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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Over the weekend, Dave Chappelle and the Roots performed at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. John Stewart Michael Chay also there. The Inquiry Rights The picnic arrived with an air of mystery, in part because no cell phones were allowed and thus there was no social media sharing of valuable jokes or controversial remarks.
Access was not provided to the media. The Inquirer paid its own way in if your ticket was on your phone, Stafford scribbled seating information on a post it note. The reporter did scribble down some notes and said Chappelle’s best observational joke was about how houses in Philadelphia are so close together you could open your window and reach into your neighbor’s refrigerator. Between the Roots set and Chappelle’s set, each one was an hour. John Stewart was announced.
John said Chappelle and the Roots were among the few things that could get him to drive his old ass down the turnpike. Stewart riffed on how decrepity is, including needing reading glasses to look at porn on his phone. He closed with an excellent routine about how it’s easier to buy an AR fifteen rifle than adopt a cat. The inquiry rights, all right, but what about Chappelle? Was he funny?
Was he offensive? They write? Chappelle certainly didn’t back away from his reputation as an equal opportunity offender. His button pushing jokes got big laughs. He even mocked his Filipino American wife’s appearance, while also depicting her as cutting him down a size.
Good observation here, they write, Chappelle remains a master of conversational comedy. He’s well prepared, but gives the impression of seriously thinking through his issues, such as how he feels about Will Smith versus Chris Rock or when he was attacked at the Hollywood Bowl and real time it feels genuine. Stewart seemed off kilder in comparison, But all right, fasten your seatbelled, I’ll read this next sentence verbatim. Anyone expecting Chappelle to double down was disappointed. It’s Pride month.
He said, I’m not going to talk about those people. He said he would make jokes about the disabled. A flurry about former North Carolina US Representative Madison Cawthorne followed, neither Chappelle nor Chay could resist bringing up former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Leats Thomas, a favorite subject of anti transactivists, but both comics came to the same conclude. An express by Chappelle let the b words swim nap Bergatzy’s going to be the pace car driver at the NASCAR Cup Series Ally four hundred and the Nashville Superspeedway on June twenty five. The GM of the track said, this summer, we’ll provide the most thrilling entertainment in Nashville.
There’s no better entertainer out there than Naburghatzy did take part in our remarkable event to bring fans from Middle Tennessee and across the country in the world together right here at Nashville Superspeedway. Joe Rogan had Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, and Ari Schaffier on his podcast. They talked for two and a half hours. One topic the bud light controversy. Rogan said they should hire a kid Rock to be the spokesman.
Gillis said, we talked about it last night. That would be the best. Ari Shaffier suggested thirty second kid Rock commercial Let Him Go Nuts. Shane Gillis said, keep drinking bud light. It’s what you enjoy.
I mean, come on, man, we’re all talking crap on phones that are made by sweatshops. It’s all nonsense, Rogan suggested, using internet meme character Peppe the Frog holding a bud light saying feels bad man. Rogan continued and said bud light should go full heel, using the wrestling term for bad guy. The folks over at cracked dot com caught Mike Ribiglia on the Working It Out Tour on Mike’s Working It Out podcast, for Biggs does a variation on the familiar comedian talking to comedian format. Rather than sharing anecdotes, he invites comics to work out comedy material in real time, and that’s the conceit of the Working It Out Tour.
A series of colorful note cards, each containing a word or three, served as prompts for the comedian and try out new jokes. He even dissected his success rate as he worked through the new bits. For example, the audience liked when Biggs described his days as a single man searching in vain for a partner who is interested in being naked. At the same time when he fell in love with his eventual wife, he had a break up with the old girlfriend, and he said to the audience, Oh, you were with me on the wandering around naked part, but I lost you when I had to tell the old girlfriend. Remember when I said, it’s not you, it’s me.
Actually it’s you, Crack says. In the hands of a less confident comic, the idea of trying out unfinished material might seem like a rip off, but for Biggs makes working it out an integral part of the show, explaining the process and then demonstrating how he shapes routine it’s final form. He ends the set with extended routines that are more evolved, sharing fully evolved comic stories guaranteed to kill. Even a magician intent on revealing where the rabbit is hiding in a hat knows he has to end with a bang. In this case, knowing how the trick was done just made it more satisfying.
There’s a Roast Battle League. I find this fascinating. Comedian and writer Pat Barker describes Roast Battle as one of those shows that always ends up entertaining, even if it doesn’t go well. Barker has competed in forty five Roast Battle contests, and over the weekend was representing Los Angeles in a Roast Battle League tournament against the best roasters from Tokyo. What this is it?
Saye? I love it. Last year local champion Page Wesley encountered Joe Urell, a battler with cerebral palsy. He’d quipped, Oh big surprise, Page hating on a vegetable. Wesley retorted, Joe’s birth mother had a drinking problem.
Well, I mean she was pretty good at it for like nine straight months. Wesley says, one of my favorite parts of roast battling is radical self acceptance. To get good at it, you need to be comfortable with the roastable things about yourself. Watching a good battle feels like admitting we’re all humans with flaws and being able to laugh at it makes us all feel better about being flawed. The Roast Battle League was launched last summer, with teams from La San Diego, New York, Chicago, Austin, London, and Tokyo.
In LA League, specific battles have found a monthly home at Culver City’s Jam in the Van three rounds plus overtimes, and it often ends in a draw. They’re even working on creating a hall of flame in every League location. There are three official rules one original material only, two no physical contact. Three exception of number two, which is every battle ends with a hug roast. Battle regular Alex Hooper once told Simon Camwell, thank you for fixing your British teeth.
Those things are so straight and white. They would just offered positions in Trump’s cabinet. Well, I’m gonna get out on the laft. There. That’s your comedy needs for today.
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