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Caloroga Shark Media. It appears to be Friday in the thirteenth, which is neither here nor there. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tommy Tiernan was on Bill Burr’s podcast and explained the Irish people became natural comedians because we had no choice. That’s why we’re like that.
It’s not like we had to choose between being masters of the world and singers. We had no choice. We had no money. We’re good at talking. We love music and drinking and singing and crying and fighting amongst each other.
Bill Burr said, you get what life is about. Teternian explained, when you have no money, when you got nothing, what do you do? Burr said, over here, you got a gun and start robbing people. Tiernean said, in the old days, the Irish would concoct a drink made of rain and tears and old potatoes. There was nothing to do except drink it and see what happens.
And then somebody’d make a fiddle out of an old cat and it’d start making music. And that was our culture for eight hundred years. We were so downtrodden and our only refuge was the spoken word. Music and drink, and to this day, Irish people aren’t great at architecture or any of the obvious hallmarks of an empire.
Meanwhile, Kathleen Madigan, we’ll hit the road for the Day Drinking Tour.
We are reinforcing all the Irish stereotypes today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack by the way, Irish American. It’ll be her thirty fifth year as a touring comic. It’s the Day Drinking Tour. It kicks off January seventeenth in Omaha, twenty nine dates.
Interesting note from ball Star here, Madigan has regularly performed at two hundred and fifty dates a year. Highlights from twenty twenty four submitted to ball Star include a seventy eight thousand dollars grouse against nineteen hundred and thirty nine tickets at Clow’s Memorial Hall on the campus of Indianapolis a Butler University More sixteenth. So if somebody wants to crunch the numbers there here, let me be lazy. Nineteen hundreds like two thousand and seventy eight thousand dollars is like eighty thousand, so forty dollars a ticket something like that eighty grand two hundred fifty days a year two hundred grand minus expenses. Are you w in the math right there?
So eighty thousand dollars two hundred and fifty times would be twenty million dollars minus expenses and I rounded up there. But sounds like Kathleen’s doing okay. Kathleen Madigan often tours with Lewis Black. He’s wrapping it up after thirty five years. He says, I want to get back to writing.
I do a rant cast. I want to do more of that live. He was doing one hundred and fifty shows a year, but says he will misperforming. Yeah, well, because it’s something really nice about showing up at a city where you know, maybe two people and a thousand show up really excited that you’re there. It really is something the energy you get from them.
The l eight Times writes, though Matt Riif’s dream has been too entertained at the highest level, Raife says he’s used to being a target for backlash, and it’s no coincidence that two of his favorite comedians are Dave Schabelle and Ricky Gervais, two of the most popular and criticized comedians. Raife says it’s lots of juggle. In the beginning, you mostly only hear the positive, and then a very select people go, oh, this person’s very well loved and respected, and I myself might lack that love and respect in my own personal life, so therefore I don’t want this person to have it. So then comes in influx of negativity. You then have to really appreciate the good because the bad’s gonna come with it.
Guaranteed, nobody is universally loved. I used to avidly respond back to people nobody could be meaner than me if I really want to be. But you can’t do that because it’s whether or not you feel like you’ve won that interaction or you had the better roast. What this stroller hater said doesn’t matter. You gave them exactly what they want, and all they want is intention.
Raif talked about his grandpa passed away in twenty twenty two and said he never got to see me have any of this. He’s the reason I have any of this. I’ve been so happy to be so distracted and keep busy and keep my mind off that kind of stuff. But through therapy and this book, which has been a massive form of therapy, It’s forced me to take time and reflect on all the things that got me to this point right now. His book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me.
It will be out in December. Raife says, that’s a new anxiety, by the way, because that’s the hardest thing. How many viral sensations are there at a year thirty. Anybody can have a high year, a hot moment of their career. So many musicians, actors, comedians have them quite often hard parts maintaining Joe Rivers daughter Melissa has announced two upcoming shows.
On November seventh, eight list comedians will gather at the Apollo Theater in New York for a living tribute to Joe Rivers, benefiting God’s Love We Deliver. That’s part of the New York Comedy Festival.
Also between October twenty seventh November twenty fourth, fans can catch th…
The play will follow the life of the edgy comic from getting her start at a small Greenwich village nightclub to being a regular act on the Tonight show I Wonder Who’s playing Joan. Joan says of mom, she was shy She hated social situations, but she covered that up by being funny. What’s interesting is a lot of performers are very shy. One of her biggest fears was being in social situations outside of her friend group, because she was always concerned she was going to disappoint someone that they were expecting her to be Joan Rivers rather than Joan Rosenberg. Up until the day she died, she answered the phone Rosenberg residents.
Kathy Griffin spoke to EW dot com about her upcoming show and said, you don’t want to know what I’d do to sell tickets. I don’t want to use the term have sex with a donkey. Whatever it takes. My hustle game’s never been stronger. She will joke about her PTSD, which includes twelve hour panic attacks and NonStop vomiting and dry heaving.
Kathy says, I’m gonna make it funny. I make fun of my remedies. I have a whole team of people trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. She uses affirmation saying I’ll go look at Mirren say like you’re gonna be okay today, Kathy. It’s me.
Kathy’s talking to you. Kathy You’re gonna be okay. If anybody ever walked in there and’d have me committed on another fifty one to fifty psych hold I have to min after me making fun of celebrities being on fifty one to fifty psych holds. I’m a little bit excited that I’m now in the company of Brittany and Kanye. Six time Grammy nominated Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan will host the twenty twenty four Al Smith Dinner on October seventeenth.
I love the phrasing. Six time Grammy nominated. I meane it Max. It sound like he’s oasis. I mean yeah, but no.
The Al Smith Dinner is an annual event organized by the Archdiocese of New York. You know who else is going to be there? Deacon Mike. Now, Deacon Mike’s not going? Are you going?
Deacon Mike? Maybe he is. He knows everybody these days. Well, who is going to be there? Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both noted Catholics?
Why are they there? What is happening at this thing? Jim mcgaffigan posted a copy of an invitation on Twitter that Liz Trump and Harris Is the guests, Jim Hilarious as always, joked that he was unfamiliar with the names of the two candidates. In his caption, he said, I’m so honored to be m seeing this year’s Al Smith Memorial Dinner on October seventeenth. Too bad, I don’t recognize those two names.
In the middle of the invitation, anyone ever heard of them? Hilarious Jim Colin Jose to Michael Chay went by Howard Stern because apparently it’s nineteen eighty eight, and Howard asked them if they have a plan to leave SNL. Joe said, we definitely don’t have a game plan. We never had a game plan every year. It’s sort of like you just reveal you’re seeing if you still like it.
Stern was curious if they’ve had a discussion, you know, if you go, I go. Chase said, we’ve had that discussion at different times. Stern said, Michael seems like a guy whoever year wants to leave, but he sticks around. Chase said, yeah, but it’s not a matter if I want to leave because I want to leave. It’s like I want to leave because I always feel like I miss stand up and all this stuff.
It’s always that. Sterne asked Jay if you do the news by himself? If Joe departed and Chase said no, same question to Jost. Joe said no, Chase said, in a heart beat, he wood he’s lying through his teeth, and then Joe said, I’ll do three years. Joe Coy, who once hosted the Golden Globes, by the way, made a joke about Taylor Swift.
I don’t know if you had heard about it. New materials literally the job, he says, always, hands down, the surprise element is the best. It’s so important to not do what you did on TV if your audience is coming out because they sell you on Netflix. They pay all this money to see you live, and then I just do my Netflix special live. It’s like they’re not coming back.
What is this an unplugged version. It’s not like music. Music you can do that. You can write a hit song played for the rest of your life and people keep paying to hear it. It’s a different vibe.
Comedy can’t do that. The most important part is to punch. If you know the end of the book, why are you gonna watch the movie? Can’t kill doing an old bit for new material. He says, I have the most maduskull idea of where I want to go, but as far as when I’m on stage, I love to improvise.
I love to be in that moment. Sometimes the audience will create something off an idea for me and it turns into this thing. Unconsciously, it starts to write itself when it hits and lands the way I know it’s supposed to land, and I know it’s not just a joke for this particular group of people. And by the way, I mean locally, like they’ll only get it here in dallatreet Houston. I want them to be able to get the Omaha joke in Hawaii.
If I can hit that moment genuinely, then I’ll keep it. I do know vaguely where I want to go, but unconsciously it develops on its own. John Earley has an album out today, them dot Us I wrote a lot about John Early, and they say in previous iterations of his comedy, John Early felt like he had to decide between being confident or self deprecating, between singing songs and telling jokes, or between collaboration and going solo. With his latest special Now More than Ever, which is the basis of the comedy album of the same name, which comes out today. John early decided he could do all the above.
He says, to finally blend music in comedy was groundbreaking privately, because I was suddenly like, oh, there’s a motion and there’s musicality in my stand up. There’s a yearning aching quality to my stand up that I have only let out in the music. John Earle, what comedy albums inspired you? He said, I listened to all of Maria Bamford’s comedy albums quite a bit. My family used to listen to Andy Griffith’s comedy album.
In my twenties, I used to listen to Sandra Bernhard’s live album that was certainly influential. He was asked about his band The Lemon Square Is being part of the album. John really said it really started when I first started doing stand up. You do like little ten minute sets or ten minute open mics, and after I’d been doing it for a couple of years, I want to do a bigger solo show. But I want to offer something more than just stand up, which maybe belies that I don’t think my stand up is enough to offer.
I really wanted to put on a show, and it felt exciting to do. Sincere covers like he does serious music songs, I’ve never had the impulse to write songs or comedy songs. I wanted my live shows to feel a little more groovy. Do you feel the John Early on stage persona changes between telling jokes and singing, He said, I feel like it’s more fluid. At the time, I was making a special, something finally integrated.
For the ten years prior working with the band doing live shows, there was something disjointed about it. Then COVID happened. I didn’t really perform for a while. I forgot how much I loved doing it. When we came back for the special and started rehearsing, I realized the sincerity of the music was pulling the comedy in a more direct, generous direction.
It was nice. It all started to blend into something more unified. John Early now more than ever video version on Imax. The album of the same name out today from my Denim Records. A slash of thirty tigers, And that is your comedy news for today.
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