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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now. I don’t know why you people hate on Adam Sandler. The guy just put one hundred and fifty two million dollars into the New Jersey economy.
That’s where I live. Yes, The filming of Happy Gilmore IWO a fine film, you should watch it pumped a record breaking one hundred and fifty two and a half million dollars into the New Jersey state economy over sixty four shooting days. How can you not love Adam Sandler movies. Happy Gilmour two averaged two point three million dollars in daily spend, including six point four million dollars on extras and one point two million dollars on lodging. Some of the places this was shot golf courses in Bedminster, Bloomfield and Montclair, private homes in Irvington and Billville.
Some of the backdrops included Newark Liberty International Airport, where I was just this morning, and Fairleigh Dickinson University where I work. Adams and Tandler and I work at the same place sometimes. Tim Sullivan is the NJE DACO and said New Jersey has become a happy place for filmmakers. He credits the state’s competitive tax credits, local talent, base and location diversity. Can we get some tax benefits for basement podcasters?
Is that a thing? Should I like, stop recording and look this up? Maybe it is. John Crowley is the executive director of the state’s Film Commission and says, from golf courses and universities to airports and beaches, New Jersey has everything a production company desires, and thank you Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions. They’re already filming another project here in New Jersey.
It is the teen musical Don’t Say Good Luck? And how could that possibly be terrible? It is filming in Cranford, Livingston and Ridgewood. Newsweek caught up with Mark Marin, who’s the most popular comedian right now? Unofficial survey seems.
They were curious, you don’t hold back in this special on Trump, Progressives, etc. What made you not hold back? Maren said, I don’t know that I ever have. I also know my audience to a degree, though I did make choices around the tone of the stuff. I do comedy three four nights a week, sometimes at the Comedy Store in LA and I see people up there not talking about it, and I’m like, what are we doing?
It used to be like, hey, do you have to talk about politics? As politics? Really that funny. I’ve always talked about it, but I do think it’s beyond politics now. Used to be you’d be lucky if you saw the president on TV like four times a year, and that wasn’t that long ago.
So now it’s like twenty times a day. So if you’re paying attention, you have to reckon with even just that fact. And I think this is an arc to the special, and there has been to my other specials. I feel like over time, especially the last two specials, there’s really almost a three act structure to it. And I thought, look, let’s get this out now.
My people are generally liberal people, but I take them to a task bit too. I really shifted the tone of the opening thing to be kind of what’s happening opposed to the BS, so I could bring people in. Obviously I’m not going to bring people in who are cult like believers, but I was very conscious of the tone to be like what’s going on, you know, as opposed to UFS. So that was all choice. But I think to answer your question.
It was like, well, let’s deal with this now and then we’ll get to the other stuff. News Week asked Mark Maren do you think comics have responsibility to address the current political situation? Maren No, absolutely not, and I don’t think it’s everyone’s cup of tea. Look, comedy’s a beautiful form where you and only you can decide what you want to do and dictate how you want to do it, and have complete control and a lot of room to really decide who you want to be up there. It’s a beautiful thing.
So now only a few people can do political humor. I happen to be a person that is culturally sensitive and relatively sophisticated in terms of politics in terms of being able to talk about it. So it’s always been kind of a component. But I think now things are meshing, and I think some things had to be dealt with in terms of how comics are being used or choosing to use their comedy as platforms for some sort of very unsavory stuff. I don’t pull any punches on that stuff because for me, it’s always been part of the cultural fabric.
If you go into a cultural commentator, which I am only half of what it used to be. Then everybody’s fair game, including comics, politicians or whatever. So no, I don’t think it’s the comics responsibility to do anything but be funny. I kind of wish they had asked Mark Maren, how do you handle a mosquito in your basement studio? But maybe Mark doesn’t have that problem I do right now.
So Mark Marin is the most popular comedian right now. The least popular comedian right now is, of course, the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. People are really upset with Jay Leno. All right, who are you going to pick in this fight? Because Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at Jay leto.
You gotta pick. Are you on team Jay or team Rosie? You have to pick. No, you can’t say no, I’m not picking. No, you have to pick.
You can be on team Rosie or you can be on team j. You pick. Rosie from her home in Ireland, as she has abandoned the United States, went on Instagram. She was watching that new Netflix docuseries Fit for TV, The Reality of the Biggest Loser? Have you seen this yet?
Those Little Letterman moved there? Mike chishmem you paid attention. I just did a little dave there. Yeah, that was for you. In one Instagram post, Rosie O’Donnell, who lives in Ireland, shared her disappointment with jay leto the worst person in the world who hosted The Tonight Show successfully for twenty two years.
She’s not happy with his behavior towards the Biggest Loser contestants. She captured her post, j Leno is a meana dot dot dot dot dot. I’m going to guess it rhymed with a glass moole hashtag Biggest Loser documentary. Apparently in the documentary, which I have not watched, one of the contestants recalled appearing quote on a live taping of The Tonight Show. Interesting phrasing.
There did jay do live for live taping? So just say taping or episode live taping? Get out here on a live taping of the Tonight Show where jay Leno read her death threats aloud. I don’t have any additional details there for you see what else happens if I google jay Leno. Yep, a lot of Rosie Ah.
The Independent tells us. In the clip, jay Leno read the death threats. One message threatened to hit the contestant with a card, to which Jay Leno, comedian hosting the Tonight show, said she wants to kill you, but she won’t use a swear word. The contestant has now said, I didn’t know I was a villain until the show aired. Rosie said Jay Leno is a mean a hole.
Again, I’m not sure people understand what the show is and what the job of the ho Don’t worry Jay Leno. By this time next week, you won’t be the worst comedian in the world. That will go to Tony Hinchcliff. Once kill Tony at Madison Square Garden airs on Netflix on Monday. The guests Jim Norton, Mark normand Matt Riche.
The comedy establishment will get mad the Tony Hinchcliff’s kill Tony even exists. I’m mad because I actually have to teach my college class over at Fairley Dickinson. Maybe Adam Sandler will be there, I hope so. And by the time I get home after teaching the college students and lecturing for two and a half hours, I’m exhausted. On Monday Nights, TMZ has video of a woman getting thrown out of a Theo von Schow THEO is playing the Honda Center, home of the Anaheim Ducks.
Apparently a fan got too disruptive. TMZ reports the woman is in a revealing white top as she goes up the stairs, reveling and the crouch jeers with her arms raised above her head. She seems to fake laugh at one of theo’s jokes on the way out. My witnesses told TMZ the woman appeared to be intoxicated and was repeatedly approached by security, who asked her to get off her phone. Eyewitnesses said she was yelling and arguing with security.
We’re trying to be discreet. Sources say THEO stop performing twice to ask what was going on, then politely request did she leave. Sources say THEO even offered to have his assistant refund her ticket if she just left, but she didn’t leave, so security helped her leave. Friend of the show, Dan boobletch Junior shared on Facebook, Hey did you see this? And I hadn’t?
What hadn’t I seen? Helium Coomedy Records are selling their sound recording copyrights. You can find this information on secure dot songvest dot com. The subheadline twelve hundred sound recordings from comedy label Heliumcomedy Records. You can buy these sound recordings right now as I record.
The prices four hundred and fifty thousand dollars if you would like to get into the comedy recording business. The site says the offering contains over twelve hundred sound recordings from spoken word comedy label Helium Comedy Records, featuring such performers as Mary’s Anta, Dustin Nickerson, and Tyler Fischel. Titles are listed via the link below. Now what caught my eye as I looked at the links below. It’s assorted by performers.
I’m sure you see Mary Santora and Dustin Nickerson. I have to make the font bigger. Can’t read these tiny letters. I see Shane Gillis here, who in twenty twenty apparently got sixty six dollars worth of royalties. That’s interesting.
And see who else is on this list that you might know. Sean Patton Ali said, if you’d like to learn more about royalty, there’s all sorts of breakouts as to who is paying what what is being paid. Even if you want to see the top title, which was Caleb Sinan’s Being Poor, I’m trying a new mix. Today, I dropped my daughter at the airport and I was listening back to yesterday’s show, and I thought the show sounded a little basie. Every time I go on a zoom call, the zoom program resets all the levels on my computer.
So what happens here is I have a session so that what you’re hearing right now is now labeled Session DC August twenty twenty five, replacing a similarly named one with July in the title. And I use the same session over and over, so the show sounds the same. But I noticed whatever was going on, the theme music had gotten a little low. My voice has gotten a little basy. I didn’t tweak anything, but I think the zoom did.
So I went back in today and I boosted the music levels a little bit, added a little more high end to my voice, so hopefully it sounds better. I also, when I make the show, I edit on a program called descript, and sometimes that during thing adds some processing. Then I run the whole thing through a program called Aphonic, so that the levels are all over the place, of the highs and lows are kind of even out. And by the time you do all that and you run it through a phone and cart play and you’re driving on a highway. You never really know what it sounds like until you actually hear it.
That’s why when I go get my coffee in the morning, I listen back to myself just to hear how the show sounds. But hopefully this one sounds good. I won’t actually know until tomorrow. If you missed yesterday’s show, I’m now doing an eighth show for the paid subscribers. It is called DCN eight.
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That’s what the deal is there. But everything else commercial free and now in the Daily Comedy News subscriber free. Not only get Daily Comedy News ad free, you’ll get DCNA to where I talk about other stuff. I’m not bow guarding any comedy. I explained that yesterday, I’ll be You might want to check that out.
Over at the Fringe, they have announced the nominees for this year’s Festival Best Comedy Show The nominees are Dan Tiernan’s All In at Night, You Old Mucker, Ian Smith’s Footspa Half Empty, John Totthill, This must be Heaven, Katie Norris, Go West, Old Maid, Sam Jays, We The People, Sam Nick Rossetti’s Babydoomer and Creepy Boys Slugs. They also shared the best Newcomers Now the combination of people being newcomers at the Fringe and listeners to my podcast. I’m gonna guess that then diagram is pretty small, so I’m not gonna read you fifteen names that you don’t know. If you do listen every day, you understand that the Fringe apparently is the worst place on the earth. The Guardian’s headline today the hell of staying in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival.
Why does anyone go? Victoria Richards wrote, God, how I craved a hotel. But a hotel in Edinburgh in August for two nights was well over one thousand pounds. It wasn’t gonna happen. Student digs might not be so bad, a reasoned, But then I got there and my god, I’d forgotten the smell, that unique odor, the pervasive scent of teenage boy of unwashed socks and unaired rooms, and mold and badly ventilated showers and block toilets with suspiciously wet floors and basement flats without windows.
And I didn’t know you had to actually clean the carpet. This gets even funnier, and I haven’t pre read this. This is great. I just saw a word out of the peripheral vision. Not wishing to spend more than a minute longer inside my damn cell than I had to, I launched myself at the fringe.
The only trouble was Oasis or playing in Edinburgh that weekend. Ohay, sis, you guys ruined the whole comedy festival, You jerks with ther world tour, she writes, which makes the words of one Scottish man even more pertinent. He said locals need to get past too, you know, And look, I get it. I hated English people being in Edinburgh as much as any local, and I was one of the main offenders. Unsightly swarms of summer tourists descending on the city in troves not only drives out the prices for everybody, but it makes walking in the street the simplest of acts, the only one that doesn’t cost a fortune unbearable, if not downright impossible.
Yes, Okay, so listen, lady, don’t come to New York City between October first and February first, because that’s how we feel about the tourist in Times Square. Do you have any idea how much non sidewalk walking I do in New York City that time of year. I’m walking in the street alongside the park cars. I’m a gold medallist jaywalker. Okay, because you guys walk so slow, get off the sidewalk, keep moving.
Why did you stop? Ugh? I Deke rist A Dean McQueen is performing at the Fringe. Voicemag dot co dot UK caught up with Aidan, a stand up comedian from Ireland and a woman who’s been through just enough therapy to monetize her emotional chao. Her one woman show is Waiting for Texto, a play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes.
Okay, I’m gonna ask you my daily question, dear listener, are you paying attention? They asked Aidan, if you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe to make it better? What would it be? What do you think? She said, one guess?
You only got one guess correct. She wants subsidize accommodation for artists. It’s the biggest barrier to access and it’s exhausting to make meaningful, radical art. While sharing a damp cupboard with a mime troop, Chortle went to see Jess Robinson show called Your Song. They say the premise cannot be simpler.
A woman of a thousand voices sings the greatest hits of Elton John in the style of various Divaschortle says every track is a banger, but now given a new interpretation. Shakira’s take on sorry seems to be the hardest word as a hit, as is Amy Winehouse’s Tiny Answer and Kate Bush’s Goodbye Yellowrick Road. It’s a little wacky. Yeah, I guess that’s enough for today. That is your comedy news for today.
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