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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was very excited that Jimmy Carr decided to put out a podcast. All of a sudden, there it is The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr. On that show, Jimmy invites a celebrity guest to pitch an idea for a film based on one of the super niche subgenres on Netflix, from steamy crime movies from the seventies to Australian dysfunctional family comedy starring a strong female lead.
Guests pitch the plot, their dreamcast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between, and it’s up to Jimmy Carr whether it gets made. This is in partnership with actual Netflix. From the press release, where does Nick Muhammad’s mind go when asked to make In Everybody’s Home for the Holidays film? What’s the narrative arc for Ramesh Wagon, Athans BRB Crying Tear Jerker? What on earth would Michelle Wolf’s Coming of age Animal Tale look like?
Find out On The Big Pitch. Phil Wang is the guest on episode one, so I’m doubly in. I love Phil and I’m a big Jimmy Carr fan Car said, by night I’m a stand up comedian, but by day I have a proper job in real show business. I commissioned movies for Netflix, so if you’ve ever seen a movie liked on Netflix, you’re welcome. This podcast gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the rigorous pitching process and also a good excuse to mess around with some very funny friends.
Jimmy might be the British Kevin Hart. Jimmy Carr also not afraid to work. This guy’s always got stuff going on. One of my favorites, maybe actually my favorite comedian right now. Ten episodes every other Wednesday, but the first one is already out.
Jimmy was also recently a guest on Joe Rogan. As I speak the sentence, I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but it is queued up for one of my dogwalks. Let’s stay across the pond for a second, as they say, this one not funny at all. A comedian who joked about the Liverpool parade crash had a show canceled following a social media backlash. This from the BBC in case you missed it at least six twenty five people were injured.
On Monday, a car crashed into the crowd which had gathered for Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade. Comedian Andrew Lawrence on social media boasted he would drive through crowds of people to get out of the city. People did not react to that well. His comedy gig was canceled. Lawrence said he was disappointed the venue had lost their courage after being bombarded with abuse and threats of violence from online trolls.
A spokesperson for the club said we send everyone impacted by the tragic events in Liverpool our support and prayers. Lawrence described the cancelation of his gig as understandable but disappointing. I will reschedule for later in the year at a different venue in South End. Sorry for the inconvenience, Have a great day. The BBC reminds us that in twenty twenty one, one of Lawrence’s stand up gigs in Hampshire was canceled after racist comments he made about England’s black footballers.
Mark Marin is part of a documentary coming out in August called Anxiety Club. Anxiety Club behind the scenes, content and commentary from fellow comedians about how mental health impacts their daily lives and the trailer, and Maren says, most of what reacted to with something your brain is making up. My anxiety stopped me from having children.
Also appearing Tiffany Jenkins, Baron Vaughan upon an Atula, Mark normand Eve…
The opening scene of Anxiety Club shows Mark Normand doing a rooftop gig. He says, I love a roof gig. This goes horribly, I could just jump right off. Joe List is then seen in a comedy club making jokes about how many times his thoughts about his parents dying or him being diagnosed with cancer across his mind every day. The press release says all of the comedians in Anxiety Club have created stand up or sketch material about their mental health that’s not only funny, but uniquely relatable and disarming two audiences.
Anxiety Club arrives on Jolt August fifteenth. Eddie Murphy will start in the pick Up. Pete Davidson also in the Pickup. It will be on Amazon Prime Video August sixth. In the Pickup, a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when two mismatched armored trucks drivers Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson, are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo.
As chaos unfolds, the unlikely duo must navigate high risk danger, clashing personalities, one very bad day that keeps getting worse. Do You Not So Canceled? A z’son Sorry is part of the cast of Good Fortune, stars Keanu Reeves. This is a movie which will be in theater’s October seventeenth. Good Fortune introduces Kano Reeves as Gabriel, a well meaning but rather an ept angel who decides to intervene in the lives of a struggling gig worker played by a zizin Sorry, and a wealthy venture capitalist Seth Rogan.
Do You not so canceled? Azason? Sorry? Told Entertainment Weekly, I’m not buying this. This sounds like Hollywood stuff.
When Reeve’s name came up and casting, I’m sorry, wasn’t so sure? Right? Yeah? No, I don’t want to be in your movie. No, not at all.
Told Entertainment Weekly that guy Reeves just seems like he’s on a different planet, you know what I mean. Doesn’t seem like would be able to interact when they finally met, I’m sorry, was awestruck to the point, and sorry was nervous not only about working alongside a Hollywood giant he grew up watching, but also directing him. I was like, hey, man, we got to hang out a few times, so I’m not freaked out about being around you, you know what I mean. So he was like, I get what you mean. So he hung out, and he came over to my house and I made him Indian food and we hung out for a while and he told me all these stories, and then we went to dinner a couple of times, and I tried to really spend time with him, to get to know him a little bit so I could become comfortable around him.
Mm hmm. Good job, publicist, Good fortune, October seventeenth, in theaters. More from that Hollywood reporter around table with various comedians. My former coworker Jamie Fox said, I had a special deal for a long time, but I had nothing to talk about. What was I going to talk about?
I was rich, I was behind my gates. I remember seeing Eddie Murphy at his house. This was around coming to America, and he says he’s going to go and try and do stand up and I say to him, you can’t. He says why, and I say, this ain’t funny. Your house is too nice.
Whatever that scent is. He had a scent, you know, the stuff that pumps through the house. And I said, what does that smell? And he said it’s pomegranate. And I said, the fact that you know what that is tells me you ain’t funny.
Bro It was too perfect, and that was me. I was living in that, so I didn’t have anything to talk about. Then this stroke happened, and I’m like, oh, this is a platform, but I don’t want to have another stroke, even though we have a deal for another hour. As it’s the beginning of a new month, let me thank the supporters of the show. They’ve gone to buy me a Coffee dot Com and thrown some money in the tip jars.
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If you are on another platform, go to calibrog dot com, slash plus, or check the link in the show notes. But supporters, thank you very very much, appreciate it. The Atlantic had written a piece about Colin shows, saying the Weekend Update host and knows exist exactly what he’s doing. Good take by The Atlantic, They say, when Joe’s first took the job as a weekend Upday co host in twenty fourteen, he came across as a cocky prep school kid, doomed to discover that the rest of the world does not share the high opinion he has of himself. Some armchair critics and social media users sigh that, of course, Lorne Michaels had given the show’s most prestigious job to another bland white guy.
But eventually Joe seemed to find that he could win the public’s goodwill by acknowledging its disdain leading into his unlikability gave Jose a distinctive comedic energy, and funnily enough, made him a lot more likable. Jose found his groove by appearing to accept that many people were eager to tell a guy like him off. He didn’t exactly shed his entitled persona, but he settled into a role as sort of a pressure release valve, a way for others to process their cultural anxieties. For example, Sarah Sherman is his greatest tormentor. Sherman demonstrated a talent for nimbly turning every innocuous thing Joe said against him, at one point insisting that he kissed Michael Chay and accused him of being a homophobe for refusing, and when he finally agrees, accusing him of now mocking the queer community by pretending to be gay.
Hers depict him as representative fairly or not, of an antiquated mindset the Sherman’s open minded peers are perpetually butting up against. But she also paints Jose as someone who can’t win because he’s unable to keep up with the speed of her humor, and the more she piles it on, the funnier. The exchange becomes and in this one just just I’m leaving all that in. You could see it fried my brain. I don’t know what to make of this.
Tiffany Hattish and the CEO of Fanatics, the sports Apparel Guy, they were on CBS this morning’s and for some reason, Tiffany Hattish is involved with Fanatics veest. The Fanatics guy said they had seventy thousand fans show up at last year’s Fanatics Fest, So what could they do to make it next level? Well eight sports them to challenges. First place wins a million dollars, second place a five hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. Don’t forget you have to pay Texas in that Ferrari, and third place gets a two hundred and fifty grand lebron James Rookie trading Card.
Confirmed participants include Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, Kevin Hart, Rob Gronkowski, and quarterback Russell Wilson. Now why Tiffany Hattish was part of this, I don’t know. Is she hosting this? The article didn’t tell me, But Tiffany said, I’m very athletic. I was all city in high school, shot put, I run fast, jump high, and throw hard.
So anyway, Fanatics Fest is coming up, and I guess Tiffany Hattish is going to be there, but I’m not sure. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. We already talked about how to get a commercial free, so I’ll just stop talking and I’ll see tomorrow