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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with today’s Daily Comedy News. What’s going on with Kevin Hart? Bloomberg reports the days after Thanksgiving, Kevin Hart’s production company laid off about twenty people. That’s about one quarter of its workforce.
So eighty people working for Kevin Hart’s production company. Not too shabby, but not too long after. The chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief content officer of Heartbeat all departed. The departures are called amicable, but followed a disagreement about the direction of the company. I hey, Kevin, when your top three folks are like, yeah, no, there’s something going wrong here, I think, Bloomberg writes, Kevin had ambitions of building something more than a production company.
He wasn’t content to be a famous multimillionaire. He wanted to be a billionaire. He formed a separate company, laugh out Loud, to create comedy videos for the Internet. He built an advertising business with clients like Lift and Procter and Gamble. He produced videos and podcasts for Sirious, and he was a media entrepreneur before many of his premieres.
He formed Heartbeat in twenty twenty two, merging all his businesses under one roof pretty interesting. If he’s laying off that many people in the top three folks departed, that does not sound good. New York Theater dot Com reviewed Gary Golman’s new show, Grandiloquent. They give it four stars out of five. Writing comedian Gary Goleman delivers an uproarious description of his troubled childhood and this one man’s show.
It’s titled Grand Delinquent, the definition of which, to the comedian hopefully provides. In the course of the evening, Gary says the word means the use of extravagant or flowerly language, especially when intended to impress. Sporting a prominent goatee that makes him look like a hip university professor, his delivery of perfectly crafted one liners is frequently accompanied by sly smiles acknowledging the resulting laughs. He knows how good he is, but he’s not crass enough to laugh at his own jokes. JTA dot Org caught up with Gary and said, tell us about the show, what can we expect?
Gary said, Oh, man, I’ve been told people have laughed and cried, so they can expect an emotional I wouldn’t call it a roller coaster, but an emotional flume ride. Maybe I can’t call it tragic comic nor comic tragic, but there are some sad, sad moments in it, but it’s mostly hilarious. That’s what I would say. A stand up back is just how many funny things can I say in an hour and a half?
And then you write a one persons show and there’s a lot of expressing, well, …
This show? I wanted it to end with the beginning. I open up talking about the first book I ever read, and then I close by talking about that same book. I like that when movies or books were plays in where they began, and so that was important to my director and me, And so it ended up with a punchline that wasn’t all that funny but hopefully will resonate. Not being funny is very challenging for stand up comedian, and especially one is obsessed and passionate about finding the funniest things I can say to the point of it being unhealthy sometimes, so the challenge, ironically is not to be funny, when usually the challenge is to make this as funny as possible.
Gary talked about his first open mic experience October eleventh, nineteen ninety three, so thirty one years ago this past October, and it went well enough that I was hooked for life. It’s like, I can imagine what would be like to have a really good drug for the first time. You’re like, well, I guess I’m on this drug. That’s how I felt. I was hooked.
I got an applause break over an impression I did of Robert de Niro, which is embarrassing because it’s one of the easiest impressions that a lot of people did back then. But it went well enough. Jim Jeffries is out touring new material. What can we expect, he told Inlander. Look with me, it’s always going to be some social issues, some sex jokes, and then some stuff about my life.
You’re just following a soap opera of person, aren’t you. When I was younger, you were watching a guy who was dealing with addiction and having problems there. Now you’re dealing with a guy who’s doing the same as everyone my age, struggling to be an adult while having to be a parent. You know what, So there’s stuff about married life. There’s no more stories of one night stands or anything like that.
Tails of being an adult, I guess, but it’s still just grubby jokes. I always write the show that I want to watch. Every comedian who’s worth their salt should really think that they’re the best comedian in the world because they’re doing a show that’s designed just for them. So I hope other people relate to it, and I hope other people can see themselves in me and they take something away from that. I think my stage persona can come across as a bit of an a hole, but I think people can relate to that, because aren’t we all just a little bit of an a hole.
Bill Berry talked a Variety about his upcoming special, in which he deals with depression. Variety said, I feel like you’re knowingly playing with the audience’s perception of you. Burst said, I look at it that way. When I started doing the material, there was this really excited, happy feeling I had that I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Men were laughing.
It relates to this. I don’t feel good right now. I feel sad, and I’m not allowed to say that’s a guy because exceider a weak I always felt like a freak. I grew up with orange hair. We moved around a lot when I was a kid.
I didn’t feel like I quite fit in until I was at my second open mic and I was hanging off comedians with the same kind of weird that I was. A lot of people died quickly in a short period of time. People I looked up to, people I became friends with. One of them was Bob Sagging. To see that guy taking it didn’t make any sense.
Spoilers spurd dives into Israel and Palestine. Variety was curious, do you have to be more cautious while workshopping material that’s political or tense in nature? Bill said, Nah, you just go out and do it. And if you listen to that bit, it’s a political I’m just saying we need to come up with a way to solve our differences without dropping bombs on children. I don’t think anybody have a problem with that.
The great thing about travel, if you travel with your ears open, is you see way more similarities than difference. Is everybody kind of wants the same thing. To chill out with people they love, to have enough money, food, clothing, shelter, and to be able to exail and not worry about what’s coming around the corner. One of my favorite gigs last year was an Abu Dhabi. Drugs are illegal there and I was telling a story about taking mushrooms.
The way they were laughing, I was like, Ah, these people definitely do drugs, they just don’t do them here. They go abroad to do them. But I was thinking later, well, wait a minute. I used to listen to Richard Prior talking about cocaine and freebasing, and I’ve never done that. Are they laughing about me taking mushrooms?
Like this is some kind of cheech and shock stuff? I still don’t know? Interesting follow up variety When doing a corporate or international gig, I’ve ever been asked to avoid certain topics? A Yeah, definitely an Abu Dhabi? How does that negotiation work?
At first they get real offensive and I’m set with my agent going, why half would you book me here? I agreed to do Abu Dhabi because why wouldn’t you want to go there to see what it was like?
And then classic, ten days before I go out there, they’re like, don’t talk ab…
Somebody had to write me a letter of apology, and I’m sitting there, going, why the hell would they book me? So now I’m stressing before I go there, going I’ve got to get six months in jail for doing a crap joke. I have to go to this coffee shop next to synagogue. This is a rabbi comes down. I got to know the guy.
I’m always busting shops because it’s always giving a life advice. I’m like, dude, do you ever just say hello? I tease him, and that had been a relationship for half a year, and then he shut up one day and he goes, hey, how you doing. I go, you know what, I’m not doing good? So I told him I got this gig coming up, but I’m stressed.
I don’t want to get in trouble or get detained or any of that stuff. I can’t talk about this, I can’t talk about that. Blah blah blah. He listened and shrugged his shoulders and goes, Dan, it’s not ready yet. He just gave me that perspective, and all of a sudden, I understood what my job was.
My job was to go over there and not be a jerk, and tried to advance the stand up ball a couple of yards for the next guy that comes over there and end up having a great time. Well, kind of materials did you have to avoid? This is fascinating per se A. You know, our foreign policy is upset a lot of people. I’ll leave it at that, Listen, I got another gig over there, so I don’t he nah, who gives a hoot.
I wasn’t allowed to make fun of the City of the Royals. It was pretty small, but a lot of it is what you do as a comedian. Like at Seattle, I want to get a coffee and I’m the only person not transitioning. Abu Dhabi didn’t want you doing that, but I could make fun of myself make fun of other places.
And now this sounds ridiculous to us, but I get it.
Abu Dhabi’s where stand up wasn’t about nineteen sixty eight, which is kind of cool. Who would have thought some bald Irish American ginger would vibe with people in Abu Dhabi. This is a fantastic article. I’ll continue to pick away at it. Comedy Gives Back is doing a fundraiser for Los Angeles on January thirty first.
The benefit feature Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Batton Oswald, Brian Possain, John Ennis, Tom Kenny, Jill Talian Moore. That is a great lineup those first five Zach, Odenkirk, Cross, Patten, and Postsaine, Yes Dulse. Sloan has left The Daily Show. Everyone is saying the parting was amicable. In a statement, Sloan said, there’s work that I’ve done over the past seven years with The Daily Show that I could be prouder of.
I collaborated with some incredibly talented people who look forward to continuing to work with. I know our past will continue to cross. I’m now free to pursue my dream job of being a live action cling on on Star Trek. Daily Show spokesperson said, Dulce Sloan is an exceptional comedic force, and we’re thankful for hilarious seven year run on The Daily Show. We wish her the best look forward to watching her next chapter.
Sloan had not been part of the rotation of correspondence slash hosts last spring. Late Night Or asked her if she would accept a role as the show’s permanent host if offered to her, and she said I’m just telling you the reality of situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I worked there. It’s not about what do they ask me. It’s why they didn’t ask Roy would Junior?
Because if they didn’t ask Roy as sure as hell ain’t gonna ask me. If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in late night, why would they turn around and ask me? Hmm, this is random. I discovered that there’s a comedy room at a restaurant near my house. Now.
They’ve been doing comedy shows there for like a couple of years, and I haven’t really given it much thought. I actually ate at this restaurant ten days ago with my daughter, and you know, they don’t really promote the room, and I was just curious what was going on there. It’s called the Comedy Dojo, and I went on the website and I see this Saturday, Louis C.K. Is playing that room and working out some material. It’s already sold out.
Or I would go, but I might have to pay attention to this room and start going. They’ve got some people you’ve heard of. Anyway, I’m obsessively hitting refresh because you know, if I can this place is. I don’t know, six minutes from where I live, so I could be there in home super quickly, so I’ll have to keep an eye on that one. A cool account on threads is the SNL network.
They broke down the Chappelle episode. I saw some fun facts there. They said. The Chappelle episode had the fewest segments for an episode in SNL history, only ten segments, the monologue, Immigrant Dad, Talk Show, Fire Evacuation, the Great Sketch, the music segment, Weekend Update, Police Station Music segment two, Pop the Balloon or Fine Love, and then the good night segment. Chappelle’s the first SNL host since Flip Wilson in nineteen eighty three to not appear in any live sketch after Weekend Update, although that does not include the at home episodes in season forty five remember COVID, and does not include the Hulk Hogan Mister t episode in season ten, when there was no traditional news segment.
I gotta find out more about that. I wonder why there was no news that week In case you were wondering about Chappelle and Bow and Yang. In the past, people been like, hey, oh, come Bow and Yang’s not standing near Dave Chappelle during the goodbyes. This week, Chappelle and Bow and Yang briefly hugged all right, I was their first interaction on screen of the night. Yang did not appear any sketches with Chappelle.
Last time Schabelle hosted, people were like, what’s up with Bow and Yang? Yang told Variety, I stand where I always stand on good nights. It wasn’t a physical distance to anybody who’s creating, and I had to do with so many things that were completely internal. Vanity Fair has published a big, big article that we’re talking about on the Palace Intrigue podcast. That’s the podcast where we talk about the royal family.
Palace Intrigue Wheviget shows. They wrote a lot about Meghan and Harry, and I’m bringing it up here because of a weird shot Eliza Slessinger quoting the Vanity Fair article. They’re discussing the guest Meghan had on her podcast, and they write these archetypes actually stereotypes included diva parentheses Mariah Carey and bimbo parentheses Paris Hilton and Eliza Slessinger. Does Eliza Slessinger have a bimbo persona that I just missed. Just seemed kind of weird.
Rapper turn comedian TI. It was on Young Jack’s streets morning takeover. T I told Young Jack why he prefers a comedy to rap and said, ain’t no pay. He points out the pats of success in comedy’s a different journey, one that doesn’t always guarantee the same rewards. It ain’t a slope, it’s a dip.
I ain’t even tripping because it’s so much fun. I enjoy myself. That’s the thing. When we had all the money in the world and the energy just wasn’t right, you know what I’m saying. So now I just value my peace of mind.
The NL Times is a website that covers news from the Netherlands. In English, they write comedy club Boom Chicago. That’s an Amsterdam club, I believe, not one in Chicago. Boom Chicago has canceled two performances by Israeli Jewish comedian Yohi Spondor, citing safety concerns. Following online backlash and threats.
Boom Chicago director Andrew Moscoso wrote an email to Spondors manager. Due to the climate in Amsterdam, reactions and concerns reportedly expressed by police we can no longer allow YO high sponders performances. On January twenty fifth, this really caught my attention per NL Times. I’ll read the sentence verbatim from NL Times. Moscow edited that the club would assist in finding an alternative venue, potentially a quote Jewish location unquote or another club.
I am not hipped to the Amsterdam comedy scene. I’m not sure what a Jewish location would mean. Some folks on social media had labeled Spawner as an ultra Zionist and criticized his show The Self Loving Jew, alleging it promotes Israeli propaganda. Moscow’s described the situation as complex and said the decision was made reluctantly. We prefer not to cancel shows, but given the reaction and threats, we had no other choice.
Boom Chicago stands for freedom of expression, but in the current situation, we cannot facilitate it. Ticket Holders will receive refunds. This noll Fielding thing continues to be interesting. I told you yesterday that Apple had shut down production of The completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Nol has said reports that his future on the Great British Bakeoff being in doubt or an untrue fielding spokesperson till the standard, There’s been absolutely no discussion about Noel stepping down from Bakeoff.
We’ve been in contact with Channel fourg Love Productions throughout all the speculations and his stepping down has never been part of it that dialogue. We can’t confirm he’ll be returning to co host the next series of Big Off and Ted Lasso fans, Nick Muhammed is giving us some hope here. In a post on Twitter, Mohammed framed his face with a ring light and announced that some dates from his upcoming tour would be rescheduled. His explanation, I know there’d be a lot of speculation as to why move these dates. What’s it for?
I’ll be honest, it’s for some filming that I haven’t been able to shift for the love of money. I can’t say what the filming is, but it will be announced shortly. He asked fans not to speculate as to what they think it might be, but he held up a hand painted Believe sign which suggests that it’s Ted Lasso. But he added, the last thing I want is for people to Go. Mad Nett is your comedy news for today.
Jody’s on the Facebook group. We had a great discussion over the weekend about the top comedians of all time. We kicked the ball around. I don’t think we decided anything, but it was just a fun discussion of how to even rank anybody in the first place. The genesis of that conversation was is John Mulaney in the top ten?
I both hold the position of I don’t think so, and also I can’t name Ted better yet. So feel encouraged to join the group and way in Daily Comedy News podcast group. We’ll see you tomorrow.