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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, on the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithms love. Colin Jost has postponed tonight’s show. He was supposed to be at the Del Lago Resort in Casino in Waterloo, New York. The show rescheduled for Friday, March twenty seventh.
Why would Colin Jost do such a thing that Del Lago said due to scheduling conflicts. But the conspiracy theory from Syracuse dot com is it because Colin Jost needs to recover from bob sledding. Did you see this the other day? Colin Jost appeared during NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. No, they didn’t send him to Italy.
They sent him to Lake Placid, New York. Jost was in the back of a bob sled with a driver, I assume a professional driver. Video showed Colin, you know, screaming and cursing throughout what he called the scariest experience of his life. He told Mike Tarrico, I was not prepared for the level of terror of this Bob’s Led. I swear to God, I thought I was going to die.
I thought my back was going to snap in half. I thought my bones were gonna fly off my body and be littered all up and down the Bob’s Led track. Hopefully Colin Jost is okay, and hopefully those pesky scheduling conflicts work out. Tom Sigory told Forbes. Because I do a lot of storytelling, sometimes you’ll see people go, oh, this is like a one hundred percent made of story, and it’s literally the opposite.
For me, every story that I tell in stand up is one hundred percent of real story. Sometimes you embellish a thing here or there. Well, yeah, so that’s not a one hundred percent a real story. It’s you know, a story based on the truth, and then you embellished it. Come on, Tom, there’s some kind of exaggeration, but nothing is made up.
So for me, the thing is, I always feel comfortable doing topics where people go, oh, of course a comedian is talking about this. As long as it’s from real life, it’s your real story. So that’s why I found that my Kid’s stuff. Even though I don’t think of myself as a comedian, does kid material has always resonated with fans are always like, I want to hear more about this two kids of yours, I think because the stories are just unique and there’s specific to those kids. Tom said.
At one point I was doing a podcast called Tom Talks, which was just one on one interviews. There’s probably I don’t know, ten or twelve episodes of it. That was my one on one long form interview podcast. The only reason I stopped doing it is I didn’t have the bandwidth to keep it up. There was too much going on.
You learn after doing this for so long that you have to start cutting things out, Like even now I’m in La were shooting the show. We’re in post production on the show. I can’t keep up with the other podcast obligations because something’s got to go. My favorite one to do is Tom Talks because there’s just guests I want to have these long term, long form conversations with. I had Dion Sanders On, I had one of the DEA agents that hunted down Pablo Escobar.
I had all these guests I was generally interested in talking too, and that was an incredible thing for me, was to do that and if I could, if I had a room to do something else, I’d do that podcast. As for Bad Thoughts season two, it’s all new stuff. I’m in the offices right now. I just left an edit Bay editing one sketch. I think it’s a definite leveling up of what the show is, which is great because season one was awesome, super outrageous stories in this season, but they’re different.
They’re totally different than season one, so there’s no repetitions of it. There’s no oh, we saw that. It’s all new, but it’s still in the ethos of the show to push things. It’s extreme versions of things, and I think the stories are better. It’s insane, but it’s a different version of insane than season one.
Looking forward to that a lot. Are you in Miami? You go see Pete Holmes tonight. I’ll give you the information a couple of minutes. Pete Holmes is fantastic live and I was thinking the one time I spent time with Pete Holmes was in Miami.
I don’t remember what we were doing. I feel like I was there for Comedy Central Radio. Comedy Central, Did you guys have a comedy festival in Miami? Is that why I was there? I feel like Hannibal Burst was there.
I definitely spent time with Pete, like a lot of time with Pete. Good guy, I digress. Pete’s tour is called Pete Here Now. The tour was originally branded PG thirteen. That was a move to reach a broader audience by pushing a semi clean set.
Pete realized that that label was boxing him in. He said, why am I asking people to grade the set? Just fly the plane. My intention is always to delight, never to shock or upset. Holiness comes from wholeness.
Pete’s got a podcast, You made It Weird. It’s a pretty good podcast if you’ve never checked that out, And he says he isn’t aspiring to be anyone’s guru the way he sees it, He’s just passing along what’s helped him in the hopes that it might be useful to others on their own journeys. Pete says, the best way to learn something is to teach it. I’m not a leader, I’m an enthusiast. Interesting here than Miami New Times writes.
On one hand, Pete will defend comics rights to work it out on stage and push into uncomfortable territory on the other hand, Pete is quick to point out that the microphone makes you the leader of the room, which comes with a degree of responsibility. Pete says he used to hear road comics close with something like don’t drink and drive, but hey, they can’t catch all of us. Pete says, that’s dangerous. You’re talking to drunk people deciding whether or not to drive home. You’ve just given them permission.
I wouldn’t make that joke for his own comedy. He’d rather tell a story about losing his temper or falling short as a dad than about doing the right thing. Pete told the Miami New Times, nobody wants to hear me brag about helping somebody. It’s way funnier and more helpful to hear me mess up, because when you laugh at me, you’re loosening some guilt in yourself too. When you’re laughing, you’re not stressed, you’re not worried, you’re not even you.
You’re gone. That’s one of the greatest experiences you can have. Pete Holmes Tonight Miami Improv tickets starting at thirty seven bucks Miami Improv dot com. If you’re local, you should go. He’s fantastic.
Oh no, I have a political story in the script today. This one can wait. I’m not gonna do it. That means I have to pull something up here because I wasn’t ready to go to break yet. I mean, I could just say we’ll be right back, but all right, let me pull something up that was in Monday’s script.
Alonzo Boden also a cool guy, previous guest on this program. He’s teaming up with jazz legend Christian McBride on a new special Comedy and All That Jazz Volume four. They’ll tape it in Montreal on March fifth. Comedy and All That Jazz Volume four blends stand up from Alonzo Boden with live jazz from Christian McBride. That’s fun.
As for filming in Montreal, Boden until deadline. I’ll always love Montreal. It’s where it all started for me. My career really started when I discovered at the New Phases of Comedy that Just for Last Festival. After that show, I gave up the day job.
But it’s been nothing but comedy since. Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival continues. Correspondent Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast is on scene. I sent Mike to go see Catherine Blandford. Here’s Mike, all right, here’s report number two just came out of that just for last Comedy Festival in Vancouver, BC.
Having seen Catherine Blandford, and my gosh, you want to talk about a fun show. She’s crazy in all the right ways, a hot mess that suddenly pulls out amazing vocabulary and isn’t a hot mess revealing that like it just such a good job blurring the line. I talked to her a little bit afterwards as well, very good at blurring the line to see it like there were thirty two people in the room, okay, And I mean it was a highlight of the night that there were only thirty two people in the room, because she kept going back to it and talking about it and integrating it with material that clearly, you know, isn’t spur of the moment. When I talked to her afterwards, I was like, how much of that was you screwing around on stage versus how much of it was material? And she blurred the line and that’s to me the mark of an amazing stand up.
And the other part that I loved was just how polished Her character is when I see, like, for example, the openers. I saw it tonight. You could tell their openers and it was a rhythm that was very It wasn’t unique because they’re you know, they’re openers. Right Watching Catherine, her uniqueness cannot be understated. And she’s fun and goofy and a little naughty and she has that born in Kentucky, raised in Georgia, now living in California, alchemy that just really connects well.
Well, it was a really good show. Enjoyed her a lot. I like Catherine a lot. I caught her at Montreal New Faces. Definitely keep an eye on her.
Learn her name. Now if you’re in a Vancouver tonight, Laura Romoso is at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. Now that’s the same room Letterman played. Am I unfamiliar with Laura Romoso? Is she secretly huge?
Show detail, sketch, comedy, sensation Laura Romoso, I’m not shading her. I’m just like, wait, Letterman played this room, so this must be a big room. Laura Romoso is back with a brand new hour featuring all your favorites German Mom, Kiara, Italian Dad and Moore. Laura Romoso is a German Italian comedian best known for her live sketch specials and viral impressions on social media. She has over three point five million social media followers.
Again, not familiar, but okay, that’s a big room. If I were in town, I would be curious to go see that. Other shows at seven, Sultan Kasas a lot of buzz on him, Cristella Alonzo at seven, Jesse Jetski Johnson is back at seven, They’re doing a nasty show with Tino Archie at eight, and a bunch of smaller shows. So if we were there, I would go find out about Laura Romoso. I’m curious, and then for a later show, what could we do later?
Oh, let’s just hang out with the Queen Elizabeth Theater and stay for Renee Vaka, who’s playing the show there. At nine thirty, Johnny Mack had a pre tape of the Weekend Tomorrow, we’re going to get into some Jay Leno stuff, and then Sunday is a Scrubs preview. So let’s take a look at the rest of Just for Last Vancouver Wow. Saturday Night, Right out of the Box, four o’clock an Evening with Phil Rosenthal of somebody feed Phil seven o’clock Otsco at Coska. So if you have been playing Comedy Survivor and you’re like, I don’t know who Otsko Okotsky is who I’ve never heard of her, why don’t you go to Vancouver and go check her out.
She’s very funny. Namish Patel also at seven. Brent, but he’s also at seven. I try to get him on the show. I guess he wasn’t available or didn’t want to do it.
I did want to talk to him. Well, he didn’t do a show, so I’m not going to see him. I’m going to go see Otsco at thirty is Jimbo’s clown town at Just for Last Vancouver. What’s catching my eye here is the image of someone dressed as Joan Rivers, and yes, my instinct was correct. Jimbo is a performance artist and designer most known for his drag persona Jimbo the Drag Clown, and to me, Jimbo resembles Joan Rivers.
Vladimir Kamanio is back at nine thirty. Second Otsco show at nine thirty, All right, don d I’m mad at Brent. But because he didn’t do the show, so namesh Pttel at seven, Otsco at nine thirties. Saturday Nights plan and let’s just finish it out with Sunday Michelle Butteo at the Vogue at seven Vladimir Kamanio again. They really want you to go see this guy at seven and Puff the Magic Improv Show at ten.
I think they’ll play there is Michelle and then Puff and that’ll put a rap on. Just for Last Vancouver, Just for Last Vancouver PR people, thanks for hooking me up with guests and hooking Mike up with the tickets. Appreciate you. It is Friday, in time for the Comedy stock Market. Here with the intro is Burt Reynolds.
Comedy stock Market. You know, I thought about this and I don’t really have anything. There was nothing to feel strong about, you know, I got I weigh in on Colbert. I guess it wasn’t anybody to really be mad at this week. So let’s just do two buys and we’ll both buy off the experience of Mike Chisholm from the Litterman podcast.
He liked both Red Richardson and Catherine Blanford in person. And part of the game here of Comedy stock Market is we try and scoop up where we see value. So if these are two lesser known names, let’s buy some stock in Catherine Blanford and buy some stock in Red Richardson. And that’s a pretty simple comedy stock market. On this Friday a couple specials coming out.
Daily show writer Matt Koff will have a special cat Man on Veeps March tenth. The Comedy Seller regular discusses divorce, middle age, and cats, and shares his thoughts on the world’s bias against men with cats. He says people love cats, but men with cats make people uncomfortable, including me. I’m a man with a cat, and I’m creeped out by myself. The special is a reprieve from Cough from his main subject of joke writing, which is the President of the United States.
Some other comics make cameos in the special, including Sean Stewart. Mat Coaff said he always dreamed of performing at The Seller. It took me years to get an audition there, and I was so bitter about not getting in. Sometimes I’d walk past the cellar and hiss at the club. Now I get to perform there and hiss at the audience when they don’t like a joke Catman Morch tenth On veeps.
Lon Medicine has Troy Walker’s debut comedy album. It is called Esquire. Troy Walker tackles racist magicians and porn plot lines, old school drink names and dating rules, and cultural shock in Paris. That’s called Esquire, and that’s out today. LN Medicine also announced a new hour of stand up from Jackiekation called Altercation I See What You Did There?
Altercation YouTube, February twenty fifth. That’s Wednesday. That’s Trivia and I and Scrubs Night. Can’t do all three. Trivia is at seven, Jackie is at seven, Scrubs is at eight.
Something’s gonna have to go. Most of you will just blow off trivia. The press release tells us Jackie kash is a favorite among peers like Patton Oswalt, the Star, trek Ruiner, Brian Reagan, and Maria Bamford, who regularly bring Jackie to open for them when she’s not headlining clubs at theaters herself for forty five weeks of the year. Jackie Kashan’s new hour, Altercation I See What You Did There, is chock full of great stories and rapid fire punchlines. Cashan said as an adult human woman in twenty twenty six, It’ll come as no surprise to anybody that I am entirely made of bees at this point, anger, frustration, all of it has been synthesized into this new hour of comedy that bars no holds and pulls no punches.
Altercation out February twenty fifth. That’s Wednesday, a YouTube premiere event at eight eastern. Jackie will be in the chat. Maybe you could jump in the chat and be like, hey, tell Paton and like stop with the dug the vulcan. And that is your comedy news for today.
Tomorrow is some Jay Leno stuff that it pretaped. Sunday is Scrubs preview Monday, normal episode Monday at noon Eastern, Comedy Survivor.
And then from there it’s up to the New Jersey District Court in Newark.
Do they want me to serve on a jury or not. Don’t worry, I’ll figure out some sort of podcast. I don’t miss a day. We’ll get this done. See tomorrow