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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dusty Slay specials out on Netflix this week? Did you watch it yet? I haven’t seen it yet.
I think my plan is going to be Friday night just to get in a comedy head and watch Dusty and Maren’s Out on HBO tomorrow. I want to watch Eddie pepatoone after seeing a friend of the show, Jason Zenmann from The New York Times saying how good that one was? Verr does I have to catch up on? So Friday night might just be comedy night at my house. But Dusty Slay spoke about his origin story.
He said, around two thousand and three, I moved it with a friend and we had some problems. So I moved out and got my own place, and I didn’t have any friends. So I took an improv class, and that’s how I got in the stand up. I took improv and I did improv for a long time. He didn’t think about doing stand up professionally until twenty eleven.
I want to stand up comedy competition. I thought maybe I could do something with this, So I started to take things a little more serious than in early twenty twelve. I quit drinking, and things became very clear to me, and I got very good at comedy. Well, I got good at comedy much faster. I wouldn’t say I got very good right away, but I got much faster.
Quitting drinking changed my whole life in a positive way. I never think of myself as an alcoholic, but I was most certainly a binge drinker that once I started drinking, it usually ended in some sort of disaster. Not a tragedy, but I would black out and lose my friends and things like that. So much of my jokes were all about drinking. I’d label myself an alcoholic, and I thought it was funny.
I thought it was funny to drink too much and make bad decisions. But I was really living that lifestyle. So while I was making jokes about it, and I was also falling apart a lot of ways while still having fun, it just changed my life. And once I quit drinking, I no longer could make drinking jokes. NFL quarterback Matthew Stafford’s wife, Kelly Stafford, went on Instagram on Monday and defended Shane Gillis.
Kelly Stafford shared a few clips from her Night at the SP’s hosted by Shane Gillis. She captured it every few years. We decided to dress up. Glad we did because Shane Gillis made me almost pee myself multiple times. Turns out laughing is fun.
More people should try it. Signed fat ugly dog wife. I don’t know if you’ve seen any pictures of Missus Stafford. I would not use the words fat, ugly or dogwife to describe her. I think she’s being a little hard on herself.
We’re gonna be talking about Pete Davidson a lot because he’s promoting not one, but two movies. He’s in the Pickup with Eddie Murphy and he’s in the Home, which is a horror film. Apparently, Pete Davidson was on Hot Ones. Host Shawn Evans asked Pete which of his tattoos were the most painful to take on and off. Pete had two hundred tattoos and said before even removing them, he had already covered up one of his most embarrassing with an image from Jaws.
That embarrassing tattoo. Listen to this, Pete said, I’ve never admitted this because it’s so humiliating. When I was like twenty at a comedy club. It might have been the Knitting Factory when Hannibal Burris used to run it, and I did like a set. I was like nineteen or twenty and Dave Chappelle was in the corner and this was before he was back, so seeing him was crazy, you know, like what the f I got off the stage and it was like, I watched your whole set.
It was really good, and I was like, you know, how do you keep coming up with new stuff? I’m working on new It’s like difficult, and he goes jokes come and go, but swaggers forever. Bete said, guess who got that tattooed on his chest? At the ninety second Street Why in New York City? Interesting lineup tonight they are screening Mark Marin’s new HBO special which is out tomorrow.
And then there’s a conversation between Mark Marin and Jim gaff Again that is a that’s a killer show. Seven o’clock at the ninety second Street. Why there was a delay in Nate Brigatsey’s show Over the weekend, twelve thousand people waited almost an hour to see Nate as over two and a half inches of rain fell in Saint Paul. What did they do to kill time? They started doing the Wave and the skull clap.
The power briefly went out at the Excel Energy Center. The generators kicked in the house lights came on in the middle of a set by Aaron Weber, who is the fifth and final opener. That’s a lot of openers, Nate, what are we doing? The crowd then did the Wave and the Skull for fifty minutes. Eddie Murphy announced he’s going to take on the role of Inspector Clusseau in a new Ping Panther movie.
Now I would think I would hate that, but then I thought about and I go, you know what, that’s not bad because it’s right in Eddie Murphy’s skill set. I hated the idea of Steve Martin playing Inspector Clusau, but I think Eddie is right for it. He shared this news with Al Roker, who reacted surprised. Roker was curious if the character would remain French. Eddie said, well, he has to be French, but he also could be Haitian.
I’ll tell you what, he’s black. He’s black for sure. I think it’d be good at doing a half assed French voice, doing the physical comedy. I think Eddie would be great in that role. Peter Sellers originated the role of Inspector James Clusseau.
Is that right? I thought it was Jacques Cluseau. Yeah, it’s Jacques Lussau. Where you getting James from Deadline? I love those films, The Pink Panther from sixty three, as Shot in the Dark from sixty four.
Then there’s the weird movie from nineteen sixty eight entitled Inspector Clouseau. The role is played by Alan Arkin. Peter Seller’s declined to return, but he did return in nineteen seventy five for the Return of the Ping Panther, which is probably the best one. The Pink Panther strikes again in nineteen seventy six. This is when they’re really rolling here.
Then they made another movie, Revenge of the Ping Panther. In nineteen seventy eight, they were working on a movie that would have been titled Romance of the Ping Panther, but Peter Sellers passed away. So did they stop making Pink Panther movies? Of course not. In nineteen eighty two, remember the Trail of the Ping Panther.
That one used outtakes from Peter Sellers as Clouseaux in a new story that investigates the disappearance of Inspector Clouseau. Now, if you’ve never seen this, the first half kind of sort of feels like a Ping Panther movie, And if I didn’t tell you it was outakes, you would just probably accept it. Once you know it’s outtakes, you can’t unsee it. As Cluseau’s age kind of bounces up and down a little bit. But if he didn’t know, you might get away with it.
But then halfway through the movie, Clusau disappears, and then the rest of the movie is trying to find him. We stop making Ping Panther movies, No, let’s make another one. Just a year later in nineteen eighty three Curse of the Ping Panther, which reveals that, of course, Inspector Clusau underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance. The character makes a brief cameo spoilers he had forty years. Roger Moore plays Inspector Clusoe, billed as turk Thrust the second.
This movie’s about an American trying to track down Inspector Clusoe. Then they let it go for ten years, and they made Son of the Ping Panther, in which it’s revealed that Cluseau had illegitimate children, and we follow Roberto Benini as Jacques Clusau junior. That didn’t work. Then, for some reason, in two thousand and six, someone said, you know who would be good, Steve Martin. And as Wikipedia points out, Steve Martin’s Clusou is considerably older than Peter Seller’s.
And yet even that got a sequel two thousand and nine, The Ping Panther two, and now Eddie Murphy will Starr as Inspector Cluso. Eddie’s in his sixties. I’m being a bit of a hypocrite and being a little hard on Steve Martin, but I just don’t think he’s right for that role, and I think I do a good job. Now that the mainstream media is listening to me about Adam Sandler comedies, maybe everyone will admit to one of the great hoaxes of our time, which is, of course Bob’s Burgers. Longtime listeners to this program know what the hoax is.
If you are new, let me just ask you two questions really quickly, and then I’ll elaborate in a minute, But the two questions I want you to ponder are have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? And of course the answer is no. Uh, but even more curiously because like, I’ve never seen Dalton Abby, but it clearly exists. The second question I would have for you is have you ever met anyone, anyone at all, who has seen Bob’s Burgers? And the answer, strangely is no.
Like I’ve met people that have watched Love Island even though I’ve never seen it, I’ve met people who have seen Dowt Nabby, but I’ve never met a single person who has watched Bob’s Burgers. Well, Fox has announced Bob’s Burgers will return on Sunday, September twenty eighth, alongside the season thirty seven premiere of The Simpsons.
And then see here’s the hoax.
Okay, September twenty eighth, a Sunday night. You know what else is on that night? Packers? Cowboys? You know what kind of number a Cowboys game does?
Yeah, so everyone’s gonna turn over. So Fox knows what they’re doing. They do air the Simpsons. The Simpsons clearly exists, but then the lineup is supposedly Universal Basic Guys. Nobody has ever watched that, and Kropopolis, nobody has ever watched that.
And then after two things that maybe even if those exist, clearly people are going to tune out, And then season sixteen of Bob’s Burgers. Yeah right, I know Kevin Burkhart will be like, hey, stay tuned tonight after the Chiefs game, and that’s what the four to thirty game is on Fox that day after the Chiefs coming up, it’s a season premiere of The Simpsons. Then stick around for an all new Universal Basic Guys, Kropopolis, and the sixty eight season premiere of Bob’s Burgers. There’s no way anybody’s still sticking around for that. Around nine to twenty pm, we’re all watching Packers Cowboys come on Fox.
Briany is in on the hoax. They say Bob Burger’s is hitting its three hundredth episode. Really three hundred, there’s three hundred episodes of these things. No one has ever seen it, You’ve never met anyone’s ever seen it. For the landmark three hundredth episode, Bob’s Burgers will flash back to the very beginning of the Belcher’s Restaurant exec got a producer and master hoaxer Lauren Bouchard said, a comicon in the present day, Bob is really sweating whether or not to raise prices, and it’s killing him.
It sends us on this kind of series of flashbacks to what was going on when Bob and Linda started the restaurant. We’re also told there’s going to be a Halloween episode, uh huh, in which Teddy takes a job in the store next door, and a Christmas episode that takes place at a Christmas village. All right. Now, on September twenty third, the hoax gets even more elaborate. They’re putting out a book, the Art of Bob’s Burgers.
Now, I’ve discussed on this program in the past. The artwork clearly exists. There’s clearly Bob’s Burger’s merch. There are clearly drawings. I’ve obviously seen them.
They’re in all these articles. But as for the show, have you ever seen it? No? Have you ever met anyone? No?
There will be a book the Art of Bob’s Burgers. September twenty third, Hoaks master Bichard said, this is a very important book to us. We love the artist work on the show. We love the drawings that have gone on and the millions of miles of pencil let on paper, and we wanted to celebrate. There’s also going to be more Bob’s Burger’s merch, which is what I suspect the hoax is all about.
It’s a fake show. We’ll sell some merch, we’ll put out a book. We don’t have to actually make the show. I get it totally switching gears and let me get the lilt out of my voices. This is a more serious story.
At the Edinburgh Fringe, some Jewish comedians shows have been canceled quote over staff safety concerns. The Independent reports to Jewish comedians have claimed their shows have been canceled at the Fringe. Rachel Krieger was set to perform her show Ultimate Jewish Mother, Philip Simon was due to host jew O Rama. Both acts have claimed that they were told their gigs would be canceled because bar staff at the venue express fears of being quote unsafe. Organizers of the Fringe so they were working to find alternative venues.
But politicians and comedians have raised concerns about the movie at a time when anti Semitism is on the rise. In the UK. Krieger told Times Radio this would have been a thirty year in a row of that specific show at that venue. When it comes to safety, they said they felt the extra safety precautions that many Jewish performers were subject to at the moment due to rising anti Semitism made them feel ironically more unsafe. I’ll be talking a lot about the Fringe all through August.
Two stories about British comedian Karis Nilms. I’ll start with the better story from Voicemag and they did a lot of previews of the Fringe. They asked Caris about her show. She said, it’s called Queer Takes for Autistic Folk, a very silly, semi improvised, super interactive, choose your own storytelling adventure. She was asked about the cost of performing and staying at Fringe.
That is a topic. There’s going to be a trillion articles about that over the next month. Carris said, I’m very lucky to stay with friends who live in Edinburgh so they can carry on their lives during the Fringe. It’s nice to watch TV with them and catch up a little bit and pretend like the Fringe isn’t happening. When I’m not performing.
I’m a math teacher and my student so’ll be getting their A level results in the middle. So I’m going to dash back to London to be there for it and then come straight back up. We’ll see. As you’re about to hear, that’s a little tease. What advice would you have for an artist considering going to the fringe?
Caarris said, watch a lot as much as you can, watch people you’ve never heard of, not just your friends, and watch it in a way that celebrates the people you’re watching. There’s enough space for everyone to get excited about each other’s work. That is great advice. But Caris is also in the news as she could be facing up to three years in Turkish prison. That sounds like a joke from the Naked Gun reboot, but it is not.
Apparently Caris left a Zara store without paying for her items. She went back as soon as she realized her mistake. She was shopping in Istanbul on July twenty second. She accidentally left the store without paying for her purchases. She went back in offered to pay.
She was detained locked in a room for several hours, arrested for shoplifting, transferred to a police station. As the story goes, quote pressured to sign Turkish documents she didn’t understand. She was held for twenty four hours. A judge released her but told her she couldn’t leave Turkey. Currently, she’s trying to figure out how to afford a place to stay and how to get back to the UK.
On social media, she wrote, I’m lucky I have good friends in Turkey who are currently looking after me and trying to translate the paperwork. I have no money, no earnings coming in from home, and I’m running out of important medication. I’ll lose my home, which I share with my son, and livelihood. I’m not looking for sympathy. I made a mistake which I tried to immediately rectify.
I’m embarrassed with my friends, my family, and I’ve made my mom unwell. I’ll never forgive myself for what I’ve done. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercial interruption, there’s a link at the show notes, so it’ll take you to callirogut dot com slash plus. Once you get there.
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