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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I got some fights for you and I enjoy that. From Indy Star, Cat Williams sold out show at the Indiana Farmers Colisseum on Saturday night ended early. James told Indy Star the story.
Apparently, before Cat Williams took the stage, a man sitting in the row in front of James was invading his personal space because the seats were so close to the back of the man’s head in the row in front of James would be close to James’s lap whenever he leaned back. James said, I tapped and I’m like, hey man, I’m not trying to stop your good time, but can you please stop putting your head in my lap? James says the man responded with a dismissive gesture, so he walked to concessions to keep calm. The guy’s friend, though, apparently encouraged the man with the head in the lap to fight James. James told the Indie Story, he said, you should really knock him out.
James said, I couldn’t pay it ten men to cant Williams’s performance because everything had kept going on. I wasn’t sitting there arguing with him. The guy kept trying to irritate me. Missus James urged her husband to keep cool, and they decided to leave the show. They figured they could watch the last part of KATS set from the TVs out in the hallways.
On his way out, though, James looked back and saw one of the men, not the guy with the lap the guy who encouraged the lap person to attack James. He saw that person attempt to hit his wife. James doubled back and then full on fight. Missus James got between her husband and the man, fearing they were too close to the balcony railing and calling for them to stop fighting. Missus James says, the man, who by then had a bloody nose, intentionally wiped the blood on her face.
Now apparently again, I wasn’t there. People had complained about the group in the more forward row before James even got hassled. As the story goes, security told the men to stop bothering other attendees. The men countered they weren’t being rude and they were the ones being insulted. Missus James said, I don’t know why Security didn’t dismiss them the first time.
She said she broke the heel of her shoe and brewster thigh during the incident. There’s a video on social media. Kat Williams wraps it up says thank y’ all for coming. God bless you have a good night. TMZ reported that reps for Cat Williams said the show was cut only five minutes early.
Meanwhile, a headline from TMZ Jerrod Carmichael slammed for joke about slavery race play with white boyfriend. Now is it me? I have no interest in Girod Carmichael reality show at all. Have you watched it? Is it good?
I just I’m not interested in it? TMZ reports the controversial quip came on Jerrod carmichael reality show, where Drod says I sometimes joke to him that our relationship was like that of a slave and a master’s son who teaches me how to read by candlelight. Yeah, he groans too, because he’s a good person. He doesn’t like that joke. I like that joke.
That’s my burden. I think that’s hilarious. The scene apparently got posted all over Instagram and ignited a firestorm of criticism. Folks are blasting Drod’s joke as an inappropriate take on racial inequality. Netflix announced a six episode John Mulaney thingy called John Mulaney Presents Everybody’s in La.
This will debut May third, with additional episodes debuting nightly beginning at seven Pacific. Ah, that’s not good for us E’s coasters. What do you do in Netflix? The other episodes will run May six. I don’t know why the gap in between.
Mullaney will be performing at the Hollywood Bowl on May fourth. All right, so what happens in John MULLENIY Presents Everybody’s in La. Each of the live installments will feature Millenie exploring the city and will incorporate many of the famous and not so famous faces in town. Netflix describes it as the comically unconventional show featuring special guests and field piece of shot in La. No news yet on who will be on the show.
By the way, John Mulaney in a trailer looks pretty good with his hair grown out.
Speaking of La, Nick Curl spoke to LAist and was discussing Netflix.
So these two stories par nicely. Curl said of Netflix, I think you can take a comedy and who would have in the past been able to perform at clubs around the country just as a working comedian and really expand their audience, like somebody like Ali Wong, who before her special was an amazing comedian, was a working comedian. The exposure Netflix gave her has made her a household name, and she’s obviously gone on to do other kinds of stuff like beef. Krole discussed the economics of comedy and the Internet age. She said, it’s opened up tremendously from where it was.
Montreal was a comedy festival and there was another one in Aspen. When I’m starting out, if you were at my stage or the beginning of your career, you really needed to go one of those festivals and get noticed and get signed by agent’s managers, hopefully some sort of deal to develop a sitcom or maybe once in a blue moon get an HBO special. That has changed dramatically, Aspen is no more. I was at Aspen. I saw George Carlin there.
Montreal is in real financial trouble. I think it’s because the Internet has just opened that up so much. If you’re a funny person, you start to make funny videos on TikTok, or you have a podcast that builds an audience, or you’re on Patreon you have a dedicated group of people. You can build audiences in so many ways and build revenue streams for yourself in so many ways. That has changed the economics of it.
All Right, I had promised you some Bob’s Moudha stories, and this is a good time for me to tell them. I’m stumbling over the reads today. I went up on Monday for the eclipse, and I got home at twelve forty five am. It took me longer to drive back from Vermont than it did to get back from Michigan a couple weeks back. And if everything went according to plan.
In your podcast feed, the Travel is Back podcast should have an episode titled something along the lines of Burlington, Vermont Eclipse something. So if you want to hear my eclipse journeys, you can switch over to the Travel is Back podcast when we’re done here. All right, Bob’s Muda. Are you hip to Tony Clifton? So?
Tony Clifton is a big, loud, belligerent comedian who thinks he’s the greatest comedian in the world. There are those who believe that Tony Clifton was Andy Kaufman’s alter ego. There are those who believe that since Sandy passed away, Bob’s Muda has played the role. Now I got to spend time with Bob’s Muda. Oh it’s probably fifteen years ago now, and he would never quite admit to being Tony Clifton.
And he was up a couple days in a row. We were working on an idea so at serious exam. I don’t know if they still do it, but we used to do these town halls, so you would get a famous person to come in. You’d invite twelve to twenty fans up to hang out in our fish Bowl studio and it was kind of an intimate event. You’d try and get famous people to do it.
One I remember we did with Henry Winkler and Bruno Mars walked down the hallway and saw Henry Winkler and came in and like so that was like a really cool moment. We had Cheech and Chong one time, and I think Snoop was there if I remember correctly, and he popped in like so that kind of like cool celebrity thing. We were working on an idea. We wanted to do Andy Kaufman town Hall, and the Kaufman Estate was cool with it. They were gonna give me a quote where Andy was gonna say he was really excited to be part of this thing, and we were gonna do a total Kaufman type put on of you know, hey, welcome to the broadcast.
Apparently Andy’s running a little late, and we were gonna kill time. We were gonna ask Kristin Shall to be part of it because she had won the inaugural I think it was Kaufman Award. We were gonna ask Meo to be part of it as Tony Clifton, not that he is Tony Clifton, but we were gonna ask him, which is ridiculous because he’s not Tony Clifton. And we were just going to drag this thing out and just keep killing time and have Andy calfun never actually show up. So Azmuda told me a story one time that they were doing something similar and they booked a venue and they were just killing time and killing time.
I don’t remember the story exactly, but he said it eventually was like three or four in the morning and people just would not leave. So he tried to add lib a plan. He said, okay, that was part one of the show. Now part two of the show is on the Staten Island Ferry, so meet us there at five thirty. So he headed downtown and figured people would give in.
Oh no, Kaufman Devotes showed up at the Staten Island Ferry. They took the ferry over to Staten Island, got breakfast and his Muda said eventually had a fall onto sword and be like, all right, you got me and he’s not coming. So that was a good put on. And the other thing that I remember is we booked Tony Clifton to be up a serious and Tony Clifton shows up and this was you know everything in New York City Post nine to eleven. The security got ridiculous.
Was a pain in the neck to get into that building any day. I forgot my idea. It would like I have to call upstairs and get someone to verify myself. It’s easy to get through the airport than to get into that building. So Tony Clifton shows up and he does not have any idea.
It says he’s Tony Clifton, so they won’t let him in and he threw a big tantrum down on the lobby and left. So if Tony Clifton were Bob’s mudo, which he’s totally not, he didn’t break character. He’s stating character is Tony Clifton and never made it upstairs. I’ve got some more stories, maybe tomorrow, maybe on the weekend. I’m really excited of the podcast, Five Good News Stories.
Number Five Good News Stories, which I also host, has made the Apple Top one hundred, no subcategory, the main Top one hundred. I’m telling you, as a professional podcaster, to achieve that from the basement is not easy.
And now Apple Podcasts promoted the show, which is why it zoomed up the charts.
But boy, that one is off to the races. Five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your programs told you about the clips travelers back. I understand curb your enthusiasm was good. So what happened here?
I didn’t watch it because one I wanted to get up early and drive to Vermont on Monday. Two Saturday night, I was watching shows and it was around ten o’clock and I’m like, I don’t know what do I want to watch? Let me see what Peacock has and Peacock had WrestleMania and I’m like, all right, I haven’t watched wrestling forever, and they’re like coming up next the Rock and I’m like, okay, So I watched WrestleMania on Saturday night, and many of you are going to be like, yeah, we know, Johnny Mack, where you’ve been. But I was blown away by the production values and the high entertainment of it all, just the intros alone. I was like, all right, I’ll watch this, And I watched The Rock Fight till I don’t know eleven fifteen or so, and then I went to bed.
So then Sunday night, when it was WrestleMania night too, I was like, you know what, I’m going to stare at that again and again the production values. They had a band come out that looked like a combination of Carnival and Marty Grass. It was just so much fun. So I didn’t finish WrestleMania because I went to bed and I didn’t watch Curb and my plan for Tuesday night was to watch Neil Brennan and maybe finish WrestleMania. We’ll see anyway, I understand Kerb but was good when I get around to it.
I will tell you about it. I listened to oh, thirteen hours of podcasts on Monday, and I have a problem. This is not a made up number. I’ll send you the screenshot if you don’t believe me. So after driving it took about five six hours to get up there, coming back to almost nine with all the traffic.
I listened to thirteen hours of podcast Monday at two point two two point three speed, and I still listen to this number. I still have two hundred and fifty two podcasts downloaded to my phone. I have a problem. One of the podcasts I listened to is Tim Dillon. He was a guest on Diary of a CEO.
So if you want to hear the real Tim Dillon, that’s the one I told you the other day that people had pulled out some sizzle quotes of Tim bashing the millennials, et cetera. If you hear it in context, he’s clearly doing a riff. But if you want to hear a real interview with Tim Dillon and why I like Tim Dillon a lot, I listened to the Diary of CEO podcas where Tim is the guest, and again, eventually Tim’s gonna step on a land of mine, and I will distance myself from him. We’ve had a little controversy in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us there.
There are some people who are sick and tired of the Joe Koy joke. Now, I don’t know if you know this back at the Golden Gladow, I won’t do it. People are sick of the Golden Globes joke. Others seem to be on team Johnny Mack who think the repetition is funny. My point of view is something starts out funny then gets really annoying, but if you stick with it, it comes back around to be even funnier because of the repetition.
So some people are on team Johnny Mack with that. But I’ll give it a rest. But I said rest, it’s not going away forever. How about that. That’s a nice compromise.
The Moons Hour Comedy Festival kicks off today. That means I gotta add another bookmark here on my MacBook schedule. Let’s see seven o’clock Frankie ken Unius, seven o’clock, Jeff Ross, nine thirty, Desi Banks, Rachel Bloom. Let’s see do I want to? I was gonna say, let’s go see Jeff Ross, but I feel like we know what Jeff does.
Let’s go see Frankie Conyonias to mix it up and then whatever you want to do at nine thirty DESI or Rachel up to you meanwhile, Melbourne Comedy Festival, where it’s already April eleventh in Australia, John, did you preload the website today? No, let’s do some without clips today. Billy Styles show is called The Trip. It’s the hilarious story of Billy winning an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii on the main radio station in Australia by making up a story of how his marriage was broken up by an affair and the drama and karma that was to follow. Billy was not married at the time.
All right, that’s fun. Cameron James show is called Mixtape and there’s a little icon here that says selling fast. Let’s see why. Well. He was the winner of the Director’s Choice Award at the twenty twenty two Sydney Comedy Festival and a nominee for the twenty twenty two Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show.
The age said comedy par excellence four and a half stars out of presumably five. Time Out said we howled four stars out of who knows how many stars, presumably four, perhaps a million. The description, Hi, my name’s Cameron James, and this is a show about music, love and the summer in two thousand and nine that I worked as a singing captain Jack Sparrow impersonator at a suburban dinner theater restaurant. Check in the tape, press play and crank the valume on a high energy love letter to the songs that shape your life and the memories they spark. The first cases, the first break ups, the first jobs, all of it.
After an award winning sellout twenty twenty three tour, Came returns to Melbourne with a carefully curated mixtape of hilariously true stories and ridiculous original songs, all for his embarrassment In your amusement. That sounds fun Chan not locked Tim Cantonese comedy show. And there’s some Cantonese characters here. Oh there is a clip. Let’s listen, Moe Diagle Comedia Comedia.
All right, I’m gonna fall on my sword here. What I wanted to do there was get to a laugh, and then tell you I thought he was pretty funny. You guys didn’t realize I speak Cantonese. I played the clip for a minute, the crowd never laughed, so I cut it short. The other thing I was going to do is say that he made a joke about Taylor Swift.
See it a Whirl.