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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now Kevin Hart, he’s got more side hustles than anybody. He’s not afraid to work, and he’s always got a new business going on. Well.
Now he has partnered with Hulu, and the Hulu pul says may have tried to keep this away from me because you know they definitely don’t get back to May. But I found out anyway about LOL Live, which will feature ten thirty minute sets from a range of comics. It comes from Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat Production Company and premieres today. Comedians include Devin Walker, Chico Bean, Brandy, Denise Chinado, Unaka, Dethnique Springs, Justin Silva, Leah Sampson, Malik b Sidney Washington, and the late Ken Flores. Flores’s performance is the first long form special ever taped by Ken, was filmed shortly before he passed away in January at the age of twenty eight.
Hulu will roll these out two at a time. Floras and Springs kick off the run today, Bean and Unaka on the eleventh, Walker in Washington in August at Denise Milik, be In September and Silva and Simpson on October third. The sets were filmed last summer during Heartbeat Weekend at resorts in Las Vegas. GQ did a lengthy profile of Ian Carmel and Ian’s weight loss. We learned that Ian eats a lot of apples nowadays and he looks a lot different than he did at his peak weight, which was four hundred and twenty pounds.
Interesting discussion here, GQ. With dating, there’s always the feeling of uh oh, this person that I’m attracted to also thinks that I’m attractive. Something’s wrong here. That feeling never goes away. I and said, yeah, I thought you were cool, but you like me, you must be an idiot.
There’s that trap you get stuck in. People say it takes work, It takes therapy, it takes self examination, It takes a lot of being actively aware. It’s a lot like eating in a lot of ways when you find yourself spiraling. A lot of what therapy and self examination can do is it doesn’t stop it from happening, but it does let you recognize it. Maybe it gives you some tools to try and slam the brakes on a little bit.
If you could stop it and call it out doesn’t make it go away. It’s like when you’re standing in front of a fridge sheating your six spiecet pizza without having tasted it. But you have the tools to be like, oh, you’re binge eating, stop, go for a walk, you know what I mean. They got into a story where Ian thought he was having an art attack, but he went down to the street to call nine one one because he didn’t want anyone to carry him out. Ian said, that was my last straw.
It was the entire event. What struck me after looking back on it was I was so effed up in the head and desperate not to be one of those quote unquote fat people. I can never accept myself as who I was. I was like, oh, I don’t smell like other fat people. I have a job address well, not like other fat people.
I want the paramedics to be like, no, I didn’t even notice he was fat. It was another act of apologizing for myself. It turned out to be a panic attack. But panic attacks and heart attacks currently feel very similar at first, which is effed up and not a thing that makes you have less panic attacks, by the way, and the moment where I realized I wasn’t having art attack. I went back upstairs and I scheduled a telehealth appointment.
The Hollow Reporter talked to Andrew Schultz about a TED talk he did in twenty nineteen where he talked about how sensitive and politically correct the culture was. Their premise, the pendulum has swung the other way. Schultz said, yeah, it’s like cancel culture and all these things. It’s over. I mean, people could still get canceled, they still say horrible things about people.
That still happens. So people try. You can make whatever joke you want. The Promoi did with Matt Damon one of the lines that we did, but cut with him going what do you do for your specially? You gotta complain about cancel culture in a sildun arena.
It’s like we can’t cry about it when we’re selling out. Joe Liszt told No Film School that his new special, Small Ball, is not totally unlike his previous specials, and that it’s an hour of him doing stand up at a comedy club. The big difference is this is the first one that hasn’t been shot in New York City, specifically The Village Underground. This one we shot at Chicago and two different comedy clubs and two different nights, one Zanies in downtown Old Town Chicago and the other at the Rosemond Zanies out in the suburbs. Then we cut together two shows and I think I came out really well.
I’m very excited for people to see it. I hope they leave saying, man, that was fun as hell and Joe List is a damn good comedian and I’m glad he finally fixed his teeth. Eliza Selezenger spoke to gold dot com You’re home for Comedy News, and I was thinking about Eliza. She is somehow outside the mainstream. Like I feel like, you know this like this like line of comedians that are all kind of circling around each other, Like Nikki Glaser’s like in the middle of that, and Mlanie’s in the middle of that, and I feel like Eliza should be in that crew.
But she’s off like doing her own thing. You never like see stories of her like interacting with the other comedians, you know what I’m saying, neither good nor bad. I just was like, oh, yeah, she’s just kind of like out there, not in the mainstream for some reason. Eliza said, I started doing stand up at twenty one, and then I became a professional around twenty four. My specials started maybe in my late twenties or early thirties.
Now I’m forty two and a mother of two’s and my jobs to analyze life and call life as I see it. I began as a young woman talking about dating, back when the Internet wasn’t everything, and opinions on society weren’t so constant. Over time, I’ve evolved to have a more concise opinion, from commenting on women to advocating four and validating why we are the way we are, to telling other women they’re not crazy. Now people show up to hear that hot tap, reverent or serious as it may be.
Speaking of serious, the ever so serious.
Horry Condobolu spoke to the Houston Press, but I think he made some really good points here. Harry said, one big thing is the idea of selling out and how that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. For me. It’s the idea of what integrity means when you have a kid, Like, what’s your focus? Is it this idea of artistic integrity, which is this vague notion or is it that the kid needs to eat.
I gotta work, and what would you do for work? At this point, he talked more about selling out and talked about co hosting the Netflix food composition series Snack Versus Chef, which I don’t remember. Apparently was a thing in twenty twenty two. I was hosting this podcast that summer. I don’t remember talking about that at all, but Harry said maybe in my twenties, I wouldn’t have done it.
It’s not who I am now. It’s kind of like, I don’t care. It’s a fun show. And the one thing I’m trying to find a way to talk about is selling out is an ancient concept. Like everyone’s on social media.
I feel like so many people have gotten famous from the Internet, and when you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re immediately doing stuff through corporations, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, these are all big companies. Every single artist has a public presence, and that public presence means working with public companies. So before there was this idea of the indie artist making zines or word of mouth and the album gets passed around. Those days are done. So the notion of selling out, I think this is a generation who doesn’t know what that means, because from the get go they’ve been trying to create content for this corporate entity without even thinking about it.
Selling out is the only path, Like, if I’ve heard of you, you must have sold out. Beetlejuice the musical coming back to Broadway. Yes, I saw this before the recent run closed. It’s fantastic. You should go see it and believe me, I’m keeping track of how many times I’ve said the name of the musical so far only once.
You’re not going to trick me into saying it three times. Anyway, that particular musical, we’ll do a thirteen week engagement October eighth through January third. Beetlejuice That’s two originally ran at the Winter Garden Theater from April twenty nineteen. Initially had low ticket sales, and then there was traction on social media and a successful Tony’s performance. However, theater owners announced plans to force the show out of the theater to make room for The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman.
How did that go? Those plans got delayed by the pandemic, but a show in question had to move. They went to the Marqui Theater where it ran from April twenty two through January twenty three. That’s when I saw it and where I saw it, with a return of most of its cast, including Alex Brightman, who plays the title character who I’m not going to say his name, but he was very good as that character. Casting for the new version of a show that shall not be named not yet announced.
David Cross has taken part in a new climate crisis video. He co stars with environmental scientist Michael Oppenheimer, and Cross says, you got to speak to people in a way they can understand. Humor, as I think it has been shown over centuries is a very effective way to get people to absorb information. In the video, Oppenheier plays the straight man, saying heat records are being broken all over the world. In fact, last year was the hot year since the industrial era began.
David Cross interprets that message for lay people, saying translation, the crap is hitting the fan and the fannas on maximum. The video released by the group Climate Science Breakthrough has made videos with the UK comedians like Nish Kumar and Joe Bran in an attempt to help climate science breakthrough to many more people. And unlock action. Ben Carrey is one of the videos producers and says we’re aiming to reach beyond the converted and depolarize the debate. Mike Burriigley has spoke to Vanity Fair and says the only thing he veers away from currently is politics.
Her bigs told Vanity Fair John Stewart always said everything he did on the Daily Show is disposable, It doesn’t live on. There might be a certain point in my life where I’m going to go all in on politics or culture. But if I’m gonna do it, I’m going to go all in. He was asked who he trusts to critique his jokes, he said Hasan Minhaj is one of his favorite guests on his podcast. Pete Holmes, who’s great, is one of our favorite guests.
Is Pete still doing his podcast? That thing has gotten invisible. I haven’t that used to be one of the big ones, along with like Marin and Nerdis. But I haven’t heard a thing about Pete Holmes. And well, I’m sure he is just opening up the app here.
Yeah, it’s still coming out every week. I’m just seeing Michael Costa a few weeks back. Harland Williams, Deana Gould Sclar Brothers. I guess he just hasn’t had an a lister to get that show. Some impressed anyway, you made it weird with Pete Holmes, a podcast I’ve carently forgotten about, is a good podcast.
I digress. Pete Holmes is one of our favorite guests. He also is his brother’s wife and Ira Glass as people that he trusts in. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
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