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The Shark Deck, Jimmy Kimmel was joking about Donald Trump returning to campaigning. Hi, I’m trying to mac with your Daily Comedy News. Kimmel called it the political equivalent of when Michael Jordan went to play for the Wizards. Tampa Bay Date Night dot Com asked Jim gaff again, Hey, what inspired you to want to do comedy for a living? Jim said, you know, I didn’t even know it was an option.
I mean, I’ve been doing it for thirty years. Thirty years ago. It was not a realistic occupation. Let’s see nineteen ninety two, Jerry Seinfeld might differ. I mean there were people that could do it and make a living.
Would be hardest sport a family. You know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube, Oh do math Johnny Mac nineteen ninety three. You know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio. You’re welcome, Jim, You were welcome. You kind of call this back when we asked you to do more specials.
Jim, you know, most comedians with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio. Hi are you new listener? Hi? I program the comedy channels at Serious x SIM When Jim was less famous, he would come up a lot. When Jim was famous, didn’t return calls.
You know, most comedians, with the rise of YouTube and satellite radio, it’s transformed it to where now performing in theaters, which makes it so much more. You can afford a family of five kids, you know, which is amazing. You’re welcome, Jim, You’re very welcome. I’m not there anymore. Don’t call those guys back.
Hey, Jim, how do you bounds being as successful and busy as you are with a family life, Gaffigan said, I think anyone doing a lot of parenting is always juggling. It’s always reevaluating the situation and adjusting, you know. I mean, Luckily for me, I’ve been able to travel out with my kids. Saw strategically plan tours around summer or Christmas or spring break, so that some of it is being very tactical on how you do shows and bringing everyone with you. When they were really a little weeds to be on bus tours, it was chaos.
But it’s definitely, like any parent will tell you, it’s definitely a constant adjustment. Right, this works this month, but next month, I don’t know. Philadelphia Weekly, which has a really strong comedy section. They’ve been crushing it here. In twenty twenty three, Don l Rawlings was asked, how do you maintain in the funny when you have to deal with things like COVID or social justice issues or ukraine.
Zonel said, some of the best comedy comes from a dark place. Some of the best things a comedian can create come from an argument with your spouse. It’s all based on emotion. When the world’s going the way it is now, that’s when a comedian is truly tested. This is where we stand up.
This is where we fight when things are the roughest. Who can rally and make people feel good about themselves. We’re like therapists, and it’s as if we are getting therapy because talking about all this helps us with our problems. We’re laughing with you, We’re engaged with you. It takes real engagements to make the negative into a positive.
Many times, when people go through issues, they believe they’re doing it alone. Part of the show talks about me being an older dad having my first kid later in life. I used to feel embarrassed to talk about that. Talking about it comedically helps stop that because I’m not the only one being out there doing your jokes and connecting with someone who can relate. That’s awesome.
Someone is always going through what you’re going through. Julia Louis Dreyfuss told Variety there needs to be multiple years of normalcy in Washington before she would revisit VEEP. She’s asked how VEEP would have dealt with something like the January sixth insurrection. She said, I don’t know how we could. I don’t know how to make that funny, especially when people lost their lives.
Eddie Murphy was out doing press for you people, and he told a great story about meeting Rodney Dangerfield. Eddie said, so I met Rodney. I’m sixteen, seventeen years old, and I’m getting ready to go up on stage and Rodney comes and he bumps me, and he goes say, hey, you can’t go up. Rodney’s going on. So Rodney goes on and he kills and I’m like, I’m going to go up after Rodney.
So no one wanted to go up, so I want up after him, and I do my stuff and afterward Rodney’s like, hey, good, where are you going with all that stuff? While that cursing using that language, Basically, he told me, I wasn’t crap, so I was like, ah, I was crestfalled. My mind was blown. I was like Rodney didn’t like me, thought it was too dirty. Long story short, Maybe two three years later I blew up.
I’d become Eddie Hotshot. I was in the bathroom of Caesar’s Palace at the urinal Dangerfield comes and stands right next to me. I look over, and he looks, and he says, hey, who knew. DJ Demmers finds comedic inspiration in everything, including poking fun at himself. He is deaf and said, I’m inspired by my day to day life, whether it’s a big idea or a small observation.
I write it down on my notes and try to a coherent narrative over time. I definitely eased into my death material. I didn’t want it to be some sort of crutch or gimmick when I started. It took about six months or a year before I started making jokes about my hearing aids on stage all the way. After seeing this article, I checked out his stand up.
He is really really funny. DJ Demmers as who were talking about here, He joked, I never felt deafer than I did during the pandemic for real, man, everybody had a mask on. He never realized how much he relied on lip reading until the pandemic. Yet you can always expect good vibes at my show first and foremost his hour long shows, also featuring an ASL interpreter. Dakota ray Aber is a DNA comedian I hope I got that right, ze and e comedian from Meadow Lake, Saskatoon.
She has released her special entitled I’ll Give You An Indian Act. She said the album was born out of anger at the government last summer. I was just very angry at the government. It happens a lot. I don’t go to law schools, so I can’t change the laws that way.
I’m not a big activist. I can’t do anything that way. But you know what I can do is roast the ever loving crap out of the government. So I got to work on compiling the jokes I’d already written, but then also going through the dry research that have ever done for any comedy and put together this album. And so it’s kind of like a big FU to the government.
The Indian Act is a book of laws that dictates the lives of indigenous peoples in Canada and it’s still in place. Some of the comments I would get was like, oh, we’re still on this. She said, We’re a first world country. I think that has an entire book of laws dictating a race of people. From time to time, Variety will do I’ll call it a fluff job.
They’ll do these real puff pieces about people in the industry, and there’s usually like some other reason that they do them. This one focused on Mike Berkowitz, he coheads WMME Agency’s comedy group. He was talking about how things have changed. Mike said he used to be would invite executives to see a set or arrange a blind pitch meeting. Now, thanks to social media, comics can be able to following on their own.
We’re inviting executives to sold out three thousand seat venues where people are chanting your name. Variety pointed out some WMME clients, Sam Mail and Christa Stephano also spotlighted Theo Vaughan, who has slowly become a touring and podcasting force over the past decade. He’s now ready to go to market with his first feature film as a writer and star, and from Mix online dot Com they caught up with Anthony Leo. He runs Guerrilla Media, which is an av production company specializing in the recording of comedy specials. That’s cool, Leo says.
We do albums, shoot comedy specials. We aim to be a supportive service for every stage of a comedian’s career. Comedy recording isn’t like capturing a room for music, he says. You want to grab stereo pockets around the room where the crowd mikes don’t pick up too much of the comics voice through the PA. If there’s too much of the comic and the crowd mikes, you can’t raise the crowd level without also raising the comics echo.
That’s why some comedy albums sound like they were recorded in a tunnel. The PA is almost dear enemy. Amen Comics gets a selected where their specials are shot because they know the venue when they know their audience. We have to find places to mount mike’s for good capture without showing up on camera. At a recent taping of Lean Morgan This at the Lexington Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky, one set of mikes was placed above the highest balcony, angled down sixty degrees to pick up the seats clearly to capture a wide crowd sound on the main floor.
His team had a mount mics on the theaters ornamental columns that this guy knows what he’s doing. Once placed, the mikes had to be ready to go, and stopping the show to replace batteries was not an option. I get. There are two lithium batteries in the Lectro Sonics Hma plug on transmitter. It’ll run Fantom power for almost five hours.
That’s fantastic because we have to turn them on, make sure everything’s good, and then they open the doors, seat the crowd, run the opening comics due announcements deal with various delays. I don’t have to worry about losing a mike towards the end of the Headliners act when the crescendo’s happening. Yeah. I remember back in the days at Series XHM. I would get some albums that would just mixed terribly, and if you don’t have the laughter there, it sounds like you’re bombing.
I don’t care how good the material is, it just sounds bad. If you’ve ever heard a comedian do an audio book, including George Carlind without the laughs there, it just falls flat. It’s kind of like me doing the late night jokes at the top of the podcast sucks. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival next month in Melbourne, Australia. A great city.
Been there, love it, would love to get back. It’s often ranked number one of best cities in the world and I can see why. Six hundred plus show starts March twenty ninth, runs till April twenty third. There’s a list of comedians here. I’m going to guess that I could read them all, but I’m going to guess that ninety nine point nine percent of you won’t recognize them, including me.
Some of the international performers let’s see here. You may know Tim Key from the UK, Sarah Schaefer will be there, Danny Boy, Stephen k Amos’s great Daniel Kitson. Some of the shows include Best of Comedy’s Own Asia featuring Malaysia’s Douglas Limb with comedy friends from India and Indonesia, Love Shows Like That, Aboriginal Comedy All Stars features a deadly lineup of First Nations comedians. Love Shows Like That, Neighborhood Sessions four weekends of local comedians. Theme nights include ten comedians for ten dollars, improv throwdown and cab original.
That’s funny. Come on, Melbourne people, won’t you hope to be able to free trip? We’ll run around with the portable record for three weeks. My wife will kill me, but I’ll go. That’s your comedies for today.
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