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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mack, Is it true that you do a lot of Joe Rogan stories because putting Joe Rogan in the episode titles helps the numbers. Yes, it is true. Joe Rogan said about his new club, the whole idea is to make it the best possible place for stand ups to perform. He was talking about the club with his guest Andrew Schultz. Schultz said, what Joe’s trying to say is the whole idea is for him to make no money.
It’s for comedians to make all the money. Rogan said, Look, my only goal is at the club break even. I don’t care if him makes money. I make a lot of month. I don’t worry about money.
Comedian Paul Smith is into the mental health benefits of MMA training Ahead of his Octagon fight with a reality TV star Jeeke Quickenden. Paul Smith says it’s been really good for my head. Smith and Quickenden will square off in Manchester in a fight promoted by Octagon. Smith was motivated to swap telling jokes for taking punches when he realized it could benefit Liverpool based charity Weapons Down loves Up. Smith told Talk Sport, I’m a big fan of MMA and I’ve kind of dabbled in a little bit and more of a spectator.
I’ve loved it for years. I get asked to do fights all the time. I don’t know why. The charity I’m doing it for is Weapons Down, Gloves Up. The promotion offered me good money and I said no to it.
Then a few events happened in Liverpool where some kids were killed senselessly. I was reading about the charity and I thought, if I can do it for a good cause, sure, why not? He said. I’m about two months into the journey now and it’s done wonders for my mental health, which was just a lovely side effect to it all. It’s been really good for my head, especially getting deep into the tour.
I’m on the road all the time, and I’ve been able to maintain training and stay disciplined with the diet and stuff. I’d recommend to anyone if you’re struggling with mental health, get into an MMA gym. Do you think they’re gonna be these scary places full of dead, aggressive people, but they’re full of lovely people. It’s really support if you get in here and you end up chatting to them like therapists. It’s just mad.
This is a one off. I’m never doing it again. I love my job. I don’t need to do this. I’ve got massive respect for people to do this for a living.
It’s something you’ve got to be fully in. It’s taken that much of my life. I’ll do it once, but I wouldn’t make it my whole life because I’m having to sacrifice a lot to do this. I really want to change my Instagram profile to undefeated professional MMA fighter. That reminds me.
I recently challenged Joe Rogan to fight in the ring anytime, anywhere. Joe, My challenge stays out there. Are you afraid? Jim Gaffigan talked about his Sunday commentaries on CBS, and Jim said, my son, who’s seventeen, when I do these CBS Sunday commentaries, he’s like, you’ve got to come at it more hard, and I’m like, it’s a Sunday morning show, and he goes, yeah, coming it harder. You got to shock people.
And I’m like, no, it’s not necessary. People are drinking coffee and I’m talking about an observation about receipts. I don’t need to shock them. Jim talked about working clean, said, the great irony is that, of course I curse in everyday life when I’m dealing with my children, but I don’t on stage. Anyone who’s a parent knows that when you’re at work, you’re not sitting there cursing.
But if you’re trying to deal with the twelve year old Will refuses to wear her winter coat, you get frustrated. My journey to being or I think understanding that I’m a clean comedian, it was a journey. I tried a lot of different types of comedy. Some of my favorite comedy is filthy or reverend or shock based, but it has to be authentic. I’m from a small town in Indiana where I’m from.
If you stubbed your toe, you could curse people. It would understand that. But you’re talking about Burger king, Why are you cursing? Nashville see And asked Sarah Silverman about her time hosting The Daily Show. She said, I had experienced things like that before.
I’ve hosted shows and stuff, but the immediacy of it being daily was an incredible experience. Just how jokes can’t be precious. She can’t spend too much time. The producer Jen Flanz is there when you’re working on the content for the show, and if we spend too much time on a joke, she’s like, keep it, leave it, move on. And it was so cool.
I love the feeling of immediacy. You know, it’s a completely different approach to than material because you want it to be as good as it can be, but you also have to just move on, keep going. All right, Sarah, who would you like to see guest hoe? She said, Oh, my gosh, I don’t know so many people. I think Tignet Sara would be hilarious.
Yeah, I could see that working. I’d like to see what Zach Galafanakis does with it. I mean, there’s so many people, so many comics that’d be fun. Chelsea Handler did a phenomenal job the week before me. She can do that in her sleep.
It’s just so fun to watch the headline in the New York Post. New York City loses one of its greatest three am fight venues. Yeah, the McDonald’s on the corner of sixth Avenue and West Third closed last year, but it’s got a new owner. Gnoms Warman. He’s the owner of the Comedy Seller.
He purchased the building for seven point three million dollars. Apparently the Comedy Seller’s doing okay, he tell The New York Post he plans to open a third comedy club. He owns the Comedy Seller and the Village Underground around the corner. He says the new place will have a similar vibe to the Comedy Seller, although it’ll be a little more theatrical because we’re gonna have a mezzanine there. He’s at the comedy industry is alive more than ever, and he needed to find a way to solve the overflow problem.
He likes the location. It’s right across the street from the subway. It’s freestanding. There’s not an issue with tenants who are inconvenienced by the club or by the lines, things like that. So I bought it with an eye and a half towards my children’s future, not just mine.
As an aside, that particular McDonald’s was quote once known as the injury at your own risk emporium, a fast food with a history of fast moving fists and not a sober person in sight. Former McDonald’s was considered one of the most violent in the city, suggesting that there were even more violent in McDonald’s in New York City. Z you in port to its location surrounded by bars and their belligerent patrons. First of all, when you’re in the village, you hit the grace. Papaya is the grace Papaya long gone.
I haven’t hung out in the villa since the nineteen nineties. It’s possible that it closed. I think it did close. And like most things on this podcast, it all comes back to Adam Sandler. Why in the movie Big Daddy, one of the Adam Saidler great films, Adam Sandler yells out his iconic line, will somebody get this kid?
A happy meal? Took place in that McDonald’s. How about that? Huh. Chris Gethard is doing an off Broadway show at the Minetta Lane Theater this weekend.
It’s called A Father and the Son Sun till Broadway World is inspiration was well, like any comedian, it was a kid. There’s gonna be jokes that show up in the joke notebook about it, and I had a few of those along the way. I was doing them on stage and workshopping stuff. I was driving to a show with another great New York comedian, Martin Nobrono. He was with me in the car.
We were driving to a show together. We were having conversation, not about jokes, not about our aco, talking about getting bullied as a kid, and I was telling him, how am I going to wrap my head around that? If it shows up my kid’s life, am I gonna flip out? And he started asking me about it, and I told him a story about this thing my dad did one night and he was like, dude, you have to tell that on stage. And I was like, no way, that story’s really dark, and he was like, you gotta try it, man, it’s pretty incredible.
So he tried it out in an outdoor show in Massachusetts at a place called Ralph’s Rock Diner. Chris said, if there’s any place where I can see if I can get away with it, let me try and hear in this parking lot in Massachusetts, The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bill Lawrence. He’s the brains behind ted Lasso and Scrubs and a bunch of other things you probably like, and they asked him about ted Lasso spinoffs. His answer, if you hear anybody hedging it’s just because everybody’s super comfortable with the fact that Jason gave up a lot to move his family in his life to London. It’s really rough.
The truth is he’ll come out of the smoke of cutting this show and doing all this stuff, and if he feels like doing more, he’ll do more, and if he doesn’t, he won’t. I’ll tell you I’ve never met a dude less motivated by dollar signs. I mean, I’m a producer. I’d be doing ted Lasso cartoons already. If you’d like to support the show, there are two things could do.
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Comedian Al Murray has revealed he gets targeted on social media by companies selling hair loss cures. You see, Al Murray has this comedy persona, the pub Landlord, and the pub landlord is bald. However, Al Murray not bald. He said, I have a full out of here. They always say have you lost weight?
I get sent things on Instagram baldest peers and stuff, but I don’t need it. He was asked of his alter ego. Do you ever feel like you’ve created a monster you can’t escape? Murray said, I do want to look in the mirror and I’ve cut my hair off. Yeah.
The host was incredulous, you actually cut your hair off. You don’t wear a bald thing. Apparently not. How did the pub landlord come to be? It happened one night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Murray said, I did a show with Harry Hill and it came on put all the bits together and it didn’t work. So the night we got to the Edinburgh Fringe, we were in a bar and I said, why don’t we just say that the MC didn’t turn up and the barman has offered a fill in and he went whatever, And I went on and did the Pub Landlord and it worked, so the next day I cut my hair off. The Pub Landlord went on to become soap popular that he hosted three series of Saturday night entertainment shows Al Murray’s Happy Hour on ITV. Murray said fans are always surprised when they see him with the air. That is your comedy news for today.
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