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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Most of the news is related to the after parties at the Emmys. I’ll cover that in the second half. That leaves me some room for something I wanted to address.
Zach joined us on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. You are highly encouraged to join us. Just post something and I’ll approve you relatively quickly. We had to put up a gate because we were getting a lot of porn bots joining the conversation. We don’t want them.
But Zack’s not a porn bot. And he said, I have a question. I’ve been listening for a while. Maybe I missed an episode, but what makes something a special or not a special? And I loved this question, and I put some thought into it, and I posted a response in the Facebook group, but I wanted to talk about it on the podcast.
I do think there’s some subjectivity here. You know. It’s kind of like, I’ll just mention for the second time today, porn. You kind of know what when you see it, A naked statue is not porn. And at some point, I guess if you pose this, that’s you in a certain way, it would become born to ish.
So I started with what’s not a special? And I think the word special is being thrown around to mean anything where somebody is holding a microphone and telling jokes. The words being thrown around by comedians for anything that’s over ten minutes. You’ll see comics on social media. Go check out my special on YouTube.
And I think on a sliding scale, at some point we cross over from hey, my friend film my club set and I posted on YouTube. That’s at one end of the scale, and on the other end of the scale, Chris rock is live on Netflix addressing the slap right, so that’s clearly a special. And me going up with the chuckle hut and filming ten minutes on a single camera and posting it on YouTube not a special. So along that grade, where does it cross the line? I think we almost have to use a points system, and I’ll explain.
So the words special to me goes back to the eighties when HBO would be like, here’s a special, and it’s George Carlin at Carnegie Hall and it’s on HBO and you got to pay to get HBO, like that was a special, or even something like Bob hope doing four of them a year around the holidays. But it was on NBC and they promoted the heck out of it, and it was a big deal. Those were specials. A lot of the things that are out there now should probably just be called hours, all right, So what makes it a special to me? And you’ll have to assign some sort of points here.
It’s some combination of the theater and often a legacy theater in a town like the Fox Theater in Atlanta, or if say you did a show at the VIC in Chicago or the Chicago Theater like one of those Radio City So I think the theater factors in a stadium clearly would help make your cause for a special. The production values, How is it shot? Is it just a single cam at a club? Is it multi shoot? Did somebody put some work into it?
Possibly where it airs? I maybe unfairly take something more seriously if it airs on HBO or Netflix as opposed to just YouTube. But that might just be the old man in me, and things are changing. That said, I think if YouTube went all in and said, hey, Jim Gaffigan has a live special at eight o’clock on Saturday night on YouTube, I think that would be a special, and add to this some subjective ranking of how established the act is. So the examples I use in the Facebook group, if you told me Jim Gaffigan Netflix, Fox Theater in Atlanta, that’s a special.
Matt Rife on Netflix that might be more of an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work. I’ll give you an opposite example. If Jerry Seinfeld did an hour and it aired on Netflix and he filled it in my garage, that to me would be a special. Is my garage a legendary venue? Not yet, but I think because it was Ooh, Jerry Seinfeld filmed something in a garage that would make it special.
Dave Chappelle in my backyard would be special. Joe List in my backyard, that’s an hour. Great question, Zach, appreciate it and I’m not saying I’m right, And I’d love everyone else’s thoughts on this again. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The South China Morning Post got in on Joe Coy.
Seems some Filipinos have turned on Joe after the Golden Globe’s fiasco. One Twitter user said, my grandma stervived World War two and she’s never seen a Filipino bomb this hard. That got eight thousand likes. Another said Jokoy brought her deep Filipino shame. Another user declared Joe Koy an embarrassment to all Filipinos.
Why because he made a joke about TV covering Taylor Swift at football games? Really, or turn on this guy? I thought he was a hero. A post on Facebook got one hundred and thirty two thousand likes for Joe Coy’s got Cajone’s made of iron to accept that hosting responsibility. That alone deserves a round of applause.
Another influencer on Facebook set accepting the task in the very first place, displays Jocoy’s Filipino courage. Courage is a little strong too. Like I said, I’ll host the Golden Globes cold call me twenty minutes before I’ll throw on a baseball cap and I’ll read the cute cards and you guys can tell me I sucked. I’ll take the gig. I don’t think it’s brave.
Athena Presto is a sociologist at the University of the Philippines. Athena says Joe koy success comes from the fact that Filipinos want representation, especially because of our colonial history. For the longest time, some Filipiinos have been finding it hard to think about a distinct cultural trait that we can call our own. So any affront to Joe Coy is seen as an affront to one’s identity. Cal Fabe, a comedy magician, said Joe Coy was out of his death saying where some of his jokes inappropriate, Sure, but that never stopped people like Ricky Gervais before.
Edward Chico is a Manila based lawyer and a stand up comedian. Edward said, to a certain extent, Joe Coy was responsible for mainstreaming point of view comedy as Filipinos prefer insult based and slapstick comedy. Because of Joe Coy, it’s now easy for stand up comedians like me to find an audience. He paved the way, and I’m thankful to him for that. Daniel Toash commented on Taylor Swift.
This was in December, this before the Golden Globes. Tosh said, here’s what bothers me about Taylor Swift. I love everything about her business, savvy, all of it. I think she’s a genius. But What I want to say is her song, the one song where she goes, we can leave the Christmas lights up till January.
I’m like, that’s only effing five days after Christmas. It’s not a big deal. Five days after Christmas is not worthy of a lyric. Can you believe it? They left their Christmas lights up until January?
Second, he’s referencing her twenty nineteen song Lover. Mark Curry is on Team Kat Williams. Mark was on the Willie d Podcast. At first, he didn’t talk about Steve Harvey by name, but he was addressing a people stealing material. Mark Curry said, if you steal his material, I’m a step to you.
If you’re stealing my crap, fu, I stepped to you. That doesn’t mean it has to be a physical thing. Then he named names and said, take the Steve Harvey thing. It’s a B word move. Maybe he’s not stealing my material, you know, and maybe give him the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe one of his writers did it, but they know we all know whose material it is. It ain’t about the money. Steve Harvey’s got enough money. So it looked like you want some of me, you want to be me? Therefore you ain’t got enough money.
I look at it like, all right, I’m a g in the game. You want to be me, you want my style. In twenty twenty, Steve Harvey told Mark Curry then he needs to grow up and quit with the accusations. Harvey said at the time, Mark Curry needs to grow up. Steve Harvey ain’t been on stage since twenty fifteen.
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s making stuff up. So I’m in peace. The only reason I’m commenting is because he keeps running his mouth. Grow up.
Never stole a joke in thirty five years. Come to me like a man and tell me what the joke is. Mark Curry is currently booked on Cat William’s Dark Tour. That’s Fun, Here’s a weird one. Joy Bayharr was on the view.
Joy Bayharr said she was approached to play the role of Ted Lasso’s mother, and she said she passed on the gig because she didn’t want to travel to London during her heat wave. Joyce said, it was too hot. You remember there was a heat wave going on at the time, like one hundred degree weather, and I have to get on a plane and go to in the middle of the heat. No well. Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt were asked about this.
Sadaikas went Joey Bayhart from the view. Brendan Hunt said, respectfully, it’d be news to us. We just worked there, so I’m gonna claim I’m trying to get in a fight with everybody. I was asked to play ted Lasso’s older brother, but I declined it. It was too hot in London night didn’t feel like getting on a plane.
In filming, Jelly Roll has started a train for a five K. He says, I’m in the woods walking every morning. Why are you bringing it up, Johnny Mack? This is the five K that Bert Krascher and Tom Sagora declared. They’re actually doing this.
Michelle Wolf is in. She said I could get my crap together for five K. Stavros Halkius said, I want to get back in the zone. I’m going to be healthy. Louis C.K.
Said, I’m gonna tell you that I’m gonna do it, then I’m definitely not gonna do it, and he calls the five K by the name. This is watch Bert Die. Jelly Roll is trying to get Zach Bryan to join the five K. Zach Bryan said, We’re all here with you, brother. If I’m not playing, I’ll be there.
Netflix has released the trailer for Adam Sandler’s upcoming sci fi film. It’ll be out in theaters on February twenty third, and then on Netflix March first. It is directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl Chernobyl’s Terrific, But I think director Johann Rink is slumming here. I have shared the trailer in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’m gonna play an excerpt here.
I have scoped this down, meaning I made some edits so that it doesn’t drag, because there’s a lot of very lofty sailor dialogue followed by some pensive shots that’s just music. So I scoped this down a little bit to give you the feel of the excellent dialogue in Adam Sandler’s upcoming film. On behalf of the Eurospace Program, one hundred and eighty nine days into your solo journey, Commander Prahatska, how are you feeling? What I’m doing is for everyone back home and that makes me very proud and your wife Lenka, of course, I’m looking forward to having your home safe and found. Six months of isolation, you’re start thinking, good morning, I’m getting an appearance.
I did not intend to frighten you, skinny human. Do not be afraid I’m losing my mind. You wish to know if I am real. I’ll like you an explorer. Your loneliness intrigued me.
A are you here? I might be of help. I wish to assist you in your emotional distress. I don’t ease your help, but you too. In space, man Adam Sandler is six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar System.
He realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his life, he’s helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. The mysterious creature works with Jacob to make sense of what went wrong before it’s too late. Really all right, let’s look at the Emmys. People noticed when The Daily Show was winning the Emmy and Trevor Noah was speaking, Roywood Junior was behind him and mouthed please hire a host.
He later responded it to post on Twitter, saying, chill fam, I was trying to do that. In the low he included several laughing symbols. The Hollow Reporter tracked roy Wood Junior down after the show, and he said, I was saying, please hire a host. I probably shouldn’t have done it, but it’s been going on too long. Get it together.
But I’m so happy that Trevor won. Trevor said when they announced that we had won, I was like, Ah, Who’s going to replace me? It’s the second thing I thought of as well. I’m still thinking about that and I will continue to think about it as I celebrate this amazing achievement. Does Trevor have any regrets?
He says, when I see everybody here in the same place, I’d gladly come back and work with everyone. However, when I see what my schedule is on Wednesday, I wouldn’t do it. Joel McHale and Ken Jung had some fun at the Emmys at Joe Coy’s expense. Joel McHale joked that the former doctor Ken Jung left his medical career not for acting, but because he’d killed a patient was still facing a lawsuit over it. Ken joked back, the instruments that almost killed that dude were the ones the nurses left in, Okay, the ones that saved his life for the ones I left in.
And besides, I only had the gig for ten days at that point. There’s some debate about the bait. The Bear swept all the comedy awards. I’m a big fan of The Bear, and you know, I’m thinking about it. It’s not a comedy.
Might be the best show on TV. I’m a big fan, but it’s not a comedy. Maybe we’ve gone full circle here to the beginning of the post, and I have to declare, all right, what makes something a comedy? I would say to be a comedy, you have to at least be attempting to make jokes. Like Adam Sandler’s work is terrible, but he’s at least trying to be funny.
I’m not sure The Bear is even trying to be funny. Ivan moss bacharak one supporting actor in a comedy series for the show, and he argued, quote, these ideas about comedy and drama are a little bit outdated. No they’re not. No, they’re not, like, you can’t tell me like True Detective is a comedy. It’s not, he suggested.
We’re all just trying to reflect the mess of being human, which is deeply hilarious, and we’re all suffering. Yes, but that’s not a comedy. Like I’m not about to tell you a story about murders. It’s not what we do here anyway. Your comedy news for today.
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