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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with another busy Daily Comedy News. John mullane and Pete Davidson have postponed two shows in Maine following Wednesday’s mass shooting. In a statement, mullaney said, we are devastated by the events in Lewiston. Show scheduled for this weekend on Saturday and Sunday have been postponed.
We are thinking of you all. He signed the message from himself and Pete Davidson. Jason Zinneman writes for The New York Times He’s a must follow if you’re into comedy. He was writing about Chappelle’s follow up show on Wednesday, which Jason says was much the work of a diplomat as a provocateur, telling the audience to pray for both Israelis and Palestinians and calling the situation for both a nightmare. At one point, Dave addressed American Jews, saying whatever they can do to take the violence or the danger out of a situation, they should do it, and then added, I’m not about anti Semitism, but I’m allowed to disagree with whoever I want to.
I had mentioned that there was a possible medical issue. The other night, apparently Dave joked you know what he’ll say in the paper tomorrow, Dave Chappelle makes fun of man as he dies in Raleigh. He tell the crowd he would do a dangerous joke, as quoted here in the Times, the joke to Jews walk into a bar. I’d say the punchline, but there might be a transgender person here. Dave smiled as if he knew how corny this sounded.
Love more on Chappelle tomorrow. Wbe Z writes the voice of Hasan Minhaj is still vital and not worth canceling. They write, Minhaj’s exaggerations hurt so much because we put him on a moral pedestal for non Desi people. He was one of the few places to hear candid stories of Desi pain, and for Desi people, he was one of the few on such a public stage, so he had to be perfect. But that pressure’s unfair for generations to come.
Let Minhaj be an empowering opportunity to question the ways we let white media control our narratives and where we place our blame. Let him be a chance to grapple with nuanced disappointment. How do we hold our celebrities accountable in a world where we don’t have the power to hold white celebrities of the same standard without piling into discrimination. Maybe the Daily Show has entered an area where it requires a pseudo journalist at the helm, and Minhaj has already lost America’s trust, But don’t let his career in there. If it weren’t for him, I’m not sure I would have had the guts to apply to journalism school and wear my stories on my sleeve.
And that’s the legacy that I won’t let be erased. On the international front. The Sydney Morning Harold talk to Australian Sri Lankan comedian and actor Sirin Jane Man, who said, I don’t think Minhaj was embellishing for comedic effect. I think he was embellishing to push emotional buttons. If you’re going to speak on behalf of a group of people and you want that emotional truth to connect with mainstream audiences, you’ve got to be aware of how quickly that can come undone.
If you get called out for lying, then all of a sudden, you’ve delegitimized those emotional truths for everyone else. The punchline can take the story in an absurd way for comedic effect, but the purpose of the comedy should be to highlight the underlying truth. Boy, I got to record three podcasts today and I am already dry mouth. Here is an iced coffee. You don’t what to do?
Buy me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News should be a good Saturday Night Live Tonight. Nate Berghatzy is your host. Foo Fighters the musical guest. It’s not gonna get much better than that. In a new promo, featured player Marcelo Hernandez steps in when they’re promoting the Foo Fighters, and Marcelo says, or should we say boo Fighters?
Dave Girl goes what Hernandez says, because it’s Halloween, you know, like boo Fighters? Girl says, you know what, that’s the best idea I’ve ever heard. In another promo, Hernandez starts making comments in Spanish and Nate Bergatzy cuts them off and goes, sorry, man, that was last week. The joke there when Bad Bunny hosted last week.
Speaking of SNL, last week, Keenan Thompson did a Dion Sanders impression Dio…
I love him, I love what he’s brought to comedy over it’s got to be a couple of decades, it seems so. I had the pleasure and honored to host Saturday Night Live before, and I would never forget those moments. But as for the impression, yeah, it was good. Sam Morrell talked to the Pittsburgh News and they were like, hey, your Netflix special Same Time Tomorrow has brought you to new heights of prominence in the stand up world. How has your life changed?
In answer from Sam, he said, in terms of preparation, it hasn’t really changed, except that I have less time to focus on stand up, which is really my bread and butter. That’s tough. When I was a younger comic, I could just work on jokes all day, but now it’s podcasts. It just seems like I always have a full schedule, which is kind of good. It’s nice to be busy, but stand up requires a lot of attention and you can tell when people take their foot off the gas.
The big reason I do the road so hard is it forces me to come up with new stuff. It forces me to do the material until I’m sick of it and have to throw new stuff in the road. Will force me to get stuff done because you don’t want to waste those opportunities, which is honestly how I used to approach it as a young comedian, when I used to hand out flyers in the street in exchange for stage time. So stage time I never take for granted. I try to view it as valuable as it is.
We did the Chicago Theater, which is a pretty huge venue, so that was special. Toronto’s another huge one. New York coming up is pretty huge. It’s pretty thrilling to see that many of your people come out and hopefully leave happy. The challenges are the scheduling, not sleeping in your own bed.
Sometimes the lack of sleep is very difficult. I love the road. I love doing it, but you do miss home. So you get home and you’re like, man, I miss the road. Oh.
You have a routine that keeps you healthy, but on the road, it’s just kind of hard to maintain that. You try to eat healthy, but it’s the road, right. Even if we order at a nice restaurant, we’re going to get some crap, We’re going to get some dessert or something. Alcohol’s right there. It’s a challenge to stay healthy.
So we try to exercise every day, not just for our bodies, but for our minds to reset everything. You know, Vulture may have accidentally solved The Daily Show’s problem, and I hope someone is paying attention. They talked to and here’s a good choice to take over the show. You’re ready. They talked to Rob Riggle.
They asked him how he got his correspondence gig way back when on The Daily Show, and he said, I auditioned like most people, and it was a process. I thought I blew it. To be honest with you, it was very fortunate that I got the offer, but they only did it like six months at a time, Like you got the job, but it’s only six months, and I just moved out of New York to LA I couldn’t move everybody back. I had to come out here, get a studio apartment off Craigs Listen. At the end of the six months, they said, good job, you get another six and I was like, I still can’t move my family out here.
That was the only thing that frustrated me about it. I wish they would have just said you’re here, but that’s the way it worked for everybody at that time. But I was grateful to John the writers, the producer is my fellow correspondence. I was really kind of green. That show allowed me to grow to myself a little bit and discover more about the business of comedy.
I’ve crossed paths with Wriggles several times. Very cool guy. I remember one time he showed up to be a guest on the Wrought Dog Comedy channel at Serious XM, and the host had called in sick, and we were like, do you want to just guest host? And Wriggle jumped on the air and hosted the show on the fly, and he crushed it. Wrigl says, this is the business.
All you can do is get a gig, do the best you can at it, and hope it leads to another gig. Life is a series of gigs, a series of jobs. Even if you’re on Modern Family, which runs for ten seasons and it’s one of the greatest shows great and end someday, and you don’t want your career to en so you have to find another job. You’re always going to be looking for another job. The big question, would you ever consider returning to the Daily Show?
Is the new permanent host? Rob Wriggle said in a heartbeat. Obviously it’s one of those things where I’ve no say, but it would be an honor. Yeah. I think Wriggle’d be a really good choice for that one.
Consider that Comedy Central and they asked Wriggle and he gut checks on who they might be considering. Wriggle said, I don’t know. I did enjoy watching everybody they brought in for like a week. Want of Sikes nailed it. In my opinion, they’ll choose right, and I hope they choose well.
I want the Daily Show to be another institution like SNL. Pitch four Kad talked to John Mulaney about what music he was listening to at what age and at age thirty. Malanie said he was listening to Koputz by Destroyer. I don’t even know what that is. You guys can yell old man at your phone.
I don’t know what it is. It’s okay. Mlanie explains. SNL became my complete identity, this all consuming thing that I loved, and I loved that it was all consuming I loved working thirty six hours in a row. I love going to the office on Sundays to get a head start on Monday’s pitch meeting.
I loved working late Monday night and staying up all night Tuesday. I just loved being immersed in it. I had a couple specials come out, I got a couple offers to hosts to show my own in different formats. I thought I felt full burnout, but I wish I’d stayed one more year at SNL because I think I needed a rest not to leave. I was very nervous about leaving that orbit because it’s a fun orbit to be in.
The show is in the news every week. It just feels very immediate and relevant. I know I was going to leave. And that was around the first time I heard kop Putz. I was in the back of thirty Rock near the ice Rank at night, way to go some function as a staff.
We might have been at Suxedo’s. I was listening to Kobut and I heard that line chasing cocaine through the back rooms of the world, and I remember thinking to myself, Wow, can you believe we used to do cocaine?
And then he laughed even when sober.
I’ve always been a pretty cochy person. Netflix announced their newest stand up series. It’s called Verified stand Up at a premiere November twenty eighth, So that’s probably Thanksgiving weekend, ish right, A new series Ten of the best stand up comedians in the game? Who Are They Asifa Lee, Jill s Sloan, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi, who I Love Check came out, Isaiah Kelly, Lisa Lao, Nimesh Patel, Robbie Hoffman, Rosebud Baker, Sabrino Wu and Vanessa and Zalez. I feel like Rosebud’s a little more known than the rest of that group, but maybe I’m wrong.
Same thing about Nimesh. November twenty eighth on Netflix. Kitty Lang is stepping down as the head of Comedy at United Agents Tell the Other Day about her comments. The agency, in a statement said, following the statements made earlier this week, it has been agreed that Kitty Lang will step away from her leadership roles as head of Comedy and as a member of the executive Committee of United Agents. She’ll stay on as an agent.
The three twelve or three one two Comedy Festival in Chicago continues, great lineup. Worst website ever. Why do you say that, Johnny Mack, Because they don’t have a calendar. They just have like random shows. I guess by alphabetical order.
That’s not a way anyone consumes anything, guys. So I have to do some math here. Right today is the twenty eighth. Let me scroll around and see if I could find a show on the twenty eighth. While I babble see what I’m saying here other comedy festivals.
I just go to the thing and I click it. You know what, there is no show tonight this thing, guys, come on. So they’ve been promoting this thing as starting from the twenty seventh through the like fifth or sixth. Yes, there was a show last night. The next show isn’t until the third.
I could edit all this out. I’m not going to varieties. Twenty five comedians you should know or watch or check it out or whatever it is. August White as a tip for comedians, which is do not suck your teeth before the punchline. When you’re just starting out, you can develop these little habits to keep the rhythm of the delivery of the joke.
And one super common one we have as Young Comics is on making a little sound before the punchline, like sucking your teeth or clicking your tongue. Whenever I can beat the instinct to do that, I always feel like the joke gets better. Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best comedy advice was write your jokes by hand. It helps the brain slow down and allows you to pick up on things about the joke that you haven’t noticed.
Worst comedy advice, she says, not to pursue comedy. I’m glad I didn’t listen, and that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, overcast, pocket casts, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.