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Calarocas Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Is Sane Gillis going to walk away from comedy? Of course not. Don’t be silly, but Crack was listening to a recent edition of Matt and Sheen’s Secret podcast.
Sheen Gillis said, I’ve been stricken down with a melancholy dude. I went for a walk the other day. I was going through it. I don’t have anyone even talk about this stuff. Mccuster said, I see everyone saying I stink.
I got a message the other day from a lady going, hey, just so you know, me and my boyfriend watch a special. Sucks so bad. I hate it. I don’t have the same feeling of excitement every day. It’s just kind of weird anxiety.
Shane said, I see how Chappelle left for a while. There’s a daydream all the time where I’m like, I could leave. I coud leave for a few years. I probably will give me two more years, and I’m going to walk away for a while. A lot of people have a tough time leaving.
You got to get off the stage for them to want you back on the stage. McCusker pointed out when you come back you have to have a new look, using examples like Letterman coming back with a beard and Chappelle coming back in shape. What will Shane do? Shane said, I’ve got it. I’m going to change the pigmentation of my skin away for six years and come back black as hell, his five year plan in place.
Don’t talk to anyone, just disappear, go to Madrid, all right. David Cross was asked by Vanity Fair what made David Cross decide to write about that re Odd Comedy Festival. Cross said, there were like three or four different requests to get my take on it. I knew it was only going to continue us. I thought I’ll just put it out there.
Then anybody who wants can pull whatever quote they want. But ironically that resulted in lots and lots and lots and more people going hey, so what are your thoughts? Vanedtty Fair said the response from Bill Burr he not so canceled a HEAs, I’m sorry, and a few others I mounted to a shrug about getting paid. What do you think of that? David Cross, who said, I disagree that that was their response.
The response came, but that was in attendance with this kind of after the fact justification. The one I’ve seen most is well, it’s a good thing to engage in dialogue. We’re opening it up and we’re showing them what stand up comedy can be, and this is a good thing. One of the things that keep coming back to you, said David Cross is a comment someone made about Bill Burr’s response. You know, I went and they didn’t behead anybody, and it was clean, and women were walking around.
They’ve got a Popeyes out of Chili’s and whatever. But somebody else wrote, you saw what they wanted you to see, and you said what they wanted you to say. So it has nothing to do with performing for the people because they weren’t performing the people. It was a very dangerous, upsetting thing that they participated in. And of course it’s for the money.
If they really thought it was all about these other justifications that they’ve come up with, they’d go and do it for free. They’d go to a town square and perform for the actual people there, not the royal family, and not with a four page list of things that can’t talk about. I would have more, not a lot more, but I’d have more respect for people who are just like I’m doing it for the money. When you start equivocating and making all this what about your pants that are made by slave labor and all this bs, I’ll continue to talk about those bad things either hero or a broad us have done my whole career, and that’s the beauty of what I get to do. You can’t do that in Saudi Arabia.
So they’re grasping at straws. All those arguments collapse under just a moticum of reality. Vanity Fair brought up the Devil’s Advocate argument that you know, things in the States aren’t always perfect. I’m paraphrasing their question there to get to David Cross’s response, which is when I’m perform in the I don’t perform for the government paid for by the government. I’ve heard Trem Marcos Razi also make that argument.
I don’t condone what my government does, and I talk about that amongst other things. So those are two very big differences. I’m not performing for the people who are torturing people. Dave Chappelle made that statement about it’s easier to talk there than they just talk about Charlie Kirk in the United States. Cross said they executed somebody for some tweets.
I don’t even know how gregious they were. They were just negative towards the royal family, which to say the government. So that’s a BS argument. It doesn’t stand up from Vulture. I think this was the good one podcast.
They Askedavro’s Halkias about describing his podcast Stove His World as an anti Inceel podcast. What do you mean? Stavro said, there’s a weird mean spiritedness amongst young male losers that is harming them. I only say that because I was a young male loser. Took me until pretty late in life, well in a college I even have a little confidence and start dating.
I think about what have happened to me at seventeen. If there’s somebody being like, if you’re me and a girl’s and a racist, they’ll have to paraphrasing have sex with you, I would have been like, nice, I guess I’m racist. Now that seems so much easier than believing in myself and becoming a good person. Now everyone’s like there’s a young masculinity crisis. I know what a fifteen year old boy cares about, and I just want to say, here’s the actional path to getting girls to like you.
You don’t have to go down that road. This is poisonous. This is not good for you. I promise you. You just feel better by being a good hang.
The bar is actually really low for straight dudes. Now, just don’t go to the dark side, brother, and you’ll be fine. I mentioned a few episodes ago that I saw a crazy theory from Joe Rogan. Joe said this on The Joe Rogan Experience. I got a theory.
I think one of the reasons why Michael Jackson’s songs were so romantic. There was a romance to his songs when he was talking about love that was like it was so attractive because he never had it before. It was a fantasy. It was like being a normal person like that was the fantasy that was coming out in the songs. Onto the theory, did Michael Jackson write his own songs, Rogan said, I don’t know.
It’s a good question, but even the way he expressed those songs, I Betty wrote some of those songs. Now, unlike Joe Rogan, I have the Internet. I solved this pretty quickly. I looked it up. Billy Jean, Michael Jackson beat it so Michael Jackson.
Thriller was written by the English songwriter Rob Temperton, who also wrote Rock with You and Off the Wall from the nineteen seventy nine album Off the Wall, which is a fantastic album. So there’s your answers, Joe Rogan, did Michael Jackson write his own songs? Sometimes? From Arab News your home for Comedy News, they caught some of Andrew Schultz’s act at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival. Now that’s not the Read Comedy Festival, this is the one in Dubai.
In that said, Andrew Schultz poked fun at Dubai’s traffic and riffed on the city’s obsession with Emar buildings. I was unfamiliar with the term Emaar. It appears to be a property company in Dubai that sells luxury homes. Wikipedia says emer Properties Dubai is one of the largest real estate developers in the UAE. Schultz closed with a lighthearted Q and A segment.
Before Andrew Santino headed off to the Read Comedy Festival, he had spoken with Variety about how more and more people are independent creators. Santino said, working with my friend’s interests me. I work with my best friend Bobby Lee every week doing Bad Friends. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had without restriction and without everyone trying to grab at us and make money office. I don’t know what my future is in television and film.
It doesn’t feel like I’ll have anything in that world anytime soon. Now this article, which was before Riod, why doing it today? John? I needed one more story, and I’ve been sitting on this one and it just slotted nicely. That’s why I’m dragging this out today.
But it kind of fits the narrative here. Santino said. A lot of people say the comedians say, you can’t say anything, but I don’t know anybody that says that. I feel like this is a narrative that gets put out by the media, where they’re like, what can comedians even say anymore? We don’t say that.
We don’t give a hoot. We go out every night and say whatever we want. I’m gonna add asterisk and less performing in Riod. You can go at any club except what in Reod, and you’ll hear an array of different levels of stuff that is questionable on savory touchy RESI. That’s every night, at every club in the country.
The country here means the United States of America, so I don’t buy in to that narrative. But I do think as a society we’re becoming more comfortable with the idea that a comedian can about anything as long as it’s funny and done with love and not in riatte. I added that last part, it shouldn’t come from this awful place pregnant pause. America now more than ever, wants to have fun. They’re tired of being sad or scared.
And as the world continues change rapidly and people look confused about what’s happening, we are supposed to be the ones that joke about what’s happening. Interesting take on comedy there by Andrew Santino. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was at the AFIFS premiere of the upcoming j Kelly movie. George Clooney told the Hollywood Reporter, you get treated the way you treat yourself. This was a different kind of role for Adam, and I wanted to make sure that he wasn’t making fun of his incredible talent.
He just likes to deflect, and I was like, you know what, dude, you’re really good in this film, and you’re really good actor. Let’s not make jokes clooney forbade people from calling Adam Sandler the Sandman. Sandler is that in response, I still call myself the sand Man. He can’t stop me. He’s just very protective over me.
He’s a really nice guy. We do all these scenes together, and we get deep together, and it’s I just want people to recognize that. And I’d say I’m okay, I like just working hard, and he’d say, no, he’s very nice. He’s trying to look out for me. Mark Maron was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last week.
Now, I’m going to play a short version of the clip and then a long version of the clip. For the short version, I want you to pay attention right at the top. Now, I defend Jimmy Fallon frequently, but I want you to pay attention at the top, really, really pay attention to the way Jimmy Fallon reacts as if Mark Maren is surprising him with a Bruce Springsteen anecdote, as if Fallen has no notes, and as if Fallon doesn’t know why Maren is booked on the show to promote the Springsteen movie. This is really lame. Here, pay attention.
It’s going to come up really quickly. Listen. And I did the. Movie The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my gosh, how is that?
I mean, what is that? Jimmy, Come on, man, you know why he’s there? Oh gosh, really, oh gosh, I can’t believe Springsteen. Really, why do you think he’s on your couch? Why do you think he’s there?
Anyway, here’s the full clip. And I did the movie, The Bruce Springsteen Movie. Oh my god, how is that? The funny thing is I interviewed Bruce. So I go out to his house in Jersey and it was like during Christmas time, and I’m waiting in this like he’s got this little separate house for just his guitar as a motorcycle and some other stuff.
So I’m sitting out there waiting for him, and I see him walking down from the house and I’m like, all right, here he comes. He doesn’t really know me, he’s not real sure what the show is. So I’m trying to break the ice and I go, so what’s going on with the house? A lot of Christmas craziness, cooking, wrapping, President stuff, and he goes correct, and I’m like, can I talk to that Bruce at the entire hour. And years later a friend of mine, Tall wilginheld the bass player, was talking to Bruce about doing press, you know, for her album, and she goes, I don’t know how to handle interviewers, and Bruce goes, you just say what you want, doesn’t matter what they ask you.
You tell them what you want to tell them.
And then she says, my friend Mark Marin interviewed you and he said he pushed.
In New York City today at town Hall. It is the town Hall Presents Series and the town Hall Present Series presents Rummy yusef at workout for some new material, seven thirty at town Hall. That’s a good venue if you’re in the Big Apple Out On the Comedy Exports YouTube channel today, Sam Taunton’s how to Tie a Tie? And that guy Jay Leno, you know, the guy Jay Leno ust knows the Tonight Show. He’s the worst person who ever lived, because he comments about late night television every now and then as if he knows anything about it after hosting The Tonight Show for twenty two years.
Yeah, that guy, he’s the worst. He was hanging out with James May. You know, one of the drivers from top Gear slashed the Grand Tour, the driving show, you know, the three guys on the cars. So he got Jay Leno and James May hanging out. James was checking out a red Lamborghini count toch LP five thousand quattro valvave.
I’m sure I pronounced all that correctly. He got behind the wheel of the car and he said, it’s awful to drive. It’s uncomfortable, noisy, it’s not actually that fast by modern standards. Well, guess who owned it, Jay Leno? Yeah, Jay Leno said it was my daily driver.
Once Leno drove seventy thousand miles in that car. Because Jay Leno know, I was letting cars sit in the garage. We’ll kill them slowly. And jay Leno points out it’s not even fuel efficient. He said, it runs on gas and when you get on the highway it runs on even more gas.
The nerve of that guy, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you