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The Shark Deck. It’s Women’s History Month. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, remember behind every great woman is a man, loudly repeating her ideas. Kimmel went with Women’s History Months started as Women’s History Week back in nineteen eighty two, and then somebody thought, you know, hey, women should probably get more time than sharks.
On the Discovery Channel, Jay Leno was on Kelly Clarkson. You may recall Jay had a couple accidents back to back. How’s Leno looking well? He joked, for the second time in my career, I am the new face of comedy. Jim Gaffigan was on the Today Show.
He’s out promoting that movie, and he said, now that he’said dad, he has flashbacks of his adolescent ears and like most teens, remembers thinking his parents were clueless. Jim said, you view your parents, these people that don’t know what they’re doing. They have nothing to offer their burden in my life, he feels the pandemic left its mark not only on Jim’s kids, but children in general, saying it was really really devastating, particularly for teens. Jim said, there’s a lot of problems that they deal with that other generations didn’t necessarily have to deal with. It’s so much easier to exist now with no empathy virtually, so people would say nasty things and they don’t see the reflection on someone’s face or how they’re processing it.
Jim’s going to go back out on the road with his current tour, Dark Pale. It’s his tenth hour, and he said, so there’s the creating and rewriting and filling in the holes of developing the material. You have to travel to do comedy. If I do too much, then I’m missing out on other things. But when I do stand up in the city, I could have dinner with my kids, which I think is a luxury from here.
The headline Vegan comedian Tiknazarosh headline Comedy for the Animals, March twelve. This sounds cool. I love comedy show featuring all vegan comics. Comedy for the Animals co creator Scott Sevens told Vege out your home for comedy news. Comedy for the Animals exist to be a community building an animal rights activism supporting brand.
To that end, we donate a portion of each show’s profits to a different charity. We don’t select the charities ourselves. That choice is given exclusively to the headliner of each show. Our headliners do the show because they love the animals, believe in supporting animal rights activists, and have a charity they care about that they select for that show. The first comedy for the Animals Show took place in November.
Plant based comedians Mike Kaplan, Who’s fantastic, April water Shide and ash t I’m not familiar with them performed routines. This time they have tig Nazaro, and the article reminds us that tig Nataro was listened as one of the fifty best stand up comics of all time by Rolling Stone. I haven’t dove in on that list in a while. I might have to go back and revisit that. I’m pretty sure during the pandemic, when you know, there was less stuff to talk about because nobody who’s doing anything.
I covered that, but I might have to go in and take a second look at that. It’s Tigg in the top fifty. Yeah, I don’t know if she’s got to be like forty six, forty seven? Should we look? Let’s look hold on, all right?
This is from twenty seventeen. I think I’ll do another weekend episode soon recommenting on this, but let’s take a look real quick. Fifty one to Sykes forty nine, is Zis, Yeah, you want to revisit that? Five years later? Forty eight, Margaret Show Sorry six years later forty seven, Elane Boozler forty six, Reggie Watts come on, no, No, come on forty five, Freddie Prinz forty four, Russell Peters forty three, Amy Schumer forty two, Phillis Diller forty one, Bernie mac cheeze.
Where do they have tig? I’m not gonna read the whole list because I’ll spoil the thing. I’m scrolling down here. Where do you guys have tig? Are you?
This is insane? Some of the names I’ve scrolled past already. Thirty five, Yeah, Patton Oswalt’s thirty four and curious. All right, I’m now inspired. That’s going to be some weekend filler coming up.
I haven’t needed filler in like, seriously, over a year. I think last January was the time that I blatantly just did filler. There’s been a lot to talk about. I don’t know if you’ve heard Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. That kind of set off a year of comedy between him and Dave’s Chappelle.
There’s always something to talk about. Comedy for the Animals present, Stignet Sorrow. Sunday Mart’s twelfth, two PM at Dynasty Typewriter in La Bert Kreisher was on Pardon My Teak and they asked him do you still own Hitler’s Tea cup? Do you know about this? Bert Kreisher and Sam Segura keep one upping each other with birthday gifts.
Bert tells the story, so the last time around, Sigura was trying to find something more expensive than a Reese car. Sigoura calls Kreisher and says, hey, man, can we rethink this birthday thing? I don’t know what to get you, and I’m like, it’s stressing me out. He’s like, send me a wish list. So he sent a wish list and it was like a ranch house.
Price point had to be in six figures.
And then I was getting anxiety about his birthday and I was like, this is rid…
So I said, why don’t we just make it fun? The price doesn’t matter, just make it fun. Make it something that’ll make us laugh and make it good for the podcast. And he was like great.
And then he said to me, I got your present.
I think you’d be so excited. I know you’re in a history. Graisher says, everyone knows I’m really in a Winston Churchill like he’s my guy. I celebrate Winston Churchill’s Day every January twenty fourth or twenty fifth, and I live like he did for one day. I wake up with a soft Scotch, a cigar, eggs, toast, coffee, orange juice, jam, fruit, bacon, the whole thing in bed.
I stay in bed for about three hours, drinking and smoking and reading a paper, taking meetings. I had my whole team in there this year. Three hours. Then I take a bath, I have some champagne. I drink all day my party, and I end the night with another scar some brandy.
So Sagora brings out a cup. He says, I got you this, and I think, oh, he got me Winston Churchill’s tea. I was like, this guy knows me so much, he’s better than my wife. And I grab it and he says there’s a ninety nine percent chance that Hitler had drank from that cup. Happy birthday, buddy, and I’m like what and he goes, yeah, that’s Hitler’s tea cup.
I can’t stop laughing. I’m like, this is the worst gift ever. And he’s like, but I know you like history. So like two weeks later we’ve released the podcast. It’s after my birthday.
My sister calls me and says, hey, can you drive a skateboard over at my house? I go yeah, So I get on my electric bike with a skateboard. I ride by a synagogue down the street from my house. As I do it, my bike dies. My electric bike dies.
I don’t know if you ever tried to peddle an electric bike. They go really slow. So now I’m peddling an electric bike past the synagogue. I see a Jewish family, hacetic Jewish orthodoxygen was walking towards me. They get out of the bike lane into like where the cars are parked, and the dad says, have a great day, man.
I say you too, and he goes, I love your stuff and he goes, what, Bert, I love your stuff? Man, You make me laugh every day. So now we’re going slow enough where we can have this conversation. I get passed him and he goes, hey, man, Hitler’s teacup killed me, and I’m like, that did not just happen. So I have a whole bunch of podcasts, as you know, I’m the writer on Palace Intrigue.
Then that’s the podcast about the British royal family where we kind of make fun of Megan Markle. Now did we set out to just make fun of Megan Markle? We did not. I just wanted to do something that was like The Crown in real time, and then Meg’s it happened. And I do get the download numbers.
And I’m telling you, if I put in the episode title Kate Middleton blah blah blah, I get fewer downloads than if I write Harry and Megan insert anything here, Harry and Megan. They move the numbers, just like on this podcast very openly, maybe twice a week talk about Joe Rogan just to get more downloads. So that’s one of them five good news stories you’ve heard the promos. I’ve been playing that in the post role on this podcast a lot. So that’s twice a week where I talk about five good news stories.
Then I have this casual travel podcast that what I do is I go places sometimes and I bring the portable recorder. I got it sitting here right on the table next to my laptop and a record. Just you know what I’m doing. Not claiming to be Anthony Bourdaine, not claiming to be Rick Steves. I’m a dude in a car with a portable recorder and a go places.
So the new season starts today, Season three of Travel Is Back. Is the name of the podcast, Travel Is Back, and it’s my Key West road trip about it. A month ago, three weeks ago, I went down to Key West with my daughter for the weekend. So we drove from Miami to Key West, hung out and Key West at the beaches, did the bars two nights, went to this great Cuban place. Then on the way back we hit the Everglades and I got too close to an alligator and I got yelled at by the nice volunteer lady there.
So check out Travel is Back wherever you get your shows A true story. As soon as I finished recording yesterday’s podcast with the whole Ryan Hamilton’s thing at the top there, the next thing is I recorded the Weekly Comedy Thing. The Weekly Comedy Thing is a show I host for the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What the Weekly Comedy Thing is, it’s the forerunner of this podcast.
So there. I’m more of a DJ type, so I can talk for about thirty seconds to a minute and then I throw it to a bit. So that big Jim Gaffigan story that I just did, I would do the twenty second version of that and then play a Jim Gaffigan bit. So that’s the Weekly Comedy Thing on Live one, if you want to check that out. I recorded this podcast and then I went to record the Weekly Comedy Thing and I was introducing true story, not making it up, not doing a bit.
I was introducing Canadian comedian Ryan Bellville, and as I did it, I misspoke and called him Ryan Hamilton. Now luckily I caught it, and I was like, huh, maybe that’s what’s in my brain, although I don’t think so, because I know who Ryan Bellville is. I mean, I know who Ryan Hamilton is. I just don’t know where he’s from. He’s from what Idaho?
Anyway, I went on chat GPTC and I asked the AI, Hey, what’s the difference between Ryan Hamilton and Ryan Bellville? And the chatbot tells me Ryan Hamilton and Ryan Bellville are both comedians, but they have different backgrounds and comedic styles. Ryan Hamilton is an American comedian from Idaho. Thank you, Chatbot. He’s known for his clean, observational humor that focuses on everyday life experiences.
His comedy is often compared to that of Jerry Seinfeld. See I said that yesterday. Ryan Bellville, who is not Ryan Hamilton, is not from Idaho. Ryan Bellville is a Canadian comedian from Ontario. He is known for his irreverent, high energy comedy that often incorporates physical humor and impressions.
Bellville is fantastic. I saw him in Toronto. Anytime i’d talk to y’all about comedy festivals, you hear me say, go see the locals, Go see the smaller shows. The example I often use is, if you want to see Chris Rock, wait long enough, he’ll show up on Netflix, sometimes even live. So if you go all the way to JFL Toronto, you don’t need to see Chris Rock in Toronto.
You can see Chris Rocks some other way. Go see the low people. So one night I saw Ryan Belleville and he was awesome. Chat GPT reminds me. In summary, While both Ryan Hamilton and Ryan Bellville are comedians, they have different comedic styles and come from different backgrounds.
Hamilton is known for clean, observational humor, while Belleville’s comedy is more irreverent and physical. Ryan Hamilton is of course from Idaho, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. They’re going on tour thirty two cities from April until June. It kicks off April twelfth in Oklahoma City. Other cities include Detroit, Atlanta, Seattle, and their final gig will be June twenty fifteen.
Mun Hall Where is Munhall? So? I tied Munhall into Google? What’s coming up? Is Munhall as a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
It appears to be a suburb of Pittsburgh, with a population of ten eight hundred and twenty seven. The Guardian caught up with Miranda Hart. Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? She said, I remember doing a sketch show that I found funny at the time. There were about fifteen people at a three hundred seater and stony silence the entire way through.
I know whether to just stop. I had to go in the audience for a sketch and sit on a man’s lap flirtatiously, and when I did, he just said no thanks and besting on as somebody else. Best heckle, you’re not as tall in real life. You don’t know quite what to do with that. Best advice, worst advice, Best the Divine Deborah Francis White one set in a workshop I did with her, Don’t fear your obvious or joker in idea can seem so obvious to you that you might fear it not worthy, but it’s only obvious to you, so it’s still unique.
I wonder her thoughts on beating to death. Ryan Hamilton is from Idaho. What’s the worst advice? It’s all very well, being a bit funny, but you can’t make a living out of it. Actually, it ended up being the best advice, as I wanted to prove them wrong.
And I’ll leave you with this visual from Miranda Hart any pre show rituals her answer a banana and a pooh. You’re welcome. I know you’re thinking about it. You’re very welcome. That’s your comedy news for today.
Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast Spotify YouTube, see tomorrow. Who doesn’t like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac.
My podcast is called Travel is Back. Travel is Back is travel for regular people. We hop in the car with like coach views or miles. We eat at normal places, we stay at normal places. So what I do is I hop in the car and I grab my portable recorder and I go somewhere.
Season three kicks off of the road trip to Key West. You can check out the back catalog. There are popular episodes covered Chicago, Nashville, Vancouver, Seattle, a whole bunch more Travel is Back road trips or regular people. Follow show on Apple podcast or wherever you get your shows. These are quick, these are casual, and it’s for regular people.
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