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Caloroga Shark Media. Today’s podcast is a little more adult than usual. There won’t be any swear words, but the themes are quite adult. If for some reason you listen to Daily Comedy News with little ones, why don’t you hit stop and I will see you tomorrow. For the rest of you who are still here, Jim Norton was on Neil Brandan’s Blocks podcast and it was fantastic.
I mentioned a few times recently that you know, I know Jim, and as I’ve shared in real life, he’s not walking around all day talking about hookers in Vegas, and I find them to be very thoughtful. In these clips, you’re going to hear me play. You will hear the thoughtful Jim Norton that I speak about. In many of these clips, Jim is speaking about his wife Nicki, a transgender woman from Norway, and as you likely know, the topic of transgenderism is a topic that tends to come up in comedy nowadays for whatever reason, and Jim and Neil here prove that there’s a way to have an intelligent conversation. First clip, again a warning, we’re a little more adult than usual, and on these clips I have made the occasional edit for language purposes, but I’m keeping the gist of the content intact.
Here’s Jim talking about his wife Nikki. She turns me on and she makes me laugh love, I love her brain. And I remember we had broken up at the end in twenty eighteen, but I remember we were I was like, I would love to because I enjoyed talking to her. I liked how she looked at these trans stuff in the way she discussed it, and I’m like, I would love to podcast or do something with her. And this is going back like almost six years now.
So we just started doing a channel. We’re just kind of showing snippets of our lives with no real goal, like because everybody has an idea of what this relationship should look like or what it is, and it’s just pretty much like any other relationship. And that’s kind of the point of this whole thing, is it’s not this magical thing when you have this is a weird question. Would you have been friends with her when she was a guy? You know, I didn’t know she started transitioning she was fourteen, so I can’t see her like that.
Like I’ve seen the baby pictures and there’s people in her family will still call her him like you know, and they’re like and then he I don’t even know if they’re being disrespectful or if it’s just such a habit. But I don’t know, Like if she de transitioned now, I would have a I wouldn’t want to I wouldn’t want to be in that relationship, even though I love her very much. I just don’t know how that would affect me. But no, I don’t know. I can’t picture her, like I can’t see it, like when I see old photos.
I can’t connect that to the person I’m with. Earlier in his career, Jim worked with Opie and Anthony with if you’re not familiar with them, they were shock jock shock Jockers, Scorched Earth, Shockjockers, and Jim talked about his time there. Neil was curious how the guys handled Jim’s sexuality, and I’ll let Jim tell it. I mean, our show was oh and he was a barbaric, hilarious show that made fun of everything. But they never cared about people being gay or bisexual, like in a legal sense, like they were never against gay people, but even like culturally it wasn’t even you’re gay.
It maybe you’re gay, but it was always yes, I’m not gay, but I’m definitely not straight. I was never a good ally for like LGBT never saw me as an ally because of the people that I’m with and the jokes I make and the things I’ve said. Well, all right, here’s the question whatever you’re vague sexuality is, do you feel like most people who’s either their non binary or they’re trans, or they’re all these new sort of they’re not new categories, they’re not new, they’re named. The naming them is new, categorizing them as new. But do you think that your experience is that off from most people within that realm?
I don’t know. I mean to be really honest, because I don’t understand a lot of it. I would assume it’s very contradictory and confusing within yourself. Well, I mean for me, I mean, there’s no way to consider myself straight. I never have.
Like you know, so many guys will say they misread it and they’ll go, you’re with uh, my wist name is Nick. You’re with her, and you think that he says he’s not gay, he’s delusional, But I’m not. If I was gay, i’d tell you I’m gay. I’m fifty five years old. I’m not nervous to say it.
And here’s a good left line about Jim’s turn ons. Is it like ordering off a menu or not ordering off a menu? What kind of food do I want tonight? Like Thai or Japanese or German? Or like we’re going on porn hub and being like old lady, I like ladies.
Sure, so then I within ladies, I go, I don’t know, maybe let’s see what if that’s anything. It’s like it’s more like blindly reaching my head into a bucket, and whenever I pull out, I’m likely fat. But is it that random? Does it feel that random? No, Like, whatever it is that will turn me on, it changes.
Adam Sandler was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast. This clip caught my ear. It’s a little weird. Sandler is acting like he’s the biggest Conan O’Brien fan, and he isn’t quite sure who Conan took over for on late night? Is that an obscure code?
In fact, the word late night is in the clue, Adam Sandler. But let’s listen. I’d probably told you this before, but when you got the show when we found out you were hosting the show and taking a you know over for lettering, right, Is that what it was? Yeah, it was unanimous with our reaction. Everyone was like, oh wow, yeah that’s great.
There was nobody going come, I didn’t get that about everybody was Conan’s name. Everybody just went yeah, wow, that’s perfect. What a great idea you were. You were sharper than everybody, but you. You You never came across nervous, like I remember watching your first night.
Who was the guest? It was Goodman? It was Goodman was the first guest.
And then Drew barrymore Wow.
And then uh Tony randall right came out like we’reing like a tuxedo.
And then he and I sang Adelweiss.
We wanted to do on the first show, tell everybody this is the kind of show it’s going to be. So he and I sang adel Weiss and they cut to the crowd and there was a weeping Nazi and we just wanted to tell everybody like this, this is what this show is going to be. Cool, all pulling for you, all knew you were the best, and like we were like, maw, it’s officially. Hopefully you had a chance to listen to Joe Rogan and Kat Williams. I played a few clips yesterday.
They started discussing automated vehicles. Kat Williams said he has owned several Rolls Royces, including an electric one. Rogan said that thing is insane, just the way the doors open up, the way the doors closed when he touched the brakes, totally silent. Kat said, except for the price point four undred and fifty grand, it would have been perfect. The La Times, I’m glad they’re still doing comedy articles.
They recently had a ton of layoffs, and I was worried their comedy coverage, which is excellent, would get cut. It has not. They had a nice article about crowd work. Matt Rice said, I think people come to the shows with a certain expectation. They see something online and inspire for it to be them in a certain situation, which I feel bad for because it might not happen.
Trevor Wallace said, I do think any content that stand up related is better for sales. I get a lot of like I saw a stand up clip and I didn’t know you do that. Now I’m here, But I actually thought crowd work was this magical thing that all only a couple comics did, and I never thought I was wild enough to do it. Now, crowd work is more than fifty percent of Hannah Burner’s online content. It’s kind of a necessity, she said.
I would argue early on, you can post some good bits to get traction for people to hear your voice, but when you’re putting together special you don’t want your jokes already all over the internet. Raife said. Audiences think that because you only post crowd work, it’s all you can do, and it’s like, no, I don’t want you to pay to come see me in person to see the exact same jokes you saw for free. Riife says crowd work’s drawback is very rarely does he receive an A one response from an audience member, so much that he’s been known to say, not funny.
Moving on, those clips don’t make it to social media, Rife says, you don’t se…
You don’t see me talking to somebody who absolutely gives me nothing. It’s never the person who yells out. It’s always the quiet ones that are at least assuming. Once again, the creators of the Simpsons may have predicted the future. Internet people think The Simpsons have predicted that weird Willy Wanka experience that I told you about the other day, and I’m glad I did you know, the one promoted as a journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises.
One clip online shows a bar of Wonka chocolate, a blue pipe, candy sticks, and one oople Loopa behind a pop up table. Another video shows a mystery character scaring kids well. A clip from The Simpsons has surfaced. It shows Homer Simpson charging a fifty dollars admission for Homer Land on a shabby looking sign, as well as a sad looking Oopa Luopa sitting smoking on a wooden box. While some of the screenshots are from different episodes, people are convinced it mirrors the House of Illuminatis infamous event.
On their social media page, the organizer said, I’m truly sorry for any upset and disappointment caused at the weekend. Refunds have been issued and will continue to do so. This was an event gone wrong. The House of Illuminati will not be holding any other events in the foreseeable future. Staying Animated Variety caught up with Dan Harmon talking about season seven of Rick and Morty.
That’s the season that just happened, Harmon said in the finale, where playing with the concept that we’ve fallen back on many times, where Rick considers moretyr replaceable. So this is kind of a final step into turning them into a partnership. Certainly not an equal partnership in any way, but they’re friends, their roommates. They’re kind of like Ernie and Bert. Showrunner Dan Martr says season eight will have a lot of similar flow and vibes to season six and seven, which is like a cool balance of silly and one up canonical stuff.
That’s the stuff I want as a fan. That’s the stuff Harmon and I work on, all jammed together. I’m really proud of these last couple of seasons. They’re sort of the perfect blend of what I look for as a fan. Notice we’ve stopped talking about the change in voices.
Martyr says, for Ian, who plays Rick, everyone who came in the door to do Rick screamed and felt like they needed to focus on that screen. But that’s just not Rick. A lot of the time, Ian worked on the opposite part that many people weren’t focusing on They talked about some popular fan theories. Matt Patt from the YouTube channel Film Theorists has proposed that the show is setting up mister Poopy Butthole to be the newest villain. Harmon said, ah, we can’t do that now where he could see us.
Right. Good job, Internet, you blew it again. Rick and Mordy season eight, not twenty twenty five, but this year we get Rick and Morty the anime. Quick note here, Kevin Casey White Harang is a new special ad on the eight hundred pound Gorillaz YouTube channel at seven up Pacific this evening. If you need something to do, and that is your comedy news for today.
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