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The Shark Deck Johnny meg who with your Daily Comedy News A busy day again? Did you say the writers might go on strike out in Hollywood? Yahoo has an interesting piece with an anonymous member of the Writer’s Guild. The topic here Late night and I thought it was interesting. Yahoo quotes w G A anonymous as saying, there’s a lot of uneasiness in general.
People aren’t sure of what’s going to happen in this negotiation. You combine that with the shifting quote unquote Late night world. That’s harder to define these days because almost nobody watches Late Night Live. It’s become a different thing, the uneasiness of this business and economy, and there’s more writers than ever looking for a finite amount of jobs, so of course becomes stuff or to find work. Anonymous continues, Late night ratings have been dwindling by the day, and for a decade, late night shows have been writing and producing for an eventual online audience, stuff that will be consume the next day and beyond.
Whether it’s carpool karaoke or foul in playing toy instruments to a pop song, it’s all either on youtubeer social media. Most of that stuff is put out as promotional, so we never see a residual that has a lot to do with what’s going on this negotiation. There’s a general changing of what the comedy and variety definition is. We all have stories. You get the residual check for four cents or something like that.
I got to check the other day for twenty nine cents, two payments, three cents and twenty six cents. It would take me months to track down where that came from. It’s just so hard to find out what you’re even being paid for. If you get five hundred bucks in the mail, you just put it in the bank. You’re not going to spend two weeks trying to figure out where it came from.
It’s hard for writers to keep up with what their actual contract says, and I think that’s by designed by the powers that be. This negotiation it’ll reveal a lot. There’s so much transition going on the studios they’re investors the bottom line, and then the way they view the future of quote unquote content and whether they value writers or if they think they can move on with fewer writers and use artificial intelligence to write scripts. All right, So I’m going to jump in there because that intrigued me, and what it inspired me to do is look at some actual late night jokes, which again will have been hold much better by the professional late night host than they will buy some idiot and his basement. So I took the actual jokes and I had the chat CHEPT write some jokes the topic.
President Biden ending the COVID emergency. Okay, you tell me my performance aside, if the chat GPT jokes aren’t as good as the late night jokes, I’m serious here, ready, chat GBT. In a bold move, President Biden has declared an end to the COVID emergency. It’s like when your mom announces the end of dinner but you’re still not done eating. We’re all like, wait, are you sure it’s over all right, Colbert, I’m not sure what it means for health, but it means that we can finally get back to some of our favorite pre pandemic elite show segments like Subway Blind Taste Test.
Chat GBT, Biden says, the COVID emergency is over, which means we can finally go back to our normal lives, you know, like arguing with relatives at Thanksgiving and pretending to enjoy the small talk at the office. Jimmy Kimmel, The end of the COVID era is surprisingly kind of bitter sweet. This morning I did something. I wiped down my groceries just for old times sake. I actually bought a bottle of purel and wiped it down with pul CHATCHBT.
Joe Biden has declared into the COVID emergency, which means we can finally see each other’s faces again, unless you’re holding it on that pandemic beard, which case it’s time for that to go. I think the chat GBT jokes were better. Hannah Gatsby, She’s got a new special coming out. This one is titled Someone Special, was taped at the Sydney Opera House. It features Hannah Gatsby discussing their twenty twenty one wedding to their producer, Jinny Shamash, More than one traumatic encounter with a Bunny and more Someone Special Netflix, May ninth.
No trailer yet, but hopefully they will do it to ton of press and the press will say the words schappell to them and we can stir that up again. That’s always fun. And people over at Hannah Gasby Inc. Are not coordinating because before I saw that they announced the special. I had this story for you.
This from ARTnews dot com. You’re home for art news. Hannah Gatsby is organizing an exhibition about Pablo Picasso for the Brooklyn Museum. It’ll open this summer. The title It’s Pablo Matic Picasso.
According to Hannah Gasby, it’ll feature nearly one hundred works, many of them done by women artists. It’s description promises a look at Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary and feminist lens, even as it acknowledges his works transformative power and lasting influence. The Guardian ran an article last week asking if we should cancel Pablo Picasso. I don’t want to bog down on that. Just google cancel Pablo Picasso.
Educate yourself. In that article, one of the co curators of the Brooklyn Museum show said, Hannah Gasby says, there’s a lot that’s easy to hate about Picasso. But if the goal was to cancel Picasso, we wouldn’t be doing this show and Hannah wouldn’t be participating. I got an email from JFL Montreal. It said, we’re excited to reveal the first wave of comedians on April thirteenth.
So I guess we know what tomorrow’s podcast will be. I’m recording this on the twelfth. I don’t live in the future. I don’t have the information yet tell you about that tomorrow. Just for last Montreal, you should go.
We could have a beer.
Meanwhile, the lineup for the Calgary Great Outdoors how Many Festival has an…
He’ll be the headliner on Friday, August twenty fifth. He joins previously announced Saturday headliner at Jonathan van Ness of Queer Eye fame, and Sunday Andrew Schultz is your headliner. There’s a mix. Let’s see. I’m getting along here.
I have to bump the stories. Should I bump Sam Morrell or Jay Farrow? They’re both good. Let’s see. I know I’ve got some Sam next week.
Let’s bump Jay Farrow. Sorry, Jay Forbes s Sam Morrell, Hey, what was your first drink? Sam said? Probably wine. The good thing about being a New Yorkers when you first start drinking, it’s either house parties, where the real first move is to go to a Chinese restaurant because they don’t care what age you are.
Again, my information may be very different. But that’s not really how we started. Back in the eighties, you’d go to the bar. They didn’t prove so much, but who knows. It’s a new century.
Things may have changed. What was your first drink of choice? Sam, He said, I definitely liked whiskey early on. That’s aggressive, buddy, because I felt that’s what you should drink as a man. That’s what Bogard drag, and that’s what they drank at the Old West.
They’re not ordering two spritters in a John Wayne movie. All right, Sam, why just start your own whiskey bodega cat? And he said, Mark Norman and I have a podcast called We Might Be Drunk, And it quickly became evident that whiskey was our drink. All these celebrities of their own alcohols, and I was like, why can’t we do it. I put it out there on the podcast.
We got so many emails. We just went with who felt the most legit. Forbes asked him to explain for people not from New York what a bodiga cat is. Sam said, late at night, you go to the bodega, maybe you’ve had a few drinks and you’re looking for a snack. That is exactly why you’re in the bodega.
That’s it. That’s why you’re there. And a little cat we’ll pop out of nowhere. You just pet the cat. It’s this weird bonding moment.
You’re always happy to see a bodega cat. That’s how we want people to feel about our whiskey. It is some cross promo here for Palace Intrigue. That’s the show on the writer on we talking about the British royal family to see yesterday Harry finally said he’s going to go to the coronation. Megan Markel’s not going.
This is good for Palace Intrigue. It’s like an ongoing soap opera that’s this week’s storyline, controversies, whatever. So if you want to keep up on all that Palace Intrigue, if you get your podcast. I did wind up watching Jury Duty like I promised. I liked it a lot, watched all four available episodes.
Is it hilarious no? Is it entertaining? Yes? Is it addicting yes? First episode I was like, all right, this is pretty good.
It’s basically office doing jury duty. But once it got rolling, I was like, I’m hooked. I love these characters, the acting is so good. Perfect show. Watch Jury Duty.
It’s on free V. Nobody knows what that is, just so open up Amazon Prime. They’ll put it under your nose. You’ve got to sit through like ninety seconds of commercials. It wasn’t too bad.
I just picked up my phone and played on Twitter and before I knew what the break was over Jury Duty. Strong recommend watch it. I’m not going to watch it weekly because the episodes go by so quickly, so like, I don’t want to sit down Friday night and watch twenty minutes and be like, oh, I want more. So I’m gonna wait until the other four episodes are released and then I’ll watch the rest of it.
Also, watch some more of Beef on Netflix.
I think I’m up to episode seven now. I hate when shows dropped ten episodes at once. It’s just too much. I liked the weekly cadence of things, so we’re all on the same page. We’re all talking about the same thing.
For example, succession, we’re all up to the same thing. We’re all looking forward to the same thing on Sunday. But these things Netflix, like hey, here’s ten episodes, and things like Netflix. I’m busy man, anyway, I’m on like episode six or seven, really enjoying beef. You know who?
Shut up, Andrew Santino. That’s right, he’s on it. Another show you should watch is on FX or FX on Hulu these days, and that is Dave and the Hollywood Reporter did one of those fluff job pieces with Dave Bird. Dave said, I feel like I’m the comedic voice of my generation. All the reporter rights.
Then he hesitates, realizing how a declaration so seemingly hyperbolic might be interpreted. Dave says, you’ll read it and be like, this guy’s out of his mind, and really, I don’t mean it arrogantly. Dave Bird aka Little Dicky, then tries to describe the difference between confidence and arrogance, and he said, I’m not like, oh, I’m the best effing rapper line or I’m the funniest guy in the world. No, I’m more like, I’m a passenger of this talent. And it’s funny to me that I happen to be born with these skill sets and all I could do is be relentlessly responsible with them.
You go much, really are you serious? Dat? At the same time, he acknowledges there are plenty people who still have no idea who little Dickie, your Dave Bird is. I’m gonna guess, listener, that’s you. Maybe not you, but you know, I don’t think he’s the most famous person.
It’s a really good show. I used to watch it. He’s certainly not so famous that he can’t go and enjoy himself at a bowling alley, which it turns out is where he met Kristin, his girlfriend. So they went bowling, and he announced he’d be bowling a one hundred and thirty game this evening, which seems preposterously exact. On April twenty third, twenty thirteen, writes the Hollyer Reporter, Dave dropped his first single, Ex Boyfriend in less than twenty four hours.
The song and comedic take on the anxiety of learning about a girlfriend’s exceedingly attractive ex boyfriend had racked up more than one million views on YouTube. It was and forever will be the best day of Dave Bird’s life, the day he says, where I realized I am who I always thought I was. By day two, he was doling out interviews with TMZ from his cubical. Within six months, he’d quit his job pursuing music full time. Jeff Schaeffer, who had written for Seinfeld the show, was asked by a friend Attica meeting with Little Dickie.
He said it really have the band with for more work, but sure said yes. Even in early twenty seventeen, Shaefer knew exactly who Little Dickie was. He said, back then the Internet was like seventy percent born, ten percent clickbait, and twenty percent Little Dickie videos. Bird told him he was going to be the biggest entertainer in the history of entertainment. You go much and I’m looking at this guy and he looks like a piece of broccoli had a bar mitzvah, and I’m like, this is hilarious.
It’s like a cartoon level delusion.
And then I start thinking, like, what a great engine for a TV show, Because w…
They’d go pitch the show. Dave Bird would go in and start talking about how he’d always wanted to be a big comedy star, but then he’d started rapping and realized he was a gifted rapper. He would literally say, it’s like if Batman all of a sudden realized he was also a superman and would He’d say it, that’ll look at me and I’d go yeah, HBO heard the pitch, so did Hulu Netflix Comedy Sexual. The fxu’d said very quickly, your radar goes up and you’re like, oh, this guy’s interesting. They got a note though, the show shouldn’t start on the day Little Dickie releases his viral video.
The suit said, Argin’s stories a sort of boring because we know what’s going to happen, so we moved it six weeks later because six weeks later, you’re just a guy who had a viral video six weeks ago, and you’re not legitimate, You’re not anything. It’s a much more interesting place to start watch Dave. It’s a good show, all right. Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wow, the website is loading much more quickly today and they change the way that it looks fascinating.
Maybe they’ve been listening to my podcast. Greg Larson show is called slurps Up. There’s a picture of him with a dog. That’s what got me to click on you, glig Larson. It’s a nominee for twenty twenty two is Melbourne International Comedy Festival for Most Outstanding Show.
Jordan said, not a pedophile. All right, I’m intrigued. I’m glad you’re not a pedophile. Let’s take a listen. I am a dad.
I am a dad, and I think when you become a dad, dad’s all look alike. You know, father’s, dad’s we all look the same. You can tell a dad from behind, just the sort of broken down man and you look at him and you’re like, there’s a man who’s had a gatful. You know, you can just tell. We’ve all had a gatful.
We’ve all had it up to here, Jason. You know it’s you can just tell by look. That’s what dads are so conservative. I think dads are often very conservative. They’re always voting conservative.
You know the lockout laws in Sydney. That’s a perfect example of a dad being in charge. That’s a dad who’s just gonna watch all this noise blared in my ears. I can’t earn myself fake. That’s it, na lights out the lotty is no days are beg Sydney.
No, No, I’m more knocking about and go to bed. I’m trying to watch the bill. All right, he’s Greg Lawson. That was a lot of fun. I had to clip out a couple f words in there, but I enjoyed him.
When I click on these, It’s the first time I’m hearing any of these people, so I’m reacting as you are. I hope it’s as much fun for you as I am.
All Right, here’s Gay Montgomery.
My brain is blowing me crazy. Interesting title. Holy here. Thank you. If you like the way I walk, wait till you hear these jokes back home.
There’s just a normal walk. I got here today. I flew on a plane. They offered fish. It was fish for lunch, but I couldn’t.
I couldn’t have it, so no, me just felt so respectful about having fish in the sky. It’s too far out of their element, not having a bit of chicken under the water. So I had to eat at my accommodation because I had to do a test, and I just had to make food with what was in the place. And they had oats, you know oats, Yeah, they had them, and also molk. Then they’re beef milk.
But let’s okay, I need but so here I am making my lunch and I’m pouring my oat milk on my oats, and I’m looking down. I think there’s actually something really, I’m settling about what’s going on here covering these little oats in their own blood. Wow. I loved him, wasn’t he great? Guy Montgomery?
And let’s take a look at moontower here on Thursday six o’clock, ten on ten with er Das seven o’clock, Jenny Slate seven o’clock, Jay Farrow, whose story got bumped from today’s Daily Comedy News maybe made the wrongest sits in there. Let’s see Jared Freed at eight o’clock. Perfect Cults. I talked about that yesterday at eight thirty. No late shows interesting, all right, So let’s see what could you and I do when go see Vier DAWs at six o’clock do something different in and if we saw a perfect cult yesterday, I guess we’re going to see Jared Freed at eight o’clock at cap City and then we’ll do a late dinner and grab some bruise.
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