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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithm seems to really like. Kat Williams has a new special on Netflix.
You know Netflix, can we not do this on Tuesday? I feel like Tuesday’s just, for some reason, the worst night to watch comedy specials. You think i’d be home, but I was watching The Knicks last night, so I didn’t get to this yet. But on Big Boy TV, he said, let me explain something to you. I’m not scared to say nothing.
I’ll say it. He was talking about his appearance in twenty twenty four in the Club Shayshe podcast. You may remember that Cat Took No Prisoners. He said that that appearance was carefully planned, designed to provoke a reaction without fully detonating careers. Kat explains the knockout punches were taken out.
Kat was asked about p Diddy parties. Kat said, people, indeed, do you ask, how do you know goes on at the PDDY party? If you weren’t at the pddy party, they would have these parties in Hollywood Hills, and they’d have a parking lot where they would shuttle people up, so everybody would meet in this parking lot. They would send shuttles down. I was never invited to the parties, but I was invited to the parking lot because I knew the people who were on the shuttle service.
I’d go to the parking lot. I’d watch them all go up there, and I would just be on the car having a grand old time, smoking and laughing, watching everybody going. I would see all these big time Hollywood men that I just watched go up there. They all came down off the shuttle, looking sad in their eyes, all of them wearing Sean John and looking oily. Their shoelaces were always untied.
Then they’re getting their car and they would drive off standing up. Okay. Then Bob Saggitt getting a documentary. The Bob Sackett Documentary explores the duality of a man known to millions as America’s Dad on TV while simultaneously being a raw and unfiltered stand up comic on stage, built from intimate access to family and fellow comics, Rare home videos and ever before seen footage The Bob Sacket documentary will reveal the complex life, devastating losses, and enduring kindness behind the laughter. No date yet.
Wow, Saggot is going on four years already. That is stunning to me. I feel like that news just happened not too long ago. I met Bob once. He was super cool.
He came up to visit us, and it’s serious, and he needed to make a phone call and I let him use my office. So I have just this wonderful memory of me, you know, killing time in the hallway talking to some coworkers about the Mets and seeing Bob Saggett sitting at my desk using my phone. Cool guy Bill Maher is upset that his relationship with Jimmy Kimmel has gone sideways. You may recall that Bill Maher slammed Missus Kimmel. Missus Kimmel had revealed that she had lost family relationships over their politics.
On the Club Random podcast, Bill Maher said, Kimmel is quote very mad at me. Mar said to his guest Adam Carolla, I know you’re close to him. I hope you tell him that you know. I’m sorry that they got bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong.
Weekend of Disagreements, Moore insisted it’s Kimmel who was in the wrong. According to mar my tribe is supposed to be the left, but these are the people who just can’t talk to you unless you’re exactly there. Jimmy, I’m sorry. I think this is one of the nice guys that did a meacopo when we exchanged emails. Not about what who’s complaining about.
We’re just saying sometimes a little brash when they compare me with the other late night guys. I’m like, I’m not like you guys. I’m not You could all exchange your monologues, all of you and no one would know the difference in tune, whereas me, I’m not there. I just don’t buy into the left wing bs. I never stopped making fun of the right wing bs at all.
If that’s not good enough for you, then I think you’re the a hole. And I don’t think Jimmy’s an a hole. I think he’s a great guy. And it bugs me that because of what the latest thing was. You know, we may never talk Chris Fleming getting an HBO Max special, so I think this is a Max special I’ve talked about this in the past, HBO, that you’ve totally confused your brand, which Netflix is going to do with these quote unquote podcasts.
By the way, you’ve totally confused your brand. So to me, Living on Old Man Mountain, Something on Saturday is an HBO special. Something on Friday is a Max special. Chris Fleming, who I love, is getting a Friday special. It is called Chris Fleming Live at the Palace.
It will premiere ten pm East and West Friday, twenty seventh. Live at the Palace was filmed where everybody say with me, the Palace Theater, That’s right, the one in Chicago. We’re sold. Chris Fleming bounds across the stage, sharing his takes on masculinity, conga lines, Trader Joe’s oreos, NPR, dog Breeds and more. Now I’m fascinated with the timing.
So is the Friday night slot when you get Chris Fleming and Sarah Sherman and the quirky stuff, which is fine because that would be a brand. I would be totally down with Friday’s at ten being the quirky stuff. Don’t go throwing Nate Perghetzi on Friday Night at ten. He’s Saturday Night at ten. You know what I’m saying.
Yeah, Chris Fleming said, I hereby decree, my first HBO special will soon be available for you to consume. Please enjoy, and feel free to dance along. Thank you and thank you HBO to exclamation points. Nina Rosenstein is HBO’s EVP programming Late Night and specials and pr people loved difficult from the executives, So Nina or someone in Nina’s name came up with this sentence. Chris brings it full force to this special.
Once you’ve seen him, nothing else quite compares. His jokes are exquisitely precise, and his physical comedy is so borderline acrobatic that you discover something new to laugh at every time, whether it’s a perfect compression of a crab walk or an intricate joke about Tillamook cheese. His work is a masterclass in and of itself. I wonder how long they worked on that quote. In The Atlantic, David Simms writes, Pete Davidson’s charm is working against him.
David Simms got into one of my favorite current topics, which is the Pete Davison Show, which say with me is clearly not a podcast, Simms writes. The first question to confront when considering The Pete Davison Show, a new Netflix series that the streamer is calling a video podcast, is what is a podcast? Sims says, I would argue that podcast should always involve a dedicated feed you can listen to on your phone. The Pete Davison Show does not have that. A cynic might wonder if branding the Pete Davidson’s Show a podcast is just a way for the streaming empire to avoid paying for the kind of unionized cruise and production staff at talk show demands.
Anyway, once we get over that, let’s review the show. David Sims says of Pete Davidson as a host, He’s casual to a fault. He’s prone to slouching in his chair, ripping a thousand of cigarettes, and reminiscing about various awkward interactions he and his guests have had at parties over the years. David’s inexperience becomes obvious when seated across someone much better versed in the medium. Episode two features Charlomagne the God, a season radio personality whose comfort and facility with the format forces Davidson to keep up.
Sims writes, maybe Davidson can grown to the gig. Very few hit podcasts emerge from the gate fully formed. But the Pete Davidson Show, which I’ll point out, is not a podcast. It’s a television show on Netflix. I’ll let the union fight their own battles, but it is not a podcast.
Sims rights, the Pete Davidson Show is a particularly rough lump of clay. The garage setting riffs on Maren’s format, but the space is devoid of any notable physical objects for guest to bounce off. Nothing like Maren’s frequently remarked upon Chachke’s or guitars, Davidson’s Chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick. I’ve been there. That’s some executive telling Pete Davidson you could do whatever you want me.
I’ve been down this a zillion times about ah. You know, we don’t need a format, we just talk about it. You have to put a format on things or you just have a mess. I’m telling you, I’ve been doing this for thirty plus years. You have to have a format.
This show has a format. Have you noticed I do the big stuff up front, take a break, and then I do esoteric stuff. That’s a format. You just need a format. I don’t open up the show going Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
The Topeka, Kansas Comedy Festival feature seven people you’ve never heard of. I don’t do it that way. There’s an order to things. You have to have a format. Sims seems to agree.
Writing some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise unformed snippet of conversation. And I like this last sentence from David Sims, who writes, perhaps Netflix is video only podcast experiment. David, it’s not a podcast, it’s a television show. Let me clean it up for you. Let me make an edit on David Simms what the sentence should say.
Or perhaps Netflix is TV show experiment will go the way of many other such clones in this medium, which never took on board the lesson that podcasts require more than two microphones and a garage to actually be interesting. You can actually do it with one micro phone in a basement. I’m opening up the Netflix app and I’ll see if the Pete Davidson television show is trending now they keep changing the interface. Here, I’ve clicked on new and Hot. They want me to watch Gordon Ramsay and Mission Impossible and Ironclaw something about dinosaurs.
Well, that doesn’t seem to be chirts. We are shirts in Netflix. They used to just have a big top ten there, So here we go. Top ten shows in the US today. This is twelve forty five pm on Tuesday, Wrestling, Lincoln Lawyer, Bridgerton unfamiliar, Jeffrey Epsteins something his and Hers which I liked at the beginning, and they got terrible.
Is it cake? You people need to get a life alone, Free Bert doing well at number nine and The Way Home. None of that is the Pete Davidson television show. Interesting. I’m a bad host.
Yesterday I did this wonderful rant about Mulaney versus Jen Marco, and I forgot to thank a listener. No listener said, you can just say listener. But the listener sent this to me or I wouldn’t have caught it. So thank you listener for putting that. I still want to get a posse up, but I don’t hear it at all.
In case you missed it, seems mister b Bigli and mister Mullaney are not quite accusing John Marco Siresi of ripping off the act. They didn’t say who they think is ripping off Mullaney, but people seem to think they’re implying that it’s John Marco. I don’t hear it at all. Comedy Survivor join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I was checking out the voting earlier today and there’s a lot of like single votes all across the board.
I don’t know who’s going this week. Some people are hanging back until end of day Thursday to get their votes in late and see if a little late rush can eliminate someone. No idea who’s going. Late night waged in. On the super Bowl halftime show, Greg Gutfeld telled this joke.
President Trump posted that bad Bunny had one of the worst halftimes ever. I disagree. The worst ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump now now Gutfeld. Obviously I didn’t tell that one well at all, because that did you hear those words? That is a hilarious joke.
The worst halftime ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump. Hilarious? I mean Gottfeld told it properly, got a huge laugh. I just didn’t tell it well, but boy, that that is just a well crafted, not at all hacky joke from Greg Guttfeld. Eddie Murphy, we’ll team up with Evangoria in a new comedy movie being made by Amazon MGM.
It is called Attachment Parenting. We’re told attachment Parenting has a vibe that throws back to another era of studio comedies. The project tells of a psychologist couple whose parenting philosophies put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel the crime boss’s dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel. Okay, Kevin Hart he likes to be in business with stuff. He has invested in Burn Bootcamp.
The owners of Burn Bootcamp met Kevin Hart through mutual connections. CEO Morgan Klein said, we could just since there was a lot of shared values amongst one another. It was very clear that he didn’t want to be as person and that’s not what we were seeking. He wanted ownership. Kevin has made a financial investment in Burn boot Camp and will own a franchise in California.
Kevin in a YouTube video apparently said Burn stands for what I believe in, structure, accountability, and results. My kids don’t listen to what I say, but they watch what I do, and I want them to see discipline, commitment and strength. Tops Baseball Cards have come out with a Jerry Seinfeld Mets card. It’s Jerry Seinfeld wearing a Mets jersey and an off brand Mets hat and he’s on the phone, presumably calling the bullpen. It’s autographed.
Tops said it was the biggest signing of the off season. Collectors can buy a whole bunch of packs and hope one of the packs has an autograph card of Jerry Seinfeld. And The Traverse City Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival is April sixteenth through the eighteenth. It’s their fourth annual event.
Headliners Megan Statler, Sarah Sherman, Roywood Junior, Gary Goleman, and Jodovito. Nice lineup, gang. It will be comedians representing three thirty three states and Canada, which if the President will get things done and let’s get going on this, I’ll be able to just say representing thirty four states, right, I’m skimming the names here. The headliners are pretty good. The other folks, I’m not sure any of these names you would know unless you’re really, really a comedy snob.
The festival will feature multiple improv and specialty programs. Show titles include Kamikazi Comedy, Big Fun, Murder, Planet Ant, and that thing you pull when you want it to stop. It’s also a roast Battle and a Comedy Rumble. What’s a comedy rumble, John, you’re the one who hosts the show. I know.
Let’s see. Here’s a comedy rumble that gives eight comedians the chance to battle for progressively longer stage time across three intense rounds. Wait, this is fun. It sounds like a good time. And that’s your comedy news for today and catch it tomorrow.