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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Union Leader caught up with Kevin Pollock. I have a minor Kevin Pollock story. There was one time I had gone to lunch and came back to the office and Kevin Pollock wanted to meet to talk about a programming idea.
So I went back out to lunch and had second salad. I did it to be social. I was so full after first salad and then second salad. But I had a nice lunch with Kevin Pollock, really cool guy. That idea did not come to fruition at place I used to work of that you’ve heard of, the one with the satellites.
A lot of things went into sort of development. Never happened. But I enjoyed my time with Kevin Pollock, who told The Union Leader he’ll only admit to being part of six standout movies, including a few Good Men and Casino. Pollock said, my wife and I will negotiate because she insist its way more than six, and I’ll be grudgingly allowed her to demonstrate the numbering individual choices, and then I have to admit, okay, maybe there’s eleven. In a recent interview, Pollock said he has the stories to prove it, including Jack Nicholson hitting on my mom when she gained the set of a Few Good Men.
I’ve been in a number of movies. I don’t know the exact number, and then it instantly said ninety seven. As for impressions, and he does a lot of really good ones, including a shatterer that I love. He said, it’s a parlor trick that wouldn’t work if the celebrity was in the room, because as good as others might think I am, it’s still effects simile. If I could think of someone you love and I can recreate this in front of you, I’ll actually steal the affection you have for this person.
I have this freakishability that I can’t really explain, other than all children mimic when they’re infants in order to learn to speak until someone tells them to stop. Joe Parra is touring the Midwest and the Rust Belt. The tour is called Places I Wanted to Visit in August Love It. Parra said, I think maybe a lot of the material that I have is about missing that alternate life that I could have had had I stayed in Buffalo and the things I appreciate about it and miss As for his style, he said, I thought some ways people do stand up was like, I don’t know. There are shortcuts to a laugh using certain words talking about certain subjects.
But after a while I wanted to figure out new ways to get laughs. And I guess you could call that wholesome if I’m not talking about the dating apps are using swear words. He has a monthly podcast called Drifting Off with Joe Parra, and he said, I definitely feel it’s a cousin of the stuff that I try and do, stuff that people used to fall asleep. There’s no whispering. Ryan Dan does a complex sound sign sometimes and his music is very gentle, but it’s more about having a conversation with the audience or just keep talking so they can’t have those two to three am spirals that’ll keep you up at night.
Yeah, I’ve been there most nights lately. Keep you on a track of stuff that won’t freak you out, and there’s no mouth noises or anything like that. If you ever get a chance to see Joe Parra alive, go do it. I’ve seen him a few times. He’s fantastic.
Fox spoke with John Christ You said, basically, all comedy is just saying things out loud that you’re not allowed to say. That’s really the whole thing is. You just say things that are a little bit across the line. Any comic will tell you that makes comedy so much easier because to say something offensive back in the nineties, you’d have to go so far, be so agreed just to say something that the flabbricass that everybody. But now you get just question every day noble things, and that’s now comedy because it’s across the line.
You just have to make sure it’s done well. I think right before I press publish or a video or make a joke on stage, I look at myself in the mirror and I go, do I believe in this? Is this really something? I want to go to bat four As a comic, that’s kind of a job, not to make it more serious than it is. But in the culture it’s important on both sides that freedom of speech is welcomed.
I feel like what I do here you can buy me a coffee, and buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News through five bucks in the tip chair. I will take your money and I will go to the National Donuts Chain. I’ll be like, hey, National Donuts Chain employee, large ice coffee, caramel and milk. We’ll trade your money for some coffee. I’ll drink it.
I’ll shout you out on the show Buy Me a Coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. When Jim Gaffigan was on with Mark Maron recently, Maren asked him about his special. They realize both their specials, we’re dealing with death. Maren said, you know, and I did this in a different way, but to intentionally deal with death, I’m gonna do it the way you do it.
That was sort of a departure because you did it in ten minutes, and that was sort of a choice. Jim said, it’s all self assessment, right, Maren, Right, self assess and be We’re like, you know, I have to deal with these things they’re either pressing in my life or because look, food is everyone knows food, and everybody knows, you know, a lot of the cultural points that you’re talking about. But death, to go into it and deal with the reality of it, you know, it’s risky, Jim, It is risky, and I think one of the things that with my wife’s medical crisis is you know, I believe that as humans we live in such denial about the fact that we’re going to die, and then we do lose a loved one that we kind of dip in this reality. We kind of, you know, whether we’re sitting in awake or sitting shiva, we kind of look at each other and we go, Wow, this is crazy. People are dead, and then we dip out of it and we don’t want to hear anything about it.
From King five Seattle, one, Seattle based comedian Jodambrowski makes fun of being a teacher. It’s from years of experienced Joe said, I loved dad. It’s definitely the most underrated profession I could think of without teachers. There’s no other profession. Teachers are just so down out, overworked and sad, and being in that sort of trauma makes for a great comedy.
He’s got tens of millions of views on YouTube and nine hundred thousand ins to followers. He’s mister d His breakthrough performance was at school. He said, I remember boring days at school, not wanting to be there, and I never wanted my students to experience that. One day, he recorded himself pranking his fourth grade class with a fake spelling test, including words like tangentine and speak Uslam, which is spelled spee k u z SLMN. Those are silent letters at the end.
Okay, he said, I posted it, and I wake up with twenty million views. The local news at my school trying to get interviews with me, my principal and a full frenzy, not knowing what to do. I remember the secretary being like, Joe, good morning, America’s on the phone and he’s like, I’m in social studies right now. That’s awesome. And Florida police have asked you to stop reporting the manatees having group sex.
Do I have your attention? Yes? The police tell us the manatees are more than fine. The Penella’s County Sheriff’s office took to Facebook to let everyone know we get calls all the time from citizens when they see this, believing the manatees are in distress. We can assure you they’re more than fine.
Manatees actually mate and herds and are often near the shore. So if you see some manateees getting it on, leave them be, will you?
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