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Caloroga Shark Media. Am I supposed to believe this story? I’m Johnny Mack with Your Daily Company. Is from US magazine. Jimmy Fallon got lost in Bavaria but met new friends who drove him home.
Yeah, I’m supposed to believe this story. Okay, here’s how it goes. Jimmy Fallon is hiking in Bavaria and he got lost, and a clip Jimmy Fallon shared on Instagram, Jimmy Fallon is seen riding in the passenger seat of a convertible as he panned the camera. A woman was seen driving the vehicle and her son, Leon was in the back seat. They’re jamming to Queen’s Killer Queen.
Fallon exclaims, Yes, Jimmy Fallon captured the upload. I pretzol emoji Bavaria. The other day I got lost in the middle of nowhere in Bavaria. Thankfully, I made some new friends who offered to drive me back to my hotel. If you run into Leon or his mom, say hi and thank you from Jimmy.
Also shout out to radio station ninety three point seven of Bavaria great music. On a TikTok, Jimmy shared that he went for a walk to go look at the lake, which he didn’t end up finding. While listening to quote some book about breathing, Fallon made a left turn and didn’t think much about it. I end up going in someone’s yard and I don’t know where I am. I’m lost.
I’m completely lost. He attempted to use his phone, which was at five percent, at which point he realized he was almost two hours away from his hotel. He tried taking a short cut through a field, but the grass was getting taller and he was worried about getting bit by a snake. Fallen heads back to the main road, as the story goes, and put his thumb up to hitchhike. Yeah, there’s no one Jimmy Fallon could call.
There’s no Calves, there’s nothing. Jimmy Fallon is hitchhiking in Bavaria. After attempting to catch a ride with a stranger, Jimmy Fallon found his way to an autobody shop, where he met a fan who turned out to be Leon and offered him and ride back to his hotel. Jimmy says, we’re driving, and then Queen comes on the radio, Killer Queen, and we start jamming out and laughing tops down, sun is shining. Jimmy said he will never forget Leon and his mom, and we called nice people invited them to come see the tonight show.
Jimmy said, now I’m in love with Bavaria. I always thought I’d love it, but now I’m just wow. Yeah, all right. Sebastian Maniscalco, his poblicist, needs a raise. A lot of articles about Sebastian and this big concert he’s doing tonight.
This one’s from the La Times. They write the only thing comedian Sebastian Maniscalco really knew when he came to Los Angeles from the suburbs of Illinois twenty six years ago is they wanted to make people laugh and hopefully make some money doing it, at least enough to live on and keep his Italian family off his back about the dubious career choice of pursuing stand up comedy. Since then, a lot has changed. As he strives through the underground labyrinth in the whole of the two billion dollar spacecraft, looking into a dome, wearing snug black jeans, a heavily starched leopard print jacket, and perfectly cough silver hair, you’d think he owns the place. Sebastian the first comedian ever to perform at the Into It Dome.
He says, if you would have told young me, hey in twenty twenty four, just so you know, you’re going to be performing where the Clippers played basketball in an arena, I couldn’t comprehend it. Back then. That felt like something fame was never in the cards for me. Am I surprised that I’m doing this. I mean, I don’t know.
I just feel like I’ve worked so hard at what I do and people seem to enjoy the fact. You know that they come to see me an arena like this is flattering, Quite honestly, I don’t know if it’s even really kind of hit me yet. Anytime I do anything, I just think, where am I working tonight? I’m working at the comedy store tonight, and I’m working at the end to at Dome August seventeenth. I just feel like, you know, gonna work.
I just want people to say that I’ve never disappointed them at a show. That’s kind of what’s most important to me. You come to my show for an hour and a half, you’re gonna forget that your mother’s dying. You’re gonna forget the you know what, you just reminded me that my mother passed away earlier this year. Sebastian, this isn’t working at all.
That totally backfired, Thanks Sebastian. Now I have to sound fun for another ten minutes. Thanks Sebastian. You come to my show for an hour and a half. You’re gonna forget that your mother’s dying.
You’re gonna forget the you just told you have high blood pressure. Your goal is when you come here and watch comedy and forget all those things. It’s like medicine that didn’t work at all. Sebastian, you have totally funked me up.
Now for the rest of the pod.
The Innate Rate Tour is a new set about catching his fans up with his life as an older father of two young kids five and seven years old, and the pitfalls and parallels of life as a professional funny man as well as a dad. It’s a type of comedy he barely is time to rehearse because he’s too busy living it. Oh, publicist, you got that done. But while some comics thrive on the mundane life events of shopping for groceries or going to the mall, picking the kids up from soccer practice. Sebastian’s career no longer gives the time to live those things.
Instead, it’s more about the things he misses when he’s on the road. He says, went to a water slide party yesterday with my kids and my wife, and I realized how I’m not part of the dad crew because I’m out of town a lot.
Meanwhile, they’ve been hanging out for three years.
I felt like it was my first day at high school trying to find a friend. I would imagine someone would recognize him and want to talk to him. Looking back, everything happens for a reason the way it should. But yeah, I wish I would have started having kids a little earlier, because you know, start looking your life and going, Okay, my kid’s five, I’m fifty. I’m almost double the difference between my father and I, And you start to think, am I going to be around for this kid when he gets married at thirty five?
He might be changing my hyper on his wedding day. A lot more of that article, maybe I’ll pick it it tomorrow. A Fox spoke to Carol Burnett, who was nine twenty one years old. She described how comedy has changed. As for the golden era of shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carol Burnett says they’re funny in character driven, they’re not scantological or blue.
She called modern day comedy boring and not funny. I’m not a prude, but sometimes I think some of the stuff today it’s been kind of easy to get a laugh by being a little blue. I don’t mind if it’s within the character, but if they do it just to say a bad word, I think it’s boring and it’s not funny. Funny is the Dick Van Dyke Show? Funny?
Is Mary Bob Newhart all in the family and they hold up today? Some people she would still like to work with. I would say Meryl Streep because she’s funny and boy can she’s sing. George Clooney for obvious reasons. Bradley Cooper for obvious reasons.
I’ve had good fortune of working with in my career, with over three hundred people because of my show eleven years, two guest stars a week. I’m just so lucky. Las Vegas Magazine has spoke to Carlos Mencia. He’s been doing a show called Stars of Comedy at Harris Well. Had that appen Carlo Smincia, He says, you know, I expected at some point in my career to do this.
I’ve been touring consistently ever since I started doing stand up in eighty eight. To be in Vegas and have these people coming to me instead was very, very inviting. Another thing I felt was I need to do something different, something new, something more challenging. I thought it would give me a different jolt of energy, and it has. I’ve done four shows, and they’re all about sixty to eighty percent different.
When an opportunity presents itself like this one, I’m gonna enjoy to the fullest. I’m gonna give myself to it completely, one hundred percent. Not ninety nine point nine, but one hundred percent. Whenever I venture in any endeavors, wherever it may be, I give myself one percent of the moment that I have to that endeavor, so I know at the end of it, I did my best. I gave it to my all.
That’s also something that really makes me happy. Carlos. Do you stay in Las Vegas is Sunday Monday shows? Oh? Hell yes.
I love the fact that in Vegas can get a good bite anytime. Every day is Friday or Saturday, depending on which one of those you like. It’s a twenty four hour city that’s awake all the time. I love that energy. I love that I can wake up at any time and say, hey, let’s go do this.
A British comedian I hear Shaw has a new special coming to Netflix. Shaw is a twenty twenty three Edinburgh Comedy Award winning stand up This is his debut Netflix special, going to be out on Netflix September tenth. There is a clip. It’s a little lengthy. I will comment on the other side of the clip.
Here, let’s listen. My name is Ahershah. That is my name, by the way, Right, I didn’t used to need to clarify this until a few years ago. I was doing this gig in Switzerland. Right.
I was doing a gig in Switzerland, and the theme of this gig was that every comedian was from a different country. Right. I was the British entrant, very modern, and it was one comedian I was particularly excited to meet, right because this guy’s name was Ali Al said right now. Ali is a stand up comedian from the United Arab Emirates. Of all places, right now.
I’d never met anyone from the United Arab Emirates, let alone a comedian from the United Arab Emirates. To be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t think that they had comedians in the United Arab Emirates. I assumed he’d just be walking on stage being like, what’s the deal with unspeakable oil wealth. He’s a very nice man and a very funny man. Right after the show, all the comedians we’re all backstage, we’re all hanging out, we’re all having a laugh, we’re all having a drink.
Not Ali, obviously, right, and we get to talk him and he says to me, like, listen, bro, like we’re friends now, right. I could ask you a question. You’re not going to get offended. I’m like, listen, brother, you’re from Dubai. I’m of South Asian origin.
As long as the question you have for me is not do you want a job on a construction site industrialized slavery? There? You can ask me whatever the hell you like. There’s nothing like that. I was just wondering, when did you decide to start using the hilarious comedy stage name Ahir Shah.
To be honest with you, I don’t really remember, but I think that it was probably around the twenty eighth of December nineteen ninety when I plopped out of mister Shaw and she and mister Shaw had a word between them and decided to call their newborn Bundle of Joy Are here? I think that’s round about when I started going by, Oh here, Charlie’s right, right, right, right right, Okay. One thing you probably should know in case you’re ever around my neck of the words is that in Arabic, your name means prostitute king. Now, there was a long way to go for the setups, but I think they paid off. I laughed out loud.
I’ve talked about the past how I’m a psychopath. It doesn’t actually laugh at stand up comedy. That guy two l for me. So that’s pretty good. A here Shaw, September tenth on your Netflix.
Hey, we’ve got a new podcast coming out. It is called five Minutes of Gratitude. What is it, John, Well, it’s five minutes of Gratitude, That’s what it is. It’s in the title. You listen for five minutes and you get all mindful and you think about where you should be grateful in your life.
Trailers out now check it out. Five minutes of Gratitude Number five Minutes of Gratitude wherever you get your shows Today and Juliet It’s Blues Brothers Con. The sequel, dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi are back Baby first Age in twenty twenty two. Blues Brother’s Con is the celebration of the Blues Brothers, specifically the nineteen eighty film. Yes, there have been some other projects, but you know those aren’t.
It’s cool. Blues Brothers Con features musical performances by a deep roster of blues acts. The day of music leads up to the main event, a performance by the real Blues brother Is led by Dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi. Jim has frequently filled in for John Belushey over the years. The event also includes a bluesmobile car show, a blues bar, Bevere tent, and plenty of official licensed blues at Brothers merch.
This sounds like fun. It’s today, eleven thirty am to eleven pm Rayner Shine. Tickets available at Julietprison dot org and Juliet Museum dot org. Proceeds for the event support the Juliet Area Historical Museum, Audible and Broadway Video. That’s Broadway.
I don’t know specifically the ownership or Broadway is associated at least with Lord Michaels in SNL Anyway, Audible and Broadway Video are launching some original comedy podcasts. One is called The Best Man’s ghost Writer, voiced by Glenn Powell. The cast includes a whole bunch of people, including Zach Braff, Deborah Messing, George de Kay, Jack McBrayer, Nicole Bayer, Neil Flynn, you know the janitor from Scrubs, and he was on whatever the Middle was that the Middle, Jason Minzukis, and others. A lot of cast here. I don’t know how this thing’s gonna make any money.
I’ve got some expertise in podcasting. I guess Audible’s got a model where you can pay all those people. You go Audible in that it’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
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