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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The ev Club thought Joe Rogan had a good take. The take was on the Barbie movie. Rogan on his podcast said, a lot of people who are upset about the Barbie Movie.
I left perplexed. It was a fun, silly movie about dolls would come to life. A lot of it is about the patriarchy, and it’s a comedy. It’s a comedy about dolls. People are upset that it’s a progressive metaphor for life, that they’re pushing progressive politics in this, and I’m like, it’s an effing doll movie.
It’s a doll movie. It’s a fun movie about dolls that come to life and try to interact with the real world. I know some people personally who said it’s anti men. I’m like, no, it’s making fun of dorks. Are we going to do this thing where we put all men as men in one category, We’re not going to judge people as individuals.
I think it’s a superwoke movie, but it’s also a movie about how Barbies are the dolls that everybody cares about, and ken is just an effing accessory, which is real. So when you bring these things into a movie, that’s how they have to be, because that’s how it is in the real world. Eight hundred Pound Gorilla did a lengthy interview with Mark normand Mark said, I YouTube special because nobody would touch me. It was a huge failure, I thought. But it actually got a lot of views, so that did well.
He was referring to his twenty twenty hour out to lunch. Netflix noticed, but they didn’t want to give him an hour. They gave a half hour. Norman said, my agent was somehow able to finagle me into a half hour Netflix, which was already hard to get. I wasn’t in the running, I don’t think.
But we got like twelve million views, which makes me kind of bitter because other people just get it without having to prove themselves. But whatever, the half hour went okay, I think, and eventually I got this full hour and I think this is going well, so hey, I can’t complain. Mark Norman discussed the art of perfecting a joke and said, it’s almost like magicians, where we want you to know, but we don’t want you to know. We want you to think we’re saying it right off the cuff, off the top of our brains. But there’s also a part of you that’s like screw that.
I want you to see how much I slaved over this thing and how much time and effort I put into it. Vulture asked Paul half Tompkins if he was always silly. Paul said always. That was a real class clown, and I like making people laugh. It was very validating to me in the most traditional classiccent of I want you to like me.
Really meant a lot to me because it wasn’t something that I was able to get at home. It was a huge thing to make my mother laugh, and we were a family that joked around a lot. There was a lot of roasting and stuff like that. But to get my mom to laugh rather than respond with something that completely deflated the humor of what I was trying to say, are explaining to me, actually, this is why that is. I know why that is.
I’m being silly. So when I could make my friend’s laugh or make a teacher laugh, that was huge. Making an adult laugh was a huge deal. Christianity Today caught up with Leanne Morgan. She addressed at making fun about her earlier years, which were difficult.
She said, it’s like when Johnny Cash traveled with Billy Graham, he’d talk about prison in real life, she says, some people struggle to hold stand up comedy and Christianity intention. Morgan says some people said she was a Christian, but now she’s a comedian. That hurt my feelings. There was a time when I thought fame would be fun, but now other things encourage me. People come up to me and tell me I helped them get through chemo, or the pandemic, or their husband’s death.
It wasn’t about me, but they were able to escape life for a bit. I think God wants us to laugh and have a good time. He wants us to be hopeful. Great job by Judah Friedland. He’s been helping out some of the asylum seekers in New York City.
Gotham has caught up with him outside the Roosevelt Hotel and Judah asked two women, do you need food at all? Gothamis writes the woman, both from Latin America, I’d freelander warily, before offering quiet thank yous and accepting the snacks. Judah said, what I’ve been doing the past few days is as simple as this. There’s people that are hurting, and I’m just trying to show up and directly help. That’s it.
There’s a class warfare going on, but it’s mostly the billionaires against everybody else. Judah said it was his mother who alerted him to the scene of around one hundred and fifty asylum seekers living on the sidewalk outside the Roosevelt. Freedlander showed up at the hotel shot a video capturing the cities during contrast, It shows the unhoused male migrants who are cramped behind police barricades, as well as the midtown lunch crowd is seem oblivious to the situation less than a block away. On Twitter x whatever we’re calling it, Judah said, so many people hurting in the country, whether they’re from here, whether they’re not from here. It’s terrible and it’s angering because you know, this country has the resources to do much better.
Then he handed out some more food and said it was time to get to his next appointment, which was on the picket line with striking actors and Hollywood writers. Before he did, he’d took out a cardboard sign he’d made which said billionaires hate you. David Keckner explained to the Dallas Morning News what you’ll get if you go see him. Keckner said, a night of dynamic entertainment. Here’s what it is.
I don’t want to overstate it. Fellow comedian Rob Mayer and I have been doing this for five years. He does half an hour and I do an hour. We work very well together. We have different styles, but it’s a rock solid show.
The show is hosted by Todd Packer, that’s Keckner’s character from the Office. But I don’t punish the audience the insired sign that’d be a little much. I come out as Todd Packer and do a bunch of the Packer lines to get people stirred up before we get into the trivia. It’s three rounds of trivia. I tell a bunch of stories about my time on the Office and showbiz stories, little tidbits here and there.
We do a Q and A at the end of the show, and the top two trivia teams come up on the stage and reenact a scene with myself and Rob. The News asked him why people connect with the Office so much. Kickner said, well, it’s started with adults getting into it right because they’re in the workplace and they recognize that they did have a broad scope of characters. They probably identify p much with everyone they’ve worked with, and it’s comforting, you know. Then I think the kids probably started watching it and they started thinking, oh, this is just dumb jokes.
But then they started getting the jokes, and now they feel smarter and hipper, right, And then there’s a bond with your parents, and as they became teenager, they think all adults are stupid.
And then when they get into college, now you got a group of people you’re bon…
And when they finally get to the workforce, you prove yourself right. If you enjoy what I do here, go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. What would you do on a website called buy meacoffee dot com? What you do is you throw some money in the tip jar. I’ll get an email from buying meacoffee dot com and I’ll say like, hey, Smedley bought you a coffee.
And then I’ll take Smedley’s money and I’ll go to the National don’t chain large eyed coffee gamel milk, and then I’ll thank s Medley on the show. Buy Meacoffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. Jason Alexander, you know him as George Costanza on Seinfeld. He was interviewed by Playbill. Jason said the stage has always been his first love, and Seinfeld actually felt right into that.
Jason said, show felt like a theater piece. Every week we were just playing to our live audience. We trusted him believe that the cameras and the director were getting the performance that we were giving to the audience. What I have found in good comedic writing from many different writers is they tend to have him music in their head when they’re writing. Neil Simon had his own sense of music.
John Shanley has his own sense of music. Larry David has his own sense of music, and when you latch it in the music in the author’s head, it becomes easy. When he first started Seinfeld, he was doing Castanza as a Woody Allen type, and if you watch the early episodes you can absolutely see that once he figured out Castanza was more or less a stand in for Larry David, he was able to unlock the character’s full comedic potential. Jason quotes Dennis Miller saying, it’s called a sense of humor, not a science. You either have it, which allows you to hear the possibilities of these rhythms in this musicality, or you don’t take a famous piece of comedic material like Who’s On first look at it on a printed page.
There’s nothing there, there’s no funny. The minute you hear Avin Costello start to put the rhythm of the melody on it, it becomes hysterical. There’s magic in it. He says. The same was true of Seinfeld.
When they were writing for say Jerry Still, they wrote the line, are you telling me there’s not one condo available in all of del Boca Vista. That’s not a joke, but when Jerry says it, it becomes radically funny. Writer and performer knew there was singing the same songs. The BBC wrote about the Fringe. Comedy critic Kate Copstick said, I’ve never known the Fringe to be so censorrous.
It’s not a nice feeling. Last year, Jerry Satowitz had some of his shows canceled after complaints from staff and walkouts. The complaints said his act was extreme and its racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny. Satowitz is back at Fringe this year, warning audiences, I might just do card tricks and say nothing for the whole hour, or I might just do the usual screaming fascist stick. Liam Witneil is playing the Fringe.
His shows called Chronic Boom. Yahoo says he positively vibrates on stage, ceaselessly pulsating from one killer antidote to the next. You’ll laugh until your jaw eggs. I’m intrigued. Kind of a generic description there.
But you’ll find Liam at Monkey Barrel Comedy, Monkey Barrel two. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.
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