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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ronny Chieng specials out on Netflix Today. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann of The New York Times has it ranked as his number one I’m looking forward to watching it tonight. Love to Hate It was taped at the historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had a five nights sold out show.
In Love to Hate It, Ronnie talks about the indignities of the IVF process, the pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, American politics, and the place of the older generation in today’s world. He had written a piece for The Wall Street Journal and said his first exposure to American comedy was watching Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up intervals on the Seinfeld sitcom. You also watched The Lead Show with David Letterman, right, we like the same kinds of comedy, he wrote. I watched because stand up looked interesting. Comedians would walk on stage, talk to the audience and make jokes, and people laughed, including me.
Interview magazine got a good interviewer. The interviewer was Harry Seinfeld, the subject Ronnie ching. Ronnie said, I’m surprised you agreed to do this. Jerry said, you know something about you. You just want to say, yes, you got that thing.
I have it two you know? And laughs? How you doing ching? I’m okay, I’m actually in la. I just did Kimmel.
I heard he did Fellon. I did well. They tell me how busy you were and how much I should be thankful that you’ve decided to speak to me. I’m still not over it. Seinfeld said, I think it’s time.
I used to get this thing I would call a twenty four hour talk show virus. You do a talk show, no matter what it could be, fantastic, mediocre, whatever. You don’t feel good for twenty four hours. Do you have that, Ronnie? Now?
I think I probably have the forty eight hour one. I get it twenty four hours before the interview and then twenty four hours after. I’m sick the whole time. You don’t go on and be sincere. You want to be funny, but you don’t want to just do a set.
Jerry, Yeah, I went and did a set and it felt terrible about it. And I watched you tell a story about the night of the election. I thought that’s what I should have done. I don’t have any stories though. I don’t understand these shows.
What’s going on here? Are we worthless or valuable? Chang says, I get my kicks from connecting to people I only know from watching on TV comedians. We a lot of reverence history. There are institutions that I’m just happy to be able to touch once in a while.
That’s why I do it. I’m like all my heroes used to do this, but then I didn’t know if I should do so much press. You’re the one who actually told me, what are you talking about? Do all the press? Jerry?
Absolutely, Ronnie, So just to be clear, you’re also doing this for press, Jerry, Yes. I like to think back to my early days of doing clubs, when I didn’t even ask how many days I worked here, how many shows they did? Whatever you told me was fine. The club owner would say to me, I want to do an extra show, and I’d go an extra show, and it’d say, what’s the difference? All you do is talk?
I came from that. Now the comedians are like, well, we want to know what makes you tick. I’ve watched the you know, go from zero all the way to this insane place that it is now, Ronnie. Do you think it’s gonna go back to where they don’t care about what makes us tick anymore? Jerry, Yes, I do.
We’re in the red zone now. I think tact is gonna have to come back, and what will make it come back is aging. When you’re in your fifties, you don’t care about anybody else’s problems. Ronnie. The thing that irks me is they don’t actually care what makes you sick.
They’re just asking because they’re trying to feel words in a column or keep the interview going. Most people don’t care, Jerry. I have a new line in my set that I just started doing. It’s unbelievably gratifying. It’s a long run about what’s annoying in the world.
I say. I find that whenever people talk, it tends to be annoying. At this point in life, the hardest thing any of us have to do is not scream. I don’t care into the face of anyone that says anything. In the audience totally loves it.
Pete Davison told The Hollywood Reporter he just wants to be known for doing great work, but only every couple of years. Pete said in the Sopranos. There’s this line from Tony that’s like, you ever feel like you got into something of the end when the good times are over. That’s how I feel about show business and being a celebrity. It’s over.
When you’re first coming up getting all these offers, it’s hard to say no because you’re hungry. I made the mistake of doing literally everything. Now I am older and wiser, and I’m realizing that less is more. Like Christian Bale. He does one movie every two three years, but you go see it.
Leo Dicabrio does one movie every four years, but it’s the biggest thing of the world. It’s because you miss them, people have to miss you. I just want to be known for doing good work. I want to be out there only when it’s a movie, stand up charity, or business ventures. That’s what I want to be seen.
I don’t want to be this loser who just dates people. That’s not who I am. But people hate celebrities now. The media takes a handful of celebs every couple of years and they just destroy them for some reason. I’m one of the people they choose to go after.
It’s actually, in a way a blessing because it’s allowed me to take a step back and evaluate things. Who do you want to be? Who are you? I’m someone who’s from Staten Island want to do stand up. But if I got to do anything else because of stand up, it’s a miracle.
Hmm. I can’t speak for other I know when I talk about Pete, I usually come from a place of like, hey, dude, I’m rooting for you because I see the struggles he’s going through. But I guess I see the celebrity gossip part of Pete Davidson’s dating so and so. Yeah, I’ve done that too, I get it. Beete says he’s very happy where he is right now mentally, and feels lucky that he was woken up about being hit on the face with the Hollywood shovel right.
I found out a little bit more about Nabrigatzi’s Christmas special, which is out on Thursday. The Nate is about to be massively overexposed between the CBS thing and his Netflix special. We’re going to start to get sick about Nate, I think, and I love him. There is a trailer for the special where you know the thing where he plays George Washington and says ridiculous, and people ask questions and he gives answers, and you know you’ve seen the sketcharent he’s doing a version of that where he’s an angel or something like that.
Meanwhile, Ways, you know the map thing on your phone.
I’m a big fan of Ways. They tell us calling all comedy lovers, buckle up and get ready to hit the road with the hilarious Naprighezzi. As you’re Way’s driving companion. Nate isn’t just a comedian. He also happens to love driving and is always ready with a joke or quirky observation to make the miles fly by.
No we don’t want this, No no no, no, no, no no no. Just tell me in three miles of the highway splits and I need to go left. That’s all I need to know. Nate’s sense of humor takes the edge off your daily commute no won’t, and brings a smile to your drive. Expect witty commentary, relatable anecdotes, and a healthy dose of Southern charm.
What Ai wrote that sentence, This Ways experience is all about enjoying the solitude of the open road and embracing the unexpected turns of life. Is it the open road or is it my commute? Pick a narrative here, guys, as you hear Nate put it. Shout out to everyone driving with a list of errands from their spouse. There’s no time let on these errands.
Okay, you could be gone for months. Make sure you have the latest version of Ways and look for the Nate forgets thee Benner in the left side column. Any of the app No thanks? Uh. Dane Cook is starring in the dark comedy thriller Boris Is Dead.
Boris Is Dead follows a struggling actor working as a waiter played by Dean Cook, who unwittingly becomes involved in a violent Heights gone wrong where his boss, deep in debt, has been stealing from employees and running the restaurant is a front for the mob. Oh no. Josh Blue is that comedy works downtown. This week he spoke to Colorado Public Radio. They were curious if his timing and delivery have changed since he started, and Josh Blue said, I feel like I’ve always had impeccable timing, even as a kid.
I could just zip something in with the teacher and the whole class would laugh. I’ve always had that gift, but I feel like it’s definitely evolved, and I’ve gotten more comfortable in the silence. I’ll let something ride longer the laughter go, and then when I do hit them, it’s even harder. What’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely. Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or something in my brain puts a new connection together.
There’s no end to this. I have a bit where somebody would get up to go to the bathroom and I’ll be like, where you go, And they go to the bathroom, and I’ll be like, you want to wait?
And then I will wait the entire time they’re gone.
It gets a laugh without me saying anything, and I mean minutes go by without me saying something, just a facial expression or body movement, and I can get it. When they come back. It’s like a standing ovation that people are so happy this person came back from the bathroom. It’s really fun. Josh Blue nineteenth through the twenty first It comedy works downtown.
All right, you need New Year’s Eve plans. Here’s something I guess you could go with NBC announced the day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year’s special. It’s an hour look back at Seth Meyers’s drunken interactions with Rihanna post Malone, Kelly Clarkson Blah blah blah it Al air from eleven thirty to twelve thirty five AM on New Year’s Eve. It is unclear how they’re going to handle the whole midnight thing. Not that hard.
You could just do an insert somewhere. You could time the thing out. I’ve pre recorded some New Year’s Eve specials in my radio career. It can be done. Quick story there.
Before the merger, when it was just serious, I used to do a New Year’s Eve special, rowd Dog’s Effing New Year’s Eve, and we would time it out so it aired at midnight. But we learned from the engineers for the signal to go from the computer up to space and back to your radio was twenty three seconds. But I can do math, so we used to time it out, so we would play at eleven fifty nine thirty seven and then hit your radio right at midnight. And it was kind of cool.
And then we merged with XM, and XM had different technology and so there was …
So then we just started doing approximately midnight there, up and back was not twenty three seconds, it was a different number.
And then they started with the Internet and the internet delay was a totally …
So when is midnight? We had four different answers. Last year NBC aired Sunday Night Football. Before that, they were doing the Lorne Michaels thing. Remember Pete Davidson was part of that.
Yeah, that went away quietly. In case you’re curious, CBS has a five hour country music special out of Nashville. ABC has Dick Clarks New Year’s Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest, and over on CNN, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will probably have a couple beverages, as they tend to do. On her podcast, Samantha Bee talked about Luigi man GEONI you know, the guy accused of killing the guy She was asked about, where’s the line? She says, how do you know when you’ve gone too far?
I’m not a person who finds murder amusing in the least. That’s a hard limit, no matter how bizarre or engaging the details. Are You ever watch darts The World of Darts Championship is going on right now. You’ll find it on YouTube if you’re in the States. It is the most entertaining thing at all.
Basically, these guys walk up the Brits right now are like, we know, but the Americans don’t know anything about the darts. They don’t know it. Let me explain it to them. Okay, So because everybody does this for a living, the commentators are like, oh, he needs to hit a twenty twenty and a triple seventeen to get to whatever the number is. These guys just walk up to the line, like you know, when I play darts at the bar, I stand there for a second.
These guys just walk up to the line. They’re like whoa who who and they’re just you know, they’re pros, but they’re great.
And then announcer will be like, all right, this guy needs a triple sixteen a…
The crowd dresses up like they’re on let’s make a deal. And everybody, I think they’ve all had a couple beverages. So this whole thing is fun to watch. I recommend on. So a guy’s been walking around dressed up as Ali G.
It turns out it’s Jack Whitehall who posted the Darts the Greatest show on Earth. Wish I still had the stamina for it, and he shared some pictures of himself dressed as Ali G getting in the spirit of things. It’s a lot of fun. I was in Australia one time for Christmas and just started channel surfing because it was nighttime and wasn’t anything else to do. Everything was closed and I came across darts and I’m like, this is amazing.
British comedian Russell Howard will premiere his new stand up special Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium as a global streaming event January fifteenth. On the Drift platform, Drift is spelled with two eyes. I think my eyesight isn’t that good anymore. But that looks like or iiftes drift or no drift. I don’t know how you pronounce it.
Drift just spell things normally. You’re making things too difficult on yourself. The sixty minutes special was recorded during Howard’s international tour. The stream will include Off the Cuff, a bonus program featuring exclusive content totally random. Did you watch the Yellowstone finale.
I won’t spoil it here. I have so many questions. And I was hanging out in the reddit and somebody said like, Hi, I’m Chris Hardwick. Welcome to Talking Yellowstone. And after that finale we needed Talking Yellowstone.
I’ll give you a couple of days to watch them. But I have so many questions. All right, maybe Friday I’ll ask you about Yellowstone. All right, did you watch it? Hit me on the Facebook group and that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.
If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. But like I said yesterday, tell them about it like in the middle of January when the comedy news is back. Today wasn’t filler. I actually bounced stories today, so today was not filler. Take that back.
You can tell them today. Hey, there is this show. This guy talks about darts and Yellowstone. You’re gonna love it. See you tomorrow.