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Caloroga Shark Media either Johnny Mack who your Daily Comedy News. Right before I head it off on my trip, Deadline put out an article of the future of funny the fifteen comedians ready to break out in twenty twenty five. So I’m like, all right, I’ll do that one when I get back. And that is today, My friends, I haven’t read this at all. We will experience this together.
Deadline says here, in alphabetical order, our fifteen comedians would bet on as the stars of tomorrow. First up, Channel Ali named a just for last new face at the twenty nineteen edition of the Montreal Comedy Festival. We’re told she’s a strong joke writer who’s been seen on Epix’s Unprotected sets. I am not familiar with her. Jeffer Currey is described as the fastest selling comedian at this year’s New York Comedy Festival, two sold out Beacon Theater performances.
Deadline tells us in twenty twenty four, he sold over two hundred and fifty thousand tickets. Now I’m a little suspect here that Deadline is just printing anything handed in because it says he has showcased on the Late Show at Saint Colbert, Comedy Central’s Rost Battle Laughs on Fox, Serious XM, and at numerous comedy festivals nationwide over the years. Just to catch everybody up. I know some people hate when to bring this up. I used to run Serious XM comedy.
That’s how we know what I’m talking about here, and I would see comedians quote Serious XM as like a credit all the time. It’s like, dude, you put out an album and we just scheduled it. So I don’t know. Maybe he’s been hosting a show on Sirius for last decade and I didn’t notice, But now I’m wondering, Oh, okay, then people just hand stuff in and Deadline printed it. Next up, Catherine Blandford, a charismatic Kentucky born comedian who’s toured across the country.
She’s released her first Hour special, Catholic Cowgirl through the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, back on December fifth. Fern Brady, Yeah, I could see Fern breaking through in the States, one of U K’s hottest comedy stars who waits her big break state side. The Scottish comic is coming off the release of her first Netflix special, Autistic Bikini Queen. That’s a good choice there. Next up Nico Karney, a trans stand up reuter an actor based in New York, currently headlining comedy clubs across the country and sold out his headlining show at the New York Comedy Festival.
Aaron Chen is a comic quickly climbing the ranks of the international scene. Born and raised in Sydney, he sold twenty eight thousand tickets in Melbourne across ten shows back in twenty four. I think we played a lot of Aaron Chen here on this very podcast and dug him. So that’s good. That’s a good pick.
We like that. Dina Hasham, Yeah, she’s cool. Known for her deadpan delivery and newanced observations on her Islamic upbringing. Hasham is garnered Emmy and WGA Award nominations. This is a good list.
These are good picks. Jordan Jensen, Brooklyn based comic who recently graduated from clubs to sold out theaters. Jensen recently inked to deal with her first hour special for Netflix, which her debut sometime here in twenty five. Interesting. If you want to check her out, go to YouTube and check out thirty Minutes with Jordan Jensen.
Matt Matthews tours doing Confessions with Matt, adopted from his video series of the same name, where he offers a real time comedic take on audience members who voluntarily spilled their deepest, darkest secrets. Chloe Radcliffe, based out of New York City, A lot of New York Come here. She was named a TBS Comic to Watch back in twenty seventeen. Penny Years. Becky Robinson, based out of LA has gone from viral sensation to a sadout theater act with Entitled Housewife, an outspoken golfer character she introduced during the pandemic via a pair of self produced variety specials.
She grows seven plus figures over the course of one hundred and three shows. In twenty twenty four, She’s gonna tape her first stand up special at the Wilburn Boston in March. Casey Rocket is described by Deadline as one of the more unique comedic voices you’re likely to come across today. Something can’t be more unique. It’s just unique.
Look up the definition. But I know what you’re trying to say. Rocket’s career has blown up since being named a permanent regular on Kill Tony Casey Schornama is one of the newest Weekend Update writers at SNL, name the best up and Coming comedian in Nashville by Nashville Scene Magazine, and was a Just for Last new Face in twenty twenty two. I like this. She’s been seen alongside comics like Neil Brennan and Apra Goodsey and David tell Well.
I’ve been seen alongside comedians Life Jerry Seinfeld. There’s a picture somewhere. Next up John Marcos SERRESI Yes, friend of the Show, two time guests. He’s taping his first hour special this year out in La A big fan of his, like him and last, alphabetically but not least, Renee Vaka. Vaka was one of nine up and coming comedians selected for the introducing showcase at Netflix’s A Joke Fest twenty twenty four.
The winner of the sixteenth annual Stand Up NBC competition, and he regularly sales out leg Day, a monthly show he hosts at the Hollywood Laugh Factory.
In other news, the Critics Choice Awards were supposed to happen today, but t…
The CEO of the Critics Choice Award says, this unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All their thoughts and prayers are with those battling to devastating fires and with all who’ve been affected. Chelsea Handler is scheduled to host. There are some comedy nominations. Best Comedy Series, Abbot, English Teacher, Hacks, Nobody wants this own Murders Somebody Somewhere, which is on HBO.
Somebody just told me that that was pretty good. Saint Dennis Medical on NBC, What we Do in the Shadows. I’ll pick Hacks Outstanding Talk Series, Hot Ones, Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Everybody in La Kelly Clarkson, Colbert. I’ll pick Milleni out of that. Best Comedy Special, Okay, Get Out, Johnny Mack’s Snabaree, Magic Wand they nominations are Ali Wang, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin James for Irregardless, Are you kidding me?
Nicki Glazers, Someday You’ll die, Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let me do my special, and Rommi Usef’s More Feelings. Boy, this is tough. Wasn’t Gaffigan’s best work, despite this being the year of NICKI. That was not a strong special Rommie. I didn’t like the direction.
I want to give it to Ali Wang, even though that special wasn’t a targeted at me and it didn’t personally speak to me. But I’ll respect it the special and give it to Ali Wang. For Single Lady on Netflix and on Best Animated Series. This is Weird Okay, Batman, Cape Crusader, Blue Invincible, The Simpsons, X Men, and they’ve fallen for the hoax. They’ve nominated Bob’s Burgers.
Slate caught up with Nate Brigetzi. Is he currently at the top of the comedy pyramid? Is he currently the top rank comedian if I bring back the Comedian power rankings if I have five minutes to make them, Is he currently number one? Nate shared that he used to have more of an edge he recalled in a story than he once workshopped an out of character joke about murdered sex workers in New York City, which he ditched after hearing from a woman in the sex industry who took offence. Nate internalized the feedback and then got rid of all the edgy ness and said, I just need to be super careful with anything that could be seen as making fun of someone.
I never want to be mean. Slate writes, Nate is certainly a smart enough guy to concoct a great joke about, say, January sixth, or the Facebook algorithm, but he’d much rather talk about his McDonald’s order. There’s dignitying that approach, and maybe a little bit of cowardice too. Therein lies the irony of his rise, right Slate, when Burgatzi first caught on nationwide, we were seeding into the coma of the early Biden years, said in your letters too, Slate, Americans had finally tapped out of the ara defining divisiveness of Trump’s initial ascension, and we’re holding out hope that the country might be on the cusp of a well deserved period of stasis. Nate imploys his crowds to shut off their brains for a narrow when he’s on stage, thus receding into the narcoticizing splendor of his meticulously crafted but ultimately toothless comedy.
A Little Harsh Dude’s really funny. I don’t know Whennie Cummings shared an anecdote about auditioning for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalabolis. She gets to the set with Coppola and finds out that it’s not a typical audition, as Whitney tells that everyone is so quiet. There’s no vibe of we’re at an audition, Hey, what’s up? How are you nice to meet you?
It was just so awkward. I go out and I’m like, so, where do you want to start first? And he’s like, now, we’re not going to do the scene. I was like, okay, it’s three days of my life. He would just throw things at me.
Apparently one of the directions was to say goodbye to her son who was going to war by using an English accent, and then use an Australian accent to respond to her husband leaving her for her sister. Whitney says, because I did the show punked, I was like, if I’m being punked, this is actually genius. Bob Beckett is working on a pilot for a show called am I the A Hole? Yes? It is aimed at fans of the popular reddit thread I am sometimes on there.
The pilot features a panel of top tier comedians passing judgments on relationship dilemmas and disputes and promises, big laughs, and eyebrow raising stories. Examples include a discussion of somebody getting rid of their favorite pet or price car behind their partner’s back. That could be fun, and Seth Myers tells Late Nighter he has no interest in hosting the Oscars. He says, the Golden Globes I think is the fun one. I think once you do this one, it’s hard to imagine doing anything else.
Just the way people are seated and it feels a little less stuffy. With that said, I think Conan’s going to kill it at the Oscars. I’m very excited about that. A lot of respect for my buddy Jimmy Kimble. I feel like has done an incredible job over the years, but he’s never said anything that made me think, oh, I’d like to do that.
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