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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with an early release of Monday’s episode in Today’s Daily Comedy News. It’s about a twenty pm Sunday night. I just watched Trevor Noah open up the Grammy Awards, and, as they say in comedy, he ate it. Not a good monologue at all.
I had the laptop out and I was gonna pull clips and there’s nothing to pull. Really flat monologue. Now you may recall Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes with nine days notice, if I remember correctly, and he didn’t do all that well, although he was much better than Trevor was tonight. Trevor only got announced hosting this a few weeks ago, so maybe there is something too needing to work on these award shows for several weeks. But I wish I had more to say about Trevor.
I’m on social media, people on Twitter and on threads and Facebook as well. Nobody reacting well to Trevor and Noah’s monologue. It’s still early. Maybe things look get better. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, his twenty twenty three New Year’s Eve Netflix special.
That was the one where Dave joked I love punching down. So I’m sure we will have Dave Chappelle reaction pieces all week from the people who get mad that Dave Chappelle even exists. This is Dave’s third win in a row in the category and his sixth win overall. So right now he is the Tom Brady of comedy. I mean six Grammys, three in a row, three peat for Chappelle.
Yeah, we’ll break that down in the upcoming days. Nikki Glaser was at the Golden Globes. She found out walking into the arena she hadn’t won. She said, I already lost. I know what happens.
They gave my award away already. Dave Chappelle got it. There’s no ceremony like televis so I’m getting my hair and makeup done and it’s already been determined that I didn’t win. The Comedy Album was announced around five pm Easter and I saw it in social media and Nicky said, no one texted me about it. I just had the most random person in my life, goes Dave Sappelle.
Again, I go, what are you writing about? No one on my team bad News wants to tell me. They just want you to find out the hard way. She was excited that Taylor Swift was gonna be there. She said, Taylor’s not performing, but she’s presenting, so I’ll get to hear her talk and be poetic in that way.
So I’ll take it. I just can’t wait to see what she’s wearing. I can’t wait to see her talk and maybe reveal something. You know, we’re used to her announcing something. I’m so excited it’s been a while.
I will not be bothering her. I’m gonna play it cool. There’s no need to be worried about what I’m going to do, all right. More about the Grammys on Tuesday’s episode.
In other news for US old people, Netflix announced that Eddie, a new document…
In Eddie, Eddie Murphy looks back on his extraordinary journey and looks ahead at what’s still to come. The film chronicles his rise from teen comic phenom to SNL breakout and stand up super nova to box office titan. I wonder if Eddie will be at SNL fifty. I guess he absolutely will. Especially if he’s going to be promoting something like this, which is a victory lap.
The doc illuminates the evolution of Eddie Murphy, the trails he blazed and records he broke on his way from Brooklyn Upstart to Hollywood. Icon can tell several publicists and probably an agent and a manager worked on this paragraph. In the film, the Oscar nominated actor opens up his home and dives deep into his eclectic, nearly fifty year career. In his own words, he talks about entertaining three generations of fans with a filmography that spans comedy, action, drama, animation, musicals, and family fair Friends. Co stars, directors, and fellow comics offer insight into Murphy’s singular life and career and the influence that has had with breakthrough stand up films like Raw Eighties Megahits, Beverly Hills, cop coming to America and trading places through nineties classics like The Nutty Professor, the Shrek franchise in the two thousands, to his Oscar nominated performance in dream Girls.
We kind of skipped the last twenty years there, I see. Dream Girls came out in two thousand and six. In case you’re curious. I don’t know if you know this. Amy Schumer has got a movie coming out on Wednesday, and Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we will.
Now, how will Amy get us to talk about her? Today? With this headline? Amy Schumer reveals harsh joke she told Adam Sandler after Adam Sandler fled from the wildfires. Now, I have the clip from the tonight show.
I’m going to play it for you. I want you to pay close attention here. Pay close attention to poor Jimmy Fallon trying to pretend this is funny there with a visual Jimmy Steward that the poor guy is just faking it. Here, let’s listen. Adam Sandler, who is I mean, the greatest.
What was it like working with Adam Sandler? He’s such a perfectionist, Like he’s like, it’s just what you hoped it would because, I mean, obviously everyone like we’ve all grown up watching all of his movies, and it’s like, don’t you quote his movies like twice a day by accident? Yeah, of course, no conditioner is better like you. Every day. I did make a joke to him the other night that I don’t know how this is going to go.
But he was just you know, his family is like, you know, some some people, one of the people who’ve been affected by the wildfires, and you know, and he’s sitting at this dinner with us. She’s like, yeah, I just had to grab like two shirts and get out of there. And I’m looking at his shirt and I’m like, and you grabbed that one? You know? Did you see the Hawaii And.
I’m like, is that that’s some one new outline? Does you gotta make you gotta make your friends laugh? He laughed, he’s a good, good audience. Well, we all need comedies. So we got to watch this movie.
Only two more days until Kind of Pregnant. Amy Schumer’s movie is on Netflix on Wednesday. Can’t Wait. The Sydney Morning Herald caught up with Eliza Selessenger. She’s going to be at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
That’s not until April, but she was doing some early press. Eliza explained, to be a successful comedian, you have to come up with funny observations that people can relate to. But they’ve never heard anyone say before. She explains, we’re all thinking the same thing, so it’s about tapping into the things people were too afraid to say. How you know, it’s a good joke because when people confess after oh my god, I also shaved my big tail, where I’ve also had those weird thoughts about our principle or something like that.
The more vulnerable and honest we are as humans, the more we realize just how weird and connected we all are. The article tells us she’s had six Netflix specials today six and has built up a fan base so passionate that some make art based on her work. Eliza said, to see my art digested and given back to me, presents it on someone’s shirt or in a painting or drawing, It’s an incredible exchange. Although she has champions some liberal causes, she explains, I think you might have an idea of how I vote, but I kind of run down the middle politically at this stage of my career. When you buy a ticket to see Eliza Selesznger, you’re buying a ticket to escape and to feel seen, not to come to a political rally.
We’ll save that from my online rants. I definitely have the freedom to say whatever I like, but because it’s your freedom and you’re right, doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea. I think people have to understand the intention, both the people being offended and the people enjoying it. My intention is always to entertain and uplift. It’s never hurt anyone’s feelings.
When people don’t watch the full joke or someone’s full hour, they remove intension and then we’re all just defending each other. I find that the people most nervous about the woke stuff tend to be white men who are tired of being told that they’re wrong. The truth is, setting out to find anyone for a cheap laugh, you’re probably gonna be okay at the end of the day. We could all consider each other a little bit more. However, on the other side, I think people need to tough it up so per usual, right in the middle and take no side.
James Austin Johnson was on Seth Meyer’s show. He broke out an impression of Kamala Harris. Let’s listen, this is Kamala Harris hosting a cooking competition. Here we go, let’s try it. I think what the American people want to know is can the remaining five chefs take these family food classics cheeseburger and fries, meat loaf and mashed potatoes, vegetable lasagna and utilize those ingredients to create a five star gourmet meal for Debbie May’s our Bobby Fla and Michael Rappaport.
You have three hours not bad. As we recently discussed in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us in conversation there. His Trump has been drifting a little bit the kamala urright. I don’t know what you do with it, especially at this point, but okay. The La Times asked Gabe Iglacy as how he got involved with Funko pops.
Gabe said, I wasn’t a fan of them at first. I didn’t know what they were. Someone pulled me aside and they’re like, these are really popular, and I’m like, it’s weird looking. I started looking into it, and the next thing I know, we make a phone called a funk Go and said, hey, you guys have TV Funko pops, you have movie funkel pops. You don’t have comedians.
You guys should have comedians. There’s a lot of funny comics out there. I told them I’m interested in being the first, and they’re like, well, we know who you are, but that’s not a thing. Two years later we tried again. They said, well, we know who you are and we’re not interested in licensing, but if you’re serious, we’ll produce the figures for you, and you have to buy so many and you sell them.
We won’t even carry them in our stores, but we’ll make them, Gabe said, The founder of Funko, later admitted to me they should have licensed my doll when they could, because I sold so many. I think we’re on model number eleven. Now. It’s about persistence. I think a lot of times people give up easily.
And you know, if for first you don’t succeed, try try again. From true to old Jermaine Clement, you know him from Flight of the Concords, by the way, I don’t know if you know this. At some point in my life I switched to universes. I can’t explain this, but like I became a slider. I’m from the universe where the guy on Flight of the Concords his name was Germaine.
There was an R in his name at some point where I’m from. But now I’m in this universe where I sit in the Basement and I host a podcast. But where I’m from, his name was Jermaine Clement and the woman from Game of Thrones was Lena. He’d lee there was an extra Ellen there where I’m from. I don’t know what happened.
You might say Mendela effect, but I’m telling you I definitely switched universes. Anyway, Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Concords will star in a Disney Plus comedy. All we know is it’s a series from the makers of Baby Reindeer. No details about the plot, no details about the casting. Jeff Ross was at the Creative Coalition’s Washington, DC event honoring military service organizations, and Ross ripped into some people who think that comedy should be watered down.
Jeff said, people they don’t want their comedy water down. They wanted potent right to the stomach, and that’s what I try to do. The reporter asked or certain topics off limits? Jeff said, no topics are off limits. Now.
The kind of comedy I’ve always done is okay for my fans. Roast fans are the most dedicated. They don’t care about what any fake rules are. What’s funny is funny. You know, there are always be people who are going to pretend to be offended, but those are the people that offend me, you know, hypocrites.
Quick stop. On gossip Corner, a source close to Pete Davison tells people that Pete is still friends with pretty much all his exes, including Kim Kardashian. The insider also shared that nothing bad happened between him and Madelin Kline just ran its course. He and Kim still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him.
Jeremy Piven’s going to be doing some stand up comedy this week at the Arlington Improv on the seventh and eighth. Pivens says, this has been an incredible journey. You have to face your fears, and one of my greatest fears was stand up. So for about a decade now been out there touring, just getting up on stage, working through it. It’s been amazing.
Being funny isn’t enough. You can make people laugh, sure, but standing up there alone it’s a whole different game. You learn real fast. Your material hast to land. You have to connect.
Once you get that first laugh, though, it’s like, okay, this is possible. He knows people think they’re coming to see Ari Gold. He leans into it and he says, I tell stories about having guys come up to me a urinal smacking on the back like I’m a douchebag because of you. And he laughs and says it’s like, dude, I’m just trying to pee here. That’s your comedy news for today.
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