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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. Montreal’s Concordia University, it’s going to offer a course that’s just about Dave Chapelle well late Nights on Strikes. So I asked the late Bots to write some jokes about this one, and late Bott says the syllabus probably includes topics like the art of saying offensive things and getting away with it, and how to quit your own TV show and still come out on top. The Chapelle courus explores his role as a social commentator with lectures on topics like raise politics, cancel culture, and if any students try to cancel the course for being too controversial, you get an f for missing the entire point the actual story. Rapper and professor yes In Nursey Asselman will lead the course.
He previously taught a Kanye West course. Nursey said, I’m writing my syllabus right now and from what Dave in the community around him gave me. I’m gonna kind of celebrate that at the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop as a community. So we’re gonna go through Chappelle’s show, We’re gonna watch some of his episodes, I’m gonna do a Black Star class. I’m gonna do with the roots class.
I’m going to do an Erica Badu class Silquarian’s ass and just talk about the juxtaposition of the responsibility of comedy and music and then the consumption of black performance and what does it mean in North America. I’m going to ask people from the community, the friends of mine that I made in the community, to possibly come and maybe we’ll get Dave. Maybe Dave will come, maybe you won’t. But that’s not really why I’m doing it. The Boston Comedy Festival next week May sixteen, through the twentieth pretty good lineup.
The centerpiece of the Boston Comedy Festival is the Stand Up Comedy Competition. That’s a contest to discover new and emergent comedians from around the world. The organizers say, from a field of hundreds of hopeful comedians, forty eight contestants have been chosen to perform at the festival. That field will be narrowed down over the five day festival, with eight comedians competing to receive a cash prize and perform on the main stage. If I remember correctly, I was asked to judge that a million years ago.
I couldn’t go up to Boston for it, but I think I was asked to do this once, a long time ago. In addition to the stand up comedy competition, the festival will be presenting awards to their twenty twenty three honorees, Comedian of the Year, Joe List, Lifetime Achievement honoree Brian Kylie. Kylie is a longtime Conan writer and TV Award honoree. Topper Carew Google tells me Colin Anthony Topper Carus an American film director screenwriting producer, best known for such films as Talking Dirty, after Dark and DC Cab. He’s the creator of the TV series Martin.
Some of your headliners Todd Barry, Emo Phillips, Zach Sherwin, Corey Rodriguez, Shane Moss, Ron and Hirshberg, Bethany Van Delft, Mike Kaplan, Karen Morgan, Emily Riskowski, Aaron McGuire, two, Key Kavanaugh, Will Noon and Jimmy Cash and Orlando Baxter. Information at Boston Comedyfest dot com quick stop at Gossip Corner, Chase sweet Wonder is talking about boyfriend Pete Davidson. She said, Pete and I became fast friends on Bodies That’s a movie. It was just clear that we could work together super well. He’s such a pro and acting with him is my favorite thing.
We talked about everything, and we’re very open with each other about everything, and it feels like what’s happening in our relationship is very sacred. As for the media, like me paying attention, she said, the first initial shock was super disorienting, but after that it becomes it’s like a video game. Feels like another weird player came into the video game. I feel like I’m still on my own path. My life hasn’t changed that much.
Pete said, she’s the best actress. She’s gonna crush. She’s got a lot of cool stuff going on. I had a blast working with her. From Variety, Pay Attention.
Warner Brothers has announced that Beetlejuice Too will be released on the big screen September six, twenty twenty four. Not much is known about the follow up to the nineteen eighty eight film about a pesky poltergeist, but Michael Keaton returns as Beetlejuice and Winona Writer as Lydia Dietz. Wait for it, Beetlejuice from Al Jazeera You’re home for comedy news. Sharif Holmesy looks out at his audience and a dimly lit Damascus cafe as he describes the ideal man in war battered Syria, an eligible bachelor with attractive supplies of fuel and electricity. His joke marry me, I have a bright future, thousand liters of petrol, solar panels to generate electricity, and three gas canisters.
Homesy is a member of Steria Serious first stand up comedy troup, whose members perform every week telling jokes about daily struggles like power cuts and fuel shortages. To late in the mood for locals despondent after twelve years of war, Homsy says the audience prefers to laugh and forget the problems they can’t solve. Let’s take a look at the New Zealand to Comedy Festival. Melanie Breesewells show is called Forget Me Nuts. This show is about desperately trying to be remembered, love and eggs.
Let’s listen. Hey, little update on my relationship status. Guys. I’ve just moved to this new flat and there’s quite a thin wall between my room and my flatmate’s room. All right, And one morning my flatmate had came up to me and was like, hey, were you hooking up last night?
I think I heard kissing, and I had to explain to her that I was just trying to eat a Kiwi fruit without a spoon. So me and the kiwie fruit are getting pretty serious. That’s great. Does they don’t have any kids in the room? Make some noise?
Nice? You’re so excited. I don’t have any kids? Well that I know? All all right, that was fun.
Now let me point out there. She obviously opened with the Kiwi line that she knows works, and then we’re not even a minute of the set at an abrupt left turn into hey, anybody have kids? So she’s chucking jokes. I’m not sure that that’s a really thought outset. They’re funny, but you know, I’m a comedy snob sitting on my basement recording a podcast like a loser, So I noticed these things.
So you know, you go see Milliani brace well, and you go, I had a great time. I left, and then the snob in the back like me, is like, all right, that was kind of awkward. Why you did one joke and you switched gears. I did like her. Though Barney Duncan’s show is called just Jokes Jolks The New Zealand.
Harold said, Barney is bound for future at ward Glory. You’ll struggle to stop laughing. Wow. Ready to tell you about a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Do you know that there is one of these things?
Yeah, there’s a type of butterfly in the Amazon rainforest that drinks turtle tears. Okay, you go home, you look it up on yahoo dot com. It’s incredible. I just wonder what the butterflies are saying to the turtles to make them cry. Hey, turtle, turtle, turtle.
Hey. I was just hanging out with Raphael and Michelangelo and and they were talking about how much they hated you. All right, Can I tell you I’m laughing my hat off here in the basement. You’re not seeing the visuals obviously. When he’s doing the butterfly, he’s flapping his arms almost at wings, flapping his arms like a butterfly would, which adds to the humor.
And when he’s the turtle, he has a shirt pulled over most of his head, you know, like a turtle might. It’s very funny. So if I compare those two, most people are going to prefer the first one and be like, yeah, she’s shucked some jokes real quick. The second one took a long time to build. But the anticipation and the crafting of the joke and wherever he went out of his way to say on Yahoo dot Com as opposed to just saying, look it up, hilarious.
I’m sitting here with a big smile on my face appreciating the build. Now, that was a long way to go for one joke that wasn’t even that hilarious. But I found the latter way more entertaining, and that’s why I’m a comedy snob. Hacks writer Joe Mandy spoke to Chortle about his favorite comedy things. His favorites include The night Man Cometh from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I have to stop my brain now. If I start singing the night Man’s song and then my brain’s already starting to do it, I’m gonna be spending the weekend. It’s too late. I’m gonna be spending the weekend going day man. Ah, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is one of Joe Manday’s favorite television shows, Night Man Ah, but the final episode of season four, The Night Man Cometh.
You have any idea what I’m talking about? If you don’t go watch It’s always sunny in Philadelphia season four, The Night Man Cometh. I think Sunny is on Hulu. Joe says, I’ve probably seen it fifty times and it makes me laugh out loud. I agree.
He also likes Mister Show with Bob and David. He calls them his comedy bible growing up. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were light years ahead when they made it. The sketches are so funny and executed so well that it’s honestly kind of infuriating to watch sometimes.
And then he said, can’t Williams The Pimp Chronicles of Part one?
Can’t Williams is on my Mount Rushmore of comedy? That fried my brain? And I’m like, huh, the Mount Rushmore of comedy. So if we were going to do the Mount Rushimore of comedy, I have to ask you where we’re starting. I think we’re gonna start with maybe Lenny Bruce and quote unquote modern stand up.
Otherwise there’s a lot of people through history who might have been funny. You know, there was this guy Shakespeare. He wrote seventeen comedies. Is he on the Mount Rushmore? I don’t know.
So let’s just make it easy and I don’t know. Cut the list down to stand up comedians, and how Ford in time do you want to go? Because all right, Carlin Bryor, you have two spots left. I want to put Bob Hope up there. I know, people just judge Bob when he was eighty five years old.
Go back and watch the young Bob Hope, watch those movies, watch him do his radio show. He was great. And how about Johnny Carson doing a monologue, you know, four nights a week for thirty years, give or take some vacation days. You’re gonna put a Carson up there?
And now everyone’s mad at me because I don’t have any women up on Mount Rushm…
And all right, you want to put Lucy up there? If we’re gonna do stand up? Do you want to put Joan Rivers up there? You gotta tell me Joan Rivers is better than Johnny Carson. And to head, I don’t know about that.
We could argue Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Go ahead, something to think about. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. If you know what I’m talking about, it’s stuck in your right now.
If you don’t go watch, it’s always studied Philadelphia. End of season four. The Night Man, Come at see tomorrow, Damn damon. Fights are of the night Man, Champion of the Sasun. You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone.
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