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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. That’s a sentence. The Spotify algorithm likes Bert Kraser’s show Free Bert is out today on Netflix. The only press I’ve seen him do so far was on Gail King on CBS, and I went to pull the audio and the interview was very CBS this morning, Gail kingy and not interesting at all, So I’m like, forget it.
I’ll just tell them that it’s out today. We’ll see if Bert does any more. Press from lad Bible Comedians speaks out over allegations Ricky Gervay’s stole his joke? Okay, did Ricky Gervas steal a joke? I’m gonna have to do a lot of paraphrasing here as I try to keep it clean.
During his Golden Globe Award winning special, Ricky Gervas started joking about the Exorcist cleaning up Ricky’s joke. He said something like, if scientists actually found the devil, I’d want to meet him, and I’d meet the devil. And he tried to hurt my feelings, and he went, your mother does a whole bunch of things with her mouth in hell, and Ricky’s tag is, I don’t care once she’s dead too, she was heterosexual, and then he goes on to have some fun with that premise. Some comedy fans claim that it was a cut and paste of a joke made by Andy Field back in twenty twenty during BBC’s stand up for Live Comedy. Field’s version, which I’ll also clean up.
Has anyone seen The Exorcist? Your mother, uh does things with her mouth in hell? And you’re supposed to go, oh no, that sounds awful, But I don’t know. I think it sounds fine. It’s hell, isn’t it.
It’s where the most imaginable things happen. There’s a million people burning fraternity in a like a fire, constantly blistering and angity. My mom’s down there doing stuff. Who’s having stuff done to them in hell? Anyway?
That seems like a really positive thing to be happening. Boy, that sounds extremely similar. So Field heard that Gervase might be copying his joke. Field shared a video on social media explaining his opinion. Field splice clips of both are sets together to highlight the similarities and pointed out they’re pretty close.
But the idea that there’s so many bits that are so close is kind of weird, isn’t it. If I’m honest, I think what happens is that Ricky Gervas had the same idea as me, independently on his own at a different time. People love a bit of drama, love a bit of jokestealing Johnny Max guilty. Then I don’t think that’s what happened here. Most likely, Field says, we’ve never met.
I know I did that bit on BBC one, but no one watched it. And I had that idea ten years ago. Ricky Gervas had it quite recently. I don’t think he stole my bit. I think we just have very similar bits, very similar He’s doing a lot of work.
In that sentence, Field took the opportunity to highlight how many talented people there are out there. Lots of people, myself included, can make stand up with that level. There’s not space in the public consciousness for that many successful comedians, but there are that many talented people out there. All right, well played, he got his message across the court of public opinion. Can decide.
Pole Star posted a big, long discussion between Jerry Seinfeld and Nate bergatzi, It’ll take me days to go through this, but let’s start picking away at it. Jerry said, let’s start here with what’s on my mind? What do you have to do with this business that people stop trying to make you laugh? You get these guys and then you say something and you go, I’m kidding. What makes people think I’m gonna riff with Nate a little bit?
I’m as accountant Nate forgets, he said. I get a lot of stories, and I’ll be honest, I enjoyed telling them why their story is not good and what I would do with it. The problem is they get to the punchline almost immediately, and then they don’t know how to get out of it. So then that’s the fun part. I got hit by a car and then it’s like, yo, man, you gotta save that car thing and build up a little bit.
In the middle, they start talking about their wives. Jerry Seinfeld said, my wife’s extremely funny also, but when she’s telling a story, I just keep thinking tighter, just tighter. Nate says, oh, yeah, everything’s tighter. Nothing should be long. The idea of the elevator pitch.
You should think about that all the time, Jerry said, it’s not important for them. It doesn’t matter if it works at dinner or not. Really new topic, Nate said, I was talking to a younger comic like six months in, just recently, and he’s going on and on about his Set’s a bad show he did, and You’re like, I don’t care, man, you’re six months in. Then he stopped and came back to it, and I was like, why don’t you tell it story again one more time. Let’s see how this one ends.
They don’t even realize it because they’re six months in a comedy. Plenty more from those too, you’ll find it on Pollstar. Now, if you listen every day, you know that the President and I don’t see eye to eye on all the issues. Some of them we do like making Late Night great again. Some of them we don’t.
I won’t make that list right now, but we do agree that we have a problem a twelve thirty for sure, and I’m aligned with the President that Stephen Colbert has to go. Now. We have different reasons for that. Mine is Stephen Colbert is one of the comedians helping to absolutely destroy Star Trek. So I have no patience for Stephen Colbert tak Natoro gini yshir or paton oswaldug the Vulcan.
So I’m not at all excited that Stephen Colbert is going to make an appearance on SETH Myers. Why not just yell out the window, Stephen? Why not come on this show? The audience isn’t all that much different. Why would you go on SETH Myers Late Nighter got into the logistics of all this.
Colbert will walk the five blocks from his offices to the Ed Sullivan Theater. I’m pretty sure he’ll be in a town corp of some sort. Anyway, he will somehow travel five blocks on Monday, although right now the forecast for New York City on Monday is somewhere between a nice day and forty thousand inches of snow. Most of you who lives somewhere east of the Mississippi have a similar forecast for this weekend. Are we getting two inches?
Four thousand inches? Who knows? But let’s say there was no snow. Steve Colbert would somehow, maybe by sled, travel five blocks. But John, you just said there was no snow.
Why would he travel by sled if there’s no snow. Your whole premise is busting apart. This is why I need Seinfeld and Nate to tell me how to tell a story. I digress. Colbert somehow don’t worry about the weather.
Somehow he’s gonna go five blocks. You really should edit this, John, but that’s not fun. Colbert will somehow go five blocks from the Ed Sullivan Theater to thirty Rock. At thirty Rock, he will pre tape his appearance to the ninety people who watch Late Night with Seth Myers, and then go back to record his own number one rated late night canceled talk show, The Late Show now Late Nighter points out on Mondays, Seth Myers tapes two episodes covering both Monday and Tuesday, which I’ve discussed in the past on this program. I find it curious the Colbert people didn’t take that option.
You know, maybe stop off at some budget cuts before we cancel the thing entirely. But maybe it’s for the best because Stephen Colbert is helping to ruin Star Trek. But I digress. Sarah Silverman shared a not Safe for Work anecdote from her days on Saturday Night Live. Sarah went on Late Night with Seth Myers.
Why are people doing this program? You think I’m being mean? Here here’s from Late Night or October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Here are final late night ratings for Q three. Late Night with Seth Myers average nine hundred and twenty three thousand total viewers and one hundred and nine thousand in the eighteen to forty nine s Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman could actually stand on a box in Times Square and reach more people.
That is not at all a joke. Make Late Night great again. Come on, President Trump, You’re focusing on the wrong issues. You’re totally distracted all week. You’ve been totally distracted with crazy things.
You need to focus on this late night issue. Sarah Silverman said she was there at SNL fifty with John Lovett’s Paul McCartney was about to perform. Sarah said she and Lovitz made a bet before Paul began his set. She said, John Lovetts leans over and he goes, if I can guess what song he’s going to sing, will you show me a picture of your privates? He used a different word, but not as bad as you think.
The one with the V he used that word, or at least that’s the version Sarah tells. Who knows what he actually said. Sarah told the seven people that watched Seth Myers absolutely deal love its correctly guessed Golden Slumbers. Sarah did not say whether she made good on the bet. Hey BET’s a bet.
Keenan Thompson is getting back together with Kel Mitchell. They’re making yet another movie. It’s not Good Burger three. Oh No, They’re making a horror comedy. Keenan and Kel meet Frankenstein, which makes me wonder, why doesn’t Sandler do that?
Why are we doing Adam Sandler meets Frankenstein? Adam Sandler meets the Mummy? Why is Sanlor not doing ten of those? That’s kind of comedian Adam Sandler’s destiny, right do whatever Adam did accept, it’s Adam Sandler. Let me look those up.
Ma’s a little loose today, you know, I’m looking here at the IMDb. Sailor could remake all kinds of movies. Could you see Adam Sandler in a remake of Buck Privates? Adam Sandler could play a sidewalk salesman enlisting in the army to avoid jail, only to find that his drill instructor is the police officer who had him imprisoned. You could see that?
Could you see? Adam Sandlor in hold that Ghost? After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, a dim witted service station attendant finds himself stranded in a haunted house. Does that not scream? Adam Sandler?
Here come the co Eds. A bumbler played by Adam Sandler could become the caretaker at an all girls college. During his misadventures, he raises money to free the school from its traditionally minded landlord. Could you not see that? Adam Sandler meets Frankenstein.
The Wolfman tries to warn a dim witted porter that Dracula wants his brain for frankenstein Monster’s body. I mean, does that not scream? Adam Sandlor? Movie? Adam Sandler in The Foreign Legion.
In this Abbot and Constella remake, a Brooklyn wrestling promoter ghost of French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler, but accidentally ends up in the French Foreign Legion. Could you not see that? Could you not see? Adam Sandler meets the Invisible Man? How about Adam Sandler and the Beanstalk in this app and Costello remaking a story about Adam Sandler who trades the family cow for magic beans.
I think I’ve made my point. Move on, although I am distracted by Adam Sandler goes to Mars and Adam Sandlor meets Captain Kid, Adam Sandler meets Doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde. Adam Sailor meets the Mummy. Where were we? Oh?
Keenan Thompson was making a movie. I try not to hand in the same show every day. Guce. Keenan Thompson was making a movie. This is called Keenan and Kel Meet Frankenstein.
Keenan said, Kell and I have always loved finding new ways to work together, and this project felt like the perfect mix of nostalgia, comedy and something completely unexpected. We’re excited to bring a fresh take on a classic monster story and have some fun doing it. There’s more Podcasting Awards, which is something I could say every single day. There’s so many podcasts awards. These are the Ambies presented by the Podcast Academy, which sounds really fancy.
Thirty three categories Best Comedy Podcast. The nominees are Conan O’Brien needs a friend, be not so canceled, Last Culturistas, something called Murder at the Pateel Motel, SmartLess, The Bald and the Beautiful, The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr, which is not a good podcast, and I like Jimmy Carr despite the whole odd thing that is not a good podcast. And Wisecrack. I don’t know what wisecrack is and I don’t care now. Podcast of the Year, Real Quick Call Her, Daddy, Crime Junkie, Pablo Tory, Podsave America, Question Everything, Reveals, SmartLess, the last invention of the Mel Robins podcast, and Wisecrack once again, must be a good show.
I’d better look this up now now if it’s nominated for everything? What is Wyse Crack Wise Crack from Tenderfoot? Now? I know the Tenderfoot guys. They are good people.
I know Donald and Donald hands in good work. Okay, this is just off my radar because I don’t work with them anymore. You can check my resume. I work with them. He left home as the chubby kid with a dream.
A decade later, he’s a touring comic with a killer set.
All right, let’s give it to that because I like Donald Anyway, you may be not…
She just won the Golden Globe for Best Podcast. She’s not even nominated. What’s the deal with that. Entertainment Weekly looked into it and apparently they confirmed with a source at Spotify that Spotify historically does not submit for awards. If you’re enjoying this program today, God bless you, and you would like it without commercials.
What thing you can do? You open up your Apple podcast app. I’ll do it with you. I got my phone right here. Okay, I’m gonna swipe up and I’m gonna find the podcast app after I enter my code.
I’m not telling you what my code is. Podcast app. So I go to shows, Daily, Comedy News. There it is, and then there’s this banner. It says uninterrupted listening for ninety nine a month or forty nine ninety nine for a year after trial try free.
Now, if I were to click that, I would find that there are forty six shows on the callirog Shark Network, and I would get them all ad free for five a month. Actually there’s more than forty six. We don’t have everything on the ad free tier. For reasons, there are forty six and they add free tier. So if you’re like, hey, I heard John also host good news stories, I’d like that without commercials.
That would be part of your five bucks. And the best part thirty day free trial. So for thirty days you could just try it out, and then on day thirty one when Apple’s like, hey, we build you five bucks, you’d be like, damn. John told me that on January twenty second, and I forgot, and I’ll be like, I don’t know. I don’t want to tell you it was thirty day free trial.
I never said it was more than thirty day free trial. After thirty days, it’s five bucks a month, all right? Apple Podcasts Uninterrupted Listening, you click, you know what to do. Today’s the last day to vote for a week three of Comedy Survivor. Last time I checked, it looked like either Tig Nataro or Joe Koy was going to go home.
I don’t weigh on these things. You know, one host of the Golden Globes one time until a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. The other is destroying Star Trek. I don’t get to vote. I only get to tell you the results.
So vote and then sometime tomorrow I will record the episode, and then you’ll get the episode on Monday, hopefully at noon. Now, last week, some idiot named Johnny mack forgot to schedule it for noon, and out of habit scheduled it for three oh five Eastern, So you got the results a little early, doesn’t really matter. I did want to apologize for running out the door on you guys yesterday. That was a true story. The boiler Guy did show up.
We’ve been having if you’ve been listening every day, we’ve been having all kinds of problems with the heat this winter. And the boiler Guy was coming. And I knew what the forecast was. I mean, I woke up this morning it was four degrees where I lived. That is not a joke.
It is twenty six right now, and here are the lows for the upcoming week. Now, tomorrow’s low is twenty one, not too bad, but then eight, nine, five, five, nine, ten, and twelve. So I wanted to make sure the boiler was working. So as much as I wanted to tell you about Martin Schwort’s new documentary, I was like, they can wait till tomorrow, no offense. I can’t do this if I freeze to death, so let me go a little more slowly today.
That documentary is called Marty Life Is Short. It’ll be out on Netflix in May. Directed by Lawrence Casten, the documentary includes never before seen archive footage as well as interviews with some of the most established and beloved stars. Martin Short has no plans to retire. He till the Hollywood Quarterback in June.
I’m not a believer in retirement just based on a number. It’s designed for people who don’t really like their job and they want to relax, so they’re tired, or they just want to do something else. But I like my job. That’s a good attitude.
Also, when the boiler guy came, I didn’t get to tell you about Russell Brand.
His case was heard at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court. Brand was facing two new counts, one of rape and one of sexual assault. Russell appeared via video link from the United States. He was granted bail in December. A detective chief over at the Metropolitan Police said the women who have made reports, including those connected to the two new charges, continued to receive support from especially trained officers The METS investigation remains ongoing, and detectives urge anyone affected by this case, or anyone with information to come forward and speak with police.
Separate from that, Russell Brand is facing allegations of sexual offenses against four other women, the trials coming up in June. Oh, here’s an awful segue. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla, Cameron sp Bosito has a new special. You go watch it and when you see the name of the special you be You’ll see why I’m just choosing not to tell you the name of the special year. Cameron Esposito’s new special on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.
Also out today, Janet McNamara will release her debut comedy album, Not Smart Enough via PGF Records. We’re told Janet’s idiosyncratic perspective and finely tuned joke writing have distinguished her as a captivating headlining act, a fantastic comic with an amazing delivery and enviable timing of very unique people. Bill Burr has shared clips of Janet’s stand up online for her debut album, Janet hit the stage at the Gutter in Brooklyn to discuss workplace annoyances. Why sex is stupid, and how various health professionals have suggested she get tested for autism. Coming out in February, Troy Walker, a longtime writer for Jimmy kimmellive he’ll have his debut comedy album Esquire.
That’ll be via Blonde Medicine February twentieth. Walker has been doing stand up for twenty years and has compiled his favorite bits into his debut album, recorded at Comedy Works Denver. On Esquire, Troy Walker touches on everything from racist magazines and peign bot lines to old school drink names, dating rules, and culture. Shock in Paris uses anecdotes, a accents, and honesty to build an album that tells the story of growing up in Denver, the land of legal everything, and moving to la the land of mandatory therapy. And one more.
Comedian and classical musician Isabelle Hagen will unveil her first hour long special, this one called Isabelle Hagen at the Bitter End. This will be on Veeps January twenty eighth. We’re told Isabelle Hagen at the Bitter End features Hagen’s sharp joke writing and offbeat point of view mixed with classical viola playing and original songs drawing from her life as a working classical musician with anxiety. She blends existential humor and raunchy anecdotes with Bach and Mozart. That’s different, I like different.
Bart Coleman is viep’s head of comedy, and Bart Coleman said, Isabelle is a singular talent who perfectly embodies the intersection of world class comedy and live music. At VEEPS, we’re always looking for specials that feel at home alongside our concert programming, and the way Isabelle weaves her viola mastery into her stand up is both seamless and incredibly fresh. One more thing I wanted to observe because I ran out the door yesterday because the Boiler Guy game. Aside from the Netflix Festival just being incredibly huge and having all the big names, what really impressed me was how they got all the comedians social media to coordinate during the noon hour the other day, all the comedians were like, Hey, I’m gonna be the Netflix Festival. Have you ever worked with a comedian?
You know how hard it is to get them to do anything like that. Now. I know they have people, but just to get the comedian to agree to anything. I’m really impressed. Like this was really, really, really well coordinated by the Netflix PR team, so nice job all around.
All Right, that’s enough for today. See I have heat, so I don’t mind talking to you guys for half an hour. That’s your comedy news for today. Go vote Comedy Survivor. I almost tried to steer you one way or another, but you do you.
I’m gonna edit the show and upload it and maybe go watch Star Trek if you know what I mean.