Chelsea Handler can’t actually be this stupid, right? PLUS Dave Chappelle figured if he made Half Baked he could smoke weed

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Featured: Chelsea Handler, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Sherman, Colin Jost, Dan Cummins, Michelle Wolf, Brad Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Chelsea Handler’s dubious story about not knowing sun and moon were different until age 40
• Chelsea Handler guest hosting The Daily Show in February
• Vulture profile of Sarah Sherman’s grotesque comedy style and SNL background
• Sarah Sherman’s controversial performance art and shock comedy methods
• Dan Cummins discusses his comedy origins and upcoming camping event in the Poconos
• London comedy shows announced featuring Michelle Wolf and Brad Williams

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The shark deck name Jenny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Chelsea Handler told the story to Jimmy Fallon that I guess we’re supposed to believe and go along with the joke, but honestly, I don’t believe it. It got a lot of headlines. Chelsea told Jimmy Fallon, I didn’t know until I was forty years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing. Really, Jimmy played along.

I found this hard to believe. What are you talking about? Handler said it was shocking to me as well. Chelsea was on with Fallon promoting her appearance last weekend on the Critics Choice Awards, and she is openly campaigning for The Daily Show hosting gig and she’ll be guest hosting that in February. Anyway, her story is she was on a safari in Africa.

She told Jimmy, my sister and I were riding on an elephant and there was a man riding an elephant for us because we don’t know how to ride an elephant. My older sister, Simone looked up at the sky and said, Chelsea, look up. It’s not often you get to see the sun on the moon at the same time, you know, except like once a month if you’re up at like six thirty in the morning and the moon is setting in the west and the sun is rising in the east. And I see this all the time, she teld Jimmy. I was like, scooby doo.

I’m like, whoa, I said, wait, but they’re always together. As soon as I said that, my sister turned around. She goes, what did you say? She said, I need you to tell me what you think is happening between the sun and the moon. Chelsea said, I was like, honestly, I just assume when the sun went down, it popped back up as the moon.

The man riding the elephant spoke into English and went and he’s like another time American, you know, all right? Okay, So, first of all, I don’t believe that you thought the sun in the moon were the same thing. I just don’t believe you’re that stupid. Second, why did the man riding the elephant go? If he doesn’t speak English, how did he know what you were talking about?

Maybe he understands English but doesn’t speak It. Is that what you’re saying here? I call hogwash on this entire story. There’s no way, You’re that stupid. Vulture had a fantastic profile of Sarah Sherman under the headline a beautiful mind.

For Sarah Sherman, comedy is all about putting on a show and being absolutely disgusting. I shared this on Tuesday No Wednesday on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I also shared it in the subreddit which is Daily Comedy News, Walter writes. In May twenty twenty one, shortly before being cast on SNL, Sarah made a video called the Sara Vaccine, in which she made a concoction of gasoline, juice and the special ingredients urine. I’m cleaning that up for you.

She used a nasty version of the P word anyway, it’s gasoline, juice and urine, and then drank it. She said, I did a show in Portland and my friend Tammy had to walk out in the middle of a puke in the parking lot. Sarah considers that an accomplishment. She’s known for playing a version of herself on Weekend Update in which she goads Colin Jost. An example, she asked Colin Jost why there are no Jews at SNL.

Colin says there are Jews on the show, including her. Sarah then turns to the camera and says, in other news, local wet blanket Colin Jost is keeping track of the amount of Jews at SNL. I like when she does that bit a lot of fun. She knows what people expect to hear about her past, and she bristles at it. Sarah said, I think a lot of people like to romanticize comedians, being outsider romantic losers.

She grew up on Long Island. She was odd but not off puttingly, so she had her Miss Vaughan April Fool’s Day. She claimed the date was not intentional, just to gift from God. She sent invitations in the form of snakes in a can. A member of the high school improv team, she’d always been attracted to the grotesque.

One time she painted a picture of a baby bottle full of intestines. If she were a character on Glee, she would have been Slushy. In real life, she ran track. She said, I had friends as well liked us funny. I’m a comedian, so I needed people to like me.

I have a deep, dark desire within me to be accepted by others. I also have a desire to make things that are insane, but the part of me that wants to make things that are insane still des really needs people to like it. She adopted the stage name Sarah Squirm, inspired by a high school nickname. A couple of her friends ran a record label and booked her for gigs as a comedian alongside a bunch of quote noise musicians. Sarah said, I was doing basement shows with bands literally called and I’m cleaning it up here.

You’re in your in eurin moan moan moan. I was like, it can’t be blood liquor. You’re in ear neurin moan moan moan. And Sarah when she started her own Noise and Come Many show Hell Trap Nightmare, the poster included an illustration of, as she describes it, a uterus, where the eggs were eyeballs, the smile was an open vagina, the lips were made out of intestines, and there was a severed finger as a tampon. At it all righty fun article if you want to check it out on my socials.

The spokesman called up with Dan Cummins, he talked about when he started at comedy said it was a forgettable sports bar season ticket had what they called a club inside it called Laughs. It was a little spot in the sports bar, plywood painted black laughs and wasn’t much at all, but it started me on his current tour. I’m going to address the current polarization we’ve had over recent years. We’ve become so divided, and everyone sees that. Over the last few election cycles, everyone has gotten so tribal.

Most are either on the left of the right. There’s a lot more choices. The spectrum is huge. Would people ignore that I talk about heavier subjects like abortion. I talk about the lack of critical thinking.

There’s so much to go on about. So I’m reading the story. I’m now flashing back. I went bowling with Dan Cummins. Was that much?

All? Was that Chicago? I think it was in Chicago, just for last Chicago anyway, I vaguely remember having a few beverages and bowling with Dan Cummins at like one thirty in the morning or so. Yeah. Anyway, He says I wasn’t a comedy nerd as a kid, and I’m still not a comedy nerd.

I love George Carlin, but I’d rather read David Sedaris’s books. I wasn’t that in the stand up growing up. I like sketch comedy more, but I was in high school. I never dreamed of comedy as a career. In September, he’s going to host a camping event where he’ll be performing this in the Poconos.

He says, it’s our second year of doing this. It’s a unique situation for fans of my Comedy End podcast. We have a camp on a four hundred acre spread with a heated pool and some cool amenities. We’re hoping five hundred two thousand people come out. I’ll be putting together my own production.

We’re just gonna have fun. That’s gonna be great. But right now I’m focusing on my tour. Hey, if you want to support the show, you can go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I wasn’t planning on doing the plug today, but to commodate my schedule, I’m recording three of these podcasts back to back to back.

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Both are fantastic. Those are major ads. There a cabaret lineup gig affronted by Jordan Gray and this excites me. A UK incarnation of the New Faces showcase. Wow, that’s awesome.

Also more details for Max and Ivan’s the wrestling. I’m fascinated by this and I need to educate myself more on but apparently comedians fight. Phil Wang, who I think is fantastic, has joined along with Alex Horne, Glenmore and Abbie Clark. Joe Lysat will be acting as Moore’s manager, while Greg James and Nish Kumaro have joined Ashling b on the commentary desk. Sue Perkins will be hosting a panel event called Comic Relief Proud every Day, talking about how the charity helps LGBTQ plus projects Just for Laughs London March second through the fifth, and during the week the movie Half Baked turned twenty five.

Cracked spoke with director Tamara Davis. She said Dave Chappelle and Neil Brandon were like twenty three at the time they were the writers. Dave had so much energy and he was so excitable. Dave felt by making this movie it would allow him to smoke weed wherever he wanted. He was so fun and he was game for anything.

There was so much hopefulness and promise in both him and Neil. It was my job to make sure I got that energy on film. Chapelle was set as the star funding the other guys, which tricky. We wanted people Dave could really work with, and we wanted people up and coming in comedy. Jim Brewer came from SNL and he was solid, all right.

So how high was everybody on the set of Half Baked? Tamer said, you can’t really work and be high. I mean some people can set the rogue and can, but generally I don’t think you can. As for the actors, if they were flubbing their lines and everyone knew it was because they’d smoked weed, would be considered super unprofessional. All that being said, there were two times that there really was weed on the set.

I didn’t know it then, but I heard later that they got high before doing the flying scene. Then there was the cameo with Snoop dog We were shooting on the Universal lot and we had fake weed and Snoop said, no way, I’m gonna really smoke weed. There was no way to tell Snoop you couldn’t smoke weeds, so we lit up a joint. Then I saw security coming over and I was like, oh no, we’re gonna get shut down. Security started surrounding us.

I yelled cut and then they said to me, Hey, you think it’s okay if we get an autographed from Snoop Dogg chick Comedy Needs for Today. Follow show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows See tomorrow. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks? Or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A? But good News left the salad behind.

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