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The Shark Deck. Aren’t you Dead? Hello, I’m Jenny McK with your Daily Comedy News. It is opening day for Major League Baseball. They’ve got some new rules, and they did an ad campaign featuring Sebastian Maniscalco joking about the new rules.
Come on, enough with the peanuts. Half the infield’s allergic and what is the shortstop doing in the outfield? See? This is the problem with the shift. Nobody’s in their positions anymore.
That’s why I’m excited about Major League Baseball. They’re putting limits on the ship. It’s gonna create more athleticism, more action. Dame’s gonna be amazing this year. Let’s go Mets.
There’s a lot of press about May Martin’s Netflix special. I have not seen it yet, and I’m unlikely to see it this weekend because a baseball season started b MLB the show came out, and Day one when that game and came out, I played it for six hours. So between those two, I don’t know how much Netflix comedy I’ll be watching. Maybe Sunday night. They tend to watch a lot of TV on Sunday Night.
May Specials called May Martin SAP. They talked about the rise of anti LGBTQ plus rhetoric within the comedy sphere. Martin explained, it’s always bitter sweet. I wish I didn’t have to talk about gender and identity and stuff, because it’s not the biggest or most interesting thing about me. But I did feel a responsibility because it’s super important.
Giving everything that’s going on and all the legislation. It’s mind boggling to me that people can look at what’s going on and go, oh, this is really a dangerous time. They have specifically called out Dave Chappelle. Rolling Stone said, you name drop comedians like Dave Chappelle in your special, May said, when you’re someone who’s part of the trans community, it can feel like a lose lose because as soon as I started talking about it, people are like, oh, those people are constantly whining. But it’s also a very crucial time to present a counter argument to the very loud people with huge platforms who are weighing in in bad faith about things that have real life consequences.
It’s a very difficult tone of hit because I do care about it so deeply and could so easily ran for hours about how annoying I am so if it’s in any way helpful for people to see someone speaking about their lived experience and cutting through the endless debate about whether trans people deserve to be happy, then hopefully it’s worth it. But also it’s not the most interesting thing about me, and I don’t want to feel like it because I’m being forced to constantly defend my identity. Rolling Stone asked, were you ever nervous that taking up time doing a special to name the comedians Dave Schappelle would paint a target on your back? Make said, When I was shoring the show, I tried not naming them. It just felt like I was trying to be coy.
I feel confident about what I’m saying, so I might as well just name them. The main thing is I wish the straight allies with bigger platforms would be brave enough to weigh in as well, because it’s easy to dismiss queer people as being constantly up in arms about something. But with the legislation, we’re seeing such terrifying real life consequences, and there are things that affect everybody. There’s such a parallel between trans rights and bodily autonomy for women and all kinds of things I think it’s time we all got involved with this a little bit. Everything will sound corny in print, but truly, comedy is meant to make people feel less alone.
It’s such unifying experience, makes you feel human and less isolated. So I hope people feel that. Dave Chappelle, I’ll continue to ask you why you choose to have the second paragrapher of your future obituary to be Dave Chappelle. Transgender jokes. Do something else, Dave, You’ve got a platform, use it for good.
The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival will come to Vancouver. Vancouver’s Park Board has approved a plan to bring a three day outdoor comedy festival to Stanley Park. I mentioned recently I’ve been to Stanley Park. I’ve been a Vancouver. I love it.
You can hear me talk about Vancouver on my travel podcast, Travel is Back. The Green Outdoors Comedy Festival September fifteenth to the seventeenth. No lineup has been yet released. Ticket prices sixty nine to three hundred ninety nine dollars, presumably Canadian dollars. Would keep an eye on that one.
Boy, If I could find a way to get to Vancouver in September. Boy, that would be pretty good. Dan Soder has kind of let it out that Billions is coming to its last season. Soder was on NBC Sports Chicago’s Football Nights in Chicago. That’s a complicated name.
Soder, who plays Mafi on the show, said season seven, the final season of Billion, is on its way. Then he paused and said, you know, I’m not supposed to say that. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say that. I think so, so it’s fine. The host said, doesn’t matter, you just said it, and Soder said, it’s the final season.
Chris McCarthy is one of the senior executives over at Paramount Television. He got a nice fluff job from the Hollywood Reporter. The part that interested me most was about The Daily Show. McCarthy says he’s been stunned by the linear tune in for the Daily Show. So linear is the term the industry uses for what you just consider TV.
Like if you put on Comedy Central on TV and whatever happens to me on now is on right now, that’s linear, right, so not on demand to get it old school TV’s linear. McCarthy’s been stunned by both the linear tune in up thirteen percent year over year. Wow, with all the guest hosts versus Trevor Noah, that’s interesting to me. And by the social excitement around the rotation of guest hosts, McCarthy says, it’s killing it, noting that on many weeks the social media footprint has been ten times bigger than the show a scene in years. Well, yeah, the nature of the guest host, he definitely going to get more of a splash.
And if the ratings are up thirteen percent, hey, what do I know? I think the plan is crazy, but I’m sitting in the basement and Chris McCarthy’s getting a fluff job from the hollerd reporter, So what do I know. McCarthy says he intends to wait until late spring to name a new host. He’s even consulted John Stewart about this. He’ll rely heavily on the input of showrunner Jen Flanz.
He has his own running shortlist, which features three guest hosts. He didn’t name names, but said two people came in and exceeded my expectations. But I had high expectations and then somebody else just blew me away. Very interesting. As for Trevor Noah himself.
He’s got a new gig. He’ll be hosting Amazon Primes l O L Last One Laughing. In this version of l OL, the six part half hour series will see Trevor Noah Pitt ten famous South African comedians and entertainers against each other in a competition and make each other laugh. Those who break get eliminated one by one until only one comedians left. The winner wins one million rand.
How much is one million rand? Fifty five thousand dollars? Amazon? Come on, really, fifty five thousand dollars prize? Seriously, come on, that’s pretty cheap.
One million rand that will go directly to the charity of their choice. So again, Jeff Bezos, Amazon Prime is donating fifty five thousand dollars to charity. Just want to make sure we get that out there. Thank you, Amazon, what a great contribution to the charity your fifty five thousand dollars donation. I’m sure everyone appreciates it.
I wonder how much Trevor is being paid for this, probably fifty four thousand dollars. Am I asking difficult questions? I’m sorry, Trevor Noah said, I’m excited to be back home to host Prime videos first South African original llol last one laughing. Let’s have a chance to connect with my home audience. I’m equally delighted for the opportunity to be working alongside my fellow homegrown comedy stars on a show that not only yantines, but gives back to the South African production and charity communities.
And I’ll add to the tune of fifty five thousand dollars. Hey, if you like what I do here, one of the ways to support the shows can go to Apple Podcasts and they’re gonna put the option under you to become a premium subscriber. So for five bucks a month, you’ve got the episodes ad free, and you got them early, usually the afternoon before official release. And here I will match Jeff Bezos and Amazon Prime. If eleven thousand of you sign up to become premium subscribers today for five dollars, that would be fifty five thousand dollars.
If that happens by Saturday morning midnight Eastern daylight time, I will donate the fifty five thousand dollars to charity. How about that? That’s an absurdly low number, guys, so you’ll hear me from time to time openly say that I talk about Joe Rogan to goose the numbers. Now, the last two days my lead stories were about oscu At Katsa and Adam Sandler, and the numbers were, you know, a little bit down. So today we’re going to talk about Joe Rogan.
So Joe Rogan could be in the episode title Yes. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week, said the media has lost its hold over the narrative. Now the media conveniently leads out anything it doesn’t want to be at the front and center in terms of things that people concentrate and talk about. Like one of the greatest examples that’s happening right now is this massive protest in France, nine million people on the street, literally up in arms. Mccron and France takes his effing eighty thousand dollars watch off under the table while he’s talking to people about tightening up and how you know this has to be done.
I guess Joe is saying there’s no media coverage of that. Maybe I follow different media, Joe. I’ve seen plenty of coverage. Joe also referenced the protests in Israel after citizens became unhappy with Benjamin Nett and yah Who’s plans for political reform? Rogan said, And you’re not hearing a peep about it.
You know again, I must follow different news sources than Joe Rogan. I saw plenty plenty about that one. Rogan said, all it is it’s like January sixth, January six, Did you see what they did? Trump’s coming back? But January six looms large.
How about the fact that the guy who’s president right now can’t form a bleeping sentence. He makes up words and stumbles their things, and no one says a bleeping thing about it. From The Courier, Rheese Nicholson describes the Milburn International Comedy Festival as hundreds of people having a very public mental breakdown with prizes at the end. With more than six hundred acts on the bill for twenty twenty three adding up to more than seven thousand side splitting performances, the winner of last year’s award for Most Outstanding Show is probably not wrong. The Courier covered the launch event for the Melbourne Comedy Festival and said UK comedian Jordan Gray got some big last with her song about internet misinformation, a tune that managed to also cover mister potato Heads, gender, lost dog posts, veer into a queen’s song.
Ends include an Elvis impression that came out as an impression of share Mel Budtle took on physical education teachers, revealing they’re actually angry people who like shorts and are unable to get into the police force, while up and coming performers Alexander Hudson and he Huang spoke about the impact of the festival’s Raw Comedy competition. Last year’s champion. Hudson, who has a disability, said her win had taken her from an audience of ten people at an open mic to one thousand at the town hall, a growing crowd she likes to make fun of.
All Right, let’s see who’s at the festival on Friday again.
I’m looking at Friday because burn is several time zones ahead of me and probably you. So if I do Thursday night, by the time that people in Melbourne here, the podcast might already beat Thursday night. So let’s take a look at Friday. And as I’ve been mentioning, there’s like one hundred shows every night, so I’m not going to read them all off. But let me just see what catches my eye here.
Just going by titles, the Fun Tone Show is at the Rubber Chicken joined Lisa, Shirley and Mark for lots of singing, dancing, laughs, and heaps of fun in the Fun Tone Show, featuring some comic skits, original and well known hit songs you and your children want to sing and dance along to, things like the Hokey Pokey. All right, we might be a little old for that one. Plus it’s eighteen to fifty dollars and it’s at twelve thirty in the afternoon. Bad click, Johnny Mac, keep going, Okay, how about basketball Man can Fly? That’s at kicks at three forty five.
I’m clicking on the very slow loading Melbourne International Comedy Festival website and we’ll see what basketball Man can fly if the page ever loads. It has finally loaded. Why didn’t you just do an edit there, John, Because I wanted you to know how long it takes the page to load. That’s why. For years basketball Man has been a world renowned basketball freestyler.
But now he’s out to prove he’s a real superhero. Witness the best basketball tricks you’ve never seen as basketball man spins, dribbles, juggles and performs stunts in this crime fighting, family friendly circus show suitable for all ages. That sounds strangely fun. Let’s keep scrolling. I like the title of Ann Edmunds show, which is why is my bag allwat?
Ann Edmunds floods her bag at least twice a week and becoming a mother hasn’t helped this. Where once there was water, now there’s milk. The Harold’s son gave it four stars, saying rolling with the confidence and energy of a prize fighter, Edmonds is touchingly engaging the age said still laughing the next day, simply a fantastic performer. Four stars. That shows ages fifteen plus random number there about at five o’clock crazy funny Asians.
Each show features an all star rotating lineup of three comedians. These are some of the fastest rising Asian comedy stars. All right, that sounds like a good time and we can see the show at five, six or seven. It’s a fifty minute show. Fifteen dollars and fifty cents to twenty five fifty.
Let’s do the Australian currency exchange right now. All right, one Australian dollar is sixty six cents in US dollars. So whatever number I read to you, you’re going to divide by two thirds in your own head. Okay, do you need a pen? There’s a Best of International Comedy show at five to thirty, Best of Melbourne at six Daniel Kitson.
I’ve only heard great things about Daniel Kitson. That show is called I Shall Have a Good Think. When Everybody’s gone home. Twenty one years after his first visit in four years since his last, Daniel Kitson waddles back into town with something less like work in progress and more like a person looking for ingredients without knowing what they want to cook or whether they’re even hungry. Twenty bucks again.
Divide that by two thirds. Shows at six pm and noon a ninety minute show. It is absolutely crazy, the amount of shows every single day. As I’m scrolling down the page here, I mean, if you can’t find something to do, I don’t even know how they’re even holding all these shows. Like how many rooms are there in Melbourne.
Here’s one called Comedy Pub Crawl. Trust the Scots to come up with the ultimate night of comedy and booze. Four bars five award winning comics always sells out fifty bucks again divide by two thirds shows at seven, seven oh five and six pm. The West Australian gave it five stars. The Sunday Times UK said left my face in pain from laughing so much throughout.
It’s a guaranteed night of belly aching laughter that sounds fun. I really only up to seven o’clock. I’ve been scrolling down this page for an hour.
Now here’s one called s Faced Shakespeare.
Three shows six forty five, seven forty five, nine thirty. The hilarious sellout award winning smash It show has already sold half a million tickets worldwide. S Faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely faced actor. What could go wrong? College Adelaide gave it five stars, saying the most fun I’ve ever had at the festival.
I left with tears streaming down my face and a sore belly from laughing far, far, too hysterically hard. And let me find one more. There’s so much here. I mean, I could hand in a four hour podcast just reading these two.
All right, let’s click on this and as a logo of the Statue of Liberty and say…
Let’s see who’s on this. The Lucas Brothers, Pattie Harrison, Shilouish Sharp, Shang Wang. You know I do like Shang Wang. Now I’m not sure these are the four biggest acts in American comedy. Maybe the Australians don’t know better.
Seventy minutes show twenty eight to thirty seven dollars again, divide by two thirds to convert into US currency. All right, enough of that, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.
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