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Caloroga Shark Media. Jim Gappigan’s Who Special is out today. Now I don’t have Hulu. I might have to come over to your house to watch this thing, or maybe pony up to six bucks or whatever it is. The skinny out on Hulu today, the first of the hilarious specials they’ll put out one a month.
You probably know about Jim Special because hey, you listen to my podcast and b he is speaking to every magazine in the world. So that’s what the Hulu publicist has been up to. They shared a clip on Threads. It’s interesting here, it’s a good joke and it gets a laugh, and then the laugh turns into clapter. Stop with the clapter.
Everybody just laugh. We don’t need to clap. Here’s the clip. Because being a parent is like being a psychic who’s constantly correct but always ignored all day. Every day.
Parents are like, let me look into my crystal ball. Oh, it’s pretty cold out there. If I want to grab a coat. You’re fat. You know, if you stay up late, you may be tired in the morning.
You’re bald. Ooh, I foresee economic hardship. When I kick you out of this house. Gaffigan was profiled by Men’s Health and a bunch of other places, giving me lots of content to pretape the weekend. Thanks Jim.
Jim has lost some weight, which is the theme of the special, and he hasn’t thrown away his old clothes, he tells Men’s Health, maybe I’m a pack rat, but I’m like, I can’t get rid of that.
And then there’s something about the haunting.
They’re like, you’re gonna wear me again. Jim says he’s gone down two pant sizes, and he points out that many of his jokes were scented around his weight. Yeah, he was the food joke guy for years, right, hot pockets. Oh, by the way, I forget, I keep forgetting to mention. I’m so glad he stopped calling every single album some variation with a pale joke in it.
He was the pale guy for a while too. Don’t forget he was the pale guy after he was the food guy. I’m glad he’s dropped all that. Jim says people always used to say if you lost weight, you’d lose your whole act that nobody ever said that, and that was never true. No one ever said that, Jim, No one ever said that.
It’s so strange because in some ways we’re not the big funny guy, are we. That’s the role I’m supposed to play, But also in some ways that may be the avenue of our warmth. I never thought of Jim that way. If you put a water pistol to my head and said I’m gonna soak you if you don’t answer, I would have said he was a family comedian, playing kind of in the same space as Tom Poppa. I never thought of him as a food guy.
I mean, I know he did have the Hot Pocket Show. But Jim is on weight loss drug Moonjarro, which works by reducing appetite and improving how the body breaks down sugar and fat. It is taken by injection in the thigh, stomach, or arm ick, and it is FDA proved to treat type two diabetes. Jim says, most of our lives have been told just control your appetite, just stop being a pig. The reality is we can’t.
Maybe our brains are a little wonky or whatever. I think in some ways, the appetites’s presence, or the justification for people who have compulsive eating that they’re not weak, that some of it can be fixed. In the profile, we also learned Jim is growing vegetables and says, growing vegetables it makes you more interested in 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 that it is. Wasn’t it Father’s Day when you were selling us bourbon, Jim? How does that fit into this new vegetable diet.
I just have a question. Is that somebody in the audience had that question. They wanted to ask you? So are we not drinking a bourbon now? We’re eating vegetables?
Got it? Johnny Feisty Today, I know the words come out. I don’t know what to tell you. Hey. Bill Burr is stepping down from his role as CEO of All Things Comedy.
He and one of his longtime business partners, Mike, are launching North Hill Productions, a new production company with an emphasis on film and TV. All Things Comedy is named new co CEOs. Bill remains on the board. Bill’s two podcasts, the Monday Morning podcast than Anything Better? I didn’t even know he had it, and What’s anything Better?
Am I stupid that I’ve never heard of this? Anything better Bill Burr and Paul Versey seems to be one hundred and seventy episodes, and each episode since September has been with NFL Picks. Now, look, I don’t have to admit to not knowing about this, but I’m admitting to don’t know about it, haven’t heard of it, maybe even told you about it once when they launched it. But I’m on the internet, believe me, sixteen hours a day, and when I’m not prepping a comedy podcast, I’m working in the podcast industry, and this thing has never hit my radar. I look at charts, It’s never hit my radar.
I’m stunned to find out this exists. Again. You can flame me on social media and be like, what kind of idiot doesn’t know Bill Burr has a second podcast? This kind of idiot. I’m not saying it sucks.
I’m just telling you had no idea. I like football, I like Bill Burr. I will check that out. Personal friend, Larry the Cable Guy is touring Nebraska. I’ll start the tour in January.
It’s called Larry’s Nebraska road Trip. Proceeds from the tour will be donated to a local charity. In each market. Cable Guy says, I’ve spent a lot of time traveling the United States. There’s nothing like sharing some laughs with folks in small towns across Nebraska.
The people have been my biggest supporters, and I can’t wait to put on a great show and get back to the places that shaped me. I have spent a lot of time with Larry the Cable Guy slash Dan Whitney. He is an awesome dude. I know some people I roll his act. You know, some comedians have acts.
For example, Gilbert Godfried had an act. You ever meet Gilbert Godfried in real life? Very soft spoken man. Was not the same as the PERSONA cable guy is an awesome guy. He’ll kick off the tour in Kearnie, Nebraska, January twenty third.
He’s also going to Wahoo. That’s awesome. Wow, Look at these venues. Wahoo High School, then Central City High School, Pawnee City High School, Falls City, then Norfolk where he’ll play the Norfolk High School, Johnny Carson Theater, York High School, and the Midwest Theater in Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska. Wow, that’s awesome.
All right, I’m gonna hit up as publicist I want to talk to him about this sometime in the next two months. I will do that as soon as I’m done recording today. I told you yesterday I watched Adam Ray’s special on Netflix, This is the Doctor Phil, one that like I didn’t get, Now I get it. Oh my god, that was so much fun. I was laughing out loud, which I don’t always do with comedy specials.
And as the time went on, I was texting my friends. I texted my son, I made my wife come down. I was really enjoying this thing. It does have diminishing returns as the hour goes on. There are some special guests who appear.
I don’t want to totally spoil who shows up, but the front half of the special fantastic. It will make my end of the year list, but in that tier two part I won’t go down the list. Today. The only Times caught up with Adam Ray. They were curious, what made you decide on doing a special with Netflix Is Doctor Phil rather than doing a standard specialist yourself.
Adam said, yeah, Netflix came to us once the show That’s the live show at Comedy Store got as big as it’s gotten. Shows were selling out months in advance of the Comedy Store. Then we added theater shows and those are all twenty five hundred to five thousand SEA and those started selling out well in advance. So it’s just one of those things where the people in comedy over at Netflix got wind of it and had been tracking it. We’ve had big names in the comedy game.
But once we booked the real Doctor Phil, the Netflix people were like, all right, this is upthing special Phil and Phil together is really cool. Let’s do it. It all came together really quickly. The only time said had you even get the idea to dress like Doctor Phil? Of all people, Adam said, it got a point where I was getting it into a monotonous routine of auditioning, stand up podcasting, waiting to be on people’s stuff, all good noke plates, but I was losing some joy for what I was doing.
If I’m not creating, I’m not happy. I just got tired of waiting around. Was thinking if I could have my show, what would it be. I thought releasing a pilot would be a way to challenge myself. So I was like, all right, I’d love to play three different characters in a dysfunctional family show.
There was a son a grandma, and one was a gay hairdresser with a fat suit, A bald guy that left his wife became gay open to salon. The makeup took four plus hours. We shot it over a weekend. I got a bunch of favors from friends who are in it. One of my friends was playing a salon client in it and told me I sort of looked like Doctor Phil.
So that night I was like, I should just go do stand up in this outfit. I figured I should milk it and get a little more content. After getting into makeup for that long, I hit up Joel McHale was over at the laugh Factory. It’s almost going to come by, and Joel said it’d bring me up as Doctor Phil. I went up as him and we were messing around with the voice a little bit.
People were eating it up. That’s awesome, and this was pre pandemic, Adam said. When COVID hit Jeremiah Walkins, who plays a different character in every show, and I were talking about trying to find a safeway to have some fun. We were in to the little studio space and did these lost Doctor Phil episodes where Phil would interview one of his characters when it provised for two hours and put around forty minutes of it on YouTube. That’s where I got to find what the version of the character was for me honing it and getting reps from doing it.
I found this kind of likable yet abrasive guy who’s still trying to help these people. The actor strike hit shortly after we got back from COVID. It was like, I need to be throwing more darts. I was already doing these Adam and Friends shows at the Comedy Store, but there were a bunch of these type of shows that started popping up, so it kind of made me feel as doing what everyone else was doing. Burr had a cancel on one of my shows, but he was committed to do the next date no matter what, and I was like, Okay, now would be a good time as any to try this out.
I was like, Bill, instead of doing a stand up show and thinking of doing Doctor Phil the monologue, some CrowdWork and we’ll do an interview and then play a game. He could have been more excited about it. That really gave me the juice to do it and went really well, sold out in a day and became a challenge of all right, let’s do more of these, and let’s play with the elements of it. Changes all the time. We found a really good groove.
Next thing, you know, we’re doing the Netflix special and live streaming it and that was a huge success and got the show to people outside my normal fan base. There’s a lot more here. I’ll pick up on that tomorrow. But watch that special. It is fantastic.
You know what’s good news if you me when you cut an Adam Ray story in half and bump four things before the commercial break. That means you have enough stuff to pretape the weekend. Ha ha, Look I app that weekend. What do you want for me? I don’t do this seven days a week.
I do it four. Usually I do other things. Now, this next thing I didn’t plan. There just happened to be three things in a row that are all British. Matt friend.
He went on Sky News and he busted out as Trump impression and a pretty good King Charles. Let’s listen. You know, I went to the Churchill the war Rooms. Churchill’s a friend of mine. Two we golf last week at mari A Lago.
Just a great guy, little heavy set, but a great guy. I don’t know, it just happens. You’ve been getting me out of the loop. Who’s difficult to impersonally? Have you ever given up?
Well, I’m trying to figure out other dialects. You know. The King Charles is quite fun when I come here in and I try out different voices and it’s more based off of the Crowns interpretation. Now tonight in the UK is the twenty twenty four Royal Variety performance. King Charles will be at this thing.
By the way, I wanted to crossroad. We have a whole show called Palace Intrigue. All we do is talk about the British Royal family. Now we do it as New Yorkers, so we’re not like respectful of the Royal family. We’re not disrespectful, but like we’re not like, ooh, we said the wrong thing, or we didn’t call him his majesty, we got someone’s tud or we don’t care.
We’re New Yorkers. Oh my goodness, what a fun topic. If nothing else, Harry and Meghan carry the show. Love you Harry, Love you Meghan. Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s great for downloads.
That’s called Palace Intrigue. Wherever you get your shows anyway. The King his Majesty will be at the Royal Variety performance tonight. Short Old did a preview from a comedy standpoint comedians Ellie Taylor, Matt Ford, Scott Bennett, who is a different person than the guy who doesn’t like my Joe Cooy joke is a different guy and Larry Dean. We’ll share the stage with an impressive lineup at the Royal Albert Hall.
You’ve heard of that, thanks Beatles.
Also at this show Elton john not a comedian, Magicians Penn and Taylor kind o…
The Mischief Theater will preview their upcoming West End show, The Comedy about Spies that seems to be a comedy. Proceeds from the Royal Variety Performance will benefit the Royal Variety Charity, which supports those of the entertainment industry who are in need of care and assistants.
Meanwhile, the Times of London went to go see Zanab Johnson.
She’s got a show in soho That show’s called his jobs off The Times right. She’ll often take one slightly wonky notion, then unpack its lack of logic at length. The friend who were buy canned food and postage stamps when the pandemic broke, say postage stamps, or suggestion that the way to deter potential burglars was to leave her male friends boots outside her door, making every nonsense register on her expressive face as she keeps up a kind of nothing condemned me hostess charm. She carries the room the Big Stages Beckon four stars out of five. She’s at the Soho Theater through the twenty third.
If you’re in Vancouver, it’s the Little Weird Weekend, a three night festival featuring ten shows by local comedians hosted by the Little Mountain Gallery. The gold of the festivals support local comedy while pushing the boundaries of normal formats. Vancouver is Awesome, says. Some of the shows include a local take on task Master, a show inspired by the am I the a whole subreddit on Reddit, and an interactive stand up comedy show that allows the crowd to comment on the show while it’s happening. Brent Constantine is the executive director and says, we really like alternative formats that are outside traditional stand up or improv.
You know, I don’t forget if I mentioned that’s why I liked the Adam Ray Doctor Phil thing, because it was trying to be something right. It was just whether it lands or not, it went for it, and I love things that go for it. Brent Constantine said, Our hope is that this encourages people to put on different kinds of shows, and also that some of these first time shows will be successful and run regularly. Amen from Premiere Christian dot com You’re home for comedy news. Fern Brady has had an advertisement for her tour band by the Advertising Standards Authority.
The ASA ruled that the advertisement was offensive to Christians. All right, John, what’s going on here? Well? The ad featured Brady appearing to squirt milk from her breast into the mouth of a man dressed in religious clothing in front of a stained glass window. Fern Brady argued that the image was a satirical recreation of the Lactation of Saint Bernard, which I’m unfamiliar with, but apparently is a seventeenth century painting by Alonso Canou which depicts the Virgin Mary sprang milk into the mouth of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Is that a real thing? Deacon Mike, where are you? I need you? I should just call him. Um um, Yeah, I’m doing a google here, and this is the thing.
I’m sourcing the University of Iowa. Here. They seem legitimate. According to a fourteenth century legend, Bernard prayed before a statue of the Madonna Latins. As he spoke the words show yourselves to be a mother.
The statue suddenly came to life. The Virgin placed her breast into Bernard’s mouth and nursed him as she did the christ child. In many cases, this tale was illustrated with Bernard and the Virgin standing at a distance from one another as the virgin squeezes milk from her breast that shoots into Bernard’s mouth. John Reining in comedy show Remember Yes, Yes, Yes, Sorry, I went down the rabbit hole there, Fern Brady parody that in an ad, the ASA has ruled its offensive to Christians. Fern said the ad was meant as a contemporary interpretation aligned with her reverent comedic style, not an attempt to mock or belittle its original religious significance.
All right, I’m a Christian. I’m not offended, and Fern, I don’t believe a word you said. You know what you’re doing. Come on. You know what you’re doing.
You know, don’t act like, oh, it’s a contemporary interpreation. You know what you’re doing. Come on. Brady responded to the ban, reportedly calling the person who complained some virgin on social media and questioning why the ad was deemed objectionable. You know why.
And I’m not going out on that one. I can’t wrap up on that story. One more from Thrillist, they caught up with a partner. Ninturla, the subject to travel a porn has said, I grew up really enjoying to travel. My parents were both doctors and that go to lots of medical conferences in all kinds of cities.
They brought me along. We went to Hawaii once and I saw my first woppin, which is the child of a whale and a dolphin, And that really stuck with me. Is that a thing that’s not a thing? Is it? Boy?
This show’s weird today, all right? I typed walpin in and Google auto completed to walp in Hawaii. According to Wikipedia, a walpin is an extremely rare cetacean hybrid born from a mating of a female come and bottlenose dolphin with a male false killer whale. That’s a thing now. The Guardian has a headline for twenty eighteen say don’t call it a walpin.
First a rear sight of a whale dolphin hybrid. What is this show? Today? From twenty eighteen the Guardian, scientists are chauting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon headed whale and a rough toothed dolphin in the Ocean of Hawaii. But don’t call it a woppin.
They say. The melon headed whale is one of the very species that’s called a whale, but it’s technically a dolphin. Robin Baird is a research biologist with Washington State based Cascadia Research Collective and says calling it something like a woppin doesn’t make any sense. I think calling it a wopin just confuses the situation more than it already is. Look at all the trouble you stirred up upon in a trailer, but at least everyone has forgotten about the lactating story I just did.
And I’m getting out there. See you tomorrow.