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Caloroga Shark Media, look at me. I actually noticed the mic wasn’t plugged in. Hi, it is plugged it now. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this joke from Late Night about the New Hampshire primaries.
I shouldn’t do it because I’m just going to annoy half of you, but it’s funny. Jimmy Fallon said it was a tense day for former President Trump. He spent all day wondering if he won New Hampshire or if the vote was rigged. All right, I sat down to watch TV. I watched two specials.
I watched Jacqueline Novak’s On Your Knees and I watched Kevin James irregardless, I’m going to talk about both of them. I’ll start with Jackie Novak. I feel like this is one of those specials that I’m supposed to like. I feel like the industry has decided, oh, this is important, and I gotta tell you I was done with it at a minute fifty five and the first minute of the special is Jackie walking on stage. I tried.
I was like, I gotta stay with this one. People are gonna get so mad at me. That I didn’t like it. I bailed at the four minute twenty mark I couldn’t. I’ll talk more about that in a second as we dive into the reviews.
So then I was like, all right, let me watch Kevin James. Irregardless. I kind of like the trailer. This one’s on Amazon Prime. I had to hunt for it, like they didn’t put it in front of me.
I had to go into search and type in k evn space J Before it even surfaced. Kevin comes out and does this weird dancing crap for a full two minutes, and I was like, WTF Without Mark Marin, what is going on? What are you doing? It just made me hostile towards the special, like get out and tell a joke. What are you doing?
Just awful? I was kind of playing on my phone. I made it to seven minutes and twenty seconds, but it’s just it’s lame, it’s hacky, it’s not trying. So just write that one off totally.
Let’s talk about Jackie Novak.
Tara Ariano writes for Cracked what If I Told You? Netflix also has a comedy special out this month that’s written, directed, and performed by women, and nearly entirely revolves around a matter of interest to women and others who sleep with men. It’s time for us to erase the sour memory of the Dreamer from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervai’s Armageddon by making Jackie Novak Get on Your Knees the biggest comedy special in Netflix history. It’s certainly the most shockingly great debut I’ve seen in years. I’ll jump in here.
I suspect that women are going to like this special a lot more than I do, and that’s fine. All I could say about this is I’m me and ME didn’t enjoy it. It didn’t speak to me as for those other specials. Chappelle’s The Dreamer was terrible, Ricky’s Armageddon I liked. I got what he was trying to do.
I thought it was amusing. Tara writes, it diminishes Get on your Knees to compare it to any of Netflix’s worst special starring male comics. But good comedy on the platform only makes the bad comedy look worse. The Karen Craft evident in every frame of Nose makes me permanently pre sold for everything else Novak does between now and when one of us dies watch this show so she can make three dozen more or feeling that at least one more than Dave Chappelle. Yeah, I feel like already this is gonna be on everybody’s end of the year list.
And like I said, I just I’m not feeling it. I’m gonna read another review here from Sean McCarthy in Decider, who talks about one part of the special let just made me go, yeah, all right. Sean McCarthy on Decider writes, Novak is upfront about her presentation choices from the get go, and this is the part that I was like, what are we doing? Stopping to physically trace your steps back to the wings of the stage and then again to the microphone, comparing it to the moments during sex when a person moves down from the face past the torso to the pelvis bay, seeing even more attention on the phallic nature of the microphone and comedy the joke there, because the whole way there, everyone knows what you’re headed to do, but you’re not doing the thing. And I heard that choke and I was like, all right, this is what we’re doing here.
And that’s where she lost me when I said it. She lost me at the wooden Let me check my notes. What did I say? One fifty five? That’s when I was like eh, and I hung in there.
I just I’m not feeling this one. I’m sorry. I know people are going to get mad at me, Sean writes. Then there’s her stage presence, the way she handles the mic cord as she strides back and forth along the stage.
And then Sean wrote this hack line about Chris Rock, almost like an early Chr…
Her delivery too, carries a breathless pacing, and she’s dressing a simple grade T shirt and jeans, so it’s not to distract her audience. Good joke here. I like to keep it moving on stage because I know, I know you people operate. I stand still too long. You see something you like, you take a mental snapshot.
Who knows what you’ll do with it later. So this is not me ranting about Sarah Cooper getting a Netflix special off pantomiming to Donald Trump videos. This is not that. This is not me going Adam Sandler movies are terrible, which they are. Oh, we’re going to talk about that a second.
We’ll talk about that in the second half. This is me going I didn’t like this special. That’s all this is. I’m continuing to monitor the biggest story in comedy, Natasha Lazio. I keep checking her Instagram and see if she posts a more photos.
Because she does, I want to be sure to tell you about them quickly. She did post that one. We’ve talked about that already and it got a lot of likes and thumbs up or whatever it is you do. On Instagram, Chelsea Handler wrote, this is an excellent update, Sarah Silverman wrote Queen. Margaret Chow wrote iconic in all caps.
Rachel Feinstein shared popping champagne bottles, otsko At Kotzka gave an appreciative ha ha ha, followed by a parade of applauding hands married to the salinger Alison Brie and Mary Lynn Rice Cup also shared their approval, So did Nick Thune, Rob Hubel and Mark normand Melissa via Signora said this rocks you rock. Rachel Brosnahan wrote funny way to propose, but yes. Beth Stelling wrote, you could always try to bang your opener and if they say no, unfollow them on social media. Madonna pulled Amy Schumer up on stage during nine two of the Celebration tour at Madison Square Garden. Amy helped the Madonna judge the performances of Madonna’s professional dancers.
Amy and Madonna sat on wooden seats facing the audience while Madonna’s scantily clad dancers showed off their skills. We are told that Amy and Madonna seemed more than impressed by the performances, holding up placards with ten printed on them. Some performers weren’t content just dancing, choosing to give them risque lap dances. What is going on with this podcast this week? We’ve got all kinds of situations.
Where’s there a story about Jim Gaffigan joking about toast? We’re told while Madonna wrapped her legs around one of the men, Amy Schumer was photographed in shock as a man wearing just a thong and knee high pants got up close and personal to you know, give her a show.
Meanwhile, having nothing to do with comedy, but it’s interesting, two fans h…
In legal papers, fans are upset that Madonna started three shows at ten thirty, apparently despite promoters saying the show would begin at eight thirty. The fans claim due to the late start, it left them to struggle with work and family commit mints the following day. They are claiming false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. I hope they win. I hate when you go to a concert it starts absurdly late, and I’m with these people.
I got stuff to do tomorrow. I can’t be out to one am on a Tuesday night. If you tell me the show is going to start at ten thirty, I won’t buy a ticket. You say eight thirty, Let’s do eight thirty. Don’t make me sit there for two hours.
Team fans, Well, look at this. Finally somebody listened to me. I’m so excited about this headline. John Stewart to return to the Daily Show as a host and an executive producer. I suggested that I can’t believe they listened.
John Stewart will host the Daily Show on Mondays starting February twelfth, will also executive produce the show and work with a rotating lineup comedians who will help in the program the rest of the Week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Chris McCarthy, the big suit over there, said, John Stewart is the voice of our generation and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us make sense of the insanity and division rule the country as we enter the election season. John is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much needed clarity with his brilliant wit. John stopped hosting The Daily Show back in twenty fifteen. Matt Rife Wheels continued to come off from The Daily Mail. Scandal prone American comedian Matt Rife is slammed for unfinished Australian stand up show that left fans underwhelmed.
All right, what’s this? A woman who attended one of Matt Riffe’s shows in Australia posted a review on the Facebook gossip page tea Time, describing his set as unfinished and watered down. She says Rife was initially met with roars of enthusiasm, but fans quickly turned against him as he carried on with a set. She wrote, I’m unsure how comedians work if it’s new material, but this seemed unfinished or watered down. His jokes weren’t landing like usual.
The crowd was two thousand people and were overall pretty mellow. When the show ended, we were all walking out. People were not hyped. People were yelling out that it wasn’t good and what they thought it would be. That got some comments on comte, Well that’s your problem, you support Matt Rife.
Another wrote, I’d rather go and watch a use tampon be thrown against a wall a bunch of times than see that guy live. If I had a pit between those two, I would definitely go see Matt Rife. Now, if you said to me Adam Sandler movie or the other option, hmm, that’s a tough one. We’ll get to that. I touched upon this yesterday.
Hot ninety seven reports Kevin Hart is seeking a restraining order against blogger Tasha Kay. Hot ninety seven sources. The lawsuit is saying Tasha has an established history of posting defamatory and otherwise and proper content regarding celebrities. Art wrote, working in the entertainment industry, my livelihood depends in large part on my reputation in the public’s perception of me. That perception is of particular concern in the light of the fact that I’m involved in a number of family oriented projects such as the Jumanji franchise, Fatherhood, Captain Underpants, The Secret Life of Bets, and others.
I also endorse various national brands, and those endorsement deals depend in part on a public perception of my reputation, respectability, and character. The lawsuit claimed that Tasha attempted to blackmail Kevin Hart by saying an interview would not be released if he paid her two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I got a good chuckle when I woke up on Wednesday just checking my email and I saw that Liz m bought me five larged ice coffees. Thank you so much, Liz, and Liz writes, can’t wait to hear an entire episode of you saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Hmm.
I have decided to accept this challenge, as I wrote back to Liz, you gotta give me like a week here. I can’t just do this off the top of my head. I’m gonna have to prepare for this one, so I have right now in my editorial calendar. Saturday February third, I will do an entire episode saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Can’t wait, can you?
It’s gonna be amazing. So Liz, thank you for the coffees. If you’d like to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I was thinking of Liz this morning as I drove and actually I’m still wearing and comb my hair and I throw on this running cap.
I’m still wearing it as I record the show today. But anyway, I got a large iceed coffee with caramel and milk and a coffee roll by the way. So when I went for my physical, the doc was like, hey, your cholesterol’s a little high. And I’m like, eh, I’ve been going to town on the coffee rolls. I’ll chill out.
And then I looked coffee rolls, according to the website, have zero cholesterol. Hmm. Now, I don’t know where this cholesterol is coming from, other than I’m just getting up there a little bit. A couple of new podcasts we’re doing. We have the Top eleven.
Every week we pick a subject and cant down the top eleven. This week, the Top eleven movie villains, So check out the top eleven where you get your shows if you want to follow along with the elections. We have a new show called Ballot, give you a quick overview so you can keep up while you’re talking to your coworkers or the family at the dinner table, or the proverbial water cooler, which we’re all on zoom now, so I don’t know how that works, but you know what I mean. That one’s called Ballot. And we also started the Weekly Mac, which is sometimes I throw out these ideas, and I was like, what if we did a podcast about McDonald’s, And my business partner Mark was like, yeah, let’s do it.
And Mark put it together, and the Weekly Mac just talking about McDonald’s fast food is amazingly stupid fun. So check that out.
Also, while I’m plugging everything, five Good News Stories is doing really w…
I guess it was a good idea to do all those Christmas stories at Christmas time because then a lot of new listeners jumped on there. So the number five good News Stories Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that’s me telling you five stories and they’re all good news. The eight hundred bound Gorilla told us about Aaron McGuire. I’ll comment here. I haven’t seen it yet, but they wrote Aaron McGuire has her debut comedy special, Baseline Presentable out on YouTube.
I’ll come back to that, and I’ve shared it in a Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Unless you’re up at three oh one in the morning, I think I scheduled the post for like no, I scheduled the post for seven pm tonight. You’re gonna have to wait a minute. But this gets back to special versus hour. So I clicked on Aaron McGuire’s release and it’s shot in a small club in Queen’s single cam.
That’s an hour. That’s not a special. That’s not the same thing as Chris Rock Live on Netflix. That’s an hour. It doesn’t mean it’s not good, it doesn’t mean it’s not funny, but it’s just not the same thing.
Eight hundred pound Gorilla tells us Aaron McGuire is a New York City based stand up and podcast host who’s been featured on Gotham Live and some other things. So that’s Aaron McGuire’s Baseline presentable. I will check that out next time I’m in Comedy Hour. Special mode from Gossip Corner. Russell Peter is just trying to sell his mansion in Andsino, six bedrooms, seven and a half bath house.
He purchased in twenty twenty for five point six million. He had it on the market for seven million. He had to cut it now to six point two. I look at the pictures. Looks pretty nice.
It was previously owned by Robert Kardashian, you know, father to Courtney, Kim, Chloe and Rob. It includes a dining area with an eighty four bottle wine rack, a chef’s kitchen, a sub zero fridge, three dishwashers, three, a cappuccino maker, and a steam oven. Upstairs, two primary suites, each with a private balcony and views of the San Fernando Valley. Both suites include sitting areas with fireplaces, spot bathrooms, and spacious closets. The second story also has an entertainment room with a two hundred inch screen.
Not bad. Russell Peters in Williamsburg, Virginia at tonight the Last Word Comedy Festival. Tonight, just one show at seven o’clock, the College Improv Showcase. This one kicks into gear tomorrow at Sketch Fest in San Francisco a robust lineup seven o’clock. Aaron Chen is sold out, seven thirty Josh Johnson is sold out.
Clara o’caine will record an album with an opening set by Eugene Merman at seven thirty, Jennif Friedman’s Not Funny at seven thirty, Scott Thompson his buddy Cole and King also seven thirty, nine thirty The Edinburgh is Spotlight, and then nine forty five a tap of San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. So if we were out there, let’s see, hmm, well, I’ll definitely do Edinburgh. I would want to check that out. How about Jennif Friedman for our early show. We can grab a beverage in between.
And that is your comedy news for today. As previously mentioned, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or if you’re on the Fountain nap you can throw some sants my way. Meet you here to morrow. Thanks