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The Shark Deck Johnny mack with your Daily Comedy News. Scott Ackerman. You know him. He’s the host of Comedy Bang Bang. He told The Wall Street Journal.
I always truly thought podcasting is the future of the comedy industry. Podcasting can be transformative in terms of an audience discovering your work. It’s all very surprising that it’s worked out financially. That was never the point. He’s out pushing Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast of the book, a coffee table book with introductions and forwards by Linmannuel, Miranda weird Al, and Patton Oswalt.
Nearly forty comedians, including Andy Sandberg and Paul F. Tompkins, have bits in the book. One of the topics simple exercises you can do at home with machetes. Joe Rogan was on Instagram. He showed off the latest addition to his comedy club.
It’s a coffee table with a three D an a conduct carved into it. Sure why not? In the caption, Rogan said, one of the coolest things about the Internet is being able to discover amazing artists. Scott Dao created this insane coffee table for us for the Comedy Mothership. Green room.
I effing love it. The laugh button caught up with Big Jay Okerson the topic writing his latest special, and he said, Quarantine happened.
And then what happened was I never really write any jokes down.
I never watched myself or film it or anything. But I worked so much that I always have it ready to go and how it goes. I didn’t even think about how those three months of nothing, no stand up would affect that. So when I came back, I kind of had to learn it all over again, which was its own interesting process.
And then the temperature of everything changed.
Quarantine me two stuff and Black Lives Matter happened, and essentially Netflix and all those companies were like, oh, an unknown, straight white guy, good luck with that. The door wasn’t really open anymore, at least anytime soon. So I got dejected by that, and I thought, damn, nobody wants to do this at all. Then Ari Shaffier suggests that I do it myself. I was going to do it in Philly at the TLA, but they priced me out.
It was too expensive. It would have added almost six figures on the special cost already, which is all mine. So then I was dejected and thinking, oh, I can’t even do it in Philly the way I want to do it. Then David Tell suggested doing it at Skankfest. One of the interesting things is we did it in the afternoon.
It was two shows in the afternoon. We shot versus the night time for a lot of reasons, scheduling and all kinds of things like that. If I was doing it it just for laughs or moontower or something like that, I don’t know if we would feel the same festival energy from our festival because it was just diehards. All right, Big Jay Okerson, what’s the reaction so far about your special? And he says, you know what’s funny anything else I’ve ever done, whether it’s Comedy Central and Netflix or somewhere else.
Your only feedback of how many people are seeing it’s through a loose idea of how many Instagram followers should pick up and comments from people you already have. You kind of get a gauge that it’s doing well or people are watching it for a while. YouTube is interesting because it tells you every single person that watches it it’s doing well. Right now, over half a million and a day and a half. I think that’s a good trajectory.
Yeah, man, congrats, Jay said, I’ve done all the press I can to support it. I’ve had a big hand in editing it and all that stuff. It was so difficult to keep watching and enjoying and hoping it’s good. So it’s great now that it’s out there and you see the good feedback, because at the time I was done, I was like, this thing is a piece of stuff because I had seen it seven thousand times. Next week, Carol Burnett turns ninety.
We’re gonna start seeing a lot of Carol Burnett press. Related to that, Bill Hayder told a story. So before I tell you the story, Bill Hayter is motivated to promote Barry season four. Carol Burnett, who’s turning ninety, is motivated to promote the Carol Burnett’s special on I think it’s on NBC next week. So when I read this story and it happens to come out now, I’m like, uh huh, yep, right, yup, uh huh.
Right. As the story goes, Carol Burnett was on that PBS show Finding Your Roots, and Bill Hayter said, Carol Burnett emailed me. She emailed me and said, hey, we’re related, and I went what And Johnny Max said, wow. Carol Burnett, who’s promoting a new special, is related to Bill Hayter, who’s promoting season fourth Barry. That’s weird.
Bill Hayter said, I tell my kids, I’m like, we’re related to miss Hannigan. They were like, ah. Hayter said, We’ve been texting and emailing and stuff, so that’s been really exciting. I hope I can like have dinner with her. Pete Davidson also making the rounds.
He’s got a new sitcom, so suddenly he’s answering big good questions. You can listen to yesterday’s episode for that answer. Vulture says buck Gis seems like Pete Davidson’s version of a Zach Braff movie, a little artsy, a lot self reflective, people shouting at the heavens, crying, hugging, and sticking their heads out of a sunroof. The trailer opens with Pete David’s saying I googled myself and scrolling through some real, not so nice things that have been said on the Internet about him. He tries to get wisdom from older people he respects, like Joe Peshi and Bobby kind of alley.
He gets roasted by other older people he respects David tell says Davidson, I’ve got a weekend update for you. You suck. A girl in a card tells him you run away from people who love you and rain falls outside. Pete said he picked up up guests because it’s Yiddish for goose egg zilchnada, and he says the word looks cool like on a T shirt. Bup giests will be out on Peacock May fourth.
The cast Pete Davidson, Edi Falco plays his mom. Joe Peshi plays his dad. Guest stars include Charlie Day, Chase Sweet Wonders, Simon rex Keenan Thompson and Ray Romano and Brad Garrett. Going to be talking about them a lot in the upcoming days. The Guardian caught up with Ben Schwartz.
He started out as a dog’s body at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, paying with his labor for access to the work of Amy Pollard and company. I am unfamiliar with the term dog’s body. Apparently it is a British term for a person news given boring menial tasks to do. That makes sense Originally, in the British Royal Navy, a dog’s body was a semi sarcastic colloquialism for a junior officer or a midshipman. Ben Schwartz told The Guardian, since the beginning, I’m always like, I’m gonna find a way to do this.
I tried everything. I freelanced writing for David Letterman, I freelanced for SNL, I did commercials, I tried stand up. I tried everything, hoping something would stick and I could be in the industry I loved. At age twenty nine, he got Parks and Wreck, but that did not break his bond with improv. He says, anytime you tell people I do improv, their only reference is their friends class shows at college, and my class shows were horrific.
I didn’t know what I was doing. So I think people’s perception is based on watching performers starting out who haven’t put the hours in. They have nothing to point to, like a special from anybody, to say, look, how good this could be. Fortune Feamster talked to al dot com al As in Alabama. No, it’s not my friend Alic’s website, it’s an Alabama news site.
Fortune says, I’m in that weird exact space between millennial and gen x. I don’t even know what the word is. I feel like everything has a word. I’m not like a full gen xer, and I’m definitely not a full millennial. So we have a little bit to draw from.
In her youth, she was a misfit Southern tomboy. She came out as a lesbian at age twenty five. She said, be quite a few years before I realized I was gay, which is bunkers because I’ve had this haircut since I was five years old. My hair knew I was gay. I didn’t.
She’s got an upcoming project with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who did you think I was gonna say? It’s called foo Bar. That’ll be on Netflix May twenty fifth. It’s an eight episode TV series.
Fortune plays a CIA agent that’s unexpected, And hey, Bill Lawrence, why don’t you reboot Scrubs? Come on, man, let’s do it. Haven’t you come close to rebooting Scrubs? Bill Lawrence said, yeah, bunch, here’s the thing. Everybody on that show was killing it today.
Now send him out. Isn’t that true? Because JD and Turk are doing a podcast the podcast does well and they’re in like one commercial with John Travolta. Are they killing it? What’s Sarah Chawk up to?
We’re not making any Rick and Mortis anytime soon. Judy Rais did three seasons on Devious Maids. Neil Flynn the Janitor, Well, he’s probably got crazy sitcom money now, but I’m sure he would do it. He likes to work, and you would need doctor cox on see McGinley. What’s McGinley up to?
While I’m googling him? And his biggest credit is Scrubs, so he hasn’t done too much since twenty ten. Bill Lawrence, I respectfully disagree they’re not killing it. I think they’ll take your call. Bill said, here’s the thing.
Everybody on the show’s killing it well discussed, so I think we’d all have to have the excuse to spend time with each other. But no one’s in dire need of work, and we see each other anyway. If we ever come up without idea that would be fun to revisit, we’ll do it just for the hang of it. But I reached a point on that show and maybe I stayed too long. But by the sixty year, the writers would be like, what should doctor Cox’s rerunt be?
And I’m like, why does he have to be mad every week? Who cares what he’s mad at? My God? So nostalgically it’d be fun to revisit. The idea of doing it as a series is a bit of a bummer to me.
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Today, of course, is Wednesday at Nashville, Dusty Slay’s Grand Old Comedy Show Zany’s six o’clock. I would absolutely be there for Dusty though, because it’s six thirty. It’s the Zany’s fortieth Anniversary Comedy All Stars, but that’s at the Rheman. So all the all Stars went over to the Rheman and you’ll left Dusty Slay there. I would go see Dusty Slay.
Who’s on the All Stars? John? I don’t know. The website won’t tell me. Seven o’clock Gigli Squad with Hannah Burner and Paige Desorbos at the War Memorial Auditorium, Leanne Morgan, seven thirty at the Opery House, Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly Zany’s nine fifteen.
All right, that’s pretty easy. We go to Zany’s, we see Dusty Slay, we grab a beer or whatever, and we just stay at Zeni’s and see Big Jay and Bobby Kelly. All right, that works.
Meanwhile on a Wednesday night in Austin.
Six o’clock show, The Creek and the Cave is called Cheers Queer as Brandy Davis, Guy Brenham, Ashley Gavin, Molly Kearney, Alex English, Lias A. Trigger and some others. That sounds fun. Seven o’clock at the Stateside Theater, Maria Bamford, seven o’clock at the Paramount, Howie Mandel, seven o’clock stores in Bars at Antonesd’ll say Sloane, Adam Ray, Jeremiah Watkins, Tone Bell, Brad Williams and some others. That’s a good show.
Moontower has kicked in big time. Huh. Parker Jazz Club seven o’clock to Hill Liist, Mike Veckione, Molly Kearney again, Devin Walker, John Rudnitsky. He’s really funny. Remember he was on Saturday Night Live for about eight minutes.
But he’s funny. Home Base at the home Base at seven thirty, bunch in they don’t recognize. Let’s skip down a bunch Stateside Theater, nine thirty. Brad Williams. Yeah, all right.
If we were in Austin tonight, I would say we’d do hm. I feel like you could see Bamford all the time. Let’s do how he meant Deel at seven, Brad Williams at nine thirty has that sound. And let’s see what’s going on at Melbourne. Jeff Green’s show is called Back to My Roots.
The Herald’s son says, one of the greats of pure laugh out loud comedy.
All right, let’s listen.
Lovely to be in the beautiful city of Melbourne with the trams and your bipolar weather, because I love the anonymies are anomalies of Australia, because austral is a dichotomy. Yeah. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds impressive when you say it. Australia is a dichotomy. What do you mean, I’m leaving now, No tell us what you mean.
Because your lovely, warm hearted, kind people. Then you get into your cars you become fire breathing, psychopathic maniacs. I’m terrified driving in Australia. My friend says, in Germany they drive as fast as they want on the Autobahn. We should have that in Australia, said no, no, I shouldn’t.
You see the Germans drive very expensive cars with robotic precision. That’s how it works in Australia. You descended from manglows and celts, with a few Asians and Mediterraneans thrown in the consequences which the roads are a cauldron of chaos. No bad, right, solid enough, nothing remarkable there, but that’s fun. Alex Ward’s show is called Saving for a jet Pack.
The description no children, no house, no problems. The age, said Wards, trajectory is spiraling vertically. That’s a fascinating description. Okay, alex Ward, what do you got for us? I was walking down the street the other day and this lady passed me.
She was wearing a rainbow badge and on it it said Ally. I had two thoughts. The first was well, that’s nice, But then I had a second, way louder thought, which was, Wold, she really wants everyone to know she’s not the gay one, because if she wanted to be supportive, she could have just had the rainbow and said she’s made sure she’s got the one that says Ally, So she could be like, yeah, good on him, but not me. I’m not one of them, friend of no, but I’m part of the queer community. We need the support, so please get a badge, get one, although I’ve never seen that badge for sale, Like, I think she made that batch and you’re going to have to make one too.
Just buy the rainbow one and get a marker and you can just ride on it ally or something else more fun. That means the same thing like no homo will also work. All right? So was that the funniest minute you’ve ever heard? No?
I loved her though. I was totally in on that story, and I want to watch the rest of the clip. I was really entertained. So that’s eight. I’m a bit of a comedy snab here, and this is when you get into the people who come out and just knock down pins within five seconds with something a little shocking.
I found her to be a good storyteller. It’s Alex Ward. I’m very interested there. That was I’d like that first minute a lot. That’s your comedy news for today.
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