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The Shark deck. Yo, what’s up. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Carrie Lake. Remember she ran for Arizona governor and lost.
Well, she’s leading the polls as to who could be Trump’s VP candidate. Stephen Colbert said she must have been so honored to have Magavotas choose her as the next vice president. They try to hang wow Valon. Of course, since it’s Trump, he’ll make the decision after holding a Miss Vice President pageant. Joe Rogan has opened his comedy club in Austin.
It is called The Comedy Mothership. Rogan took to the stage and said, you can’t fire me from my own club. The Holler Reporter has the story. I’ll read their sentence verbatim because it’s perfect. Unvaxed sperm reads the poster held aloft by a woman standing outside the theater, and you know you’re in the right place.
Joe Rogan’s new comedy club, Mecca. Tickets for the opening week of shows went for forty dollars per person, which the Holler Reporter points out is surprisingly reasonable. They sold out without minutes, and we’re being resold online for five hundred bucks. Rogan on stage wearing quote a rather odd obi Wan like sweater. I’m not sure what that means, and unfortunately I couldn’t find a picture.
Rogan said, I’m drunk and on mushrooms at my new club. This is as high as I’ve ever been on stage. I need to connect with this moment. You can’t fire me from my own club, bitch. The Hollywood borter ads the venus theme is Aliens meets Art Deco, the latter a respectful nod to the remodeled theater’s century long history.
There’s a UFO above the door in the lobby warnings that hecklers will be alienated, and a stargate like arch over the main stage. The theater is at washing black and Purple by Austin comedy standards, it’s easily the coolest looking venue in town that’s neat. The opening stretch of shows is billed as Joe Rogan and Friends. The first night included friends Ron White’s who retired from comedy, or maybe just retired from touring comedy, so he’s back. Babe, Tim Dillon, who I love, Roseanne Barr, and Tony Hinchcliff, who’s bringing the Killed Tony Show to Joe’s Theater, Tony Hinchcliff led the audience in a game called Kanye or the Jews.
The Holly Reporter says the audience and attendance was pretty standard for Rogan shows, which means they over index on the Three Bees, Bros, beards, and ball caps. I’m getting the feeling the person who wrote this isn’t the biggest Joe Rogan fan. Aren’t you getting that kind of vibe? Within seconds the first comic taking the stage, a gay slur was thrown out, followed by jokes about trans people. The audience hooted for the anti cancel culture crowd, this is their new safe space.
Rogan did a Q and A. He was asked how it felt having his club open. He said, it doesn’t feel real. I know it’s real, but it doesn’t feel real. I was super nervous today.
Joe, what’s your next milestone? I’m done with milestones. I think I just like risks. I’m like, oh yeah, let’s buy building on a street filled with crack addicts, Like I want someone to say no to me. They’re all like, okay, go ahead.
Who is your dream podcast guest at Joe Rogan? He said Hunter Biden. I could turn this around for you. If my dad had Alzheimer’s and I was doing coke, I would have done the exact same stuff you did. I really want to get him on.
Wow. Okay. The venue has two rooms, a headliner room called Fat Man and a smaller stage called little Boy. Little Boy and fat Man where the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War Two. By the way, there’s a bar named after Comedy Store co founder Mitzy Shore.
That’s cool, Rogan said He’s hired the best people from the comedy Store in LA to run the club. They’re doing the yonder pouch thing. Ah, that’s annoying. No phones, Come on, Joe, it’s Wednesday night. I just want to go out for drink, and you’re gonna make me lock up my phone.
Stop man, and all this stuff’s gonna get out anyway. Holli reporter adds security is a bit intense, as you have to get your face scanned, like you’re going through airport security at Heathrow. No thanks, Joe, don’t want to go. I’ll stay home. It’s fine.
The staff is numerous and friendly. The floor seating feels rather cramped, however, and in a move that feels outdated, the venue has the old school comedy club to drink minimum. Roseanne Barr said, I want to thank Joe for building this wonderful mothership for comedians. It’s so great in the green room with everybody up there being drunk and smoking pot, just like at the Comedy Store when Mitzy Shore was still alive and comedy was eff and king.
And then she went here.
After thirty years of fighting ABC to black writers and black characters on my show and then having the same effing lipsards turn around and called me a racist. It really effing pissed me off. I’m not sure what that had to do with the opening of the club, but okay, if nothing else, it’ll sure be interesting. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars on Sunday. People did an interview with him and asked him about the second most infamous thing that happened on the Oscars.
Remember when the wrong Best Picture winner was announced on live TV. Kimmel said, in some ways, it feels like an episode of a TV show I watched and then put out of my head. It was a very intense and confusing end to what it was otherwise pretty great night. He then talked about Slapgates, saying it’s still shocking that happened. To see something like that happened outside of the Maury Povid show is shocking.
Dated reference there, and then for it to happen on the oscar Is magnifies it by about a million times. I think it’s something that everybody regrets and we’ll move past. One day. It’ll be looked at in the same way as that guy running on stage naked has looked at a weird moment that we all talked about and hopefully we learned from. He commends Chris Rock.
I mean to be slapped in the face and stay that cool. Something Chris should be proud of. Chris’s grandchildren I hope will still be proud of that when he he’s dead and gone. Huge news out of Eastern Idaho. Guess who’s playing BYU Idaho tonight.
That’s right, Idaho’s own Ryan Hamilton, everybody’s favorite comedian. Now this from the East Idaho News, your home for comedy news. The forty six year old Ashton man Ryan Hamilton, who as you know, is from Idaho. We’ll be performing at BYU Idaho this Friday, his second stop in eastern Idaho since November. They had wait pre read the articles.
Johnny Mac, this next sentence is horrific. I didn’t read this in advance. Oh my god. Hamilton’s suffered ten broken ribs, a broken arm, and a punctured lung following an accident in January twenty twenty two. More than a year later.
He still has some scars. This just took an awkward turn. Leave it in. Hamilton’s sold the East Idho News. I’m able to do everything I used to do.
I’m still working on physical derby stuff, but I’m able to travel to the shows and made a lot of progress. It was quite serious, but I’m doing okay. I’ve learned a lot. Oh my god, John pre read these things. I thought we were just going to have some fun with the Idaho bit, and now I’ve just got this ikey feeling of what did you step in here?
John Hamilton hinted there could be another special coming in the near future. He said, I’d like to sell something sometime soon. We’ll see. It’s been a while. I feel like I’m ready to put something out.
Well, We’ll keep you posted, but hopefully soon. If you haven’t watched his first special, which I think is on Netflix. You really should. It’s really fantastic, And I don’t know if it’s his first special his most recent special. Let me put it that way before I start getting emails from the Ryan Hamilton mafia being like, dude, you said it was his first special, it’s obviously his third special.
Should I just google it and find out? Let’s do that and get this out of the way. I’m on Ryan Hamilton’s IMDb. I’ve learned here he’s Ryan Hamilton, the Third. He is known for The Oscars twenty twenty two, The Comedian twenty sixteen, and Inside Amy Schumer at twenty thirteen.
He appeared in one episode of Life and Beth in twenty sixteens The Comedians starring Roberton Nero. Ryan Hamilton played Ryan Hamilton from Wikipedia. His first one hour special, Happy Face, became available on Netflix on August twenty nine, twenty seventeen. Wow, it’s that long ago. That one’s really good?
Oh wow. Personal life. Hamilton resides in New York City. In January twenty twenty two, Ryan was hit by a shuttle bus as a pedestrian at Lax Airport and That’s where he suffered the ten broken ribs he recovered at his family home in Idaho. You ever feel like you started out to do a bit and you got trapped.
In sports, we call time out. So I think I’m going to step out of the huddle, look at the ref and make a tea with my hands being right back. Boy, that was awkward, wasn’t it. Kyle Kanane has a new special coming out March fifteenth for ten bucks, or if you’re cheap like me, wait till March thirtieth and he’ll stream it for free. Here’s the logline, Kyle Kanane, who is fantastic.
By the way, Kyle Knane is a wild man poet. He’s been laughing at anti vaxers for some time to their baseless claim that vaccines cause autism, he responds, effing good, we probably need more autistic kids. They’re the ones that keep beating robots at chess. It’s this type of serious thinking about our collective future that makes his new stand up special Shocks and Strets perfect for a moment. To him, dinosaurs were God’s little tricksters, and a foreskin is the devil’s calamari.
Using his unique parlance, the beloved comedian transforms our dull world into an emporium of the weird and wonderful. Kyle recently bought a van, a car that fits his look of someone who should be at home plotting to kidnap a democratic governor. Wow, and hit the road to Jehovah’s witnessed his bits around the country with his gruff voice, jeszlhart and ill fated confidence about hotel buffets, Kyle delivers an hour of keen commentary and messy adventure. He wonders how his pillows turn that color. He claims the way to make everyone in a cruise ship hots up immediately uncomfortable, and he marvels at pilots who aren’t intimidated by the hundreds of buttons and airplane cockpits, all of which should be labeled don’t die.
That’s a pretty funny copy. He’s fantastic and now I feel like I got it. I’m glad I called that time out right. Now we’re rocking first down, Johnny mc. Let’s keep going all right on three.
Kyle Knane is himself a skilled pilot of comedy. In fact, he’s like a comedy blue angel, darting and diving, taking risks and pulling off tricks. Bert Kreischer’s special will be out next week as well. This one called Bert Kreischer Razzle Dazzle. It is his third special.
In his special, Bert Kreisher spills in a riots, a set on bodily emissions, being bullied by his kids, and the explosive end to his family’s escape room outing. Bert Kreisher Razzle Dazzle streaming March fourteenth, south by Southwest kicks off tonight. Let’s take a look at the shows pretty Light Night. One variety Power of Comedy is at eight o’clock, three hours long. And this is more of an awards thing now.
Some of the people getting awards Chelsea Handler, Bob Oden, Kirkpatt and Oswald. So it’s kind of cool, but like, I don’t know, it doesn’t sound fun, if that makes sense. The comedy keynote has just this weird title, Zizek versus ZXZW My God, What is this poly crisis? A comedy keynote in twelve volumes. The bit is a celebrity philosophers slap off zzech unpacks to sex and then interrogates the collapse of collapse as a social Construct.
Boy, this isn’t deep, but it’s James Adomian, Anthon Yates, Hamniwick, Matt Besser, Christina, Katherine Martinez and Steph Tolev. That goes from eight to nine fifteen. I would much rather go see that, and then that would allow us at ten o’clock to catch the only other thing on the bill, which is the Super Good Show. Parentheses and stand up comedy Close Parentheses, expect super sets from some of your favorite stand ups and maybe a few new discoveries. Todd Barry, I’m Arnian, Katherine Blandford, Sam j Bettstelling, Emma Willman.
All right, let’s keep this simple tonight meet yet like five o’clock. We’ll love a couple of beers. We’ll make our way over to Esther’s Folly for the weird thing that’s the keynote with the improv. Guys. Will do that till nine fifteen, and then we’ll walk over to the Super Good Show ten to eleven fifteen.
And that’s a nice full night. Boy, that Ryan Hamilton thing really threw me for a loop. I didn’t know we were going there where you read the stories? John, all right, what can I tell you about some of the stuff’s gonna wait till Monday. Let me just clear this out.
The Podcast Academy gave out their podcast a war. It’s best comedy podcast went to I’ll sit here for five hours and let you guess. Okay, all right, it’s now five hours later. I edited that to make it easier for you. But I just sat here in silence for five hours and you still did not guess what one best comedy podcast.
So I’m going to tell you the winner is Why Won’t You Date Me? With Nicole Buyer m Best comedy podcast. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.
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