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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I had posted on threads people are just giving Jay Letto so much crap about his comments about Late Night the other day, and I posted Jay should just come out because Jay was a really good comic. He understood what the Tonight Show is and isn’t. Jimmy Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn’t.
You can’t have Dice Clay hosting the Tonight Show. It’s not what the gig is. So I encourage Jay, you know what, come out and just show everybody what you can do. Come out and just go all right, your sons of guns. Do ten minutes about Conan O’Brien, then do ten minutes about Letterman, then do twenty minutes of political and then change gears and just do your whole Hey, you ever noticed did you see this thing?
And just do that and just drop the mic and let everybody know you can do it. What brought that to mind is this first joke from Late Night during the week from Jimmy Fallon wanted to set it up by saying, did you see the thing where Trump was cheating at golf because that’s the setup and the did you see the thing made me think of Jay anyway. Jimmy Fallon joked, it’s just refreshing to see someone cheating without being at a Coldplay concert. Great joke. New topic.
Fell and Russia just started direct flights between Moscow and North Korea. It’s one of those rare trips with a fun part. Really is the journey and not the destination. Seth Meyer is getting political, he said. The Justice Department has reportedly granted limited immunity to Jeffrey Epstein associate Julane Maxwell in exchange for information on one hundred people linked to Epstein, as well as full immunity if he gives them zero information on one person.
Seth Again, an inmate at a New Orleans jail, was mistakenly released after authorities confused him with another prisoner with a similar name. So congratulations to Maxwell’s Jolaine. Colbert had on Las Culturistas, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers on his show the other day. Colbert said, I’m gonna need a gig soon, sell me on podcasting Is it fun? Rogers advice to Stephen cop keep it real.
Seth Myers was on a podcast, specifically Armchair Expert, and he was asked by Dax Shephard, do you have the fear that this is going to end tomorrow? Meaning Late Night? Seth said, yeah, I do. I mean only because it’s such a time we’re living in as far as the entertainment industry. I shifted from fearing that it wouldn’t be good enough, and now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control, which is just at some point the ecosystem might not support it.
I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it’s weird not to feel any control over it. His strategy is just show up and do the work. That’s the only part they’re paying you to do. It’s the only part you’re good at. All the other problems we have people that are good at that don’t mess around with it.
I sometimes take stock of, oh, this isn’t the best time to be doing what I’m doing, but at least I got in. Myers recalled Late Night being on shaky ground during its early years. Whatever time we’re living in now, I’ve had lower points in the body of the show. Early on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to us like, we’re very worried about how the show’s going to go with no real instruction has how to get out of it. Seth just surpassed David Letterman as Late Night’s second longest serving host.
Conan would be number one. That means Fallin is number four, and he’s got a deal through twenty twenty eight. My guess maybe it’ll end then. I mean, I feel like that show has zero cultural impact and I don’t know who’s watching it. Seems nice enough, but I don’t know why that show exists in its current form.
Out today HBO Max Mark Maren’s new special Paniced. Interesting to me that it’s on Friday night, Saturday. Interesting to me that it’s at eight pm Eastern, not ten pm on a Saturday night like they usually do. I am planning on watching a bunch of comedy specials tonight. I know I host a podcast called Daily Comedy News.
Maybe I should actually watch a special because I do this for a living. By the time nighttime rolls around, I don’t want to do comedy. Does that make sense? I was the same way when as it’s serious, I’d come home and watch the Universe and just stare at Neildograsse Tyson telling me about Saturday, you know, things like that. As there’s just some nights, I’m like, I don’t feel like thinking about stand up anymore.
But my plan right now is to watch Maren, Dusty Slave, Veered, Zedi Pepatone. If I’m still rolling, we’ll see. Mark Maren’s Panicked is his second special for HBO, is sixth stand up special overall. Mark says, I feel this is the best work I’ve done. Everything came together, the direction, the production design, the shirt, the bits HBO gets me, and I’m thrilled to be presented by them.
A lot of the Mark Maren news cycle was getting sucked up by Taylor Swift. This week, Maren was on the Good One podcast That was actually a pretty good listen. I’m not that hot on that particular podcast, but that was a good listen. Maren shared that he licensed Taylor’s song Bigger than the Whole Sky, which is a bonus track on the three AM edition of her twenty twenty two album Midnights. The cost a license Bigger than the Whole Sky, Maren said about fifty thousand dollars.
Maren explained, I know Jack Ansid Off enough to text him, and he’s the co writer on that song. I said, I don’t know what’s proper how to do this, but we’re running out of money on this thing. It’s probably gonna come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about the song or talk to Taylor? Antonoff told him go through official music licensing channels.
Maren said it was doable, but fifty grand only covered use of one minute. He said, I would have gone over the minute, but it would have been more money. Wow, I thought this was an interesting press release. The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival announced it will present a special screening of Dave Chappelle’s unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life. That’s a documentary that exists.
Well, it’s unreleased, which might be why I don’t know about it. Why is it unreleased? Dave Chappelle. Well, I’ll go up to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, August eighth at two point thirty pm. Hit the Performing Arts Center and Martha’s Vineyard.
The exclusive screening serves as a fundraising event. So between that and the travel, and you’ll probably need a place to sleep. This isn’t going to be cheap if you want to see this thing. The documentary captures Dave Chappelle’s Pandemic era comedy series back in summer twenty twenty in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life follows Dave Chappelle as he provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times, economic and comic relief.
Kathleen Madigan is going to be at the Venetie in Las Vegas tomorrow. She was asked about her favorite places to play. She didn’t say the Venetian. She barely lights up talking about New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah, Georgia. This from Las Vegas magazine, and Kathleen said, I must have had a pass life as a swamp person.
She’s grown weary of the homogenization plaguing many cities, explaining every city’s got it. Here’s a strip mall, here’s DJ Max, here’s Applebee’s. But then she did say good things about Vegas. I can leave Vegas alone for six months and come back and something new will be built. You guys move faster than anyone as far as change goes.
Zero respect for history, which I do find kind of funny. If she weren’t a comedian, she would want to own a bar called Madigan’s, combining her love of bartending, social interaction, and sports. Kathleen at the Venetian tomorrow night, thirty nine bucks, you should go ten pm. Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are out promoting The Pick Up, a heist movie that sees them sparring as a pair of incompatible armored truck drivers. Inspector Acluseau.
Eddie Murphy, who’s sixty four, said it was a bucketless thing for Pete Davidston he was thirty one now. Eddie explained, Pete comes from SNL. He’s a stand up comic. We’re both from the East Coast. I love to get in a scene with somebody else that’s funny, improvised with them and start playing.
I love it. He Davidson said. We do take as written, and then the director was like, everyone just go nuts and would end up just trying to one up each other. We’re just trying to make each other laugh. Keeky Palmer, who stars in the film, said they were improvising constantly.
It was really sweet to see. It’s so cool because you see two different generations from the hub dot Ca, a Canadian website, I used to live in Canada. Last week, and Steven Stalely writes, the Late Show at Stephen Colbert is a perfect distillation of everything that went wrong with mainstream comedy over the past decade. Jokes replaced by talking points, laugh substituted with applause lines, and comedians more eager to affirm than amuse. It wasn’t always this way.
For decades, late night television had an irreverend edge. David Letterman poked holes in celebrity self importance. Jay Leno made Middle America wise cracks that actually landed, but over time the nightclub stage became a pulpit. The night before Colbert delivered the news the show is being canceled, Shane Gillis re might of the world that people still want to laugh. He then discusses Gillis’s performance and how Gillis did the Norm McDonald joke, and Gillis didn’t just deliver the line, he delivered a message comedy is back.
The article then praises Norm MacDonald and then says Gillis is cut from the same cloth he was fired from SNL before his debut, and offensive comments on old podcasts triggered a pile on from the cultural enforcers, and like norm, he was eventually invited back to OS the show, not because he changed, but because the world did. Oh man, it’s August. Now. August depresses me because August is like September, which is like summer’s over, and I can’t enjoy anything. I’m already counting down on the weekend.
So so we got what tomorrow’s aug at second, So got the second, the ninth, sixteenth, the twenty third. I probably have to teach a class a week of the twenty third, so summer’s probably already over than the thirtieth. Oh at least it’s a five weekend August. But on the other hand, Labor Day September first, so all of a sudden, summer’s over and it’s only September second. You’re like, ah, I’ve had a good summer though with that, I mean it’s been hot, Pol’s been working nice, got to the beach a lot.
It’s been good. Anyway. August is fringe time in Edinburgh. Voicemag dot UK has been previewing a lot of the shows they caught up with Alex Stringer. Alex says, my show is about what it’s like getting sober twenty three and realizing that you’re still a d head, basically jerky faces.
How I usually paraphized that Alex is excited about Fringe and says, I’m told the minimum I’ll get is being a better comic, which feels like a really good minimum. I’m just gonna enjoy the milestone of it all. I’m sure I’ll learn lots from it. I look forward to it. Best advice you got about the Fringe go home, as in when you’re staying in Edinburgh and not Liverpool.
But yeah, Rachel Fairburn said, go home and watch television. Networking is great, but you need to rest and recoup. I’m planning on seeing another show a day, maybe no more than that. Initially, I think I’m going to leave watching any other debuts just so I don’t compare, etc. And try to rast do some compilation shows, catch up with friends, as this is my debut.
I initially did just forty five minutes of material with no through line or narrative or arc. Then I looked at my material well, I thought about what I wanted to say in the show I wanted to make. I then focused more on writing material. I didn’t have to tell the story, I wanted to tell artistic influences Joan Rivers. I think her ability to bring lightness when joking about the darkest parts of her life is really inspiring to me.
I also strive to be Rys Nicholson because they’re excellent. Happy hour at the Pleasants Courtyard, Bunker three at six pm for the entire Fringe. Few Times of London caught up with Leo Reich. Leo says the Fringe is incredible. The thing that infuriates me is that it makes so much money, but it makes money at the expense of the people actually doing it.
It’d be appalling if people allowed it to die. But if we split ourselves into a series of individuals looking after our own interests and trying to get on television, then it will dissolve. I will go up to the Fringe in five years and see one hundred people who got famous on TikTok perform the worst comedy you’ve ever seen in your life. He recently posted an ironic quote statement against the cancelation of Jimmy Carr on Instagram, reacting to outrage that Jimmy Carr had attended an event to celebrate Israel’s seventy seventh Independence Day at the British Music The ironic statement said, if this spate of anti Semitic cancelations continues, soon we may find ourselves in a society where well meaning people are penalized simply for being willing supporters of a horrifying ethno state. He said he wanted to say something both as a comedian and as a Jewish person.
I’m satirist fundamentally, and so it makes sense for me to do so. The idea that you should be able to implicitly or explicitly support, or make excuses for, or be indifferent to genocide. I don’t want that person in my community. It’s so spineless not to speak out. What do you think is going to happen?
Oh, I’m not on eight out of ten cats? Does countdown? Thank God? I’d rather chew off my own arm and let’s send on a lighter note. Fun one oh seven was curious what if we could make comedy even better?
A New Orleans comedian is looking to change comedy with a brand new show. Alex Carrow has brought in super fights. Here’s how it works. Six players performed in front of three judges and a crowd. They are given random attributes or superpowers.
Each player is given their superpowers and a random character. For example, one comic had to be Justin Bieber with telekinesis, but his hands were taped to his hips. Caro said, it’s something different. I want to do something that’s fun for both the comics on the audience, a chance for comics to cut loose. It’s a fun hang and you get to be funny in a room full of people.
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