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The Shark Deck. David Spade was speaking to the Things dot com forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Johnny mc it’s Daily Comedy US. David Spade was talking to the Things dot com about his comedy and he said, look, these aren’t my hardcore beliefs. This is me saying something to shock or surprise you, to elicit a laugh.
If I say the five jokes were allowed to say, that’s been approved by the world, and who’s laughing. Since the Will Smith incident, I feel there’s a change in the air. The invisible barrier between audience and stage has been broken, but clearly the grace period is over. I think all performers will hit first and ask questions later. If someone comes at them, even if it’s a juggler, you might get a bowling pin across the temple.
I’m from an air of comedy where you were supposed to push things. That was the whole idea, and people would go and sort of escape to hear comics and laugh and it’s all good fun, and I would poke fun at people and move on. But it’s got to be a very tricky business in general.
And then one more wave was after the Oscars, so everybody has an opinion.
With the invention of Twitter, you don’t just hear general opinions. You hear one at a time from everyone on the planet. You realize you’re never gonna please everyone, and they’re gonna let you know. Overall, I wanted to stay true to what I did, and I have people that know what I do, people that don’t like me. I don’t know if I can flip them with this meeting his recent special.
It’s a fine line between being able to make fun of everyone and having to stay away from people. Some people, some religions, some places would be like, hey, treat me like everyone else, and make fun of me like everyone else, and respect me like everyone else. It’s all just a level playing field. Ideally. Now it’s not in reality, and everyone shies away from everything.
I think with someone like Sylvester Stallone, white poke fun at but actually really like in real life, there’s no malice or anger or vitriol. Caitlyn Jenner, I’ve met and perfectly cool. So my angle was more than names and making fun of myself. You also spoke about Dave Chapelle and said I respect Chapelle, and I respect most comedians. I think we’re all friends.
It will proven otherwise. It’s a nice little community. If you like comedy and you go to comedy clubs, there’s people saying stuff you wouldn’t believe, but they’re not famous enough to get canceled. Tom Papa, he’s in my brain. He recently spoke to Salon about the phrase appreciate you, which I used three times last night.
I’ve been noticing I use it since Papa talked about it. I like it. I picked it up from one of my kids. But in his new book, Tom Papa talked about how people say appreciate you. Papa said, it became very popular.
It works though. When the phrase first showed up, you’re like, oh, that’s nice. No one said they appreciate me. But now it’s been overused Johnny Mack, and now you’re like, no, you don’t. Salon asked Tom.
In the book, you say I love people, you also have to deal with rude people every step of the way. How do you separate those two things. You don’t seem cranky, and Papa said, no, I get cranky. If I get tired, I get cranky. But I do love people, and I try to cut them slack when I’m out.
When I was younger, I had less patience, so I was more aggravated traveling. And if people were rude, now, just realize they’re just bumbling around. They can’t see this is their first time in the airport all year. Oh, Ton’s like me, I lose my mind. Have your act together.
At the gate and we’re scanning your luggage. Get it together. And when we get on the plane, oh my god, will you just open the thing, throw it back in and sit down. And when we’re deboarding, oh my goodness, get up, open the thing, your bag out, let’s go. I lose my mind.
Tom, you’re a better man than me. So I said, this is their first time in the airport all year. If you have a little bit of sense of humor about it, you can cut them some slack. I can’t, Tom, I can’t. It doesn’t mean that I’m in this blissful state of loving them all.
There are sometimes you want to strangle somebody, especially if they’re being overtly rude. I was on a flight yesterday. Everybody’s waiting and there’s gonna be a pre board. There’s gonna be fifty people that do that. This one guy who was like a house flaw.
He was gonna board before everybody. He kept trying, and everyone’s looking at him. He’s violating the social contract of all of us. He’s trying to jump the line. You could feel everybody getting aggravated.
I’m watching him. I’m like, I hope he doesn’t make it. I really hope he doesn’t make it. They finally got past the pre boards and when he tried, they turned him back, and he’s gonna go back through the crowd. It was so satisfying, It felt so good.
It was a little triumph. Salon also spoke to Roy Wood Junior that whole cancel culture comedians are under attack topic, and Roy said, I don’t feel like comedians are under attack. Every comedian that people say has been canceled, it’s making good money. They’re showing up to cities and people are still paying money to see them. Yeah, you might not get as many specials, you might not get the glitzie TV show, you might not get to host a thing, But the end of the day, as a performer, if the public still wants to pay money to sit in that chair, you’re getting people in twenty twenty three to come out in public and still sit We’re in a TikTok attention span generation, so if you still have that level of pull, then no amount of outrage can take that away.
If anything, it makes people more intrenched in liking you because you’re attacking the thing they love. So I’m really going to show you how much I love it. I don’t think we’re in a situation that’s any different than Lenny Bruce and George Carlin getting arrested for saying whatever words society he didn’t want them to say on stage at the time. I don’t think George Carlin got arrested. I’m not here to nit pick Roy, but like I don’t have that in my brain, and having watched the Carlin dock last summer, I don’t think Carlin was arrested for saying things on stage.
Just as an aside, none attack on Roy. But when you look at the idea that I can’t say something, no I can say it. As a performer, I have to be prepared for groans and except that that’s part of the game. Some performers, in my opinion, are mad that people are mad. They ever right to be mad.
Just shut up into your job. The people rock with it, will show up and like you. You can’t get mad that a corporation pulled you off a show, because if a tweet you made the corporations trying to please everybody, the corporations like of trying to get people to watch my network mffer while you’re talking crazy on Twitter, You’re gun say at the streets and find that people like you and charge some forty dollars plass ticket master fees. It’s awards seasons. There’s a lot of articles about, hey, remember this cool thing we made.
We showed an award right The La Times did one of those about weird the Al Yankovic story, which is fantastic if you haven’t watched it. Director Eric Appelle said, we had to make a lot of choices in prep to make our days. Talking about shooting schedule, our approach was to be as economical as possible with what we were shooting. An example of that is the wonderful scene featuring and if you haven’t seen the movie, listen to the scene. There’s Wolfman Jack who’s played by Jack Black, Andy Warhol, Conan O’Brien, Salvador, Dolly Emo, Phillips, Pee Wee Herman played by Jorma tacone Alice Cooper played by Kivas Schaefer, and Queen bassist John Deacon played by David dest Malchion, who Daniel Radcliffe says, steals the scene.
I agree the urgency of this shooting schedule something Daniel Radcliffe felt comfortable, and he said if there had been more time, I would have been nervous performing the songs. Appell said, we did get about a week of prep time with Daniel before shooting, but I think what captures the live energy the performances is that we can only do them a couple of times, so it was almost like we were doing them live. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are out on the road. They spoke to the Hollywood reporter who pointed out, Hey, there’s no LA or New York dates in this latest batch. Are you forcing us to go to Vegas to see the show?
Tina Fey said, I would never force anyone to go to Vegas, but I might force you to go to Austin. Amy said, I do think we’re going to do New York in LA later, probably for a longer run. We just have to figure that out. While how are you pacing the dates? Guys?
Tina said, we definitely work backwards from school calendar first and foremost, Amy said, and then our professional obligations. But it’s been cool landing in a city for three or four days to do a bunch of shows together in a pocket, rather than being out on the road for months and months at a time. They just played Atlantic City. How does that crowd compare to, say, Chicago? Amy said, Atlantic City is its own country.
Tina said, there’s not that much difference. But we’re learning that some cities really like hearing jokes about themselves. Amy says that Boston loves hearing of jokes about Boston. Amy said, yeah, if you’re in Boston, every time you mentioned the word Boston or any town near Boston, you’re golden. Whereas Atlantic City wasn’t so much like this is your hometown.
It was like you’ve driven to this casino and that it’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, what are you gonna do? You’re gonna smash the light button? John, Why do you keep saying that?
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