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Caloroga Shark Media. The Wall Street Journal profiled Louis C.K. Under the headline Louis c. K doesn’t need everyone to like him. And Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.
Now this came to me from friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Now, you’re not supposed to do this at the top of the podcast’re supposed to get right to it. So I’m bringing all the rules here, but I got to talk to your friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, I assume you’re reading the Wall Street Journal because you’re trying to figure out how to make money. Are you not paying attention to my friend?
Here’s how you make money. You purport to be like a kind of a nice guy hosting a comedy podcast. This is a long cont You got to put some time to this.
And then what happens is someone will invite you into their football pool, no…
That is how you make money. Did you not listen to the gambling ads for two years? Do you not listen to me give bicks, and they’re always on point. I digress Louis doesn’t need everyone to like him. Well, that’s true.
C K’s out plugging his new book, Ingram, which the Journal says signals a new chapter for c K in more ways than one. He once ranked among the world’s most successful stand up comedians, respected for his sku on heavy topics such as religion and mortality, and elevated to auteur status by his quasi autobiographical Louis and Emmy winning series he wrote, produced, directed, and edited. But then in twenty seventeen, his standing imploded when he confirmed allegations that he had engaged in a pattern of you know stuff, We’ve talked about it. Don’t want to go there, the Journal says. Since then, Seek has been living a split existence, a parie to some former fans and much of the corporate entertainment world, and a secret superstar, as he calls himself, among the people who still flock to his show.
As I talked about that the other day, mainstream not going to let him back in. Of course, the Wall Street journals kind of mainstream, and yet he can probably sell out the Garden, sk said on stage. I’m perfectly okay with any outcome. With writing. I have thinner skin because I’m not as common.
The journal was curious, what are you doing differently this time out? C K said, I did a show at MSG almost three years ago. I walked off stage and I said to myself, you don’t have to do it anymore. I didn’t just take time off. I quit and it was a beautiful clean out, and I wrote this book.
I took sculpture classes and painting classes. I was being creative without ego because I wasn’t performing.
And then I started thinking of jokes and making myself laugh.
It’s like a bladder filling up. I thought, well, you don’t have to be a comedian, but you have a membership to the club. So I started doing sets at the Comedy Seller, just feeling what it was like on stage, and it felt awfully good. When I started putting together this set, I made some rules. I’d never done that before.
Don’t charm the audience, don’t make a point, don’t have an opinion. I’m seeing the audience more than I ever did before as individuals with different faces, and I’m talking directly to them. All that stuff sit for a minute and look at them beyond the laugh, how they feel. I also got interested in trying different energies, like there’s one about beating up an old lady to get her donuts, and I say, I had to hurt her really bad, and I try to really honestly feel remorse. Good stuff there.
We’ll pick up that a little bit more tomorrow, and Scott, thank you for setting it over and I look forward to taking your money again. This Actually it’s a very Scott show because he’s also the guy that sent over this Nikki Glaser thing where she’s talked to Pure Wow. This was the thing from was it yesterday where she was hawking the Alexa plus well. Pure Wow asked her about the Golden globes and how you deal with the nerves. Nikki Glaser said, I learned her breathing technique from my voice coach on the Masked Singer.
She taught me then when a backstage and my heart is racing, I breathe in for four seconds, hold it for eight and breathe out. Repeat that four to five times. That slows my heart rate down. And during the press, I just repeat a mantra in my head that another coach gave me. I’m strong, I’m prepared.
This is easy. However, that mantra only works if I’m actually prepared. Good question here. What’s the strangest thing an audience member has yelled out? Nicki said, I can always see when people are recording my set when they hold up their phones, even if they’re in the dark, because the light reflects off their phone cases.
So I often call it out in the moment, just quickly say I can see you filming. Please don’t thank you. In ninety nine percent of the time they stop. But one time this person would have put it down, so I said, please stop filming. I’m serious.
I can see the light reflecting off your phone. Stop filming, and I’m pointing right at him. He didn’t stop. I was in sense, but then my eyes adjusted to the light and I could see him and it was just the glare coming off his bald head. I felt so bad.
He was cool about it. I told him to get a case for his forehead. If you’re a wow, asked what’s the question in your search history that you really should have known the answer to already? Nikki said, how old is Brad Pitt’s new girlfriend? As a forty one year old woman in Hollywood.
This should become a knowledge to me. People are mad at Tim Minchin. This from The Guardian. The backlash came after Tim Minchin appeared to congratulate himself for not cheating on his wife. Tim was on the Inherited podcast.
He talked about the challenges of fame, temptation and his long marriage to Sarah. We married in two thousand and two. Tim said, I got myself in this situation and I got very close to doing the wrong thing. There was a time I don’t think Sarah remind me saying this where she’s like, Tim, don’t tell me the stuff, Just do the right thing. Don’t come to me with like, ohmost Tim said, It’s not in my nature to think that the goal of life is to get the best version of everything.
I’m not someone going, well, what are the imperfections of my relationship? I might be able to get a better once not on Mitche did not interested in trying to find a younger, smarter, hotter partner. I’m interested in a nice life. We have a lovely companion. People did not like that.
They went on the Inherited Podcast Instagram page and orde the bars on the floor and Tim is praising himself for hitting it. Not cheating on your partner and actually wanting to be with them is the bare minimum my guy. Another said, the way he talks about his wife in this is pretty demeaning. I feel sorry for his wife. Imagine thinking this is praiseworthy.
One more nothing says I love you like I decided to settle for this. I got to work with Tim a few times back in the day. He was relatively unknown in the States when we got to know him. So I’m at the Chicago Comedy Festival a night. Was absolutely blown away by how talented he is.
And we did Tim mentioned week up at Sirious or Serious XM. I think it was pre merger at Sirius, and I just had a good time celebrating his comedy. He is really talented, But I don’t think these social media observations are insane. Charlie barns he’ll have a YouTube special out on December first. He brings his particular brand of Midwestern nice to the Latest Hour full of stories of growing up one of twelve children, sneaking beer into church, gambling with Grandma, and Midwest cheap hacks.
Here is a trailer slightly edited. Midwest chief hits are hereditary disease. My mom had twelve kids and no epidural. That is either the most badass thing you can do as a human being or the cheapest. I’m not sure which.
Sorry. I brought beer into church, not really a wine. Guy. Dalla was byob for the JC, like, that’s not child labor, Lady, child Labor’s what made the golf bag. That’s where Nike got it, slogan from Just.
Do It So. THEO Vaughn was reflecting on his recent special taping, which by all accounts, including Theo’s, did not go so well. THEO said, I just wanted to have a little bit of more story to it, which is the reason why I was trying to have a little bit more feeling and emotion so I could kind of have more storyline in there about growing up in life. And maybe I was trying to do too much. I don’t know, but you start to realize that these are like photo albums.
Neil Brennan said to me for the show. He goes, hey, this will be the last time maybe you ever do this material, so go out and have a great time with it, enjoy it, take your time with it. These are the things that brought you close to people, and it brought people out and hopefully sometimes made people laugh. THEO Vaughn said, there was a thing where I was directing in my head because I wasn’t getting certain information. I was like, well, if the stool was here in the first taping, does it need to be there in the second one?
And where do I put it when I move it? Little things like that, And then they had five extra people though that didn’t need to be there. Everything was just kind of like a lot. Bill Board asked Leanne Morgan about the Manosphere, specifically saying the Theo Vonn’s, Joe Rogan’s, and Andrew Schultzes of comedy. Leanne said, I don’t know those boys.
I did meet Andrew Schultz at the Tom Brady Roast. Honestly. I got to go to tom Brady’s Roast, and I swear I thought Gronk was flirting with me. I thought, Lord, I’m my grandmother. Is Gronk flirting with me?
But he wasn’t. He’s been hit too many times. His eyes I thought they were looking at me, but they weren’t. I met Shane Gillis. I never met Joe Rogan.
I’ll tell you, I think it’s so wonderful, Theovaugh, the uniqueness of that. Theovonn Honey from Louisiana. I think he’s so funny. I’ve seen him live and I laughed until I was weak. He talks about hamster bones.
I can’t even But all those boys doing those podcasts, I don’t listen to them. I’m listening to pop culture women talking about the Real Housewives and who slapped you in Salt Lake City, which is terrible. I should be listening to something informative. All those boys, they’re a big deal, I guess, and you know I love men. I was on Nate’s podcast the other day.
We did a charity event last night. He was hilarious. We talked about going to marriage counseling with his wife and McDonald’s. He can sit and talk about McDonald’s and blow your mind. I think I’m going a lane by myself, even among female comedians.
I’m sixty years old in a grandma. All these girls doing comedy have got pretty legs and short skirts, so I’m in a big girdle. Oh right. The comedy festivals wrapping up again, big thanks to the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis, for finally a comedy festival having a website that is useful where you can see things. The main show tonight at seven o’clock at Tropical Decors is still say Sloan, That’ll put a rap on that one.
So I can now delete that tab and get some memory back some if you want to start the New York Comedy Festival Today at noon at the program NYC, it’s Comedy Records Hoops, or maybe it’s Comedy Records Hoops. Anyway, it’s comedians versus industry. They apparently are playing basketball. At three o’clock it’s the tenth annual Hot Guy Draft, a comedy fantasy event. Comedians use their expertise in the field of hotness and plenty of hell from the audience to build a team of twenty twenty five’s hottest celebrities, characters and even cartoons on that show.
Josh Gonoman, Zach Zimmerman and Joel Nicole Johnson, Jay Jorden and others. All right, that’s fun. Todd Glass eight o’clock, Second City. The Man can sell out New York City night after night, week after week. Todd Glass America’s number one comedian, nobody more popular, nobody more famous.
It is absolutely incredible. You run the Todd glasses on Jenny’s agreno. I’m a fan of hers. She’s at New York Comedy Club at seven Louis C.K. At the Beacon again at seven point thirty.
We’re going all the way down to the wire. And New York Comedy Festival still can’t get their website together. Back to back, we have the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o’clock, and then the next item on the website is the twenty twenty five Salem witch Trial at nine o’clock. Secret headliner at New York Comedy Club at nine fifteen, and that’s a rap on the New York Comedy Festival. Another tab gets deleted and Johnny Mack gets a little more ram and let me leave you with this awful thought from TMZ.
Bill Maher confirmed some rumors. The rumor was that before filming a showback in the nineteen nineties, Bill Maher would take care of himself. Nudge, nudge, know what I mean, say no more. Bill shared this with Cheryl Hines, as one does Cheryl Hines, of course, married to RFK Junior, so I’m sure she’s had weirder things said to her by men. Bill explained the only way he could sneak in a nap before filming politically incorrect was you know.
Bill said, his wild nights out clubbing left him dragging in a work hungover, what a professional, and desperate for a pre show nap. Everything went fine until he was doing his pre show ritual and someone walked in and the story go on out. I’m sure Cheryl Hines was thrilled to find out this anecdote. And that is your comedy news for today. I have to go watch football and take another one hundred dollars from Scott Beckett.
See you tomorrow