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The Shark Deck Johnny McK with your Daily Comedy News. Remember the story John Mlaney told in which he was so desperate for drug money he bought a new rolex for twelve thousand dollars on his credit card sold it immediately for six thousand dollars cash. While John was on the Hollywood Reporters podcast Awards Chatter and added some details to that story. Mullaney said, I put three grand in an apple shopping bag. Apparently Mlaney threw three thousand dollars of the cash away.
Mlaney said, I put three grand in an apple shopping bag. I thought I must have thrown that apple bag away. I was in a twenty floor apartment building in the West Village back then, and I went through almost all the trash of the basement didn’t find it. Later in the podcast, Mlaney does a somber tone and does an impression of what the same story would sound like if he told it in the style of a confessional comedy special, saying, I didn’t want to make this laugh heavy as possible. I didn’t want to tell the story of you know, and there I was selling a watch I just bought, and I felt so small.
I didn’t want to have that tone. You know, I really want to present these stories almost as if I were proud of them, because at that moment I was. I made sixth grand in cash by only spending twelve grand. I’ll put it in an apple bag, don’t worry about that. Mullenny was asked if he would ever consider hosting the Oscars, and he said, sure, why not, It’d be really fun so hosting the Academy Awards.
Johnny Carson did that. Kim was so great, though I’d probably rather watch Jimmy do it than me do it. But imagine that me hosting the Academy Awards me and it sucks right out there. Shout out to Twitter user one dollar, who pointed out that not for the first time nor for the last time, I was pronouncing something incorrectly, and one dollar told me just call it can and I’m like, okay, thank you. So can you know big fancy French film festival thinging Lauren Michaels was out there.
Lauren was talking about SNL’s fiftieth anniversary. The fiftieth season kicks off and fall of twenty twenty four. Some of this we’ve known already. The fiftieth will include a big blowout extravaganza Radio City Music Hall in New York City, which, you know, all things considered not the biggest venue. That show will feed your music and stand up link to the show’s legacy and quote much more.
Lauren says, right now, there’s a Friday event at Radio City, a kind of homecoming night. We’ll have musical acts and stand ups throughout the show. Musical things that the cast have done over fifty years will be live. It’ll probably be streamed because the language won’t be in control, and it’ll take as long as it takes. Michael’s added that the celebrations will be wait for this.
This is the hesitation of my voice tied to the start of the twenty twenty four Olympics in Paris. Before I read ahead, I’m going to guess NBC executives synergy something. Hey, we’ve got the Olympics, so you’re gonna have Mike Tarico forcing some SNL segment that’s gonna just make everybody unhappy. You gotta tune in for the Olympics and there’s gonna be Will Ferrell stop John Okay. Laurd says there are some documentaries being made that’s awesome about the show’s anniversary, and that planning has been underway for six months despite the event being a year and a half away.
It’ll be emotional, but everybody will show up because it’s important. Lauren is hoping before they do the fiftieth season, there’s a forty ninth season, you know, Riders Drake. Lauren said, I’m obviously a supporter and I hope it gets resolved, but that decision will get made probably on the West coast. Lauren minds everybody for the big party, no plus ones allowed. From band dot com.
Kevin Hart shows Ken why he’s the most drumming man alive. You can kind of hear me if you listen every day that I’m starting to turn on Kevin. That comment the other day about Brands Wortley like family or whatever the heck he said was that just sounded psychopath to me. So here we go, Kevin selling all the Kevin Hart products again. The interviewer said, you basically have seventy projects in development at Heartbeat, your production company.
You’re basically working with every entertainment company, and you have four kids. How do you do what you do? Kevin Hart? This first sentence makes me want to throw up my red garbage can here in the basement, Kevin said. First of all, amazing question to start off, Kevin said, had The answer is very simple.
The foundation of Kevin Hart is not just Kevin Hart. I would not be able to do manufacture, shape, mold, create any things I have now without the ecosystem and the personnel underneath. The team is responsible for so much of that. The interviewer then name checked Snoop Dogg, and Kevin said, I love Snoop Snooping myself. We did an amazing collab together.
For me, money is not attractive. I say this humbly. I don’t need the money. What I need is longevity and a commitment. It would much rather a contract for heartbeat that secures me in a position aim to create advertising material where creative material that best tells your story and amplifiers your work.
I read the sentence correctly, I checked myself. I don’t understand the sentence either. In year one, year two, we did great. For the year three, year four, we can do better. Yeah, who reports Matt Rife isn’t actually a fan of TikTok.
I was in the car the other day with my daughter and I’m like, you know Matt Rife and her generation. Oh, they know Matt Rife. Matt says, I hate social media. Oh, by the way, can I jump in? I hate the Internet.
So I repost the podcast on YouTube and I noticed one episode was doing extremely well. I’m like, hm, so I went to which episode is it? And I went and I looked, and it was one that didn’t have the best headline. It was Sarah Silverman not interested in hosting the daily show. You know, a generic you know, Monday kind of topic.
All right, whatever. But when I picked the thumbnail, did I take a picture of Sarah that was quite flattering, say in the chest inch area? Sure? I did, and boy off to the races. You could sit here and do the most amazing journalism handing the best thing, or you know, post a thumbnail with some boobs you get some downloads.
I hate the internet. To Matt Rieve says, I hate social media. But as he watched other comedians gain steam on TikTok, he said, I was like, how long can you go against the green and it not work? I can answer, Matt four years at least. I think sometime this week is the fourth anniversary of the podcast.
I have to go back and look. I can’t quite remember if I started at the end of June or the end of July, Matt Rieves said. Despite a twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three comedy special and a very high profile twenty seventeen romance with Kate Beckinsale, Rive said, this time last year, I was doing shows for like twenty to thirty people at night, losing money to travel. Social media changed everything for me. I mean just in the past ten months.
Everything is shifted because of clips online, but for the past two three years when everything was kind of exponentially growing towards social media for stand up, luckily it changed everything. Maybe I’m just a voice for a younger generation. There’s not a lot of people at my age I’ve been doing it as long or have the experience that I have. So maybe that’s finally showing through a little bit. Or it could be my face, it could be the way we do captions on videos.
Who knows. I’m just happy people like it. One fan, Christina, attended a show of his in Iowa and brought a T shirt with a picture of mouth stuff. Matt said she was the hottest mom ever in the middle of Iowa, where I didn’t even know they made hot moms. She talks about how hot her daughter was.
Creepy, and we facetimed her daughter on stage. It was absolutely incredible, and he stayed in touch with Hot Mom. She’s a good support. She comments on all my videos and she’ll DM me on TikTok or something, just congratulating me on the tour. She has been so much fun.
I’m creeped out here Hot mom with mouth stuff shirt talking about how hot her daughter is. Weird, weird, weird, weird, weird weird. Matt says the experience of connecting with audience members isn’t foreign to him, as he always does crowd work. It’s something I completely understand. I’ve noticed that I’m a lot of people’s first introduction to comedy.
If you want Matt’s attention, here’s here’s advice. It’s really the person who tries to yell out and get attention. Who’s the most funny person I have an interaction with. It’s always the most reluctant person in the front row. You least expect to have a crazy story about them.
If you’re just patient, sit back and relax, it’ll unfold naturally, I promise controversial music group I think it’s pronounced kot Kount and the Gang Kunt Kunt right, Yes, koont In the Gang have released a new song about Philip Schofield. You know, if you’re a yank like me, you’re like, who’s that? Well, Wikipedia tells us. Philip Ryan Scofield is an English television presenter. He rose to prominence as a children’s BBC Continuity presenter from nineteen eighty five to nineteen eighty seven, hosted a bunch of other things.
In twenty twenty, Schofield came out as gay and separated from his wife of twenty seven years, and May twenty twenty three admitted to having an extra marital affair with a male I TV employee. All right, that’s the setup here. Let’s see what koont In the Gang are singing about. Their singles called Bum the Runner. It’s now available on various platforms, including Spotify.
The lyrics include he jumped the queue to see the dead queen. That’s not the worst thing he’s done. If you see what I mean, He’s been sacked from his job. On this morning for teenage boys, he should come with a warning that’s koont In the Gang. Did you see the Beetlejuice Musical?
It was so good. Unfortunately the Broadway production has ceased, but Beetlejuices Alex Brightman will join Chicago Med’s Colin Donnell and they’re gonna play Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider In the Jaws comedy The Shark Is Broken. Ian Shaw will play his own father, Robert Shaw. The Shark Is Broken as a play written by Ian Shawn Joseph Nixon, directed by Guy Masterson. It is a comedic exploration of the behind the scenes drama that took place during the filming of Jaws.
Bruce McCullough you know him from Kids in the Hall, is teaming up with Max Kerman. You may know him from Canadian rock band r Kellis. They’re producing a sketch comedy show. The Desert premieres on Crave on July seventh. It is heralded as bringing forth the next generation of Canadian comedy.
Little else is known about the show, and down in Sydney, comedian Tom Cashman and two of his roommates have moved out of their apartment. They got a letter from the real estate agent about some ants. Cashman told the story at the Sydney Comedy Festival. He revealed that the agent had deducted ninety nine dollars after sending a pest control to eradicate ants spotted in the kitchen. In the email, the agent old Cashman as roommates was their responsibility to treat or eradicate ants.
Cashman said, I’d never noticed any ants in the place? Is where to God? So I responded asking for some evidence of the ant infestation. Cashman showed an image he was sent of four ants and said, that’s twenty five dollars per ant. That’s your comedy news for today.
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