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The Shark Deck. Steve Harvey is not dead, and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the hashtag that was trending riip Harvey? Comedian Steve Harvey reacted to it. He tweeted an image of himself holding a phone while scrolling through social media posts and captured it me seeing that ri ip Harvey is trending.
His followers said the caption was the best response to a hoax they’d ever seen. Two big articles in Variety, the first zernagorg Lean Morgan, Brian Simpson among Varieties Ten comics to watch or twenty twenty three.
All right, let’s see who the ten comics to watch our This is always a great l…
Some of the past names Tiffany Hattish, kamand On Gianni, Patton Oswalt, Taylor Thomason, and Quinta Brunson. You’ve heard of them right. This year, Hannah Burner, a nationally ranked junior tennis player, Berner switched her attention to entertainment. She exudes an affable yet direct style, and the comedian thrives on stage. Discussing her womanhood, she says, it’s almost therapeutic for me.
Let girls know I’m not perfect. I love the tension of having men in the room. They need to hear some of these things that normalize and actually become educated. While she’s trying to offer commentary, she’s determined that each punch line lands for the entire crowd. I’m speaking for the girls, but I also want everyone to be in on the joke.
Bridy writes. With her work, Burner creates a female locker room where people can hear things and feel less alone. Anyone’s welcome in the locker room. Next up Curtis Connor, a Toronto based performer, podcaster, and YouTube sensation I’m not familiar with Curtis. Curtis found an audience on Vine, later migrated to YouTube.
He’s a massed over four point three million subscribers and more than seven hundred million total views. Curtis says humor is born out of people and in the ways we interact with each other and process the minute details in our relationships. That’s the stuff that has always made me laugh. The human experience is hilarious. He hosts the podcast Very Really Good, influences Both Burnham, John Mulaney, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, Zerna Garg says, I remember being told my whole life that I was really funny, and I used to dread it because I was thinking, my parents didn’t get the scientists, they didn’t get the mathematician, they didn’t get the doctor.
What are you supposed to do with that? Varidy, says Garg has taken her refreshingly observational, family friendly style and spun it into a popular TikTok account. I see a theme here. Her One in a Billion special is on Amazon Prime. Influences Virdas add Matzal, Russell Peters, Hasan Minhaj.
Next up, Ian Lara, a first generation Dominican American emerging as one of New York City’s hottest stand up comedians, with material touching on themes of growing up with immigrant parents, being unsure about his race, and his relationship with his born again Christian father. He said, I’ve been doing stand up for twelve years. You have to do work to become good at it, but also need to draw from your life experiences because that’s what audiences relates you. Most. Influences Kevin Hart, Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Not Bad.
Next Up, Joanne McNally The Dublin Natives says, I want to be buried in a theater. I love the feel of them, I love the box office, I love everything. She found touring and performing to be a vital source of motivation as she pivoted to comedy and sought recovery for her eating disorder. She said, for Wallas Bolimia and now it’s stand up, it was something that basically gave me a reason to recover. Before I got a stand up, I knew I had to recover it because it’s not conducive to a happy life.
I did see recovery as failure. Really, I didn’t see the point of getting better. I thought I’d just hate my body and always be really sad. Then comedy gave me a really healthy, productive sense of purpose. She had a podcast, My Therapist ghosted Me.
Influences Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Michelle Wolf, Tommy Tiernan. Next up, Leanne Morgan, Who’s having a great ear. The article tells her journey of selling jewelry door to door. I’ve told you that stories a few time on the podcasts. Her influences Jay Leno, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, Nimish Ma Till been talking about him a lot lately.
He said, if there’s something I feel liss taboo, I’m always tempted by that third rail. I’m usually on the right side of history, at least on the right side of the joke. I became a comedian more from circumstance than chasing dreams. I graduated from NYU in two thousand and eight with a degree in finance, which is about the funniest thing you could do. At the time, when I was unemployed, I was seeking an outlet for some subconscious, existential dread I was experiencing.
It’s not an easy sentence to say I saved you the Three Edits. I like making people laugh, and I’m good at writing and making people laugh. His influences Russell Peters, Chris Rock, Patris O’Neil, Mitch Hedberg, Sarah Sherman, Well, yeah, we know Sarah Sherman. She’s on Saturday Night Live. By her own admission, her stand up act could be vulgar and descriptive.
Her influences The Nanny, Larry David Peewee’s Playhouse, and rend and Stippy. That’s great Brian Simpson next up. He’s having a good year. Brian says, over time, I’ve been able to get more concise, with less fear of silence, and I’ve probably gotten better at getting deeper into things. There are things that I couldn’t make work ten years ago, but I kept them in my notebook, and now there’s some of my best jokes.
Simpson grew up in foster care and served in the Marine Corps, both of which help inform his comedic perspective and made him good at reading people in situations. His influences George Carlin, Red Fox, Eddie Murphy, Toom Sagora, Whoopi Goldberg. Sabrina Woo says, I think something that makes a good stand up and a good actor is updating her performance, really living in the moment of it, never reading the same lines the same way, feel the crowd, feel the space. Sabrina adds, Yes, I’m non by in my life is absolutely perfect. I mean, hear it all and I live comfortably in that truth.
Their influences Tik Nataro Alley Wang, Mike Berbiglia nick Nameerrov. The fantastic Canadian comedian that passed away last year, is that ten. Wow, I went quick. I went back and checked that’s ten. The other big article is Natasha Leone, Hasan Minhaj, Jean Smart among Honorees and Varieties twenty twenty three Compact Comedy Impact Report.
M let’s skim this one because this has a lot of like industry suit types and you and I are less interested in that the premise of varieties article from stage to screen behind the scenes. Here’s a look at the most impactful comedic voices over the past year on the list. Abbott elementary talent agent, Kara Albert, the Bear, Daniel Brooks, you know her from Peacemaker Max Burgos, who’s the co head of comedy touring for IgA, Gerrod Carmichael, Oh yeah, Rathaniel. People still buzzing about that one. Michael Cox is the booker for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Jim Donnelly is the Executive VP for Comedy Development for Universal. Again, all the suit stuff doesn’t interest me as much. Jillian Doyle works in the music and Comedy touring department at ce AA. Nathan Fielder, creator of the rehearsal Hannah Gatsby. You know about Hannah Amy Gravitt is an Executive VP at HBO Programming.
Bill Hayter, You’ve heard of him. Kevin Hart and thy Randolph. Thy Randolph is the CEO of Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat. You know who Kevin Hart is. Ryan Johnson, you know him from Star Wars Movies and glass Onion and poker Face.
Kathleen Lewis is an agent Natasha Leone. We know her from poker Face. Mark Maron Hope. You’ve heard of Mark Marin if you’re this foreign of this podcast. James Morriston, who had a good year on jury duty, Comedian May Martin, Hasan Minhaj the program, Moe and Crediting, Moa Mayer and Rammie Yusef, John Mulaney Otsko at KOSCA.
You’ve heard me go on and on about her. Trevor Noah. It’s a long list. Tracy Pacosta, who’s the VP of Comedy Series for Netflix. Robbie Pro VP Stand Up in Comedy Formats for Netflix.
Dwayne Perkins, actor on The Blackening, Billy Rosenberg, Senior VP Head of Comedy and Hulu. Jason Siegal, the actor, and Brett Goltzie and Bill Lawrence, the co creators of Nope. Shrinking. You thought I was gonna say some other show. Jean Smart we know her from Hacks, Sadegas, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence for ted Lasso.
There’s a long list. Come on, guys, Aaron Wehenberg up to the W’s Hopefully we’re almost done. Senior, VP Network, Comedy, ABC Entertainment, Roy Wood Junior. And that’s the end of the list. Boy, that was long.
All right, Let’s do something more fun. More from Rolling Stone’s interview with Tom Sagora, the conspiracy theory about Garth Brooks. Rolling Stone says it’s particularly wild given his Chris Gan’s sex addict alter ego. Segura said, it’s so creepy, and there are so many people have no idea about that, and when you show it to them, they think it’s photoshop. They’re like, what the F is that?
And you’re like, no, this is real. Did you hear he announce he’s gonna do five more Chris Gain’s albums. Five That means he’s gonna be doing Chris Gaines when he’s seventy. It’s crazy, dude. Sagora said, the whole thing with Garth Brooks started from legit place his announcement that he was joining Facebook is and will forever be one of the most bizarre, cringey, creepiest videos I’ve ever seen.
He’s in his hotel room and he’s like, well, I guess it’s fisial. I’m on Facebook now. I didn’t think it was gonna be like this, And You’re like what, And then he’s like, I don’t know if this is gonna be like And then I talked to one of my people and they were like, think of this as a conversation.
And then he takes his voice down a register and he goes, I like that.
It’s wiping out the walls between you and me.
And then he takes it down again and goes, I really like that.
There are famous people, but he is out of the stratosphere famous, and I know he puts on great shows. When you get to that level of fame, On convinced you of an inability to see the world objectively and interact with people, because people don’t interact with you normally. I can’t imagine what Court’s real life is like, but it’s got to be weird as stuff. Gore says, I don’t want to sell out who told me? But there’s one hundred percent confirmation that he is extremely well aware of what’s going on.
He knows who I am, and he hates my guts. My friends said that when people bring me up to him, he pulls the video of me breaking my arm and he goes karma. New topic. During Bird Chreisher’s show at the Gorge Amphitheater on Saturday, there was a metal emergency shortly before at ten o’clock. Davros Halkias was on stage.
He was interrupted by crew to be informed that he needed to stop. EMTs and paramedics made their way through the crowd near the front of the stage where a person was experiencing a medical episode. Comedian and show mc cipher Sounds told the crowd make some way to let the responders do their thing. The patient was placed onto a gurnean was carted off to safety. Hi.
I’m Mark Francis, a host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz the glamor of the star studded events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts Just for Asked.
Montreal announced new show hosted by Mark Norman. It is the Improv’s sixtieth anniversary show and enjoy NonStop comedy from Mastovo lineup of performers, all while supporting a great cause. Comedy gives back. That one’s coming up next week tonight at the Festival seven o’clock Britannic. I’ll tell you about that one tomorrow, just for the Culture at seven o’clock, The Lucas Brothers at seven o’clock, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, Burzela Carlson at ten o’clock and Midnight Surprise at midnight.
All right, if we were playing the what would we do at Montreal tonight? Let’s see, I’d probably just go see just for the culture, for the guest I’m gonna tell you about in a second, I’d do that at seven man, I’d stick around do the Nasty Show at nine thirty and I would do Midnight Surprise at twelve on the Just for the Culture show. It’s hosted by Alonzo Bowed and you heard from him on this podcast. Zarna garg is one of the performers we just learned Zorn as a comedian to watch.
Also on The Bill, Joyle, Nicole Johnson, Judy Gold, Arthur Simeon, Mark ellis…
I love New Faces. It’s like my favorite thing to go up for. You know, my whole thing is at the top of mind. You know, I don’t I don’t go there to see Chris Rock because I’ve seen Chris Rock luckily, and I can watch Chris Rock on Netflix. I’d like to see who’s out there.
Was that New Faces last year? You rushed like crushed and so let me just start with your slot. I’m doing it from memory. I think you went eighth or ninth in the second groups. I would last best night could tap the am, but I was last.
So is that a tough draw? Because if you’re me, you know I’m sitting I’ve been there for three hours. They did both shows. You’re the twentieth person I’ve seen is that bad draw worked. Yes, look it works at the end of the night.
I if I’d had gone bad and I would have blamed the spot for sure. But Pete Holmes was hosting and he gave I was part of the Celtic group. The second show, and he kind of pulled us aside and he said, hey, just so you guys know, the second show is always even better. First shows good. Second shows is even better.
The audience drape’s having a good time. So so then he goes out. We hear the first show, it’s tough, great, he goes out to hit the second show. He comes back and he goes then they are tired. They are really tired.
I think a lot of them the first show too. And we were like, oh my god. And so we we could tell because we have ears that the second audience was a little bit tired, a little bit more, and I honestly think I was able to let go of ever adiety I was feeling, and I went, well, you know what, look at that. I came all the way to Montreal and the audience is tired, and this is the big said screw it. And I think, like that energy is why that went so well.
So it worked out for me. It helped me be chill and go screw it, and I felt really good about that chance. Was that your planned of material for the night or did you add lib last second? No? No, no, no, no.
I’m I tried to be brave, but I’m not that breake. That was prepared. It was prepared and rehearsed. So I’d like to know about the process. I’m going to deliberately start with a question that I could just google, but for the listeners, how long have you been a comedian, mister new face?
I would say like eight years. I think there’s always a comedian, there’s always like you know, I was an actor first. I took a stand up comedy class when I wasn’t really a comedian, you know, I would do one or two shows a year at they’re easy, braver shows where the comedians brought the audience and they were very favorable. But after failing it acting for a number of years, at twenty six, I pivoted into stand up comedy. So you’re you’re a new face eight years in?
What’s the process? How do you get selected? Did your agent get it? Just just for last just know you’re out there? No, my, my, agent.
I had an agent, so it’s unwrapped and it’s repped, and my agent got me an audition for repped. It was actually my first audition. I was surprised. I wanted to get it the years before, but I just didn’t get a slot. So I had I had a new I had at the time, and they got me a slot.
I auditioned I think three weeks later, maybe I had a club back, and you know I did. I mean most of them are. Then I ended up doing at CHRFL and then they give it to you and then they announce it until like three days before the festival, and it was really exciting. And to come back this year I was told, I said I then so in the year after New Faces debut, But I was like, okay, but I would love to be back. I would love more time than Montreal.
So I ended up working out Real nice. That’s awesome. What’s the environment there? Is it competitive or is it camaraderie. We’re all on the same boat, Like you don’t like win the night, but you know it’s probably nice to be the shining star.
Sure, sure, I think especially New Faces, everyone is so we’re all hey, we’re all very happy. To be there. There’s a thing you’re telling yourself to combat your anxiety about the actual second go. You know what, even if I bomb, people will back home. They’ll be like it was a new face, and you get to use that credit for the next five years before it becomes sad when they start seeing the wrinkles and you’re still going the host say this guy was a new face.
That’s what it’s pressed. But we’re all very happy to be there. Of course there’s competition, but the nice thing about stand up and the painful thing is you can’t really affect each other. You go out there and the audience determining how everyone’s going to do, so you don’t have to be like mean about it. No, it was me.
I think Pete really was who as a new Pacings many years in a row, was really like gave us a pep talk, a reel as quotes as I’ve ever been yet to a locker room pep talk from a coach. Was Pete Holmes with one of his big leggy legs on the cuts, telling us that it’s gonna be okay, that’s awesome. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend time with Pete and he’s exactly who you would hope that he is based on his persona. It’s not like there’s stage Pete and then a different guy backstage. I was talking to Alonso yesterday about I felt like Pete was throwing, and Alonso explained to me why I felt like Pete, if I used the sports analogy, was throwing like seventy eighty miles an hour and didn’t go to his top.
And Alonso was explaining, as the host, you know, he doesn’t want to go out and crush and then have somebody who’s earlier on the food chain come out and have to match, you know, at a list or at his top. Yeah, you know, I think’s terry nice. I think there’s plenty of comedians that would not be able to resist the urge to crush. But no, I think he knew. I think he was very cogniss I’m like making not show up gun for everybody.
He sat at the side of the stage and watched everyone set and laughed. All my god, I can’t even imagine, but he did that, and he never you know, you bring up all these comedians, you could give them a weak prow. You could say something that’s just a little off of the audience is diffused, but he sent it up, he set it up clean. He’s a pro. So hopefully if I ever hosts something like that, I can resist the urge, or if I do badly, be like, well, you know, I was trying to do badly to keep keep the things nice for everyone else.
It’s a good excuse, too hilarious, all right, So you crush, you walk off? Are you the sexy object? Everybody trying to sign you up for stuff? Or it’s another day in the neighbor. You know, I got to meet a lot of people, a lot of people.
They want to people of the TV show, and you’re like, oh, I want to talk about the sand duct. That’s what I’m focused on. But yeah, you end up taking a lot of like meetings. It’s kind of overwhelming how many people in the comedy industry show up the JFL. I think as I was like walking around the fifth party on the night, I was like, oh, how how did I how did I even participate in this business without being here?
And it’s just like one of those central events where so many people are are there and I met bookers, I met agents, I met managers, like but I’m most excited to meet comedy club bookers because at the time, I was like, just give me on the road, and it certainly did that. And that environment seems a little cooler than I was talking about. When you’re out in la as I’m talking and instead of making eye contact with you, I’m looking over you to see who’s a bigger star than maybe I could. I’m looking I’m already having my next conversation. Oh there’s Pete Holmes.
Thanks, let me go. Uh, you know Montreal, everybody seems a little more chill. Yeah, I think there wasn’t time. I mean everything’s also become more chill. Like, listen, you could do great at JNFL, It’s it’s not gonna give you more success than having five million TikTok followers.
There used to be a day, I think, where someone could be like, you’re gonna be a movie star. Stephen Sgal became a movie star because he was a famous agents tight she instructor. There’s no one has that time anymore, and I think because of that, we get to be a little bit more human. We don’t have to be terrified. I still think there’s a couple of people that have they walked in the room I’d be like, so good to talk to you, booker of Dallas Comedy Club.
Ari Emmanuel’s over there. I’m gonna go seehah. But for the most part, I think jfl uh, my my girlfriends would be in the industry side, and I think it’s a nice opportunity for all those guys to get a couple of drinks and have a good time. Yeah, and that makes it fun. Perfect buddy.
So in preparation for having you or any guest on, you know, I jump on the Google machine to see if there’s the latest article whatever, And I was just laughing at the descriptions attached to you. Observational comedian. Okay, fair, you’re not a pro comic. Sometimes you’re a Jewish comedian. Sometimes you’re Jewish Italian comedian.
Sometimes you’re an Italian comedian, which brings us to just for their culture. And I also was laughing with this with Alonso yesterday. And they always put parentheses formally the ethnic show, and I get why you don’t want it to be the ethnic show anymore. They always put it the reminder, formally the ethnic show. So what team are you playing for?
Does it matter? You’re going up and going on I’m the Italian guy. Tonight, I’m playing for it call at the Ethnic show again. I’m gonna be complaining about that for the whole set. I’m gonna say, what app when this cancel culture?
That’s it? So that’s my team, all right. I listen, Dad, Italian. Mom’s Jewish. Well, my girlfriend is super Jewish.
He’s robe commad, which is a branch of considered them. So I’m being told in that direction. I got a lot of Jewish material. It’s really girlfriend material, but I disguised them as Jewish material. And and uh, you could expect a lot of Jewish jokes, a lot of a lot of you know, I’m very interested in Jewish the way people viewer the Jews right now.
You got you got people saying we run Hollywood. You got you got some people saying we’re we’re all in this power. But then other people who don’t think, who don’t like this at all. It’s a very rich comedic identity. And I wasn’t raised very Jewish, but modern society has imposed the fact that I am a Jew into my life and I want to explore that.
That’s where I get my comedic juices flowing. And I’m very excited to uh that a little bit talently. But you know, the Italian supply proved my gesture. I think that’s where my Italian side really comes to shine. And as I scrolled down a page two of Google the Texas newspapers, it was like three in a row, Jeff Goldblum impressionist.
That is the other thing that we’re apparently tagging you with yours. You know, the Jeff Goldblum guy. You know, I I sported at I did it in the movie. Bl Crystal did a movie called Here Today and I played like an SNL cast member type guy at it. And in the movie I did the impression and I said, you know what, I’m going to retire this impression.
I used to do cameos as Jeff Goldblum.
And then I was like, no, no, you don’t want to be the Jeff Goldblum guy.
And no matter where I go though, that’s that’s the people put that in the bio and and then they asked, and I go, okay, then move on, move on with my life. But you know, if if if someone buys a piece of merge from me and as I’ll give it to him nice. You mentioned you’re a theater kid. My daughter just graduated Northwestern as a theater kid, and I congratulation. Very good college, very nice.
I’m mad at her. I just saw they announced a new Chicago comedy festival. I sent her a text an hour ago, why aren’t you still in Chicago? Because I could have crashed her place. I was on her for the whole four years, and she didn’t want to hear anymore.
I kept going second city, second city, Second city, second city. What I’m like, because you’re the pretty girl who can sing, and you’re fun. You’re like gold. So I’d love to know more about your musical theater experience. Of course, that’s so sweet to have a parent that involved.
I can’t even imagine. I don’t even know if my parents knew what I went to COGS for all right, so it’s very sweet that you are that that involved. I mean, I wanted to be a music computer kid. I believed in the system back then. I thought I would go to college.
From college, I get an agent and start working steadily. I think I didn’t have the chops to be a real professional singer. And that’s hard to realize until you moved somewhere like New York and I remember auditioning to be a non huge member of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, and we waited for three or four hours to see sixteen bars in a room and a crappy rehearsal space, and I remember, and the walls are portent, so I had to listen to everyone’s audition and by the time I got up to me, I said, you know what, there’s zero chance I am getting this. And I decided so each Wow, it’s because I knew. I just you don’t know that when you’re younger, do you think maybe I’ll be a great singer?
And I think college is here are pretty scammy. I don’t think they could give you your money’s worth, but they don’t. They don’t prepare you for the world. And it’s hard to predict the world. TikTok would determine who gets cast as leads and movies.
Right now, I mean that that’s a new world. But I ultimately I pursued singing. I pursued acting. I had a little bit of success here and there, but it didn’t really feel like it clicked until I wrote a straight play for myself where I talked to the audience a lot, and I had a friend who was like, that’s you should do that part. And I always dreamed about stand up and I ended up getting into this very horrible, horrible copy called LLL, which which I swore I never work again.
And then I found myself there last night and Mike did not work, of course, but it was doing every check spot there for like a year and a half that I fell in love. And I said, you know what this is when I like, I like to be able to perform. I don’t like to be fully scripted. I like to be in the moment. I like to make decisions myself, and I like that cotstick feedback to let me know how I’m doing beat by beat.
So you’re like one of these guys that’s going to have the big Netflix special and then Lauren’s going to take a liking to you when you’re going to go on SNL and destroy because you can do the other things. I mean, look, I hope so because I’m a debt so let’s hope that plan goes exactly as you said. That is that is planned a DNC. All right, I’ll call Lauren after this. Young what young guys are out there that might be off my radar?
As I sit here in the basement not attending Montreal. Who are you in too? I mean people that I would consider like in my class. Jeffrey Asmus, who’s going to be doing the Dirty Show on JFL, is one of my favorite comets to watch as an amazing writer. Jay shred it.
Good buddy, he’s doing j Carrozzo. He’s fantastic. You know he’s not a young guy. But Jessel Nick will always be my favorite personally. And oh I just my girlfriend’s client, full disclogner.
But Tita Fribble very good comedian, just a comedy cecil sets a. Tina Fribble is fantastic, good plug and very smart. Is that good, honey? Is that enough for you to do three more clients? Okay, she’s good.
John Marco also headlines Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five. John Marco is awesome. Love that guy. I saw him at New Faces last year. He crushed it and I really enjoyed speaking with him.
He’ll do his own headlining show at Cafe Cleopatra on July twenty five, and another one at the I Always dumb it down Place des Arts. There’s probably a French way to say that, but that’s on July twenty eighth. John Marcos Serresi one of last year’s new faces and on my list a comedian to watch. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your shows, and hey, support the shark Deck Network.
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