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The Shark Deck. I’m Journey mag with your Daily Comedy News. Let me tell you what’s going on. As I’m recording this, it’s like ninety seven degrees and I’m in my office where I record these things. And my dog who’s almost sixteen, Okay, so she’s a million years old, and then some and I have a lot of patients.
Accidents happen, but she peeted on the floor of my office, and the combination of that, which I did clean up, and the odor, it’s not fun in here today. Guys.
Speaking of pets, nice segue.
Ricky Gervais recorded an announcement he’s interested in some pet legislation in the UK. Let’s listen, dogs really need your help. Dog theft is up thousands of dogs every year and now being stolen from gardens and parks, and the crime is treated the same as if that person stole a possession like a bag or a phone, which is ridiculous because there’s no deterrent. The sentence isn’t right because a dog isn’t an an animal object that can just be replaced. A dog is a member of the family.
So you need to change this law to make it a real determinent, please help. And while we’re starting on serious topics today, John Stewart had a message for veterans or the families veterans about something called the Packed Act, and I’ll let John explain. Hey sounds Stewart, I got a little message here for anybody who served and was exposed to any kind of toxic materials AG and orange burn pits and all these other things. They’ve passed the Packed Act, which expands medical benefits to survivors and veterans and medical care. Please file for those benefits, and if you do so before August nine, then you’re eligible to get those benefits back dated one year to when the Pack Act passed August tenth, twenty twenty two.
You can file for benefits under the Packdact any time, but if you do it by August nine, or even just go to va dot gov slash Pact Act and say intent to file, that’ll hold your spot. But if you do that, you can get it done. That’s for anybody explosive, you know, any theater of war that has terrible toxic things or military basis, or even just if you’ve been through Jersey, just driven through. I don’t know that that would qualify it. But bit Shud, a documentary about women who accused Louis C.K.
Of sexual harassment and the consequences those accusations had on their careers, will be one of twenty two documentaries heading to the twenty twenty three Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary is titled Sorry Slash Not Sorry. Remember I told you that?
And then showtime was like yeah.
Rolling Stone asked Tom Sigour to tell them a little bit about the project Fat Astronauts, and I was right. It’s a project with Bert Kreisher. Sagore said. It came up on the podcast Bert floats this idea, and we end up talking about it off Mike Moore extent. We talk about it more about some producers.
We talk about it more with Ethan Cohen, who wrote Tropic thunder name Drumper. Cohen sends in a draft of a screenplay, I read it, it’s hilarious. The feature world is peculiar. It’s not a straightforward business. There’s so many variables.
I’ve heard nothing but excitement from the whole camp about doing this, and I’ve been told everybody’s gung ho about doing it. But I’ll reserve my real excitement for the day. On Onset doing It, Rolling Stone ask Tom Sagora about his transition into acting. Tom said, truly, dude, It’s always been what I wanted to do. I moved to La to become a comedy actor and stand up, which is working for me, and obviously I enjoy it, so I kept doing that, but I never stopped wanting to be an actor.
And I like writing and creating, so that was the project. When I took it out on the studios, they were like, you can act, and I was like, yeah, no kidding. I’ve been trying to do this for f and twenty years, but I’ve been on the road. Taylor Tomlinson tells Variety she equates digital work to quote doing radio back in the day. You just have to do it to sell tickets.
A lot of people, myself included, get overwhelmed with the amount of content you after produce now, but it’s necessary unless you’re super famous, and even then you need Instagram. On the plus side, says the Internet has made it so much easier to find your specific audience. Nobody is truly for everyone, and now you don’t have to be Whitney Cumming spoke about social media, and told Variety she’s way more concerned about disappointing somebody who came to see her because she’s working on new stuff and it’s not super polished than she ever worries about being canceled by some fake Twitter mob that weren’t comedy fans in the first place. She remember as comedian actor Bobby Lee telling her when she started out, don’t worry about jokes over the first two years, just worry about getting comfortable on stage. Johnny Mack, you never talk about that.
Interview Mark marinh had with Jim Gaffigan a week ago. I know, right, this part I found very interesting. They’re talking about Jerry Seinfeld here as I’ve been doing. I’ll read the Marin lines a little harshress. I don’t have to keep going Jim’s head.
Mark said, I’ll start with Mark here. Everybody wasn’t doing specials. They were they were still special Jim, there was Cosbi and you know, you know Carlin. But like my point is, what’s the next step. Like Seinfeld has done a couple of specials, but he doesn’t feel the need.
There’s no growth there. He’s very anti growth. Well, no, I actually think it’s very much evolved into what into this guy. It’s his comedy’s just for laughs and doesn’t have any deeper meeting. And I’ve just never learned anything from a comic and it’s just a read and it’s ridiculous and that’s our job, Jim.
But I think that’s his kind of absolutist approach to comedy. But I’m diametrically opposed to that. Now. What I’m saying is if you look at the Jerry Seinfeld of the late seventies or ladies and you look at them now, they’re very different. Jerry Seinfeld today is much more autobiographical.
In the eighties, you didn’t learn anything about Jerry. I’m sure he’s aware of that evolution. I think the greatest comment of comics being able to transcend a decade, So being able to go from the eighties to the twenty twenties, that’s pretty significant. That’s why they’re like these comedians that are like the flavor of the year and then it goes away. But I think that speaks to a work ethic more than evolving.
Jim. Well, it’s a work ethic, but it’s also like not listening to the audience. But it’s listening to the culture and also like all his fans. You know, it’s rare if you come to be a certain way and your fans are kids and you’re in college. You know, how do you hold on them because they’re forty now and they don’t go to comedy Jim.
Yeah, they all moved out of Brooklyn or whatever because they had a couple of kids and they moved to Westchester. I think what’s also interesting about Jerry’s where he’s similar to a nineties comic, which you and I are, is that he’s a substance over style guy. Jim continued, You’ll see even just on social media, there’s a lot more crowd work. It’s all CrowdWork, banter stuff. And the whole thing is that style that’s not substance, and I’m not criticizing it.
And by the way, you know, Ian Meg is the best CrowdWork comedian I’ve ever seen. Remember Mike Sweeney. Mike Sweeney was amazing. Maren Yeah, he got out a long time ago. You know the guys who realized early on that trying to be a comedy star it makes money as a stand up.
That’s a long shot. I’m gonna write, but I understand what you’re saying, but I see this whole new generation of social media driven comedy. It’s just this weird attempt at a cash grab, and it’s succeeding that there’s no organized show business anymore. Mark Marin’s WTF guest Jim Gaffigan highly highly recommend you check that out. One way to support the show, that’s pretty easy.
Go to YouTube, find Daily Comedy News, hit subscribe on the page. I’m trying to get to a thousand subscribers so that I can monetize it, and then I can buy my own coffee, and then I don’t have to nag you to go to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, although honestly, I’ll probably do both when I you will, Johnny Mack, You’ll be on here going, hey, why don’t you go to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throw five bucks in the tip jar, and I’ll go to the Nashville Don’t shame blah blah blah. I can see me doing that rap. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Mike Kaplan is apparently giving Harry Kunnabullu a run for most serious comedian.
Harry’s interviews as have later been a little looser. Mike Kaplan’s heading in the other direction. He spoke to the Henley Standard, and he says his brand of comedy makes you think. Quoting Mike, Philosophy is something that I’ve enjoyed thinking about for quite a while, both in school and out, because there are so many beautiful, important questions it offers, like how can we live a meaningful life? And why are we here?
And what’s going on? He’s excited to see what happens at Fringe this year. When we came to the Fringe last time, I experienced so many things clowns and dancers and magicians and storytellers and immersive theater experiences and circuses and more. I’m looking forward to experiencing more of those, and also things I have no idea about. I guess what I’m saying is I hope to experience things that I have loved that are familiar, and things that I will love that are unfamiliar.
He adds, there’s a quote by a poet named Robert Hass that I love. Repetition makes us feel secure, Variation makes us feel free. So it is true that I like to use my brain or my mind to think about things like wait, am I using my brain in my mind to think about things? And some of those are things I enjoy sharing in my comedy wherever I go. Believe it or not, he’s really funny, but boy, the interviews are serious.
Forbes asked of beer daz Hey, who were the comedians you looked up to growing up, and he said, my top three, we’re prior at Carlin and Eddie Azard Carlin for not giving a huge prior for putting vulnerability in a comedy and turning pain into comedy. And Eddie because he makes you feel like he made it up a second ago, even though it’s exquisitely written. What’s your favorite drink? Interesting? He said, I’m a beer guy.
There’s nothing like a Guinness in black, which I can’t seem to find in America. And I’m like, oh, what’s a Guinness in black? I used to drink Woodpecker cider with guinness on top, which I guess is the opposite of what he’s talking about. So what’s a ginis? And Blackie said, it’s a black current syrup, which is ridiculously sweet, and then a guinness poured on top.
The beer becomes purple and it becomes like a weird Voldemort drink. Then I have a beer I launched called Fact one, two three four, a’s between the F and the K. I wanted something that met me halfway between beer and cider. So that’s my favorite. Yeah, good call.
I think we could drink together. Maria Bamford spoke to The Pleasantine Weekly and said stand up was great for me, as I had difficulty connecting with people on a social level due to oct Intrusive thoughts in the controlled environment of this stage is very common to me and it remains to this day. She warns you if you’re going to see you through, my act isn’t for everyone, so please YouTube Maria Bamford because I’ve gotten feedback that I’m odd and wordy, so let that be your guide. She says her approach to comedy has changed as she’s grown and become more experienced in the industry. Maria said, my time is done in terms of feeling like I need to be heard.
I’ve already made it a thousand times over, and I hope to support the next generation. I love performing and creating, but there’s less drive. In a lovely way, I just taped a special for Comedy Dynamics and so my current tours the result of three years of writing and performing. I hope to gradually start replacing material, but it’s safe to say the topics of family, relationships and mental health done with several character act outs, those will be covered. That is your comedy news for today.
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