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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Joe Cooy he’s working on his sixth Netflix special and he’s going to get a vinyl version of it from Netflix. That’ll probably be one of those where they make like twelve copies, sell them in the cool record store in Portland and then pretend it’s an album and submitted for a Grammy. Joe Coy sa, Eddie loves vinyl, his son loves vinyl, and Joe Cooy collected Eddie Murphy albums when he was a kid.
Now, come on, you didn’t collect Eddie Murphy albums? There were what two? That’s not a Collection’s I bought to Eddie Murphy albums? Anyway, Joe Coy said, this one could be a lot of fun. I’m a lot older and my son’s a lot older.
Now he’s on the road with me now, so there’s that to talk about it. It’s a new chapter. If you watch all my specials, it’s literally like watching the story of my son and myself growing up. I’ll go way back and it’s like a flash before my eyes, these little flashback moments where it takes me back to raising my son and I get well, well, little sentimental. I wonder if he’s sentimental about that time he hosted the Golden Globes.
I don’t know if you remember this. He told this horrible, just awful, like j LENO mean level of joke about Taylor Swift, who then justifiably gave him the stare. You think Taylor Swift is going to just smile at an innocent joke. No, She’s gonna try and crush your career. Here.
Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Sebastian Man of Skalgo likes comparing stand up to music. He says, I feel like there’s a music element to stand up in the sense that it has a rhythm, pacing in cadence, whether you go higher with your voice or go lower to bring the audience in. That’s very smart dispassion with my act.
There’s also a physicality that’s infused into the material. I’m not just standing there behying a microphone telling jokes. That movement I compare to dance. It’s almost like you’re dancing to your words. Sebastian wants you to leave his show talking about what you saw, not just the performance, but the production value of it.
He explains, you’re charging a high ten price. You don’t want to have somebody walk in and see performing on the stage at the arena gave you. I designed the stage for the ID Ain’t Right Tour as a triangle because when I was out and the round, I felt like I was walking in circles. With the triangle, I have three points to go to.
Also very smart, I like to get involved with the nuts and bolts of the produc…
The lighting, The steps to the stage light up when I stepped on them. I came out on a vespa. I did a pre show video that correlated to the vespa. I was in a vespa on the screen and the next thing you know, I come on stage on a vespa. They’re gonna leave hopefully talking about how much they laughed and not about how beautiful the lighting rig was.
But it enhances the experience. Kathy Griffin has apologized for teasing Anna Nicole Smith. In a YouTube video, Kathy Griffin recounted her relationship with Smith back in the day. Griffin rarely joked about Smith and impersonated Smith by slurring her words. Kathy did this in various tours and including some televised Bravo specials.
Kathy Smith one of the greatest beauties of any generation, but noted she was also very troubled as her career went on. She was very addicted to drugs. She overdosed, That’s how she passed away. It’s no secret I knew her from putting her in my act. I really loved her.
So let me just talk about her because I was quite vicious to her in my act because she was always efed up. Griffin said, she is a real genuine affection for Anna and didn’t know one minute to the next if she was gonna hate me or not based on what I was saying in my act. Let me to say again apologies for everything I ever said in the nineties and two thousands. But once again, unless you live through the nineties and two thousands, you don’t know what a vicious time it was. Comedically vicious it was, I guess it was.
So I was vicious to Anna, and I also witnessed a lot of tough times with her because when she was messed up, she could be nasty, she could be rough. I know in her heart she was so abused by the business. Well, while we’re talking about people that were just horribly mean and vicious in the nineties and two thousands, we’ve got to talk about arguably the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. The nerve of this guy. He went on the Big Three podcast and started talking about electric vehicles.
The nerve of this guy. He said, it’s a bit like music. For years, rap wasn’t recognized the same way rock and roll wasn’t recognized. I know rock and roll guys that hate rap, and I know rap guys that hate rock and roll. But I think I feel like music.
It’s the same thing with automobiles. I get it. I like all types of cars. This guy in these opinions liking all types of cars. J Letto is the worst, he says.
People get mad at me. They say, you’ve got another ev on your show. I’m not watching j Leto’s garage anymore. Jay says, well, okay, don’t watch, but next week we’ll have a gas car. We’ll have something you might like.
You can’t do the same thing every week. The nerve of this guy. Unbelievable. This guy, Jay says to me, I think the EV with the savior of classic cars because classic cars do use more gas than they pollute, but as their percentage gets smaller and smaller, if everyone is driving an EV, it’s not so much pressure to get gas cars off the road. I consider it a good thing.
This guy’s unbelievable.
Let’s talk about somebody nice and not like crazy.
J Leno weird now talk to the La Times and he said, I think that the craftsmanship is one of the reasons that the humor works so well. And I think the best parody is material that emulates the original source as closely as possible. It helps the joke if you’re sucked into thinking you’re listening to a particular pop song and then think, wait a minute, these aren’t the lyrics I’m used to. I’ve got one of the best bands of the world, and they do every genre flawlessly, and that’s what helps make the whole actwork. The core band has been together for over forty years, and we’re kind of telepathic and the way we communicate now, so we’re a lot better than we were back in the day.
Bill Engvall, back on the Road, admitted to being a little rusty, and a friend said, well, it’s like riding a bike. Bill says, yeah, but you got to remember, if it’s the front break of the back break, you picked the wrong one. You’re going over the handlebars. Bill talked about the success of the Blue Collar Tour and explains it was one of those perfect storm things. We appealed to this faction of people all over the country, good old Americans, from plumbers to doctors to authors.
We were clean, which was a big deal for a lot of people. Late Bergetzi’s sure to learn that. Lesson Jeff Ross, why did you take your show to Broadway? Jeff said, And this is smart. If you don’t surprise your audience at this stage of the game, I think you kind of fade away.
I’ve seen this happen to funny people. They go, this works. Let me keep doing this because it pays the bills. I always kept my overhead down. Part of that is not having a kid’s and wife.
I lived the life of a bachelor. Then I can do what I want creatively. It gives me some freedom. I’m not responsible for anyone but myself and my dogs. I go, let me take a creative swing here instead of going on the road and touring like a regular stand up act.
I can invest in something that’s more creative filling at this point, especially after a near death experience. Jeff talked about changing his surname from lift Schultz to Ross. Why, Jeff Ross explains, was early in my career, as coming out of the open mic scene, I got booked on Star search Ed McMahon was hosting. He kept introducing me saying, this week’s challenger Jeff Lipschitz, and then the next episode was Jeff Lipshot. He couldn’t get it right.
I was flying home. I thought maybe my name is too complicated. I didn’t have confidence, and when they screwed it up and screwed up my performance, I spent the first twenty five years of my life correcting people, every teacher, of her employer, every date. How do you spell it? How do you say it?
So I went with my middle name Ross, named after my great grandma Rose. Jeff was asked if he felt like he was losing his family identity. This is very interesting. His answer, no, it was a little weird. But my grandfather was a band leader and he went from Lift Schultz to Larsen many decades before.
He was gone already, so I didn’t get to talk to him about it. But I’d gone to film school, I studied advertising design. I was like, I don’t think lift Scheltz is going to work as a calling card as a marquee. Nowadays people in more open to that kind of stuff, but at the time, I’ve been teased about my name as a kid so much that I was like, why am I giving people this? Let me make it simple.
Vered Oz is gearing up for a residency at New York City’s Lincoln Center. Wow. His new show, Hey Stranger, will be part of their comedy series. Veeer says, It’s never happened before for someone where I came from, and it’s quite a prestigious room. So I’m worried about writing the show, he told Variety.
Really, all I’m thinking about is the jokes. I remember day one of the trial shows. They were like, yeah, it’s funny, and usually that’s all comedian needs to hear is yeah it’s funny. But is it West End? Is it Broadway?
And there’s a journey from funny to there, and I’m trying to make that journey. Can I write a show that truly takes Indian comedy to anybody in the world, like really, really anyone in the world. People you’ve never met before and are never going to meet again, have nothing to lose and can tell you the truth in a way that people you know can’t anymore. And I’ve had this strange life that’s been deeply impacted by strangers. I’ve seen more of the world than anybody I’ve ever met.
So the show really is a stranger comes to down and wherever you were from in the world, you could come and see the Stranger. I think that’s the show. Hey, Stranger, Lincoln Center, October twenty ninth through the ninth, and that’s your comedy news on It’s the summer Saturday. The forecast was pretty good. Hopefully I’m at the beach right now as you’re listening to this.
Tomorrow football can’t wait rooting against the Jets, finding out if my forty nine ers or any good or not. I have no idea. You know that guy Scott that listens to the show. He messed up. He invited me to his football pool.
He thinks I’m some goofy guy recording a podcast in the basement. He has no idea what he’s in for as I take his money in the weekly football pool. Keep you updated on that. See you tomorrow.