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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny mackwe your daily community. It was real quick. I’ve been very happy with the show this week because I’ve been able to get into different topics. Today is no different.
The headline from Yahoo Chance the Rapper defends Dave Chappelle’s gay jokes comment in Ghana. This was at the Black Star Line Festival in Ghana on January sixth. Dave Chappelle apparently made some waves. Dave’s joke was I bet gay jokes go over so well here. Apparently everybody laughed about it.
Chanced the Rapper explains, I think it’s something that Dave was actually shining a light on. That’s where the conversation came from. Dave was making a comment about the comedy scene in Ghana when he said, I bet gay jokes go over so well here, to which everybody laughed about. And he was making a point to saying, Ghana, you can make jokes about things that are about gay people, about trans people, about a lot of social constructs, just about anything in the world, but you can’t make a comment about the government there. That’s not funny and that’s not respected, and it can be dangerous.
It’s the complete opposite where we come from. Where we can speak about the government all we want, I can’t really all the way speak for Dave. I don’t want to say what he thinks or what he feels. But what I think I know about him is that he loves everybody, especially as people meeting black people, meeting black people that are trans, black people that are gay, black people that are general nonconforming people, period. And I think in that space, I would say I don’t believe that he bashed trans people are gay people at all.
Throughout the entire conversation, Chance also talked about apparently there’s some kind of bill that Chance labeled one of the most destructive things in Ghana’s future. Chance said it gives police license to target anybody, especially LGBTQIA plus people, based on something as simple as the clothes that they wear, how they self identify, or how that officer identifies them. And it’s anthetical to what I’m trying to do. I was giving Dave the opportunity to speak about who we are as a community because he was taking so much pride in the fact that he was respected as a black man in Ghana. But I don’t know he would be respected that much if he were a gay black man in Ghana or if he were trans in Ghana.
Meanwhile, from Ghana, Webb Dave Chappelle himself has shared his historic visit to Ghana with the rest of the world on Dave’s social media handles. Dave has documented his trip from when he boarded his flight to Ghana. On a voiceover, we hear Dave Chappelle saying, it takes many people a lifetime to make this one journey. Any single son or daughter that comes from the legacy of Africans who left these shores. Anytime one individual makes it back here, it defies the odds.
Also on the video, Dave Chappelle conveys how sad he was by the story he was told when he connected with the walls where the slaves had walked, among others, that is known as the door of no return awkward segue here. Guilda’s laughest returns to Grand Rapids, Michigan in twenty twenty three. The festival this year March eighth through the twelfth. Who’s Performing Pretty Good List Tig natar O, Pete Holmes, The Clean Comedy Showcase, DJ Demers, Mike Vecky, own bunch of others. There will also be something called kara jokim is Dennis Leary performing the material of Bill Hicks, Oh cheap Shot, Johnny mack ouch.
I wonder what kara joke is. Kara jokie. It’s a comedy with a chorus, showcasing comedians performing a stand up set and then immediately singing a karaoke song selected by you. I see, so stand up then karaoke. It’s not that Carlos Mincy is going to show up and do material.
Who another cheap shot? Jutty back? Come on, you’re laughing. We’ll keep an eye on Gildless laugh Fest as we get a little closer to that this weekend. David Keckner, you know him from lots of places, including the office, which will be relevant to this story.
He’ll be in Springfield, which one the Missouri one, and he’s bringing in his office trivia show that he hosts as Todd Packer for seventeen magazine spoke to David Keckner. He likes getting back to Missouri. One of the reasons is the annual The Big Slick charity fundraiser that takes place in Kansas City. It’s a charity for Children’s Mercy Hospital. He hosts it along with Robiggo, Paul Rudd, Jason Sadakis, and Eric stone Street.
That’s always in June. He also gets back for one or two Chiefs games as well. Convenient for you that you happen to be in Missouri Chiefs Jaguars tomorrow? Are you going David Keckner? He said, last year I had a pretty intense tour schedule.
I couldn’t get back to a game. How did he get to where he is now? He said, I was always a fan of comedy ever since I was young. I was the class cut up that I always enjoyed watching old comedies with my dad, Avin Costello, the Marx Brothers. That solidified it by the time I was thirteen, SNL debut and that’s when I decided that’s what I’m gonna do.
All right? What can we expect from the office trivia nights? He says, It’s not just a trivia thing. It’s a show because I tell stories of how I got the show, stories about the show, stories about my career, anecdotes, and I do Q and A. So it’s a unique experience.
It’s not going to be a regular Trivia Night. That’s why it’s hosted by the real Todd Packer with a blast doing it. And at the end of the show, the top two teams come up and they get to do a scene with the real Todd Packer right there. That’s a good time.
Speaking of a Saturday Night Live, new episode tomorrow, Aubrey Plaza’s your …
Jordan and musical guests A Little Baby. SNL has announced that they’ve changed the way standby tickets are going to work. Before we get to that, the ticket lottery for the current season is now closed. The ticket lottery for the twenty twenty three Slash twenty fourth season will open at midnight on August first, so write that in your calendar. To enter that lottery, send an email to SNL Tickets at NBCUNI dot com.
You may only send one email per person. Submissions entered before or after the ticket lottery window will not be considered, so don’t do it now. As for the standby cards, they will be distributed at twelve zo one am the Saturday of a show day, so you have to like be there at midnight as Friday turns into Saturday, get a standby card, then come back and hope you get in later that night. Or you can just sit home and watch them on TV, or hear me out, go to bed on Saturday night, wake up Sunday morning and watch the clips, or maybe watch the episode on your DVR. That’s what Johnny Mac does.
Ted Lasso is back for season three. We all knew that Apple TV Plus had a big to do, and they were like, Hey, ted Lasso’s coming back. That’s nice. What’s the date. They didn’t share a date, yet, they did share an image.
We see Jason sidekiss ted Lasso and Nick Muhammad’s Nates facing off now as rival coaches. That seems to be the driving story of season three. They also put out a trailer for something called Hello Tomorrow. I watched the trailer. I was entertained.
Hello Tomorrow is a rito futuristic vision of the future, so it’s like the nineteen fifties version of the future, so flying cars and robot vacuums and that kind of stuff. Billy krut Up stars as Check, a salesman of great talent and ambition whose unshakable faith and a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him. This thing’s on Apple TV Plus February seventeenth. Look like it was pretty entertaining. I don’t know how funny it is or not, but the world that created looks pretty cool.
I’m not even sure it’s a comedy. Why did you mention it? I don’t know. I was doing the ted Lasso thing. I saw the thing, and now I told you the story, and now I realized, oh, maybe it’s not even a comedy.
Chelsea Handler announced her tour. I think comedians need to start running The tour names past me little Cocky by Baby, but she’s calling her twenty twenty three tour the Little Big Bitch Tour. Yeah, is that what you want to do? All right? The Little Big Bitch Tour kicks off April thirteenth in Peoria, stops in Boise, Las Vegas.
It’s also Memphis and more, before wrapping up in Atlantic City on June tenth. Of the Borgata, Chelsea says, because it’s been so much fun returning to stand up, I figured the more time I’ve been with my fans the better. It’s time to give people a little insight and how I turned into what I am today. The Little Big Bitch Tour is the sequel to her recent Vaccinated and Horny Tour, Snow Jam Comedy Festival, Sue Fall, South Dakota Today tomorrow. Get out there, hop on a plane.
What are you doing? Let’s check out today’s lineup? Wait, Dan Booblitz, did I mess this up yesterday and say you were doing your thing yesterday? Oh? Man, I hope you didn’t fly to South Dakota just to see Dan Booblitz at one o’clock because it wasn’t actually yesterday.
It’s today, Dan Booblige Junior. Building a better ePK for your success. Hey, it’s still good and you miss it. How about a plane you got till one o’clock? What time zone in South Dakota you can make it?
Do it? I don’t know if you could do it now, I’m curious. All right, South Dakota time zone. They’re in Mountain Okay, all right, so let me get a flight from Newark to South Dakota to Sue Falls. Let’s see.
Well for me from Newark, I don’t know where you live, but for me from Newark Airport. It’s eight hours and thirty five minutes with a connecting flight. So if you downloaded the podcast as soon as they’re released it at three or five am, you listen to it. We’re a few minutes in. So say it’s like three fifteen in the morning, you’ve got eight hours.
That make it eleven o’clock. You get two time zones back. You can make Dan boob what’s this thing? If you want to six o’clock snow Laughing matter. It’s a comedy showcase.
Talked about this yesterday. I love ten comedian shows. That one’s at six o’clock the big show tonight Miss Shannon you know her from nick Mom’s Night Out and Laughs on Fox eight thirty at the Spellbound Magic Shop and Theater. Then at eleven o’clock, Jam’s keeping me up late tonight eleven o’clock. Another one of those ten comedian showcases.
I love ten comedian showcases. The Snowtime Comedy Showcase ten comedians from around the country. Among the comedians, Reva Riley, DC based comedian who got her comedy start in London where she performed at Downstairs at the King’s Head. What a great name for a place. She was also a semi finalist in the UK national competition, So you think You’re funny.
She’s also performed at the North Carolina Comedy Festival snow Jam previously and the Boston Comedy Festival, also a great fest. Mike Hammick is also on the bill. His submitted bio says, Hey, I’ve been a comic for ten plus years. I currently run the new talent program at three E’s in Colorado Springs. I featured for Nick Thune, Tommy Davidson, Taylor Thomason, Nicka Stephano, Alex Moffett, Vinnie Montez, Chris Katan, Monte Franklin dot dot dot.
That is a nice resume there, snow Jam Comedy Festival. Check it out SnO Jam Comedyfest dot com. Maybe you’re not gonna hop on a plane right now, but they’ll do this festival again next year. Put it on your radar, plan and advance. That nineties show came out on Netflix.
Did they cancel it yet? Because they cancel everything. That’s why I don’t start shows on Netflix. They’re gonna give it one season and cancel it. Hopefully I’m wrong.
The Hollywood Reporter said, for every well considered wonder years, there’s a stilted How I Met Your Father, And this is the approach chosen by Netflix’s seventies show. Spent off that nineties show. No one is likely to describe the new sitcom as a bold take on the source and material, or praise its originality and bravery. It aims for nothing much more ambitious than recreating the low key charm of its predecessor, but it hits its target with enough confidence consistency to become a treat in its own right. All right, that’s not a bad review, right, one of those things not really aspiring to be anything other than what it is.
Dav Club called this version basically a xerox version of the original, only now we’re anchored by Eric and Donna’s daughter Leia, who decides to spend the summer of nineteen ninety five with her grandparents and learns in the process that she’s well suited to spending her days getting high in the basement while pining away for a cute boy and bonding with her next door neighbor, Gwen. If you grew up watching the seventies show, you’ll likely have no way of assessing whether that nineties show works on its own. Maybe it can’t, and maybe it doesn’t even want to. All right, those are fair reviews. That doesn’t sound horrible and from Deadline.
Michael Lair was a sketch, improv and stand up performer. His credits included The Second City. He has died of complications from als he was forty four. Lara kept performing even after his twenty seventeen diagnosis, appearing in Austin clubs in a wheelchair. He talked openly about his struggles with the disease on stage and on the comedy podcast Killed Tony.
Lair was selected as a new face of comedy at the twenty fourteen Just for Last Festival. On his last night at the Second City, he hired a tattoo artist to give him a tattoo of a brown line L train on his back. During his final improv set. Michael was terminally ill and chose to end his life with the assistance of a doctor. His life partner and caregiver, Collette Montague, said Michael died with dignity on his own terms medical aid and dying was the hardest decision he ever made.
Joe Rogan said on Instagram the urge this man had to do stand up while battling a dability hitting disease was insanely impressive and though he struggled to get words out, man he would kill on stage. He was a real legend and I’m gonna miss him very much. Lair himself joked, he said, I have als one question where they f did all that ice bucket money go? Michael Lair was forty four, And that’s your company news for today. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A?
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