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The Shark Deck Easy One again. Today, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Before I tell you about Chappelle’s fiftieth birthday, I just recorded Saturday’s episode. I’ve been sitting on an article. The av Club did the thirty best stand up specials of all time, and I just went through it cold without pre reading it.
I didn’t react when I’ll do it at all. You’ll hear that on Saturday. I’d be curious as to what your list is. The front half of the list. I was like, yeah, good, pick, good, quick, good pick.
And then I got to about two thousand and five and I was like what. Dave Chappelle celebrated his fiftieth birthday several ways. Friday night at the Comedy Seller. He had a private party in the Comedy Seller Dozen Clothes of For Too Many People. Guests included Angela Bassett, John Hamm, Chance, The Rapper, t I, Justin, Timberlake, Chris Rock, Andrew Scheltz, Michelle wolf A, Zeazon Surrey, Donnell Rawlings, and Jeff Ross Wow.
Then on Saturday night, Chappelle played Madison Square Garden once again. During the week, various guests included Chris Rock, John Stewart as He’s and Sorry Nas, Ludacris, Travis Scott, and Burna Boy. Saturday included John Mayer, Busta Rhimes, Common, Ti, and Pete Davidson.
Also hitting the stage.
Michael Chay, Ronny Chieng, Michelle Wolf, Jeff Ross, Mike Tyson was in the audience. Chapelle also honored the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop, so Common, Ti and Buster Rhymes performed their well known hits. Davis on the It’s a Celebration Bitches tour, which will visit Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Nashville, Chicago, and Kansas City. Steve Harvey apparently fired the social media team they did some social media that didn’t go over so well. Steve Harvey’s account tweeted name a comedian you don’t find funny at all.
Steve says he’s got official social media people handling his accounts. He insists it wasn’t him who posted it. He lamented the tweet as mean spirit and downright negative. A screenshot of the deleted tweet shows it was viewed at least a million times. Steve says the explanation he got from his handlers was they were just trying to get some engagement, but he adds they’re going to be needing some new employment.
Now. Good thing I didn’t see it, because if he had tweeted the name of comedian you don’t find funny at all, I might have responded with somebody totally unrelated to that, Adam Sandler, I’m mugging for the camera, even though it’s an audio only podcast. Adam Sandler acknowledge deep passing of Bob Barker in his social media post. Adam Sandler wrote, the man the myth, the best. Such a sweet, funny guy to hang out with.
Love talking to him, love laughing with him, loved him kicking the crap out of me. He’ll be missed by everybody I know. Heartbreaking day. Loved to Bob always in his family. Thanks for all you gave us.
Rob Schneider chimed in, writing one of the nicest things I ever heard in the show business was Bob Barker saying I moved to Hollywood to be an actor, and the only person whoever let me do it was Adam Sandler. Drew Carey wrote very sad day for the Prices Right family and animal lovers all over the world. There hasn’t been a day on the set that I didn’t think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever. If you’re vaguely my age, anybody vaguely my age, The price is Right was the thing you watched when you were at home from school back in the days of five channels.
So if you were I don’t know, between thirty five and sixty, you probably watched a lot of Bob Barker. Michelle Wolfs special It’s Great to Be Here, coming out on September twelve. She has self finance produced it and licensed it herself, like a lot of comedians are doing. Michelle said, I want to do something different than a traditional special and make something on my own terms. It’s hard to convince the industry to give you money to do something new, so I made it on my own hopes I’ll be able to sell it.
I shot eight episodes and we ended up with five of them combined into three sounds complicated. Don’t think about it, just watch. I’m hoping people like this short, digestible format. If so, I have three episodes in the vault and more ready to tape. I’d like to develop more stand up series, hopefully I’ll get a chance.
We’re seeing stand ups make their own specials more and more funny people might not be getting a chance. Y’re giving themselves a chance, and good for them and comedy and you who watch comedy. I think doing these episodes is a fun way to frame stand up an hour it can be really great, but sometimes you have fifteen minutes that feels like it stands by itself, and I think it should be able to live like that without trying to horsehoe it into a format that doesn’t serve the material for the sake of a format that’s ready or arbitrary to begin. If I can do an hour, and I appreciate an hour, but why not try something new. Maria Bamford has a book out.
It’s called Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult. She spoke to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Before they got to the book, they asked her, Hey, it’s stayed fair time in Minnesota. Any tips for fairgoers? Maria said, don’t work as a costume character.
I auditioned to be Getney the Minnesota Pickle. I got a call back, and I have to tell you the pickles from prior seasons had tales to tell. It’s one hundred and twenty five degrees in that pickle costume, and because now you seem like an object, people will chase you. It’s dangerous. You got to run back to your Kia Rio and hope they lose interest in chasing you in your costume because you can’t take it off and lose the mystery.
As for the book, who was the ideal reader? Maria Bamford said, I think it was me. I hoped it would be funny. I tried to make a self laugh and sometimes I lost my own interest in the writing of the book. Hopefully you can’t tell what those sports are.
It’s very quiet when you’re a tip tip typing by yourself. It’s no fun. I really like a live crowds. I had to get some needs met by having friends listen to me read it out loud to see what worked. He had a cash I provided created a power struggle where they felt uncomfortable if they didn’t laugh.
Fear makes people laugh. It turns out sure, I’ll join your cult. By Maria Bamford, two eighty eight, pages twenty eight ninety nine. If you’re in Denver tonight, the States is reuniting at the Paramount Theater. It’s the start of their four date breaking Hearts and Dippin’ Balls tour.
It’s tonight and then three shows in October New York. That’s kind of a weird tour. It celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the MTV series debut. Eight members the original eleven person group are back. David Wayne said in the nineties it was harder to get together.
We were waiting for Zoom to be popular. Thomas Lennon talked about how tight the group is and said, in my life, I’ve been in the emergency room three times, and twice I was taken or carried by Ken Marino. Marino asked, wait, who is the other person that took you the hospital. Lennon said, it’s my wife, Ken, my wife. Over the weekend, Tiffany Hannis jumped on the TV and did the weather.
She was on Katla doing the weather and now again this is from a few days ago. Please don’t take this to be an actual weather forecast. It’s just Johnny Mack recapping a story. Tiffany addas in the valleys the wine will be blowing strong, so take your wig down and hunker down because it’ll fly off. The coastal areas will experience very moderate temperatures.
It’s looking to be a beautiful, beautiful week. Make sure your air conditioner is on point, you have ice water near you, and stay hydrated. It’s gonna get hot, but it’ll cool down at night. You know, California, it’s called at night. As for the desert forecast, well tomorrow.
On the rest of the week, it’s going to go up, y’all. But get ready because on Friday it’s going to be one of those summerines where it’s gonna be hot, but it’s also going to rain at the same time, so you can wear a two piece in the rain. Kathy Griffin showed off her dramatically swollen lips. What happened? She got them tattued during a cosmetic procedure called blushing.
She posted on YouTube, I’m eft, look at me. Her friend asked if Griffin’s lips were real. Griffin’s husband let out an audible sword when he saw the aftermath of the procedure. Kathy said, it’s a little swollen. From the CBC.
I love this one. A Quebec bar added a woman after being called out for all male comedy lineup, but turns out she doesn’t exist. Montreal comedians Emma A. Sure and Courtly Lapierre have an Instagram account which is called no Girls in the Lineup and they call out gender inequality in Quebec comedy. But Sure said we did it as an answer to us being told that we exaggerate when we say it’s a problem.
Guys, let’s try to book more women and people are like, nah, it doesn’t happen. So we started this page to be like, here are the receipts. So they started calling out bars, one of them lay tro Qua. In Gatineau, Quebec. They have a comedy not every Thursday, often spotlighting only male performers.
So in June let tro Q started promoting a comic name not Sonya Balanger, who started showing up in the lineup every week. But it turns out she doesn’t exist and was created by AI. So the Instagram page No Girls in the Lineup called them out again. It said it’s crazy how much effort goes into just not booking a female comedian. Hats off to you, really slow clap.
The guy who runs the club said that page often mentioned us painted us as misogynists, as if we were making any effort. So, in response of their joke of associating us with this type of management, we responded with the joke of creating this comedian from scratch. Every week they promote Sonia Blanger and then her performance is canceled at the start of every show, and most of our clients hell knows it’s a running joke. I can see both sides of this. I get the point of no girls in the lineup, but I also think the fake comedian being canceled every week just to mess with them back is sort of funny.
Maybe I’m just a jerk. Hey, that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Book comedians of all genders will you, but having a fake comedian the lineup is kind of funny. See you tomorrow.