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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with you Daily Comedy News. I don’t think I’m in a mood, but I just have this feeling today as I record comedy is a little boring right now. I just feel like there’s a rhythm of Hey, it’s Tuesday. There’s a Netflix special, okay, fine, and HBO does one a month, and the comedy podcast there’s like a circle of ten people and they all go on each other’s podcasts and that’s all fine.
We’re doing some comedy festivals every weekend, and there just seems to be nothing new, and there’s not a new face. There’s no one shaking things up. There’s no one bringing anything new to the format. I don’t know what I want, but I feel like it’s been a minute, you know me. I’m always looking for a good controversy or something to goofon at George Lopez, Tacos, at Jim Gaffig and Bourbon.
There’s just nothing. It’s just very workmanlike in the industry right now. So let’s see if that’s just summer doldrums. There has an announcement that I think maybe fed my malaise. The New York Comedy Festival will put out their initial lineup the twentieth Anniversary New York Comedy Festival, and this November will feature more than two hundred comedians in more than one hundred shows throughout the city.
I’ve spoken about this festival in the past. The people who work with it, especially back in my serious XM days, nothing but great to me. But New York is so large that this festival, it’s New York City. Man, it disappears. It doesn’t have the presence of, say a, a Montreal comedy festival, or a comedy festival in a smaller city.
This one. They all hang a couple banners up. But if you don’t know about it, you won’t know about it all right. It’s November eighth through November seventeenth. The headliners include Judd Apatow.
This is alphabetical order, David Tel, Bill Moore, Tracy Morgan, JB. Smooth, and Jabuki Young White. I mean those are your headliners, mar Morgan, JB. Smooth, at Tel. Yeah.
Other headliners include Jeff or Currie, Zorna Gorg Gabe Iglesias. I’m surprised he’s not that topless there, Joe List, Matt McCusker, Nurse John, Miss Pat, Adam Ray is Doctor Phil. The rest is history, justin Silva, Dan Soder and Jimmy o’yang. The New York Comedy Festival is the largest and longest running annual comedy festival in the United States. That’s kind of stunning, but probably also true.
Launched in two thousand and four, not that long ago, festival founder Caroline Hurst said, from up and comers to a less stars, a diverse town lineup brings laughter to a wide range of comedy fans and venues all across five boroughs of New York City, with even more shows to being out soon. At a time when we need laughter more than ever, We’re thrilled to make New York laugh once again. Here’s the lineup so far, Friday, November eighth. You can hear my excitement and I’m trying not to be a Debbie Downy here, but just like like I said in the open, I just feel like comedy’s going through the motions right now. Seven o’clock Jeffy Currie, seven o’clock, Miss Patt, nine to forty five, Dan Soder at town Hall.
Okay, Saturday Night Joe listed Town Hall Jimmy o’yang and Carnegie, Jed Appatow and Friends at the Beacon and Justin Silva at town Hall Sunday the tenth, Nurse John Wednesday the thirteenth, The Rest is History Live at town Hall, Thursday the fourteenth, JB. Smooth of town Hall, Jabuki Young White at the hard Rock, David Tell at town Hall Friday the fifteenth, Tracy Morgan at town Hall, Jubuk Young White Again, Gabe Iglesias at the King’s Theater, Adam ray Is Doctor Phil Live at the Beacon Saturday, a podcast taping, Matt Moncusker, Jibuki Young White Again, and Bill Maher at the Beacon, and then on Sunday Zarna Garg. That’ll clearly fill in more. But I’m on the New York Comedy Festival dot com history page now I wish they went a little further back. The farthest background go is twenty thirteen, and as they write, the festival marked its tenth year featuring Now listen to this lineup?
Is this a little more exciting? Maria Bamford, Hannibal Burs, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Jim Jeffries Anthony, jessinek Nick Kroll, Bill Maher, John Mulaney, Charlie Murphy, j Farrell, Nix Wardson, and Wanda Sykes. There was a stand Up for Heroes show, which included Bill Cosby all Right, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld, and musical performances by Bruce Springsteen. You see what I’m saying Like I’m having trouble getting too excited for this one. I’m sure it will fill in.
I don’t know. Sorry to be a downer. There is a controversy. Jack Black says he was blindsided by band made Kyle Gas’s remark, and Jack Black has canceled the Tenacious D tour. Kyle Gas made a comment after the assassination attempt on Saturday.
Tenacious D band member Kyle Gas joked, don’t miss next time. Jack Black said, I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form, amen, Jack. After much reflection, I no longer feel its appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour and all future creative plans are on hold. I’m grateful to the fans for the support and understanding this is a great job by Jack.
I mean, it sucks for the fans, but I like someone having the courage of their convictions. And no one should advocate violence, and obviously no one should say something about, you know, not having someone killed. Does that not go without saying. We can disagree on the politics of stuff, but I mean, come on, Gas apologize for the comments and an Instagram post on Tuesday morning, he said the line I improvised on Sunday night and Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous, and a terrible mistake. I don’t condone violence of any kind in any form against anyone.
What happened was a tragedy and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgment. I profoundly apologize to those I’ve let down and truly regret any plane I’ve caused. Don’t forget someone was killed on Saturday. Today’s st was planning to perform seven shows across Australia and New Zealand over the next two weeks. Sounds like that partnership may be over.
Taylor Thomlinson’s publicist deserves a raise. A coworker used to call these articles wax jobs, and Taylor got quite the wax job from Variety the headline how Taylor Thompson overcame debilitating fear and became the sole woman of late night with After Midnight. Some publicists worked real hard to get this one in. At the center of a simple but colorful stage stands the thirty year old Thomlinson, the picture of calm in a pantsuit that manages to tow the line between professional and hip. Thomason, the only woman currently hosting a late night network series, will later reveal that when she first took the job, Steven Colbert gave her some value of advice, which was You’re not going to be amazing right away.
He let me know that this would take a while to learn and not to expect to nail in the first week. And that helps so much because I still feel like I’m learning how to do this job every day. That is true. Like any profession, things get better with reps, including this dumb show here that you’re listening to. Tomlinson was a natural since it’s January seventeenth debut.
To this day, she reads like a season pro, rolling with the punches, putting her guess at ease, and keeping the audience entertained. Again, I’m not here to make fun of Taylor Thompson. I’m making fun of the publicist deserving a raise for getting Variety to print this thing. Even Colbert is impressed by how quickly she seems to have adapted, as why he first selected her for the job. He says, I like that she’s young, grew up in social media, and can work at a high reference level world, but still seems suspicious for what social media feeds us every day.
What I didn’t expect was how someone so young can be so confident in the role and adaptable to changes so fluidly. She’s thirty years old. Let’s not act like she’s twelve. She’s an adult woman. Disguise the limit for the comic who seems up for any challenge.
Asked if there’s anything about Tomisin that might surprise people, Steven Colbert says she spends her free time racing motorbikes and can bench press two hundred and fifteen pounds. She also doesn’t mine when friends lie about her to the press. If you enjoy what I do here, one way to support the shows, go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money and I will get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. I haven’t been getting any of the processed sugar products lately, and I just feel a lot better.
That’s not a crusade. And I’m not anti processed sugar products. Believe me, I like them. I just when I came back from Los Angeles, I got on the scale and I was like, ooh, you need to chill out, buddy. And I’ve been chilling out and I’m down six pounds.
How about that? Huh? I mean I’m up five pounds, but I’m no longer You’re up eleven pounds. But I do get my coffee every morning. I need my coffee to get going.
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Are about a serial killer that’s called The Artist a Killer is Canvas. I like this lead from the Stranger. They wrote Joe Para is the ace knuckleball picture of comedy, and I think they nailed that there. What do they mean? They say, Joe Parra’s jokes come at you slowly and unpredictably.
While they may initially see maunderwhelming compared to those of high velocity comics. They invariably wind up in the strike zone and make you shake your head in disbelief and amusement at their off kilter trajectory and their revelatory thud they make in the catcher’s mid of your mind. His deadpan oki oki delivery belies a sharp, sneaky wit. You nailed it. They’re the Stranger.
The stranger was curious. They asked, Joe, hey, Wikipedia, is your birth year is either nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine. Can you set the record straight or do you prefer to remain a mystery. Joe Paris said it doesn’t matter. The stranger said it might matter to so people, And Joe said, am I thirty five, thirty six at thirty seven?
Let that keep them up at night. The stranger says, does it seem like an advantage for your comedy to not have everyone know other thing about you? Joe said, it’s different nowadays. Before the TV show Joe Para Talks with You, it was nice to go on stage with a complete blank slate and win an audience over reveal a little about yourself bit by bit. But I feel like it’s not even possible nowadays, because people know a decent amount about me through the TV show and my other work.
It’s a different feeling. At the beginning of the shows, there is already a kind of a background of who I am, what kind of comedy I’m gonna do. In some ways, it’s nice not to start from zero the audience. At other times it’s kind of less fun. You can’t get to know each other together.
At the same time, I love this too. The stranger said, I haven’t seen every minute of your comedy, but I’ve seen a fair amount. Do you not dip into the well of your Italian upbringing? Joe said, well, I’m no Sebastian Maniscalco, but I got a couple of jokes about my Italian upbringing this time around. There were some mild mentions of it on the TV show, the way the grandmother made the meatballs, the way she was always cooking.
I’m not an immigrant myself. I’m a few generations removed, so I don’t feel like it’s part of my everyday reality. It’d be a little weird if I was a blonde guy talking about being in Italian the whole time. There’s a new comedy album out today from Mickey Overman ROUBM is called This is Me. You can get that on the eight hundred pound Gorilla.
Dave Chapelle has announced an intimate New York City show. It’s this Thursday at the Grammarcy Theater. Tickets went on sale by the time you heard this. Sorry, I try so. I imagine it’s sold out and it’s one of those cell phone free events, which is just a pain in the hat.
I wouldn’t even want to go. I need my phone. I don’t want to deal with your stupid pouches. A message from the venue reads, with your confirmation, you agree to place your phone in a lock pouch, which you keep throughout the evening. If you need to use your phone, return to the distribution tent at the entrance.
Anyone caught using a cell phone during the show will be immediately ejected. Stop it’s just annoying. It’s a twenty first century dude, So someone’s gonna put some crappy cell phone video of your joke on the internet. Whatever. That’s your comedy news for today.
Let me know your thoughts in the Facebook group A Daily Comedy News podcast group. Am I just in a mood today. It is comedy, a little flat right now, and I’ll see tomorrow