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Calarogas Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big shows were announced, including John Mulaney’s new stand up tour. It is called Mister Whatever, and he announced it from the backseat of his kidnappers car. Tickets for the shows go on sale today at ten am Local time.
The shows will feature guest appearances from John Stewart, Pete Davidson, Martin Short, and others. In a promo video teasing and Mister Whatever, John Mlaney can be seen blindfolded with his hands pounded in the back of a car as two men with blurred faces and distorted voices sit beside him. Let’s listen. Hey, it’s me John Mulaney, and I’ve got great news. I’m going on tour.
My new tour, Mister Whatever, is coming to a city near you. Pre sale starts April twenty third with the pre sale code mister and you can get tickets at John Mulaney dot com to see you at a show. Soda tell me them local time, you’re going to serve? What appreciate local time? What do you mean local time?
No matter where you are in said I. Am tonight on Netflix, John has Conan O’Brien, I you at a berry, Rita Marino, the curator of the Dinosaur Institute at the National History Museum, and music from Mets me Etz, not the baseball team that I root for. I was thinking more about mulaney’s show and I don’t want to just pile on. But one of the YouTube comments got me thinking about it. You know what it is, I think I finally zer it on this.
It’s that the guests don’t know what to do. The show is so chaotic. The guests don’t know should they just grab the reins and do their thing or should they hang back and let the other guests talk. That’s what the big problem is with the show and the way it’s formatted. I will reiterate my advice.
All you have to do tonight is go my first guest is Conan O’Brien, and then stop talking to the point where if you didn’t say another word, Conan would just fill the void and make a bit of it and probably host the show himself. Anyway, I like John A. Lott, I don’t want to just pile on.
Meanwhile, gab Iglacias and Joe Coy announced they will be headlining the fir…
They’re aim as to sell out to seventy thousand fans. If they hit that number, it would eclipse the current Guinness World Record holding comedy audience of sixty seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty three. You know who has that record wrong. It is German comedian Mario Barth. He did this at the Olympus Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight.
Gave Iglesias, who was co headlining with Joe Koy, joked for one day, the two of us will be Taylor Swift, which is pretty funny because you may remember Taylor Swift nearly destroyed Joe Coy’s career by giving the ice face to this joke. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor’s sweat. Apparently, Gabe and Joe are friends. They frequently pop up at each other’s shows, and they decided to do a co headlining appearance together one night.
Only. They’re doing their sets back to back. I wonder who opens and closes there. I would guess Joe opens for Gabe would be my guests. Especially in LA they promise special guest surprise moments and plenty of other hilarious interruptions.
Gabe said, I think every time that we crash each other’s shows, we see the reaction of the fans and people get excited. And the more we do that, the more we realize we have a lot of the same fans. We’ve always want to do shows together. Yeah, like trying to make it make sense. We have a date for David Spade’s Dandelion.
This will be on Amazon Prime May sixth. In Dandelion, David Spade tells us about the perils of flying charity auctions and the evolution of naughty movies. Nudge, Nudge. Kevin Hart never afraid to work, He’s got another gig. This time he’ll be hosting the b ET Awards Monday, June ninth on b ET.
Hart has hosted the awards before, back in twenty eleven be ET president Scott Mills. For over a decade, Kevin Hart has been a beloved part of the Beet family and we couldn’t be more excited to have him return to host the twenty fifth anniversary be ET Awards, it sounds like Bowen Yang is kind of done with SNL. The more interviews I read with Bowen, and he’s been doing a lot of them, I think he’s checked out. I think he’s laying the groundwork for exiting the show, and I would totally understand it. To me, I think, if you’re going to get out, now’s the time to get out.
In the fiftieth season, I could see fifty one being a total rebuild unless you just want to pull a Keenan, like, if you’re Jo Justin Chay, just sit at that news desk for another ten to fifteen years until Lauren’s replacement kicks you out. But you know, if you’re Bowen Yang, yeah it might be time to move on. Bowen says SNL’s just this moving, living, breathing thing, especially after the fiftieth them seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how many people, no matter how long they were at the show or just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them. He addressed the production schedule, saying, the new season of SNL, I’m just like, oh right, my time isn’t my own. And I tell my friends, I’m not really going to see you guy Unti June, and people that I’ve gone on a couple solid dates with, I’m like, hey, it’s not for lack of interest.
My time is really slipping away from me and I’m so sorry. And it’s not a youth thing, it’s a me thing. I think one of the best parts about working at SNL is whenever you’re not working on your own because you’re helping somebody else a cast. Remember, I execute on their vision. So they’re coming up to you being like you need to dress up as a drone, you need to dress up as a Chinese spy balloon and d blah blah blah, and you’re like, oh, yeah, sure, you get shot out of a cannon in so many of these situations that kind of breaks down all your hesitancies around doing anything that has only served me.
I mean, every now and then a lot of times it’ll be like egg on your face, you make an ass out of yourself, But I never ever weigh that against the wonderful things that I’ve gotten to do. The Webby Awards have announced the winners. Now the ceremonies not for another couple of weeks. I don’t understand how this works. The Webby Awards will be hosted by a Lot of Laser on May twelfth, but they’ve already announced the winners.
Okay. Marcelo Hernandez from SNL is receiving a special achievement award. It’s the Webby Outstanding Comedic Performance Award. The logic thing is The award recognizes his sharp, culturally resonant humor on SNL and his viral impact on the Internet, redefining digital comedy for a new generation. I mean, I like the guy, but he kind of does one thing over and over and over on SNL.
Anyway, if you want to give him an award, go ahead. The Webby’s called him one of the most electrifying new talents in digital comedy. They singled out Domingo. Yeah, everything he does is a variant on Domingo. SNL’s live show coverage on Instagram Stories scored two wins for Best Use of Stories, both the Official Webby and the fan voted People’s Voice Trophy.
The Daily Show got three wins of its own, including Best Social Trophy in the Comedy division and both the traditional Webby and the People’s Voice Award for Best Social in the News and Politics division. That Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon won Best Use of Vertical Video for its nine x sixteen content What Are We Doing? Kimmel won Best Social for a Television Show or Film. People’s Voice winner in that same category went to Colbert.
Meanwhile, Sets took home a Podcasting Webby for the tenth anniversary oral h…
The Audio series Best Individual Episode from a TV Show or Film, Best Podcast Host went to Conan O’Brien. John Stewart named the People’s Voice winner for Best Host for the weekly show Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers won Best Podcast Comedy for Las Culturistas. The People’s Voice Award for Best co Host went to The Lonely Island in Seth Myers the Webby Awards Can You wait? May twelfth, Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett sent this to me via The Wall Street Journal.
A very seemingly complicated kerfluffle involving Kevin James is so complicated I had to ask chat gpt to summarize it for me because I didn’t understand it when I read it. According to Chat, Kevin James has found himself caught up in the bankruptcy proceedings of National Real Time The Investment Advisors, a real estate company that filed for Chapter eleven, and as CHET understands things, the company had sold Kevin James a mansion. However, that deal has turned into a legal battle. The mansion, initially purchased by National Realty Investment Advisors for seven point one million dollars in twenty seventeen, had a history of construction problems. Before James bought the house, two hundred and fifty grand was put in escrow for repairs.
However, after Kevin James bought the house for fourteen million dollars. If Chat GPT is understanding this correctly, he allegedly didn’t carry out the repairs and the escro funds weren’t used. An inspector later estimated the home needed one point four million dollars in repairs, far more than what was initially anticipated. That’s an understatement. Apparently, Kevin sold the property as is for twelve point seven million dollars in twenty twenty three, and there’s a legal battle going on and they’re fighting over the escro and I don’t know, but that’s what’s going on on gossip Corner.
Zach Zimmerman has a new special out on YouTube, Surprised Me. Zach explores the definition of love across evangelical family members, Romance gone wrong and doughnuts Done right. My kind of show in this sweet and salty I think that’s code magical stand up special. Surprise Me is also available as an album, So they’re right there. I like it.
I’m pro Grammy then. Via Eugene Merman’s Pretty Good Friend’s Comedy label, Zach’s also on tour you in New Orleans. Why don’t you stop by the Sports Drink Comedy Club on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. That’s this weekend, all right. The Guardian caught one of the shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
They really liked Greg Larsen’s Greggy. They gave it four stars out of five. The setup here spoilers as if you were heading down to Sydney to see this show. Greg Larson has broke having his card declined at at McDonald’s drive through just weeks before. This year’s Melbourne Festival was a watershed moment for him.
He’s forty one, This, he says, is his last festival show. He’s done. Gegy is his swan song, a chaotic journey through his careers, highs and lows and the decisions that led him to that drive through. The show is a window into the reality of working as a comedian, from open mic gigs to glitzy award nights and the various day jobs that happen in between. It isn’t a glamorous story.
The theme of the show, if there is one, is money and the question of why Larsen doesn’t have any? And I feel like Johnny Mac, you don’t cover Australian comedy festivals enough. I know, but I have good news for you. The Brisbane Comedy Festival sixteenth edition kicks off today. Yeah, from today until May twenty fifth, five weeks, four venues, one hundred and thirty five acts.
Who do you go see if you’re down there? How about Granny Bingo? They are the nastiest nanas out there? How about the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars? How about s faced Shakespeare?
You know Shakespeare if you’ve had a few too many drinks. And there’s future science talks comedy addition, Anti Donna they’re not there, but two of the Anti Donnas are Broden Kelly. He’s probably the most recognizable of the Anti Donnas here in the States. He’s got a solo show and Zachary Roon t up with Alexi Toleopolis to do some sort of movie theme show. Some comedian names you may know, especially if you’ve listened to the show over the years, Rhese Derby, Sarah Pesco, Archborker, Ross Noble and Mark Watson.
It is the Brisbane Comedy Festival one of these years. I gotta you know, I could probably swing it money wise, you know, especially it would be a legit right off if I went down there. But you know the whole thing is I’m married, and you know who’s letting the dogs out. Hey, I’m going to Australia for four weeks to cover comedy fstls just not gonna fly. I’m going to LA for three days.
That flies. I’m going to Australia. What are you doing? I don’t know. I’m hosting a comedy podcast and that is your comedy news for today.
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All right? See tomorrow.