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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Thom Segura spoke with a Rolling Stone and they were like, hey, one of your first jobs was logging transcripts for reality shows. How bad was that? So Goura said, horrible. It’s such a mind numbing thing to do, and you would see would break people.
The logging of reality show is such an important part of the show because those moments and conversations are a lot of times very manufactured. No way you have to log everything that is said, so they could do Franken bites where they cut lines together and make them appear to be one sentence. Wow. I worked on My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss and Trading Spouses, and there was this thing that when Viral called God Warrior, and I remember hearing that from one of the edit bays, it exploded. It was very hard to stomach logging reality shows.
I really hated doing it. Golf dot Com spoke to George Lopez and asked him to complete the sentence and a headshead match between George Lopez and his good friend Lee Trevino. George Lopez would Lopez’s answer was remove the clubs from Lee’s golf bag and appropriate them as my own. To the loser, go the spoils, right. I take Louis Trevino’s stuff all the time.
He has a wood that says super mechs on it, and he saw me looking at it like it was a new car, and he said, I’ll get you one, baby, all right. George Lopez, what’s your go to golf joke? And he said, an old guy’s on the thirteen tea And on a nearby street, a funeral procession is going by, black limousine line of cars flowers the old thing, and the golfer takes off his hat and puts it over his heart, and the guys in his group are like, wow, that’s really respectful, and he goes, hey. We were married for fifty five years. Jay Farrell was asked to name his top comics.
He said Easy number one, Eddie Murphy number two, Robin Harris, number three, Bernie Meck four, Chris Rock, five, Dave Chappelle, A bad Ball of Them, Richard Pryor, The Rob Report. And spoke to Gabriel Iglesias about his Volkswagon collection. Gabe said, my first bus was a nineteen sixty eight Bay Window. I was seventeen years old and was my first car. You’re always attached to the memories of your first car, whatever it is.
That’s where it started. My brother was the one that got me into it. The engine was so simple. I remember my brother always saying, it’s just four bolts. It’s just four bolts.
I could take that out with a skateboard and a pair of plyers. His first time behind the wheel was terrifying. It was a nineteen sixty eight Volkswagon. The amount of play in the wheel, I tell people, was like sailing a boat. As for the buses, I started this collection ten years ago when I got the building and had the space for it.
I’d gotten my girlfriend at the time, her first car through Jay Leno’s guys. He’s got an incredible team over there. I then asked them if they could help me. Now, granted, I wish I could actually track down the car I had when I was seventeen, but they got me something to look just like it. They said, if you want anything else, let us know, and I said, if you guys come across anything else, cool, let me know.
We played that game for many years until this building was filled up. The collection grew so fast I did the bulk of the damage in the first five years. What’s his Holy Grail bus. I’d like to get my hands on a nineteen fifty Volkswagon bus, which is the first year they came out. There are a few people that have some, but I’m not willing to pay what they want.
I do have some cars and the works that aren’t necessarily buses. I have a Carmengia being worked on right now, a thing, a fastback, and a bug. There are about ten cars that are currently being restored. As for the collection, I don’t get to dry them all as much as i’d like to. I’m always working.
I’m on the road forty six weeks of the year. So what I do? You get to take them out? It’s pretty cool. Some fun facts from sports Kidia the headline she and Gillis’s high school and college football career.
All right, fun facts, You’re ready. Gillis played offensive tackle for Trinity High School in camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He got scholarship offers from institutions that wanted him to join their football programs. As the sports Kidia. Initially, he enrolled in the US Military Academy, but didn’t complete his first year before quitting.
His next stop was at Elon University, where he played college football, but not for long. Then he went to Westchester University, where he eventually graduated. Then he moved to Spain, where he taught English started performing comedy in twenty twelve. Nimesh Pateel told High Times, my first writing job was with the Oscars and Chris Rock, being in that writer’s room with about twenty people, and I was relatively new in comedy. He was intimidating, but I learned from that experience that there was no need to be timid.
You’re in the room for a reason, so to throw a bunch of stuff out and see what happens. I had a similar approach when I was at SNL as for how it impacted my writing on stage, that it’s a numbers game. Just keep throwing stuff out there, and even if I bombed in front of Chris Rock and other funny people, bombing in front of non comedians shouldn’t bother me as much. It’s about being comfortable with throwing things out there and experimenting. Working with Chris Rock, I remember we were working on a joke about acting being brave, and that was during the Oscars when there were no black nominees.
I pitched a joke about acting not being brave and instead said, drinking a glass of water in Flint, Michigan is brave. Considering the water crisis. Chris tweaked it to say drinking a glass of kool aid in Flint, Michigan, and it hit even harder. Came up to me afterward and emphasized the importance of speciicivity. The lesson stuck with me, and I tried to apply it to my writing whenever possible.
The more specific you can be with a reference that people still get, the better it’s going to be. That’s a great note. I don’t know if you know this. Chris Rock pretty good at comedy, Jeff fox Worthy said for my whole career because I’m not mean spirited. I just wrote with the idea of making people laugh because I always do Why do women do this and men do that?
When I started getting email from people, well I’m a woman and I don’t do that, and I’m man, I don’t do that, I was like, all right, I’ll change it to I do this and my wife does that. And it just got kind of the point where I was like, what are you doing when a comic has to edit yourself all the time. A comic supposed to be a truth tailer. We’re supposed to look at things we do in society and kind of hold it up to people and go, why do we say this or why do we do that? Just kind of reach a point where I’m not out to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I don’t care.
I’m just gonna try and be funny and not worry about it. Comedian John Ozele dresses his characters for his driver’s license. Recently, when he went to update his license, he decided that instead of combing his hair and wearing a nice shirt, he’d show up at the DMV dressed as an eighties punk rocker, something he is not. He said, my family has a tradition of being officially documented by the government as characters because the government doesn’t know we’re not those people. My dad started this tradition of the seventies.
He showed his brother his most recent ID picture, which shows a man with a bushy beard, long unkempt hair, and wild eyes that is not his normal look. JOHNA is unrecognizable and nearly every photo have been taking on a new looking persona in each one. In one, he has a chin strap in cornrows and has ranged his face in a menacing glare, and another he has spiked hair and a fum man chew mustache, and third he wears a mullet and a tank top. Nature comedy He’s for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube where you get your shows.
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