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The Shark Deck. Johnny Man here Daily Comedy News. I am missing the late night jokes. I had late Bot spit out something about Barbenheimer. You know about this.
You go see the Barbie movie and Oppenheimer. Back to Beck, late Bott says, who’s excited for Barbie and Oppenheimer and open on the same day. It’s like Kennon Einstein duking it out in the Ultimate Showdown.
Let’s talk about a double feature night.
Watch Barbie first for some fashion inspiration, and then Oppenheimer to feel incredibly unaccomplished. Not bad. One’s about hot trends. The other is about nuclear meltdown, and I think the best one is I heard Barbie’s getting a bit too real. In this one, she faces existential dilemmas like should I go with the pink convertible or destroy two cities to end the war.
I’m seeing Oppenheimer in about two hours after I record this. I will let you know how it goes. Jim Gaffigan got the A friend used to use a phrase, wax your car. Jim got a wax job from Variety. Oh boy, what a flowing article.
Jim’s gonna be up in Montreal picking up Awards, and he’s got his new special Dark Pale hitting Amazon Prime on July twenty fifth, that’s Tuesday, a Savior calendar run there part of the Watch Job, Mike Berbiglia cold called Gaffigan after searching for any other comedians who attended Georgetown. Gaffigan not only answered his landline, but met Berbiglia for lunch and gave the aspiring comic advice. For Biglia said it was not only some of the best advice he ever received, but he still seeks Gaffgan’s counsel to this day now. So that’s interesting to me because you know, I’ve heard if he helped Jim early in his career, he doesn’t return calls when he gets a little more famous. I’ve heard that from people who worked at Serious Satellite Radio circor twenty four to twenty fourteen.
I’ve heard people say that that you asked him to come back on and he’s never heard of you all of a sudden. That’s weird Forbiglias said, I think he’s a real master and student of artistic and entertainment autonomy, which is to say, he creates his own special, it creates his own material, He creates his own tours, the artwork for the tours, all this stuff. Yeah, Jim’s creating their artwork for the tours. There’s not like a graphics department. Is Jim home on Microsoft sketch drawing these things.
Yeah. A lot of times it’s someone’s not that great at it. They can end up with a really watered down marketing of themselves. Hello that’s me, or cover arter material, Hello that’s me. But he is extraordinarily focused on his great taste and is a very wise and generous guy.
Gaffigan said in high school, the closest thing to the entertainment industry was the marching Band. He consumed SNL and adored David Letterman, didn’t we all. He secretly wanted to be a performer, he said, it just wasn’t realistic pursuits. My father was the first one in the family to go to college. My grandfather made dentures.
My great grandfather worked in a coal mine. It took my family one hundred and fifty years to get to the middle class. One of the big influences on Jim’s life was the death of his mother, Marcia, at age fifty three. Jim said, I think the injustice of it because she was only fifty three. Had me rethinking this whole idea of following the rules.
I’d grown up believing a thing to do is where it’s hie and get a job and retire at sixty and play golf for five years until you die. After I lost her started reevaluating my entire life. Six months later, he attempted stand up for the first time. Said it went well, but he was surrounded by friends. It was a safe environment.
I don’t think I realized just how safe an environment it was because then I went on to eat it on stage for a long long time. Hannibal Burris is opening for Hannibal Burris. You see, Hannibal Burris dabbled in hip Hopson’s College, and he did battle rap. During the pandemic, he got into a little bit more. He’d quit drinking after twenty seventeen running with the police, and in twenty twenty one he was expecting his first child.
He told The New Yorker, it was me realizing I wasn’t excited about trying to do a lot of stand up comedy the way I used to. I didn’t want to be out there, just didn’t feel good. Music refocused him. He hired a band, music publicist, a vocal and performance coach, and he committed he was routinely turning down six figure stand up gigs. He made fun of himself, going f that, I’m doing music, bass, I’m not doing your stand up crap.
Let me rap. Eventually he realized that stand up gigs could subsidize his music career. At a recent set, a drunk woman in the audience kept interrupting, you’re so Hollywood. Hannibal said, I’m Hollywood. Really, Oh man, we’ll talk later.
Annibal said, no, we won’t, not at all, absolutely not. The heckler kept going, and The New Yorker writes Burris paste searching for the right response. I love this. The pause is not like, oh, I’m stuck gonna can’t come up with a joke. He turned to the drunk woman and said, I’m genuinely baffled while you won’t shut the f up, what are you talking about?
The audience roared, and he returned to his bit, and then he said that would have landed way better if you would have shut the f up. He told the crowd, that’s actually why I don’t do that much stand up for real. There’s a level of white entilement. My audience would promise you, hmm. Interesting.
Kamand on Gianni is an anxious duck in the upcoming animated Family Duck’s franchise Pick Migracitions. This from the people that made Minions. Migracian will be in theaters in December. And in the trailer we see kamand on Gianni’s Max say WHOA, We’re not flying through this crazy death trap as they dodge busses, scooters, and people while crossing New York City on their way south. Forbes asked severed Us if he has a favorite country’s performed in Vivers said, my favorite show might have been Stavenger, Norway.
I did Oslo and God was kind and we had a thousand people show up. Then they said there’s this fishing village called Stavanger. Do you want to go into a show. There were only thirty two people, out of which I think twenty were comps, so nobody knew me, no safety net. It was a good test on a first world tour to see if my material really did translate.
Forbes said, hey, you’ve moved around quite a bit growing up. What effect did that have on your comedy bed as said, it took me a while to figure that out, and the minute you say I’m an outsider, I didn’t realize how broad that made my perspective. I didn’t have to pick a camp in America. I didn’t have to fit into woke audiences. I don’t have to fit into alpha male audiences.
I don’t have to cater to those microcosms. That’s the big positive finding depth with any outsider perspective, I find something deeper that isn’t just hey, I landed in New York three weeks ago and your taxis are aggressive. A new comedy award in honor of late comedian Shawn Locke has been commissioned by Channel four in the UK. Shawn Locke was best known for appearing on Eight out of Ten Cats and some other shows. He passed away in August of twenty one.
The Shawn Locke Comedy Award will honor the late TV stars legacy and showcase quote talented new writers and performer who embodied the alternative comedic spirit of Shawn An Channel four winners will will see five thousand pounds to support their live work and a one thousand dollars script commission from the comedy team, along with mentoring and support from the broadcaster for newer writers and performers. Bill Bailey helps set up the award and said it’s a way to honor Seawan’s memory and to inspire others to pursue their own unique comic brilliance. Only Murders in the Building. Why you mentioned that, John Steve Martin Martin Short they were comedians at some point, right, yeah, and Selena Gomez. Only Murders is back on Hulu April eighth.
Some of the guest stars this time Paul Rudd, Meryl Street, Amy Ryan, Jane Lynch, Andrea Morton, Tina Fey, and others.
Meanwhile, Craig Robinson’s Killing It returns to Peacock on August seventeen…
Killing It is a comedy about class, capitalism and one man’s quest to achieve the American dream, but first he has to overcome vicious criminals, nature, unwild, and worst of all, corporate America. Guest stars this season include Tim Heidecker, Beck Bennett, and Kyle Mooney. Craig Robinson says it’s the same wild roller Coasters last year, an ambitious, complex exploration of life in pursuit of the America Dream mixed in with some of the stupidest jokes on television. We got so many amazing guest stars this season while we’re turning all our old favorites except for the snakes. Indiana Jones will be pleased.
Hi, I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcasts. If you like what I do here, you can buy me a coffee at Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
What you do is you go to that url. I’ll say it again, you throw some money in the tip jar. I take your money and I go to the National Donuts chain and I pick up a large iced coffee with caramel and milk that I have already ordered on my app. So I drive there and I listen to Daily Comedy News for some quality control to mature. I didn’t blow an edit usually don’t.
And then I get my coffee and I drive home and I listened to the rest of the episode. Works out pretty well. Buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Let’s take a look at the just for last Montreal Comedy Festival. The off JFL shows have the gun I promised you yesterday I’ll tell you about Britannic right now.
I will deliver on my promise. Britannic is the sketch comedy duo of Brian mclenny and Nick Kosher. Together they’ve written for SNL It’s always Sunny, and they were working on some new projects and I love this copy. Here it says, or at least they were until the writer strike happened parentheses. If the writer strike has been resolved, please disregard, but we bet it hasn’t.
Also off JFL, the Lucas brother is Keith and Kenny Lucas are two of the freshest, most dynamic talents in entertainment. Says the copy. The bros are also working on some upcoming projects between strikes, including a reboot of Revenge of the Nerds. Interesting. The next show is called It’s Personal.
Like this description, welcome to the days of mind your own business. Don’t comment another business, not the gender, sexuality, body, hair, education, or career.
Also welcome to the days of total oversharing on social media, but still mind…
We want to talk about things and want everyone to know it’s personal.
All right, let’s play the if we were at Montreal, what would we go see?
Game? I should just share because it keeps coming up. I’m not going this year. My mom has been pretty sick and I want to stay close to home. So I reach out to the just for Laughs people and I’m like, hey, I can’t go this year, don’t take me off the list.
Sorry, here’s why. And that’s why they’ve been hooking me up with all the interviews. I’ll have some more interviews next week. So thank you just for last press team. I appreciate you letting me be part of it from AFAR, But yeah, I can’t go this year, but if I did.
Here it’s a night show seven o’clock Britannic seven o’clock, just for the culture. Now, theoretically we want to see that last night, the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty, the Nasty Show at nine thirty. It’s personal with the Razilla Carlson. I just teld you about that. Another Nasty Show at midnight, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.
Now, why is midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine? Jetty Mack Airlines do this the same way because nobody knows, like, is midnight twelve am? Twelve pm? It’s twelve am. I know that, you know that, but people get confused.
You never schedule anything right at midnight. Either do eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. That way people can handle it. So if you do it at eleven fifty nine, people understand Friday at eleven fifty nine is Friday at eleven fifty nine. If I say midnight, technically it’s Saturday at midnight, But then you would think that’s Saturday turning into Sunday.
So it gets very confusing. Long expedition to tell you what a midnight surprise at eleven fifty nine is. Shut up, John, Okay, let’s see what should we see in my fantasy. If we saw Just for the Culture last night, well we haven’t seen Britannic yet, so that’ll be our seven o’clock show. That’ll walk us right up to the Lucas Brothers at eight thirty.
That’ll walk us right up to It’s Personal at ten. This is working out great, and that’ll walk us up to eleven fifty nine pm. Surprise perfect and listen to this news from the Edinburgh Fringe. We’ve heard how expensive it is for performers to at the Fringe. Someone is paying more than eleven hundred pounds for a parking space for the month.
Brian made over four hundred pounds during the festival of the last year. He said the extra income which came in during the festival period was great. It does help in these challenging times. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your stuff see tomorrow.
Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a Podcasts