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Caloroga Shark Media before twenty to those who celebrate, I do not hie. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. D’ll say Sloan commented on the Nike Women’s Olympic uniforms. Have you seen these? If not, the joke will tell you her joke.
This outfit should not be for Team USA Team Brazilian. Absolutely, That’s all you need to know. I did watch Jimmy Carr’s a new special. I liked it. If you like Jimmy Carr, Jimmy Carr did Jimmy Carr Things.
If you don’t like Jimmy Carr, you’re not going to like it. But he did Jimmy Carr things. It’s not his best special by any means, but it did make my top twenty whatever of twenty four. I have it right now at number seven after Dimitri Martin. The Guardian did not like it.
They gave it one star out of either four or five and wrote, it’s hard to cancel someone who doesn’t believe in anything. A moral vacuum lized at the heart of Cars Act. What does he think? Who’s a show so hearing? How many of us jokes?
He laughs at a horribly depressing affectation that was absent from Carr’s early stand up. He’s been doing the laugh at his own jokes for a while now, and I didn’t feel like he did it a lot in this new one. What did catch my eye is I think somebody nailed his shoes to the floor. It’s very late in the special, before he even moves his legs. Go back and look at it.
He just glued to the floor. Now, that might have something to do with the advanced camera work they did. There was some spin around, so I don’t know if there was a dolly or a drone or what they did there, but he did not move and I found that distracting. The Guardian said it would be tempting to say that the target audience for the show is the fifty one year old himself, right, Maybe his lonely hunk is occasionally the only one we hear, like a goose wondering where his friends have gone. I don’t think that review is fair.
He’s just clowning around. Enjoy the special. When I was surfing YouTube, I noticed Triumph showed up at the Trump Court case and was doing his Triumph talks to people in the crowd thing. Not Triumph’s best work, but definitely funny if you want to check that out on YouTube. A bunch of things got announced Thursday and Friday, which is strange but okay.
HBO announced that Nikki Glaser will get her second hour long comedy special. Before I get into that, the HBO specials lately haven’t been good, Like, what was the last good HBO comedy special? Is there a list of HBO comedy specials? Maybe we can looks say. I’m gonna have to work a little bit here on Wikipedia, let me start.
In December we had Gary Goleman. All right, I’ll just stop there. Gary Goleman special in December was great? Were there any good ones in twenty twenty four? On February we had Rory Scovel.
I didn’t think that was good at all, Rommy Yusef and March was. I didn’t like the direction on it. I didn’t watch it. Okay, that’s all we’ve had so far on mag O. And in April we’ve had Alex Edelman’s one.
I forgot to watch that one. I’ll try and get to it. This weekend. Got all busy weekend. Another soccer tournament anyway, Nikki Glaser will be the HBO comedy special in Mayday, May eleventh, at ten o’clock.
I also don’t love that as a time, Netflix on Tuesdays and now Tuesdays just tend not to work out for me, But I think the Tuesdays works well. The Saturday at ten pm is a relic of another time. For example, I often watch TV on Saturday night, but by ten o’clock I’m old, I’m winding down. Maybe it’s a young person’s game. Whereas if the same special came out at I don’t know, eight o’clock, i’d watch it.
In the new special, Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die, Niki tells an audience in Seattle about a wide range of topics no kidding, including why she doesn’t want kids, the harsh realities of aging, her sexual fantasies, and plans for her own death. Let’s listen to some of the trailer before it gets naughty. The other day, I’ve rolled up with like a bunch of suitcases and the ubertiver just pop the trunk and sat in the front seat. I was like, is this the first line of menopause? What’s happening right now?
Comedy Dynamics has announced plans for Tommy Tiernan’s new special tom Foolery that’ll be out April thirtieth. No clip available, but Tommy apparently discusses the duality of human existence being two opposites at the same time. For example, he was almost a priest, but his mind was too dirty. I got to get some Conan show. Conan was asked by the Hollywood Reporter if he has any predictions of how Late Night will evolve.
Conan said, it’s already happening. Gordon Show was replaced with a different format, meaning after midnight, that’s gonna happen more and more. When I got into Late Night in ninety three, I was still dealing with a captive audience. Someone could actively dislike Conan O’Brien, and many did, But if they had insomnia at twelve thirty five am, there were only a couple of choices. I was in people’s bedrooms, whether they wanted me or not.
He jokes, there’s a terrible poll quote. That’s not the case anymore. Everyone has siloed and their political beliefs and their entertainment. An era is definitely over our ending the whole idea of it being called late Night, that’ll probably disappear. It’s all digestible stuff for the Internet, which is better produced and has better stars than a lot of what’s out there.
But at Jimmy Found Jimmy Kimmelo, Stephen Colbert, these are talented people. I don’t feel for them. They asked him about the Jay Leno thing, and he said, enough time has gone by where I can see that it didn’t have much to do with with me. I was standing on a fault line. We kept trying to cut this baby in half, Solomon like, and it wasn’t working.
At that moment. It became about the Internet, which had existed for a while but was completely undervalued by the suits at the time, they were saying, what is going on? How is Conan doing this? I wasn’t doing anything. But if you were certain agent online, you were probably on my side.
I still have people come up to me and say that made me really angry. What happen to you? I’m great someday I look at my Wikipedia entry, but two thousand and nine feels like five hundred years ago to me. You know, A good point sort of made almost made there. How they hung around a little bit with Conan being really good at internet clips.
That may have helped, but they panicked and they should have kept Conan on. I also think NBC was right having Jay Leno on at ten o’clock. You don’t think they’d like to have a j Leno type show on at ten o’clock these days in the current economic climate, right move. You just didn’t stick to your guns. John Cleese was going to get a show on the UK’s Channel four.
Apparently that is not happening. He had announced the project in twenty twenty one, pledging to discover how the impeccable idea of let’s all be kind of people has been developed in some cases at absurdum. This was going to be produced by Jeremy Clarkson’s production company. They still haven’t filmed it. One source close to the show said Channel four could not come to a deal with John Clees.
According to Deadline, Lees also had a show for gb News last year called The Dinosaur Hour that no longer exists as well. ABBY four twenty and Jim Belushi will be one of the fifty plus cannabis industry expert speakers at a convention in Illinois at the end of May. Belushi will be sharing experiences and insights from his journey on becoming a commercial cannabis grower. Gabe Iglesias might be moving to San Antonio. At the end of a recent show down there, he said, there’s no question and there should never be any question about the love I have for the two to ten.
And then he said, I told you earlier tonight I sold my house. The fans cheered, and he said, all I gotta say is I’ll see you at the BUCkies, cass Up Co Corner and on Gusup Corner. Apparently Colin Jost and Pete Davidson having some quote bitter disappointment. You may recall they bought a ferry together for some reason, hoping to turn it into a nightclub, comedy club or something. A friend of Colin Jost and Pete Davidson told the National Inquirer what began as a promising venture has devolved into bitter disappointment, serving as a stark reminder of the perils of mixing business with friendship.
I do a lot of stuff with AI that to me, the language there sounds very very AI to be so maybe the friend just speaks like AI. But the writing pattern of what began as has devolved into is Ai, serving as a stark reminder of the perils of mixing business and friendship. Is the kind of sentence Ai tends to write anyway. While Colin is scrambling to assemble a competent team, Pete seems to have gone a wall or remains to be seen whether their friendship can weather the storm. Wow, we do need to do an intervention for Jim gaff again.
Jim, I’m trying to help you here, but Jim went on his YouTube channel. Here’s another terrible clip. Again. I want people to listen to my podcast. If you can suffer through Jim here, please do.
If not hit thirty seconds, skip a couple times because Jim, this ain’t working. Bro. I have just been shipped the very first bottles of Father Time Bourbon. Let’s see what we got here now. Just occasionally people will leave messages about, hey, when is it going to be available in stores.
It’s not going to be available in stores. This is a limited run. I call it a precious batch just because everything has to do with kids. Here. I got an open has I’m a little nervous, you know what I mean.
I’ve invested a lot of time, and that’s cool. I think that’s very cool. So here’s what it looks like. I really wanted to do something that would be good and be something that would be cool on someone’s bar. Well, you heard it from Jim Gaffigan himself.
He’s hoping that his product will be something cool to be on someone’s bar. Good luck with your project, Jim jeff’sarually in comedy. Dynamics will release Jeff’s debut comedy special Live at the Bomb Shelter that’ll be out on Tuesday, June eleventh. They sent over a clip. Let’s listen.
Here’s something kids would say at this school to make themselves feel better about going to community college. And I heard this from multiple kids. This wasn’t just like one or two students. This was multiple kids would say this. They would be like, hey, man, do you know this is actually regarded as one of the best community colleges in the country.
It’s like according to who, who’s saying that, who’s ranking community colleges? What if they let everyone in? It’s not the best of anything. No one’s watching an NBA gave me and like, yeah, this is incredible, but you know’d be better if they let the fans play. Why don’t they let the fans play?
Why?
Also, this game should take place at NASA Community College, the greatest com…
I was like, yeah, this is really the IVY Leagues for kids who didn’t try in high school. I would say, Hannah bernerd tapes her news special at the l Ray in LA today, and let’s see what’s happening at the comedy festivals, which reminds me. These episodes have been like twenty minutes issh for the last month or so. With Melbourne ending, it’s going to go back to a normal length. So don’t get mad at me if you’ve gotten addicted to really long episodes, because without having, especially this week three festivals to talk about, it will get shorter.
That said, Sydney Comedy Festival starts I think on the twenty five fifth, so we’ll be back to doing that. But for now, let’s take a look at the festivals. Let’s do Moontower first. It is effectively the final day of Moontower. There’s just a podcast taping tomorrow, a robust Saturday night at Moontower.
Wow. I won’t read them all, but let’s do the name ones. Six o’clock stars in bars. At Antones Nightclub features Carmen Christopher, the Sclar Brothers, Drew Lynch and some others.
Also with six parenting is a joke at the Parker Jazz Club with Fira Eisenberg…
Ronny Chieng plays the Bass Concert Hall at six thirty. The Glow Show at six thirty has a bunch of comedians including at Natalie Palamedes seven o’clock, Sarah Sherman and Chloe Feynman at the Paramount, Shane Torres at seven. Again I’m not reading them all, Todd Barry at eight o’clock, or Shafer at nine thirty. Connor O’Malley gets the yellow box. So what’s the yellow box?
Johnny Mack? There’s some shows they have flagged as headliners, and Connor O’Malley is one of the headliners. Is my comedy radar off? Here is Connor O’Malley secretly huge? What am I missing here?
Ten o’clock the Comedy Jim rosebud Baker at ten thirty, closing night party at eleven and a sketch show at eleven thirty. All right, if we were at moontower. What should we go see on this Saturday night. We’ve seen Sarah before, so let’s do Ronny Chieng at six thirty. That’ll get us to around eight o’clock.
Or so let’s pop into the creek in the cave at eight thirty. We’ll catch whoever we can catch out of Jeremiah Watkins, Cam Patterson, Ciphus Sounds, Rosebud Baker, the Sclar Billers, and Lee’s a trigger. But we’ll leave that early and we’ll go see Arishaffir at nine thirty, unless you want to go see Connor O’Malley, who might be secretly huge and maybe I’m just stupid. I don’t know.
And then if you want to do a late show, we’ll do the Sketch Show at eleven th…
But have you ever hung out with me? By eleven thirty, I want to go to bed, all right, and get my browser back here. I’m closing that tab forever.
Meanwhile, in Dubai, I am not familiar with anyone performing tonight, but th…
Let’s see what’s that show is don’t miss the opportunity to see your favorite digital Imarati personalities in the flesh, but in English. So I guess if we were there, we’d go see that one and one last time because of how time zones work. We’ll take a look at the Milburn International Comedy Festival Sunday line up, the final day of the wonderful Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I hope you’ve enjoyed me sharing the festival with you and playing the clips. My big takeaway from doing this every day for a month is the scene down there has a lot of strong women comics, which is awesome.
We got to get some of those performers up here in the States.
All right, let’s see how many clips I can find for you today.
Henry Zoo’s show is called Zoo Fast, Zoo Furious Love It. The description Henry is back to Hobbes and shy leave audiences in Stitch is as he Tokyo drifts between ludicrous stories and vin Diesel punchlines. Uh, this seems like it’s going to be completely in my wheelhouse. Let’s listen. A wheelhouse was not a pun either.
Oops as well, she’s a nineties younger than me and when I’m almost pregnant. She was like, go and we are made a friend and I thought it was nice as a time she really know was I said? On play dates and extra curricular for eight years. Next single friend, I’m going to make one for you. All right?
That wasn’t bad. I’m not sure it was about Vin Diesel movies, but I enjoyed him. Matt Harvey, No, not the guy from the New York Mets. This is an Australian comedian. His show was called Wage against the Machine.
Let’s listen. The sale of hardcore porn in Australia is illegal still to this day. And uh why that we don’t crack it? Example that you would tight across wine and the mental period. So Matt, the tear is fine.
The clip that you’re sharing, I’ve never seen a clip like this. This looks like somebody has a phone at the back of the club. I’m looking through one, two, three, four, five bodies to see Matt, who is about twice the size of the arrow icon on my Mac. The audio is terrible. I have no idea what Matt Harvey not the Mets picture.
It looks like dude, just I won’t even say higher social media team. But you’re performing the festival I don’t know. Go to the Chucklehet Australia on Tuesday and have your friend sit in the front row and shoot it with a cell phone. I mean, come on, put some work into this, Matt Harvey. What a weird clip you see?
If I can find one more, I think we’ve done just about everybody. David Woodhead’s show was called black and White black spelled blak for reasons unclear to me. The Adelaide advertiser says, watch this space. I suspect we’re watching a future comedy stallwart.
All right, let’s listen.
Over the past year, I lost sixty kilos, which is nice. It’s a oh thank you, thank you, thank you. Now your first reactions, oh my god, that’s amazing, so much way. But in the back of your head you’re thinking, ah, how fat were you? She’s the thing?
All right. I still identify as a fat dude. The difference is now I’m a fun fat dude. I’m a fun fatty. Where’s a year ago?
I was a sad fat dude. It’s just a sad fatty. Ain’t dead between a fun fatty and a sad fatty, says a fun fatty. If I go into the bar tonight, just have ten shots as tequila. Rip my shirt off like hul Cogan.
You guys would be like, oh, the party started, Big Fat Days. Just swripped his shirt off like you would love it. You would love it if I did that a year ago, though, you guys would be like, parties over Big Fat Days. Just ripped his shirt off and he’s sweating in my beer. This is disgusting.
Someone get this dog a shirt and I would all right. He’s fun. I like his presence a lot. And with that I close out the tab for the Melbourne Comedy Festival again. We’ll do Sydney in a few days.
And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow