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The Shark Deck. Don’t Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kesha seems very bothered that this Jerry Seinfeld guy wouldn’t give her a hug. Back in twenty seventeen, they were on the red carpet of the National Night of Laughter and Song in Washington, DC, Kesha approached Jerry and asked for a hug. Jerry said, n eggs, and then as he walked away and said, I don’t know who that was.
Kesha was reflecting on it and said, you know, when it got pumpy on planes, I’m poppin Seinfeld not be like everything’s okay in the world and watch my buddy. Then I get to the charity event, I got really excited because he brings me peace and love and all things good in the universe.
And then he didn’t hug me in front of the cameras.
It was depressing and hilarious but so sad. It was like the saddest moment of my life. Slightly after that incident, Seinfeld told extra, I don’t know hug. It’s total stranger. I have to meet someone, say hello.
I gotta start somewhere. James Austen Johnson did a show in London. The folks at Turtle didn’t love it. They said James is a brilliant mimic, no doubt about that, but as live show is hugely patchy, with moments of brilliance mixed in with overlong, self indulgent riffs. He describes his work as sexy jazz rather than the hard hitting punch lines of rockstar comics.
His subjects can be very niche, especially for a British audience. If you want ten minutes on Willie Nelson’s nineteen eighties country supergroup The Highwaymen, you’re in the right place. It’s a fairly direct mockery and a lot of people will just have to trust. Those impressions of Chris Christofferson and Waylon Jennings are on point. Bob Dylan might be more recognizable, but another octogenarian target makes it feel like he’s a willfully shunning contemporary relevance.
Even in a world a watch with Trump impressions, his is a standout, especially the way the Sherlotte informer president can’t stick to a script talking and Trump’s eccentric rhythms comes as second nature to Johnson and equips. I could do this for two and a half hours. His Louis c. K is so on point you might worry about sharing a dressing group with him, but the subjects are often esoteric and with no real llergency to hit punchline or wrap up a skit when it’s done, it makes for a surprisingly unsatisfying hour. OUCH Awards.
I was curious how Mark Marin balances his life and stand up on the podcast and acting, and Maren said, I don’t know the weird thing about self employment in general, as everything seems like some part of work because you’ve worked through life that way. I’m trying not to overextend myself. I came up in this game and there were times in your life where you really have to take everything because you’re like, oh, good an opportunity, you have to do it. Mark said, I don’t love to go away from more than a couple of weeks. I’m not the kind of guy that’s going to be in Morocco for six months with the podcast.
That’s probably at least sixty to seventy percent of my social life, talking to strangers on the mics and having kind of a deep conversation that gets me atam myself. It’s just my life. Don l Rawlings is excited to go do some solo shows because he says, when he tours with Chappelle, I do like fifteen minutes, so you get your laugh on, but you don’t get your chance of getting that real personal connection. That’s why I really love the comedy clubs and the small theaters. It’s like up close in your face, and he really gets to connect with the audience, and the audience gets to connect with me.
Amy Schumer opened up about why she is no longer part of the Barbie movie. She had left the project a few years ago when the Trades reported it was due to a scheduling conflict, always a great term in the entertainment industry. Yees, scheduling conflict. No possible way I could do it, scheduling conflict. But Amy has now revealed the real reason.
She said, I can’t wait to see the new movie. I think it looks awesome. I think we said it was scheduling conflicts, but really it was just like creative differences. But there’s a new team behind it and it looks like it’s very feminist and cool. So I will be seeing this movie.
The original Barbie movie would have seen Amy Schumer as Barbie kicked out of Barbie Land for not being perfect enough, only to return to save it once she’s figured out that perfect is being yourself. Ben Roy, you know him from the Growls. He’s got a new stand up special coming out. You can buy it directly from his label, or wait a couple of weeks and see it on YouTube. Starting July eleventh, you can make a premium rental and digital download for ten bucks.
Then on August tenth, it’ll show up on YouTube. Ben Roy wrote much of Hyena during the pandemic. He said, it’s become clear just how fter we are. Our population has made us far too big to move in any one cohesive direction. We’re sort of like the Titanic.
Now our size has made it are too difficult to avoid any one sudden catastrophe. I believe what will happen will now happen. It’s best to just laugh and enjoy what remains. The special is full of rants about the downfall of American society and how letting go maybe our last hope. Jeffrey Asthmus is preparing his debut stand up comedy special, this one called The Only Funny White Man.
He has a trailer on his YouTube page. I was gonna share a clip, but he dropped two f bombs in the first five seconds, and we try to keep it clean here at Daily Comedy News. Not too familiar with Jeffrey Asthmas, but just reading this article, I don’t think this is my style of comedy. Asthmas said, this is the first one percent alpha comedy special ever released. Others have tried, but none have succeeded.
Congratulations on witnessing history. The special will tackle society’s most pressing questions or dog sexy? Do we need democrats? Should every baby be aborted? Can Lutherans enter into heaven?
And why are beta is allowed to live? Smith said this comedy special has clinically proven a cure at low testosterone, premature ejaculation, and most forms of depressions, So why not give it a Watchative A good moment for once in your sorry pathetic life. Jeff Asthmus The Only Funny white Man YouTube. July twentieth, The Guardian wrote about comedians playing festivals. Jacob Holly said there’s two types.
There’s the off your nut nineteen to twenty four year old bucket hap and vape festivals where if you’re not on at the perfect time. You’re screwed because everybody’s either mashed or coming down. Then there are the middle class artsy festivals where the daub comes, kids stress up and parents get a little wasted. Those whole different challenges. At Holly’s first festival, when many of his jokes were about partying, he was confronted with an audience of kids, so he switched to crowd work, and he said the problem was I was trying to do crowd work with nine year olds dressed a shrik.
People aren’t there to be challenged. The execute really well. Are fun where that’s one liners or props, As long as there’s an optimism to it, it really lands. If you try anything that has a bleakness to it and no one’s ready. Sophie Duker said, it’s so much easier to walk out the constant traffic and noise or at levels that would be like a fever dream if it would happen at a normal gig.
People have come to drink cider and escape their lives. You’re just adding to the symphony of enjoyment. And Sophie says the glamor of readily available toilet paperbackstage is a bonus. It’s ruined me for attending festivals as a civilian. Comedian Ben Wasserman recently did a show at a funeral home.
Live after Death is not your typical stand up routine. Wasserman describes it as a mix of chaotic goofs and gags, including bits in which the audience helps them juggle and perform a seance, combined with what he’s called vulnerable moments, during which he calls on audience members to talk about their own experiences with death, loss, and grieving. He says he never pokes fun at how someone died unless it’s some roadrunner while he coyote kind of accident and they’re already laughing at it. And although he calls on audience members during the show, he always respects someone’s desire to not become part of the act. People do know they’re the comedy show, and so they’re open having a little fun being poked with them.
And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube. Where do you get your shows? See tomorrow? All right, enough with the negativity.
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