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The Shark deck busy one again. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yesterday I did the whole thing with Is the chat che pet actually funnier than the late night writers? Let’s take another look of that, the chatbot said, Joe Biden is planning to visit his ancestral at home while in Ireland. He’s open to find some long lost relatives, but if he doesn’t, he’s prepared to start hugging random strangers and calling them cousin.
That’s really good there, chatbot Colbert. The trip is part diplomacy and part homecoming because Biden’s ancestors came to the US from Ireland the mid eighteen hundreds when Biden was just a teen.
Also a great joke, chatbot, Hey, I heard that Biden is planning to visit a Pu…
He’s open to try some traditional Irish food like fish and chips, or a play the Lucky charm cereal. Not bad. One more from the chatbot. I don’t know why it went here with this ice cream joke, but I kind of like it, chatbot. Biden is known for his love of ice cream, and he’s already scoped out the best places to get a cone in Ireland.
Okay, interesting premise. He’s even hoping to convince some local shops to start selling his favorite flavor, Rocky Road to the White House. See these these are good writers Guild. You might want to actually be worried all right, Hank Azaria has apologized to Horry Kondabolu. You may recall that Hurry put out a documentary called The Problem with Apoo.
In it, Knabolu argued that the Simpsons character Apoo had been harmful to South Asians in the West, citing Apoo’s outsized cultural footprint and im media landscape that otherwise featured a lack of Salthasian representation. Let’s hear from Hank Gazaria. Hi, I’m actor Hank Zaria. You might know me from my television show Brockmeyer, or from many TV and film roles over the years, and of course the voices that I do on the Simpsons TV show, like Moti Bartender. Please Chief Wagon, I’m here to day though, to urge you, please watch Hurry Kndibola’s new stand up comedy special called Vacation Baby on YouTube.
It’s honestly one of the greatest pieces of stand up but I have ever seen in my life. It’s filled with so many hilarious and poignant anecdotes about what it’s like to have a child during a global pandemic, and just the kind of thoughtful and biting social commentary that will come to love Forlory. So please do yourself a favor. I watch Vacation Baby on YouTube for free. Thank you.
You nailed it. That’s exactly what I wanted. Thank you. I pretty much had to do that. I didn’t absolutely no choice, not really no, okay, fair enough, Vacation Baby on YouTube.
Really looking forward to seen it. Horry. Condubulus special is out on Tuesday. I have seen it. Remember recently I hinted that I had seen a special and it was I think I haven’t.
Let me check fifth the best of the year. Yes, I have it at five. I have seen this one. It’s out Tuesday on YouTube. It’s really really good.
So my current listings number one Kyle Canaan two Nate Berghatsy three, Jay McBride for Jim Jeffreys five, Hurry, Condubuloo six Chris Rock So don’t look at me putting it fifth and being like, oh no, it’s ahead of Chris Rock’s Big Deal special. Okay. Number seven, of course is the Roast of mister Peanut. I know you think I’m all insane. Go on YouTube type in Roast of Mister Peanut and watch the long form version of it.
It’s pretty good. We should have a big week of Gossip Corner coming up. Pete Davidson is going to host Saturday Night Live on May sixth. That same week, he’s expected to attend the met Gala, and he’ll also have his Peacocks show Buck GISs Out on May fourth, So around that first week of May should be a lot of Pete Davidson, which is always great for Gossip Corner and cross promo. That’s also the week of the King’s Coronation, so it will be a big week for Palace Intrigue.
That’s the daily podcast on the Rady four about the British royal family. Now, weather, gods, could you make it rain a lot that week because this week here it’s in the high eighties in northern New Jersey in April and all I want to do is sit outside and not record podcasts in my basement. So a week of May first, if you could make the weather like really awful so I can get all this work done. That would be great. Spa of Nate Brigatti.
Two minutes ago, he is headlining the Nashville Comedy Festival kicks off. Nate’s playing Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. That’s the Hockey Areno for by the cool bars, downtown, cool place. This show’s called up from Old Hickory to Broadway, Nate told the Tennessee and whenever I let myself daydream about success, it was playing Bridgestone. Back in two thousand two, Nate enrolled in classes at the Second City.
After an eight week course, he traded improv for stand up, tacking a comedy class, and performing an open mics in Chicago for the next two years. He moved to New York in two thousand and four, partly inspired by Jerry Seinfeld’s two thousand and two documentary Comedian. He and the family moved to la in twenty twelve, but two years later they very very quietly moved back to Nashville. Nate kept it a secret from everyone in the business. He said, my biggest fear was they’re gonna think I quit, So I didn’t say anything when I travel to LA my manager knew, but I didn’t want somebody to not meet with me because I didn’t live there.
In twenty seventeen, Netflix launched a series called The stand Ups. Each episode featured a thirty minute said from a different comedian. Nate was on the first episode. At his next gig the following week, he said, I remember I did some jokes and they didn’t hit as much as they usually do. The reason the audience hadn’t heard them.
Nate said, I was like, wait, are you all here like because of me? And they’re like yeah. He said, it was the first sign of panic. We’re like, oh, I gotta write new material. People are coming.
Nate met a caddy at the Pebble Beach pro am and the guy said he’s been to twenty shows. You write an hour for the tour and then you kind of change it up. You don’t change every show. When the new tour started this year, I had people fly to Jonesboro, Arkansas to watch the beginning of the tour, and you know, I was having a great day.
And then Nate had to throw this in.
He takes a queue in his career from Adam Sandler. Yeah, Adam Sandler invited Nate backstage at a Sandler show. Nate said, I’m a giant, giant fan of what Adam Sandler does. I want to create the world he created with his movies. No, don’t do that, Nate.
No, Nate Brigatsy and Jack and Jill. No no, no, no, no no no no no no no no no. I want to create the world he created with his movies. That’s what we’re trying to do with Nateland. He’s a huge inspiration to me.
No no, don’t go the Adam Sandler out, because then you’ll ruin Dusty Slay. He’ll be your Rob Schneider and you guys will do garbage movies. No, no, no, don’t do that. The Nashville Comedy Festival does kick off. The lineup includes Ricky Smiley, Carlos Miller, David Spade, and twenty six other acts from around the country.
Carlos Miller said, every time I come to Nashville, I feel like I’m visiting family. The music, the food, the people all love this city. I’ve never met a stranger in Nashville. Everybody shows so much love. It is a Greek ten.
If you’ve never been in Nashville. You should go. Why don’t you get on a plane right now, hit some hit the comedy festival. Go do it, Miller said, man I got my picture up on the wall at Zany’s. I love going back there every few months at seeing who and what they’ve added that place.
All right, So Nates at Bridgetown tomorrow, Carlos Miller’s at the War Memorial Auditorium tomorrow, Jason Banks at Zany’s Tonight’s, and tomorrow Little Sasquatch at Zany’s. Then I guess we can talk about the rest on Sunday? Did you already record Saturday’s episode? Chenny Mack? Is that while you’re slipping the Saturday nights in?
Maybe you tell me? I promised you, just for laughs, would announce some things and announce some things. They did. Comedian Ali Wong, she’s having a moment. Jonathan van Ness and Anthony Chelsea Nick.
Those are the first three names announced just for laughs. It’s July fourteenth through the twenty ninth. If you’re in the northeast and you can get to Montreal pretty easily. It’s a seven hour drive from northern New Jersey, not too bad from New York City. Boston not too bad.
Cleveland. If you’re in Cleveland, I don’t know how long it is from Cleveland and Montreal, but you should go and go the second week. And if you’ve got to pick shows, I’m telling you go see New Faces one and New Faces two, back to back shows, same theater. You gotta pay for an entrance twice. It’s not a lot of money, but that’s a great thing to do.
And then while you’re up there, if you’re not as deep into the comedy world to say I am, go see some of the bigger names. But the Montreal Comedy Festival is great. In the daytime. You can hang out up at Mount Royal. Give you oldtown look.
If you want to hear about Montreal. My other podcast is called Travel Is Back, and the Montreal episodes are actually the most popular episodes. There’s probably four of them altogether, So Travel is Back is that podcast. If you want to hear me go on about Montreal. But you should go go the second week and go see Faces.
Some other names, Daniel Slas Mexican stand up comic, Carlos Baiarda and Tom Poppa will be there. Ali Wong show will be joined by special guest Shang Wang. He of course had the best comedy special of twenty twenty two. That’s a good show. Why don’t you come up to Montreal and hit Ali and Shang and maybe hang out with me.
We can have a beverage. Come on, let’s do it. The host of the Galas and time out, I noticed yesterday when doing Melbourne stuff, the Australians say gala. John from Queens says gala. But anytime I’m involved with the Montreal Comedy Festival they always say gala, which is correct.
Let’s see. I have found a website dictionary dot Cambridge dot org slash US slash pronunciation, and it says how to pronounce gala nown in British English and how to pronounce gala nown in American English. Should we listen, Let’s figure this out. Gala. There will be many stars performing in the Royal Ballet’s Gala Night Gala the American Ballet Theaters Spring Gala raises money for community outreach programs.
Okay, two points here point number one for somebody who wants to sit outside because it’s in the high eighties today. I’m doing a terrible job of hitting in a short podcast like stop going off on distractions, Johnny Mack, you’re just costing yourself editing time later point number two. All right, somebody out there, if you’re from Canada, hit me up contacts. In the show notes, the Canadians say Gala Why just for laughs? Announced as Gala host comedy star Russell Peters.
He’ll EMC four shows. Another Gala host, Jack Whitehall. The Nasty Show will feature performances by Donnel Rawling Steptlev and adrian Ia Pallucci Keeping eyeing Her She’s Fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda Cool Club will have Alonzo Boden, Jean Marcos Serresi, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasai. Sounds great.
Absolutely do Montreal if you can. Jenny Zigrino’s album is out today. Yes, an album, an actual album. It’s called jen z Love the title, Jenny told Rebellious magazine. And I’m not going to sit around and wait for people to find me and big me do a special.
I’m just gonna do it myself. Obviously, you don’t do it yourself, you do it with the help of a lot of people. In August of twenty twenty one, I contacted my friend Whoe’s a production company in New York. I was like, let’s make a special By November of twenty one, it was funded gen Z, g E, N dash Z, and Gage. She didn’t get the joke, has funny takes on baby boomers, gen Z and everyone in between.
Zagreino, herself a millennial, thinks gen Z maybe a little different than previous generations and that’s a good thing, she says. I think they’re gonna be a little weirder because we had two years inside. They’re just gonna be a little weird, and that’s okay. I feel like gen Z are gonna be the ones that are really going to change things. The millennials were like the tester group.
Let’s test it out, see how it goes, and then it gets refined by gen Z. My hope is they can stand up to what’s happening again. Fellow gen xers were like the middle child. Everybody talks about the boomers, and then the millennials came in and like just were like, didn’t want to work on Saturday. Those guys gen Z, I don’t know what they’re up to.
They’re on TikTok all day. Nobody talks about gen x Zagreino has a take on Steve Bashimmy, and she said, first of all, Steve Bishemy’s not ugly. He can totally get it. He’s diverse in his acting. He’s talented.
Who else went back now one, citing the fact that Bishemy, previously New York City firefighter, rushed to the scene on September eleventh. He’s a great actor and he sounds like a really stand up dude. He has a very normal life. He’s in it because he loves the art. If you enjoy what I do here.
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You could have had this one on Thursday afternoon. You could have been sitting in your backyard and joining the sunny, eighty something degree day. I’m gonna be like, hey, Friday’s podcast is pretty good. I feel a lad here. Those other people how to wait till Friday morning three oh five am Eastern time and look at me roll in large premium subscriptions on Apple podcasts.
Hey, my former co worker Jamie FOXX apparently had a little medical thing. His daughter Krinn released a statement on Instagram saying, Jamie on Tuesday had a quote medical complication. We wanted to share that my father, Jamie fox experienced the medical complication. Luckily, due to quick action and great care, He’s right down his way to recovery. We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers.
The family asked for privacy during this time. Leanne Morgan special I’m every Woman is out on Netflix. I have not yet seen it, but Decider did and they said, we’ve seen rural TV families who make nice like the Waltons, and hillbillies who make mayhem like Mama’s family. The Morgans seem like they might be somewhere in the middle, all thanks to their mom as the central figure and creator of disruption. She says.
Her mom and other relatives also dexetrim dietary supplements. When Leanne was only seventeen. She said, it was speed. We took speed as a family. Should you watch it?
Decider says, if you’re looking for funny, family friendly stories about having to put up with a spouse and children, or if you’re a woman seeking some inspiration about how to age with grace and humor, then definitely all caps stream. It’s this next comedy show. I might have to check out myself personally. Get out of the basement, because I want to make sure you have the best coverage of The Naked Benefit Comedy Show joined New York City’s best comedians as they stripped down for a great cause. Each comedian we’ll perform their hilarious ten minute set naked.
Proceeds from the Naked Comedy Benefit Show will benefit a word winning nonprofit organization, Broadway Sings for Pride. So if you want to see them naked, this is your chance today.
All right, let’s take a look at the festivals.
I want to go outside. It’s so nice out, all right, Friday at the Moon Tower Comedy Festival. Seven o’clock Vier DAWs seven o’clock Randy Felt Face seven thirty, Jared Freed eight o’clock, Perfect Cult, nine thirty Jay Farrow ten o’clock Jared Freed again, ten thirty Perfect Cults. All right, if I remember correctly, we’ve seen Jared Freed and Perfect Cult already. Have we gotten a Randy felt face.
Maybe we did that the first night. I know I wanted to see Vier DAWs. I think we’ve seen everybody. Should we just drink. We haven’t seen Jay Faro yet.
All right, we’ll drink and then we’ll do jayfarre at nine thirty.
Now let’s do Saturday.
Some people might think John recorded Saturday’s podcast earlier the week and kind of forgot to do the moon Tower segment. I’m not sure that that’s true, but you know, just for your naysayers, Saturday’s event, Seth Myers is your headliner at seven o’clock, Chad and Jat at seven, Jared Freed again, seven thirty, Joe Firestone eight o’clock, Seth at nine thirty Randy felt Face, Jared Freed, Joe Firestone. Okay, so we should probably go see h Jadd and Shade’s he It’s seven and Seth Meyers late. How does that sound. Let’s take a look at Melbourne.
Nick Schuller’s show is called Firebrand. In twenty nineteen, the Schuller family home burned down in the black summer bush fires. Like all good comedians, Nick has monetized his trauma turned his family’s tragedy into an hour of light entertainment.
All right, let’s listen.
Enjoyed watching the lockdown protests. Don’t really understand why people were getting angry about the protests. It’s one of the few times we get to witness natural selection occurring in real time. No other time does the shallow end of the Jane pool congregating a single location to wipe itself out. There were lockdown protests in Queensland despite Queensland not being in lockdown, which begs the question can you complain about oppression while not being oppressed?
The answer to which is yes. That’s Sky News is business model. In the Queensland protests, a man rode a horse across the Queensland New South Wales border. The news story had a video of the man riding a horse across the border. Then the story said man allegedly rides horse across border.
I was like, all reckon, he did it, all right? I don’t pick these clips. These are the clips on the Milburn site. There’s also some Claptor in there. In case you caught it, Nick Schiller, I’m I’m sorry you didn’t really enjoy that awkward to in the podcast.
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