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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you skip the weekends for some reason, go back and listen to Sunday. There’s a whole thing with Mark Maren and Matt Rife. It’s just wonderful.
And the moon Tower Comedy Festival has a lot of news there, okay. In today’s news, Dave Chappelle has posed for a selfie with Representatives Lauren Bobert and and a Luna. This happened on Capitol Hill. Bobert and Luna spotted Dave Chappelle wandering the halls of Congress on Thursday. Bobert posted it and wrote, just three people who understand there’s only two genders.
Luna tweeted the same photo and captured it ran into Dave Chappelle. Luna told Dave as they spoke, thanks for all you do. Representative Byron Donald’s, a Republican out of Florida, was also filmed greeting Dave Chappelle and chatting with Dave. Why was Dave at the Capitol Great question? Reportedly for meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
According to punch Bowl News, Dave was asked about this by reporter. He said, a lot of the people I grew up with work on the Hill, so I hang out here sometimes, and I’m in DC to catch up with old friends. A representative for Chappelle told the Washington Examiner that Chappelle did not conduct any business or attend any meetings while at the Capitol, given the reason that he was in town for last night’s Kennedy Center honors and an art is activism workshop at a local public high school. All right, we’ll keep an eye on that for tomorrow, Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. I know, right.
Matt recently played Santa Rosa. The Press Democrat had somebody at the show, and apparently Matt offered a solution for anyone offended by his jokes. He said, we have a safe space for you outside the exit door. I’m sure he told it better. The Press Democrat rites on the soft side.
He talked about donating toys given him by fans to children, and made friends with a fan who sat with his diabetes service dog a pub named Waffles in one of the front rows. First, Rife denounced the dog as ugly, then later reckoned it was cute. A total of three and twenty fans attended Matt Rice’s two shows, including some who came from other states because their local right shows were sold out, according to a spokesperson for the Luther Burbank Center. As for the controversial joke and the Netflix special, I’ll remind you, Rife joked, Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye. Raife addressed it to the audience on Wednesday and said, it’s a joke.
It’s not based on real circumstances, nor does it reflect my real feelings. At the Santa Rosa show, Rife tried out some new material We’re told based on his standby topics, which are relationships, sexuality, gender roles, misunderstood segments of the population, and taboo words and concepts. He also talked about some positive responses from fans. Riife had set on stage that he loves otters. A fan invited him to an otter sanctuary, and then Rife joked, I’m sure he told it better than I will.
It was in Florida and was in a bathtub, and it was just a powsome painted brown I guess in context and told properly that could Land more details about Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only. This the documentary coming to Netflix on December twelfth. In Kevin Hart and Chris Rock Headliners Only, we follow the two comedy legends as they embark on a series of performances while also taking audiences on a tour throughout their varying trajectories leading up to it. In addition to Kevin Hart and Chris Rock, the documentary features interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Wanda Sykes, Bill Byrd, Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Hannish, and Moore. Good note from Chris Rock, he says, I’m smart enough to always check to see what Kevin’s doing before I go on tour.
I’m not getting stumped by Kevin. That’s just not happening. John Mulaney spoke to a variety and said, going to rehab and a lot of other things that have become public knowledge, I felt there was no way to start doing stand up again without going through this. I also had a lot to say about it. It had been an extremely eventful time and the goal from the beginning was to do this as funny as I could make it, not as impactful as I could make it not to pause for dramatic effect.
I just wanted to be a little wilder and put you in my very confident, amended brain. During the time of addiction, I kept asking friends, do I come off like too much of an a hole? Jimmy Kimmel saw it at the tubidoor and said, yes, but you have to keep it all. I’ve been to my entire career where I think, oh, this is a little dark. I know if people are going to go with this.
For some reason, I had checked an audience from seventy years old to seven, and I’m aware of how this is going to play with a great, big group that I’m very lucky to have assembled. I just knew that this vein would be interesting to people. Mulaney was asked if he has any dad jokes, and he said, it’s a funny thing to me. I don’t have an immediate comedic take on being a dad. I have some stories that I think are funny because of the amount of talking we do.
Now we’re just chatting all the time, and I find the amount of time I spent talking to a twenty three month old versus any adults A musing Amy Schumer is set to Star and produce Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, we follow a Laney played by Amy Schumer, who is jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and begins wearing a fake baby bump that accidentally meets the man of her dreams. M Nicole Bayer has done a deal with Destination Canada. They’ve teamed up to create Canadian Crash Course, a new virtual course designed encourage travelers to step out of their comfort zone and gain confidence navigating winter like an expert, Like a Canadian. Nicole Byer hosts lessons on navigating sche mishaps, chili plunges, fashion blunders, sport fails, and more.
In for these lessons, you can go from northern novice to winter. Pro Buyer says hosting the Canadian Crash Course has been a blast. Canadians really go above and beyond when it comes to friendly hospitality. Watch and learn as I try skiing, cold plunging, ice skating, bundling up from the the lights, hunting and more, finding the fun of the hiccups along the way. I mean, if you’re gonna try something new this winter, you better do it where they do.
Winter Rite Canada. John Marco CIRESI was up in Connecticut and said, I’ve been all over Connecticut and this is definitely one of the least interesting places. And that says a lot for Connecticut. I’ve not been able to find a good smoothie place. Every time I ask someone for breakfast recommendation, they go, h Fairfield, and I go, well, I’m stuck here.
You also talked about touring Europe and said, I would say that they might not understand as many American political references, but they had a better understanding of history in a way that let me make some jokes frankly about the Holocaust, that they just understood the intricacies of more than the typical American. They were not quite as in a runch of humor, but they were very into dark humor. I feel like, and these are broad strokes that I’m painting, that Europeans have a more honest understanding of their own countries in a way that really lets you talk crap about them. They make fun of us for the gun stuff very hard. It’s an easy way for an American to get a laugh here, like, oh, it’s nice to be here and get a break from all those shootings.
And they’re like ah, yes, that’s you, America. I am finally remembering while there’s a microphone in my hand to tell you that I watched Mike bur Bigley as the Old Man on the Pool. I watched it, like I don’t know, two weeks ago, and I keep forgetting to mention it. My take. I think you guys are gonna really like it.
I share that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I think you guys will like it a lot. I like for Biggs as I watched it, and again, major comedy snob here, and as I’ve explained the past, I’ve listened to so much comedy over the last twenty years. My brain is just numb. I was struggling with it.
I didn’t believe his premises as he told the stories. I was like, I don’t think this actually happened, specifically the one about him wrestling, and it took me out of it. But that’s me. I think you guys will like it. It won’t make my personal list, but I think you guys will really like it.
Does that make sense? That’s just more about me being a snob, But I think it’s a solid special this week on the Weekly Comedy thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. The app is free. The show is free.
So you grabbed the Live one app and you download it and you look for the Weekly Comedy Thing, and there you will find me doing shre intros to comedy bits. It’s kind of like this podcast with a lot less me and a lot more actual comedians. On this week’s show. David Cross, John Mulaney, Nate Bergatzy Bet Stealing, Patton Oswalt, Bill Angvall, Adam Sandler’s Honaka song Sebastian Maniscalco, DJ Dimmers, who I’m really into right now, Gabe Iglesias, Kathy Griffin, Burbiggs, Eddie Hazard, Cheech and Chung and spinal Tap The Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. Ed Helms is down for The Hangover Part four.
Please don’t the first one amazing, major diminishing returns, and don’t forget the Hangover kind of destroyed the later seasons of the Office because they pivoted to Ed Helms when they should have made Jim Helper the boss and didn’t really work. Elms told the Hollywood Reporter, I mean Bradley Cooper. Zach Alifanakis, director Todd Phillips. These are some of my favorite people on the planet. I would do anything with them.
Oh my goodness, I would do anything with those guys. Bradley Cooper recently told The New Yorker Radio Hour he would do another Hangover in an instant because I love Todd, I love Zach, I love Ed so much. I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do it. Helms agrees, like Bradley said, highly unlikely Todd would be up for it. The Hill caught up with Kat Timf who said, I find that joking about this stuff takes away some of its power.
The scarier and more devastating an awful and insturmountable something can seem. If you say, oh, you can’t joke about that, that makes it seem even more powerful. You’re totally allowed to think of joke’s not funny. You’re totally allowed to say, ah, that hurt my feelings. I don’t like that joke.
Here’s why, and have a conversation about it. To say you can’t joke about it is actually a cool thing to say when you think about it, because what you’re doing is you’re limiting the healing mechanism that people who are dealing with trauma might need Kat says, I’m a free speech absolutist, but there’s a distinction between jokes and somebody who’s just being a jerk on purpose. It matters if someone was trying to make a joke versus somebody who’s being racist, because that person is a racist and wants to spread racism. Of course there’s a difference. I’m a sensitive person.
I have a lot of feelings, but I don’t think there’s such a thing as a subject that humor would not touch. She talked about the potential of another Biden versus Trump making things hard for comics, and she said, yeah, I think in some ways, yeah, I think it’s also just emotionally, we’re really going to go through this again. I always vote third party, and I’m open about that. So all that remains to be seen is when it’s all over, which side is gonna blame me for the law? Does she worry about being canceled?
Kat said, what I found is it’s never to think you think it’s going to be. She talked about a controversy involving her and some Star Wars jokes. She said, all I said was I’ve never seen Star wars because it was too busy liking cool things and being attractive. There werecorders of the Internet that did not appreciate that. Let me pause here and shake off my laugh for her next sentence, I got death threats, a lot of sexual violence, much of it involving lightsabers.
What people don’t understand. Sometimes there’s no way to really know if a joke’s going to hit or not until you try it. And you can’t really be afraid of swing and miss, because sometimes you’re going to swing and miss. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy this podcast, tell a friend about it.
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