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The Shark Deck. Hello again, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from sneaker News. You’re home for sneaker News. Dave Chappelle’s got some cool kicks, Dave Chappelle air Force Ones. This project put together by Coltrane Curtis, founder of New York City based marketing agency Team Epiphany.
His task get podcasts to talk about Dave Chappelle air Force Ones. He says the design was the easy part, white uppers, gum soles and the iconic Dave Chappelle c on the heel, but had to get the right people to wear them. Well. He went to DJ Clark Kent too, currently is the most influential sneaker had ever, says Sneaker News, and I’ll trust them They’re right. Kicks were never really Clark Kent’s primary calling card.
That’s Crazy’s secretly superman. Come on, guys, don’t you know this? He just embodied v culture that influenced a lot of marketing strategies over the last three decades. Sneaker News says they don’t know how they got it done, but they imagine all it took was a few texts and calls. Unfortunately, the Dave Chappelle Air Force ones are not for retail and we’re made just for Dave Chappelle.
Mister Cant went on social media and wrote, so I did a think for Dave. Yeah that Dave called Trane. Curtis on Instagram wrote, David the jack and needed some heat for his new Netflix special. He knew exactly what he wanted. But here’s the thing that I think we’re not paying enough attention to.
Apparently there’s a new Dave Chappelle Netflix special coming in which she he’s wearing these sneakers, right, all right, we’ll keep an eye on that. Mannie Fair interviewed one of my favorite comedians. I’m gonna skip down to a paragraph here. Otsgo is pronounced otsko, by the way, and her last name is pronounced o kotska, which is good because that’s how I’ve been seeing it. I don’t I’m not sure I always get it right, but I usually say otsko at kotska, and I’ve kind of trained myself to do it.
Vanity Fair writes, Otsko at cotska is definitely not how you were pronouncing it in your head. Don’t worry, she says, no one ever gets them right. So for simplicity’s sake, everyone just calls her Otsko, but she’s been called Costco says that’s closer than most people get. On her second date with her HU husband, he asked how well he was pronouncing her name on a scale of one to ten. She gave him a two.
His name is Ryan Harper Gray. Now, before she goes on stage, he’ll often approach the MC and tell him how to pronounce Otsko, because he’s more particular about it than she is. Yeah, there was a while that every time I did a story about her, I had to go back and check my notes. But I think I have her right now. I think I’m usually saying Otsko at Kotska correctly, even though when I look at it, I’m like huh.
Tig Nataro is a friend of Otsco and says I feel confident she’s friends with leprechauns, but she wouldn’t even realize she was talking to a leprechaun. Otsko describes herself as a ditz. Vanity Fair says it’s more like she often doesn’t seem entirely aware of her surroundings, but is also blissfully unconcerned. A friend of hers comic Di Loo says, I say this with all the love in my heart. Otsko’s living ten seconds behind everything that’s happening around her, so by the time she catches up to what’s happening, she’s like, oh okay.
Otsko does not dispute this. As for her set, she talks about divorce, mental illness, eating disorders, some light kidnapping, and says, it’s all the differ for an interest that make me who I am. Looking at me, you might not know that I can, you know, make my butt do things you’ve seen in music videos, for example, apparently she was a cheerleader in high school, or that I have rhythm, or that I listen to pretty much solely dance hall music. Let’s go at Koska is great. Where is her special?
Let me tell you the Intruder on HBO? Yeah, fantastic, You should watch that. Nimesh Patel spoke to the Albany Times Union. His previous special was called Lucky Lefty, which discussed his testicular cancer. For this tour, he says, no, no more ball talk politics.
I’ll usually decide night of if I want to if anything’s going on, then I want to talk about I’m not sure if you’re aware what’s happening in the world at the moment. It’s not exactly fun comedic material, but we’ll see what we can do. Yeah, I’ve been pondering how to handle the situation in Israel on this podcast. Obviously you come here for light hearted fluff banter, but you know, sometimes, like I did on Monday, there are stories there and I open up a little heavy. I’m just trying to figure out where in the podcast to place it, and I don’t want to ignore it, but also I get why you come here, and it’s more for like, hey, Julia, Louis Dreyfus says she doesn’t know what’s going on with the Seinfeld reading, like I get it, So I’m trying to figure that out anyway, Nameschez.
For the most part, it’s honestly whatever I feel like talking about right now. That’s like how I grew up in some thoughts on the world at large, but nothing crazy. It’s the tour I’m having the most fun so far. I gotta have a new joke or two or three, or a new minute or five minutes buried somewhere in the set. The thing I’m most excited for is where that new joke’s going to be.
That’s the initial psych up, and then once I get comfortable on stage, I’m having fun. Oddly enough, it’s the most present I get to be in any twenty four hour time period. The hour and a half that I’m on stage, I have to be present, and that’s also motivating for me, because otherwise I’m just like on my phone thinking about what I’m gonna say, and then that turns into a daydream and I’m wondering what I’m gonna eat, you know, all the random bs that goes through your head. As for this being a new hour, he says, I’d say I’m at the beginning. I’m probably not close to a third down yet, still in the beginning stages of it.
It’s weird because I do like three cities in a weekend, and when I get home on Monday, I’m like, where was I This is from September, but I only just saw it. Andrew Schultz on The Flagrant podcast was discussed Hasan Minhaj and pointed out, usually we comedians lie to make things funnier, not make things more racist, sad, or emotional. It’s not like he’s been using these exaggerations or hyperbole as punch lines. He was using them to make the audience feel worse about him. And it turns out these things didn’t actually happen.
Remember the whole adventure with Trevor Noah’s canceled show and Bengaluru. Well, according to MoneyControl dot Com, a website that I usually don’t source. I don’t know how accurate they are. They seem accurate, but from MoneyControl dot Com they sat Comedian Nishant Suri had to cancel his show in Bengaluru over non payment of dues by the event organizers. This at the same arena.
He went on Instagram to share his experience. The post went viral, with other comics backing his claim. He even tagged it at an Instagram post saying I even got a call from the driver of the cab they arranged to pick me up, saying he hadn’t been paid and could I do something about it. Suzi Ediazzard playing San Francisco. The SF Chronicle caught up with Susie and they were curious because this new tour finds Susie reworking her most famous material and reimagining it.
Well, how does that work? And Susie said the Rolling Stones are a good example. They’ve played for sixty years now, and when they do the classics, they do them in the classic style because that’s what people want to hear. They don’t want it remixed. But in comedy, if you go in and do the same beats, it doesn’t work.
That’s why I want to change them so that I can live and go what do I say next? What comes here? It’s like a chess game. That’s what really turns me on and not quite being sure of what I’m going to say next. Suzie Eddie is already is performing in multiple cities and in multiple languages.
Susie says, my special trick is to treat every audience the same. It’s a very lazy technique, but that’s the brilliant thing about history. What Henry the Eighth did and what an idiot he was. That hasn’t dated at all. It will never date.
I go all the way back to ancient Greece and that’s not dated at all. You can see a laziness in my work and hopefully in intelligence and an attention to detail. But I don’t want to change at gig to gig because it seems too much hard work. Suzie Eddie performs comedy in four languages, including English. Any plans to add more languages so as he says, yes, French and German are up and running and touring.
Spanish is up and running, but my ability to speak the language isn’t as strong. I want to learn Arabic because I was born in Yemen, but I only know a few words of that. Russian is one I want to do as well. I know there’s a war on. They say it’s good to learn languages in your senior years because it keeps the dementia wolf away from the door.
So I’ll just keep trying to learn them and do performances. I’ve been mentioning how much I loved Mark Maren’s interview with Tom Poppa. They talked about corporate shows and Papa said they’re expecting a clean, funny show. Half of them aren’t even comedy fans, and they’re not even paying attention. They’re just being brought in there because it’s their night.
And if I’m working on something new, like the new act that I’m in, it’s not gonna be as tight. So I’ll go back to the last two acts. Maren then jumps in and talks about doing old material and says, some guy keeps bothering me at the comedy store. There’s two old guys to go there every night. The guy keeps telling me do the gun thing, the bad thing.
Maren says, I don’t even remember how it opens. I have to look it up on Spotify. Papa said, I hate when I do a corp and I take out a joke that’s twenty years old, and it kills in a way that nothing currently kills. Next Avenue who spoke to Maria Bamford and asked, Maria, how do you think it differs being a female comedian versus a male comedian, And you think it’s changed a lot in the last ten to twenty years. Maria said, the bays the same thirty years later.
For openers coming up, the majority of clubs feature white males. The wonderful thing is the internet, theater and festival opportunities where comics can book themselves and avoid the clubs that don’t seem to want to develop new audiences. Since it was an interview about comedy, they had to ask her about cancel culture, and she said cancelation doesn’t seem real at all. There are plenty of alleged sex criminals still touring to huge crowds who don’t care if I get canceled or called out for something I’ve done. Thank you.
I’m grateful that anyone takes time out of the day to teach me about something. I’ve said many things that we’re ignorant. I’ve been grateful when it’s been pointed out to me. Chris Cather talked about alt comedy to The eight hundred Pound Gorilla and said the scene in New York began to feel less unified. I think club comedy has risen up.
I think the aggressive style has risen up. I’ll jump in there, yes, yes, and displaced all comedy a little bit. I also think there’s a really beautiful quasi cabaret scene that has so much joy and value to it, but it doesn’t feel as working class as the all scene used to. Not that the alt scene ever was like people in overalls and work boots doing shows after they got off their jobs working as long shoreman. I’m not saying that, but the accessibility was there.
Now there’s a new scene that feels a little bit more like young and hot. It’s an awesome scene. Don’t get me wrong, but as a forty three year old white guy whose hairline is sprinting in the wrong direction, it’s hard for me to find my place in that particular version of the alt scene. Gathered is pretty self aware. He realizes the bigger thing’s got for him, the less it felt like him.
That includes the Chris Gethard Show. Chris said, a lot of the fans would say when we went to cable, the show got a lot worse. I’d actually argue that if you go back and watch the old public access shows, some of them are really bad. They fall apart, they don’t make sense, they’re not that funny, but people love the spirit of it. For me, I realize that the spirit is sort of what fuels me to be my best.
Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and go, don’t get caught up in this idea that you need to make more money than you did a few years ago. Don’t get caught up in this idea that that’s the only determining factor. That is great advice, Chris says, Sometimes, for me, the thing that’ll make me the most happy in the middle of a given week is a show in a coffee shop. In boot in New Jersey, where there’s fifty people, and I can rant about how depressing the Chuck E Cheese and East Hanover is on a Monday night. I know that Chuck E Cheese.
I was by there the other night with my son. We didn’t go to Chuck e Cheese because he’s in his twentiness now. We went to Chili’s and they’ll get it because they’ve actually been there. It’s a very, very far away from HBO, but it makes me happy and I have to trust that, and I have to have faith in that. Curtis Cook is one of Ulture’s twenty five comedians to Watch.
Curtis, what have you learned about your own joke writing process? Curtis said, I finally accepted that joke writing looks different than I thought it would. I used to feel bad if I wasn’t sitting down and physically writing a certain number of pages a day, or putting pen to paper as I thought I should. Most of the writing I do now involves either endlessly pacing my apartment or steering blankly into space for hours on end. I’ll jump in.
I’ve talked about that all the time. If you watch mad Men, there’s a scene where the writers are throwing a tennis ball around on the British bosses, like what the hell are they doing? And Don Draper explains, I have to let the creative people be uncreative until they’re ready. I’ve explained to bosses for years. You know you can whip us and go come up with good ideas.
It doesn’t work that way. I know for me, most of my good ideas come early in the morning and often went on runs and I let my brain kind of go wild, So I hear you, Curtis Cook. Curtis added my experiences that writing stuff out does help, especially in the editing process, but when the concepts are loose, I’m a big fan of letting yourself spin out like a lunatic until you think you’re excited to try something new. And coming up on November ninth, didn’t your Comedy Festival edition of Comedy Gives Backs Laugh Aid featuring Gary Goleman, Dresica Curse and Jeff Ross, Aaron Jackson and surprise special guests. One hundred percent of the ticket sales will go to Comedy Gives Back.
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