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The Shark Deck. We want to start today. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My former co worker Jamie Fox has apologized for an Instagram post that was perceived as being anti Semitic. The post has been deleted, but in aunt, Fox wrote, they killed this dude named Jesus.
What do you think they’ll do to you? Hashtag fake friends, hashtag fake love. Fox as a new post on Instagram that says, I want to apologize to the Jewish community and everyone who was offended by my post. I now know my choice of words have caused offense, and I’m sorry. That was never my intent.
To clarify, I was betrayed by a fake friend and that’s when I met with they, not anything more. I only have love in my heart for everyone I love in Sport, the Jewish community. My deepest apologies to anyone who’s offended. Nothing but love always, Jamie Fox. Ron White tells The Statesman that Jeff Foxworthy is a prince.
He helped me out when I was at my lowest. I started a pottery factory in Mexico when I was with a crazy woman and I thought I’d never be solvent again. Jeff pulled me out of that and hired me as his opener. He turned my life around. He’s a great guy and he’s also hilarious.
The Washington Post profile Jim Gaffigan, who’s done a lot of press this month, and they quoted Jerry Seinfeld, who said clean. I know that term. I don’t think it means much. I mean, in the comedy world, it’s is this guy funny? Nobody goes is he clean?
Gaffigan was working out some material at Gotham. In the bit, he referenced his thirteen year old daughter, Maria, except he doesn’t have a thirteen year old daughter named Maria. Washington Post says it offers a window into a shifting Gaffigans thinking how to fit his real family into the family material he’s become famous for. There was a time when he’d welcome a TV crew in to the kitchen, rememurdering the pandemic. They’re doing dinner with the Gaffigans.
That was super popular. He says his family became TikTok famous, but they wanted to be YouTube famous, and I’m thinking, oh, yeah, that sounds good.
And then he thought about it some more and realized it was a terrible idea.
Jeannie Gaffigan said, at a certain point, our oldest daughter was like, I just don’t want to be on camera anymore. And we realized, oh wait, these aren’t actors. There are children from the profile. Gaffic and records every performance on his phone and we’ll listen back hearing where a line fell, flad took off, or could use a nudge. Then he screwed.
Ted Alexandro has been opening for Gaffigan for years and said that’s the work ethic that separates the great comedians from the good comedians, arriving at the theater two hours early so they can work over not just one week, one month, one year, you know, thirty years. Seinfeld said, I’ve been a comedian for forty seven years, and over that time, I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of comedians, and I would say ninety nine percent of them are not doing comedy anymore. The number one reason is how difficult it is to sustain this profession over many, many years. And the reason that some sustain it and some don’t. You might think it has to do with how funny they are, but it actually isn’t.
It’s that there are people that are so committed to it. They’re so in love with it, and they’re so dedicated. We’re obsessed with it. We don’t even think about anything else. Eddie zazard Is announced on social media that she’s hoping to stand as a Member of Parliaments at the UK’s next general election.
Susie Eddie Azzard said on her website she’s standing to be selected as the opposition Labor Parties candidate for the Brighton Pavilion seats in southeast England to support this brilliant city and its diverse and vibrant community. If elected, she would increase funding and resources for schools, promote eco friendly transportation, work to secure we’re funding and housing infrastructure, champion mental health services and build stronger ties between law enforcement and local communities. She added it will take practical action, not protest, to fix what’s broken and to win the seat, Labor needs a candidate that can inspire many thousands to become her friends and allies in the fight for a fairer, greener, cleaner planet. Tim Hidecker talked about mixing comedy and rock on his two Tim’s tour. The San Antonio Current asked him how he reacts in real life when somebody says, hey, Tim, say something funny.
Tim says, I say something like, oh, you gotta pay me, or that’s my job. I don’t give it away. And that’s usually enough of a joke to move things along. So the current said, oh, can you say something funny now? Tim answered, no, I’m an unassuming guy.
It’s funny. You go to the pta things and the family functions and stuff at school, and I keep it pretty dry. I like the people don’t know who I am. But I did pull this movie star move where all the kids were going to a Dodger’s game. They were going to walk around the field for a Little League day and I wrote to Justin Turner, who’s my daughter’s favorite player of the team.
I wrote them on Twitter and I said, Hey, we’re gonna be walking around on the field. He said, I’ll come over and say hi. He saw me and said hi to my daughter, and the other parents were like, who the hell’s that guy? All right? Tim, who’s the most difficult heckler you’ve had and had to deal with it?
Tim said, there’s a lot my character that I do as a stand up character, as this sort of shield where I can be very brutal with an audience member, and it’s in the guise of this character, so I can kind of get away with really giving people the business. We were doing a series of warm up shows for this tour and there was a woman on her phone. The life on the phone was distracting because it was a pretty small room. I asked her to put the phone away and she’s like, I can’t, I’m dealing with something right now. And I was like, get the f out of here, right now, get the f out, and I kicked her the f out and everyone clapped.
She went to the box office and was very upset that she was going to contact my booking agent and complain. Go for it. My booking agent’s gonna love to hear that. I’m gonna set the terms of how this is gonna go. I don’t mind hecklers, but you know, I had a guy when we were in England.
I was doing a show in Manchester. During the music portion, we do this thing where we kind of do a little dance on stage, like a Springsteen Courtney Cox thing. He was happy to be up there and was St Patrick’s day. I think he was a little drunk. I’m changing the word he used.
He was motioning with me up there. He was coming up and ramming me, and I gave him a look like no, that’s not what we’re doing here, and then he did it again and knocked me over. At that point, my tour manager came and g I’m out of there. But yeah, it’s an active shooter situation every night. You know, if you enjoy what I do here, you can buy me a coffee, because sometimes I record a bunch of podcasts back to back like this one, and my voice starts to go, and you want me well hydrated, don’t shows, so go to buy me a coffee.
Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Throw a couple bucks in the tip Joe, and maybe I’ll remember to come down the studio with something a drink so I don’t blow out my throat recording knees. Hopefully Zorna Garg is paying attention to good hydration, because Zorna has started a podcast on the heels of her Amazon Prime special One in a Billion. Garg was recently picked as one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch her twenty twenty three. Her new podcast is called The Zorna Garg Show.
It features conversations with her multi generation Indian American family, and she describes it as bringing taboo topics out of the open. On the first episode, She’s Got her husband and her three kids who are twenty, seventeen and eleven. That episode is called the Sex Talk and features the family discussing the previously off limits issue in frank terms. Garg is a lawyer and homemaker turned screenwriter and comedian. She first gained recognition through her TikTok posts and first stand of performances at places like The Comedy Seller and Carolines on Broadway.
She said, I was a stay at home mom for sixteen years when I realized I’m not really into it. Yahoo profiled some shows at the Fringe Stuart McPherson shows called Love That for Me, and they say McPherson is by no means a ratitsat one liner comic in the mold of say Alan Carr or Gary Delaney, but for such a skilled recontori as a remarkable hit rate of gags. He’s at Monkey Barrel Comedy. The rob Outon Show stars rob Outon. Rob is like a one hundred year old man with the curiosity of a child and the face of a Panini sticker from the seventies.
You’ll find him at Assembly Roxy and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. And I’m gonna go cough. Hi. I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect.
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