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The Shark Deck. John Mlaney’s new special Baby Jay is out on Netflix today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mulaney told people that he had COVID at one point, he said, I got to say I didn’t experience the pandemic the same way other people did. Mullaney was on with THEO Van’s podcast.
He said, I didn’t know the nasal swab hurt until after I got sober. I gotta remember to download that episode. I will do that right now. Done.
Speaking of podcast, Sam Morrell was asked who his favorite guest on that We …
He was really calm, which is rare for Bill. He’s always been nice to me, but there are clips of people setting him off, and you don’t want to be one of those. He doesn’t drink, but he loves milkshakes and cigars. So we did that and I think it put him in a good mood. Who are your at comedy heroes?
Sam Mourell? And he said Roddy Dangerfield really made me love comedy. He was a machine gun, relentless, hilarious and also self deprecating. Back to School was to me the funniest movie ever. Joke for joke, every character just serves to set up as jokes, and that to me, He’s a ready hilarious.
Chris Rock’s roll with the new album was a game changer for me because of these provocative setups. I remember my mom grabbing my disc player and wondering what I was listening to and just saw this look of horror on her face. Then thirty seconds later she’s laughing hysterically, And that’s beautiful that the joke can push you away and then bring you right back. Sam Murell, have you ever gotten a drink or share a meal with one of your idols? Sam said, I got to open for Adam Sandler and that was pretty insane.
We’re just hanging out after the show, is eating steak. He’s as cool as you would hope he would be. I’m like, Wow, you made me so happy as a kid, and you still make me happy. That’s kind of a beautiful thing. I was on the road recently in Saint Louis and Chris Rock was in my hotel.
He hung out for a wild It’s kind of cool. To be like, oh, just me and Chris Rock passing through Missouri, would you guys talk about a lot of comedy, philosophy and stuff. When he says something, you listen because it’s Chris Rock. Everything he says is absolute. That’s how his mind works.
That’s how it is. Even when you don’t agree with it, you’re like, well, that was really well worded. A lot of ray Romano press lately because of the new movie, one of the questions being asked is could we get a reunion of Everybody Loves Raymond? To show creator Phil Rosenthal says, here’s what I really can’t believe. I’ve pitched now to a couple different places.
We can do a reunion special. We can tell stories of the things that happen to us all at home, and then show a clip of the Raymond episode. And I think it’d be entertaining and funny, and you get a chance to catch up with the cast as they are now. And it seemed to work for friends and no takers. Not yet.
Maybe someone will say, hey, this seems like a no brainer. I think people like the show. I think they’d like to see the cast together again. I think they’d like to revisit some of the highlights and outtakes from the show. There’s no rhyme or reason anything.
If they see money, they go for the money. If they see demographics they want, they go for that. I’m not singling out any network. There are plenty of entities who’ve been involved with that show that could do reunion show or a special, which certainly doesn’t cost as much of producing a real episode of a show. It’s people sitting in chairs and then you have clips.
But one about a proper reunion, Patricia Heaton told Us Weekly in twenty eighteen, and she nails it here. I don’t think it’s possible now with Peter Boyle and Doris Robert’s gone, it just would be the same show. Yeah, I don’t know what everybody loves Raymond would be without the parents dynamic. And you don’t want to do like Raymond the next generation and cast Ray and Debra in the like parent roles. That’d just be stupid.
Don’t do that. Leave it alone, good show. We could watch the reruns. When Patricia Eaton was first cast on the show, she joked about having to kiss Ray Ramato and said, that’s how desperate I was for a job. I don’t know who that guy’s in the corner, but if I have to kiss him, I’ll do it.
Just tell the story. I was on an airplane once and they had Raymond on there and I was watching and my headphones on. I was laughing out loud. You’re kind of not aware that you’re laughing out loud when you have headphones.
And then the steward came by and he said, I think it’s so cute you laugh at y…
So when I do the podcast, I have a script, and the script is just for me. Said, don’t really clean it up. And this has been making me laugh. A typo that I left in I wrote, brag Darrett. That’s supposed to say Brad Garrett, but it says brag Darrett.
He also talked about a possible reunion and he said, nah, that’s really far from Ray’s emo. Once Peter passed, Ray said that never be reunion. I totally agree with that. Ray was smart to go out on top. Very few people do that.
Ray and I are good buds. Were poker people. We have a game every three months, and we golf every couple of months. I know it sounds cliche and trite. But we’re really so close, and that’s why a lot of fun stuff did happen on screen, because we really did have that closeness.
We do keep in such I won’t say we hang out every week, but we’re definitely close. Master Brownie got philosophical about turning fifty. This from Men’s Health, and he said, once I hit fifty, I thought, oh my god, I’ll be passing away. I’ve lost my sister to breast cancer and my brother to addictions. So those moments will come when I realize that, and help me reiterate this idea in my head that you have to live your life.
You have to live your life for experiences, you have to live your life for memories, and you have to live your life for loved ones. Great advice there, Mas, cool guy. I met him once, I think in Montreal, maybe twice. I might have met him at Serious Proper in New York City as well, but I always enjoyed my time with Mas. And he said, a lot of the Iranian men that I know, or even some other immigrant men, they come from very mancho background.
These immigrant cultures, I think put a lot of pressure on men to answer and solve every problem. But the truth is we can’t. Because we’re mortal beings. We can’t do miracles. Unfortunately, in our culture, it’s not encouraged to seek help and talk to others.
I’m always trying to understand the way I am. One thing I discovered about myself recently is that I’m a pleaser. I like to please people. I like to say yes, and that puts me in situations that I don’t want to be in. So I’m trying to work on that a bit, and I’m trying to work on prioritizing myself, my family and my responsibilities that I feel are essential to me first before I say yes to other things.
Part of being a comedian that helps me is I get to go on stage a lot of times and actually rant about something that was on my mind to a whole audience. If I’m on stage talking about something that happened in my life, chances are there’s somebody in the audience who can relate and we laugh together. And I think that’s to form its own therapy. All right. This next thing is from Liththub, but Jenna Friedman at the center of it, and I love what she did here.
She said, if I had a dollar for every time a journalist asked me, is it hard being a woman in comedy? I probably make as much as a man in comedy. So what she did is she gathered some male comedians and asked them the types of questions she usually gets. Asked, this is a lot of fun and it’s long, so I’m going to split it and do part of it somewherew Jenni Friedman asked what’s it like to be a man in comedy? John Stewart laughs and said it’s golden because men in comedy are carried into the clubs.
It’s incredibly pampering. You’re paid in doeg Did I even say that? Right? Doche Coin and Cocaine futures. Eugene Merman said, you know, it feels fine.
It feels like I have opportunities I could presume. Sorry, you get that question. It’s so outside of what I do. It really makes it clear that interviews for you were probably unpleasant. Patton Oswalt said, sometimes the road could be a little rough.
I don’t want to make it sound like some horror movie, but sometimes club owners are more concerned with drink sales and not focused on, say, crowd control.
And then there’s that double edged sort of I could use a little sport here, b…
There’s still a long way to go, but it’s fun. Jim Gaffigan said, I can’t really speak from my entire gender. Next question, when did you decide to become a male comedian? Eugene Merman said, I guess I was eighteen when I decided to be a male comedian, or at seventeen, I think I realized comedy was the kind of job and I was male, So that’s what happened. Jim Gaffigan said, I didn’t decide to become male.
I was born male. You can have some fun with this, Jim. You know. Bob Odenkirk said, I didn’t think I had a choice to become a female comedian. It was a different time.
I didn’t have that option. John Stewart said, you know, for years I was a boy comedian. I think at some point after my bar mitzvah that I decided. Actually, I don’t think I decided. I think it was just pronounced and annointed.
I was at a ceremony. Was it hard to be a male comedian back when you’re starting out? John Stewart said, yeah, because the competition was all men. The competition was fierce. There was only every slot, so you had to fight for all of them.
Next question, do you think men can be attractive and funny? Jim Gaffigan said, I think there are two separate things which really have nothing to do with one another. Funny is the only important thing in stand up well it should be in my opinion, Jim, you can have fun with this. Pat Oswald, I’m not gonna lie and say that a nice shoulder to hips ratio it doesn’t open some doors, but after that, you’d better be able to deliver the material. You’d better be funny.
I know a lot of male comedians who were very handsome and figured they could coast on that, but then Eddie peppettone is suddenly getting all the TV gigs. It’s a wake up call once you hit that stage. Jennif Friedman asked, do you think it’s more difficult for male comics were not attractive. John Stewart said, yeah, it’s very difficult. That’s why we’re out at night.
I’m pretty sure that’s why there’s a two drig minimum. It’s not to loosen people up to the funny. It’s to make us more palatable to the eye. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and you can buy me a coffee. You can throw a couple of bucks on the tip jar five dollars the suggested amount, and I’ll take you five dollars.
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They don’t have clips posted the way Milbourne did. And I’m not going to read you a whole list because you’re probably not on your way to Sydney. Although if you are, thank you for listening to the podcast. But some of the shows on Tuesday, David O’dharty Hesmo, he’s a lot of fun, Reese Nicholson, Sam Campbell, those are all good. Looking ahead to Wednesday, a lot more shows.
Let’s see what we recognize here. Sam Campbell again, he’s really good. No names that I know here some repeats from Milbourne, but I’ll tell you Sidney Comedy Festival. Your website loads nice and fast. Melbourne folks higher the number three person away from the Sydney Comedy Festival and have them do your website.
Laugh Button asked Big Jay Okerson, Who to you are the ultimate comics comics great question, Big Jay said, There’s two that always come to mind, Patrise O’Neil and Dave at Tell. He also added Great Giraldo because he was always bordering mainstream success but he never quite got there, but he was revered among comics and audiences. Comics were like, damn man, this guy’s good looking and fantastic at comedy Patrese. Unfortunately he got his legacy cut short. It’s crazy to think that I’m years older than he was when he died.
He’d be fifty two. We have the same birthday. I’m forty five. He would have probably been one of the most elite comics comics. He probably wouldn’t have broken through with mainstream success, but he would have been very successful in his universe for sure, and wealthy, I’m sure, I hope.
And David Tell is a machine of comedy perfection. The way he does it is amazing. What I always love about Patres and Dave is the difference between watching the staff drone through comics who they know, who were there every night. You’d watched them roll their eyes and go, oh, this guy again, but then they all stopped working and sit down. Young come in the room, some huge comics come in and watch him form.
And I was like, that’s what I want aspire to do. I want people who are bored with comedy go, I’ll take a peek at this. It’s awesome being a comics comic. The respect from others is so huge, But financially, I want to be a people’s comic. I started comedy with Kevin Hart.
I definitely want Kevin Hart’s belongings is bottomless doe, But the limited time that I’ve spent with him in the last decade, it looks like it’s a lot. I don’t want everything in my life to be private, because if I want to go to a movie, I have to go to a private movie theater or something or screening. He couldn’t take his kids to a fair down the street and go on the tilted World cause a major problem. If I go to Carnival i’d get noticed. Well, the carnies would probably recognize me.
I might get recognized a handful of times. But I could walk through the airport by myself, and if I took three pictures in one airport trip, I’d be like, Wow, that’s a lot of pictures for an airport trip.
Speaking of Kevin Hart and Fares, he will be playing the twenty twenty three …
The fair runs June seventh through July fourth. The theme get out There and from Yahoo. Jack Whitehall recalled the time he bombed so hard at a private comedy gig for King Cheryl was the third He told James Gordon that he was not invited to the coronation. By the way, full coverage of the Coronation on Palace Intrigue. That’s a podcast in which I’m the writer.
We talk about the British Royal family palace intrigue where you get your shows. Jack Whitehall not invited to the coronation of King Charles coming up on May sixth. He said, I went out there and they were set King Charles and Camilla in the front row and thrones literally in thrones. I had no microphones, so I was literally the court jester for half an hour. I did a lot of jokes about Kate Middleton because you’d been at my school, and I was referring to her as the one that got away, and he didn’t like that at all.
I literally bombed so hard, and afterward I had to meet with him and I had a bow and he said, yes, well, I think next year we might try a magician. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Once in the Generation, I Knew You British One Old Dynasty, Taste Shape and I Am On Francis host a Palace Intrigue at Daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get over news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace from Harry and Meghan in California to Cayton William in the UK, along with King Charles, Quinkermiller, Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters.
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