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The shark deck if you see dominion voting systems and Fox News settled for seven hundred and eighty seven and a half million dollars to avoid a trial. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I love Jimmy Fallon’s joke. You could tell Fox was stressed about the trial because they spent the day chugging bud Light. Jimmy Kimmel said, it’s gonna take a lot of reverse mortgage ads to pay that one off.
Kimbell again. Immediately after the settlement, Fox issued a statement that said, this settlement reflects Fox’s commitment to the highest journalistic standards. They’re already lying in their statement about lying. John Mulaney, Baby Jay, Netflix, April twenty five, That’s what Tuesday Johnny Mac checks his calendar technology. Yes, Tuesday Mullaney put out a very very short trailer.
Let’s listen and as you process and digest how obnoxious, wasteful, and unlikable that story is, just remember that’s one I’m willing to tell you. Using my calendar technology, I have divine that today is four twenty, so I have to do something about getting high, right. That’s what we do all right high time spoke to Adam Divine, you know him from Workaholics, and I asked, Adam Divine, what role does getting high lay for you creatively in your life and in general? Adam Divine said, I feel like of all the guys, I probably was the biggest owner. It’s a real battle of royale between me and Kyle for that title.
Nowadays, you could use marijuana as a creative tool, but you just have to know yourself. You have to know how much is too much and how it affects you as a person. It’s the kind of thing that is a tool in your two belt, but it won’t make an unfunny person funny or a non talented person talented. If you don’t have the goods to begin with, it won’t help you. But it can be used as a tool to freepe your mind.
Every once in a while, if you can’t crack a story, you’re working on a video that you can’t get just right, you’re able to tweak it by smoking a little bit you think about it. You’re free your mind. You’re not married to what you’ve already written and what you’ve already worked on, and you’re able to work on the problem from a different point of view. That’s how I viewed marijuana, and I think it’s helped me along the way. Gratulations to Nate Burgatsy.
He seld out the Bridgestone Arena set a new record. Nineteen thousand, three hundred and sixty five people attended his show on April fifteenth. Thank you, dr for putting this story under my nose, Nate said, My first visit to Bridgetone was to watch a Nashville Cats Arita football game. When I start a comedy, I’d find myself daydreaming about coming home to play Bridgetone, but never really think about it. Let’s take a while for me to wrap my head around this.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you. Did you watch Harry Konaboloo special on YouTube? Yet? I liked it a lot. The La Times caught up with Harry, and apparently Harry perhaps for every stand up performance the same way.
He drinks lots of water and then he peas and then he paces. He said, it’s the same thing over and over. And I think there’s a comfort in that I’ve been doing this twenty years and I’m still absolutely in mess until I go on, all right, why’d you put your special on YouTube. Hary said, I feel like it just got sick of a waiting with comedy specials. As a handful of people at a certain level who can say I want to make this a special, then one of the streamers and the networks makes it because it’s good business.
There was this era where corporations were really investing in stand up and it feels like we’re starting I see a decrease in that. Again, is maybe there are fewer streamers and things are consolidating as the industries and flux right now in a lot of ways, I’ll jump in I’m going to comment on about that. In the second half, the money was just ridiculous, all right, Just remember that point. Let’s get back to hurry. The idea of waiting some indefinite period of release material just didn’t sit well with me.
I do stand up because I like to record hours. That’s a fundamental part of the job for me. I don’t feel like I’m developing unless a new hour comes out and I clean the slate and start fresh with the next one. And I started seeing all these other comics start to release their specials on YouTube, which really initially didn’t sit well with me. Because it means you as a comic or taking the financial risk, you’re gambling and saying I’m betting on myself and stand up as a lot of that.
Already it’s a lot of risk, and now we have to make it ourselves as well. But at the same point, I’m like, ah, this is freedom. So instead of waiting on an industry stamp to say you can make this, it’s betting on yourself and saying I trust my instincts, I trust the people that like me, and I feel like more people will like me if they see this. Whether I’ll go for it again is dependent on how this does. But I’m definitely proud of this hour.
I think it’s smart. I think it’s unique. I think it’s a personal and creative progression. Alex Borstein apparently has a new special on Amazon Prime. It’s called Corsets and clown Suits.
I didn’t even know this was coming. It’s out if you want to watch it, I haven’t seen it yet. Primetime reviewed it and said, about half an hour into her Prime video comedy special Corsets and clown Suits, Alex Bornstein tells us exactly how to watch it, standing in front of a live audience. Wearing a glittery checkerboard skirt and shoes with red pomp poms on the toes, she goes off on a barely coherent tangent about the reason the word divorcee has too ease. At the end, catching herself, she strokes and says, I don’t know, I just made that up, you know, making all this up.
Then she takes it beat and laughs and says, be your tickets were free? Who gives a hoot? Flanked by a pair of musicians, a sign language interpreter, and occasionally a burlesque dancer, she talks about a recent divorce in her general frustration with the way women are expected to behave. She makes crewe jokes that are sometimes directed at her parents sitting a few feet away. She sings covers of David Bowie and Ricky Martin tunes, and she belts out original numbers, including one gleefully inappropriate ditty about Hitler’s maid.
It’s an enthusiastic, chaotic jumble. The messiness is part of the fun. That sounds like fun as he’sn’t sorry, remember he was canceled for a little bit. He is out of comedy jail. I think he has a new movie he will star in and direct, good Fortune.
It’s his second attempt to be a director. The first time he was directing Being Mortal, and Net production was suspended over complaints about Bill Murray’s inappropriate behavior on sets. We don’t know what Good Fortune is about, but it will co star Seth Rogan and Kanu Reeves. A variety reminds everyone, I’m sorry. A comedian who rose to fame on parks and recreation, took a break from Hollywood after sexual misconduct allegations were leveled against him in twenty eighteen.
Rory Scovel is at the Wilber Theater in Boston tonight. He spoke to Vanya Land and the name of his tour is the Last Tour. Rory says, There’s something I love about how dramatic that sounds. Whether this is truly the last tour or not, but even on the comedic side of it, calling my Netflix special, Rory Scovel dostand up for the first time, It’s pretty funny to have the very next full tour be the last tour, because it sounds like the shortest career ever. Look at me.
You can actually hear the ice today huh. You like how this sounds, Buy me another one, and buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. James Cordon, he’s got a week to go. I don’t know if there’s gonna be a big hoop to do about it. I’m sure the bigger trades like Variety in a Hollow Reporter will do big fluff job pieces about James Cordon, but I’m not sure the rank and file civilian cares all that much.
James Cordon has the guests for the final Late Late Show. Again, it’s not just Cordon’s finale, it’s the show’s finale because they’re not going forward with it. They’re gonna put on game shows or something. I don’t even know what the plan is for two weeks from now. What CBS is even putting on I guess reruns till they figure it out.
His final guests will be Harry Styles and Will Ferrell. Let’s stop off at gossip Corner now. Yesterday I mentioned the story about Bill Hayter, who’s out promoting Barry and Carol Burnet, who’s got a special next week. Well, why do you know from page six Bill Hayder is dating Ali Wong and she happens to be promoting beef. Isn’t that weird?
Now mentioned his quote girlfriend in an interview but didn’t name her. But luckily the publicist whose job is to publicize Bill Hayter, it’s ald the press that, yeah, the girlfriend is Ali Wong, who, by the way, is promoting a show on Netflix. Funny how that happens? All right. In the first half of the podcast, I commented about money Yahoo wrote about Ali Wang and said it’s not clear how much she made from each special, but in twenty nineteen, HBO Max and Netflix entered a bidding war for her latest two specials.
HBO Max reportedly offered an amount quote north of ten million dollars for the specials. That’s crazy money, Like, how do you make your money back on that? Now I’m familiar with how money works from explaining to people how to Howard sterndeal made sense for series XM. So Netflix is what fifteen bucks? So if a million people sign up for Ali Wong, that’s fifteen million dollars in a month.
I mean, I guess it makes sense. I don’t know if a million people are signing up, but we could divide that to one hundred thousand and hope they stick around for ten months. Maybe north of ten million makes sense, but boy, that’s a lot of money, huh. Chanting protesters have turned up at a gig of a comedian who joked about the Dalai Lama’s interaction with a child to buckle your seat belts. Sourcing here from the Daily Mail and seven News Australia.
So there was a crowd of about one hundred and fifty who surrounded the entrance of the Rubber Chicken comedy pub in Melbourne to protest Lewis Spears. Apparently mister Spears had performed what’s being described as a crude stand up routine making fun of the Dalai Lama. I’ll tell you why in a second. I’ve tried to find the actual jokes, not just the audio of it, even a transcript of it. I don’t know exactly what mister Spears said what led to the jokes was.
Apparently the Dalai Lama has issued an apology after footage went viral of him asking a young boy to quote, suck my tongue. All right, stay with me, Stay with me, Stay with me. A statement posted to the Dalai Lama’s Twitter account said a video clip has been circulating. The shows a recent meeting when a young boy asked his holiness, the Dalai Lama if he could give him a hug. His Holiness off and teases people he meets in an innocent, playful way, even in public and before cameras.
He regrets the incident. All I know about spears set is he made multiple jokes about pedophilia. The Canberra Tibetan community said, while we fully appreciate what comedians do, we find mister spears take on the recent incident involving his holiness dishonest, purposely misrepsenting actual facts, disrespectful, and in port’s haste. We request mister Spears either not be featured at the festival, or at the very least be directed not to include defamatory and derogatory and material about his holiness in his set. Spears tweeted and said he would not be intimidated and would not cancel his show.
He said, the followers of the Dalai Lama know the consequences of restricted speech better than just about anybody else on earth. You’re free to worship you like in a free country, just as I’m allowed to joke about whoever for whatever reason. Sorry, but I walk through hell to do these shows. I won’t be stopping over a protest. I’m going to fly through a bunch of reviews here for the Milbourne International Comedy Festival.
These have been backing up the podcast have been a little longer than usual lately, and the festival is almost over, so I want to get these in Artsub gave Kitty Flanagan Live five stars and wrote Flanagan his back while the stand up show that is acute observational humor, superb timing and consummate stagecraft, brilliantly funny. She barely lets up for the entire run of the show, with only a few carefully orchestrated commerments to give the audience time to catch his breath. She really is that good and she could sing the age. Gave three stars to be Barbo Skirla’s show called a House. They write with the kind of content warnings that would make a cigarette pack wins.
That’s a great line. This isn’t the field good show of the fest. Right out of the gate, be Barbow Skirla lets us know she’ll be dragging us laughing and or screaming into the deep end. Of the comedy pool. Thankfully she has the chops to keep us afloat.
Her hour puts her family in a crosshairs, teasing out the ways in which intergenerational trauma and denial lets angst written teen years and serious adult therapy. Somehow she squeezes big glass from all this, getting nigged by your mom, growing up at a yelling household, the horrowing ordeal of reading your real diaries. It’s heavy stuff, but served up with a winningly light touch. Dan Smith’s shows called Nipples four Stars, The Age Rights. Dan Smith invites heckling, then handles it with grace and wit.
They joke about the trials of a Vegas wedding, staying friends with X’s, and pondering if therapy’s worth it, admissed hordes of relatable tales, talking about the show’s title, which is Nipples in case you forgot, and a random moment of brain crashing. There’s a fair whack of heckling, But is it heckling if the comedian urges the audience to get involved from the outset, sharp and funny, is this show better than therapy? Yep? The Age went and saw Sam C’s government approve sex. Did you know?
A few years back, Sam C was invited by the Singaporean government’s a host a series of public panels demystifying sex. I didn’t know that either. If you did, you win Today’s Daily Comedy News. My name is Sam C. I am a millennial comedian.
I know something, Oh millennials, if your avocados and your Instagram, I don’t really cab all those things follow me on Instagram. There’s a big stereotype, you say, like especially I am a millennial comedian. They say like, oh, you guys just want to make a lot of money and give nothing back to society. And I like to dispel that that falsehood. But I am a hot walking comedian seven years in the Singapore colmedy scene.
Not only do I do nothing for society, I also do not make any money. He says, it’s no surprise Sam C scored the gig. He boasts Jimmy Corus swagger and Jimminy cricket warmth. I love that you trust him, which is essential for a show roaming from romance to kink. The cultural differences in dirty Talk and the Worrying reason dres killed off its global sex survey four stars for that one.
Also four stars Blake Pavey. He may not live beyond the age of forty five, but he doesn’t want your pity. He just wants to make you laugh. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, which is a terminal respiratory illness that mostly affects the lungs and digestive system. He was diagnosed when he was just six weeks old.
Twenty one years later, he’s named his comedy tour literally Dying. I try to pull a clip, but he curses like twice a sentence, and it wasn’t going to be able to make it work. And Canila, it wasn’t that good. One more from The Age. They gave three stars to Larry Dean, skirting sheepistly around mental health.
His therapist says, feel your feelings and the Age rights. You can’t help wishing it. Follow her advice instead of always distracting with something silly. Hung on an over long and not very interesting airport search drama. At least the constant interjections allow a breather.
But when Dean finally coalesces on an emotional tribute to those who lift us up when we need it most, you can feel a much stronger show waiting in the wings. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow a show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A? But good News left the salad behind.
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