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The Shark Deck. I am shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Did you catch the end of Sunday’s episode? Got a little awkward and I could have taken it out, but like I said yesterday, that’s no fun. All right?
It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is back for season sixteen June seventh. It’ll be out and we are told this year alone. Mac battles with allergies and long distance dating, Charlie takes on his long forgotten sisters, d fights for rent control and women’s athletics, Frank wrestles for his gun, and Dennis struggles to improve his mental health. Up Rocks had recently spoke to Glenn Howarton, who plays Dennis. Glenn says the show doesn’t push the envelope just for the sake of it.
The way the show’s talking about it’s is if that’s our goal, or that our goals to push the boundaries of what’s decent or whatever, and that’s never the goal. That being said, what the goal is is to make people laugh and oft in order to do so, you kind of have to shake them up a little bit. The best jokes to me are slightly a cerviic and make you, Oh, can you say that that’s just what I like because I like to be provoked. I like to be poked at by art. For me, it’s more about raising questions, forcing people on any side of particular issue to sort of face wood is often absurd about their point of view or the reasons behind their point of view, poking fun at the extremes on any side of any given issue or argument.
I mean, that’s just what the show has always been about. Rob mcillennie, who’s like Hollywood’s Darling now, especially since the soccer team got promoted it, admitted the show may have gone a little too far by putting his character Mac in blackface in the tradition of tropic thunder. He did that as part of a lethal weapon hearty. Netflix removed that episode back in twenty twenty one, that was over ten years after the original air date. At the time, mcillenny addressed the controversy, saying, I find that my broometer is off for what’s appropriate sometimes in situations, because like we’ve spent fifteen years making a show about the worst people on the planet, because it’s satire.
We leaned so heavily into the idea and then we were always like right on the razor’s edge. That’s the only way sat Hire works.
And then I go and do something else, and I’m pitching something and I realize…
Mac addressed it on the show in the episode The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon seven. In that episode, Mac apologizes for wearing black face in Lethal Weapon five, and the other is remind him that he wore black face and Lethal Weapon six as well, a detail that’s slipped by the Netflix sensors. This article says Howardson said, back at twenty fifteen, by the time we got to season three, I remember having a specific conversation with the guys where our attitude was like, any minute, the show is going to get canceled. So Evitt, let’s see how far we can go with these characters. Let’s see how far we can push them.
Pete Davidson doing more taco bell ads. We’re going to see a lot of Pete Davidson articles this week. In the new campaign called Breakfast with Peter. Pete Davidson is being referred to Peter rather than Pete. Peter is a morning talk show host.
The character says, good morning, I’m Peter Davidson. None Pete, because before eleven am. I like to keep it toned down and simple, just like Taco Bell breakfast.
Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson and girlfriend Chase Sweet wonders…
Page six says Pete was wearing an oversized hoodie and chocolate brown ugs. He completed his look with a denim duster. The Chicago Sometimes had a great review of bobcat Goldthwaite’s show in Chicago last Wednesday that I mentioned this on Friday’s episode, Becky, the listener was there, Hello, Becky, thank you for your note. Sometimes right, it’s on a chilly Wednesday night in late April. Yeah, I was in town on Tuesday.
My original plan was to hit the Cubs game, and then I saw the forecast was in the forties and I’m like, no Cubs game, and I changed my flight and I came home Tuesday night less than one hundred comedy fans politely moved from the bar at the Lincoln Lodge in Bucktown into the theater. They talked about how Bobcat no longer really does love that thing and said a more measured into Muror Glthwaite step to the mic at the Lincoln Lodge celebrating release of his comedy album Soldier for Christ. By the way, I played that on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. You can get the app and listen to The Weekly Comedy Thing for free on the Live one amp.
Golth Weight was sporting dark rimmed glasses, a Havana style for Dora, cozy flannel shirt and a T shirt and blazon with a penguin. His opening line, you don’t look the same either. Love that joke that was his previous album’s title two. The evening’s lineup was stacked Eugene Merman, whose credits include something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, let me ask you two questions.
One, have you ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers. I know you’ve heard of it, I get it. I know you’ve seen the merch. I know you’ve seen the promos. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck talk about it for years during Fox football games.
But have you ever actually seen Bobsburgers? No? More importantly, second question, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? That answers also no, and that’s very curious, I digress.
Also on the bill, Victoria Vincent credits Just for laughs, Adam Burke credit…
Amy Schumer also encourage you to watch Jay McBride’s special on YouTube, which is fantastic. Surprises included Tim Kazarinsky credits, Police Academy two through four and Saturday Night Live forty years Ago Somehow and voice actor Tom Kenney, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rick and Morty Goldthwaite’s performance, which was made of jokes that didn’t make the album, skewed towards the ravages of aging. His doctor chastised him for smoking cigars, and when he points out that Gratcho, Marks and George Burns lived very long lives, as doctor returned with, well they were famous comedians. As a great joke, the Mr Right technician knew Goldthwaite and did an impression as the procedure started. While receiving shoulder replacement surgery, Goldthwaite was asked if he preferred a cadaver’s shoulder or an artificial one.
He chose an artificial one, of course, because he didn’t want to have to ask where was my shoulder? On January sixth, says like the sporting acts were good too. Victoria Vincent laughed at her younger days spent writing fan fiction about the band A good Charlotte. Adam Burke joked about kidney stones as like a healing crystal, but the opposite. Oh I get those?
Yeah, man, you don’t want that, You really don’t want that. Tim Kazariski embraced his dad humor vibes by reading a bad Russian translation off a box of instant rice and telling two jokes. One might find an dirty Joke book. How old is Tim Kazarinski now? Seventy three?
Wow? Jay McBride, a trans woman in case you’re not familiar with Jay, but it’s relevant to the joke, joked about her breast being as the best ten thousand pacos I’ve ever spent the suntime said. The pinnacle of the show occurred when Kenny joined Golthwaite on stage for the final act. They’ve been friends since elementary school and started out in comedy together. Kenny is the one who originated the Bobcat nickname.
They did two songs together, and Golthwaite admitted to being more nervous singing about a duck than he was descending naked at a Nirvana show. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you by the power of the Streak. I’ve told you about this on and off. This is Kara Wood’s book about how you should stay consistent with exercise and keep motivated over time. I need to read this thing again.
Oh my goodness, I don’t think I’ve worked out now in ten days now. I had some travel and when I travel, then when I’m not traveling, I have to do extra work to make up for the travel time. I had some soccer, it was cold, my knee hurt, I did play volleyball, ones and other excuses. But boy, Carowood is going to be sending me an email and be like, come on, man, what are you doing all right? Well, if you struggle with working out regularly, if you started exercising, or if you started exercising, I’ll want to get back to where you start doing nothing again.
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Go to knock it off dot substack dot com. Carowood, thank you for supporting today’s Daily Comedy News. I am planning on going for a run today now tomorrow. I gotta take my mom to the doctor Saturday of an excuse from morrow, so I should run today. The Daily Cardinal caught up with Drew Lynch.
You know him from America’s Got Talent, and The Daily Cardinal said, those who know you from America’s Got Talent likely know of your stutter. What’s happened with the stutter since twenty fifteen? How do you feel about the fact that it’s improved. How would you say it affects your comedy? Now, that’s a very good question, Drew.
As some may know from AMGT, I had a softball injury. It was a ground or to the throat and then I fell and hit my head on the ground. I had concussion. The concussion was something that I went to sleep on the next day, I woke up and I had to be rushed to the hospital because my motor skills and speech were off. I was twelve years ago.
It’s been a long journey of not only trying to remedy it, but also living my life with it. There’s some days where there’s certain triggers or things you get stuck on. I’ve been a speech therapy, seeing a neurologist, chiropractors and physical therapists and rehabilitation. I think ultimately it’s been something that I’ve learned to not make such a big deal about, and ironically it’s become less less a thing because of my own lightning up. I always used to think everything was an attack or people thought less of me because of the stutter.
Fortunately, my career makes me able to be very self deprecating by being aware of it. But for the most part. I’m glad I don’t use it as a crutch. I don’t want it to be something I need to have to do comedy I always wanted to be about the things I’m saying, not the way I’m saying them. Tuesday is another quiet day at the Sydney Comedy Festival, basically the same lineup as yesterday.
We can go to the Sydney Comedy Festivals Happy Hour or the Still Showcase or let’s just hanging out a Bandai beach again. From The Guardian Diane Forrest. She’s eighty eight and says she’s the world’s oldest female stand up comedian. Diane was sixty eight when she first stepped on stage as a stand up in two thousand and three. She says, I’ve never set foot in a comedy club before.
I’ve always put a performer or a singer after a musician. But then all came to an end. After nine to eleven, I live in New York and we watched the twin towers fall from my apartment building. For a year afterwards, nobody wanted to go out or be entertained. It was then that I started to think about comedy.
I realized people need to laugh, and I thought, with a little training, I could do it. I took a few classes, try to work out a routine, got the courage. Went up on stage the first time was terrifying. No idea what the audience would make of me? All right, fast forward to today.
My first line is hello everybody, I’m eighty eight, three quarters years old. I’m telling you that in case I don’t make it all the way through the show.
And then people laugh.
Diane says she’d makes some jokes people would consider risque. She jokes about not having the energy for sixty nine so my and it adds. People are surprised to hear an older person talk about sex. Yes, she says, I’m more of a period in real life, but I have an onstage persona. After a show, people young and old come up to me saying, what an inspiration I am.
One thing that surprised me is the number of young men who hit on me after a show. I might make a joke about being a cougar and they’ll hang out outside afterwards waited to talk to me. Guys who are such horndogs. They often ask me out and it’s not my brain there After all right, you go tie in met your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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