and I’ve been performing ever since. When I first started, it was scary, nerve wracking because I had a fear of public speaking. The more I’ve done it over the years, the easier it has gotten.

No matter how long one does it, making a room full of strangers laugh is the hardest thing to do, but the most rewarding, Dan Doy, you prefer improv or a script dances, I think it’s better. I have a mix of both. I’ve taken improv classes and it’s helped I stand up tremendously. Comedy should be somewhat loose, and when a comic has a set script, it’s easy to feel more like a copy and paste performance than a one of a kind experience for the audience. Yes, I uh one of the Australian comics I played on Sunday.

I made that note that it just sounded like a performance rather than vibing with the audience. Dan says, I’ve written plenty of jokes and I usually write out a set list for each performance that acts as my guide. I know where I want to start and where I want to end, and whatever happens in the middle, it doesn’t matter as long as the audience is having a good time. Who are Dan’s favorite comedians? I hope you don’t say Adam Sandley here or we’re gonna not be friends anymore, he said, that’s a very tough question to answer.

There’s so many greats George carl and Richard Pryor up there. As for working comedians, I’m a big fan of John Mulaney, Mike Burbigley, Steve Martin, and Mark maron Great List. Dan, congrats on the article. Check out Dan Boubletz at Dan Buobletz dot com at d A n bu b l I t z at dot com. I want to hear some of Dan’s comedy.

You do, Let’s do it. And a lot of guys they’ll brag about dating outside of their lee right like they’ll date. They’ll say, oh, I’m just a woman’s way out of my league. And I think any guy that’s with any partner, you’re out of your league. That’s how I look at That doesn’t matter.

You’re always out of your league. That’s just the way it is. But what I’ve come to realize is that not only am I out of my league, I’m out of my tax bracket. Because she wanted to go see a financial planner, and those are two words that are not in my vocabulary, not at all. But I was like, you know what, I want to be a supportive partner.

I’ll go see the financial planner. Let’s do this, and so we did. Of course, he had questions right away. He wanted to know what my name was, what I did for a living. If I want my name’s Dan.

I’m a stand up comedian. Oh that sounds like a fun job, Dan. Well, I gotta ask you a few questions. First question, what are your future financial goals? So well, if I could pay rent tomorrow, that’d be fantastic.

Nice, all right, Dan Boublet’s junior end of the show. If you want to hear the rest of that set, it’s up on his website, Dan Booblet’s dot com. And that’s your comedy news for today. Tell a friend about the show. They might like it.

To see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News is going to go a little slower today. Catch my breath. I’ve got a lot to catch up on most of the weekend and Monday I had pre taped to accommodate some travel. So this is just a bunch of stories that I didn’t get a chance to comment on.

Let’s start with comedy specials. I watched Tag Nataro’s special It will make the end of the year list down in that bottom pack with Taylor Tomlinson and Brian Simpson. It’ll be there. It’s a good special. I laughed again.

I’m a psychopath who has Emperor of Rome syndrome. If you’re a new listener, i’ll explain that. So I ran serious XIM comedy for ten years and as doing that, I would sit at a desk every day listening to comedy ten twelve hours a day. And since these were comedy albums, this was everybody’s best version of their best material. And I’ve become a comedy snob and it’s sort of fried my brain where often I’ll watch comedian and I’ll be like, oh that was really good, Oh great callback And if you hang out with actual comedians in the back of the room.

They do the same thing. So when I actually laugh, I appreciate it, and take made me actually laugh. One thing that threw me off on the special is I’ve got an ear for edits and I don’t know, but it wouldn’t shock me if possibly, perhaps maybe somebody added some crowd noise to that one. It sounded a little bit off to me, and that throws me. And she didn’t need to do that because of the special was funny.

So if somebody did sweeten the special, don’t do that. At one point she does sit down at a piano and from there I think it’s diminishing returns. I’m not sure. I couldn’t make it out of the piano section. I was just like, this thing just ground to a halt.

Not sure on the decision there, but tak the tar special is pretty good. Then I switched over to Steve Travino and it’s fine. I belled on it, not because it wasn’t good. He’s a nice company. It just he’s got nothing to say.

It reminded me of your friend who had three beers and going, hey, you know why Timmy’s playing right field? Right because he sucks. Like it’s basically that and basic marital humor. Again, fine, if you went to a club and Steve Trevino got up and did that, material’d be like, oh, that guy was good, but like it’s not next level, so that won’t make the list, but I don’t hate it. Saturday Night Live with Rami Usef had some really good moments before I forget to mention it.

Jostin, Sarah Sherman, their chemistry is just amazing. They did a thing where Sarah was Flock of the Owl’s widow that was really solid. Sarah just knocks it out of the park and Rami Yusef just so charismatic as monologue was good. We’ll talk about that in a bit. And I put the Steve Martin documentary on.

It seems fine. I got like fifteen twenty minutes into it. I was kind of comedied out, and I’m really into Netflix’s Three Body Problem, and you know, I’ve busy life. I don’t get to watch all that much TV, and I’m like, I kind of want to get back to that. So Steve Martin and I will finish up on that.

But again, seems perfectly fine. I have nothing bad to say about it. I was enjoying it. It’s just I get TV. Add a couple jokes from Late Night Jimmy Fallon.

The CDC reports that sexually transmitted diseases are becoming more common among older adults. It’s even worse the next morning when you’ve got to do the Walk of shame. That’s jokes, a bit hacked, but it’s funny. Courting a new survey, thirty five percent of men said it’s important for them to smell good during their first sexual experience with a new partner, while the other sixty five percent were given a fake phone number. Jerry Seinfeld was on with Fallon pushing this new pop tarts movie that’s coming out, and I think at about a month quoting Jimmy Fallon talking to Seinfeld here, Phelan said, you say, Jimmy, I did the movie and Frost.

They came out great. It’s locked, but I think there’s still a room to get Jimmy Fallon in this movie.

And then Foun explained Seinfeld throw a curveball and him going, I don’t wan…

Seinfeld said, Mark Ronson wrote the music. I wrote the lyrics. Fallon read those lyrics, which are please give me that sweet morning heat. Every single day of the week. You’ve got all the leff and I need give me that sweet morning heat.

Then they played some of the song. Hugh Grant shared some of his experiences with Jerry on the set of Pop Tarts. Grant said, he’s definitely great in a Tony the Tuger kind of way. Jerry brings different things to the table. He’s a brilliant comic.

He’d written a great script. He and his team are able to massage the scene and the whole time and come up with new jokes left right, and say. He was lovely and very supportive of me. Grant explains his character was a very grand theater thespian who thought all this was very beneath him. So that’s really the joke of the whole thing.

I do appear once or twice as Tony the Seger, but otherwise I’m this tortured theater actor. Seinfeld told Jimmy Fallon Grant was a major headache. We had lots of fights. He’s paying the ass to work with. He’s horrible.

He tells you before you work with him, you gotta hate this and he’s so right. We shout for tad Wakes. That night he and I had dinner and we got drunk havin dinner. That was the greatest night because he’s so cool and he’s that English thing, you know, that witty. He looks good at Jackie.

He’s one of those guys. I love those guys. Unfrosted Netflix May third, Jerry’s been out and about a lot. Last Thursday, he was at Billy Joel’s one hundredth concert at the MSG Residency. Can we talk about Billy Joel for a second, you know, so I’m a fifty one of my fifty four boy, I’m so old I can’t remember wholem I’m fifty four.

So you know, I like the seventies eighties of rock music, and it boggles my mind that for there was a point where Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen were neck and neck, I mean, the cat matched, and then Billy just stopped. And over time, as I pay more and more attention to Billy’s music, I’m like, you know, these are all gimmick songs, like his very few straightforward songs. They all have some sort of gimmick. And we didn’t start the fire is terrible, but I digress. Billy Joel was there playing the Garden.

Apparently a lot of people like this Billy Joel Fellow more than I do, because he sold out the Garden one hundred times and I’m sitting here in the basement recording a podcast. Seinfeld called Billy Joel’s MSG residency a beautiful medallion on this career that he’s had. There’s three things that make Billy a genius of music. The voice, the music, and they’re writing of the most beautiful songs. There’s another thing about Billy that makes them so unique and so special that there’s no such thing as so unique, Jerry.

It’s unique or not unique. There’s no modifier unique. It’s pet Pete mine. But the other thing about Billy that makes them so unique and so special is that we captured hat we all feel living in this particular part of the world, Long Island and New York. He’s like the companion that we’ve gone through our whole lives with.

His music is our best friend for our whole life. I don’t even think he can understand and how much his music means to us from where we are, and I feel like going through Billy Joel’s discography. If you don’t want to hear this hit, skip for one minute, indulge me. Spotify has made a playlist called This is Billy Joel The Essential Tracks. Uptown Girl, It’s fun, but it’s a gimmick song.

Vienna Solid Piano Man. A great song, but it’s a gimmick. We didn’t start the fire is terrible and a gimmick. It’s still rock and roll. To me is a gimmick song.

She’s always a woman, a solid my life is solid, great song, turn the lights back on? What is that? Is that the new one? Yeah, that’s the new one. The River of Dreams.

Nobody cares about just the way you are solid, solid song, So I take it back. There was that little period there where Billy Joel was just doing great songs. The Longest Time is a gimmick song, because the entire Innocent Man album is a gimmick album. You may be right a solid only as good Die Young great in New York state of mind, Little gimmicky tell her about it. It’s a gimmick.

Don’t ask me why is perfect? Moving out is great, She’s got away all right. Allentown is a gimmick. Big shot is great, pressure is great, and make it all back. But I’m leaving it in.

But you see what I’m saying, there’s a lot of gimmick songs in there. Maybe I just need to make a playlist. You know, I’m gonna do that later today. I’m making myself a playlist of non Gimmickee Billy Joel straightforward rockers. All right, I have totally digressed.

Larry David in the news Apple TV is bringing back Fragle Rock, and the Hollywood Reporter caught up with the puppeteers of Fraggle Rock and they are not happy with Larry David. Remember Larry David attacked Elmo. One of the puppeteers said, you know, there’s a person’s hand inside of there. That wasn’t a planned thing. So the puppeteer in me was like, oh my god, that’s super dangerous, Like you just grabbed somebody’s hand and twisted it.

People forget all the time there’s somebody inside of these characters when you don’t see us, and so it’s a risk we take. Yes, puppeteering is extremely dangerous. Larry David also upsets some people on the political front. He was on CNN and accused Trump of throwing two hundred and fifty years of democracy out the window. Quote Unglarry, I mean, you can’t go a day without thinking about what he’s done in this country because he’s such a little baby.

He’s throwing two hundred and fifty years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results of an e life. I mean, it’s so crazy. He’s such a sociopath. He’s so insane. He couldn’t admit to losing.

And we know he lost. He knows he’s lost. And look how he’s fooled everybody. He’s convinced all these people that he didn’t lose. He’s such a sick man.

He’s so sick. Larry calmed down and said, anyway, no, it hasn’t impacted me at all. John Stewart was in the news. The headline of the New York Post John Stewart benefited by eight hundred and twenty nine percent overvalue of his NYC home, even as he labels trump civil case not victimless. Late Nighter explained that John Stewart last Monday, eight days ago, took defenders of Donald Trump to task by arguing that when Trump inflated the value of his real estate assets to get better terms on loans and insurance, it was a victimless crime.

Stuart said that money isn’t infinite, and when one person gets a loan because they lied, it means there’s less money available for loan seekers who give an honest valuation of their assets, hence not a victimless crime. The post suggested that Stuart himself paid real estate taxes on his home based on the city’s valuation of his property, but then sold it for significantly more, making him John Stewart a hypocrite. John Stewart reacted, tweeting, OMG, I’ve been caught doing something not remotely similar to Trump. But I guess all I need to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified docs, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money grab. I’m not gonna read that word.

You know, grab things that you grab, Actually you don’t grab. You don’t do that, the kind of thing that people stand outside buses and talk about grabbing. You don’t do that. Pay hush money thing I just mentioned. Discriminate in housing, cheetah golf, and ferment insurrection, and you’ll revere me.

Twitter user cat turt wrote, un funny hypocrite thief says what Neil Brennan Specials coming out On April ninth, he told people this one had been kind of developing while I was doing Blocks. Blocks are so emo and so self caring and sort of navel gazing, and like most people, I’m kind of split. I’m like, I don’t know. Maybe it’s effective, it might feel good, but I don’t know if this is the best course. I was just getting sick of feeling sorry for myself and everyone on earth kind of feeling sorry for themselves.

But there’s an upside’s bad mental health. In fact, there’s a massive upside to it. That’s sort of where I was coming from. Despite what you want to call it poor mental health or in perfect mental health. I kind of got through it, and I ended up with a bunch of material that was sort of expressing that.

And then also the idea of this other sort of wind that was blowing culturally was this idea that comedians or the moral backstop for the rest of society, which was like, where’d you guys get that? So Neil Crazy Good April ninth, there’s a trailer. The trailer is quite stylized, fast edits, out of time, edits. In the middle of a joke, they’ll show Neil reacting to something. So I’m going to share a little bit of the trailer, but as edited as the original trailer is, I’ve edited even more.

Here’s a quick clip. The Sun is basically the cops for white people follow us around everywhere we go, heel and our cousins for no reason.

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Dmitri Martin Dmitri deconstructed Netflix. Dmitri is already going to tape his Neck special April thirteenth at the Paramount Theater in Denver. Kyle Kanaane’s Dirt Nap is out on YouTube but today so Johnny Max got a big night plan in front of the television. Isaac went on Apple Podcasts and left a review. It says, thanks for putting less ads.

I love this podcast. Thank you, Isaac. Isaac says I changed my one star back to five because of less Ads. I love this podcast and listen every day. Thanks for keeping me in the loop about the latest comedy specials.

Thank you for listening so the ad load should be one pre roll, three in the mid and two in the post. I’m quite open this is a money making enterprise. I’m trying to make a living off this. I like sitting in the basement and talking to you. I dabbled with commercial free subscriptions for a while and it just it wasn’t even that it wasn’t worth the money.

It wasn’t worth the effort. You have to like double load things and the back end stuff. I won’t bore you with, it just takes forever to do, and I was like, it’s just not worth my time to do it. So I find a better way is to ask you guys to go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News the support the show that way.

Erin to that Aaron bought me two coffees Dolls, thank you very much, Erin and Isaac, thanks for switching the review back. I did have two pre rolls at the beginning, and now I only have one, so maybe that is what you’re hearing. And this week there’s obviously a live read, so that makes the show just a little bit longer. But also the podcast itself, I’ve been hitting more like twenty minutes lately, so I guess the same spot load. You notice when it’s a nine minute podcast versus twenty two minute podcast like today is long.

So the ads came a lot later in the mix. I don’t know I’m here to make money. I’m just being honest. I put out a new substack at mcdeepod dot substack dot com. The substack is free.

If that asks you for money, just pick the free option that one. I’m not trying to make money off that. I just like sharing my thoughts. I wrote about April Fool’s jokes in radio, so check that out. Mcdeepod dot substack dot com.

A link in the show notes Joe Coy he spoke to the Seattle Times and said the theme of his current tours where he’s at now in his life. Joe said, I’m older now, so we were talking about that life is changing now. All the hair is gray, so I got to keep it shaved down really close to my head. I’m gonna have your place so stressful. My son is an adult now and he’s thinking about his life.

And that’s the best part about being a dead seeing your offspring grow into an adult. I think those are wise words my children are a little older now, and I’m like, yeah, there, we are nice adults. I like my children. Thanks Johnny Mack. We’re glad you like your children.

I know, right. Joe Coy, you may remember he hosted that I Love this bit. He hosted the Golden Globes and he made just the meanest joke about Taylor Shit. It’s so horrible. I almost don’t want to play it for you, but just in context, I think you need to hear the mean thing Joe Coy said about Taylor Swift.

As you know, we came on after a football double header. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Rommy Yousef crushed it on SNL at least the monologue part.

This part in particular, got a lot of media pick up a little long. But let me play it for you. I’m one of the only guys who praise I’m friends with a lot of sinners, but just discuss sing people and they call me when they’re in trouble because they want me to pray for them. Right, So, I get a call from my buddy Brian. He’s stressed.

He’s been in court for ten months with his ex and they’re fighting over the dog. And he goes RAMI, Dude, she doesn’t take care of the dog. She feeds him kibble, she doesn’t even feed him wet food. And I need him back. It’s just destroying my life.

Please, man, pray for me. I need him. And I’m like, dude, all right, I got you, I got you. And no how it goes by, I get a friend, my friend Ahmad, calling me. His whole family’s in Gaza, and he goes ROMI, they’re suffering.

I don’t know where half of them are. I don’t know what to do. Please pray for them. It’s the only thing we can do. And I’m like, dude, I got you, right.

So that night I go to pray and my prayers are complicated. We’ve got a lot to fit in and my God, please please help Ahma’s family. Please stop the stuffering, stop stop the violence. Please free the people of Palestine, please please, and and please prew the hostages, all the hostages. Please.

And while you’re at it, you know, free mister Bojangles. I mean he’s he’s a beautiful dog. I’m praying for that dog.

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He’s a great joke. Colin Joe just talked about Trump’s Bible and said that it concludes the Constitution, the Pledge, and I assume God’s letter of resignation. He then tagged it with the Bibles mostly the same, but Trump’s version is with Jesus and his disciples storming Jerusalem to overturn the results of the crucifixion. Wow, I’m gonna do Melbourne quickly today because we’re getting a little long, all right. It is April third in Melbourne.

Today. I will pick shows that don’t have clips so we can go a little more quickly. But let me tell you what’s going on. Melbourne International Comedy Festival goes all the way till April twenty first. As I’m talking and babbling, this slow website is still loading.

All right. While the website loaded, I went in, I got my car washed and I picked up some coffees. On the way back. It’s finally loaded now. John Glover’s show is called Microsoft Orifice.

That’s at the Catfish bar Let’s seho. The description of this one is join John and some others for some water cooler gossip as he dismantles your work culture publicly docks is your Finsta and spends forty five minutes of the show trying to set up a new modem calling all millennials, colleagues and corporate cucks. Raise yourself for an evening of hilarious Dan comedy that HR doesn’t want you to see. The Age gave it four stars and says razor sharp one liners are a plenty and timing is spot on. This is a budding comic to watch now.

He does have a clip. This website is terrible. It didn’t the shows say clip here on some of the acts, and as you heard last week, sometimes they do that and there is no clip. This one didn’t mention a clip, which is why I picked it because I’m trying to wrap up the podcast today in less than half an hour. But there’s a clip, So since we’re here, let’s listen to the clip.

Huh. I’ve recently started sitting down to pays it’s time at all getting back. Everyone should really give it a shot. It makes a noise if you sit down to pay. Oh yeah, some women have idea.

All the women on his side silence everyone here like we’re we can, but honestly, like just as a PSA for the men in the room. I pretty game. By the way. My blind friend of your apostle, who kind. He’s fun.

He’s got a tremendous presence too. Like him a lot all right, speaking presents, I totally forgot Rommy yusef the camera loves him. He just looks good. He’s so charismatic. All right.

Here’s another one that supposedly doesn’t have a clip, James Warren’s King Single, and indeed it does not have a clip. Let’s see James Warren’s King Single, A show of jokes, observations and stories about going to parties, living alone, and dating as a person with mild autism. The reviews here only one from the infamous Swanston Gazette, which I’m now curious about. I’m gonna click on the Swanston Gazette says careful comedic timing. There’s a review for you.

Let’s see the Swanston Gazette is a student led paper at r MIT’s University. Oh we are going down a rabbit hole. Some of the featured articles on the Swanston Gazette menstruation, the Bloody Big question mark and unplugging from news or plugging news all timeternatively hashtag Palestine, hashtag Israel.

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Also hair dressing in crisis.

Australian hairdressers are being overlooked in the cost of living crisis. So again the Swanston Gazette the only review here on James Warren’s page. Swanston Gazette says careful comedic timing. I should get out there, but I want to tell you. Liz Meely has a new comedy special also out today free on YouTube nine pm Eastern.

It’s called Murder Sheets. Liz is someone you should absolutely keep an eye on. Filmed live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, Liz hit the stage with her rapid fire storytelling style to share her tales of dating, murder, rules, about edibles, international touring, dead cats, and more. Lizameli dot com and that is your comedy news for today. All a little different today.

I enjoyed today. Hope you did too. We love your comments on Billy Joel, I am actually going to make that playlist. I’ll even share it so he can nitpick it. That’s your comedy news for today.

Follow the show for free, tell a friend about it, and all that. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shining back with your Daily Comedy News April already. Wow. Tim Dillon is one of my favorite comedians. And as I’ve said in the past, and I’ll continue to say, he’s eventually going to step on a landmine, and I’m going to distance myself from Tim Dillon so fast I’ll be like I never said.

Tim Dilan was what are you crazy? Especially since he said that thing it’s gonna happen. The Guardian asked Tim Dilan, howd you get in a comedy? Tim said, I was a child actor and I failed. It was embarrassing and shameful.

I felt as if I’d let down my parents, who wanted to retire off my winnings as an actor, except there were none. I took a long break from that, eventually got back into comedy at twenty five. How would you describe your style of comedy dark and a bit silly. That is a good description. I think people need to laugh at the world, and the world is crazier than ever.

I think I put that through a filter that helps it make more sense. The Guardian was curious if he has any pre show rituals. Dylan said I’m not placating the British here, but I like tea. I’m not being patronized saying, but I have a couple of Earl Gray before every show. He’s like Captain Picicord.

It’s in my writer and it’s in all of my green rooms. I have a cup of tea and chill out. I like a bit of solitude before show. Nothing too crazy. His best hackle.

He was asked about a couple got up in the middle of my show and walked out and said, we’re leaving because we’re gonna go have sex. I can’t compete with that. That was in Greenwich Village at a bar where I did shows all the time. I said, well, it’s probably more productive than what I’m doing. Pet Peeves from the World of Stand Up Tim said, I don’t like you want a host.

Ask if it’s anyone’s birthday or if anyone’s celebrating anything, because I don’t care strangers. Fan encounter. I had someone follow me into a hotel I was staying at and getting the elevator. Tell me they were a big fan. They said, I followed you for two blocks and I said, oh, you’re not staying at the hotel and they said, no, I’m a fan.

It’s very strange when someone tells you that in an enclosed space. Best advice don’t overestimate your worth. Worst advice you can do anything you put your mind to. Tim Dillon, American Royalty in Manchester, Glasgow in London. April fourth through the seventh, The Daily Beast wrote a punchy article with the headline comedians line up to help RFK juniors miss in from campaign.

They write from Rogan to Bill Maher Kennedy, sos have been a who’s who of comedy’s biggest cranks. Just so happens that some of them are also incredibly popular artists with highly engaged fan bases. There’s Andrew Schultz, who, in his twenty twenty Netflix special blame the pandemic on dirty Chinese people, according from The Daily Beast here, and in twenty twenty one, persuaded in La Theater to waive its vaccine rechoir. And for shows, there’s Tim Dillon, the former subprime mortgage broker and current nine to eleven truther who has lately embraced the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Hosted Alex Jones praised the white nationalist writer Steve Saylor stoked the moral panic over trans people and questioned the efficacy of COVID vaccines and masks.

I listen to Tim’s pot every week. I think the writer here is missing the comedy that Tim is doing. Tim can speak for himself, but I don’t find him to be a nine to eleven truther in the least, or I would not listen to him. I also don’t find him embracing the white nationalist great replacement theory, or I would not listen to him. Did he have Alex Jones on If he did, I skipped the episode on purpose and stoking the moral panic over trans people.

I’m not sure about that either. The Daily Beast writs he was also banned from Airbnb in twenty twenty one for threatening to burn down his host home over a cleaning fee. But that’s neither here nor there. I have heard Tim tell that story. I don’t know how accurate diversion he tells is or not.

Back to RFK, The Daily beeastrights, there’s Dave Smith, the anti vaccine Libertarian Party activist who has also embraced the great Replacement theory, praise Nazis, demonized trans people, argued that drunk sex can’t be rape, and said that American Jews should be grateful to the United States for allowing him to flourish. There’s Theo Vaughn, who recently sat down for amiable chats with Tucker Carlson featuring misinformation about the polio vaccine and a former border patrol chief featuring violent anti immigration rhetoric. Kennedy has even found a friendly ear in Whitney Cummings, who has spent recent years arguing that comedians are supposed to be scumbags, and who lived up to her promise by mocking trans women in her latest stand up special. In Kennedy’s contation with Tim Dillon or if Kay described the anti vax label as pejorative intended to marginalize and silence him. Daily Beast writes on Vaughn’s This Past Weekend podcast, he agreed with the hosts false claim that the polio vaccine ended up giving cancer to a lot of women.

On Howie Mandel’s podcast, he insisted he’s not anti vaccine, before acknowledging that he never got the COVID nineteen vaccine and falsely claiming again that vaccines cause ostism. He told Mandel, I’m not saying all autism is caused by vaccine. I’m saying that vaccines, definitely, you know, are largely responsible for the epidemic that we saw begin in nineteen eighty nine. He made the same argument to Bill Maher, who argued that this position is not unreasonable. Dave Smith had Kennedy on his podcast to debate his position on Israel, tailing Kennedy, You’re so great on your Craine, You’re so great on the vaccine.

Why can’t it be great on this THEO Vaughn mostly stuck to questions about his other campaign positions, while Bobby Lee mostly asked about his relationship with Cheryl Hines. Cummings only touched the vaccine issue in a rambling pre interview speech that concluded with the message, let’s be honest with ourselves. No one knows anything interesting stuff. I’ve listened to a few RFK interviews. I find him easy on ears.

Now you’re like, don’t you hear what his voice sounds like. I understand he has vocal challenges, but I like a podcast that doesn’t yell and scream. It’s why I like Rogan. I can just kind of zone out to Rogan. I actually prefer Rogan’s interviews more than the comedians, because with the comedians sometimes we’ll get a little louder.

I often have insomnia is a little strong. But like I’ll wake up the middle of night, it takes me a full hour and a half to go back to sleep, so I’ll wind up listening to podcast to kind of wind back down, and I find Rogan good for that in middle night. So I’ve heard a bunch of these RFK interviews. I disagree with a lot of his positions, but I enjoy listen to him speak, if that makes sense. Comedian Brian Simpson believes Tom Brady could run for president and win.

I think, yeah, here’s your choices, Trump, Biden, RFK junior Tom Brady. That Brady Button’s gonna be pretty attractive there. Tell me who his VP candidate is and I’ll look at it. Simpce. It did caution that the quarterback is likely to lose the swing state of Georgia.

That’s a joke about the Super Bowl. Timpson said. The best way to in sure Tom Brady gets into the White Houses by making sure forty nine Ers coach Kyle Shanahan as his opponent. Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for the Falcons in that famous Falcons loss in the Super Bowl where Brady brought the Patriots back. Simpson said he’d only lose in Georgia.

Brady could run as a Republican and we could get Kyle Shanahan to run as a Democrat, He’ll definitely beat him. He then suggested Vice President Lebron James as Brady’s running mate, suggesting they have such a fan falling that nobody in America could match. Well, I can think of somebody who could match Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift versus Tom Brady. I think Taylor might take that election.

You know who made a joke about Taylor Swift one time, Joe Coy. Yeah, it was vicious. So what was happening was Joe Coyle’s host thing the goal the gloves and boy, way do you hear this vicious joke he made about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL.

On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear Taylor was having none of that and basically murdered Joe Cooy’s career. Joe Coy recently spoke to I ninety five and he was asked if he would host the Golden Globes again. He said, I ain’t scared to do anything. The risk is the best part of life.

I could say I did it. It’s a crazy gig, but who else would do it? Like I said, Chris Rock called me and said the same thing. They offered it him and he turned it down. I saw the opportunity.

It was eighty three years that they’ve had this award show. Never, not once did they offer it to an Asian comedian or anybody to host it solo. And that was my opportunity and I took it. You know, when you get Seth Meyers, Jamie Fox, she mc kimel, Steve Martin, they all understood the complexity of that gig. It’s like, you know, I bash it over the head, and damn if I do it, Damn if I don’t mention anything.

It’s like, bro, I took the gig in less than a week and a half. You know what I’m saying. Everybody turned it down. I want to take that risk and go for it. I saw an opportunity and went for it.

You know, That’s what happened. So if I could explain the situation, you’d understand. If I kept on going, it sounds like whatever Joe said. When you see the cuts, you’re not really seeing the entire situation. If you want to see it, it’s like, oh cool, he’s performing in a food court at a mall.

What a gig. He’s in front of basket and robins. There’s a sale on pepper and an ice cream, Like legit. It was pure chaos. It’s literally the Award Show where they’re eating lobster and drinking wine.

You know what I’m saying. It’s the craziest thing, but no one knows that. You see the oscars and you’re like, I don’t understand what’s happening. It’s like, Okay, put a lobster tail in every single lap, in six bottles of them away, you know what I mean. You hear clinging forks at butterfalling and it’s like, what’s going on?

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That’s where I share thoughts on the media. It is Comedy Month, that’s right. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla is having worldwide Comedy Month. That month is April, and Clown Jewels has joined Comedy Month. They’ll be releasing material from Red Fox, The Mothers Brothers, Gilbert Godfreed, Jonathan Winters and Jackie Gleason, The Best of Red Fox Show Volumes one and two April twelfth, the Best of the Jackie Gleason Show Volumes one and two April nineteenth, and a newly curated album from Gilbert Godfried called Still Screaming That One on April thirtieth.

That’s awesome.

Meanwhile, the eight hundred Pound Gorilla has fleshed out their release cale…

Let’s take a look. You got a pen lot going here today. David Cross Worst Daddy in the World tomorrow Kyle Kanaane Dirt Napp, who loves Kyle Kanaan? I do On the third, Michael Yo’s I never thought On the fourth, Angela Johnson Reyes say, I won’t On the fifth, Evil Graham Live from the blooms Very Theater on the sixth, Kurt Brauneller perfectly stupid. On the seventh, you get to rest.

I mean, there’s only so much comedy you can do. On the eighth, Eric Delessandro’s I Don’t understand on the ninth, Monty Franklin Live from Sydney. On the tenth, I hope you rested on the seventh, because on the tenth you get Dina Archie’s Soxic but Safe and Jimmy Shin’s Upcoming Space on the eleventh, Matt Rife. On the twelfth, Dan raths, I’m not doing well, folks.

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Also The Red Fox Show Volume one and two on the thirteenth, Ben Roy’s Hyena f…

Also the release of The Jackie Gleason Show, Volume one and two, the twentieth vadera by armand Soon Season, the twenty first Mike Britz Checked the Mic, the twenty second Greg Warren The Salesman, the twenty third Moe Welch Dad Jokes, the twenty fourth Joe Zimmerman’s Cult Classic, the twenty fifth Mike Veckie Owns the Attractives, the twenty sixth The Nick Offerman American Ham, the twenty seventh Jake Rush Overwhelmingly Neutral, the twentieth Sam Campbell Companion, twenty ninth Sasheerze Matta Is the First Woman, and the thirtieth Tom Allen’s Absolutely Live. Johnny Mack, Why need you read thirty days of stuff to us? Because I was away all weekend and I wanted to pretape today. It’s cool, all right, let’s see who’s in Melbourne today. Now I really have to do some math.

Okay, it’s whatever day I recorded this, and then you’re listening April first, except somebody’s in Melbourne where it’s tomorrow, so April second. This it’s so confusing. Plus the Aussies they do their calendars Monday to Sunday. You know us Americans, we do Sunday to Saturday on a calendar. It’s a Tuesday’s not even where Tuesday’s supposed to be.

Alright, let’s see what we got here, trash test dummy circus. Here are three guys in construction hats. Everybody put your bins out. Tonight’s midnight and the trash test dummies are on duty. With side slipping, slapstick comedy, daring acrobatics and dexterous juggling.

These dummies are off on an imaginative adventure that’s anything but garbage, with ballet and balloons thrown in for good measure. This fast paced hour of adept unadulterated mischief delivers a dump truck full of hilarity. All right, that’s fun, Hannah Gatsby, we know who that is. It’s even a clip. Let’s listen.

I’m genuinely to be here. It’s been a minute for me to be at the festival. Happy to be back. When they phone me to ask me the host. I said, yes, of course, what an honor.

But it is also very confusing, like I’m not a natural host, like I’ve killed the vibe already. I am aware of this, don’t worry. Like a host is supposed to be warm and like naturally buoyant. This is me trying. That was fun.

Let’s get out there, and that’s your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. And I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Mappy Easter. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I thought i’d try something new today. Since it’s Easter, with people on holiday mode, the numbers will be down a little bit, so I’m like, all right, this will be a fun day to try something different. It’s festival seasoned down in Australia.

The Melbourne Festival will just starting to get in a full swing and then the Sydney Festival will follow that up. The Australian ABC asked a bunch of comedians what other comedians they were into. So what today is going to be is me rattling off comedians. I’d be stunned if you’ve heard of anybody I mentioned today. Of the entire list, there was only one comedian on the entire list that I was familiar with.

So this is educational for me. I’ve pulled a lot of clips, so it’s going to be me talking, then say a minute from everybody. I thought it might be interesting to learn about some new comedians. A couple observations as I put this together. So many comedians with Hey I’m from insert town you never heard of.

Hey I’m from scalawawrogu. Have you guys heard of it? They all do that same joke. It’s very strange, and then they either slam Melbourne or Sydney.

Also, as I pull these clips, I want to be fair to the comics.

I’m pulling a minute or so and usually their first minute. So if you’re listening to this podcast, do you understand how comedy works and things ebb and flow, So it might not be a fair representation of their work. But I also don’t want to play, you know, thirty minute clips from people. Mel Buddle was working as a high school teacher in Brisbane when she made it to the Raw Comedy National Final in two thousand and eight. She was twenty sixteen.

She didn’t win, but she said it fell at Christmas. I had my first flat white and ate at Pellegreenies. I was completely swept up in the magic of the comedy Festival. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It blew me away.

Little o Me a mere mortal was in the same sushi shop as David o’dherty. Here is mel Buddle at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Note the local humor and wow, wait this is nice. Nice to be here. Isn’t it.

Because I live in a place called Ipswich in Queensland, so whoo yes, And it’s nice to be somewhere nice. If you haven’t been to Whipswitch in Queensland, it’s a little bit of a bit polv right, it’s a bit of a rat hole, like I don’t know what your nearest rat hole is. Let’s just I don’t know. We’ll say Sydney for now. There’s no there’s no purebred dogs.

You know those suburbs where everything’s a Staffie cross, Staffy goss Kelpie staffa goss border Collie and I Staffy goss laborat or some of the kids are Staffy cross. There’s no purebred dogs. We can’t afford them. And if you do see one, it’s a German shepherd. That’s a police dog.

Out of the way. Ah. That was Melbutle, who says I really love brownwind Cuss. Whenever she’s available, I ask her to open for me. She’s dry as a bone with a deadpan delivery that really allows her brilliant joke writing to shine through.

She has a joke about Tina Or that makes me chuckle on myself on a weekly basis. Here is that joke from the Melbourne Comedy Festival twenty twenty three. All right, I’ll go first. I guess I think you’ve got to be careful what you say to people, right, Like some stuff, some stuff really sticks. Yeah, Like for me, when I was fifteen, someone said to me, she said, hey, you know Tina Arena.

I said, yeah, I know, Tina Arena. She said, well Tina not even her real name. Her real name Pena, Pena Arena. If anyone out there is waiting for a punchline, it’s Peena Arena. Reese Nicholson says, in terms of a lovely schmorgasboard of new babies, I feel professionally threatened by Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Zone is always a sure thing.

Here’s Reese Nicholson at the Sydney Comedy Festival. It is so genuinely nice to be like out and about doing things again, like because remember at the beginning of everything a few years ago, and let’s not talk about it, but like at the beginning of everything, i’d friends when the lockdown started, I’d friends that really used that time. I don’t think I’ve ever used time like I’d friends that like you know, you got really fit during the lockdowns, transformed their bodies. Me. No, I’ve been in a relationship with the same man for over a decade.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we locked the doors and we started drinking like it was jonestown, Like I oh, I’ve never given up with such a band and in my entire life, like what a thrill. I reckon for six to nine months. So the closest we came to any kind of exercise was we once tried to have sex under a weighted blanket, and it’s the least anxious I’ve been during sex. An agent recent Joris is Luca Miller and says I wouldn’t really call him an up and coming anymore, but Luca Miller always needs more attention. His show this year has a wonderfully Bonker’s conceit.

He’s a good boy. Here is Luca Miller. He did everyone have a good Christmas? It’s pretty deep into the year for that question, for sure. Middle of April, I had a great Christmas.

I went back to the town that I grew up in. I grew up in regional Victoria, a town called a Chuka. Do you guys know a Chuka. Yes, yes, yes, that’s good. People always have some connection to it.

A few weeks ago go I was like, I’ve been there. I was like, what did you do there? He goes, I’ve played paintball and I don’t know anyone knows, but quite a good thing happened at the paintball place in a Shuga a few years ago. So I was like, cool, man, when was that when it was a paintball He’s like, oh, maybe about five years ago. I’m like, that’s good.

And it makes sense because three years ago the guy who ran the paintball place and a chooka went to jail for selling math and he said, yeah, when I was there, he tried to sell me math. Beautiful town, most intense payball games in the state. Nina Oyama says, I love being asked for recommendations because there are so many great up and coming comedians who deserve your attention and money.

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Now here’s Nina.

As I listen to, I’ll tell you what I think afterwards. Hey, hey guys, oh my god, I didn’t expect so much supplause. This is really cool. Yeah, it’s really cool. I love I love Sydney, I love living here.

But Before I moved to Sydney, I lived in Bathist. Has anyone heard of Bathist? All right? Yeah, Bathist is Like it’s like famous for the car racing, you know, like the Bathist one thousand races, and less famous for like the Bathist one thousand racists. But oh, I’m half Asian, by the way, Like that’s why my face is weird.

Yeah, my dad’s Japanese. So he flew hey blue here and then I agree here, taut looks I didn’t want to poison your brain there. I feel like she’s reciting her material rather than performing it. I’m not a performer. I feel like she’s memorial Obviously everyone’s memorized their act, but for example, I’m working off my coworker of mine used to call it script helper.

I’m not totally reading to you. I’m looking at the words and I’m trying to talk them. I feel like she has memorized everything and is just reciting it, if that makes sense me. And it’s all the ABC. It’s an incredible feeling to witness a new comedian’s rise to fame, and an even better feeling when he gets a smugly say I saw them back at twenty twenty four when they performed at a venue that’s used as a carpet store room for the other eleven months of the year.

I do that, Guilty, Guilty. This is more common than you think, and to their credit, carpet roots do make surprisingly good settings for comedy. Anyway, take a punt on any of these shows. They are well worth your while and many are in actual proper venues. You’ve heard me say this before about comedy fests, like if you want to see Chris Rock, Chris Rock’s great, you can also see Chris Rock on Netflix.

Go see Somebody Haven’t heard of? She recommends. Alexandra Hudson. I like this clip a lot from the Melbourne Comedy Festival. A little bit about me.

I was born Sandwich between my brother and my sister, so each year on our birthday, I call and thank them for the brain damage. You can laugh, they’re not here, Yeah, so that’d make me crip lead. People always ask me what it’s like being a triplet, but honestly, I’ve got more in common with my ninety six year old grandmother then I do my fellow triplets, because me and my grandmother we show a lot of the same ailments like she has bunions and I have bunyans. She uses a walker. I used to use a walker.

She often pushed me around on her walker when I can’t be bothered walking anymore. Yeah, we have a really great thing going. We sit back all everyone in our family does everything for us. Next up we have Zoe comes More. Here she is at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

And what I like is she comes right out and starts, no work in the audience, just grabs the make boom and we’re in. So you know, when you’re on magic mushrooms, you know he knows, and yeah he knows, and you know that thing, right, that thing that happens. You know, say you take the mushrooms at like eight forty five and then four and a half hours later it’s eight forty six. What’s up with that? That’s what twenty twenty was like.

My girlfriend and I moved to Melbourne at the beginning of twenty twenty. It’s weird because we’ve lived in Sydney for about fifteen years, but somehow we’ve lived in Melbourne longer. So weird. Yes, I did, it’s a girlfriend. I am a lesbian.

Best to clarify that early. It can be confusing, can’t it? Like? Is she lesbian or just from the country boat? Hey?

Double? Where me? I am very high up in my coven. Will Zoe recommends Lou Wall. Lou’s been doing great stuff for years and their show this year is the wrongest list of life affirming, dumb stuff you never know you needed, delivered via internet memes and musical comedy by an eight foot talk queer comic from Kuma.

What morek could you want?

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I directed that one, so don’t let it put you off. Unfortunately there is no clip of Lou Wall available, but the show’s called The bisexuals Lament and it’ll be at the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s next guy. I like a lot. I did make an edit here because of an F bomb, but boy he’s got presence.

This is Dilbrook Jaya Sinna. I believe, I hope I got that right. It’s truly nice to be back back on stage, back in Melbourne. I actually, I actually one of the few people that get to say it’s nice to be back in Australia because I’m one of the lucky people that just flew internationally Yeah, I just got in from Perth and it’s just nice to be back on home soil two years of a pandemic. Two years ago.

I was the last sort of international flight I took, and that was to South Africa to go into a jungle for the TV show I’m a celebrity, Get me out of here. But when I went in, they were going to change the name too. Is he a celebrity? Should he be here? I had a small profile, right, and of course they start kicking people off the show, and the bigger the profile you have, the longer you stay because the audience picks up the phone votes for the people they like.

Right now, I still knew that I was going to go all the way to the end, and that’s not arrogance. I just know how the game works because it’s voted by the Aussie public that these days consist of so many immigrants. Haha. You think people from India, Schulankan, pakistan A voting for Randa Birch. It’s like that meme you know, Carol’s by candlelight curries by candlelight Steel.

Rox says, there are two bronze that I’m in awe of bron Lewis has only been doing comedy for a handful of years, but her command of the stage and skills and make you think she’s a seasoned veteran who’s been doing stand up for decades. And the joke writing in Bronwin Cuss, a show last year, made my own material feel like an open micer’s. We heard braun Win Cuss earlier. Here’s bron Lewis at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. A lot of buzz on her and she is the one comic I had heard of before I put this together.

Note I did take out a short phrase of her material here because of an F bomb. Heh, Hello, Hello God, it’s good to be out. I am living with a blunke at the moment who doesn’t speak English. I know this is very unpopular to say, but it’s really annoying. I mean, he has only just turned two.

You’ve been here your whole life. You know, I similate you, baby. You know we’re trying to teach him how to speak English. We are we trying to We’re teaching him words he needs to know to survive, you know, because we do want him to survive. He’s a beautiful baby.

We love him so much, but mostly we want him to survive because we don’t want to start again. You know, we are. We’re teaching where to survive, like food. When he’s hungry, he says food, great, nailed it. When he’s thirsty, We’re trying to teach him how to say water.

It’s having a hard time with that one. Because we pronounce it water, he pronounces it puta. That’s a bit funny because the cultured people in the room, we know that puta in Spanish means whore. Love it back in a second. Will Anderson up next.

This is a Greek clip. I had to make several edits for the f bombs, but hopefully you get the gist here. Love this clip. I tried not to get mad at the Americans for making stuff up about our country, because, let’s be honest, I also make up stuff about our country, particularly when I’m overseas, because people think I’m an expert in Australia just because I’m from here. But you don’t know everything about here just because you’re from here and they want to know about stuff it’s not my area of expertise.

They don’t ask me about the dark Knight trilogy. They asked me about like Koalas. I’m like, well, I can tell you about doctor who. They’re like, no, Koalas, that’s all they want to know. And I’ve been spreading misinformation because I didn’t really I wasn’t an expert, and I just was passing on what i’d heard.

And I’d heard this is my favorite thing I’d heard about Koala’s was they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day. And the reason they sleep eighteen to twenty two hours a day is you canalypt as leaves. I only give them enough nutrition to be awake for the remaining hours. But the reason they like you canalypt as leaves is you calypt as leves get them high. And I was like, I love Koala’s high half.

I was like, that is the best evolutionary choice of all time. One day, one Koala’s looked at the other Koala and gone, hey, Bill, you know what, after our next nap, get out of the tree and get some more nutritious thing and then we could like work more during the day. And Bill’s like, We’ve made our choice, mate. We’ve sleep fight in to twenty two hours and then we get high and we hang out in a tree and we’ll like, oh my god, I’m fluffy. Why are you making trouble?

Mike? Why are you I failing this? Will says I think of all the shows I saw last year’s Melbourne, Bronwin Cuss was my favorite. Right, that’s the third time Bronwin’s been mentioned. Such a relaxed style and great jokes.

Lou Wall is definitely a new favorite. Their Facebook marketplace piece is genius and I’m looking forward to seeing a whole hour of them. Tom Walker has been around for a while now, but still one of the most inventive and surprising comedians on the scene. I think Prue Blake is definitely someone to watch, great smart jokes in a dry delivery. Here’s Prue at Melbourne.

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship recently. Friendship it’s meant to be the thing that makes your life better, right, But for me, it’s just been very hard and difficult to maintain. And like, I know, like I was never the popular girl in school. I was never that hot girl, you know, the girl that kind of like marched to the beat of her own drum, like everyone wanted to do what she was doing. Everyone wanted to wear what she was wearing.

Everyone wanted to say what she was saying. You know, she marched that beat of her own drum, but the beat of her drum was the BPM that makes house music people go absolutely feral. She had like, did your school have that girl? No? If your answer is no, then you were that girl.

And I’m thrilled that you came. So I’m Gleason. Clip next from Melbourne twenty seventeen. I had to make several edits for f bombs. Here the topic is the Wiggles.

I don’t like the setup. I don’t know if you know they’ve done They’ve rebooted it. I’ll talk you through it. This is what they’re doing now right Anthony, he’s still there at the Blue Wiggle, He’s still there right. Then there’s Simon.

He’s the Red Wiggle. He used to be an opera singer or something. He’s like, hello, Kudes, boom boom, boom boom, you’re creeping me out, Simon. You’ve got dead eyes, mate. Then there’s Lockie.

He’s the Purple Wiggle. There’s no Jeff anymore, Lockie, there’s no wake up Jeff anymore. It’s Wyke. Up Lockie doesn’t even sound right? Does it?

Wake up? Lockee? Actually stay asleep. Then there’s Emma. There’s a girl wiggle.

Now there’s a girl wiggle. Now what has his country come to? Wiggling is a man’s job. You can’t trust a woman with this. Tom Gleason tells us, I’ve got one recommendation, and that is Jenny Tann.

I saw her at the Adelaide Fringe. Saw a lot of shows there, maybe twenty shows, and maybe another five shows at the Perth Fringe. It was my favorite out of all them. Jenny’s fresh, she’s young. She was talking about stuff that I don’t think about, which I like.

She’s very funny. Obviously she’s got a good story to tell. She had just gotten into stand up when the pandemic started, so she had to put her plans on hold for a couple of years. In the past the time she did TikTok and accidentally on purpose, became famous, so she’s got this huge TikTok following. It was fascinating when I saw her in Adelaide.

The crowd was on board right from the top, and everybody seemed to know her from TikTok. They already liked her personality, but I think the thing that makes her cut above is that she’s a really good stand up. I’m not on TikTok, and I understood the whole show. I really enjoyed it, so she’s really good at including people. I liked this clip a lot.

This is Jenny Tan at the Melbourne Festival in twenty twenty three. I also like, as I mentioned before, she gets right to it, grabs some Mike goes, doesn’t go like, hey, Melbourne, how we don’t just boom right into the material? That’s how I like my comics to do it. I wanted to play a lot more from her, but she started to get a little dirty about boobs, so I had to cut this a little shorter than I wanted to. But I like this a lot.

Allo, you are such a beautiful audience. By the way, not all audiences are so nice, right Like, I did a gig the other day and there was actually someone that came up to me after the show and they were like, you know, your English is actually quite good, and I found that very condescending because it was my mom. So I’d be curious with what you thought of today’s episode. Hopefully you enjoyed. It’s something a little different and you got a lot more stand up than you usually get.

Let me know in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group would be curious at what you thought of today’s show. All right, normal episodes tomorrow there’s something a little different to break things up. Happy Easter and I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media with all other problems in the world solved. A debate broke out on Good Morning Britain about whether audiences should be allowed to take a toilet break during a comedy show or not. High I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Comedian Kane Brown said getting up to use the toilet distracts others. Broadcaster Anime Megan said it’s a human right.

This debate comes after Frankie Boyle told venue staff not to allow people back into a show if they go to the bathroom after his act has started. Caane Brown, the comedian, said, I agree. I’m with Frankie. It’s really disruptive. As a comedian.

The one thing we requires attention, that’s all we ask. Your attention will do the rest. Getting up to use the toilet, we’re using your phone distracts other people and it distracts us on stage. I’ll I agree about the phone, but come on, I might have to go to the bathroom when you want. Anime, the TV host said it’s up to the comedian to make the audience pay attention and suggested that if the folks are going to the loo, maybe they’re bored.

It’s a human right to go to the toilet. You’re not doing hamlet. You’re getting ankled, I assume, and you’re heckling back. Why can’t people use the toilet King, the comedian said, it’s use of the people in the middle row and they have to excuse themselves. They have to go stand up.

They’re rubbing their nether regions on the back of people’s necks. It’s distracting. And of the host said, if you go to a common space to see a comedian or any show, you have to understand there are people on either side of you that might need something. The comedian said, you don’t respect the art form of comedy. If you have a problem with your bladder, sit in the back or on an aisle.

What do you think? Let me know. On the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Bill Burr was talking about the current comedy scene and what he’s seeing at the clubs and he said, in one corner of the hipsters and skinny jeans and buddy hollyglasses or playing or a room of people who look just like them. In the other corner, the hard working club comics slung punchlines in front of a brick wall, working the room and taking on the hecklers. Bill Burr was in the latter group, and by twenty twelve he’d had enough of the nerds who condescended on the regular folks who told good old fashioned jokes.

Burr on his podcast that I really can’t wait for the backlash on nerds. I’ve had it with them embracing the fact that they’re awkward, to the point of pretending to be awkward even when you’re not. The alternative comedy scene is like the hair metal scene in late nineteen eighty nine. We’re about a year away before Nevermind’s gonna come out. They’re all going to be scurrying.

I can’t effing wait. He finds the alt scene homogenized. That’s what I don’t like about. Okay, no heckling, no drugs, no obnoxious behavior, no aggressiveness. The alt scene eliminated every reason it takes Cojones to be a comedian, every reason people want to be a comic.

But never effing did it you remove from that situation. They’ve just created this bleeping comedy womb. It’s like a radio station. It’s not even a crowd. It’s like an effing radio station.

I only performed at hipster’s age eighteen to twenty four, where skinny loose jeans that have black framed glasses. When the jokes don’t go over the act like the crowd is dumb. He compared alt comics to specialists like long snappers on a football team. You can only probably one fing position, and you turn around. You blame the crowd burst fed up with the amount of shots over the effing years that they’ve taken up a club comics like we’re all a bunch of hacks talking about airplane food, like they’re above us.

Then you go do some benefit or some comedy festival. They put club comics and all comics together, and what happens. All the all comics go on early. That’s who gets to mop up in the end, two hours on thefing show a club comic. Just for the record, the all scene was started by club comics.

All those guys, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Dana Gould, Mark Marin Beasts, all of them. They could perform in off track betting and they could have a great set. But he says that first wave has created a generation of comedy nepo babies. They’re almost like rich kids who have kids. They struggle up through all this stuff and then they just have these kids in their first cars.

Like a Maserati. They wrap it around a pole and there’s no ramifications. Love it. Larry David was on Rick Eisen’s show. Apparently Larry David doesn’t like kicking in football.

It’s old, Rick, guys. And you know about the UFL. It’s starting up. It’s a spring football league, and you know how I feel about the Gold Pulse, right. I thought, let me talk to somebody in the UFL.

I mean, it’s insane. So my agent got me on the phone with Dwayne Johnson. Johnson is the face of the UFL. I think he’s a major investor. I don’t know, doesn’t matter.

Why doesn’t he like kicking. Suppose there was a baseball game and there were two parallel bars and deep center field that were twelve feet apart, and you could get a guy off the bench to hit a fung go and if you got it through the bars, you’d get a run. I mean, what’s the point, has nothing to do with the game. I kind of like that idea better than the ghost Runners. Nick Swartzen describes a stand up comedy as it’s like crack, but instead of a pipe, you have a mic.

I’ve never done crack, but when I’ve done with stand up, there’s a solid fallback plan. Film is way different than stand up. You have to work on a script, go in a pre production film, edit market and then see how it goes take over a year. Stand up is immediate. I can write a joke, go on stage at night and see if they hate it.

Film I have to wait for a year to critics to tell me to have off. Brad Williams spoke to Nouveau dot Net about being a father and they were curious about the difference between being a father and being a comedian. Brad said, it’s two different characters. When I’m on the road doing theaters, it’s rockstar life. There are thousands of people were excited to see.

There’s cheering, the people want to meet you. There’s everybody at the theater who’s like, whatever you need. Then you get home and no one gives a hoot that you just sold thousands the tickets and made a lot of money. All it is is getting up, making breakfast with the kid, walking her to school, and doing stuff during the day. The wife doesn’t care, the kid doesn’t care, nobody cares.

I don’t know if I’m balancing family and work correctly. The people on my work side would say I’m doing too much family, and my family would probably say I’m doing too much work, which means I’m probably doing it right if both sides are unhappy. TJ. Miller was on the Loud at Wire at Nights podcast, DJ said, I listen to rock albums growing up, but I also listen to stand up comedy albums. I listen to Steve Martin’s a Wild and Crazy Guy and comedy is not pretty, Bob Newhart.

I listened to Lenny Bruce, even Richard pryor George Carl and all those guys were so amazing. I love a room full of strangers all getting together and laughing and really enjoying something that they can all equally love. Steph Tolev told WPR one of her big influences was Kids in the Hall. I like Goofy. When I think comedy can be so over the top, it becomes funnier to me.

Her current tour is called Fifth Queen, and she said, somebody really worded my comedy very well. She’s like, you’re so gross, but you’re so goofy that it makes it not as gross.

Also, I am gross.

I think like this. It’s not like I’m trying to be gross. I’m a very open person. I’m very sexual. I talk about that stuff very openly, and I think people do too, but they just like to say that they don’t.

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The Melbourne and Comedy Festival continues. Oh so tomorrow I did a special episode. Tomorrow is a deep dive on up and coming Ozzy. So tomorrow is me going, hey, here’s somebody and a clip, and here’s somebody else you haven’t heard of in a clip. So it’s clearly a pre tape to accommodate Easter, but I think it came out really well.

So if you want to get turned on to some new folks, that’s tomorrow. And the Melbourne Comedy Festival continues. Now, since tomorrow’s already in the can, I’ll do two days worth here and as I’ve mentioned, because of the way time zones work, I have to stay a day in advance, So Sunday, March thirty one in Australia like this show title one hundred and one Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people. The Amazing Drumming Monkeys, the show for little kids. I’m curious.

I’m clicking why they it’s out. It is Australia’s favorite little kid’s puppet show. The Monkeys have performed at festivals and events all over the world. It’s monkeys drumming looks like the kind of thing you’d see over by the two Can show at Disney World. You know what I’m talking about.

It it’s like that, well, like a thing you’d see it chuck e cheese. But it’s drumming monkeys. Why not a lot of kids shows tomorrow? Bubble Show in Space after completely selling out their Melbourne run in twenty twenty three, Doctor Bubble and Milkshake return with their most amazing Bubble adventure yet. Milkshake wants a star from space, so she and Doctor Bubble travel to outer space in a bubble rocket that launches to the sky to see if they can get her one.

Perth Happenings gave it five stars. Fort to the Future fart’s are not my thing, but I clicked on this Far to the Future. Jed and Jamie’s friend, Doc Hockinbottom are lost in time, and the only way to rescue him is to use the farts of famous historical figures to travel through time. Suitable for audiences six through twelve and fifty four years old. Appearently, all right, let me get out of the kids section and scroll down here and find some stuff for adults.

Michael Chamberlain’s completely incomplete history of Australian rules football. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining intelligent. This guy is funny of these little reviews Best of British, So like, I’m not going to go to Australia to see Best of British. But I guess if I lived in Melbourne that would be cool, right, Yes, Boats and bogans one of my favorite words that I discovered last year. I wasn’t familiar with it.

There’ll be stories and there’ll be stomach hurting, get spewing, pants peeing. The Adelaide Show gave it four stars, saying great snapshot of Adelaide’s comedy scene some actual stand up with a clip Cecilia Porcola’s I’m as surprised as you are. Let’s listen. One day, I got up in the morning and one of my flatmates was in the kitchen making breakfast, and I went morning and she went mate, yeah, and she goes, I gotta tell you I heard you having sex last night. And I was like, well great, this is embarrassing because I was not having sex last night.

Not even a little bit. She goes, yeah, I’ll figured it out. What had happened was she has a tiny dog right at Chiawa Crosspapion. Its head is smaller than my fist. Okay, it sleeps in her room with her.

Somehow it got stuck outside her bedroom door, so it was crying and scratching at her bedroom door, and she heard that sound. I have a tiny dog crying and scratching, and when that’ll be sillious, bleeping, bleeping. I had a clip it there. She dropped an F bomb, but the punchline there was you know, doing the stuff. Ooh, it was close, very funny clip like her.

Kirsty weback, I’ll be the judge of that also has a clip for us. Let’s check this out. Hello, Hello, besties. I’m not one of those comedians who singles out people in the audience and thought I has a chat to them. You know, we’ve all been to one of those shows before the comedians gotten up on stage and they’d be like, what do you do?

And we’re like, oh, no, I wish I did something better, you know, and then they just rinse them for ten minutes in front of their tinder day like I don’t really do it, like no shade on other comedians, but I think it’s a little bit cheeky. You know. We’re like, buy a ticket, come and support my career, watch my show. Oh no, you are the show, you know, but we are. We’re one of the few modes of entertainment that does it.

And I actually went to the ballet recently because I’m a real culture vault. That is not true. I went to the ballet because I was tricked into it by mate. And this is how she tricked me. She suggested we attend the ballet in the fun voice.

You might be aware of the fun voice. It’s a little bit quicker. It’s a little bit high pitched, which should be in the ballet. It gets me every time. I was like, hell, yeah, let’s go to the ballet.

A couple of days later, I was looking at my bank account and I was like, why are we going to the ballet again? I want to remind everybody when I pull these clips, I’m basically pulling the first minute, and you know, she may be building into something there. I don’t know. Boy, there’s like seventy more shows if I scrolled down, but I got to do two days worth here. So let’s see who’s playing on Monday, April first in Melbourne, Australia at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first.

Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry. All right, what’s this? Experienced the wonder of world class wizardry in the realm of messenger, owls, robe, wizards and flying broomsticks. Not sure what’s going on there, but it’s fun. At the Basement Comedy Club, Ben Knight and Friends Educators.

Their logo is a chalkboard with educators who are no that caught my eye ever wondered what teachers think about you and your kids? Joined Ben Night as he hosts a lineup show of educators who have since become stand up comedians. That’s fun. Weird Al Piano Bar, what’s this? Come?

Worship at the Shrine of Yankovic with Milburn’s silliest sing along. Weird Al Piano Bar venerates the undisputed king of the pop parody song weird Al with lyrics projected on the screen. Here’s your chance to sing, shout and praise his Holy name. No actual weird Al, It’s just weird al karaoke. All Right, this podcast is going to be endlessly long if I keep going here, So let me get to more news.

Rachel Senat she’s been the it girl lately in the movies. She’s getting a show on HBO a pilot anyway. In untitled project, a codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition, and new relationships have changed them. Ari Spears wants to make it clear that he has nothing against Lebron James. He said to me, Lebron’s in my top five?

Do I think he’s better than Michael Jordan. No, I don’t give an f if he scores eighty thousand points. He’s been in the league since preschool. As popular as Lebron is, is he globally famous like on the Love of Jordan? No?

Has he impacted the game of the Love of Jordan. No. He also noted how Michael Jordan revolutionized the sponsorship part of basketball with their Jordan sneakers. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, they might look at you.

Tomorrow’s episode is pretty cool. Hope you enjoy it. Would love some feedback on it on the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Happy Easter and see you tomorrow and Monday.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Shonnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sever Have you heard of him? Hall of Fame picture, best known for being a picture on the New York Mets. So when Tom Seaver was late in his career, he’s pitching a game and the pitching coach comes out and says, you don’t have your best stuff today, you got nothing?

And sever goes, yeah, and he gestures at the hatter and he goes. But they don’t know that that, my friends, was yesterday’s podcast. For scheduling reasons, I needed to tape both yesterday and today, and after all the twenty minute episodes I’ve done lately. Naturally, when I was prepping the show on Wednesday, there was almost nothing new, and I was like, ah, you’re kidding me. Couldn’t like Kat Williams say something about somebody or something.

Now, I had some stories. Today, I had plenty. I’d planned on pre taping today, so I have plenty for today Today’s real Yesterday, I was like, all right, let me see if I can check and jive and get through this. And it worked. It was a pretty good episode of the fifteen hundred or so I’m not sure it was the greatest episode, but it was perfectly fine, so I was happy with how that came out to.

Doug Benson has already been scheduled for the Tower City Comedy Festival. You know when that is? January twenty twenty five. Then has this super early. It’s in Paris, Texas, three nights, fifteen plus shows, one hundred plus comics.

Sounds fun. Doug Benson is your headliner, Johnny, Sure you’re not bluffing today because you led with Doug Benson’s playing a show nine months from now? Are you sure you’re not bluffing today. I’m not bluffing today. This is a high quality episode.

Steve Martin’s new documentary is out Apple TV plus been telling you about this one. It’s in two parts. The first part focuses on Steve’s comedy. The second part the movies and the banjo and the Hall of Fame lamp and all that. I’ll watch part one.

Bill Maher says, what I’ve decided to do is not preemptively give up my nervous system to Donald Trump like I did last election cycle, or maybe the last two times. If he wins, he wins, I’ll do everything I can to make sure that doesn’t happen, but none of them have much influence. The country’s polarized. It’s like a prison yard. You’re either on one team or the other.

Everybody says they want to be in the middle, but really they just go to their corners. So either trumpill Winterer he won’t, and then he becomes president. Either he’ll blow up the world or put me in Guatanamo Bay or whatever. I just can’t worry about it constantly. Paley Fest announced a few moderators.

Jet Apatow will moderate Curb Your Enthusiasm on Thursday, April eighteenth. Patton Oswalt will moderate The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Saturday, April twentieth. Some casting news from This is Spinal Tap. Lars Ulrich, you know him from Metallica, and Chad Smith that’s the guy from Red Hot Chili Peppers. They’re gonna play drummers in the sequel too.

This is spinal Tap. Now, if you saw the first one Spinal Tap, drummers tend to die.

Also in the sequel, Fran Drescher’s back, Rob Reiner’s back, new editions to …

Paul Schaeffer isn’t Schaeffer in the first one. Did I imagine that? Yeah, Paul plays are you fucking? In the original? Yeah?

All right, I didn’t imagine that. Maybe I just think at reading comprehension. Anyway, Shaffer is in the sequel. Here in the sequel, we catch up with Spinal Tap. They reunite for one final concert after a fifteen year hiatus.

They originally wanted to release this this month for the fortieth anniversary of the original film March of eighty four, but there was a strike, delay and stuff, and the movie still does not have a release date. Steph Tolev spoke to w p R and they said, crowd work is where Steph really shines. By the way, some of us were talking about David Tell’s CrowdWork at Tell is the best. Did you watch it Tell specially? Yet?

Watch it Tell Special number one special? Year? Heckle. Steph tolav at your own risk her most viral videos of a man who overstepped and then left the theater. She tells the story.

It was at the comedy store. I was in another room, so I missed what happened at the beginning of the show. So I came in. I was talking to this couple, and they ended up not being a couple. They were like Boston employee.

Then someone else yealed out. He sponsored the show move on with this tone that was so rude for no reason, and he left. So I got mad because I was like, you can’t heckle me and leave. Sorry, I now this works. You want to kill me?

You stay in the room, you deal with it. I convinced the host at the end of the show to bring me back up. I was so pumped to go back on stage. The crowd went nuts too. They was bet up there.

The heckler slunk away once more. Steph says, then he ended up being route to me after texting a guy whose showed was still making fun of me. I was like, yeah, your chance, you wasted it. Sorry, you can’t be a troll. You troded me to my face.

This is what happens, Johnny. You assure you that trying to pull a CEV here this These stories sound pretty generic from the BBC You’re for Comedy News. Ed Gamble has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber in his advertisements on the Subway. He has swapped a hot dog for a cucumber. You dirty listener, I know what’s in your mind right now, hot dog, cucumber.

Don’t act like it’s not. You’re thinking about food. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking about. So Ed Gamble had used a hot dog in his advertisement for a stand up tour. Hot Diggity dog makes sense to me.

However, Transport for London aka TfL does not allow foods high in fat, sugar and salt to be advertised on its network. Really, a spokesperson for TfL said, following a review the advert, we advise that elements would need to be removed to and short complied with our policy. This is somebody’s job. On Instagram at Gamble describe the incident as a career highlight, adding eat your greens kids. So he removed the hot dog and put in a cucumber, but his team kept the ketchup and mustard.

Gamble said, I actually don’t have a problem with the TfL regulations. They make sense to me, but the new posters promote something way more harmful. The idea of the cucumbers pairwell with ketchup and mustard. I’m not sad to have them remove the hot dog. It was only featured on the poster because I wanted to eat during the photoshoot.

Hopefully it’s not too late to change the title of the show to Q Diggity Cucumber. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you by Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. It’s a podcast, Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. I love this one. I just wrote a bunch of episodes for it the other day, so I won’t even read the proper copy.

I’ll tell you what we’re doing here. You pick a monster, say King Kong, and then we explain how King Kong would kill you. Then we get into the plausibility of all right, could there be a giant gorilla? How would that work in science and stuff? We take a look at that, and then we’d take a look at the monsters in popular culture.

Are there movies with such a monster? A lot of fun. It was originally a throwaway idea. I said to my business partner Mark, I’m like, let’s do monster, sharks and dinosaurs. So that was the extent of the idea, and then when I sat down to actually write them, it came out a lot more fun and a lot smarter than I thought.

So this morning I was writing episodes about the Dracula, frank Stein’s Monster, the Mummy. We have episodes about Jaws and Jurassic Park. You know, sharks, dinosaurs. So the show is called Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs. Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

Where you get your podcast? Check that one out. The CBC says Just for Laughs has been a launch pad for Canadian comedians. What happens to us without it? Comedian Sam’s Faraza writes, a few weeks ago, I was feeling pretty good about being a Canadian comic.

I’d flown out to perform on a taping for Just for Last Vancouver as part of the next season. We see gyms that the new wave of stand up series. The morning of my filming, on a typically drizzly Vancouver day, I wrapped myself at a complimentary hotel robe. I treated myself to room service. Life was good.

Then the JFL announcement. My first thought was, what a devastating blow this would be a Canadian stand up My second thought was could my exorbitant room service be blamed for this? Then I remember and I had paid out of pocket Just for Laughs as a beacon for Canadian comedy. It’s the carrot at the end of the stick that every Canadian comedian is chasing, whether they admit it or not, it has a hand in creating the very foundation of Canadian stand up and as a result, getting booked on the Montreal Festival, the biggest comedy festival in the world, is one of the very few springboards for success in our industry. It has propelled comedians from amateur to something to at least somewhat resembles professional status.

Getting on JFL means something. It’s a stamp of approval, a sign that you’ve made it. I’ll add an amen to that. Showcases for JFL have all un canceled at the last minute, and comedians like myself that work on these important sets all year long have been left high and dry. Although it says it hopes to resume the festival in twenty five, that feels like a tall order the of the festivals dependent on jp R.

That’s the just for last company pulling off a huge restructuring in a year’s time, let’s take a lot of innovation and downsizing, no small feat for a large company that’s already struggled to pivot. As for other avenues for success, comedians are left with crumbs. There are little to no comedy specific grants for stand up. Often we’re grouped together with theater artists in the grant world, forcing us to compete with completely different art forms.

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Meanwhile, circus arts gets its own category.

And hey, no shade to sirc to sleigh. Just want a fair fight. And if you’re thinking, just post you stand up online build a following. I could tell you a thing or two is someone with a medium size falling online. First, the money doesn’t come easy because you have to have an online following.

And secondly, while festivals are far from the only thing to work toward in comedy, getting an opportunity to perform at a festival like JFL is a huge goalpost that’s now in peril. If JFL does come back next year, it’s hard to imagine Canadian comedians getting a good deal. Canadian comedians will be the first to tell you it means bringing in more bankable American talent paid for by Canadian taxpayers and artistic institutions. The same criticisms the festival is faced in the past will likely become more ingreened in the future.

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Speaking of Canada, Canadians are applauding a comedian who expertly shut dow…

Michael Harrison is a New York based comedian from Saskatchewan. He posted a clip titled an American Canadian explaining Canada to me, What a surprise. We don’t have a thirteenth grade He’ve been lying to him. Sorry to correct you. Yeah, we don’t have that.

I’m Canadian. Trust me, I’m very aware of what our country has. We actually don’t. Ontario had that a long time ago. They don’t have it anymore.

The woman goes, you have it. No, they don’t trust me. I hate to admit this to you. You’re wrong. The audience laughs.

He turns to the audience and says, this is how American that woman is. You’re wrong about your country. This is why people don’t like you guys as much when you travel other country because of that. Mike Lazer’s debut comedy album Life Rules Mixed Ape, Volume one out today on a special Thing Records, The Tights eight tracks of Comedy Gold. Mike hit the stage to explain that saying yes to life, his love of weed Town, for cooking, having good merch therapy and validation, and the pressure Beast tells Us Originally from Saint Louis.

Mike Glazer is an entertainment juggernaut with extensive credits, including appearances at the twenty twenty three NHL Awards and No, I didn’t forget. I just moved it to the end. Let’s see what’s happening at Melbourne. Let’s say you’re listening on Friday, which means in Melbourne it’s Saturday. By the way, Sunday’s episode of this podcast, already recorded is a look at up and coming ozzy comedians, so a bit of a format breaker.

It’ll be me just going, hey, here’s this guy I’ve never heard of. Here’s a clip, but it’s a lot of fun. I think it came out well. I’d love to know what you think of that episode, and you can share that in the Facebook group a Daily Comedy News podcast group. The Melbourne site.

They must have been listening to me complain about it. It loaded a little quicker and they now have a tab this Saturday, which made it a lot easier for me to do mental gymnastics. Let’s see if we could find something with an actual clip today. Tom Ballard’s good point, well made, says, there’s a clip and there is let’s listen rolled. Michael jokes about the name coronavirus Corona.

That’s like a bee. Then I drink what’s next Peroni virus? Yeah, look, everyone of those toilet piper o the news. It was hilarious. Then Tom Hanks got it and we were like, this is serious.

Sheriff Woody is sick. Then Richard Wilkins got it and we were laughing again. Okay, we were like, oh, now, this is a wonderful news story. All right. It took me a minute to find a clip.

There. He drops a lot of F bombs. I’ll give you a note, as a guy in a basement doing a podcast talking to a professional comedian, your particular material doesn’t need the F bomb every third word. Just drop it all. You don’t need it.

Johnny Max is not anti swearing, but you know, I don’t need to do this podcast. Like, hey, if you enjoy the fing show, tell a friend about it. They might effing like it too. Like I don’t need to do that. Eater does that?

Comedian? Now I hear my dog flopping upstairs. My dog is sixteen and a half years old. I’m going to go rescue her. Oh, my God just fell again.

All right, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Mo Ketchups Baby. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at Tel was amazing. We have a new top special at the year. I’ll talk about Davi in a second, but first, two fun late night jokes from Jordan Klepper sitting behind the desk at the Daily Show.

The topic, did just see Trump is selling Bibles? Yeah, look at the clip on social media. It’s interesting, Klepper said. I know people will say you’re not supposed to mix the Bible in the Constitution, but we have to understand is Trump hasn’t read either one of them. Klepper again, if we step back and look at this, Trump is getting into business with God and that can only mean one thing.

God is gonna end up bankrupt and serving a three month prison sentence for lying under oath. David Tel Hot Cross Buns on Netflix is the number one special of the year, folks. That’s how you do it. It’s like thirty nine minutes joke after joke. The jokes are set up with mister Rex.

There’s no big grand standing, there’s nothing I cancel culture. There is a joke to which the word trans is a punchline. It is a harmless joke. It is funny. That’s how you do it.

Everybody. Now I’m sad here my romance with Triumph the insult comic dog. You know, he’s gonna be so sad what he sees today’s podcast and he finds out Triumph’s not number one anymore. Triumphs number two. Really strong.

But oh my goodness, Attel showed everybody how it’s done. So I’m glad now that I’m loving everything, because at the beginning of the year, I was worried that you guys are gonna be like, does this guy even like comedy? He hates everything? Because we had like seven specials in a row that didn’t impress me. Now this is two back to back that I put at the top of the list.

I mean, great time a tell again the length and I keep harping about the length Crush and Go Home. I had mentioned on the other day Brian Simpson special really strong, but like fifteen minutes too long? Here Dave Crush get out. At one point I had taken a sip of water and I almost for real spit taked. I laughed so hard.

Luckily I didn’t spit all over the TV and the dog sitting there. That would have been horrible, really really funny special. It’s just pure comedy. This is a master at the top of his game. Watch Dave Attel Hot Crossbuns on Netflix.

Current rankings and I know we just did these one David tel two, Triumph three, David Cross four, Dusty Sleigh five, Brian Simpson six, Taylor Tomlinson. A big gap between four and five there and one and two are out pacing three and four. I have not yet watched Tig Nataro, and I probably won’t get a chance to. It’s gonna be a few days. I got some stuff to do now.

For all the twenty minute podcast episodes I’ve done the last week, today is a little less sexy. There’s no big news. Chappelle didn’t throw a pie at somebody, Pete Davidson didn’t do something crazy. Kat Williams didn’t throw anyone under the bus. So today is a very workman like episode of Daily Comedy News.

The Podcast Academy had their rewards. I’m in podcasting. I don’t know if anybody actually cares about these things other than the people that go these conventions. I’ve been in radio wadio for thirty something years these conventions, it’s just like, what are we doing. It’s either like this is weird for me to say because I’ve been doing this thirty years.

It’s either guys who’ve been doing it for forty five years who have lost a mile off their fastball maybe aren’t in touch with stuff, or newbies. It’s kind of like the people that are hooking up with hot chicks don’t talk about it. It’s like that, but radio anyway. The Podcast Academy had awards Johnnie Back, You’re a hater, not a hater. I just don’t care.

Best Comedy Podcast went to how did This get made? Congratulations to Paul Sheer and ging. Jimmy Kimmel has a new unscripted series greenlit by Hulu. This is set in a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary. High hopes good title.

I guess, little Hackey, Which is it? John? Is it good or hacky? Can it be both? Maybe it can’t be both.

If I have to pick, it’s hackey. Actually sidebar here. When I used to travel with Mark says High, who was one of the hosted series Exam Get the Giggles, we would start making up NBC shows, and we’d start with a title like High Hopes and develop it so the joke would be because an NBC show will always take the title and name the character something, so High Hopes would be like the story of James Hopes who works at a high school. Like that’s what NBC would do. My favorite one was called Side Out, which was going to be about a volleyball player who comes out of the closet see that there’s a volleyball pun there anyway.

High Hopes by Jimmy Kimmel follows Belarus born brothers Slava and Mishka and their Stone Crew through the trials and tribulations of taking their cannabis business to new heights in Hollywood. They attract a wild mix of weed loving customers and as a home away from home for their og employees who work hard and smoke harder. This season builds to their biggest day of the year, four twenty, as Gang attempts to expand nationwide and release their own top shelf cannabis brand. Will they find what they’re looking for or their hopescope and smoke? You could tell that I can’t wait for this one.

This sounds great. Dan Saint Germain spoke to the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. He says his new hour is a hodgepodge of some of the best stuff I’ve done the last couple of years. When I started stand up again, I kind of quit for two years, and I started again two years ago, and then I had some bits that were on the last album for eight hundred Pound Gerrilla, and I kind of got to the two year mark, was like, you know, I have all these bits that I have been put in a proper special, so I figured this is the time to do it. But I’m already working on my next hour, and I feel like in a year or two I’m gonna have another hour of films.

I just kind of want to put this stuff together and get it out there. I kind of subscribe to the Joan Rivers thing where if it doesn’t work three times, throw it out and maybe come back to it in a year or two. But a lot of times with a bid, eighty five percent of it a work, and I’m waiting for that last fifteen percent to figure it out. It’s almost like seeing a jinga stack and you go, oh, this is kind of wobbling on the side, so let me try and see if I could pull something out, to push something in that’ll help support a little better and then it all falls. Dan Saint Germain’s special is called The Dance Fatty Dance.

You’ll find it on YouTube home At Julie spoke to the Telegraph. He says Netflix turned down his recent special, Good Times. He says it was too hot for Netflix. There are always issues with certain things, and some of the issues are unfair, like what agism. He says.

Netflix considers him not to be a relevant comedian right now. He asked them what constitutes relevant to the moment, and Jelily says he was told anything black and transgender, send your letters to Oma. Jelily, I’m not sure that’s fair. For example, David tel not black, not transgender, watched it last night, Julily says. At a time when events in the Middle East dominate the news, he finds Netflix not finding him relevant to be astounding.

He says, Netflix says, we’re trying to get everyone, and yet I don’t see hardly anybody who’s Middle Eastern Iranian. They don’t give us a voice. I’m very strong about this because I don’t think they’ve got it right. I think the mainstream does want to know. They do want to hear it.

Julie is working on a new tour called Not a Stay, in which Israel Gaza will be one of the main topics. Is he worried about getting caught between both sides? He says, yes, it’s tricky, but I’m of an age where I’ve ceased to care. The threat of being canceled doesn’t phase him. He says, I was actually canceled after nine to eleven, just for existing case you’re curious.

In the context of the nine to eleven comment, he is of a running descent and he is not Muslim. He says. He had won the two thousand and one Time Out Comedy Award. He was booked to play a gig on September thirteenth. I rang my manager and said the gig, I presume not going ahead.

Manager said, oh, they are, but they don’t want you. My kids say, when did you become an authority on this? Who the hell do you think you are? Jim Brewer was on OutKick the show. Here’s a clip.

I had a radio show for a while, and one of the greatest moments on my radio show was there was a call with Joe would come on and he he someone tried to say some Nonstan nonsense that Joe called him out. It was epic.

And then the other time is he called in and it was one of the greatest moment…

It was like from another it was like he was being channeled and he was talking about the times that we’re going into and it’s either we’re gonna spew the truth, truth of vera, everything’s truth, and if you don’t come with the truth, he’s gonna be exposed because no longer we living in the world where we’re gonna accept the liars. They’re like leeches. It was pretty profound, it was pretty powerful, and something that never forgotten really inspired me. So Joe Rogan’s been a badass for a long time. Bruce said, if you look at a guy like Shane Gillis, if he was saying what he said just two years ago, it’d be like, oh my god, how dare you?

How dare you say some of these things? And that was a guy that was canceled from SNL and now he’s hosting the damn thing. You know, maybe we should lighten up a little bit either way. If anything, I think the woke, ah, we’re not allowed to talk about that. In the moments Dying tremendously show me the comedian that it talks about being woke for an hour.

That’s selling out theater as an arenas it doesn’t exist. So yeah, we’re learning to laugh again. It’d common sense. Now pay attention to what Jolly just said. Here’s what Brewer said.

I was talking to Netflix and one of the guys in development was like, Jim, I’m a huge fan of you. They’re not in the business of white guys that are over the age of forty, and they’re not gonna be And that’s when I was like, ah, so that’s what the world they are committed to. It doesn’t matter if it’s funny. You got to be this color or that color, or that sexuality or that country under this thing in order for us to put our spotlight on. And that’s not comedy.

That’s you trying a piece of society that you’re trying to create. Again. I watched David Till last night. David Till is a fifty nine year old comedian from Queens, New York. I don’t know too much about his growing up or ancestry.

But looks like a white dude to me, so I don’t know. Brewers said, this was a slow process that started a long time ago. In the work world, those in charge would be like, well, if you’re this color and you get this kind of grade, sorry, we have to go with this type of person, even though the grades fifteen points lower. It was slowly put in a culture and before we knew it. Boom, it’s in entertainment.

Boom, it’s in government when your government’s trying to force you to a certain agenda. That’s called communism, socialism, dictatorship. Jim continued, how dare you say that? Well? Wrong?

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If you are a pornbot, I prefer Brunette’s, so that’ll probably get you proved a little quicker. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News my Substackmicdeponda dot substack dot com link in the show notes. Sign up there for free Melbourne Comedy Festival. Let’s do some math.

I’m recording on the twenty seventh. You’re listening on the twenty eighth, So on Australia it’s the twenty ninth, which means it’s Friday night. Good night for comedy. Should be a ton of shows. Let’s look loading loading loading.

World’s slowest site is loading. This is not an edit. It’s still loading loading loading. Come on, I like this title Lord of the Zings a Keyweking comedy showcase. That’s great.

Winner Breakthrough Comedian twenty twenty one New Zealand Comedy Guild Awards. Last Load of the Rings movie came out in two thousand and three, and these News z Eland comedians are still riding that wave. They don’t have a single joke about hobbits, dragons, or really any opinions on the works of Peter Jackson. They’re just using this as a marketing ploy. Love it no clip, but I love it all right.

Randy Dava, Hello players, says there’s a clip here, you know, from yesterday’s podcast. Just because it says there’s a clip doesn’t mean there’s a clip. Let’s see, Well, there was a clip, but it had a ton of f BOMs in its ivory too. Armed with lyrical rhymes and nasty beats, Randy will have his chance to truly express himself using the one approach he knows best hip hop comedy. The age says elicits uproarious laughter.

Did chat jpt write that? Here’s another one with no clip, but it’s Ruby Tay’s dog Seaword. Such a title sea word, the hard sea word dog seaword. Yikes. Now this show contains drug references, strong course language, nudity and sudden loud noises nudity.

What is going on? I don’t think that shows for me. I may not like nudity, but not like missing nudity with my comedy. You know, Mo Gilligan is playing a Philly tonight, Tomorrow and Saturday. It’ll be at the punchline.

Moe says. When I grew up watching stand up, I was watching people like Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy. So there’s always part of me that wanted to perform state side. It’s the biggest market in the entertainment world, so you want to be a success there America is a different terrain. It’s a bigger place where you can have comedy shows from Monday to Sunday and you can have a busy room every night.

And fortunately, in the UK comedy is usually a weekend culture. There aren’t as many comedy clubs midweek if there was, when we have a network and perform with each other, we just don’t have the infrastructure of having many comedy clubs in the UK. It’s much more competitive out there in the States. If you go to the comedy Store in la there’s like nine comics on the main bill and even more before that, whereas in the UK there’s about three. I think my accent helps the most.

Once they get on stage, they say, this guy’s come all the way from London. He’s got a Netflix special. Welcome to the stage. Mo Gill again ears prickup and they want to listen to this guy who’s coming from London. That’s what I like about the States.

If they see I’ve come all the way from somewhere to the comedy store, they sit up a bit more and like, ah, I want to check this guy out. He’s not from here. He must be funny that he is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Is kN Williams one of the great profits of our time. We’ll get to that in a second. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And what I love about this pot is there’s always something new.

And I was putting together today’s show and I’m like, all right, it’s okay, and then I typed kat Williams into Google and I was like, Oh, there’s the lead. I’ll get to that in a second. There’s some late night jokes that I really like. On Monday, a New York appeals court reduced Donald Trump’s bond in his fraud case from four hundred and fifty four million to one seventy five million. Jimmy Fowon said, so, the first time someone has ever heard good news you only ow one hundred and seventy five million dollars.

Having ten days to come up with one hundred and seventy five million doesn’t sound like good news. It sounds like the plot to a Jason Stathan movie. Fantastic Seth Myers went with after his lawyers argued last week that Trump didn’t have the money for the bond. Trump posted in all caps on truth Social I currently have almost five hundred million dollars in cash. Sayt says, dude, they’re trying to help you.

That’s like if oj tweeted the glove fits great. Trump’s trial is now April fifteenth. Jimmy Fallon pointed out the judge picked April fifteenth because it’s tax Day and he knew Trump wouldn’t be busy. Colbert had a terrible joke. I’m sure he told it better than I did.

But the writing on this one, I think is awful. The joke, He’s not a real rich guy. He just plays one on TV. Donald Trump has a billion dollars the same way Patrick Stewart has a spaceship. Okay, Star Trek the Next Generation ended in nineteen ninety four.

Like, what is that joke? Okay, he is Kat Williams of Prophet. Let me set up the story here in case you missed this, Federal and local authorities rated P Diddy’s home in LA and in Miami on Monday, according to Newsweek, to complete a search for sexual trafficking investigation. Newsweek adds the latest run in with the law for Combs comes after months of lawsuits accusing him of alleged sexual assault, sexual trafficking abuse and procuring illicit drugs. All right, remember Kat Williams was on Club Shaysha with Shannon Shirt.

Kind of a big deal. He threw everybody under the bus. Well, listen to this. All of these big deviance is all catching hell in twenty twenty four. It don’t matter if you Diddy or whoever you is.

All lies will be exposed, that’s all. And anyone who takes that the wrong way know why they take it the wrong way. Kat says, I gotta protect my integrity because if p Didd he be wanting to party, you gotta tell him no. Fascinating. David Tail tweeted check out Hot Cross Buns.

That’s his new special. Here’s a taste streaming on Netflix. Now. I was hit by a bicycle. Yeah no, no, it was my fault.

It was my fault. I was standing on the sidewalk. I mean, you know, you stand on the sidewalk, you get hit by a bike. I mean what. That’s the world we live in now.

And the guy who hit me was a food delivery guy. Yeah, a third responder. That’s right. These guys are heroes delivering heroes the heroes. Great joke.

CBS says, announced that they will air the Golden Globes for five more years. I guess they really liked it. The suit says, CBS’s collaboration with the Globes for this year’s broadcast was a big win for both of us and established strong momentum for award shows in twenty twenty four. You may recall Joe Cooy was the host this year. Now, I don’t know if he’ll be back or not.

I hope so. But during the telecast of the Golden Globes, Joe Coy told this horrible, vicious joke about Taylor Swift. I mean, this is the meanest thing anyone has ever said about anybody here. Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, I swear, Oh, I mean brutal.

You can’t blame Taylor Swift for apparently murdering Joe Cooy’s career by making a stoneface and not laughing at that terror, vicious, mean joke. So who knows if Joe Coyle will be back. I mean, would you risk having Joekoy back if he’s gonna tell mean jokes like that. I wouldn’t, actually I would. I like controversy.

They’ve added more cast to that film, SNL nineteen seventy five, that’s apparently a working title based on the real life behind the scenes accounts of the opening night of Saturday Night Live. JK. Simmons has been added to the cast, and I was like, Ah, I wonder who JK. Simmons would play, you know, JK Simmons, the fantastic actor, Like, who would he play, you know, some sort of NBC suit or somebody. No, Milton Burl, Yeah, yeah.

Seth Myers was on Mike Birbigley’s podcast. He doesn’t think that Lauren Michaels is going to step away from SNL or Biggs s Myers point blank if he’d be taking over for Michaels and said, or is it tinfa And then you say said, I think it’s a false narrative that Lauren is going anywhere. I think it made sense for Lauren, who’s yeah, got a flair for the dramatic, to say I think I’ll be done at fifty. But now it’s not like Lauren’s got something else. He wants to do more than this for Biggs joked, so you think it’s Keenan, The thing is Lorne Michaels will be eighty years old on November seventeenth of this year.

I don’t know, A nice round number of fifty and a nice round birthday of eighty might be a good time to hang it up Laurene. Again, nothing against Lauren. I just I want you to go enjoy retirement, Go sit on the yacht. That’s a long week at eighty years old. Friend of the pod Scott Beckett shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, and it’s from the Wall Street Journal.

It’s about how the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gets put together. Kevin Hart this year’s winner. The article is by Cappy McGarr, co creator of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and a special advisor to the chairman of the Kennedy Center. That’s nice gigs, He writes, as stand up comedy emerges as a genre, the Marx Brothers, Frank Fay and others stumbled upon it by riffing between acts. It retained the scrappy, underground status associated with vaudeville, but a lack of mainstream recognition proved a boon for experimentation and for performers who might have otherwise been excluded, particularly Blacks and Jews.

It’s giving ahead no wonder. A majority of Mark Twain Prize recipients have been black or Jewish, and ever the overachiever Whoopi Goldberg, is both. Mark Twain once wrote against the assault of laughter, nothing can Stand. Dusty Slay spoke to CBS fifty eight Milwaukee about his creative process. As Dusty said, I like to write out my set list, so I have a general idea of the order I want to go.

The act of writing helps himent the order in my head. I like to build an act. The hour I’m doing right now completely different than my Netflix special. This new hour probably took me six months backstage, he says, I do like to take a second and kind of gather my thoughts. I don’t want a lot of people back here.

I want it to be really normal. And chill Abe has the hardest job in the show because he’s hosting Naomi, who’s the feature. Is in there to pump it up. So when I walk in it’s a hot crowd. If I can go out and tell one joke.

Everybody laughs. Everyone is comfortable. Audience members are not comfortable because they’re worried the comic’s not going to do well. If you can go out and give them something hot right away, they can all relax. If I’m up there and things aren’t going well, well, maybe I’ll try to move some of it up earlier to see if that’ll work better.

CBS fifty eight was curious about his writer. The Milwaukee improv said, Dusty’s easy. Dusty’s writer is Green Tea. Dusty says, I just get things from my room and eat those. Sometimes I go to the club and if they have good snacks there, I’ll eat those too.

The person representing the club said, we’ve had comedians ask for Air Force ones T shirts, incredibly expensive bottles of tequila. We work with their teams on what we can actually provide. There are several ways to support the show. One you can buy me a coffee at buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Listen to this said cup.

There’s almost nothing in it. You can go there and you can join the two dollars Club. That’s just a nice way to make a two dollars donation once a month. If five hundred thousand of you do that, I will be a millionaire. Actually, i’ll be a twelve millionaire, right, five hundred thousand times two every month.

Yeah, that’s a lot of money. Unfortunately we’re just shy of five hundred thousand. I’m getting there, though, So buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Sign up for my substack. That’s where I pontificate about the media.

Go to mcdeepod dot substack dot com. The link is in the show notes. Sign up for free. It’s gonna ask for money. Blow right through that.

Go no, but I want the free version. I’m not trying to make money off that. Stephen Colbert felt bad about his Kate Middleton jokes. Now I’m going to play a two minute statement from Colbert. Now, it’s not an apology.

You don’t hear the word i’m sorry or anything like that. It’s more of an explanation. And I don’t know why Colbert is so feeling so guilty about it. I’ve made my share of Kate Middleton jokes. I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast where we talk about the royal family every day.

She had disappeared. People were using phrases like Brazilian butt lift. Brazilian butt lift is funny, and it’s my kind of humor. It has really nothing to do with Kate Middleton. It’s a Brazilian butt lift joke.

Hey, did you hear Biden got a Brazilian butt lift? That’s equally as funny. Do you hear Mike in Cleveland’s getting a Brazilian butt lift in May? And that’s why I’m going out there. It’s just as funny.

So I think Colbert overreacted here. But let’s listen. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we we do a lot of shows, and I tell a lot of jokes, and I tell jokes about a lot of different things, mostly what everybody’s talking about. And for the last six weeks to two months, everybody has been talking about the mystery of Kate Middleton’s disappearance from public life. And two weeks ago we did some jokes about that mystery, and all the attendant truffra in the reporting about that, and when I made those jokes, that upset some people, and even before her diagnosis was revealed, And I can understand that.

I mean a lot of my jokes have set people in the past, and I’m sure some of my jokes will upset people in the future. But there’s a standard that I try to hold myself to, and that is I do not make light of somebody else’s tragedy. Now I don’t know whether her prognosis is a tragic one. She’s the future of Queen of England, and I assume she’s gonna get the best possible medical care. But regardless of what it is, I know, and I’m sure many of you, far too many of us, know that any cancer diagnosis of any kind is harrowing for the patient and for their family.

And though I’m sure they don’t need it from me, I and everyone here at the Late Show would like to extend are well wishes and heartfelt hope that her recovery is swift and thorough. Now, please say hello to Lewis Cato in the Late Show. Band. Well, let’s see what’s going on in Milbourne, all right, because I record it’s the twenty sixth, is you listen, it’s the twenty seventh, which means in Milbourn it’s the twenty eighth. This is so confusing.

Equally as confusing is which of these bookmarks, is it? I have one, two, three, twenty three tabs open on my MacBook right now, and apparently it’s none of those twenty three. All right, let me google Milbourne Comedy Festival. Now. While I was doing all that, I forgot what day it is.

Twenty six, twenty eighth. This is also the slowest loading website. But it’s got to load all the way from Australia, so you can understand why it takes a minute. That’s not how the internet works, John, Oh, yeah, I mentioned this yesterday. The Aussies do their calendars Monday to Sunday, so like I’m trying to click where Thursdays should be and the Thursday’s not where Thursdays should be.

Why do you have an alternate calendar down there? What’s going on? Like? I get week end? I get it, I got it, Britz, you don’t have to write me, but I don’t know.

Let’s see who’s playing bron Lewis on Sunday’s episode. You’re gonna hear a lot about bron Lewis. I’ve seen buzz on her. She’s playing at six twenty pm all times Melbourne.

All right, here’s one with a clip Takashi Wakasugi.

His show’s called Japanese Azzie. Let’s listen. I’m from Japan, thank you, And I have a question Australia. I went to supermarket to get egg, right, and there was no free round egg. It’s sold out.

The only kJ eggs was there. Right. The question is can I buy that kJ egg in the situation? Are you listening? It’s so confusing.

I tried to get but that makes me worry. Maybe someone see me, And then I think, oh, this Asian guys to buying kJ egg get out. It’s not good for the Asian community here, right. I remember him from last year. He’s funny.

The clip is still funny, but I remember that from last year. Reyes Matthewson’s show was called First radioh Yeah, that shows at six twenty five pm. I might have to go to Melbourne. I like these six pm starts. That means I’m home by like eight fifteen I go to bed.

That sounds awesome. Now. The website lied to me when they said there was a clip. It says clip, and I clicked it. There’s no clip.

I’ll read it to you. You know, when you’re eating fast food, when you’re driving you think no one can see you, even though your car is windows the whole way around. This show will be like that, public and intimate stuff, says Reyese. Matthewson is one of New Zealand’s best comedians. But there’s no clip.

Let’s fine one more with a clip. Akmel, I’ll played him yesterday, he’s back. What times that show six point thirty? I mean think about that could be home sleep. You young people can go to these ten thirty PM shows, not me.

Helen Bauer’s show is called Grand Supreme Daring Princess seven o’clock start, says play clip. Oh, there is a clip, let’s listen. I know it’s a comedy show. I don’t want to get too scientific, but when you eat when you’re drunk, the calories don’t count. It’s like eating on a train.

It’s not technically a meal. It’s not The thing is. I’ve got this two thing I do. It’s so adorable. When I’m drunk and emotional, I can now eat two kebabs in the space of time.

It takes the average human tweet half a kebab. What where do you put it? It’s just a metabolism thing. Look look at my wrist. That was fun enough.

I had to cut it a little short. She started using words. You know, I try and keep this thing clean. She was using words. That F word, a word for the thing that you keep in a bra.

You know, I can’t play these things trying to keep it clean. Here and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it too. Oh we didn’t talk about Triumph. Oh my god, I was so excited.

Did you see? Triumph retweeted me. Yeah? Boy? Am I needy?

Or what? Yeah? From the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog account, Triumph wrote Funniest comedy special of twenty twenty four is mine, says DCN Pod. Watch it here and tell everyone because we all got this little account, Let’s make poop number one special. Watch it.

It’s on YouTube. Just search for Triumph Fantastic Special. Still laughing about it? Natural comedy es for today. I did all that already.

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