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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, i’man Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Chelsea Handler commented on her ex boyfriend Joe Coy hosting the Golden Globes. Chelsea, who has hosted similar events, said, comedians who’d love to be thought of in the same light as these A listers, but we just aren’t. You may recall that one time Joe Coy made a mean, horrible joke about Taylor Swift.
Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. April Fool. Hi, it’s actually Johnny Mack. Thank you Mike Chisholm for a really kind of stupid lame break of the show.
I scot back at Happy April Fool’s Day to you, Okay. Your comedy news for today. From Boston Positive dot Com, Donnel Rawlings talked about legacy and he says it’s interesting because people say, what’s your legacy gonna be? You never know because you won’t be here to experience it. He pointed out.
Entertainment Weekly is a list of the top one hundred television shows in the history of television, Donnell says, and I was part of two shows that were considered to be in the top one hundred, can you name them? One being the Wire to Chappelle Show. I get people sometimes you have people that are negative and they’re like, what has he done since Chappelle’s show. I’ve done a lot. I’m not going to be apologized for being on one of these shows that people consider one of the greatest shows in TV history.
So people could say that I’ve already made history. I’m not trying to rewrite history. I’m not trying to out do Chappelle show. I’m just trying to maintain a level of consistency, a level consistent with my stand up, my acting stuff, and just keep it moving. People call me day day on the streets.
They call me Ashley Larry, they call me beautiful, but they call me so at the end of the day, I’m winning. The Irish Times saw Ricky Gervas and Dublin last week. They didn’t like it two stars out of five. Ouch shock humor wears thin as comedian shares message of defiance. The Irish Times tells us Jerves ticks his edgy boxes, firing out one liners about dead children, Islam, rape, pedophilia, and suicide.
Boy, there’s some fun topics after anything particular severe, he makes sure to leave space for guilty laughter, digging his toes in and spluttering convincingly the willing audience swirms into cackles. Plenty of it is just stark imagery. Somewhere along the way, Derveas seems to have lost sight of the fact that the joke can both offend people and separately not to be very funny. One of the plus points, writes to Dublin Times, is that Mortality moves away from Jervas’s rightly condemned transphobic material. It is self deprecating moments too, particularly around the loose threat of aging that occasionally links the show to it’s titled.
Towing the line between blowhard and butt of the joke traditionally was one of Jervas’s big strengths. It’s a snappy set that fills out towards the end with a series of drawn out anecdotes from his time hosting The Golden Globes, an odd story about homophobic soccer chance aimed at Elton John. Before his encore, Jervas shares a celebratory message of defiance with the audience. We pushed back and we won, so f them two stars out of five. Tom Popa spoke to Seattle Magazine about how the industry has changed.
Papa said, it’s great now. There used to be a lot of gatekeepers. Now you can build your own crew directly with your audience through podcasts, YouTube and specials. The great thing about stand up is if you’re funny and the people like it, that’s it. You don’t need anyone to let you in.
It’s been great for me in younger comics who wouldn’t have been heard twenty years ago. Now they have an opportunity because there’s no denying it. Tom spoke about mentoring younger comedians. I always take them on the road with me. I like telling people what they should do with their lives, so whenever someone asks for advice, I’m happy to give it.
Good question here, Tom, If you weren’t a comedian, what would you be, Papa said? Sometimes I think I’d be in sales because I like talking to people, but I wouldn’t be a hard sell guy. Another dream is to work for a community newspaper, writing the funny column in the back for a small beach down. Tom. When you bomb, what’s the first thing you do?
Tom says, walk directly into my car or my room, Just get me out of there. Advice for other comics when it bombs, Papa says, it happens once in a while. It’ll happen if I do a corporate gig or something and it’s a culture that wasn’t looking for comedy, or if they just got bad news and you have to get up there do your thing and it doesn’t work forever reason, I guess my only advice would be, it’s not a huge reflection on you. If you’re funny twenty times in a row and your bomb once, it’s probably the circumstance, not you. But if you bomb again tomorrow, then maybe you should start to worry.
Sarah Silverman spoke to the Maui News, your home for comedy News, and she talks about being a child. I would say the things that informed my life the most was my dad teaching me swear words when I was a toddler. I’d scream them out at the supermarket and I would get the reaction of approval, like adults giving me wild approval despite themselves. That felt addicting to me, especially early in my career. Surprise was a big element I loved having.
Also being a bedwetterer well into my teens informed a lot because nothing felt scared to me after that. Nothing intimidated me. After that, I’d been through the height of humiliation teenage bedwetting. I wasn’t intimidated by the thought of bombing or being laughed at for the wrong reasons. None of that scared me, so it prepared me for a perfect life in comedy.
New topic from Sarah, doing politics in comedy. That’s something I even struggle within this very podcast because it tends to come up every day, and I’m not trying to annoy anyone. I’m just telling you what’s happening in the news. Sarah saysn’t been thinking about it a lot. I’ve always been pretty political, and it’s become so overwhelming, and I’m not going to give up on it per se or anything.
I do feel that my job as a comedian has more than ever for me anyway, and then if I can keep people laughing at times like this, that’s a job well done. Andrew Schultz told The Hollywood Reporter he found his fertility journey funny from the beginning. Schultz explains, I remember the first time we had sex to have a baby. I’d come back from Burning Man. I remember my wife being like, Okay, let’s start.
I remember there was a little part of me that was like, that sperm is like half Molly. I’d be fine if it didn’t work this month, That’s what I said to myself. But then you start spiraling. What if the kid ended up being a serial killer? Is because I’m doing crazy drugs at Burning Man.
So that was the first time, but then it didn’t work for a few months. I started talking on stage about what a lie it all is, this idea of just practice safe sex and all this other stuff they tell you that. I was terrified about my whole life. I just felt like I had wasted so much stress throughout my life. Interesting, right at that point, I didn’t know there’s anything wrong with my Sperm’s dude, you’re so arrogant you can’t imagine there being anything wrong with it.
That’s how arrogant I was. The night before we both got checked, I prayed it was my fault because I didn’t want my wife to deal with the heartbreak. Wow, that’s powerful. She was already telling me her theory. She’d be like, I had my laptop on my stomach when i’d watch movies as a kid, and that’s at my ovaries.
And then I remember the doctor telling us that hers were perfect and that my sperm sucks. Even that was a funny moment because I was like, Ah, of all the things I prayed for in my life, the amount of snow days when I did my homework done, this is the one you answer. Then the weirdest thing would happen. There’d be guys that come up to me after a show and they’d be like fireman guys. They’d be like, hey, man, those really funny stuff.
I was like, oh, thanks, man, Yeah, I really like that. Man, glad you’re talking about that. At first, they wouldn’t say they went through it, but the amount of people that would message me was wild, and I started to go, wait a minute, or people having trouble getting pregnant. You gotta understand. I didn’t know this was an issue at all.
It was just like an issue for me and my wife. But the number of dms that’d get it was like, Wow, this is the last thing that people are uncomfortable talking about. The last taboo thing, and I get it. It’s so painful. Switching topics.
The Holly Reporter said, you want up filming your special at the Beacon in New York. You were supposed to do it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. What happened? Schultz said, it was supposed to be at BAM and then I don’t know. Everything seemed fine and then we had Trump on the podcast and they were like, yeah, we talked to the board.
THHR was curious, was that the only fallout from having Trump on the show? Andrews said, well, I think the negative of getting involved in anything like politics or religion is that you’re either a he hezo or a villain. The Toronto Guardians spoke with Emily Jeffers, who describes her comedy style as I do clown work, which if you’ve never seen a clown show before, is a bit different from sketcher improv that there’s no fourth wall, so the clown is always aware of the audience and how they’re reacting. I develop my shows to have a repeatable structure or sequence, but there’s room for improvising or adapting or whatever’s happening in the room during any given performance, so each show’s a little different. My work is usually character driven, very playful, and physical.
The vibe is generally a healthy mix of strange, charming, and joyful without being sacering or infantilizing. I think we need more of that. Right now, you’ve heard me talk for the last week and a half. I’m kind of bored with comedy right now. Maybe I need to go clown.
Who are your influence is, Emily Jeffers. Emily says, probably the cartoons I watch as a kid. A lot of my humor and aesthetic choices can be traced back to Looney Tunes, Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons, and the film Fantasia. Favorite comedian growing up, Jim Carrey. But I also watch a lot of Monty Python and Kids in the Hall.
Favorite comedian right now, may mark? Favorite bit you’ve written and why are we proud of it? Good answer? Here, beat Bats. I had a bit where I was flying in slow motion to the theme music from BBC’s Planet Earth.
By the end of the sequence, I was fairly out of breath. They exhaled sharply and accidentally ejected my rubber batfangs from my mouth and directly out of the middle of the stage. The room lost it as I just stared at my teeth on the floor. I think what I’m proud of is that I was able to hold onto the moment and stay in character while I used my tiny batthands to get my teeth back in my mouth. It was a beautiful gift from the clown gods, and I will spend the rest of my performing career at chasing that high.
How do you find new comedians, she says, I love a good Instagram doom scroll. That’s how I came across folks like otsko At Kotzka, Rosie Jones and beiswa Kelian Wrath. I’m not familiar with Rath sortier a pai, which I said in perfect French right there. I don’t know why you’re eyrolling me. You’re home for comedy news in France, they previewed the April twenty twenty five Paris comedy scene.
John, is it a slow news day? No, I don’t know why you think that at all. I gave you a three forty five minute shows over the weekend. What do you want for me? The Marco Polo Comedy Club will be welcoming both big name comedy stars testing out their new jokes and the next generation of French stand up.
Eric Duponmretti will be at the Marine Theater until June fifteenth. Now you know Eric, he is the former Minister of Justice. RSS dot com took a look at the top trending celebrity podcast in every state, and some of them were by comedians. Is it a slow news state? John?
Now, I have no idea what you guys keep asking me that. Stop asking me that question. Arkansas Office Ladies, California, Conan, DC, which is not a state at all. RSS dot com Las Culturistas, Hawaii’s in a SmartLess Idaho likes the Office Ladies, Illinois likes Conan, Iowa likes Fly on the Wall, Main’s Into Office Ladies, Minnesota, Fly on the Wall, Missouri Office Ladies, Nebraska, Fly on the Wall, New Mexico, Office Ladies, Nevada, Conan, Ohio’s Into Threedom, Oklahoma Office Ladies, Oregon, Conan, pennsylvani And how did this get made? Vermont Office Ladies, Virginia Threedom Washington, How this get made?
West Virginia, Smortless Wisconsin Conan. These are the top trending celebrity podcasts in each state and out today on Netflix. Nimeish Patel his new stand up special Instant Karma Bttel, dives deep into the experience of growing up as a first generation Indian American. Patel explains, my parents spent two hundred thousand dollars in me to get a degree in finance. Zero return on that investment.
And that is your comedy news today. That was jam pack with news, guys, I mean shure. The amount of story step up today just incredible. I’ll have to save some of them for tomorrow because I can’t possibly squeeze any more actual news into today’s show. So I’ll see you tomorrow.