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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack who with your Daily Comedy News. Seth Meyers joked about last week’s Foxtown Hall, during which Donald Trump criticized George Stephanopolis said his interview with President Biden was the softest interview I’ve ever seen. Seth said, you’re gonna say that while you’re being interviewed by Sean Hannity. I asked tougher questions when John Oliver’s here.
Trump told Hannity that he couldn’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Joe Biden. Set said, Yeah, I can’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Biden. You know why, because he’s not on the ballot anymore. I made an executive decision yesterday. I did Part one of Vulture’s Comedians to watch the List.
I’m gonna do Part two next Sunday, so we’ll do a normal episode today. A lot of news as September continues to be busy. The New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation announced the lineup for their annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit. This year, It’s on November eleventh. Your lineup it’s you know, both a really good lineup and somehow feels like a step down from past years.
But here’s the lineup, Jim gaff Again, Nora Jones, Mark Norman, did quest Love, Batty Scalfas, Jerry seinfeldt Bruce Springsteen, John Stewart and Moore. So if I just take the headliners there, it’s you know, Springsteen, John Stewart, gaff Again and Seinfeld with Mark Norman batting fifth. So Johnny Mack, I don’t know what the heck you want these people to put out there. But I don’t know. It just seems like there were more people on the list in previous years.
I might be making that up, but Gaffigan, nor Jones, Mark Norman pretty good list. Will keep an eye on that one. The Daily Mail reports a scary scene transpired during Chris to Leah’s a stand up show. A man sitting in the front row seemingly suffered a seizure. As the report goes, instead of stopping the show, Chris continued with the show by reacting to the situation.
Chris did a thirteen minute bit where he ranted about what he had just witnessed, and a question and an answer session about the man’s condition. So apparently, the man’s head slowly began to fall as the seizure started. He fell forward and then backward in his chair. Someone next to him caught him. Delia stopped the show to ask if he was open.
After a few moments, when it appeared the man was all right, crystal Leia asked, you’re right, bro, Yeah, round of applause for a guy who almost died. You are right, y’all? Good? Is that something that happens? The man confirmed he was okay.
Deliah then realized that the man was not okay and began to seize again. Chris said, no, no, he’s not okay. We should call in an ambulance somebody. A couple guys then carry the man away from the seating area to give him metal attention. Crystallia says a round of applause, let’s do the show, let’s walk with him, and then transitions back to comedy and jokes.
WHOA, that’s crazy. I guess that Pride month bit really hit him hard. That’s when I fan yelled out too soon. Chris said, too soon? It happened now during the comedy show.
What do you mean too soon? What am I supposed to do a monologue from a Tennessee Williams play. It’s a comedy club. This stuff happened in the front row. Didn’t happen back there.
You guys are like, be cool, dude, Well f you, dude. You know how hard this stuff is right now? The guy almost died when he Cummings spoke to the Dallas Observer. She has often talked about the bedroom in her comedy, and now so that she’s a mom, she says there’s a whole new world of topics she wants to share with her audiences, and if that means there’s less sex chat in the mix, that’s fine with her. Whitney says, I’ve spent so much time talking about dating and sex, which was surprising at the time, but now that’s all you see on the internet.
The most shocking thing you could be is a little wholesome and talk about things that are more simple observations. My goals for people to sit in theater of two hundred people and we all laugh at the same things. Comedy is supposed to be a unifying thing. I took a while to have a kid, and I’m glad it took a while. They called it geriatric pregnancy, which is insane.
But I think having a kid older is better. I think my brain just started functioning properly. Like if I had a baby one year sooner, I’d probably have sold it for tickets to Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s name comes up a lot in this podcast. The way it changes to you is pretty magical, and I think about how it changed me and how it’s changed the way I see the world.
The thing is, as a comedian, you’re always looking for a way to turn something on its head, to show people something that they see every day and take for granted. It took a long time to make sure I was breaking these ancestral cycles. If my child is born a comedian, I failed. When you have a kid, all the stuff comes back, like putting him in the high chair. My eyechair was basically scaffolding.
I drank out of the hose until I was fourteen. There are pictures of me and Drawers as a baby. We’re all doing a little better than we think, and it’s part of a comics job to make people leave with a little perspective and context. I get that phones are bad for kids, but we played on seesaws that it’s a miracle that any of us survived. I was trying to strap my baby in the back of the car and I had a flashback of being the back of a pickup truck when a lawn chair.
Jim Jeffries gets the cover of Rolling Stone. But it’s the cover of Rolling Stone Australia and New Zealand. Doesn’t mean it’s lesser. I’m just telling you you might not be able to buy it in Los Angeles. Who knows, maybe you can.
Maybe does international newstand with New Zealand Rolling Stone. I don’t know why did I fall into this hole? Move on? Jim Jeffrey said, my mother was a hard person to grow up with. She was a very hard woman.
She was physically and verbally very abusive. So sometimes I mentioned I’ve had a chip on my shoulder about women. Jim says, I’m very interested in doing as many different things as entertainment as possible. I like a challenge, I like doing something new. I don’t know if they’re there’s a stand up comic from Australia who’s had a more diverse career, you know what I mean.
I think of myself like an entertainer more than a comedian Jay Farrow has announced a new special. This one will be on YouTube on September twenty second. He also released a trailer. I pulled the audio from the trailer, but it’s just it’s too quickly edited and a lot of bleeps where the swear words go. It just wasn’t gonna make sense for the podcast.
In his new hour, and I haven’t seen a title for it yet, Jay Farrow rips the lid off pop culture, talks about a suburban upbringing and a run in with the law. Taped at the Den Theater in Chicago. My former coworker Jamie Fox is getting ready to hit the comedy stage. He’ll be in Atlanta October third through Sunday October fifth. It is called One More Chance, An Evening with Jamie Fox.
In an Instagram post, Fox posted an image of a black box featuring the words what had happened was? Then the log line Join us for an unforgettable one man show as Jamie Fox takes the stage to share his journey through a serious health scare filled with humor, heart and inspiration. Experienced Jamie Fox like never before. This intimate and gaging performance as he opens up about his struggles, triumphs and everything in between. Get ready for a night of laughter, reflection, and genuine connection.
I’m curious to see what he says here. You know, I spent some time inside that camp, and I personally found it very surprising that nobody was able to just get a picture of I don’t know, Jamie sitting poolside looking cool, giving a thumbs up. It was very interesting to me that there was like nothing for a while. I hope he’s doing okay, he’s a good guy, and I’ve done that this next story already, but I took a second look at it, and I have some comments. I told you Jermaine Feller will join Tracy Morgan on the comedy series Crutch.
Now let’s break this down again. I didn’t pay enough attention the first time. That’s on me. Okay. Tracy Morgan plays Crutch, a brash yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world has turned upside down when his highbrows son and free spirited daughter moved back into the family home.
Okay, so we’ve got an old curmudgeonty guy whose hippie daughter moves home with her ivy league husband. Isn’t that just all the family from late night or this one caught me by surprise. Sarah Sherman did two days on General Hospital. What Sure? She played Miss Robin Finch.
Apparently her character criticized Olivia for the way she pronounces croissant. Finch introduces herself as a dialect theorist and tutor to the stars, claiming she once coached Meryl Streep’s daughters. This once, Lois says she never hired a tutor, Tracy confesses that no, I did hire miss Finch. Tracy explains, Lois is my employee. Our sales are directly linked to her presentation.
I believe that her numbers will improve if Lois’s rough edges are smoothed out. Sarah Sherman said, I was so nervous about flubbing my lines because I was surrounded by pros and memorized like a billion pages of dialogue a day. Very strange. Dennis Leary, He’s got a sitcom Going Dutch. I’ve told you about this one.
There’s no way this is good. Going Dutch follows an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel played by Dennis Leary, who, after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished the command position at the least important army base in the world the log line. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, he now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it as a Michelin star level commissary, top notch bowling alley, and the best and only from Majeray in the US Army. Surrounded by a diverse group of underdogs, the colonel tries to reinstall military discipline and professionalism with the help of the basis previous interim leader who just happens to be as a strange daughter.
So why am I bringing this back up? Deadline reports. Danny Putty will play the role of XO Major Abraham Shaw, the colonel’s executive officer and right hand man. So I’m just trying to picture this show, right. So it’s sixty seven year old Dennis Leary playing an army colonel.
He’s sixty seven. I imagine it’s Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things. So he’s going to do some slow burn about a back of my day. We had guns man and then Danny Putty is going to say something wacky millennial, and then the laugh track’s gonna play. There’s no way that’s going to be good.
And I like Danny a lot. There’s just no way that this show’s good. South Park will return in twenty twenty five. Trey Parker and Matt Stone has said they don’t want to deal with the election. They told Vanity Fair, we tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections and it’s such a hard thing to do.
It’s a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance. Trey said, obviously it’s important, but it kind of takes over everything. We just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump. They said.
Not returning until next year’s on purpose. They also want to wait for Paramount to figure all their crap out. The last regular episode of south Park season twenty six aired March twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Since then, we’ve had the amazing south Park joining the Pandaverse special that came out October of twenty twenty three. Then we got a second special in December of that year.
South Park not suitable for children, which parodied oldly fans and the most reason one May of this year, South Park the End of Obesity, made fun of Ozampic and I’ll leave you on this poignant note from Billy Connolly, who said I used to think about death and about the life I led, and would ask myself, how will I be held responsible for it when I come to judgment? For God, I don’t believe that anymore, although the whole thing’s still a mystery to me. Billy is eighty one. He says he no longer fears the prospect of death, and he’s found peace with his Parkinson’s diagnosis. He told the Scottish son, with something as big as that, you just confront it and stick to the front of it, be with it, and make decisions based on it.
And I don’t think you’d been badly treated. And I don’t think he got the bad pick of the straws. It’s not like that. You’re one of millions. Just behave yourself, relax.
You realize that death isn’t the big thing everybody’s made it out to be. It’s nothing. It’s a sudden nothing. Wait to leave us on an up note, Johnny Mack, you’re welcome, and that’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.