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The Shark Deck. Marjorie Taylor Green referred to New York City as disgusting, filthy, repulsive, and a terrible play SETH Meyers joked, how dare you say that in the city that’s home to Fox News headquarters. I am Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Seth added, the jokes on you, Marjorie, once you think that you’re officially a New Yorker. If you’re a New Yorker, you totally get that one. I agree.
Congratulations to Chris Rock, he said a record Selective Outrage became the stand up show that was the most streamed in any week. It amassed seven hundred and ninety eight million minutes in the first week it was released. That breaks the record held by Dave Chappelle’s twenty nineteen Sticks and Stones, which had five hundred and seventy three million viewing minutes. Wow, Sarah Silverman, she’s getting her own comedy special. This one will be on HBO the release as it will feature all new material.
Yeah that’s what comedy specials are. Taped in front of a live audience, and yeah, that’s what comedy specials are. At the Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. The suit over at HBO said, we absolutely love working with Sarah. She’s truly one of the all time greats and her new special is smart, bold, as insanely funny as ever.
Sarah Silverman said, I love working with Nina the suit over at HBO. She’s a great support system and we trust each other. She’s got lips that one. Okay. Rolling Stone caught up with Leslie Jones.
She’s got a new memoir coming out. I hate the title. It is Leslie f asterisk cki n G. Jones. I’m not cleaning that up.
That’s how she’s spelling it. So I’ll call it Leslie effing Jones. And it’s just a bad title because say you have a podcast or your entertainment Tonight or one of those things. It makes it hard to even say the name of your book. It’s a bad choice.
Call it anything else anyway. Leslie something Jones will be out September nineteenth. Leslie recently told People magazine everybody’s life is a story. Everybody’s life has had moments and trials and mistakes and things that you go to who make you are who you are today. And I want everybody to read and go holy stuff.
She just didn’t fall into comedy. She had to work for that stuff. I want people to learn if you have inspiration and desire to do something that’s fff and great, but you gotta work. She explained that while the stories are topics that she’s really really not ashamed of, I also wanted to do it while I still remember everything. She’s now fifty five, not old.
From my perspective, I started remembering moments where I was like, oh wow, I haven’t thought about that. I need to get that on paper or something because I didn’t want to forget the actual details to it. So it’s a lot of that too. I just feel like people ask me a lot of questions on how to do that, and I was like, I wonder if my story will be interesting, and it turns out it will be very interesting. At this point, my podcast, the raw recording time is three minutes fifty six seconds.
It’ll be shorter because of the edits in your version. And I’ve gotten texts from five different people since I started. Every two seconds bleep in my headset, Martin Lawrence said, Eddie Murphy is the reason. Along with Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy is the reason I do comedy. Well, those two Eddie took it to rockstar status.
I was like, Wow, I’ve never seen that. That’s my man, Eddie Murphy. Martin Lawrence says he misses the stage, but he’s in no rush to return. I let everybody do their thing, Dave’s Bell, Chris Rock, everybody doing their thing. I love it, and you know, I just wait for my time.
I don’t really worry about what everybody else is doing. I just wait to see when God lets me know when it’s time for me to go back out and bring some laughter to the world. He discussed how comedians such as Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and Kevin hard To found themselves receiving pushed back for some of their jokes that community, such as the LGBTQ plus community, I found offensive. Laurence said, I’m not going to change you who I am and the way I do things, but I’m going to respect the fact that people do have feelings. If I could do something a different way and get the same effect that doesn’t hurt, then I could do it that way.
That’s what I’ve come to learn. When I was young, I would just go for it. I just did it my way, but as I got older, I learned respect a little more. Josh Johnson spoke to nola dot com about being a writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. By the way, I saw a clip of Jimmy Fallon doing something called what do you call it?
What’s Up? Dog or something like that. It’s just stupid patricks, I mean, blatant ripoff. Loved Jimmy, and, as I shared on the Facebook group Daily commun News podcast group Like a Week Ago, Jimmy Fallon hosting Letterman show way back twenty years ago. Fallon clearly like Letterman.
Well, Fallon clearly likes Letterman. Total lift anyway. Josh Johnson said writing on The Tonight Shoke cured him of any romantic notions he had about creativity. He had to write seventy five jokes a day, and that didn’t mean the seventy five jokes got on TV. All the other writers were also writing seventy five jokes a day.
Johnson said, if Jimmy ends up doing three of your jokes in a show, you feel like you crushed it. Now. I have a really thick skin when it comes to jokes not working. Sometimes my joke is the best joke, and sometimes it’s simply not. And I’ve learned to recognize that he will be at Tippetina’s five at one Napoleon Avenue.
If you’re down that way on the thirteenth, that’s Thursday, seven o’clock. Beth Stelling spoke to the Union about her bista day. She said, I usually like to get to a city and find the best coffee because I used to manage a coffee shop in Chicago called Dollop. Then my first job in la was Intelligency, a coffee I had a train for like eight months before it could even touch milk. I am Barista Lee trained.
She said. A lot of my comedy began to be fueled by how tired I was of hearing mail comics talk about the same things. Audience members that were women in comedy clubs sat for decades next to their husband while a man was stage ripping his wife ripping on women talking about how she belongs in the kitchen, and we laugh and laugh. Now there’s more of women on stage basically sharing our side of it. And they always say that we can’t take a joke.
We took a joke for decades It’s definitely a shift that’s happening in the comedy world now that is self producing. The benefit being that you own the material, they license it for two years and then you could take it elsewhere. The thing is, you have to fund it yourself. I’m just going to be shopping around my fine wares once it’s all colored and sound mixed. Then once I sell, I’ll be able to tell everybody where to find it.
Molly Shannon said she would host SNL again. Have asked, oh my gosh, yeah, of course I would. Yeah, I would say, yes, it’s funny, but I forget live variety. It’s exhilarating, but it’s also hard. It’s like five four three two go.
Sometimes when I think about that, I think, oh my god, you’d have to be kind of crazy. You know. It’s like a gymnastics routine or something. It just feels like high stakes the way it’s like a mountain climber would feel, or is some type of adrenaline junkie Rob Delaney told short All he has no interest in returning to Catastrophe. Would he ever make another season?
He said, I hope we don’t, only because people reboot everything now let it be we stopped doing it. We had done four series that we were proud of and we could smell it. We were getting in danger of repeating ourselves, and frankly, we said a lot about marriage and parenting in there. Maybe Sharon might have some ideas I don’t. I had scripted the Barrel and was like, that’s all I know.
Vir Das says, if you commit to the idea that you’re a global voice, which I have, it becomes a little more important just to do you rather than reverse engineer for an audience on an algorithm. Yeah. I hate those people though, Like put like Joe Rogan in their podcast title three four Days in her ow jerks, you just have to be like, this is who I am and this is what my life experiences are. Hopefully when you come to the show, I’m taking you somewhere that you’ve never been before the fact that it might possibly be alien to you goes from being a drawback to almost being your strength. By the way, if you’d like to hear his comedy, it is the leadoff clipping this week’s Weekly Comedy Thing.
The Weekly Comedy Thing is a show I host on the Live one app. The Live one app is free on it, I’d tell stories like this, perhaps even this exact story, and then play a clip by the comedian. It’s the weekly comedy thing on the Live one app. Ruda said, well, you have to realize this. With most comedians, we’re just telling jokes.
Right at the end of the day. Your experience will in print itself onto your material. Perhaps as you get older, you get more conscious about the world that you live in and politics becomes more important to you. When you’re twenty one, doesn’t matter who the president and Prime Minister is because you’ve got homework, brins and other stakes. But when you’re forty, it does matter.
So that’s when it makes itself into your material. And good news, everybody has stopped texting me. One way you can support the show becoming premium subscriber on Apple podcasts. Open up the Apple podcast app that’s the purple one that says podcasts, look for Daily Comedy News and they’ll be like, hey, you want to be a premium subscriber and you can go yeah, and then what happens is for five bucks a month. First month, it’s free if you want to test drive it see if you like it or not.
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Ken Jung is going to lead a new Fox single camp sitcom based on Dan Harris’s popular book and podcast, Ten Percent Happier. Ken Jung as a family man and mid level juice company executive who finds himself in a major life right after a panic attack at work. He has an epiphany where he realizes he needs to change everything about the way he lives in order to become ten percent Happier. You may know Ken Jung from Community Well. Vulture is taking a look at who is and who is not in a community movie.
Right who’s in? We know that Joel mcale is, Jeff Danny Pootys, Abed Alison Breeze, Annie Gillian Jacobs’s Britta, Jim Rash has the Dean, and Ken Jung Yes, he’ll be back as Ben Chang, you didn’t mention Troy. Isn’t Donald Glover in the movie? Dan Harmon is hinting There’s no reason to worry about that. Harmon told Variety back in November, Clover is down to clown man.
I would not want to think about making the movie without Donald. Last month, he told Variety Donald is coming based on word of mouth. He explained to the time the deal Jess might not be official enough to confirm that Donald is in. What about Shirley? No mention of Shirley event?
Nicole Brown? How come Shirley’s not in the movie? In a squeet, Joe mccale tags both Brown and Glover wrote, it’s happening. Congrats hashtag community fans, but that doesn’t mean anything. Plus, instead of tagging Gillian Jacobs, he tagged the X Files Jillian Anderson.
All right, what about John Oliver? Remember Professor Ian Duncan? Is he in it? A Reddit user claimed that they were at a taping of Last Week Tonight and asked Oliver about it, and John said he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to do it because he’s busy with Last Week Tonight, but he said his part it is so insignificant community that it isn’t important if he’s in it. He said he’d like to do the movie if it could pop in when he had a break from last week tonight.
Yeah, you only need him for like thirty seconds, right, make that happen. What about Jonathan Banks, he played buzz Hicky. What about Paget Brewster’s Frankie. What about Keith David’s Elroy. It is believed they’re not in it.
Patrick Brewster has been tweeting that she would love to be in it, but hadn’t been asked. Haven’t heard from Keith David and Jonathan Banks doesn’t seem like he’s on Twitter much. What about Chevy Chase’s Pierce Dan Horman said that might be out of my hands. That might be something I signed for with an insurance company. Shorto reviewed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
They wrote, It’s a Monday night in one of the comedy festivals less glamorous rooms, but Sam Gorleap burst out with a cheesy but cheery Hamilton parody song and sparks the venue in a life with his good natured energy. Feels like it’s going to be an entertaining honur, but those high hopes eb away longer he’s on stage. He’s got charisma, he’s got verb, he’s got an easy report of the audience. He’s got very little material. Wow, what a review.
This is great. That his delivery is so strong, it means that it takes a while to notice that he doesn’t have any material. He can make almost anything sound like a joke, the sturdy rhythms emphasized by his easy and affected laugh at his own content, But what he’s actually saying so often amounts to very little. He talks about him getting up the moment his alarm goes off, but his girlfriend needs several snoozes. How about midweek weddings are vain because you have to take days off, and doesn’t picking a streaming show to watch together take a long time?
Too often it feels like he’s just telling us stuff in a pleasingly cheering way, but overlooking the requirement to punch it up with gags or exaggeration. It’s a bit morning radio DJ. I hate those people. Some of those people podcast in their basement, jerks. There are some decent setups, especially self effacing routines from his childhood, including a bizarre birthday surprise from his mother arranged for him, and the entire and practical way his sister transformed their backyard for her wedding.
Once he’s established these scenarios, he finds himself with no place to go. Quite a few routines in with him chuckling, all right, we’ll just move on. Sounds like they didn’t like Sam Garlip’s Sam Sam but different. Sarah Schaeffer’s show is called Going Up. She puts all that she sees wrong with the comedy industry in a one pointed hour.
She presents comedy as a cross between a dodgy pyramid scheme and a scientology like sect that rewards devotion to unquestionable principles. Presented as a seminar, this is our introduction to the culture, as she outlines what the faithful must do to slowly advance up the ladder from open micer to legend like stadium filler, negotiating shifty characters and the random prejudices gatekeepers, all of whom she calls Jeff. Those in the know will already be aware of concepts such as Claptor, Yes, Claptor, when a stand up gets around, of applause of approval rather than laugh or be familiar with comics who deploy all manner of pseudo scientific excuses to blame the audience for their own failings. Whether those who are not comedy nerds would be interested in the new show This World is moot expanding this idea of two an hour. It is a stretch.
Rough reviews Today Sarah Scheffer going up. It’s at Melbourne Town Hall until April twenty third. No shows on Mondays. Let’s take a quick look at the festival. Katherine McClintock.
Shows called burst, hopes and dreams are like bubbles. Eventually they burst and they don’t pay the bills. Upside News called it sassy, filthy and very funny.
All right, let’s try and play a clip here.
Hopefully it’s not too filthy. You know, I got a podcast they try and keep clean. It was so bad that another mom gave me antihistamines to help her sleep like a child appropriate drug deal going round in zero sixty four. I was like, thank you, but have you called anything stronger for me? Dieza, pam, loreza, pam to mezzapam ketamine could really use a K hole right now?
Okay, some of these clips people pick are so weird. Let’s do what mel Bottle show is called. Let me know either way, this show was an ode to our modern heroes, like people who can say my left, you’re right, well, color me impressed. She rates. Let’s listen, hallo Melbourne.
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 whip Switch in Queensland, it’s a little bit of a it’s a bit puff 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 staffy cross Staffygos Kelpi Stafogos border coli and I Stafygos labette 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. He’s got a job to do. We also don’t have any oodles.
There’s no oodles. There’s no caboodles, there’s no moodles. Joodles labradoodles that don’t exist. We can’t afford those a that right, that’s this is the thing. I’ve got a bit of a beef with oodles.
You know what, you don’t say anymore? Just a plain old poodle, do you? They’re gone? You will not spot just a standard, plain, boring poodle. I reckon there was one male poodle left in Australia somewhere.
That was good. The next few jokes were about the one poodle left in Australia having sex with other dogs. Again, she used some salty language. I had a bail on the clip there, but that was pretty funny. That’s your comedy needs for today.
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