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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. All right. I watched Amy Schumer’s special, and as I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, it was weird to me. It felt like a low energy workout.
If you’re not familiar with the comedy term workout, that’s when you go to a club and you try some new jokes. It felt like a club set. It didn’t feel big. It didn’t feel like a theater special, even though she’s in a theater. And I caught some grief on Facebook.
I kind of Cattley said, I’m sure the seven figure check means she doesn’t care that. I’m not loving it. It’s not bad, it’s just there. I had it on It’s like, okay, but it just did not feel like a big time special. I lasted twelve minutes and then she did a joke where she had a bottle of water and started spilling it.
That was during the part about the blind guy, and I was just kind of like. Travis is a friend of the pod and part of the Daily Comedy News podcast group. He wrote, I watched it. It wasn’t horrible, not a complete wasted time, but also nothing anyone needs to see. I think Travis nailed it just there.
So I said life is too short and I needed to do something else. What did I do? I watched Sarah Silverman’s special that’s on Max, the former HBO Max kind of enjoyed. It wasn’t amazing, but I hung out for an hour and Sarah was consistently entertaining while I also played on my phone. But she had me interested and laughing a few times, So that special’s not bad at all, which leads us to the updated twenty twenty three comedy rankings.
Haven’t done this in a while because I haven’t watched a special in a minute, all right. Currently, the funniest thing of twenty twenty three is Kunk on Earth. You’ll find out on Netflix. You should watch that. But aside from that, for stand up specials, here we go.
Number one Kyle Kinane, that’s on YouTube. Number two Naper Gatsi’s Hello World that’s on Amazon. Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl Doing This, Remember I think that’s on YouTube. Jim Jeffrey’s special on Amazon is number four. Hory Conobolus is really good.
That’s on YouTube. Chris Rock, Remember Chris Rock did a live special on Netflix. Is kind of a big deal. That’s number six, Number seven, the Roast of Mister Peanut. I know you’re like, what what kind of podcast is us?
Go on YouTube watch the full, like fifteen minute roast of mister Peanut. It’s pretty good. Big Jayogerson at number eight and a new entry on the list at number nine, Sarah Silverman not on the list, Amy Schumer’s a new special, John Malini’s special, Lewis Black, Hannah Gaspy, Mark Marin, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreisher, and Greg Warren. All Right, so I’m not just throwing anybody with a special on the list. Those are some heavy hitters who will not be on the best of lists.
I also have a category called it did not see Roseanne’s specialism that one. I’m not boycotting it. I just don’t have the Fox Nation service.
Speaking of Amy Schumer a few minutes ago, I didn’t plan this segway well eno…
Amy is not holding back when it comes to celebrities and diet trends. She was on Andy Cohen and they were wondering which celebrities have used oh zempic, that’s the type two diabetes drug for weight loss. Amy said, like a year ago, I tried it and said she was one of those people that felt so sick that she couldn’t play with her son. She telled any Cohen, everybody’s been lying saying, oh, smaller portions like shut the f up, youurono zempic and one of those things where you got work done. Just stop be real with these people.
When I got LiPo, I said, I got LiPo. I have a story for tomorrow’s podcast scheduled. Someone wrote an article under the headline why do people hate Amy Schumer? And as I was researching it, if you want a little tease of what I’m going to get into tomorrow, google Amy Schumer twenty fourteen Gloria Awards. I was quite surprised at what I found and tomorrow show is going to be a little on the PG side, So leave the kids at home.
Maria Bamford will have a new book out on September fifth. It’s called Sure I’ll Join Your Cult, A Memoir of mental illness and the Quest of belong Anywhere. The official description on the book website from Weird a scary and genius stand up comedian Maria Bamford a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid systems. From Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People to Suzuki Violent Training to Richard simmons twelve step Programs with sincerity and transparency. She recounts every anonymous fellowship she’s joined, including but not limited to, debtors, Anonymous, sex and Love Addicts, Anonymous and overeaters, Anonymous Sure I’ll join your cults.
September fifth, from Maria Bamford, Variety announced its annual list of ten comics to watch. These honorees will be celebrated at Just for Laughs in Montreal. Some of the past names Pat Oswaldamis Shumer, Tiffany Hatish, Taylor Thominson, Sam Jay Haas and Minhaj, Nate Brigatsy, Beat Davidson, Roywood Junior. Not too shabby, right, all right, here is the class of twenty twenty three, And if you listen to the podcast every day, a lot of these names are going to be known to you, which is neither here nor there. I just thought it was interesting as I went down a lot of years, I look at the list and I’m like, I don’t know who that is, but this time around, yeah, I’m pretty familiar with a bunch of them all right, in alphabetical order by last name.
Hannah Burner. Berner’s videos, including her viral Hannah on the Street segments, have a mass the nine hundred million views on TikTok Alone Curtis Kunner. He has a popular YouTube channel boasting over four million subscribers. He has filmed his first hour special in Toronto. Zarna Garg was the winner of Kevin Hart’s comedy competition Lift Comics.
Garg has a special out on Amazon called One at Avilion. Ian Lara currently developing a scripted comedy with Chelsea Handler’s production company. His HBO special Romantic Comedy is currently streaming on Max. Joan McNally is the co host of the podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me Leanne Morgan, Yet her name has been coming up a lot recently. Her Netflix special on every Woman premiered in April.
Nimish Petz Hill has written for Saturday Night Live. He self released his special Lucky Lefty, about being diagnosed with testicular cancer. Sarah Sherman seems too famous to me to be on this list. You know Sarah. She’s been on Saturday Night Live for two years.
Brian Simpson host of the podcast BS with Brian Simpson. He has appeared on Netflix’s The Stand Ups and Sabrina Woo. She was a writer on the Disney series Zugi Commahola. You know that’s the new version of Dougie Hawser. She will next be seen in the ensemble comedy joy Ride.
Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle spotted taking a stroll together in casual style. This from one of the British papers. They were out in Soho, with Dave Chappelle putting his bulging biceps on display and a black tank top. Chapelle also wore tan trousers and white sneakers.
Rock kept it simple in a plain black T shirt, black cargo pants and white Nike sneakers. Chappelle accessorized with sunglasses, necklace and silver bracelet and puffed on a cigarette while walking with his friend Chris Rock. If you like what I do here, you can buy me a coffee and buy me a cooffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News here’s one right now. Oh, I didn’t notice the National Donuts chain has put the word iced on their plastic cup. That’s new.
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And I will take it and I will shout you out on the show. So buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News from Newsleader dot com. The Rife Effect. How Blue Room Comedy Club has dealt with the Matt Rife mayhem. Lot of hype on Matt Rife right now He’s the It’s comic right now, Newsleader rights.
Like most small to midsize market, Springfield often attracts two types of touring entertainers, up and comers and fading stars. TikTok. Famous comedian Matt Rife is one of the anomalies. He just did four sold out shows at the Blue Room comedy Club that’s part of his one hundred and fifteen date world tour. Apparently, thousands of people are on a waiting list for a recently announced Washington, DC show by Matt Rife.
Wow Newsleader Rights. With just twenty four hours to prepare for the presale, fans from around the world flooded ticketmasters sites for tickets, creating pre sale pandemomium. Many compared to the announcement of Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour hype much are we putting Matt Rife up against Taylor Swift? Yeah? Okay.
The owner of the Blue Room, Chris Rochelle, said it’s sold out within twenty four hours of us announcing he was coming, announced Taylor Swift is coming. It will last twenty four hours. Chris said, it’s a cultural phenomenon. This kid is the faced voice of comedy right now. He’s cracked the code and figured out how to get popular.
Tickets to see Rife at the Blue Room was two hundred and sea Club one for forty bucks. Richie said some fans were willing to pay up to five hundred if he would do anything to come up with a ticket, he declined. Rochelle said multiple people have claimed to have been ripped off by ticket sellers claiming to have rife tickets. One woman said she spent three hundred dollars on a scam. Rochelle said Blue Room doesn’t use outside ticket vendors.
Someone’s trying to sell you a ticket, don’t buy it, all right. This next story I sat on for a few days because I had other things to talk about earlier in the week, and I had it scheduled for today, and then I see an update. Let me tell you the original one. This is from The New York Times a few days back. At the Comedy Seller Manhattan this spring, stand up comedian Joscelyn Chia performed a routine that Sheet included in her sets from more than a year about the historical animosity between Singapore and its neighbor Malaysia.
But when shea and the club posted a clip from her April seventh sets to TikTok and Instagram with some backlash. The eighty nine second video showed the comedian bantering with an audience member who vounces here that he’s Malaysian, and it concluded with Chia making light of the twenty four disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight three seventy two, thirty nine people on board. Angry Malaysians flooded the comments sections on Chia’s social media accounts. The comedy seller received four thousand one star reviews on Google almost overnight. TikTok removed a clip of the joke from Che’s account, flagging at his hateful behavior.
Even Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs weighed in, condemning Chia and apologizing for her horrendous comments in a tweet, noting she certainly does not speak for Singaporeans. In this Time’s article, Chia said, I’m in no way canceled in America in any sense of the word. Now people want to come see me. Let’s dive in on the materials, an extended bit. Apparently some history here that I’m under educated on.
In nineteen sixty five, the city state was expelled from Malaysia. She had jokes. But then forty years later we became a first World country, and you guys in Malaysia, what are you now? Still a developing country? Aw She then likens the nineteen sixty five scenario to a breakup.
She imagines Malaysia trying to woosing a poor back and explaining that hasn’t visited recently because my airplanes cannot fly. Then she added to laughter, what Malaysian Airlines going missing? Not funny. Following the backlash, she removed the clip at the comedy seller’s request. Hmm, that’s interesting.
Comedy seller then reposted it’s to TikTok without the club’s logo. That’s when TikTok removed it. She said, I don’t want the haters to think they’d won and got me to back down. Audience as the comedy sellers see the best comedians and they love it, so how can I be embarrassed by it? Fast forward to Wednesday from the Guardian, Malaysian police we’ll seek Interpol’s help to track down a US based comedian who mocked the country and joked about the missing Asia Airlines flight MH three seventy.
Don’t skim over that. Malaysian police will seek Interpol’s help. What Jocelyn Chia will be investigated under the country’s laws relating to insulting speech and defensive or obscene online content. The police chief was quoted as saying the police would ask Interpol for assistance in finding out her full identity and whereabouts. The BBC adds that Interpol can issue a red notice, you know, like the Netflix movie, asking law enforcement in member countries to locate and provisionally arrest those who are facing either criminal prosecution or a jail term before they’re extradited.
You’re curious. Malaysia and the US have an extradition treaty. Wow. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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