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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m laughing about the stuff that’s in the second half. We’ve got all sorts of battles, including a really fun comedian battle, but it’s a little long. I’ll save that for the second half.
Some late night jokes. John Oliver was talking about former President Trump trying to raise some money and said, this is a man who talks NonStop about how he’s one of the richest men on earth, begging strangers for money in a hostage video that looks like it was filmed that a house haunted by the world’s tackies ghosts. Oliver made fun of the various merch options you can buy from Trump, including the infamous Bible and some Trump cologne. Oliver was fascinated by a mini speaker that bears Trump’s likeness. A great joke, Herry goes, I assume it’s way too loud and never dies.
There’s also a gold Trump branded earbud case, and Oliver said, you know, you can never tell which AirPods are yours and which are your friends, because all the cases look the same. You get these, you lose all your friends instantly. Problems solved. Jimmy Fallon talked about this Google lawsuit. You see, they were collecting some data on their incognito browser there.
So if you were on OnlyFans, you know, watching Whitney Cumming specials as we all do in the basement, I get it, Jimmy Fallon said, in order to settle a privacy lawsuit, Google has pledged to destroy millions of users browsing data, and based on your silence, it sounds like there are some very relieved people. Last night, I was planning on having a big TV comedy night. Hopefully that happened. I was planning and watching Dmitri Martin special, and The Daily Beast got me even more excited about it with this headline, Dmitri Martin made a Netflix hour that’s actually special. If you listen every day, you know my whole thing about specials versus hours, and we’re throwing everything up there on the internet, including you know, me doing eight minutes at the chuckle Hut going new special.
I’ve never done eight minutes at the chuckle Hut. I am not a comedian. In case you can’t tell, The Daily Beast writes, many of us fall into the same trap every time we open Netflix’s comedy page watching the latest special from the same mainstream comedians we’ve been watching for years. It can be high risk for comedians to break the mold and warp the conventions of comedy. It can also be high reward, with specials like Hannahgatsby’s and an Adder Bo Burnham’s Inside receiving critical acclaim.
The reimagining of comedy forms the basis of Dmitri Martin’s Dmitri Deconstructed with a black and white trailer that immediately stood out blah blah blah, combined with a jazz theme and plenty of Wes Anderson esque symmetry, Martin Special feels like something that was designed with purpose, streamline for streaming, as comedy specials should be, rather than left as a lucrative afterthought. Following a money making tour ouch, the New York Governor, Kathy Hokeel and Tracy Morgan joined the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles to encourage New york Is to give the gift of life by joining the New York State Donate Life Registry. April is National Donate Life Month, which shines the spotline on the urgent need for organ I and tissue donors. I will also encourage you to be an organ donor. I am an organ donor.
My personal philosophy is I’m dead, maybe these parts could help someone else. Tracy Morgan underwent a kidney transplant back in twenty ten. He credits that with saving his life. Tracy said, I’m living proof of the benefits of organ donation and has given me an opportunity to show people that you can go on and live a full life when you find a match. My donor saved my life, and by enrolling in the New York Donate Life Registry, you could help save many others.
One organ donor can save up to eight lives and heal seventy five more through I and tissue donation. Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers are working on the Los Culturista’s Culture Awards. It’s moving to the King’s Theatre in Brooklyn for its third annual show June fifteenth. One hundred or so categories brainstormed by Yang and Rogers. Some mainstays include a Record of the Year and he Kate Blanchett Award for Good Acting.
They were asked if Taylor Swift might participate. If Taylor wants to send in a video, that’d be great. Our message to her and her publicist is help us, help you play ball, but she may not be in her sending videos to fake awards shows there anymore. The ceremony was hosted at Lincoln Center for the past two years and had twenty six hundred attendees. Bowen said, we’re moving indoors so that people can enjoy upholstered seating.
Finally, I think people are too used to uncomfortable posterior resistance. I think they’re used to hard plastic cheers. Since our basement days, we haven’t given them a full award show experience, and we’re aiming to give that holistic packaging of being an honest to goodness award show. The pass shows had been free to attend. This one will be ticketed.
There’s a pre sale April fourth at ten am, General ticket sales April fifth. All winners are determined by Rogers and Yang, but the two hint that, like with Swift, they could be swayed by who decides to participate. Keenan Thompson has spoken out about that quiet on set documentary You Know This One, The Dark Side of Kids TV got into some stuff going down at Nickelodeon. We don’t want to go there on this podcast, but you know you can read it. People caught up with Keenan, who said it’s a tough subject.
It’s tough for me because I can’t really speak of the things that I never witnessed, because all these things happened after I left. Remember John Stewart had a show on Apple that none of us watched, and then he left all of a sudden. Well, the other night, John was interviewing Federal Trade Commission cheer Lena Kahn on the Daily Show. He told Kahn that he wants pitch to have her as a guest on the Apple Show. John said, I wanted to have you on a podcast, and Apple asked us not to do it.
They literally said, please don’t talk to her. They wouldn’t let us even do the dumb thing where we just did in the first act on AI, meaning a segment Stuart did on The Daily Show in which he criticized the rise of AI and spoke about how it’s making human workers obsolete. Stuart asked about Apple, like, where’s the sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere. Kahn answered, I think it just shows the danger of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision making and a small number of companies.
Variety reached out to Apple for a comment and they did not have one open letter to Roy Wood Junior. Let it go, man, you gotta just let it go, Roy, let it go. Roy was on with Samantha Bee on her podcast Choice Words. You may recall Roy kind of wanted to host the Daily Show, so do I, but Roy didn’t get a chance. Do I want host the dailyshal Share?
I’ll host that. I’m free next week, call me, Roy would and sold sam Be I’ve had the gift of choosing to jump out the window a couple of times and being kicked out of windows a couple of times over the course of my career. I have more control if I jump because I know where the grapple hook is. Shows are getting canceled, streamers are collapsing. The industry is slowly imploding.
And I’m not just talking about late night I’m talking about the type of programming that studios and networks will show confidence in and stay behind so that fear is kind of what showers over me. It’s also rooted in if this industry is shifting, and if it’s changing to something different, now’s the time to be first in line for that thing. I’ve always viewed opportunities and entertainment like a grocery store. We’re all in line to be checked out, and then you look over there and a new register’s opening, and you’re trying to decide if that register will be faster than the line you’re And I like this analogy a lot. And I’ve been in this line for eight years.
It’s a good line man. But looking over there and I just chose to get out of line and go to another line. I don’t know if I’m right. I don’t know if that’s the right move. As for the Daily Show, was the best time in my life, but without being able to have an accurate vision for how it can end, I had to choose my ending.
He said when he left, he had no idea that John Stewart would be coming back to host Mondays. That was not in the conversation, that was not even a rumor. Had he known, he might have decided differently. He said, I do hate that I missed out on some of that good John Stewart tutelage that would have been dope. Joe Flaherty, best known for his roles on Freaks and Geeks and to me his sketchwork comedy on SCTV, has passed away at age eighty two.
After serving in the US Air Force, Flowerty joined Chicago’s Second City Theater. He was instrumental in bringing Second City to Toronto. He starred on SATV for eight years and appeared in seventy five episodes, during which he created memorable characters like Count Floyd, Guy Caballero, and Big Jim mcbob. Joe Flaherty was eighty two. All right, it is time for comedian fights.
I was prepping the show. I was on Twitter. I saw John Marco Ciresi’s comment here, and John Marco tweeted, Hey guys, there was a little bit of drama on one of my San Diego shows this past Friday. I made a video response over on TikTok that lays out my side of things, but happen to answer any questions you may have. Thanks, so I’m gonna play it here.
I watched it. John Marco looks bothered by this he seems to be freaking out. He’s not doing this for laughs. He seems genuinely bothered. During this clip, you’re going to hear him refer to his opener.
I will set this up for you. The opener is wearing what to me looks like a red T shirt, but it’s a really really big red T shirt that goes down to like the guy’s knees. That is key to this drama that we’re about to unfold.
Also near the end here when John Marco takes the stage, I have edited out sev…
Okay, here’s John Marco on TikTok. Well, I just want to address something that another comedian has been saying about me on TikTok. Long story short, I was headlining in San Diego this past Friday, and right at the gate, let me say this guy. He’s not my normal opener. My normal opener is named Liam Nelson.
He was not available, so the club assigned me to this guy. He said, I was late. I was not late. It was it was a seven pm show, sold out crowd. The club asked to push it back twenty thirty minutes so they could get everyone in there.
So last number one, number two, he said that I was like, like I made fun of him or his outfit the for like fifteen minutes. I said a couple of small jokes. He had a absurdly large shirt on, so it wasn’t it wasn’t like I wasn’t trying to like haze the Marty thing he had. It was a I haven’t let’s played the video or to that point here whatever, very nice, very nice, could to see everyone. This is good, let’s see this.
I suppose was staying up comedy show before. I’m not gonna say something about that. Here’s one more angle. Just you understand how big this shirt was. Good.
You guys are gonna be a fun crowd. I love to see that. This is exactly what you want. Yeah, thank you. So yeah.
When I went on stage, I made a couple jokes about that shirt because I felt, I think it’s my job to address the elephant in the room. I mean, this shirt was big enough for an elephant, and I just want to play the video for you. You can judge it for yourself. But like, I certainly don’t want to be known as someone who’s bullying or making fun of their openers. I appreciate my openers.
I just so you just play it. Really, guys, I need y’all to truly go bump wild right now for John Marco’s crazy That was a shirt. I was watching the bag. I was like, my openers a three kids in a trench hut. I truly I thought the curtain was just stuck on him like this, and then I was like, oh, I was coming with him.
Give it up for time. Comedian J P. McDade reacted and tweeted, I’ve opened for John Marco a few times. I know his act is basically Dane cooked the musical. What a great line.
Dane cooked the musical. But he’s a good guy and a surprisingly good hang. If you’re an opener trying to get sympathy for him roasting your shirt, which looks like the elbow parade float deflated on you, grow up. John Marco tweeted back, not quite the defense I wanted, but probably the defense I deserve. Persian Cat jumped in and said, Dane cook comparison at a surprisingly good hang, Oh my god, he kind of hates you worst.
Elon Musk responded to a tweeter. The tweeter had tweeted a screenshot of John Oliver, and Elon responded, John Oliver hasn’t been funny for years. Oh, I disagree, and you might want to watch on Sunday night. Elon more streife Dr in the Facebook group not Happy with my Billy Joel Hot Take, Dr wrote, Billy Joel is the best all caps and four exclamation points. I used to sing professionally.
You would always love it when a Billy Joel’s song was requested. My favorite she’s got away about her hashtag lay off my Billy. Another shout out to Aaron. I was thinking of Aaron this morning when I was Q seeing the show. I always listened back to the podcast on my way to the National Donuts Chain, and it just worked out.
I was in the parking lot of the Donuts chain when I heard me from yesterday thanking Erin for buying me not one, but two coffees at buy Me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, so you get double thanks, thanks very much. The Webby Awards are coming out. There’s just too many things. For example, last week I told you somebody won some comedy podcast award. Do you remember who was?
Because I don’t anyway. The Webby Awards, the nominees for Comedy Shows Podcasts are Conen Kevin Hart Hold Up with Dulce Sloan and Josh Johnson from the Daily Show, which apparently is a podcast that exists the Bald and the Beautiful and whatever. Trust Fall from Broadway Video is what’s trust Fall? While I look that up? To be nominated, you submit yourself.
You don’t get nominated. You submit yourself and then they consider you. The application, I understand is four hundred and ninety five dollars. There are some, you know, discounts for students or whatever, but you know this is a money maker, So let’s understand what this is. Trust Fall is a new podcast hosted by Jordan Gleeson and Logan Williams.
In its incoherent ramblings, wanderings and convos with like minded peers, it attempts to explore day to day life blah blah blah. Anyway. So that’s nominated. Are you excited? They also nominated Individual Episodes.
The nominees for Individual Comedy Episodes Individual Episodes by Bitch Sesh, Fly on the Wall, How Did This Get made? Last Culture Reestis and the comment section a Spotify podcast again. You can next year if you want to jump in. Four ninety five dollars will get you an application and you might make yourselves to the finals. Okay, speaking of awards, the Golden Globes have set January fifth for the eighty second ceremony.
This will be on CBS Live eight to eleven. Now in case you’re wondering, would there be a football game on that before? Yeah, on January fifth, they’ll be football on Sunday. And that leads to the next question, what is the difference between the NFL and the Golden Globe Awards? Well, Joe Koi as the answer for you.
As you know, we came on after a football double header. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor swift Boy. What a horrible mean joke. That was so mean.
Oh I didn’t prep here. The next thing on might run down, it says Melbourne, And you’re about to get my daily slow burn about how slow this website loads. All right, where are you, Melbourne? Bookmark? Let’s see I’m recording on April second.
You’re listening on April third, which means in Melbourne it is April fourth. We’re a long again today, so let me do some that don’t have clips. Will save the clips for you know, when I need to pad a little bit. Ronnie Nevill all Irish Storytelling. He’s got a nice logo where he’s standing in front of the Irish flag making a what just happened kind of face.
Caught my attention. Let’s see Come and experience the globe trotting international Irish storyteller Ronnie Neville from Cork to Perth with a suitcase full of stories, Tales from the bogs and streets of Ireland, watered and growing on the floorboards of Irish pubs. Truly, this man is either a genius or a lunatic, you decide. Fringe Feed gave it four stars, saying the set was reminiscent of the style of Billy Connolly. Express mag also gave it four stars and said hilarious.
It’s not much of a review. Here’s one Stuart Dalman into the Galaxy. He’s wearing an orange traditional spacesuit in his logo. Twenty eighteen Moosehead Recipient. Now I don’t know what that means.
And you know I’m about to google it. This has brought me to the Moosehead Awards. I’m on their about page. It says welcome to the Moosehead Retrospective, a year by year review of where it all started and where it is today. We have a keen eye for picking the stars of tomorrow.
As you can see. Twenty twenty three recipients include Prue Blake we played Preu over the weekend. You can apply. You think they get four hundred ninety five dollars. Let’s see.
What is the Moosehead. It’s an organization that wants to get financial support to Australian comedians putting on new shows at Melbourne. Oh that’s cool. Why do we want to help you put on your show? The Mooseheads have a really long history of supporting comedians in the Melbourne Festival, et cetera, et cetera.
How will we help you? One we’ll pay your Melbourne Comedy Festival registration. Two will pay the first three thousand dollars of your venue rental. Three will pay you up to twenty five hundred dollars for you to have creative support. Wow, this is cool.
See John, you were making funny these guys and they’re like super awesome cool. Four, we’ll do some overhead marketing. Five if you live outside of Melbourne at the time of application, meeting more than ninety minutes from Melbourne Central Business District, we’ll continue it up to two thousand dollars torture accommodation. Remember all these dollar amounts are probably Australian dollars, so do like a times point six in there. The Mooseheads try to make it easier for comedians to collaborate and stretch their creative legs.
All right, we like the moose heads. The moose heads are cool, see and I was making fun of them. What a jerk you are, Johnny Mack. Stuart Donalmond’s show was given four and a half stars by the Music who said it’s both cynical and brilliant and on every level it works kind of like this podcast. Huh yeah, Half Beat Magazine four and a half stars, they said, brilliantly crafted the Harold Son four stars.
Dear description Prepper weird all right, and our friend of the show, Dan Boobleitz Junior, he’s been a guest. I gotta have him on again. We’ve been emailing about Dan, I’ve just been so busy. You know what’s going on? Just have it at a minute.
The level end of reporter interviewed Dan. What if Dan’s cringing right now, wondering if I’m going to goof on him. I don’t know if I’m going to goof on you. I don’t preread articles. Dan said, comedy is something that really brings people together.
It’s the thing everyone can find common ground on. How did Dan get in a comedy? Oh no, The short answer is I got divorced. The longest version is I got divorced after a twelve year marriage and felt like I’d wasted the last twelve years of my life. In hindsight, it wasn’t a waste.
Is that experience help shape who I am today, and comedy is something I’ve always wanted to do. So I decided that I didn’t want to be a person that looked back in life and wondered what if. Instead, I wanted to look back and know what happened, whether I succeeded or failed. I also wanted to overcome my fear of public speaking, so I found a local open mic. It’s signed up.
I remember when my name was called and I walked on stage and looked to the audience as I grabbed the Michael. I could think was what I get myself into. Then I told the joke and got a laugh, and I’ve been performing ever since. When I first started, it was scary, nerve wracking because I had a fear of public speaking. The more I’ve done it over the years, the easier it has gotten.
No matter how long one does it, making a room full of strangers laugh is the hardest thing to do, but the most rewarding, Dan Doy, you prefer improv or a script dances, I think it’s better. I have a mix of both. I’ve taken improv classes and it’s helped I stand up tremendously. Comedy should be somewhat loose, and when a comic has a set script, it’s easy to feel more like a copy and paste performance than a one of a kind experience for the audience. Yes, I uh one of the Australian comics I played on Sunday.
I made that note that it just sounded like a performance rather than vibing with the audience. Dan says, I’ve written plenty of jokes and I usually write out a set list for each performance that acts as my guide. I know where I want to start and where I want to end, and whatever happens in the middle, it doesn’t matter as long as the audience is having a good time. Who are Dan’s favorite comedians? I hope you don’t say Adam Sandley here or we’re gonna not be friends anymore, he said, that’s a very tough question to answer.
There’s so many greats George carl and Richard Pryor up there. As for working comedians, I’m a big fan of John Mulaney, Mike Burbigley, Steve Martin, and Mark maron Great List. Dan, congrats on the article. Check out Dan Boubletz at Dan Buobletz dot com at d A n bu b l I t z at dot com. I want to hear some of Dan’s comedy.
You do, Let’s do it. And a lot of guys they’ll brag about dating outside of their lee right like they’ll date. They’ll say, oh, I’m just a woman’s way out of my league. And I think any guy that’s with any partner, you’re out of your league. That’s how I look at That doesn’t matter.
You’re always out of your league. That’s just the way it is. But what I’ve come to realize is that not only am I out of my league, I’m out of my tax bracket. Because she wanted to go see a financial planner, and those are two words that are not in my vocabulary, not at all. But I was like, you know what, I want to be a supportive partner.
I’ll go see the financial planner. Let’s do this, and so we did. Of course, he had questions right away. He wanted to know what my name was, what I did for a living. If I want my name’s Dan.
I’m a stand up comedian. Oh that sounds like a fun job, Dan. Well, I gotta ask you a few questions. First question, what are your future financial goals? So well, if I could pay rent tomorrow, that’d be fantastic.
Nice, all right, Dan Boublet’s junior end of the show. If you want to hear the rest of that set, it’s up on his website, Dan Booblet’s dot com. And that’s your comedy news for today. Tell a friend about the show. They might like it.
To see you tomorrow.