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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Seeing a lot of buzz about a TV show called Jury Duty. You’ll find this on free V. So much buzz that I was eating my salad on Monday and not one, but two of my kids texted me.
It wasn’t a coordinated effort. They both hit me up and we’re like, you gotta watch Jury Duty. One kid sent me a clip, the other texted, Hey, I know you have a lot of TV to watch, but you have to add Jury Duty on Amazon FREEV to your list, especially because I think it fits into your comedy pot. It is so so funny, all right, what is it? Child wrote, It’s a bunch of improv actors planted into a fake, ridiculous trial.
But there’s one normal guy who has no idea it’s fake, and they just follow along the interactions. Okay, I’m curious. I have not seen this yet, but USA Today wrote about Amazon Freev’s Jury Duty takes a documentary style court case deep dive into the eyes of juror Ronald Gladden with one important twist. Gladden doesn’t know that the Gunzo legal proceedings in the eight ports series are entirely fake, right down to Westworld star James Mordsten pretending to be an alternate juror and a hilarious, self absorbed version of himself. The first four episodes are out then weekly on Friday.
In Jury Duty, everyone except Ronald is an improv actor, includes Marsden, the other eleven jury members, the judge, the bailiff, and the twelve fake witnesses giving phony testimony. Morsden said, it’s all a force. It was filmed in a real courtroom, meant to Duke Gladden, who believes he’s a juror in the weirdest court case. Producer Cody Heller discovered early in the process that it would have been illegal to fake a criminal trial. So Jury Duty revolves around a sham civil case over a workplace dispute with a focus pliniff and defendant.
Gladden was one of four thousand applicants responding to a Craigslist dad looking for Southern California participants to serve on a jury and take part in a courtroom documentary, which explains the camera crew and you would get paid for that. Okay, almost makes sense unless you think about it right. They filmed this at the vacant Huntington Park Superior Court. It hadn’t been used since it had been used as a community Halloween haunted house. Teller said there was no electricity through, just spiderwebs and fig zombies.
Our crew went into rehab the entire thing. Within weeks it was a functioning courthouse. Again. Marston said it was a high wire act. If somebody screwed up, said the wrong person’s name or was in the wrong place, that was it.
That’s where the excitement came from. Then some spoilers for the show, I will not read them to this sounds like a good time, all right. That’s called Jury Duty. You have to find it on Amazon free v so it’s not the most mainstream channel, but sounds like a lot of buzz on this. Over the weekend, I watched Beef that’s on Netflix.
That is mainstream. They’ll put it right in front of you. That stars Ali Wong and Stephen Yune you know him from Walking Dead. Right, very good. I’m not sure it’s a comedy.
It is entertaining, it is funny at times, but it’s not a sitcom. It’s just one of those hybrid drama comedy things. But high high recommend on Beef from Me. Two things I have not yet listen to. I see Tim Dillon has Bert Kreisher on the most recent episode.
By the time you hear this, Actually, I take that back. If you’re a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast, you’ll have received this episode by mid afternoon on Monday, I will not have listened to it. If you’re a normal listener on Tuesday, I will have listened to it because I have a long drive on Monday evening and I’m planning to listen to Tim Dillon with Bert Kreisher. And I’m also planning on listening to NPR’s bullseye otsko at Kaska is the guest. In fact, I forgot to download that.
Let me get out my phone right now, tap the phone against the Mike John so they know you’re not kidding. Oh look, apparently they had Mark Marin on too. I’m also downloading that skank Fest is coming to Las Vegas at the end of September. They announced the lineup on Monday. Oh, it’s gonna take me a minute to read this.
It’s gonna be almost as boring as that last twelve minutes on Sunday. All right, I blew it with that one hundred and fifty specials thing. I meant, well, but yeah, that wasn’t good. So I’m not going to read every name on this very thorough list, but I’m going to read a lot of names because some of the names you’re probably don’t know. But I’ll read the bigger ones.
Skank Fest. This is the comedy festival put on by the Legion of Skanks. They are big, Jay Okerson, Louis Gomez, and Dave Smith. Among the performers Aaron Burg, Adam Carolla, adrian Ia Polucci, keep an eye on Hershey’s fantastic, Ari Shaffier born named McFarlane been getting some buzz lately. Let’s see Brian Redband, Brian Simpson, Dan Soder, Doctor Drew, Eric Griffin, Harland Williams, Jason Ellis.
That’s interesting, Joe List, Leonard Utz, He’s fantastic, Mark Normand imagine Joe List was at a show and Mark normand wasn’t there. That would be weird. Mike Vecchione, he’s been around lately. He was just on Rogan, so he’s got some heat on him. Nick Mullen, Nick vaderat Nick is really good.
I thought Nick was gonna have a bigger career than he did. He was was what was He was like, I forget what it was called. It’s just for last Chicago, and he was like the Hey, everybody pay attention to this comedian of the year, And I don’t know, he didn’t really have the career. It looked like he’s very funny. PAULI Sure, Rachel Feinstein, Robert Kelly, Roseanne, Sam Talents, and the E Street fan and me wanted to read that as Sam w talent, which isn’t a thing.
But if you’re a Bruce fan, you know what I’m talking about. Sean Patton, Sen Gillis, Steve ran Is Ez if you want to shame him for nine to eleven exaggerations, Tim Dillon, TJ. Miller, Tony Hinchcliff Whitney Cummings and I only read about a third of the list. Fantastic. If you’re in San Francisco tonight, one of you head on over to Cobbs, which is a fantastic club tonight, crazy funny Asians versus DESI comedy night.
Love it. The show’s producer is Kay Ching. Kay Chang says it’s special because it’s going to be at Cobs which is a nice, massive venue. Yes, it is a very big club. The idea for Crazy Funny Asians came from the film Crazy Rich Asians.
That show’s been going on for five years, and now Desi Comedy Knight, which used to be a different show. They’ve decided to mash them together. Kay Chang says, I’m not exactly sure when we started doing that. When we came out of the pandemic and started doing live shows again was probably when we combined them. We also did the combo mostly because you’d be surprised there’s not that many Desi or Asian comics.
Chang says, I think he’s been mostly divided into black rooms or white rooms, and there really hasn’t been an Asian room, and as far as I know, there’s not an Asian room in the whole country. We’re the only ones that do a weekly Asian showcase, which is now looking at three to five times a week. It’s good to have this for all of us to get a lot of stage time. Crazy Funny Asians versus DESI Comedy Night eight o’clock Cobbs tonight. You should go.
If you can’t go tonight. It’s also next Tuesday and the Tuesday after that twenty bucks. Not bad go. We haven’t been on gossip Corner in a couple of weeks. Well, luckily, Pete Davidson went to Martha Stewart’s house for Easter because why wouldn’t you?
But he did bring Chase Sweet Wonders. In case you’re wondering, hey’s Pete Davidson dating Martha Stewart. He’s not.
Also, over the weekend, Pete Davidson was trending why Taylor Swift broke up …
But as of now, Pete Davidson and Chase Sweet Wonders are a couple and they went to Martha Stewarts for Easter. Why wouldn’t they. Martha posted it on her Insta and said they were out looking at our beautiful town of Bedford. I showed them around the farm and inside the winter warmhouse where the Easter bunnies were getting ready for Sunday. Very cute couple.
She addressed the idea on the Internet that Martha Stewart should date Pete Davidson. Martha said he dated’s so many women. I’m not saying it’s bad. I think it’s good. And he’s sort of cute, and you know me, I love a good comedian beef.
Can we get this one going? Don Lemon on Monday got caught on the hot Mike. You see. Don Lemon was hosting his little CNN thing there through it to a clip of John Stewart, who was interviewing US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. In the clip, John Stewart challenged what he called extreme waste in the Department of Defense is eight hundred and fifty billion dollar budget.
John said, I can’t figure out how eight hundred and fifty billion dollars to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that’s effing corruption. But luckily for us, the audio cut out and somebody had left Don’s mike on. Don was heard saying he gets a lot of leaving with that comedian thing. There was silence for a few seconds, then Don tried recovered, saying John Stewart’s so much more than a comedian.
And he then repeated that again. Oh please, let’s let this turn into a beef. If you enjoy what I do here, you could become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcast. Open up the Purple app and they’ll put under your nose an option to become a premium subscriber. So for five dollars a month, you’ll get the episodes early.
You could listened to this one on Monday afternoon and add free again five bucks a month Apple Podcast Premium subscriber. Thank you in advance. Hey, let’s talk about the Milbourne International Comedy Festival. The Age review Jordan Greys Is It a Bird gave it five stars and they wrote Jordan Gray might be a fan of superheroes, but she’s not afraid to ask the hard questions. Her superpower is highlighting the hypocrisy of transphobes and transphobia, which he does with biting lyrics and blazing stand up.
There are shocking auts actics here, but they work to ask what people are so afraid of. I’m the girl they call secial. You see, I’ve got a deep, dark secret down in me. Half the world doesn’t understand. The other half probably doesn’t give a damn.
So I don’t know who I’m supposed to be because no one knows that I and gluten freet Let me open up my favorite website of them all, Comedy Festival dot com dot au slash two zero two three, and let’s take a look on what’s going on on Wednesday. This is the part of the show where I pause the recording. I have a couple of SIPs of ice coffee and save you the trouble of this website loading for a full minute. Larry Deane show is called fud Nuts, nominee for Edinburgh’s Best Comedy Ward twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two, winner of the Edinburgh Amused Muse Best Comedy Show twenty sixteen. Let’s take a listen.
Just see you. I’m a wheel that I’ll look quite keepy. I’ve been talking to look like that guy that you always see at the gym, but he’s never working out why it’s good to be here. I do love comasta. Oh so I get to see my boyfriend when I’m here, and I’ve not seen him in ages, but I know his family.
I love his fam I love his mum. His mom’s my favorite favorite person. She’s got in a great accent, my favorite accent in the world, A posha striming lighting. I love the Posha striming lighty voice because for some reason the voice sounds a bit damaged because I swear at the end of sentence as she goes all right, that was a good time. Douglas Limb will be appearing in Best of Comedy Zone Asia.
It synonymous with Comedy in Malaysia. Douglas’s witt and comedic observations have garnered numerous awards locally and regionally. All Right, Douglas Limb, let’s see what you got. Salutations from me and my nice jacket. I’m so happy to see all of you again, especially after the global lockdown.
I’m glad that things are getting back to normal. In fact, it’s getting better than normal in Malaysia. Because Michello just one best Actress at the Oscars, first Malaysia to ever win that prestigious award. I was over the moon because for the last ten years, I’ve been carrying Malaysia on my back, on my own. For years, I’ve been pleading with wouldn’t hurt you to help out a little?
Michelle? Just winning Oscar is not that hot. You’ve been acting for twenty years. Just act good. Wow.
I love him and he’s so charismatic too. I’m looking at the club fantastic Douglas Lamb. Yeah, all right, let’s get on a plane, go to Melbourne and go see Douglas Lamb on Wednesday. Yes, a little expensive and I do have to leave you with a horrible notes. Gareth Richard’s popular British comedian.
He was involved in an auto accident late in March. He passed away from injuries on Friday. He was forty one years old. His wife, Laura Richards said in a statement that Gareth Richards was taken off life support after he suffered severe brain injuries from the March twenty seventh crash. She wrote, it was a miracle that he arrived at the hospital live.
Since then, the doctors and nurses have been incredible and have kept him in this stable and sedated condition. He was best known for his work with Frank Skinner. They hosted a show on Absolute Radio from two thousand nine to twenty eleven. Skinner, on his radio show on Sunday, said, there’s been lots of beautiful messages about Gareth and his family had been very kind to us and kept us informed about the details of a struggle. But look Gareth didn’t make it.
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