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Caloroga Shark Media. If you missed yesterday, the last two stories were just wacky and the show went off the rails of a lot of fun. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan spoke with Men’s Health and said I think I’m a better fit for Man’s anti health. Talk yesterday about how Jim is taking Manzoro, Apparently he’s doing other things.
He went on a Keto esque diet, very low carbs, and later added intermintent fasting. Over the summer, he started gardening. We’ve learned that he has grown squash, corn beans, cucumbers, shashido peppers, and eggplants. Jim says growing vegetables makes you morch than consuming those vegetables, which makes you healthier, which makes you kind of look at what you’re consuming, which makes fast food look like the crap it is. I’m not saying I’m doing the work of a farmer, but you can do some work out there.
During the interview, he noticed is a buffet on the other side of the room with turkey sandwiches, chicken wraps, pesto pasta, thumbprint cookies. Yeah, I’ve seen that buffet and Jim said, I have friends that would take that stuff and put it into God containers, but I’m not at that level. But if it’s free, what are we stupid here? The article reveals Jim is going on tour with Jerry Seinfeld in twenty twenty five. Jim has found the new funny not in the weight loss itself, but any conflict about the right way to lose weight, hanging on to old clothes, or being a guy that used to eat at waffle house but now respects eggplant.
Jim eyeballs the buffet and says I’m finding it hard to resist and grabs a turkey sandwich. There’s a new album out from Robin Williams. This one called Working on Things Via Clown Jewels. They say it’s been in the vault for two decades. The recordings come from a set at Bimbo’s three sixty five club in San Francisco recorded October two thousand and six.
Robin was working on material for two thousand and seven special. You can check out that album at clownjewels dot com. Apparently, Bill Burr likes a place called Mega Texas Barbecue. On his podcast, Bill Burr said he discovered the gas station eatery turned brick and mortar restaurant last time moves in Fresno. First said, if you think I’m not going there again, I got nothing coming.
I’m gonna eat perfect right to that day, and then I’m gonna go there and I’m gonna get one of those Texas toykies. I’ve been thinking about ever since I had it. It was so delicious. James Acaster’s special is out on HBO today. It is called Heckler’s Welcome.
In Heckler’s Welcome, Acaster relinquishes control of his set. The audience is encouraged to interrupt James Acaster Heckler’s Welcome tonight ten pm. Oh yeah, HBO stop with the ten pm Like I’m old man, I’m not hitting play at ten pm. Just just drop it. It been like, let us watch it.
What is what the linear stuff? Stop? Just no know what the ten pm? No? Just no.
Billboard spoke to christ de Stefano, who said, to be honest with you, most of my peers and me could live off the money we make podcasting. I still do the road because I enjoyed. As time goes on, I’m always looking for ways to stay home. Stay in New York more and the podcast is that avenue, especially Patreon where History Hyenas lives. That’s the best because it’s all fans generated.
They pay five dollars a month or ten dollars a month to get extra content or get the episodes early. My whole career in life change when I put my career in the hands of my fans. I still respect the industry. I have a TV show in development. I’m doing all those things while generating income because of my fans.
I’m living my dream and doing what I want to do with or without the industry. Boy, we are hearing more and more and more of that, huh. I mean myself included. I’m just choosing not to have one of those old style jobs because let’s come with a boss. I’m grinding here in the basement, but I’m loving every minute of it.
Chris says. That’s why streaming, podcasting and all that’s very important. More than that having a direct relationship with your fans. As he mung us, it’s changing so rapidly before our eyes, and it’s a beautiful thing. You can have relative anonymity that way.
Take a guy like Tom Sagora, he sells out arenas all over the country, and he’s still able to go to those towns and the general population won’t recognize him on the street. I bring this up all the time with the top podcasters that he just nailed it. You can walk Tom Sagara down the street and we might go zero for ten. Who’s that people might not recognize him? Tim Dillon, THEO Vaughn might not get recognized.
Sigora is making fifty million dollars a year. Wow, but he doesn’t have to be locked behind gates with security everywhere because he has a direct connection with his fans. As far as entertainment goes, we’re living in such a transitional period you might think I should go on this TV show to promot myself and sell tickets. I still do it, but I can do the podcast from my home and I’ll be ten times more impactful than going on a late night talk show. So why I like my manager Emilio.
He’s adapted it used to be a manager book of flights and set up meetings. I could book my own flights on an app with two taps on my phone. I need my manager to digitally market me when I’m coming to Salt Lake City. Calling in old radio station and going on the local news doesn’t work anymore. What I need is how do you digitally market me so that when everyone opens up their Facebook or Instagram, they’re seeing an ad from my show with a link to click for tickets, and merely on his team are making it very easy for me.
Used to be, you needed all these middlemen. Now you don’t some of us recognize the shift with some of my peers, either they don’t want admit it or they don’t want to adapt. That’s fine, but the old way is getting a late night set or a sitcom. Don’t put butts in the seats anymore. When we last left, I was trying to tell you about a partner at hurl A speaking to Thrillist, and we got as far as the woppin.
Remember the walpin? Listen at the end of yesterday’s podcast, What’s a wop in? John? Well, some people think a whale and a dolphin had a kid, But as we learned yesterday, that’s not what happened. But I digress.
Let’s not go there again. That’s what yesterday’s podcast is for, where a partner says, I remember going to la with my dad for the first time, and the OJ Simpson chase happened during our trip. I remember being in our hotel room that evening and being like, hey, we were on that highway today. Not that I understood with the implication of what was happening, but now I’m kind of like, WHOA, that was weird. As a kid, I had a very exotic vision of travel, and as I’ve gotten older and I had to travel more for worker comedy, I’ve still retained some of that vacation mentality where it’s sometimes hard for me to remember, Oh, you’re still working when you’re in a different city.
You still have to answer emails. The La Daily News caught up with Hannah Einbinder. She joined the improv troop way back when at Chapman University and said, I was really bad at it. It required a mental freedom that I didn’t have, but she made it onto the university’s improv inc team, and then when Nicole Buyer booked a show with Chapman, she offered a lot of student open up for her and a voluntary for that, and after that I became obsessed. I realized that’s what I want to do.
So I bought a ton of comedy albums and started listening to them incessantly over and over, you know, really studying rhythm and format and style and a lot of older influences and alternative influences. People who do characters. People were more physical, more dry, storytellers, classic joke writers, this article points out, and maybe perhaps her mother Lorraine Newman from Saturday Night Live, you know, let’s yeah, yeah, you hear me. I feel like I’d take influence from everywhere in every form, so yeah, around my senior year of college, just became obsessed. In twenty nineteen, NPR named her one of the young comedians to watch.
LA Daily News asked her what it was like opening for Nicole, and I said, I was so nervous. Sometimes back in the day, I’d call stand up like twenty three hours of agony and one hour of ecstasy, where you wake up and you’re like, who would agree to do this? Who in their right mind would put themselves in this situation? You know, I was a very insecure kid, young adult whatever, a twenty year old. I didn’t really have a lot of self worth.
That’s what pushes I think most people to do stand up. When I opened for the Cole and I was so nervous. I stepped down on the stage and I felt every ounce of nerves melt away. It just felt really good and confident, really excited. It was a very foreign feeling for me.
I felt good with other people, but not on my own. So I became assessed with and addicted to that feeling and actually went really well. One of the jokes in that set is in my special How long was that set? Eight minutes? She has worked her way up to an hour and says stand up is both incredibly frustrating and also the greatest joy.
I like the work. A lot of the stuff on My special I haven’t really had a punch up or work on, but there are jokes that didn’t come to me fully formed, and that’s the process. I enjoy going out doing punch up, having twelve or thirteen drafts of something building it. I felt if there were bones, and the bones were things that I’ve been doing for a while, and felt like a good representation of my work. From those, I built a connective tissue.
I think Gene Smart, who stars in Hacks, is not a stand up asked me, do you have any tips? Because she doesn’t have an ego about it, and I would never say anything, but she asked me. The only thing I told her was about microphone distance. The dead giveaways. Holding the microphone away from your mouth.
That’s the sign of the novice. That’s all I told her. If you’re in Montclair, New Jersey, you know who’s at the Walmont Theater tonight, Chelsea Handler. You know who Chelsea Handler used to do, right Joe Coy? Now, I was going to do the bit, but I don’t feel like doing it because we have a couple of strong days and I don’t need to do the bit.
But you know what the bit is. You can imagine it right now as if I’m doing it. That’s the mental power I hold over you. You are imagining. You can hear in your head Joe Coy telling that joke that I’m not going to play, but you’re thinking of it right now.
What have I done to you? Oh my goodness, see tomorrow