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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know I love a good fight, right. Joe Rogan’s dad said the money went to Joe Junior’s head. You may recall on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe said, the idea that Jewish people don’t like money is ridiculous. That’s like sang Italians aren’t and pizza.
It’s effing stupid. Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti Defamation League, tell The Near Post it’s disturbing that, at a time of rising anti Jewish violence, when growing numbers of Americans believe in anti Semitic conspiracy theories, that Joe would use his immense platform to spew anti Semitic tropes about Jews and money. The Post decided to check in with Joe Rogan Senior. He’s eighty one. He lives in New Jersey.
He had a message for Joe Junior, which is, who are you to judge people who made you God? Last night, Rogan Senior told The Post, I’m not prejudiced. Everybody’s got to live, and I teach my kids that this bothers me. The money went to his head, and his head got bigger than his hat. He fools people.
A Spotify source said Joe’s come did adhere to the company’s policies, but not everybody inside the company was happy with the policy. Spotify guidelines release last year a state that content should be avoided if it incites violence or hatred towards a person or group of people based on race, religion, or makes dehumanizing statements about a person or group. Rogan Junior has in the past accused his father of domestic violence and described Senior as quotes a psychotic person who beat the f out of my mother. Joe Senior, a former Harrison, New Jersey, Police Department officer, denies all the claims. He told the Post he had sent his son and Spotify a legal letter last September to force Joe Junior to stop talking about him.
He still wants to see Joe Junior, however, and wants Joe to meet his half twin sisters, Bridget and Rosa. They’re both forty three. Ricky Gervais shared a black and white image of himself looking pansive as he sat in an empty row of chairs. He tagged it, this is me pondering whether they’ll change any of the words I’ve used my work after I’m dead to spare those who are fragile and easily offended. Words like fat and ugly, and the C word and the F word.
He spelled those out. Then he added and fat, ugly, greedy, pathetic, little, stupid, effing C words, stuff like that. The Wall Street Journal profile Jim gaff Again, who said, in nineteen eighty nine, I moved to New York, where friend worked in advertising. He helped me get a job as an account executive. I had a great boss at the agency who said I should either quit or become a copywriter.
So I became a copywriter. While copywriting, I started going to auditions for commercials, but I feared speaking in a group setting. Someone suggested an improv class to get comfortable in presentation, so I did. Then someone suggested stand up. I started doing stand up.
I began taking acting classes, and because I was a copywriter, I knew what they wanted in the auditions. I worked in advertising by day, took acting classes in the evening, and did stand up at night. It was exhausting. The auditions led to work in TV commercials. I wound up in more than two hundred ads My big break was my first appearance in The Late Show with David Letterman in nineteen ninety nine, which put me in play.
Sure. By the early two thousands, Jim was making appearances at Sirius xham. A few years later. He was really popular and didn’t mature and calls Desert dot com, Hi, Jim, you could have returned, calls Desert dot com dude. A profile of clean comedians, Dusty Slay says he tries to do an act that can be enjoyed without anybody being embarrassed, but it’s still grounded in adult experiences.
Dusty said, I definitely have some PG stuff. I have some g rated stuff, but if you come to see me in the club, I’m for a more of a mature audience. I try to find a way to talk about adult experiences they could be relatable without being gross. One of those themes is alcohol. Dusty’s been sober for almost eleven years, but he’s not afraid to joke about it.
He says, I can talk about what a mess I was because I’m not an alcoholic now. He also talked about never swearing in front of his parents. That’s interesting because Nate Bergantcy recently, he spoke about that same topic. Dusty said he’s had a few jokes throughout his career that might be considered dirty, and he’s used cuss words for impact on occasion, but doing a lot of cussing isn’t part of his personality, especially when he’s around older folks. He says, it might be a Southern thing.
I just have respect for my parents and respect for my elders, so it was a conscious decision for him to keep his language relatively clean. I’ve never been a dirty comic. I want to be the kind of comic you can share with your family. From that same article, Leanne Morgan her big break came after she hired a social media consultants as a last ditch effort to expand her career. A clip of her joking about her experience is at a Deaf Leopard and Journey concert posted in twenty nineteen, turned things around.
She said, I found my people and they found me. It’s like a community of friends that it’s sweeter and more wonderful than anything I could have imagined. And I know it’s a God thing. God has a plan for me. She likes seeing as many as three generations attend her shows.
I’ll see an eighty year old man who you know has never been to a comedy club. It’s precious. Hey, Samurel, have you ever bombed? I bomb all the time. The other night I followed Chris Rock and he’s bringing the heat with this stuff.
He’s going to tape in like two weeks, and I got it in my head that I’ll do new stuff. I’m eating it on stage. Then I was like, oh, maybe I shouldn’t be open making a set after the world’s most famous comedians playing his hits. Basically, I saved the set and I turned it around by a bomb all the time because I’ll still try and do new stuff. I’m not upset when I bomb.
I mean, if it’s stuff that’s proved the bombing, then I’m upset. But if it’s stuff I’ve thought of that day, I’m like, Hey, a lot of this should bomb, some of it little hits, some won’t. It’s great, it’s perfect, so it should be. They asked Sam Mourel about rooftop shows. He said, it’s so funny.
People would come up to me after that came out, like come and perform on my roof, And I’m like that’s over. Are you kidding? That was like complete and utter desperation. That was me trying to survive during the dark time. Now let him go inside again.
In New York. You think I’m going back to the roof. I wasn’t a peak coat freezing my butt off telling jokes. Stage time was so valuable at the time. You get like ten minutes by the East River in a weird area, we’d be performing next to a guy peeing.
I was like, this is awful. I’m gonna start doing my own shows. That way, I could do an hour and I could really build back up. That time to build back up is so valuable to comics. You want that time for trial and error.
And people were so hungry for live entertainment. They were patient as hell with me because I was rusty, and of course there was a disclaimer, this isn’t the real show. I’m rusty and I’m doing new material. Wanda Psykes has a new special coming out. It’s called I’m an Entertainer Netflix, May twenty third, said at the Miller Theater in Philadelphia.
It’s her second Netflix special. On I’m an Entertainer wanted, Sykes tackles a host of topics from the challenges of raising gen z teens to the dilemmas of being a liberal and a hypercharged political climate. The pressurely, says Pykes, delivers her insightful and ferocious wit and candor audience has come to know and love. I’m an entertainer. Filmed this very month, February.
Yeah, it’ll be out May twenty third on Netflix. I went out for a run today and I was running and my Apple Watch was like bleep, bleep, And I’m like, what do you want? Apple Watch? Is it a text? No, it was giving me one of those circles, you know when you have a streak going and Apple Watches like, Hey, good job, Johnny Mack.
You’ve been working out every day. That’s right, humble brag, because I’m into the power of the streak. No, not just my streak. It’s the book by Kara Wood. Do you struggle with working out regularly?
Did you start exercising and a couple weeks later you’re back to where you started. Wow, You’re in good company. Kara Wood had zero motivation for years. She eventually flipped a which and has not looked back. Listen to her streak.
Mine is like seven days maybe nine by the time you’re hearing this. She started and has kept a running streak for twelve years. I won’t even make twelve days. I’ll be like, yeah, it’s cold, or my knee hurts. I was a little knee hurts eat today, but I read through it twelve years.
She had a career, she gave birth to two kids. Karas shares the secrets of having the drive to exercise no matter what you means. So like, if my knee hurts, it’s cold, or I just want to watch Star Trek, I have to run, okay, Kara would. Her story is funny, relatable, inspiring. She explains how you can do the same thing with any exercise doesn’t have to be running, even a cynic.
We’ll leave feeling motivated, inspired and excited to commit once and for all. It’s a long lasting exercise and fitness plus some of the royalties if you buy the book go to the special Olympics.
All right, so let’s do this.
The book is called The Power of the Streak. You’ll find out wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes, and Noble. There’s also an audiobook on iTunes and Audible. Could follow the Power of the streak on Instagram at the Power of the Streak Twitter ats Power of Streak. Look, man, it’s good for you.
Seriously. I went out for a run this morning, came home, showered, went out to chopped. I like my chopped salads. I’m walking around. I just felt like limber, Like I don’t even feel tired.
I just feel like really good. The endorphins. Endorphins are a real thing. I’m telling you. Endorphins are a real thing.
It was one day last week I came back for a run and the geese were heading north and I was like, oh, look at the geese and I was just watching them in the V shape and watching how they like trade off in the formation. I’m just staring at the sky. People were probably like, this guy’s weird. The Power of the Streak is the book, The Power of the Streak, wherever you get your books. Kara Wood, thank you for supporting today’s show.
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Or you can go to buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what that is, right, Yeah, you listen every day. It’s a large ice coffee, caramel and almond milk, trying to cut back on the dairy. Josh Johnson spoke to distractify about Trevor Noah’s exit from the Daily Show. Josh was a writer for Trevor.
It said, I’m really happy for him. I think he did an incredible job. He’s done an incredible amount for me. That’s always going to be the big bro in a sense, and I’m over the moon for him that he’s living life and you know, happy and touring and stuff like that. And from lad Bible.
An Australian comedian was threatened with an arrest after trying to leave an event hosted by Megan Markel. Yes, this is one of those wonderful stories that I love that we can talk about on this podcast and also on Palace in Intrigue. That’s the podcast I’m the writer for. We talk about the Royal family seven days a week. And by the Royal Family, I mean basically we make fun of Harry and Megan and if they were quiet, then we’ll talk about Kate Middleton.
But it’s kind of the make fun of Megan Markols show at this point. Did you see the south Park? Oh? Watch the South Park anyway? An Australian comedian revealed he was threatened with a rest he attempted to leave an event hosted by Megan Markol.
Joel Crazy was on an Australian radio show. He said he snuck into a youth leader’s events masquerading as fellow Australian comedy start Josh Chomas He said, I went to a morning tea to meet her for youth leaders aged under thirty and I just snuck in. She was five hours late. So he got sick of waiting for Megan. He went up security.
It’s like she’s done on Madonna. Can I leave? I don’t care about her that much. Security said no, you can’t, will arrest you. Really.
He had a wonderful joke, which turns out it’s easier to leave the royal family than to leave one of the events. That’s a great line, dude. Wasn’t the first time that he’s had a Megan and crossed over. Apparently back in twenty nineteen, he said, I met her and we didn’t get on at all. I got introduced to her.
This is when Harry and Megan toward Australia. She came over and was playing in front of me. The Governor of Victoria’s husband said to Megan, Oh, Megan, Joel hosted your wedding. Megan interjected before he had finished and said, I think he was going to say, Joel hosted your wedding on TV. Anyway, if he enjoys seeing what Megan’s up to.
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