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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart did accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday nightem sourcing here from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Hollywood Reporter, Dave Chappelle gave a heartfelt tribute. Kevin Hart followed that up with can I pe? Then he waddled off stage.
He then reappeared to accept the bust of Mark Twain from David Rubinstein, the retiring chairman of the Kennedy Center. Chappelle said, I played arenas with Chris Rock, and I would never play an arena before I saw you Kevin Hart do it. You made me dream bigger, and you’re younger than me. It’s humiliating. Jerry Seinfeld said, the triumph of tonight is we found something Kevin Hart doesn’t already have, the Mark Twain Award.
Chris Rock said his favorite Kevin Hart movie was The Upside, because Kevin Hart had to act like he had less money than Brian Cranston. The Washington Post says the Knight’s standout performer and the recipients of a rare standing ovation is how they phrased it was Kevin Hart’s mentor, Keith Robinson, who has had two strokes. Keith joked, mine year’s resolution, no more strokes. Chris Rock calls me Strokey Robinson. He’s an a hole man.
There were other standing ovations. Rubinstein got one when he announced his retirement and one for Eddie Murphy who was announced as a surprize guest, but it was a misdirect Nick Cannon walked out instead. The audience sat back down. Kevin Hart said, I didn’t start doing what I was doing to get awards. I just fell in love with the idea of comedy.
On the red carpet, Nicky Glazer was there and said he’s just inspirational. He’s one of the most naturally talented people I’ve met. But he also loves himself, which is not something he could say about every successful comic. JB. Smooth said, Honestly, when he was first starting out, he was a pest, but he was always picking up pieces from he or there, always learning from people and never afraid to learn.
Chris Rock joked about Kevin Hart’s first marriage by complimenting his appearance in saying, Kevin Hart has got that second wife happiness. Other comedians who have received the Lifetime Achievement Award include Richard George Carlin, woop Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, and Dave Chappelle. Bill Cosby got it in two thousand and nine, was taken back in twenty nineteen. Google Bill Cosby’s sexual assault if you’d like more information there. The ceremony will be broadcast on Netflix on May eleventh.
Gonna be honest. As I put this together, I kept thinking about that article I read to you on Friday about I feel like this is when somebody makes the Sports Hall of Fame because they played twenty seven seasons and had twenty seven okay seasons but never really had that great season. I feel like that’s what we’re doing here. Jimmy Fallon. So I was looking for clips, and there don’t seem to be any available yeats, which is interesting.
Usually that kind of thing leaks out. The one clip that did come out is Jimmy Fallon dressed in a country music artist’s outfit, black with a cowboy hat, picture like a Garth Brooks kind of outfit, and he sang a song, Well, here’s the song we all love this famous kaleva even though oh he’s too live. He’s the balls in in in room. But from behind he looks like you sail. You can’t stop this fun and fail and the movie’s the best sail he can weather in his storm.
Just grab a cocktail, Umbrell. Yeah, we gotta get the cred. He’s great at earning bread.
And then after a long day of work he takes doggy stairs to bathe.
Jimmy Fillon, Okay, that’s just two verses. I have a feeling that was a long three minutes. I don’t know about that. Jimmy, Rid Krascher and Samsagora. They’re having a five K.
They had joked about that in the past. It is now official. They will tell you about. It’s light eded here for a naughty word, guys. It is now officially ready to roll the Two Bears five It is happening and you can register right now if you go to two Bears five K dot com.
It’s going down May seventh. We have a lot of friends coming, a lot of celebrities, Jelly Roll, Shane Gillis, Tim Dillon, Mark Norman, Cam Haynes, Michelle Wolf. I’m forgetting names. That’s Stobby’s gonna be there. They’re all gonna be there.
They’re going to be at the Netflix at the Joke Festival. They’ll probably be at our five k a big race and then a party. We’ve got a DJ go register right now. Two bears five k dot com. David Tail as a special ad on Netflix today.
That’s awesome. It’s called Hot Cross Buns. Not a lot of press for it yet, although he went on Joe Rogan’s It’s not alone. The special will get watched. We learned that David Til has a flip phone.
Here’s Joe Rogan. It’s the best listen. Is about the great sound when I’m doing it? Like, mor how long does this take for you to accomplish this? I’m done?
So you don’t have an iPhone at all anymore? Have one too, but that’s me off the grid? Yeah, so what do you use that one for? Like? Who do you text on that?
Now? This one’s just like for all my texting, the other ones for emails? Wait a mins is not on one? You text on that? Yeah?
So when I text you, you text me on that? I do? Can’t you feel it? Olds like ten spaces in between words that I’m sending you a text right now, that’s what happens. That is so insane.
This is good. Did you get it yet? I did? No? Okay, I didn’t get to make the sound your name isn’t They always make sounds every time you text a button.
It makes a sound that doesn’t drive. It really annoys people too. Yeah, so it takes come in four presses to get an s Still you’re doing that thing. Yeah. It doesn’t even have emojis on it, like any emoji is Like he still uses emoticons like a colon in a parentheses sometimes for smiley faith.
Well, are you guys done with this tech beatdown? Like I’m a tech arder. Come out of the house, buddy, Come on, we love you, Big Dave. For Comedy Tonight is the Patrise O’Neill benefit in New York City, Bill Burr said after Patrise died, Comedy Central was going to do a benefit. My agent goes, do you want to do it?
And I was like, yeah, absolutely. The the day he was getting closer and closer, I was living in LA and I’m like, hey man, I got to get my flight. What’s going on with the benefit. He goes it went away, and I was like, what do you mean it went away? What went away?
For this guy? What went away? He said Basically, they couldn’t get enough comedians to commit to doing it for the venue they had, so I Bill Burr was like, well, there’s no way we’re not having a benefit. So we kind of kicked the ball. I think because they wanted to film it or something.
There were people trying to protect their material for specials. But it was bad. It was bad. I was talking to Jim Norton, so we decided to do it on our own. It was a huge success.
We raised money for his mom and everything. Something I’ve always hated is when somebody dies, there’s like one night for them, and then they raise money and you give it to their loved ones. It’s like, all right, glade with the rest of your life. Patrice was taking care of his mother and she would have been you know, she was retired, Like what was she going to do. It’s like one of those things in this country where we should stop yelling about politicians.
We should just show them what we want them to be doing, which is we should be taking care of each other, especially a mom. Losa’s son. I can’t even imagine the pain. That’s the only thing she’d have to deal with is or grief. She shouldn’t be thinking about how am I gonna make rent and pay my own health ashirt something like that.
So we started doing it every year. It’s a great thing. It’s a nice way to have a little reunion with a bunch of comedians that I used to see all the time when I was coming up, and for younger comics has become a thing like people really consider it on or be asked. It’s one of my favorite things they do in this business. On the line of Tonight, Bill burd Ridge, Foss, Bonnie McFarland, Sean Patt and Michael Jay, Robert Powell the Third, Tim Dillon, Siphu Sounds, Morcelo Hernandez.
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The Melbourne Comedy Festival continues This is when I have to do mental math. Okay, I’m recording on Monday, you’re listening on Tuesday, but Melbourne is eighteen hours ahead? Is it eighteen Let’s say it’s twelve oh five in my basement and it’s three oh five on Tuesday already in Melbourne, so that’s what fifteen hours? So if somebody’s listening in Melbourne, they want to go down the block to the festival. It’s Wednesday, So let me tell you who’s playing on Wednesday.
Riley Nottingham kneedsre help. At five thirty pm today, here’s a clip how you recall out chats for training and quality. You may just be you, but I know you pumped out to me.
And now I’m in love with a chat bot.
I fell in love with a chat bot. It’s lack old times because I’m here in line. I’m obsessed with you getting in this cue. I love how you built the ten shine the right time. It gives me an action and just ends there toasting.
Aussie theater says. With songs that would make Bo Burnham proud and a delightful mix of absurdity, it’s impossible not to fall in love with him. I think It’s possible. Okay, TikTok Musical Comedy Sensation of UK Musical Comedy Awards finalist Richard Lindsay brings you his musical comedy show. Always been a player.
Let’s listen. My name is Richard and this is what my shows alike. Join Richard for this fun night of variety, which includes a mixture of stand up comedy, Richard’s aristal songs, fun audience interaction. We heard that, and guest characters are all look suspiciously like Richard, seems like it’s fun. All right, let me set up this next one.
I listen to the clip and I was like, I got to tell everybody what this is. Right. The Big Banana is a tourist attraction an amusement park in the city of Coffs Harbor in Australia. The grounds of the park are set amongst a banana plantation featuring a large walkthrough banana. All right, so we got the joke here.
The Big Banana is fifteen meters long. The slogan for the park is It’s a whole bunch of fun. But they worked on that for a while, didn’t they. This guy’s name Akmal. The show is called Red Flags in the suburb of Cairo where me and my brothers and my family lived in his twenty story apartment block of units right, a lot of them in Cairo, pretty close to the heart of Cairo.
This is not a word of a lie. If you got on the roof of this building where we lived when we were children, you could see the Pyramids and the Sphinx clearly on any day. Let’s be honest to God truth. Right. So when we came to Australia and my parents took us to see the Big Banana and Cops Harbor and was, oh, no, it was just different because my parents’ fault, because they built it up too much.
They didn’t know what it was. Then let’s take the case to say that Biga and like they got only three hours driving till we get to a big banana and they got yeah, did he get together? There’s not even that big a big banana. It should be called the adequate banana. Show is called Red Flags, and the Adelaide Theater Guide says, wonderfully fresh, hilarious and a definite starter for your festival list.
I like this clip a lot. Neil Brennan continuing to crush it I see he has Bill Burr on. I didn’t get to that episode yet. I did want to share this clip from Kyle Kanaan’s episode with Neil Brennan on The Blocks podcast where they talked about money. I don’t think stand up should be elevated at the level that people are holding it right now.
I think it’s a service job, and I think it should be rewarded as such. Eighty grand a year plus benefits. No, we could do a little better than that, Okay, buck thirty, all right, you know solid you know metals and then I had like solid feature, solid feature, buck thirty. Yeah, clock around two for two years for two benefits, yeah, two two fifty. If you’re really you know, you’re getting all five shows with overtime, jadd and you’ve had in shows, all right, I’ll give you three.
But that cap it there, cap it at that. And but you’re jealous, Yeah, yeah, you’re jealous not giving any of my money away, right, Yeah, I mean I like, yeah, but I’m not like doing it for free. I’m not like so like nope, all proceeds all the dumpster later. Like I saw those punk rock kids too, and I’m like I like some I like having some things. I think part of aging or maturity or something is just accepting like no, I think comedians should there should be a ceiling on what we make.
And also give me more money. Yeah, give me more stuff and give me more money, and you just like both of those are true for me. Well, since we’re already allowing this much money to be floating around, yeah, I think I should have a slice of it, but if we were just start over.
And also I don’t like that hack making too much money.
I mean, I’d be fine if I did. And somebody thinks that I’m a hack, but they’re wrong. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see here tomorrow