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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, quick housekeeping. This is a second episode from Monday, October thirtieth. There was an episode earlier this morning celebrating Monster Mash Monday, so that was all Halloween themed. This morning, I wanted to talk more about Matthew Perry.
That’ll be the first half of the podcast, the second half more normal items, and then starting tomorrow back to the normal schedule and format from TMZ. Kevin Brennan, qualified as a former SNL writer and comedian, decided to tweet drowned in a hot tub ha ha ha ha. TMZ says the tweet wasn’t viewed by very many people. Kevin Brennan only has about fifty nine hundred followers or so, reports TMZ. Brennan also wrote, I do love it when junkies die.
Why stop there? Brennan wrote why is drowning in a hot tub funny? Because it’s not very deep. After TMZ criticized the remark arks, Near Post reports that Kevin defended them, saying I didn’t mock it. I just thought it was funny.
But I do love it when junkies die. Brennan has also asked, am I trending yet? TMZ points out Kevin is the younger brother of Neil Brennan, a Chappelle showriter and comedian in his own right, and TMZ shares that Neil and Kevin had a falling out years ago, and they’re emphatic about that. Even in a second paragraph they wrote it bears repeating Neil is not close to Kevin, and based on interviews Neil has done of late, when he was asked about his relationship with Kevin, you can tell it’s a sensitive topic. Based on this reaction to Perry alone, you’ll see their personalities are very different.
Matthew Perry’s family said, we are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother. Matthew brought so much joy to the world, both as an actor or friend. You all meant so much to him, and we appreciate the tremendous outpouring of love. CNN recounted the story of Matthew Perry auditioning for Chandler Being In his twenty twenty two memoir, Perry wrote it said that Charlie Sheen was yet again in trouble for something, but I remember thinking, why do care he’s famous? Out of nowhere, I found myself getting on my knees, closing my eyes tightly and praying.
I’d never done this before. He asked, God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous. Three weeks later I got cast in Friends, and God has certainly kept up his side of the bargain. But the Almighty, being the Almighty, had not forgotten the first part of that prayer as well. It was nineteen ninety four.
Perry said he was scrambling for work. He had no money, so I called my agent and said, you’ve got to get me any job, any job you can. This happened to be the year before Friends was shot, but I was off the market because I had taken a job on a pilot called Lax twenty one ninety four that was about baggage handlers at LA Airport in the year twenty one ninety four. I’ve never heard of this. Here’s a clip on YouTube.
Lax twenty one ninety four also stars Ryan Styles. Let’s listen two hundred years into the future. Ryan Styles and Kelly Who are US customs agents in sci fi sitcom Lax twenty one ninety four, styles is a bumbling, insensitive robot. How could you be so heartless? Oh?
Sure, call me heart So it’s just because I’m half organism, half machine and don’t actually have a heart. Okay, that was amazing LAX twenty one to ninety four. Then a script for a show called Friends Like Us came along. Perry said it was HILARIOU said, great, there was this part that was perfect for me, and it was making me crazy. I couldn’t go up for it because of the Baggage Handler’s show.
I was losing my mind. The TV executives who saw Lax twenty ninety four agree that it was horrible, which freed Matthew Perry up. In two thousand and two, Perry told The New York Times, you want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be, meaning the enabling of his although there’s the anecdote. One time Perry had an reaction to an anesthetic which stopped his heart.
A worker in a hospital in Switzerland performed CPR for five full minutes to restore rhythm. Perry wondered if I hadn’t been on friends, would he have stopped at three minutes from GQ. A few months after completing the book, Matthew Perry was scheduled to record the audiobook version. That’s when it struck him that although he had written the book, he had never actually allowed himself to read it from start to finish. As for writing the book, Perry said, I was completely honest.
It just fell out of me. It just fell out on the page. But when he read it, he said, I cried and cried and cried. I went, Oh my god, this person has the worst life imaginable.
And then I realized this is me I’m talking about.
That night, he couldn’t even be in the same room as his words, he said, because I had to go to sleep. I actually took the iPad and put it outside my room because it was too close, too painful. The New York Post reports Matthew Perry Fans flock to Manhattan’s West Village on Sunday to pay tribute to Matthew Perry. The Post tells us a couple from Staten Island laid two bouquets of yellow and gold flowers in honor of Perry. Jamie George told the Post, even when he was struggling, he was making us put a smile on.
If you would like to stream of the various Matthew Perry shows go on which was really good. There’s an episode of TV in the Basement if you want to hear Journey Joe do a recap of that. That is not streaming, you can download it. That’s the one where Matthew Perry played a sportscaster, the Newer Odd Couple. That’s streaming on Paramount Plus.
That’s the one where Matthew Perry teamed with Thomas Lan Perry plays Oscar Madison Lennon Well cast as Felix Hunger. That version was not bad at all and actually ran three seasons. And of course Friends that is streaming on the Max service. Max is honoring Matthew Perry with a tribute card at the start of each season of the sitcom on the streaming platforms. The card reads, in memory of Matthew Perry nineteen sixty nine to twenty twenty three.
I’ll take the break here, we’ll come back and we’ll do some normal items Over the weekend. I put on Bill Burr’s Old Dad’s on Netflix. Holy Cow it is terrible. It’s just it’s unwatchable. So from the get go, there’s opening credits, and I don’t think they even spent money on real music.
And I’ve been doing this for a minute. It’s kind of like library music. So in the industry you’ll have things that are just generic guitar riffs, things that sound like real music but oren’t. And I think the opening credits just somebody went and grabbed guitar rock bed number fourteen and just played it. So it’s cheap off the get go.
The acting is terrible. The acting is so bad. I can’t even judge the writing. Maybe there’s some good writing in there. Bill Burr wonderfully talented, Not sure acting is his thing.
Old Dad’s really really unwatchable. A funny story from my life. I hope it’s funny. Anyway. I was driving on Sunday and all of a sudden it started monsooning, and I saw my neighbors.
They go out for a walk and I saw them. I’m like, do you guys want to ride home? Because it was really really coming down. They were like sure, and they got in my car and I had forgotten. I had been listening back to the Weekly comedy thing.
That’s the show I host on Live one to make sure that everything was okay, and I totally forgot that’s what I was doing. So the neighbors get in the car and I start the car back up, and the radio goes back to playing Mark Norman. So all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you hear so female orgasms. Huh. I was like, Luckily, my neighbor knows what I do for a living, so he probably didn’t think it was too weird, but it was awkward.
Jim Gaffigan tweeted, does anyone else feel the need to call their Jewish friends and say, Okay, you weren’t being paranoid? I also watched Saturday Night Live, strongest episode in at least a year and a half, really really good, the George Washington sketch that makes fun of the metric system and other things really good. I like the song about Lake Beach I thought was strong, and I thought more about mikey Day as Joe Biden. Mikey Day is not good as Joe Biden, and I was like, why would they do that? And it occurred to me, here’s why James Austin Johnson is Trump and a very good Trump.
If we have a Trump versus Biden election, James can’t play both roles, so somebody else has to play Biden. So I assume Louren Michaels is trying to figure that out in front of a potential Trump versus Biden election Mikey Day and not sure he’s the right choice there.
Speaking of James Austin Johnson, he’s going to be voicing the Grinch in a po…
Johnson said, he’s an icon. I think the Grinch is bigger than all us actors. It’s a little intimidating, but it’s also familiar. It’s something that’s winning us all. Everyone has at a day where you’ve had a couple of iced coffees and you forget to eat breakfast, and you think about one negative thing and it just becomes your entire personality.
James, you feel me, I feel Seen. Entertainment Weekly asked James what’s the secret to the perfect Grinch voice? Johnson said, it’s a mix of a lot of things. With this podcast, you’re hearing the Grinch talk a lot more than you’ve heard him talk in the past, and that’s fun to me tried it up my alley to do characters and get to live in it for a nice length of time instead of just a couple of lines here and there. Time out Rick and Morty, I think Dan Hormon nailed it a few weeks ago.
What I shared with you that it’s one thing to do a line here and there, and it’s another thing to embody the character. And I’m really picking that up on the voice of Rick Sanchez on the new season of Rick and Morty. Although the individual words sound right, the flow isn’t there yet. Back to the Grinch, how is the Grinch as a talk show host? James said, I wouldn’t say Dick Cavitt, but I feel like the Grinch is a fan of the nineteen seventies eir of talk shows.
I think he probably thinks of himself as a Charlie Rose type, and in reality he’s a raving lunatic. He’s not quite as straight lace as that. When he actually starts talking, he goes off in these little rants about all the seasonal stuff that drives him mad. James explained his approach to a Joe Biden impression. He said, with Biden, it’s quiet, and then he whispers jobs family security.
I don’t do a Biden obviously. First it’s a slow rumble, sort of like a storm is gathering, and then that storm breaks and crashes and explodes, and he just starts yelling out of nowhere. There are two speeds. He can me real low and quiet and lull you in. Then he explodes with righteousness.
So going back and forth between those two poles is something that I find fun to do with the character. I found I could bring some of that dynamism into the Grinch too. He has a low, quiet range, and when he’s feeling kind of sassy and chatty, he gets a little bit higher. I definitely felt inspired by all the Grinches. I’m finding layers to the other Grinches and using them to vultron myself into what I consider the ultimate Grinch.
Vultures twenty five comedians You should know, Asha Word, What do you know now about comedy that you didn’t know when he started? She said, I love a one liner. I used to try so hard to make my jokes longer and try to tell stories, but that’s not me. I just want the meat and potatoes of it. I love to c jokes down to the least amount of words possible, so as quick and punchy as possible.
I went to college for comedies. I was constantly being told rules about how you should do it, like joke structure, how you should act on stage, how you should hold the mic, the volume should speak into. And I’ve noticed I tend to stray away from those rules. I do pretty much everything my professor has told me not to do. It’s been working out well.
Worst show ever the back of a super cold bar. Only one guy showed up as the audience. The host of the show didn’t cancel. He made us do the show for one man. He did a fifteen minute host set and the guy didn’t laugh once.
It was surreal. I did a protest set where I told one new joke and asked the guy if you liked it. Then I said to the other comedians, you know, we don’t have to do this right. We can just all get a drink and talk to each other like humans. Nobody was in a good mood.
It was terrible. The guy stayed the whole time, though. I don’t know why comedians are like that, but we’ll do a set and no matter how bad the vibes are, I’m no stranger to a bad show. It’s all good fun. The power went out in the first show I was ever booked on.
I did my set with no mic under the flashlight of an iPhone. What comedy hill will you die on? I hate Instagram stand up. I posted some and probably will again, but I hate it when I go on Instagram. I want to see what my acquaintances are eating for lunch.
I want to see photo dumps. I want to see family guy memes. I don’t want to see stand up and maybe that’s just me. We live in the age of content now, so we have to do something to sell tickets. But I love going on a comedian’s Instagram and seeing them be normal in that issue.
Comedy News for Today for the second time. Back to a normal schedule tomorrow with all the show for free on overcast, pocket casts, Spotify, and if you hate back catalog episodes, Apple Podcast isn’t going to share them with you anyway. See, you probably didn’t even know there was four episodes this weekend because Apple didn’t share them with you. Thanks for nothing, Apple, See tomorrow