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Calarocus Shock Media. According to retailers, the most popular Halloween mass this year is OJ Simpson and the most popular Halloween greeting is I’ll kill you and that guy who’s bringing over your glasses or treat and the Pope came out of the book this week, which contains a series of essays examining faith and morality in today’s secular world and the changing role of the Catholic Church as it approaches the twenty first century. The book is entitled God Himself told Me that OJ is guilty. In other book news, Prince Charles released an autobiography in which he states that he never loved Princess Die and that his father pressured him to marry her. The book is entitled well, of course OJ did it?
I mean come on. Comedian Robert Burrell tweeted OJ Simpson’s family announced he died of cancer. Cancer, on the other hand, has begun looking for the real killer. Norma to like that joke. Samurell wrote the movie Defending Your Life, but with ojy.
Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Decider did a long interview with Neil Brennan, Sean McCarthey, is your interviewer. He hosts a podcast called The Comics Comic No Sean A little bit back from my serious days, Shawn asked, Neil, you mentioned Joe Rogan in your special, but then also Dave Chappelle. These people have massive platforms and audiences who were listening and looking to them, who were saying, we’re just comedians, but somehow also weighing in on and leading the conversations and weighty issues. Neil said, But they were always weighing in on them. They were never not weighing in on them.
It just didn’t make a difference before it. They were always like, ah, that’s a comedian. At a certain point, I believe in the early two thousands when John Stewart and Chris Rock and I would even throw Michael Moore in there and they got bumped up a notch and John Stewart would tell you so much his final daily show before you retired, he said, it didn’t help. Fox is more powerful than when I started. It’s like it’s Dave helping or hurting trans people one percent one direction or the other.
Statistically, I’m gonna bet not. I can’t prove it, but they can’t prove that he is, you know what I mean. But it’s a good position to be like victimized by this comedian. But it’s like, yo, the whole thing was supposed to be about being funny, and then it became leadership. And the analogy I’ve been making is people complaining that snickers bars aren’t very nutritious.
No kidding, it’s a snickers bar. If you’re looking for leadership about any issue, why are people going, well, what do the clowns think? It’s insane? Rogan and other comedians on their podcast will defend themselves by saying we’re just comedians. Sean asked, how much do you think social media podcasting has blurned the lines for audiences in terms of thinking of comedians as purely as entertainers versus thinking of them as influencers.
That’s a great question, Neil said.
And then everybody asks this comedy under attack, and it’s like, no, it’s not…
It’s more like it’s all these questions of credibility, Like comedians are news anchors now, and that’s not because comedians are pretending to be news anchors. That’s because news anchors are topless on New Year’s Eve, or news anchors or you know, David Mrror is like a model. It’s like he looks like a fashion model. That doesn’t mean he’s not a good broadcaster, but I’m just saying the incentives of the structure, everything’s perverted.
And then people are turning into comedians, and then the news is trying to bl…
So the NIH’s total mangling of the COVID vaccine and mask roll out as Joe Rogan’s fault, and then you go, well, Joe needs to be No, he doesn’t. The minute Joe becomes a news thing, he’s not. It’s no fun. The whole thing is I’m just some guy. And here’s what I think.
And so many people liked him and appreciate the stuff he said that. It just had a huge following thought this was interesting too. Neil said, is Allen Degenerous nice? What did she give millions of dollars away to charity? Then yes she’s nice?
Is she hilarious? Then yes she’s nice. From the Daily Mail, a story about Tracy Morgan. There are a lot of N words in this one. I’m going to substitute in the word fella so I can roll through the story without having to stop and awkwardly say N word fifty times.
This from the Daily Mail. The headline Tracy Morgan’s former co star Bobby J. Thompson accuses comedian of bullying him on set for stealing scenes when he was just seven and Thompson was on comedy Hype News earlier in the week. He said Tracy Morgan accosted him when he was just seven years old during their time together on The Tracy Morgan Show, which ran on NBC in two thousand and three. Thompson is now twenty eight.
Thompson said, I remember being a kid on a certain set and the star of this certain project that I was working on. The fella got mad at me. I’m just a seven year old kid, just doing my job. Bro. He got mad at me, grabbed my collar and he was like, who the f is that on my sign?
My fella, that’s how he handled me, he said. Tracy Morgan told him to stop getting in scenes and hamming it up. The same fella turned around and did an interview and acted like it was all good, Like, oh yeah, if he’s stealing a scene and that’s what it should be. I only want to be the best, Thompson said, but fella, that’s cap That ain’t the truth. That ain’t how you felt for real, because you took me as a seven year old child and made me feel bad for doing my job well.
Thompson said Tracy’s criticism hurt him because he was only doing what he was learning from Tracy. That’s the cold part. He claimed. The experience has messed him up. He rained on a seven year old kid’s parade.
During the interview, Thompson had avoided mentioning the name of the actor. The interviewer guessed it was Tracy Morgan from the context clues. Then Thompson said, I ain’t ducking nothing. It’s Tracy Morgan. He says he has no bad blood towards Tracy, but the kid and me has still heard about that.
The grown man at me don’t give a damn. Tom Segoria has got another deal with Netflix. It’s a six episode dark comedy series that Segora will start in and produce. In untitled series, Tom Segora will serve as the narrator, will see him take the viewer through a series of vignettes in each episode. The twisted comedic sensibility of a stand up is the core DNA of the series where every story will unfold in a hilariously disturbing way only Tom Segora could imagine.
All right, twenty twenty five for that one. Gerrod Carmichael, who I’m just not interested in. He was on Andy Cohen’s show and they started talking about Gerrod’s foot fetish. Don’t care. Carmichael said, you know it’s new.
I’m really in a feat lately. It was taboo. Cohen said, yeah, because you’re sucking some feet on a grinder date in the first episode the show. Carmichael said, yeah, all in whatever. The La Times spoke to Chris Ostrata.
They had some fun banter about Twitter. The interviewer said, on Twitter, which is always what I referred to it as, not X. Astrata said, I joke around with that. I know Elon Musk bought Twitter and it’s called X, but it’s the only time I feel like an old person that doesn’t respect pronouns. I’m like, you were born Twitter and you will die Twitter.
I will not call you X. That’s a great joke, La Times. On Twitter, you posted about how standing at five eleven makes you a tall Mexican. What are some advantages of being a giant among your people, Astrata said, definitely, going to Northgate and reaching things other Latinos can’t. I joke about that because five eleven’s not tall.
But around a lot of Latinos that I grew up with, sometimes I was the taller one. I always joke around. If you’re over five eleven, you’re tall. But if you’re over five eleven is a Latino? You have Andre the giant disease.
The Times interviewer said, well, I’m six six in Mexican, so I’ll consider you my brethren. Astrada said, you have Andre the giant disease? Did you grow up by a nuclear plant? Gossup co Corner and on Gossip Corner, Amber Rose has set the record straight. She is not dating Chris Rock.
I don’t know why you think she was. They were seen out and about together in New York City, and she told Entertainment Tonight it was not a date. I’ve been friends with Chris Rock for like thirteen years. We met for coffee. We talked some crap to each other.
He made me laugh because he’s hilarious, and that’s our friendship, just friendship. It’s comedy festival time. Let’s see what’s going on at the various festivals. John, did you preload the Melbourne website? Of course not.
Maybe I’ll do that now while I tell you about Moontower at Moontower seven o’clock, Nicole Byer seven o’clock, Jeff Ross doing a lot of shows, Shane Gillis at eight, Joe Para nine thirty, Racial Bloom nine thirty, Let’s see. Hmm. Now I’m cheating because I already tape Saturday, so I know tomorrow I’m gonna say, let’s go see Shane Gillis. So let’s see Nicole Byer at seven and do Joe Parrett nine thirty has that sound? And at Melbourne let’s do some without clips today.
Laurence Driscoll’s show is called The Product Gay Sun. Prodigal doesn’t mean what you think it does, but Lawrence can’t explain it for you. He’s too busy sorting through flashbacks of growing up gay in rural Australia and escaping into the city as a gay refugee. Here’s hoping the healing power of laughter works. No reviews.
Oliver Hunter’s show is called Baby on Board. Oliver’s back and he’s at a massive year, he’s getting married, there’s a baby on the way. Is he ready? Absolutely not? Is he excited?
He’s working on it. Oliver’s laid back in the Conic style will have you rolling with laughter. Sceinster called it charming, witting and offering a perspective that doesn’t get much airtime. Rachel Taliney’s show is called Motion Sickness, car crashed, job sacked, bags packed? Did someone say Eurosummer?
Rachel lives her life in the fast lane, that is until a life changing car accident sends her into a fashionably early quarter life crisis. The result the trip of a lifetime baby hugging comedians said it was legendary one and a half stars. Theater thoughts said Tunney almost quite literally explodes onto the Melbourne comedy scene. The Australian Arts Review said, tightly wound original songs and rye asides and kicking off today until next Sunday, April twenty first, it’s the Dubai Comedy Festival. Two venues there, Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola Arena.
Roxy Cinemas at the Dubai Hills Mall will also host several shows, putting a spotlight on stars from the Egyptian Emmorati and South African comedy scenes. The Frank Skinner Show on Sunday, It’s been canceled, so if you’re heading to Dubai to see Frank Skinner, full refunds will be provided though, so that’s good. Catherine Ryan has been added to the lineup. She’ll play Dubai Opera tonight. She says, I’m a self author of my comedy, so I do talk a lot about my life and mistakes, but now I do have to consider more people’s feelings, Like I want to talk about my family and kids, but I don’t want to dunk on my husband constantly either, because I do plan to keep them around.
And with all that’s been happening in my life, I’ve pretty much checked out of comedy for a couple of years in the lef landscape change during that time. So the challenge for me now is how to still make self deprecating jokes and not be afraid of this new genre of comedy where people are scared of being canceled and very careful fortune Fiemster is taping her new special at the More Theater in Seattle tonight and tomorrow She’s described as affable, charismatic, and one of a kind. Richard Cervat has a new comedy album, They’re Gonna Know, that’s out on Blonde Medicine. They’re Gonna Know as an exploration of the modern world we live in, where trolls no longer live in caves but abound in in cell forms in the cloud. The Internet’s out of hand and Richard is not afraid to say it.
The album also tells the story of Richard buying three hundred bitcoins when they cost a dollar, so he must be a trillionaire, and spending them all on magic mushrooms. Oof. If the math is right, that was a seven million dollar trip. And that is your comedy news for today. On the weekend, Tomorrow’s a normal episode.
Sunday took a look at the updated Adam Sandler movie list. You know, he has forty seven films. Vulture ranked them and I commented, So that’s Sunday’s episode. Tomorrow is normal. See you then,