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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you listened yesterday you heard I was losing my voice. Well, I recorded this one right after that once I could goof off yesterday and go see the eclipse. My voice isn’t too bad, but I don’t have it in me to like punch up and down on the vocals as much as usual, So I’m gonna crib off the Melbourne Comedy Festival the second half.
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Jim Gaffigan said the new whiskey was created from scratch, with no corporate or investor backing. I put up my own money and sampled hundreds of barrels because I wanted to create something that I enjoyed drinking, that would be a beautiful addition to anyone’s bar and would make a great Father’s Day gift. I’m obviously not a bourbon expert, but I did my research and I know what I like. I handpicked the bourbon in each autograph bottle of father Time. Oh it just got even less cool.
Hey, here’s a Jim Gaffigan autograph bottle. I don’t know, man, and no, there isn’t some big spirit company behind this adventure, just me and a buddy from college. We got tons of help from smart bourbon people, and we’re proud of what we created. We hope you enjoying drinking it as much as we do. I have a feeling this is going to go down like remember George Lopez Tacos.
If you’re a longtime listener George was all about the tacos during the pandemic and then never heard about that again. Neil Brennan specials out on Netflix today. It’s called Neil Brennan Crazy Good. The Hollywood Reporter was curious where he filmed the special. Interesting answer, he said, at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood.
But I’ve never really understood the big thing about audiences in general. My audiences are ninety five percent the same wherever I go, even in like London or Thailand. The jokes either work or they don’t. What Neil’s hoping for with this one is that people who thought I was Mopi or Maudlin, or self peding, or maybe had written me off, give me a chance. It’s a hard thing to ask people like no, no, no, We’ve reimagined who Neil Brennan is.
But hopefully if you watch the first eleven or twelve minutes, you’ll see, oh, he’s just being reckless and funny. He’s not being contemplative in any way. He commented on his executive producer, Bill Burr. He said, Bill Burr, now Matrick will have this company all Things Comedy that produced it. They’re great and very pro comedian, and it’s not like there’s a ton of graft in the comedy production world, but they know exactly what costs what.
Bill’s done nine specials with something, so he knows exactly what everything should cost.
Speaking of Bill Burr, he did one of those amas with Wired.
I’ll go rapid Fire here Bill. What’s Bill Burr’s best special? Burr said, that’s like saying which child do you like most? Sophie’s choice. I love Paper Tiger because I was in England and I love challenge to that.
I also love Red Rocks. It wasn’t even what I did. It was the crowd. What I love was how was Mike You could hear the crowd and if you can get through my jokes on the special, just listen to the audience. Every once in a while I’d say something really random and stupid and people would laugh at the ridiculousness of it, but you always hear one guy just go like, yeah, it wasn’t a joke, because it’s like, yeah, I think that too.
He talked about Breaking Bad and said, I did the car wash one first, then I did the one with Lavelle Crawford where the guy drops the oranges and bangs his head. And I got to be in Saul Goodman’s office, which was crazy because I was such an insane fan of the show. I think two three seasons in and I remember going to saw Goodman’s office where the Constitution thing above his desk, and I felt like I got sucked in on my TV. It was incredible.
And then I did the train robbery and I got to drive that big dump truck and I…
I just let the clutch out and gave a gas. I was young. I didn’t know what he was doing. He was asked, what’s Bilburr like in real life? He said, I’m an inquisitive person.
I just try to stay ahead of my depression. And if I’m learning something new, it’s exciting. It’s challenging, it’s embarrassing because I’m making mistakes. But I don’t have to listen to the demons. It shuts them up.
They start talking around eleven fifteen, eleven sixteen, every night New Topic. How did Bill burend up on the Mandalorian Bill said, I ended up on it through Jon Favreau, who listened to my podcast. He used to hear me making fun of Star Wars and though it was funny. I ended up meeting him at a mutual friend’s birthday party. He goes, you know, there’s a partner that we’re writing right now.
I think it’d be good for it. And I was like, John, you gonna be honest with you. I kind of make fun of Star Wars. Not in a malicious way. It’s just I see people really enjoying something, and I know it’s an easy hit.
If I make fun of it, I can watch them get upset. You know. It fills up my day for whatever reason. And he goes, no, no, no, He goes, I know I’ve heard it. I think it’s hilarious, and I think your fans would find it funny if you were on the show.
Bill says it’s one of the favorite things he’s ever done in his career. And I will say Star Wars fans are cool as hell. Deadline reports Tom sigoors and talks from multiple roles in Dirty Rotten Bastarday, show biz centric indie film from Ed Helms and Mike Fabio’s Pacific Electric Picture Company. The film tells the insane true story of an aspiring filmmaker who’s kidnapped by deranged lounge singer Tony Clifton. Now do you know who Tony Clifton is?
I’ll get to that in a second. Initially drawn a doc in Clifton’s world, he’s thrust into a chaotic journey of sex, celebrity, and comedy, blurring the lines between observer and participant and testing his sanity. Sigor will play Andy Kaufman’s larger than like comedic persona Clifton, as well as Andy Kaufman’s friend and longtime collaborator, Bob’s Muda. Now, if you’re not hip to this joke, there was this loud mouth character Tony Clifton, often played by Andy Kaufman, and the late night talk shows would try and book Andy, and Andy would say, I’ll only come on as Tony Clifton, and sometimes Tony Clifton would be Andy, and sometimes Bob’s Muda would dress up and perform the character, and Andy Kaufman would be home laughing at everyone, thinking was Andy Kaufman doing a character? I’ve met Bob’s mood to spent a lot of time with them back at Serious.
I’ve got some stories, but I don’t have the voice to tell them properly today, so I’m going to leave a note to tell you these tomorrow or the day after Deadline rights. Zumuda was known to switch off with Kaufman and portraying Clifton, a foulmouth singer out of Vegas famous for his abrasive personality and erratic behavior. Kaufman liked to in have at him both on stage and off, sometimes appearing in character during interviews and public appearances. The mystique surrounding the character was amplified by the fact that, over the course of Kaufman’s life, many believe Clifton to be a real person separate from Andy Kaufman. Great stuff, I’ll tell us some stories tomorrow Gossup cor Corner and on Gossip Corner, The Daily Mail says.
Adam Sandler kept it casual in a north Face coat as he enjoyed a stroll with his daughters. Adam Sandler spotted in London walking around.
Also spotted playing basketball with some locals.
We’re told Adam opted for a laid back look with a light blue hoodie and a pair of red tracksuit bottoms. Let’s see what’s happening at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival so I can save my voice. Daniel Connell’s show is called Little Aussy Battler. Let’s listen. Lovely to be here, It’s lovely to be out and about.
It’s great to say international travelers returning from Ivis and Ozzie’s coming back. They haven’t been able to come back for a while. I’ve been out at the airport last week. I went out there. I didn’t have anybody to pick up.
I just went out to watch. It’s nice just watching people jumped on a few family huddles. They hated it, but I quite enjoyed it. It’s just nice to feel something, you know, just anything at a moment, absolutely ruined though. This guy is about mid thirties.
He’s come bolt through the terminal. I see his parents on the other side of the early seventies. He runs up to him. He’s got all his luggae. John.
He gets to him, I’m almost about to jump on the huddle and they pull their mass down the mother and the sun and a big, long kiss on the lips. Big that is disgusting. If we cut that out. I land out like an audible. Ah, it’s pretty good.
How about this show? Ruby Ester does her Bester? I like the title, let’s listen. I hey, look, I’m just gonna get right into it and preface my set by saying I’m aware. I’m aware.
I come off quite anxious on stage, all right, Not to worry, It’s mostly just the anxiety. No, but I think my anxiety started in intermediate school when I was moderately to severely bullied. That’s a laugh line. It’s okay. The bully died last year.
Delta. No sorry, no, sorry, too soon? Too soon? No? No, no, I did it?
Do you guys like my hair? Thank you? Correct? Yeah. I went to the hair dresser very recently with a very specific image in mind and in hand.
I printed it out and I handed it to my hairdresser and she looks concerned, and she was like, okay, just going to confer with you. You want me to give you waistlength extensions and diet all black? No, no, I said, you’re not listening on h leak. You see the way the girl in the picture is looking out the window. You see the way the rain is falling softly on the window pane.
How she’s unoberturbed by the slight warping of her face in the water, or the hand resting on her shoulder, or even the party going on in the windows reflection behind her. You see how she doesn’t quite fit in, but she doesn’t not belong. You see how she doesn’t know, She doesn’t know where she’s going to go next. Maybe she’ll rejoin the party, maybe she’ll go to a different party, go to a club, go to a friend’s house. For hell, maybe she’s gonna go home.
Can you cut that? Is that? I think it’s like layers and she couldn’t zero stars, so we bleached it. Thank you, I’ve been Ruby, You’ve been lovely. Have a good night.
I loved her. Her presence is fantastic. Now, maybe not the funniest joke, but what a great storyteller. I couldn’t wait to hear how that one would finish. She at me totally captivated.
Fantastic. Right, let’s do one more. Tommy Little’s show was called Tommy Little has a regular sized deck. There’s a picture of him playing cards. I don’t know what you were thinking.
Let’s listen. I had a busy year last year. I went to fight pies. I became a pilot. You do people clap with that, but that’s fine.
I’m obviously performing to a room for fellow pilots. Nice. It’s not as long as you think right. When you’re driving a car, you have to do one hundred and twenty hours next to someone else before you’re allowed to drive a car by yourself. Flying a plane, I did nine hours and I was allowed to fly a plane by myself.
How why was that? It means you can catch a flight from here to Hong Kong, and if you earn on the way, when it lands, you can say to the captain, don’t worry, champ, I’ll take it back from here. Being a pilot is the best because there are no rules. Sorry, there are heaps of rules, there’s just no one to check on them. You can’t get pulled over in the sky.
No one has ever checked my license. No one has ever breathalyzed me, no one has ever drug tested me. There’s a key to the door that opens our hangars, and then the planes don’t even have keys. If you can fly them, you can take The reason I’m telling you this is because if there’s a story on the news five years from now, and I’m accused of smuggling drugs around this beautiful country and I’m on the news going I didn’t do it. There’s no way I ever do this.
I did it. He’s fantastic. I like him a lot. He is Tommy Little. And that is your comedy news for today.
Because I have no voice, Tell a friend about the show see tomorrow.