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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy. Knew who is? Hannah Burner spoke to Elite Daily, who asked, Anna, hey, your comedy videos of Take It Over, TikTok. You’re on tour now for stand up.
Was there one specific moment where you knew you wanted to switch to comedy full time. Hannah said, it definitely came from a really dark time. I was twenty five and selling T shirts. The nine to five was making me really depressed on it. Panicked.
I realized it couldn’t be the rest of my life and I’d have to make a change. I knew I wanted to be on camera. For a lot of women, it’s looked down upon. I want to be seen and take up space. But I realized if I didn’t do it, I was going to be sad my whole life.
So I started manifesting working in video. Soon I started as a video producer, and then I was on TV in Summer House. Now I’m in my silly goose error with comedy and podcasting. Hannah’s account has two point six million followers. Has the response been in the comments?
Hannah said, for the most part, the comment’s been pretty great because it’s clear that everything I’m posting is comedy, so people are just reacting to that. But when it goes two viral, the in cells find the video and start commenting women aren’t funny. It’s a little scary, like what sign period of weed? You could say you don’t find my video funny, but we have to put the blame on an entire gender. Dumt bring all women into this good question.
Here have the crowds of your show’s changed since you started going viral on TikTok? Hannah said, it’s crazy because the TikTok algorithm is so good. It really finds some people who not only have a similar sense of humor, but could also be my friends. I’m very biased, but the girls would come to my show were all hot, successful, cool, self deprecating anxious girlies. Hey, if I were thirty years younger, I’d hit the show.
I feel like I’m at brunch talking to my friends now because I’ve been joking more about boyfriends and dating a lot. More men have been coming to shows because they love getting made fun of.
Also, they probably heard all the women cover of the show are hot, successful…
I love that. I think the audience is more fun when it’s a mix, because there’s tension and chemistry to work off. I asked men questions that make them uncomfortable. That was the premise at first. Once I got started, my female friends called me out and we’re like, hey, you gotta stop posting dudes.
What about supporting other women? Then I realized these girls are willing to talk about really embarrassing stuff too. My most viewed video on TikTok, with thirty three million views, says, the middle aged dude sitting in his basement is me asking women and how often they shave? You know, things you would shave. How do you see real women in the street discussing that?
John read the articles in advance, so that doesn’t happen to you. So with the men, it’s a little bit more about making fun of them. For women, it’s focused on the stuff we’re usually scared to talk about. Roy Wood Junior had told Salon that Late Night needs innovation. I don’t think the way we’ve constructed Late Night will continue to be the way we see a post strike.
There’s gonna be a lot of cuts. In my opinion, I suck like that, But I’m a realist. The idea of having a daily conversation about the things that have happened in the country and are happening, or holding people in power accountable, that avenue is still viable. How you present that has to evolve in a way that I’m guessing needs to be cheaper and faster to be truly resonant with people. I’ll jump in.
I’m shocked none of the streamers have started putting on a traditional eleven thirty type show at like eight, like Fallon. I think tapes at five thirty. You could have that ready for eight o’clock and put that up or I’m surprised there’s not like a Netflix version of like a daily I guess they’ve tried Chelsea Hammer, right. I feel like there’s a market there anyway. Roy Wood says, you just gotta be real.
If you stopped doing James Corton, James Cordon leaves right, then you replace them with a game show at midnight, which was a hit for Comedy Central. It’s perfectly fine program, but it’s way cheaper to make than James Cordon. So that tells me you’re trying to cut costs. If you’re trying to cut costs. Then that means that all this glitz in the band and the desk and all that we might be looking at the last of the Mohicans.
On that, I’m talking Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Colbert, you know what I’m saying. The idea of having a daily conversation about the things that have happened in the country. Our show shoot at five, six o’clock in the evening. They are at eleven thirty. News changes faster than that.
Now you almost have to go like nine o’clock or live. If you’re making Tomorrow’s Internet Today, which is a lot of late night in summer regards, then we have to figure out a way to do it in a way where the conversation truly resonates with people immediately. I don’t know what that looks like yet. I think that’s why I’m also trying to spend my time ideating. Roy said, we could come back from the strike and Comedy Central can do the Daily Show.
It’ll be perfectly fine. How’ll work. But I just feel like after every strike there’s a creative molting that happens within the street, especially on the unscripted side. You got to be ahead of the curve on that the Daily Show itself is an institution. It’ll evolve.
I don’t think the Daily Show is going anywhere. I think it’s too important a piece of comedy Central and Paramount. It still has a lot of worth. We get a lot of great guests, but what will it look like? From John Stewart to Trevor, the major change in the way we were thinking.
We used sketch a lot more. We use the Internet a lot more. Trevor’s younger Trevor understood that Trevor was plugged in. John Stewart wasn’t. Really they had to drag him onto Twitter.
I love him, but he knows that’s the truth. Trevor came in and figured out, Okay, this could be four minutes of camera segment of me just going or we canna let Clepper, Roy and Dull say do a sketch that says the exact same thing. Then the sketch is something that people digest more. It’s a good stuff from Roy, very insightful. Obviously he’s worked on the show for quite some time and understands it.
He continues, when the Daily Show was created, the way we got the news collectively as a society was all the same. We all got our news from mf or at a desk with a suit and some whiskey under the table. We all got our news ninety five percent of us, So you could parody that and it’d be a perfect one to one. We got our news from all over the place. Now the way we got our news looks a million different ways.
People don’t even care if you have a suit on or not. I can go on TikTok right now, and right there I get to give his name, but it’s a dude with a beard. I know that’s not enough a description. Thanks Roy from the Sydney Morning Herald. Fortune Feemster said, I didn’t have representation growing up, and it did affect me coming out later on.
Maybe if I’d had representation it would have been different, you know.
And now that I get to be the representation that I so wished I had when I was…
The Morning Herald writes off at a fan will approach Fortune to reveal for the first time that they’re gay, the fact that they’ve never told a single person ever, but now they’re telling me I’m like, Holy cow, I can’t believe I’m part of this person’s coming out story forever. I really take that to heart. I’ve had parents tell me they’ve had inklings and their kid being gay, so they watched one of my specials with them to show that they’re cool with it, and then the kid felt comfortable enough to come out. I even had a straight guy I call in on a radio show to say he had never really thought about how difficult it was for a gay person to come out, and it really made him understand that in a new way. Of course, I started crying.
Alex Edelman is the star of the one man show Alex Edelman Just for Us that’s now on Broadway. He spoke to CBS and said, you think of an idea for show. Don’t make it a musical about the guy from the ten dollar Bill or a play about salesman dying. Those ideas taken. Come up with something original.
For me, it was pretty easy because my show is based on something that happened to me, which is I went to a meeting of white nationalists, uncomfortable a little given that I’m a Jew, but good for comedy. So step one, think of your show then get it to Broadway. That part’s less easy. Here’s how I got mine. First, I put up the show on a pub behind a London shoe store.
Then I worked it out in smaller venues and at festivals. That took about three years. The thing about getting a show to Broadway, if you really want to get it there, you have to think it’s never going to get there. You have to love your show. I’d be happy to perform it anywhere you can, unless you’re Andrew Lloyd Webber.
He needs a big stage. All those cats aren’t going to fit in a pup behind a shoe store, are they. Anyway, The show went up off Broadway, and believe it or not, sold out like one hundred and sixty shows in a row, mostly because of the New York Times and Sarah Jessica Parker saying nice things. A year later, I found out it was going on Broadway, and I thought, oh, maybe now my uncle will stop asking me about law school. What’s it like being on Broadway instead of off?
It feels absolutely the same, except not at all. First of all, it’s literally the nicest theater I’ve ever been to. The seats are for human size butts. Second, of all, it’s Broadway. As for my show, it’s about killing a mockingbird, and they say it’s just kidding.
As I said earlier, it’s a solo show and it represents a lifelong dream coming true. See you there, Gummy Bears or eight Bucks. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.
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