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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and big time Mets van. Jerry Seinfeld is warming up to the Phillies. Jerry, what the hell, dude? Jerry spoke to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jerry’s playing Philadelphia tonight at the Met and they asked him what do you hate more, watching the Mets lose or watching the Phillies win. Jerry answered that he really liked Bryce Harper storming up the third baseline last week to yell at Angel Hernandez, who’s an umpire. A lot of people don’t think Angel Hernandez is a good empire. I’ll leave it at that. Jerry said, that was so Philly.
That was so great. The interviewer was like, rivalry, no, Jerry said, I don’t think so. I don’t know what happened to it, but these things can always kindle at any time. It’s all about weird personalities. They pointed out there’s a TV show called Seinfeld.
There’s an episode called The Boyfriend Keith Hernandez episode you’ve seen this, yes, that takes place at a Mets first Phillies game. Jerry said, just seemed like a very classic rivalry. At that time. I don’t know if there’s much of that left today. Once my team is out, I just pick another team.
I base it on watching them play. I like the Phillies this year. They’re exciting, great energy. Jerry, No no, no, no, no no. Pick somebody else.
What are you doing? Jerry says he loves Northeast attitudes and Northeast humor. And my friend Kevin Ord always tells me, if you can get laughs in Philly, you’re ready to go anywhere. Of course, that’s the New York cliche, but it’s also true of Philly. Their audience is very discriminating, and they know their stuff.
Philly is the greatest food since Jerry. Philly and Chicago are I think the best food cities I go to. Hmmm, I think I agree. I love Chicago food too, And I was down in suburban Philly last night and had a delicious cheese steak that I couldn’t even finish. And I can finish food.
That’s me talking, not Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry said, somebody will always recommend something I haven’t heard of, some Giro sandwich place or something, and I love doing that. I wonder if Jerry said Giro’s I’m reading a text hero. If he just said gyros Jerry’s from Queen’s, I’m sure he just said gyros. Lenno was asked, at this stage of your career, the things you find funny now that maybe you didn’t before.
Interesting answer, Leno said, it’s actually the other way around. It’s stuff that we found funny before that you can’t do now. But you know, it’s not bad. Like everything else. In old days, there were women in gay jokes, and it’s probably better that we don’t do those anymore.
I think you can tease and poke fun of people. It’s a classic case of if they’re laughing with you and you’re not laughing at them. I don’t find it that hard. Everybody likes being teased in that sense of humor. You have to know when you cross the line, and it’s a fine line.
In comedy, Bill Birds all the Canton rap that I don’t do her stand up as much as you would think. It’s more I go out and live a life and then I have stuff to talk about. It took me forever to learn that I’m always the butt of the family jokes except with my wife, and she can take it. If you go see Bill Bird. Bill Burr says, what’s great is you’re gonna hear a bunch of stuff that maybe you don’t want to hear, and maybe you can experience something different and laugh and learn something or not like something, and then like the next thing.
Bill talked about playing big venues like Fenway Park or Madison Square Garden. It’s unbelievable. It doesn’t make any sense. You definitely have Imboster syndrome before you go out there, at least I did before I started playing bigger venues. As crazy as it sounds, I’ve kind of gotten used to it.
I approach it the same way as when I was playing half filled comedy clubs. Sam Morrell was on the Creative Control podcast Creative with a K. Control with a K. Is Sam doing political comedy. He says, I look at it as social commentary.
I don’t think it’s political. I’m not condemning either side. Really, when I think of a political comic, I think they’re leaning hard into one side, and I don’t like that. I like the people from both sides can come to my show. I don’t think it’s my job to tell people how to think.
But then inevitably, certain bits will have an angle in a stance, but I don’t like to hammer people that. I think it feels more political, and I don’t like partisan comedy. Look, I dabble occasionally have one. You’re like, Eh, this is gonna tick someone off, But I just think it’s really funny, so ef it. I think there’s fun in making fun of everyone, and I think I’m not doing it in such a harsh way to the person getting hitchouldn’t laugh at it.
But that’s kind of the type of comedy that got me into comedy. When I was a kid, my mom saw me laughing on my discman and she was like, what is he listening to? I was so young. She grab my headphones put it on. It was Chris Rock’s album Roll with the New and I saw this look of horror come over my mind’s face, followed by her laughing, and I was like, Wow, that’s beautiful.
The Chris Rock has the ability to push you there, you know what I mean. That’s when I fell in love with Rock’s comedy at such a young age. He was so good at ticking you off in the setup and then making you how with laughter at the end of the joke. I mean, it’s my favorite type of joke. Bert Kreischer was out surfing.
He shared some video of it. This from surfermagazine dot com You’re home for comedy News. Apparently Bert did, okay, this articles in English and I’m reading it and I’m like, I don’t know what we’re talking about. Bert was so stoked he posted on Instagram and name dropped a few North Shore rippers. Dude, I’m tagging Nathan Florence in this, I’m tagging all the guys.
And apparently he tagged Florence Rothman and Jimmie O’Brien. Surfers are like, yeah, of course he did.
All right, let’s look more at the Vulture list of the comedians you should an…
Twenty five comics who industry insiders predictably be tomorrow superstars Stavrols Halkias. I feel like he’s been kind of visible. Yes no, yes, Yes. Twenty two special Live at the Lodge Room is full of material on his favorite pleasure center. His Body Is His Body, Sex, his sex Life, threesomes, Food, Drugs, and Self Loathing is another special on the way.
He’s been posting clips of his crowd Work for the last year and recently put them together as a half hour crowd Work only special. Gary Golman’s not gonna like that. Rob Hayes a certain he’d be famous by now if he had an interesting story. He tells a joke. Hayes says, I would go to church and they’d be like, God doesn’t give you more than you can handle.
And he says, I’m like, yo, God thinks I’m weak. Is Brian reagan esk nac for attacking subjects from multiple angles was put to great use in twenty twenty one when Hayes and Jamelle Johnson created Sneak This, a sneaker centric sketch show, say that three times fast I did. I got it in the first try. I sort of didn’t do an in it there. They did that for Bleacher Report Kicks that covered everything from engineering a robot to buy sneakers online to the excuses sneaker heads used to justify their spending.
That sounds like a ton of fun. Jordan Jensen is fond of saying she’s like this because she was quote re by a pack of lesbians. She slouches pulse faces, speaks with a growl, and interrupts herself, punctuates thoughts with the word dude. She is not prim jokes are often gloriously gross. She’s obsessed with sex, unseemly behavior, and all the thoughts that should be too unpleasant or uncomfortable to say out loud.
Andrea Jin says Vulture is the polstered child for gen Z Comedy Online. She’s a slightly messy, older sister type, speaking to TikTok and its native language by talking about core memories and past lives regression. On stage, she’s drolly at fashionable, seeming a little bit bored by the act of speaking, and slightly offended when people laugh at her. A very fun bit for comedian to have one more Rachel Kayley, Vulture writes judaism, being gay, mental illness. These are but some of the foundations on which so much comedy is built.
But few minds are able to combine these ingredients into a rich, humorous borsht quite like a Rachel Kayley. Kaylee’s delivery often sounds like thinking out loud, unsettling stand up cliches intentionally stripped of polish, particularly when she records in unlikely places like their apartment or on the side of the road ten minutes special about airplane on airplane is filmed from an economy window seat. I want to be respectful here. I’m not familiar with Rachel, and the Vulture article is using both the pronouns she and they. The parts I read there, I read as they had it written, and that is an awkward thing to take into the commercial breaks.
Let me add one more Edie Mootica. If you’re like, who’s that? Did you watch Jury Duty? You know the main woman that the Jury Duty guys kind of paleling around with and maybe they’re going to hook up, That’s who Ediemotica is. Modica’s characterization of Genie is the character brushes right up next to the line of too far.
She’s full of sexually inappropriate equips, touchy, and often a ridiculous mess, and yet her performance is layered and thoughtful enough to keep it just barely in bounds. Dean Horman’s a little stressed about this community movie because once the actor strike ends, there’s some pretty big people in community. Donald Glover’s a lot more in demand than he was when he first played True. Alison Brie gets a lot of work, you know what, I’m saying here, so Harmon says, the thing that’s gonna matter most to me as an audience member, to anybody who loved that show is seeing that people see each other and they still love each other, and it’s not gonna feel the same if you’re shooting them separately at different months, in different locations. I hate to say out terrified I am to do it wrong, because it’s part of me that knows that that fear can’t possibly result in a good thing, and you’re not gonna get anywhere doing an impression of what you think you should do or what you think they want.
But I really don’t want to do it wrong, and it’s truly terrifying. But then I’m holding onto the hope that being honest with myself about how scared am is at least a way to break the cycle. The Groundlings will be hosting a musical improv fundraiser and the Performing Arts Center in Vista del Mar on October twenty sixth. It’s the Groundlings One Night only. What is this?
They’re trying to raise money for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. It will see stars like Will Forte and a guest I are Kristin Wigg Mikhayela Watkins, Kristin Bell, Jim Rash, the Dean from Community, and a bunch of others. The show is called One Night Only. It will see a full production of a Broadway musical with the improvisers getting their scripts with one day’s notice. That’s fun October twenty sixth, This weekend, It’s the Because of their Funny Comedy Festival that’ll be at the Wharf in Washington, d C.
The comedy event will feature a competition to determine the Breakout Comedian of the Year, a woman focused comedy special on a homecoming lineup featuring black comedians from d C. Jeff Friday is one of the organizers that says, what we’re trying to do now is really spearhead, Who’s the next Monique, Who’s the next deal? Hugh Glee. DC is probably the smartest, most interesting city in the country. You know, it’s not Miami Beach, but this is a really special city.
Tonight it’s the Breakout Comedian of the Year competition hosted by d C Youngfly Saturday, Hey Ladies, Fierce female comedy show that’ll include performances by Leunel, Nicole Bayer, Aggo Nuotam and Aita Rodriguez. That’s a good show. Sunday, The DMV Black Comedy Homecoming Show, hosted by Avon Orgi, features Tommy Davidson, Donnell Rawlings, Tony Woods, and some others. Dcist pointed out notably, Dave Chappelle is not on any lineup during the weekend. They asked about it, and the answer is, Dave’s not a tour.
He said, he’s not in the lineup. We’re hoping him come. A lot of people would invited that aren’t on a lineup, and yeah, same answer. That’s why Dave Chpelle’s not on today’s podcast. And that’s your comedy news for today.
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