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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wirecutter caught up with Conan O’Brien about how he packs when he travels. I just found this fascinating. A conin opened up with a joke, telling Maria Adammant, who writes for Wirecutter, that he does travel with fake beard’s, fake mustaches and a weird don Keyxote costume.
Those are props that gets sent ahead. But more seriously, when Conan travels alone, it’s carry on or bust my kind of guy. Conan pro tips from Conan O’Brien underpack, bring versatile and comfortable, multipurpose clothes, stick to a singer color palette. Pretend you’re Steve Jobs. He suggests two pairs of jeans, one blue, one black, that takes care of ninety five percent of the situations you’d be in.
According to Conan, his favorite brand makes stretchy pants with a dash of krag. Conan says, you could do yog in these, but they look just like regular jeans and they’re incredibly comfortable. That’s a good tip. Conan was even wearing one during the interview. He pairs his jeans with a classic T like his favorite dark blue T shirt from sun Spell.
He explains it’s not a cheap T shirt, but they hold up pretty well over time and they don’t start to look ratty. They actually look kind of nice. Conan also brings a dark blue cashmere Brunello zip up hoodie, which he’s had for years and explains, I’ve noticed you can wear that with anything. It can go to almost any climate. You can just wear it.
You can wear that and be a chill, relaxed dude headed down to the gym, or you can wear it underneath an overcoat. You know, you look like Sting. On his way to the Grammys, Conan says, though you don’t need a luxury version, literally could get something similar at Banana Republic.
Also in the bag a versatile dark blue suit from State and Liberty.
He likes it because it’s made with a light stretching material and says he can attend a funeral, we’re under a jiu jitsu tournament, and neither way you’re set. He always travels with a good pair of black running sneakers. If you’re squinting, it kind of looks like a shoe. That’s my go too as well. I’m actually you hear that.
I’m wearing black sneakers that kind of look like a shoe right now. You know, if you’re wearing dark pants, it’s cone and no one’s really banging attention. You can also walk for like twenty miles. You can go to the gym if you’re crazy enough to go to the gym while traveling.
Also, you’re Conan O’Brien’s and nobody’s gonna be like, eh, I don’t know it …
You know, It’s not like he’s going for a job at the bank. He wears glycerin GCS twenties from Brooks. I have a pair of those, not in black. My black ones i’m wearing are Nikes, but my current running sneakers are Brooks. Wow, all right, Conan, get it done.
I like this next part about his toilet trees. He says, I always make sure the containers are approved by the Heathrow Airport website, but as even so, the bottles will still be thrown out in front of me by a delighted TSA employee from Manchester. I followed every single rule that he throw has, and they still hold it up in front of me like it’s rat feces and dispose of it. They then get into there’s a lot of Aaron wirecutter, if you want to read it. They get into which razor he brings.
He talks about adapters, has been here, done that. I always like to bring the wrong adapter for the country I’m going to. It’s the correct adapter for the country I previously went to. And that’s true every time, and I’m not even kidding. Don’t cover your passport, Conan said, I used to think it was cool to have a little cover for your passport.
Don’t do it. Everybody in every country treats it with disdain. They make you remove your passport for a little cover. They had the cover back to you like, here’s your affectation. He uses an air tag and his luggage.
It tells you that your luggage is in these zories, but no way helps the situation other than that. The air tag is just a way of laughing at you, mocking you. It’s like a kidnapper who says we have your relative and you’re never getting him back. You’ll find that in the New York Times wire Cutter, that’s pretty good. During a recent episode of the Town with Matthew Beloney, matt asked John Mulaney what cities he thought were best for playing stand up.
Mulaney said Dublin and then switched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was just great. I just walked around. My son was probably twelve months old. I was pushing him around the city and a stroller, and Everybody’s like, we’re coming to the show tonight, And then everybody was at the show.
It was that kind of town. Golderby dot com, you’re home for comedy News asked Eliza Selessinger. What’s some great comedy advice should pass on? She said, honestly none. I hear about comics have mentors when they start, but I never had that.
After take years, I thought I knew everything, but then you realize how much you don’t know. The biggest thing is that comedy, and really any career was a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep working, keep evolving, and be grateful for the chance to create a body of work over time. I want to look back and see my audience growing with me and not be a flash in the pan who in the comedy world inspired you, Eliza Selessener her answer, Adam Sandler was huge for me growing up. I always loved sketch comedy, which shaped my storytelling style.
Wasn’t until much later I realized how much that influenced me. Often on the weekends, I’ll do international stuff, and I’ve got a whole bunch of international for you here. And if none of that interests you, you are dismissed. I understand. I’ll see you tomorrow.
Mark Watson gets a lot of buzz. He was recently enjoying the Prague Fringe and spoke to English radio dot CZ, which normally would get tagged with your home for comedy news, but I already used that joke. He liked Prague. Two of my kids have been to Prague separately. They both loved it too.
Mark Watson said, there’s a kind of owe the architecture in the history and how relatively unspoiled it feels. There’s a real grandeur. Two I’ve been too, slightly similar central European cities like Vienna, and it even reminds you Munich. There’s certainly a joy for a British person with the space, with the big city squares, and also all the colors. It’s lovely to look out the window and feel so far from home.
It’s a very nice city. Mark’s show is called Before It Overtakes Us. What’s it about? He says, I suppose it’s a little bit ominous. The show’s inspired by a conversation I had with what was supposedly a customer service person but proved to be a chatbot in AI.
That was last year. The first time I’d ever been successfully condonent as you’re talking to a non human believing it was human. Made me think a little bit about the changing face of humanity faced by all this technology. I’m forty five. I’ve seen twenty years of relentless technological change.
For most of it I felt slightly behind the pace, but not in a way that’s too much of a problem. Now it does feel as if it’s getting away from me, and I can feel the next generation is starting to do things I don’t understand. Welcome to Old Man Mountain, Mark Watson. Interesting topic here performing in English, where that’s many people’s second language. Mark says, it’s a British person.
You get complacent about that. I’ve performed in the Netherlands and Denmark, and yesterday I had performed a late night’s show after my show and there were people on the bill from India, Russia, Romania, all them performing to each other in English. Were really spoiled. As anglophones, you can pretty much take it anywhere. Of course, in other countries, I can and would try to speak a little bit of German and Germany and French in France.
Now I’ve tried to do snatches in those languages. Here, I’ve had very little time to adapt to the local language, so I’m going to once again rely on any checks there to be fluent or fluent enough.
Meanwhile, an Australian disability campaigner has hit out at an English come…
Carmen is a Type one diabetic and was appalled when comedian Paul Foot went into a ten minute stretch on diabetes at his show at the Moth Club in East London about ten days ago. In the chunk, Foot quote made fun of people unquote who wear continuous glucose monitors. That’s a device that diabetics used to keep track of their blood glucose levels. He then apparently mimiced a diabetic having in an episode shaking on stage before were suggesting that the person in the sketch died after suffering a heart attack. Carman shared footage on TikTok where she could be heard booing and calling out the comedian.
She yelled out, that was a crap joke. I have Type one diabetes. That was extremely insensitive and misinformative. Foot shot back and said he didn’t think he was being insensitive, continued to set Carman yelled back, I don’t think it’s up to you to decide if it’s insensitive or not. I’ll remind everyone this was happening at a comedy show.
Foot said, due to the failure of you to grasp with that civil intellectual point, then went on to argue that comedy is subjective, and due to the failure of you to grasp that simple intellectual point, the show’s ending in an awkward way. Congratulations to Sean Patrick, who won the Not So New Comedian of the Year award. Kind of like this. This award is aimed at ax who’ve been doing it for a while but of yet to have a big break. Was previously known as the Old Comedian of the Year, but they switched that around Julia Rayside wrote an opinion piece that I found on MSN.
Julia is upset that the BBC’s new comedy lineup is full of white men and says we’ve gone back in time. Julia writes, the latest late of BBC comedy commissions announced recently features almost entirely programs by white men. A great white side of testosterone is set to wash over our screens. I had read to you some of these shows, how about a week ago. Remember Mackenzie Crooks in One and Michael Palin’s in one.
Julia Wrights. Women writers have been almost entirely sidelined. The one exception is Diane Morgan’s Android. They said, come about a humanoid robot design to keep the elderly company. But we’re back to the days of one woman on the bill.
A single female is on one side of the seesaw while the football team of white men weighs down the other end. The Christmas one off Stuffed Dust are the only non white man Guz Cohn, but it’s written by Andy Milligan, another white guy. And Crackt wrote about the biggest gatekeeper in comedy, which is a piece of computer code. Eli Youwdon writes, AI has already taken over comedy, but just from the booker’s office, Eli writes. At the current moment in AI has a massive influence over the world of stand up comedy.
It’s not writing material and it’s obviously not performing it. What it is controlling, and heavily is if you ever see the material. I’m not looking to really togate for the thousand times how Instagram is effected the quality of comedy. For Instagram to exist and for the comics well suited to get famous off it more power too than when I can’t stomach is success or failure on a singular platform being used to gatekeep the entire pursuit. What set me off was a post on Instagram by comedian Charles Gould.
The post was a bit resulting from a meeting with an agent where he was told in plane terms that until he had at least one hundred thousand followers, the door was closed. It irked me, especially because the job of agents and managers and maybe my childish mind is to find talent and then help that talent find an audience. That’s a good point, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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