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The Shark Deck. Happy Chris Rock Day. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see this? The US Energy Department released a report that said the COVID vandemic might have been started by a Chinese lab leak.
Jimmy Fallon said, America’s heard, and we’re like, hey, thanks for that, three years too late information any Game of Thrones spoilers. Valin again, Yeah, they think COVID started a lab, but said they only have low confidence in the report. Low confidence, which is just one notch above. We have no freaking idea. Hasan minhas Josting the Daily Show give him the job already said, how can you conclude something with low confidence?
That’s not a conclusion. I think the word you’re looking for is guess, Fallon, I mean low confidence. That’s like me saying I think I could bench three thousand pounds, but I have low confidence. Tonight ten eastern the Big Chris Rock Special. Join me on Facebook.
I’ll be hanging out in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll start that at around nine thirty. We can watch the pregame show together. We can comment about Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer and everybody else. And you can say stuff and I could say stuff.
I’m also going to drop a bonus episode of the podcast just covering the Chris Rock stuff. I don’t know when that’ll come out, sometime between like tonight and midday Monday. I’ve got a lot of soccer on Sunday, so I’m not sure where I’m gonna be able to bang it out. And I can’t bang it out too early because I want to collect some reactions and stuff. So we’ll see how it goes.
But there’s a bonus episode coming about Chris Rock Netflix as a pregame show at nine thirty. Seinfeld and Schumer and a bunch of others are going to be on that, then Chris Rock at ten East, and then a postgame show with David Spade and Dana Carvey and guests like Kareema dul Jabbar, JB. Smooth and our Senil Hall. How this all works At nine twenty Eastern, if you pop on Netflix, you’ll see a red watch Live button, so that’s a new thing, right, and then you can enter the waiting room before the pre show starts. If you’re late to the show, you can hit a play from the beginning button or watch Live.
The special will be available to rewatch on Netflix once the stream concludes, but the pre and postgame shows will not, so if you want to watch those live nine thirty tonight. According to the Huffington Post, Chris Rock has been working out of the Comedy Cellar. He also had done a recent show in Baltimore working out this material. I’m going to talk about the specific material. So if you don’t want me poisoning your brain with a the jokes b the jokes told poorly by me, you might want to skip ahead a few minutes.
I’ll give you a second here. At the recent show in Baltimore, Rock worked the Will Smith’s stuff in. He teased it early on. Using rhythm and repetition. It builds comic impact, pitching his voice high and loud to underscore his indignation.
Then the line that I talked about yesterday, Will Smith practices selective outrage. People who are in the know know that stuff had nothing to do with me. At another point, he took issue with the children’s nursery rhyme, sticks and stones, joking words only hurt if you’ve never been punched in the face. Vanity Fair has recounted everything Chris Rock has said about the slap so far on stage, So these are major spoilers if you want to skip ahead. Last April, at a show in Atlantic City, Chris Rock joke he had an interesting week and choked that Atlantic City is too close to Philly, referencing Will Smith’s hometown.
On April eighth, he was in California and said, life is good. I got my hearing back. I’m okay. I have a whole show to perform, and I’m not talking about that until I get paid. May third, Chris Rock opened for Dave Chappelle at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival in La.
Remember somebody jumped up on the stage and attack Dave Chappelle. Chris Rock choked, was that Will Smith? Two nights later, Dave and Chris discussed the attacks. Chappelle joked, at least you got smacked by somewhat of repute. I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.
July twenty nine, Will Smith releases a six minute long YouTube apology video. In the video, Will Smith says, I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable, and I’m here whenever you’re ready. To talk. That same day, Chris Rock played the Fox Theater and said, everybody’s trying to be an effing victim.
If everybody claims to be victim, then nobody will hear the real victims. August twenty eight in Phoenix, This is great job by Vanity Fair. Huh. Chris Rock jokes that hosting the Oscars would be like returning to the seam of a crime, like OJ asking Nicole Brown Simpson and go back to the restaurants. Rock adds he’s bigger than me.
The state of Nevada would not sanction a fight between me and Will Smith. September first, in the UK, Chris Rock jokes that Will Smith is as ugly as the rest of us and tells co HEADLINERD Dave Chappelle that he got slapped over the nicest joke I ever told. November tenth, they announced the live Netflix special March first, Chris Rock said, the other day I watched Emancipatient just so I could watch him getting whipped nine thirty tonight, come hang out on Facebook Daily Comedy News podcast group Marlon Wayans as a news special. This came out yesterday. He did a lengthy interview with the Holly Reporter, and this does come back to Chris Rock and Will Smith here in a second.
This special fully financed and produced by Marlon Wayans himself. The Hollywood Reporter asked him, when did you decide the special was going to be about the slap and did HBO Max have any questions? Marland said, I’d seen the slap when it happened. I swear I watched it like everybody else, and I called Chris Will see everybody’s a friends like, texted Will and I was like, are you okay? Chris?
I was like, where’s your face? I was doing a show in Oxnard that weekend and I talked about it on stage with the improv. I had five minutes of thoughts, and I like to speak truth on stage and see where it goes. So I did that and by the end of the week I had fifteen minutes. I kept exploring the truth and it became like a rub excupe to me.
I got one side, that’s the Chris Rock side. I got what’s my experience with Jada, and then what’s my experience with Will? What’s my experience in the industry, what’s my experience as a black person, what do white people feel. Before I knew it, I had an hour of material. I was actually doing a set about my mom and dealing with the grief of losing my mother.
I was like, sorry, Ma, I’m gonna put you on a side for a second. I need to explore this. I did Netflix as a joke in April. I had all this material, an hour and a half, and then this set all blended, but it was bifurcated, so I decided to separate the tube. Before I knew it, I had an hour in this Chris Will and Jada thing.
Normally he tour for a year or two. I tour this for three months. This is really really interesting, right Like, as I’m reading this, I’m like, oh, I want to watch this special tonight, except I’m not home this week and I have a lot of soccer. Plus I don’t know if I mentioned it as a Chris Rock special to watch. I wrote it on stage.
I never put a pen to the things I experienced the set. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing stand up so much of the past ten to twelve years. It’s allowed me to have the freedom to create in front of people. Before I knew and I had this beautiful piece. It felt good, Audiences gave me standing ovations.
Women loved it. It was just such an honest perspective and didn’t come from a mean place. It came from like a healing place, not just for myself but for the involved and for the people who watched it. I failed it in August in Atlanta because I did a show there and I loved it. It’s a great room.
Then I cut it together and presented it to HBO Max and they did something they never do, which is they loved it so much they licensed it. Marlon Wayams was asked did he reach out to Will Smith or Chris Rock. No, because in their art they don’t ask me, what do you think of this? I think as artist, we all do what we do, especially because it’s such a sensitive subject. I didn’t want their opinions.
I just hope they gauge and trust that I love them, that I’m being objective and being honest and being real. And the purpose of this is more healing than it is deconstruction. I did this in Atlanta on purpose, because black women will tell you when you went too far, they will they’ll go, don’t do that. And this one got a standing ovation. They loved it.
The Holly Reporter said, Chris rock style is more cutting than yours, which we see in the special, can at times offer grace to your subjects. How do you feel about more targeted comedy having been on the end of it yourself with Chris Rock, I love it. I think there’s a purpose for doing cutting comedy. I’m a cutting artist. They say mockery is the best form of flattery, and that’s the way we Wayane’s Clan look at it.
Anybody we’ve ever made fun of, for the most part, even in this sensitive time, usually laughs the loudest. Chris Rock is a brilliant comedian. When it comes to looking at the point of view of what’s funny about people, he’s always been. He gives them the truth about what’s funny, even when it’s at as black folks. Chris is I won’t say a mentor.
He never took me under the wing, but he’s somebody that I always looked to in comedy. He’s a brilliant comedian. He can’t take that from him. No slap could slap the greatness out of him. He’s just a brilliant mind and a brilliant comedian.
He’s always been like a big brother because I kind of grew up around him. He and my brother Sean used to do stand up comedy together Keen and Ivory Wayans. But Chris and the movies we know each other. I know his brothers, I know his family. So that’s why for this special I had to talk about it.
I can’t worry about what everybody’s thinking, what everybody feels. I have to talk about it because nobody else is. I have to come from an honest place as a brother. I felt bad for Chris’s brother Tony when this happened. I know me and my brothers would have been waiting outside the oscars ready to jump Will.
But at the same time, I can imagine what Will felt like. So I just felt like in this moment, all I could do is speak truth and hope everybody could see it themselves. But most of all, I saw myself as an artist come together over thirty year period to be like, this is why everything happens to you, Holly Reporter said. In the special, you tackle every perspective or question offered about the incident, except for one major one, which was Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. Why his answer.
That’s a condition, and that’s something I won’t say I’m making fun of. Nobody knew she had it. Jade’s a very stylistic person. She’s fashioned forward. I don’t think Chris saw the episode of Red Table Talk where she talked about it, So I think Chris is just kind of commenting off the top, and I think they were dealing with a condition of it, and Will was being protective.
I just felt it would weigh down the special. That needs its own ten minutes. I think that’s a separate piece and that takes investigation. It’s not what I knew, and I don’t want to be insensitive to anybody who’s going through that. I think that would have just convoluted the message.
So I left it out and I just explored what was funny from place we can digest. That’s a special onto itself. Hollywood Reporter, you spend some time talking about Smith’s relationship to white Hollywood, as well as the different to quorum dynamics among races. How much did you want to say about how whiteness ultimately shaped that slap moment Wayan’s I just want to talk about the truth of everything. Will talks about it in his book.
I’m not uncovering anything. I’m just saying it out loud. Hollywood’s a funny place because it’s like a bank, you get chosen to like a horse, be bet on. It’s different in some ways for comedians. We have to prove ourselves in theaters.
We have to be a proven commodity where stars they find out like eighteen nineteen twenty and they go, we’re gonna ride this horse. Except for somebody like Eddie Murphy was just that big of a star that he could rock for forty years. Even Will, he’s an international box office name. He’s a phenom we’ve never seen as black people. But he talks about that and there’s a lot of precedents to go with that.
So it’s just uncovering the truth from a comedic perspective, not a dramatic perspective. If you look at a guy like Will, I gotta say I’m proud of him up until that moment. What that man is dealt with being the biggest star in the world time in, time out, approven commodity worldwide. They’ll tell you have no value. In Japan, you put yourself on a plane, you go to hand to sell your movies and people are going crazy and you’re proving them wrong.
Will has always been that guy. He’s been a prime example of what it is, not just for me as a black man in Hollywood, but to erase the racism that sometimes comes with Hollywood’s eyes, to say, now, you’re not gonna label me. I love Will, I love Jada, I love Chris. I say that in my special. I’m not coming as an enemy.
I’m coming as a friend with love going Here’s what’s funny about them. I would have sold the jokes to them Oscars night. I was going around, I’d talked to Trevor. Now, I’d talked to Tyler Perry. We’re all sitting there talking.
Everybody’s talking about this. I’m not just a guy to whisper it. I got some jokes. I’m going to say them out loud. Boy.
As long as I went there, there’s still half the article left, So I think I’ll come back to this next week. This really makes me want to watch Marlon Wayans, doesn’t it. Maybe that’ll pair up nicely with Chris Rock Or is that too much? Maybe you would just watch Chris Rock tonight. Maybe do Marlin to Morrow night?
Really looking forward to this. I mean this is a major comedy event. The bar for Chris Rock tonight is so high, Like people have been waiting a year for this thing. Plus it’s live, plus that Netflix added on the pre and postgame hype. I mean this is a major comedy event.
The bar is super high for Chris Rock. Of all the comedians I’ve ever seen live in person, Jerry Seinfeld’s the best, Chris Rock the second best, and they are one and two and very very very very high on my list. So I’m not saying like Jerry’s way better than Chris. I’m just saying I saw back to back at Chris Rock and then Jerry Seinfeld, and Jerry was better than Chris Rock. When I last left you, I was reading US Magazines twenty five things you don’t know about Jim Gaffigan, as provided by Jim Gaffigan on yesterday’s podcast.
I did the first eleven. Don’t you want to learn more things about Jim Gaffigan. Of course you do. Number twelve. The most famous person in Jim Gaffigan’s phone book is Jerry Seinfeld.
I like how he said phone book and not phone My answer is Stephen van z Aunt. By the way number thirteen, His first job grocery stores, stock boy number fourteen, Favorite room his bedroom fifteen, favorite comfort food, Having too much of Anything. Sixteen starstruck moment the first time I appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, and I felt like I was meeting Mark Twain. Proudest moment of my career. Same thing, Letterman, all right, that’s kind of one thing, Jim, that’s not two things.
Eighteen Favorite movie? Forced Mazure? What is that? Forced Majure appears to be a twenty fourteen movie. A young Swedish family, mom, dad, two grade school age kids begin their skiing vacation and a French alpine resort and typical holiday high spirits.
The first day on the slopes, they paused to have their pictures taken by a tourist photographer. Then on the second day, something extraordinary happens. They’re having lunch at the resort’s rooftop restaurant when they hear a loud report from the mountain above them. Snow begins to topple down. It’s a controlled avalanche, a common thing in ski resorts, but this one quickly comes to seem excessive spoilers, but everybody’s okay, and then there seemed to be some twists and turns, and I’ll have to ruin the movie for you, and it’s really about an avalanche of emotions.
Interesting pick, Jim Gaffagan. Next up, I watched Fleischman Is in Trouble and I loved it. That was amazing. I agree, Jim gaff again. Twenty The comedians I looked up to the most when I was growing up were Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and Bill Murray.
Twenty one. The famous face I’m mistaken most for it is Philip Seymour Hoffman. We all know this, Jim. You bring it up in every interview. That’s not something we didn’t know.
We know twenty two. During the summer, I like to decompress by working in my garden. Twenty three. I would never ever do karaoke, no matter how drunk I am, I’d never do that. Twenty four.
The most challenging thing about being a dad of five is everything. Twenty five. My alternate profession would be a farmer. Twenty six. If I ever get really famous, I’ll return the calls of people that helped me in the early two thousands when I was just starting.
Oh no, sorry, that’s not on the list at all. You know, as if today is not a big enough day in comedy, you know what else is happening today? Adam Sandler. He’s going to be honored at the two twenty three Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. He is winning the King of Comedy Award.
Yes, great job kids. And how old are these kids? Say they’re like seven or eight. I’m sure they love Adam Sandler. They’re so familiar with him.
I’m sure Adam Sandler’s prolific career of more than thirty years will be recognized with a silver blimp statue. He’ll accept the honor while sitting in a giant thrown on the stage. Sandler said, I’ve had so many great times at this fantastic awards extravaganza. I’ll always be excited to hang with duck hiddies. So if you need something to do before Rock, you can watch Adam Sandler and the Kid’s Choice Awards.
It’ll be on Nickelodeon and a bunch of other channels starting at seven Eastern. That should walk you right up to the Chris Rock pregame show. Huh. Adam Sandler, the King of comedy. I feel like what I do here?
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I’ve been playing the what should we go see tonight game a day in advance to take advantage of time zones, or to not to disadvantage ourselves of time zones. In case you’re listening in London, you’re like, ah, I wish i’d known this couple hours earlier. Jenny mc right, you got a day in advance. Relax, Well, I would tell you no doubt. We’re going to see this first show at one o’clock and again at three o’clock.
There’s probably two groups new faces If you’ve listened for a long time, you know that I go up to Montreal just to see new faces. Katherine Bohart is your host tonight one o’clock. Should I read the names? No, they’re new faces. You don’t know any of these people.
One two, three, four, five six seven at one o’clock one two, three, four, five, six seven eight at the three o’clock showcase. If we were in London, I’m making you go to both too bad, which means at two o’clock you’re going to miss Basil Brush’s family fun show. This seems to be are you a fox? I don’t know what this is. It looks like a fox wearing a green jacket, joined Basil and mister Martin as it bring you a show full of magic and laughter, storytelling and jokes.
I can hear somebody in the UK right now going, how do you not know what Basil Brush is? It’s and yelling that it’s a coyote or whatever it is. I don’t know what it is. Should I look it up? Basil Brush is a fictional red fox.
See I had it right the first time. It’s not a coyote. Best known for his appearances on Daytime British children’s television. Are there coyotes in the UK? I’m gonna google that too.
We want to know. We know the answer is going to be no, but we got to be sure, right. Basil Brush is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but he’s also depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips. He’s got a catchphrase, ha ha ha boom boom are their coyotes in the UK. There are no coyotes in the British Isles.
There are no wild coyotes in Britain, or indeed anywhere outside of North and Central America. There’s a lot of searchers for this and the next one. Do Britain’s hunt coyotes? Are coyotes a menace in Britain? The answer no, there are no wild coyotes in Britain, were indeed anywhere outside of North and Central America?
All right? Relax? Google Basil Brushes Family Fund shows at two o’clock. At four olock Comic Relief The Truth and Everything Except the Truth. Richard Curtis, co founder of Red Nosed Days, joined by Comic Relief stars as they reveal comic Relief, The Truth and everything except the Truth.
An afternoon of comedy, memories and mishaps. Five o’clock Felicity Awards, The Mother Effing Trilogy. Felicity Award is back with a mother of a show in twenty nineteen. Felicity, like many other people, add a baby, then she run almost three hours of stand up about it. This is it.
I’m intrigued, but three hours that’s long. Six o’clock Comic Relief, Proud every Day with your glorious host Sue Perkins. Eight o’clock Max and Ivan’s the Wrestling. I’ve talked about this on and off. I want to see this professional comedians versus professional wrestlers.
The wrestling is a death defying Edinburgh Comedy Award winning sellout Mega show, the Grandest, most outragious blah blah blah bla blah okay. Calling the action at ringside will be the team of Ashling b Nish Kumar and Greg Jeames. As for the matches, Rosie Daddy Jones will be defending her championship belt, ed the Gambler Gamble will be teaming up with pro wrestler Levi Muir against creators Max and Ivan, and the main event will feature the Raging Horn, Alex Horne, Phil Phil Wang Wang love It, Glenn Moore aka Glenn Morgue and their ringfluencer Abby Clark. Tremendous fun. All right, this is pretty easy for a wonderful Sunday.
We’re doing new faces, more new faces than We’re getting dinner and some beverages and then we’re doing the wrestling and that’ll close out just for laughs. London boy, wish we were actually there. Huh. All right, we got Chris Rock tonight. Hang out with me on Facebook and like I said, I’ll drop a bonus episode at some point.
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