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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations. Bo Burnham making history on the Billboard Charts. The soundtrack album to his Netflix comedy special Bo Burnham Inside has spent a record breaking one hundred and twenty second non consecutive week at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album charts.
Those charts don’t move around a lot. It’s not like the music charts. You’ll see things stay a really long time. The comedy charts started in two thousand and four. The most weeks at number one on Billboard’s Comedy Album’s chart Bo bernerm at one twenty two, passes Little Dicky’s Professional Rapper at one twenty one, then a gap to Dean Cook’s retaliation with forty nine, Weird Al’s Mandatory Fun at thirty four, Lonely Islands, Turtleneck and Chain at thirty four.
That was a huge album that year. Flight of the Concords at twenty three weeks, Lonely Islands and Credit Bad twenty two. Actually, I thought in Credit Bad was the more popular when the Turtleneck and Chain, hm, my memory is getting fuzzy. Dan Cook’s rough around the Edges was up there for twenty two weeks, weird Al straight out of Lynnwood for twenty two and wait, what is this? The Bob’s Burgers music album soundtrack was number one for twenty weeks.
Now, let me ask you a couple of questions here. If you’re a new listener. Right, regular listeners know the two questions can ask, But if you’re new, let me ask you a couple questions here. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t.
I know you haven’t. Nobody has. This thing has supposedly been around for fifteen years, and apparently there was a soundtrack of the show. I believe the soundtrack exists. I believe merch exists.
I’ve definitely seen the merch. I’ve definitely seen the promos for the show. But have you ever actually seen this show? Like, have you been home and you’re sitting in front of a screen of some sort and Bob’s Burgers actually comes on? I don’t think you have.
Second question, and this one is the really weird one. Have you ever met anyone, anyone at all who has seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t. Now, isn’t that weird for a show that’s been on for fifteen years. The Bob’s Burgers Music out twenty weeks on the charts.
Bo Burnham has been at the top every now and then he gets kicked off. Four of those weeks he got kicked off by And this will totally show you how the comedy charts work. The Monster Mash Yeah, the one from nineteen sixty two annually that charts in October. Another thing that kicked it out of the number one spot Mouse Rats, the awesome album, the band led by Chris Pratt’s character Andy Dwyer from Parks and Reck that kicked it in November of twenty one, and Steel Panthers on the Prow kicked it in March of twenty three. The album became Bo Burnham’s fourth number one album on the Comedy Album’s chart.
The only other artists with four or more number ones. I’ll remind you this only started in what I say two thousand and four, so you’re not gonna hear George Carlin, Richard Pryor, but Larry the Cable Guy has seven. Steel Panther If you don’t know what it is, parody metal band picture Van Hallen, but comedy that seven Jim Gaffigan with six, Weird Out with five, Nephew Tommy with five, The Lonely Island with five, Dean Cook with four, Doug Stanhup with four, Flight of the con Chords with ford, and Patton Oswalt with four. I’m unfamiliar with Nephew Tommy. Apparently he co hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show where he makes prank phone calls.
Some of you were screaming your podcast right now. I don’t know. I do this every day. Never saw his name before. You’d be mad at me.
It’s okay. Naperghatsy is still talking about his October nineteenth appearance at the Hertman Arena why he shared a video. The video starts with Naperghatsy walking through Hartman Arena and mentioning he’s going to do a sound check and go for run. Then it cuts to him flopped in a chair with a hoodie on his head, not looking nearly as perky as he previously did. Nate says, well, I think the lesson we’ve learned here running is bad for Gassie describes how his hands and feet started itching and he felt his lip swelling.
Kansas allergies, most likely due to Ragweed it hit him hard. Next he starts talking to some dude who supposedly was a doctor. Nate says, we don’t know who this guy is. He talks a great game though. Well it turns out it was Sean Wadsworth, who’s a physician with Atlas MD.
Wadsworth was home getting ready to go to the show for fun and he got a call that somebody needed help. Bergatsy said he resisted taking Benajoe because would make him sleepy, but that’s what Watsworth suggested over the phone. Wadsworth said he didn’t know who was helping un till he showed up and was shocked to find out of his neate he had put some other medicine in his pockets as he walked out the door, and he had made fun of him, saying he brings all his medicine in his pocket. Doctor Sean, guess he’s legit. A lot of people watching Mike Birbigley as Old Man and the Pool on Netflix this weekend.
For Biggs was on The Last Laugh podcast. Mike said, it’s weird sometimes with these shows they get so personal. I’ll be on stage thinking am I saying this to strangers? What am I doing. It’s almost like I sometimes become the people who are criticizing me in my personal life who were like, what are you doing?
And I’m on stage and I’m thinking, Yeah, what am I doing? He talked about anxiety and journaling. Burb Big said, when I was in high school and a lot of college in my twenties, had a lot of anxiety, would have this shortness of breath. I’d talk about a little bit in the show where I feel like I can’t catch my breath. Through the years, starting my twenties, I started to see a therapist, and then at a certain point I started to write it in a journal.
And that was when I made that observation. When I started writing in a journal, I felt like, oh wow, I actually I do feel better afterwards.
And now I always recommend it to people because I’m like, it’s the least expe…
Writing in a journal. Write down what you’re the stadtest about angry, it’s about feel most strongly about, because more often than not, you start to go, oh, actually it’s not so bad. I’m furious about this. I’m angry, but this and the grand scheme of things not too bad. Mike also talked about aging, and he said, one of my favorite comics, Taylor Thomason, came on a podcast and she says, my sister and I used to watch you when we were in middle school, and she’s a fully realized, fantastic comedian.
The idea of middle school that’s a long ago, right, But in some ways I feel like I have a foot in both universes. I’m at the comedy seller quite a bit working out jokes, and I cross paths with a lot of people in their twenties I feel a kinship with, and then I cross paths with people like Chris Rock and Colin Quinn, who I feel like I have a certain kinship with. Two. I don’t feel like I’m in one camp or the other. I just feel like I’m somewhere in the middle of those two things.
Amen, ver Biggs. My breed is young, and you know, I recently did the Reese and then my body reminded me that I’m fifty four. I feel you. Adam Sandler spoke to Indye Wire some details about his reunion with the Safty Brothers. The Safty Brothers are the creative forces behind the best actually good, Adam Sadlor movie Uncut Gems.
Uncut Gems is a fantastic film. If you listen every day, you know, I’m not the biggest Adam, Saidlor fan, but Uncut Gems is solid and clearly the best of the Adam Sandler films. The Safty Brothers are working with Adam Sandler on untitled Netflix film. It has something to do with baseball, Sailor said, we’re not sure right now. We kind of missed the opportunity of baseball season because of the strike.
A lot of it was gonna be shot during live baseball, So it’s gonna take a minute. We’re figuring out right now. I’m not sure when it’s gonna happen. Saandlor has previously teased that the script was inscene and originally three hundred forty pages. They’ve been writing this movie we’re supposed to do together for a couple of years.
They just write hundreds and hundreds of pages. I’ll read them and say I like the part when this and they’ll be like, oh, that’s not in it anymore. We did a whole other thing. We’re gonna send you a new draft. They just don’t stop writing and thinking, coming at every angle they can in this movie We’re Gonna Do is pretty amazing.
John Lovettz doesn’t like all this political comedy on your late night shows. Lovetzi was talking to Fox and said, I don’t like it. They were comedy shows and now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they’ve all become very political, and for me it’s too much. I mean, Johnny Carson, would you know he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president and what was going on. That was it.
But they were entertainment shows. I know all these guys, and they’re very nice guys, very talented. I know Seth, I know Stephen Colbert, I know Jimmy Kimmel. I think they’re funny. You know.
Then they started doing political stuff like so one sided, and it’s like it’s this whole thing. It’s just like, it’s not the shows I used to go on. You know, it is The Tonight Show and David Letterman, it’s their show. They could do whatever they want. But if you’re asking me do I like it, I’m like no.
If I want the news, I’ll watch the news. I’m not watching those shows. They’re late night entertainment, but it’s all political, except for Jimmy fallon. They keep getting mad at Jimmy, why are you going to politics? Because he’s doing a silly like escapism entertainment show.
They just hammer it to death and they become here’s my political agenda. They’re very open about it, and I’m like, well, all right, I have no saying that it’s their show, you know, but I don’t particularly like that they’ve become that that’s where the comedians and the stand up of the bits, you know, like Letterman, who’s comedy. The Guardian asked Eliza Slessinger with her current show, Hard Feelings is about, and she said, up top, I use my experience going through a bizarre strip club as a lens to examine how little women actually have to do in reality to turn men on. It’s a fast paced, super energetic, poignant, at a times whimsical, social commentary on BS standards, cancel culture, freedom of speech, plastic surgery, pumpkin spice lattes, and my red hot take on gen Z versus millennials. Eliza touring while pregnant, she said, I don’t think about it much.
A body in motion stays in motions, so I get out into the city and never miss my one alloud, cup of coffee, try to target one or two cultural things, eat as many local snacks as I can before the heartburn catches up. But do workouts when available, and I always allow myself time to rest. What else would she like to try in the future, Eliza said, what people don’t see or all the projects that fail or forever in limbo. Basically takes an act of God to get a movie or a TV show made. Like any hard working artist in entertainment, I’m always writing a screenplay, a pilot, shooting something, pitching something, or meeting with someone.
I’d like to have a movie or TV show come to fruition at twenty four. It’d be great to get a series on the air, be able to create a universe and have more than a season with it. All I ever want is from my idea is to see the light of day in a meaningful way. Leanne Morgan spoke to Forbes about when she was starting out, and she said, well, Brian at Zani’s in Nashville told me, Leanne, you’ve got three babies. This is gonna be very hard for you to do.
Because I wanted to do comedy clubs. I did a few clubs every year, but I just tried to get anywhere on stage that I could but raise my children number one. So if you needed someone for a fundraiser, I was your fundraiser girl, or the Rotary Club. Then I got a tour early on with Karen Mills called the Southern Fried Chicks. I was really the opener, and that was two thousand and four.
That was really kind of like my comedy club. I really developed my first forty five minutes on that tour. We did about fifty dates a year. It was on the weekend, so I didn’t have to have a babysitter. I was always working.
It just wasn’t always the traditional path. Westward spoke to Jay Farrow, who said, it’s a blessing I have the SNL name on my resume. After you’re in an institution like that, all the other jobs are in as hard. That one is so mentally and physically demanding that everything else is a cake walk. I got to be there at what time?
Eleven am, and I’m done at five. Oh yeah, I’ll be there at SNL. The writing happens late at night. For example, on Tuesdays, I’d be there from two pm till about eleven am the next one. It’s a grind man, but grind makes diamonds.
If you can get there and make something for yourself, then your set. I mean, look at Pete. David said, He’s in like twenty commercials right now. And that is your comedy news for today. You can follow the show for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, overcast podcasts, wherever you get your shows.
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