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Caloroga Shark Media, Heidley Ho Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Nate Forgatzy said, when I was younger, someone said you always reminded me of Bob Newhart, and I thought about that and like, I can totally see it delivery wise, the low keenness of it all. Nate said, they meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums in sitcom, so I like that.
I was way more deadband at the beginning, and I didn’t move around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel like I’m getting more in my voice now. I’m still not convinced Nate is the greatest actor.
But if you told me the new Heart sitcom where Bob owned the inn, if you for some reason remade that and you had Nate as the straight man in that, I could totally see him crushing in that. Kelsey Cook told Fox News Digital. I think the thing that probably helped comedy explode. The most was the pandemic. You know, everybody was inside on their phones, watching TV, watching their phone, and that became a time for comics to make as much content as you could because there was such a demand for it.
I think you saw people finding their new favorite comics over the pandemic.
And then once things open back up and people could start touring again, peopl…
I’ve been cooped up inside forever long. Now I want to go out and do stuff. And I think a lot of us saw a big touring boom, especially once people could go out and kind of resume normal life again. Yeah, there was Initially it was hard to get an arena because everybody was booking dates and everybody was out, so some big comedians had to play smaller rooms. I think now a few years later, we’re seeing it cool off a little bit.
Tom Papa has talked about that on his podcast, and Jim Gaffigan didn’t agree with him. We’ll see. I think comedy is hot now, but maybe we’re starting to step down from everybody playing huge places. Russell Peters talked to the LA Daily News about social media elevating comedians at a rapid piece. This one comes up a lot, Russell said, it’s a double It’s great for the kids that get to be seen sooner than they normally would have.
The bad part is they’re not really getting to put the time in, so they don’t have the chops they need when it happens. There’s definitely an incubation period that needs to happen. Think of comedy like a baby. Each year is a month in baby years, and in about the nine to ten year mark, you should be comfortable with who you are and what you’re doing and have a much more stable way of navigating through this game. When these kids come in after a year or two because they’ve been successful because of popular clips on TikTok and Instagram, congrats, but that’s not sustainable.
The News said you were one of the first comedians to go viral on YouTube early in the platforms start. This must be a young ling who asked this question. I saw a lot of comedians there for the first time, including George Carlin. I know you met him and worked well them. What was that like?
Russell said, he was my everything. I met him in ninety two and I’ve only done stand up three years. At this time. At the end of the meeting, I said, hey, George, maybe we’ll work together, and he said, you never know a kid, it’s crazy business. And there we were working together ten months before he passed away.
Was a great way to book end that story. He was extremely nice and so gracious with his time. He gave me some real good advice. He could have pulled rank or done anything he wanted to, but he didn’t. From when I hear from everybody else who met him knew him, he was always that guy.
That’s probably why he stayed in stand up and avoided the Hollywood we’re at race to. People who were always survive in the long run are the ones that keep it real. George was able to cut through the bs. He was always on the side of John Q every man. That’s something that politicians can’t do because they may try to make it sound like they’re there for the people, but really they’re there for themselves.
George was definitely not. He was literally there for us. He was our voice. Chappelle is great at doing a similar thing, but Chappelle is also skewed. You know which side he’s on.
George is definitely anti establishment. NPR and talked to Ronny Chieng about death and how his feelings about death have changed over time. Ronnie said, Oh, yeah, it’s become more real. It used to be this kind of conceptual, abstract, right, and then it’s become very real the last couple of years seeing it up close it becoming more real was kind of frightening. I was studying Buddhism recently, and there was this very interesting concept that I’m going to butcher because I’m gonna give you the ciff Notes version of it in like five seconds.
But the idea was something like, we’re a different person in every moment anyway. Our thoughts are different, our cellular makeup is different in every second moment, meaning we’re different people in every second of every moment anyway. So the concept of me doesn’t really exist because I’m constantly changing anyway, and so when I die, it doesn’t matter because I never really existed. That’s kind of like the Buddhist dancer, one of the Buddhist dancers to that. In Sebastian Man of Scalgoes reason special is at me.
He wore a tucks. The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked Sebastian what happened to the day is when standard comics dressed up. Sebastian said, I grew up in the eighties looking at the showmanship of it all, Eddie Murphy with that full leather suit or Prince. Today, the guy on stage could be a guy in the crowd. He can’t distinguish the two.
I try to pay homage to the rat pack in the sixties. He didn’t see a guy gambling in Vegas wearing flip flops in a swimsuit. You dressed up, and I hope that comes back. Sebastian talked about the physicality of his act. I’m very conscious of the way I’m moving proud across the stage.
People today have no attention span, so you have to be active out there. I need room to run around. Clubs are the best place to do comedy. But when I do that, I often look at the stage and think, geez, that’s all the space they’re giving me. I’ve always expressed myself through body language.
Even as a kid at the dinner table, I’d stand up to ask someone to pass me in the mash potatoes. I don’t see a lot of other commit using their body this way. Brian Reagan does, but I think other comics want to look cool, cool us to go out the window. We’re not musicians. Philippea Sparza talked about life on the road and said, it’s a young comic.
You’re like a baby out in this world, you know. But it’s different from being a singer, actor or a Broadway performer. When you perform as a comedian in a small town, you’re usually there for five days, two or three hundred people see you every night, so you’re pretty famous in that town. For that week. Everything’s new and exciting.
I remember being on the road in al Paso and Paul Rodriguez was headlining somewhere nearby. He was doing a corporate gig or something like that where he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we’re performing at a regular club where they’re paying us chicos tacos. Paul Rodriguez kidnapped us. Bro He kidnapped us and took us to Jures. He didn’t even ask if we had passports to grab.
One random guy said a man, you want to go to Juarez and nev tacos. The guy said, are you Paul Rodriguez? Oh yeah, let’s all go. So Paul Rodriguez made me and the other comedians go in a van. He had picked up two girls and he took those two girls and us to Juarez def Tagos.
When we got to the border, though, there were already too many people in the van and nobody had luggage, and of course we’re only there for about an hour and a half. The border patrol us over and they were searching us and stuff, and they were just busting our chops. They wanted autographs and photos. And there’s a picture of us, you can look it up. It’s Palward, Vegus, Gabriel I Glacias, Armando Cossios and me in front of the border with our hands on the hood.
I remember when we made it back and he was changing his clothes. Gaby Glacias and I were still in the room. He never told us to get out, so he finally closed the door on us. Our friend was standing outside waiting for us and said, bro, I thought you guys were going to go with the shower with a pall. Riser described his act to the oc registered and said, let’s just say on the opposite of circ dosilat, no jumping, no acrobatics, no singing or dancing, nothing out of the ordinary, just straight up comedy.
I do nothing out of the ordinary. People have seen comedians before. I have a good filter system. I sorted out what makes me laugh in private and what I want to share. And I’ve always avoided politics or social commentary.
It’s not the way my brain works. Some are good at poking sticks and the sacred cows. That’s not my personality. I’m not smart enough to make things up. I tell people what happens in my house stuff that happens at everyone else’s house.
We look at people as friends. People enjoy knowing they’re not alone. I talk about my life, my marriage. It’s all very cathartic. I tell people about an argument with my wife.
I convent and hope the audience my side. How does he dress on stage? I dress on stage the way I dress in life. Jean’s rolled up at the hem, he says. I like to cut out as many decisions as possible.
Paul, you’re going to retire. Sometimes I’m tempted to stay home and take it easy, but I do stand up every other weekend, and it invigorates me. Really, I’ve been very lucky. It’s true what they say. I work for free.
And only get paid for the trip to the airport. And Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glenn ross Odinkirk told Playbill, I’ve wanted to do this play for years. I wrote to David Mammot twenty years ago and I said I have two requests. One can we do an all comedy version. Two can we change it from land at they’re selling the pots and pans.
I never got a response. He’s very excited. He said, I can’t effing wait, and then smiled and said, feel free to use the word f in Playbill. It’s certainly in the effing play. Andy Haynes was down in New Orleans.
He had been there before and said that time it was from Mark Norman’s wedding. He rented out Tippettinas. It was all comics who were guess at the wedding, so everybody was there. Haines also spent a year in England with a weird job. He had created an animated show The Champions for the sports platform bleacher Report.
The show was based on the teams and players in the European Champions League. When a bunch of crypto investors bought a British soccer club, they wanted a comedian to generate online content for it. Haines got the gig, but he explains they hired me to be their in house comedian. I made content for them, but the team was so bad and the fans hated the owners. Everything I made never got released.
His Instagram, Brio says he’s a libtart, but says that’s a misunderstood joke. For the longest time it said Patriot as a joke, and people were like, you guy, call yourself a Patriot, so I changed it. I’m from Seattle. The second he leave Seattle, it’s the wilderness. Most of Washington is rural, conservative, gun and all that cowboy stuff.
In Seattle, I had a rowdy adolescence, would go to the woods and shoot stuff. We shot up a porta potty. There was a husk of a burnt out van that we used to go shoot. He left Seattle for la and staid being unemployed in La is how cults start. Everyone’s looking for spiritual guidance to get their next audition.
I was gonnahit, pause on everything and go back to Seattle. I went to New York on a whim and had an amazing experience. He’s got a podcast with Mike Cannon called Beautiful Boys Chevyhardcore dot Com You’re home for comedy News. They talked about Kevin Hart’s nineteen sixty six Chevy Chevelle and said it’s no joke. Chevy Hardcore tells us whether it’s his nineteen fifty nine corvetteor is nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National.
Kevin Art seems to find the coolest cars and some of the finest builders to shape them to his automotive desires. Kevin sixty six Chevelle started as an original SS three ninety six car. Work on the car, dubbed Darkness with two capitals’s at the end, was completed by Timeless Customs. What they created was a true work of restomad art, built upon an Art Morson chassis. The work involved keeping the car relatively simple, but in the best kind of way.
Emblems were exchanged for Darkness in the same type face as the original Chevelle, but the menacing side of Darkness comes under the hood. The classic three ninety six was replaced with an LSx four five four topped with an LS nine blower. Can you tell I have no idea what I’m talking about that’s right. With seven pounds of boost, the car makes six to twenty horsepower the wheels, but it’s capable much more. However, the Ideata was keep the car drive and comfortable, makes plenty of power for cruising the boulevard or the highway.
The four Lady transmission adds to the driftability. The engine bay of the Chavelle is as clean as they come, with fabrication from Timeless that truly highlights the power plant. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.