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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. NETFLX is announced we’re getting season two of Kevin Hart’s Funny AF with Kevin Hart. I personally think that’s good news as comedy competitions go. That was a good version of one.
Kevin Hart will return as host, which is good because it’s called Funny AF with Kevin Hart.
Also good news for the crew.
The show is up for Outstanding Reality Competition Program in the Emmys. Hart is also up for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program. You won’t get season two until twenty twenty seven. Chris Tucker wants us to know that he’s been celibate. I know you were like wondering.
You woke up this morning. You’re like, I wonder if Chris Tucker’s celibate. Well, the answer is yes. During a recent stand up performance in Las Vegas, Chris Tucker chose to tell the audience he’s been celibate from more than three years as he focuses on finding lasting love and marriage. Tucker said, well, I’m celibate.
I’ve been celibate for three years, but I’m really trying to get married. I give it to the love this time. That got a big laugh. Tucker then said, I’m serious. No one believes me.
According to Tucker, even members of his family didn’t believe him. He said of his niece, she believes in aliens, but she don’t believe I did that. Mark Marin said that Panic is the best special I’ve ever done. The last three specials are really culmination of the work that have done over the last forty years in terms of craft, ideas and things I like to talk about. There was a holistic approach to the material that integrated nicely with me moving through things and kind of repairing myself.
The whole production was kind of built around that idea, which is very poetic and I think elevated the special a lot. We live in a time when a lot of comedy specials aren’t that special because there are so many of them, but we were able to bring it all together with this. There’s definitely an arc in there. Look, it took me two years to really get that set up and together because I do like to devi it through line and right up to a day or two before recording. I decided to change the tone of the opening bit because I didn’t want to come out with the vibe of being stride and herself righteous.
I wanted to bring everybody in, not alienate them by posturing when I’m doing is special. I’m usually working with ninety minutes material and I try to get it down like seventy three minutes. That’s my number, you know. So I had two weeks to get panicked down to seventy three minutes, and all of a sudden, I’m pulling pieces out and fitting things together differently. You always shoot two versions, and both shows I landed right at seventy three minutes with no clock.
Mark was asked by golderby dot com if young comics ask him for advice. Mark said, I don’t feel like I’m being sought out for advice. I think a lot of younger comics may have gleaned a lot from the podcast. I know it did help people because we talked about it. They’re also up against a different business than what I was up against.
I don’t want to talk about how I feel about what’s necessary required to be a great comic, or trace how you’re on stage and build on that, but I really can’t speak to the business side of things. I think the platform business is lowering the bar. It’s about creating viral moments for popularity, and that doesn’t necessarily mean the quality of what you’re doing is great or that you’re fundamentally talented or charismatic.
Also think it makes comedy less special because it seems like everybody’s goi…
If you’re an old timer, you believe it’s a special type of art that starts a to diminish in quality in that kind of environment. I mean, the thought that I put into a special like Panicked wouldn’t be required anymore. And in that case, what do we really have? Everything becomes disposable in an hour or two, and I like doing specials at last with a certain degree. Deadline caught up with Jeff Ross.
They were curious how roast culture has changed since Comedy Central got into the roast game. Deadline said, ros have become a global phenomenon now that Netflix has become the de facto home for them. Ross said, I like that you say that they’re the home of roasting. That’ll make them feel good because that’s something they’ve tried to make happen and have now made happen. I like the size and scope of the roast.
Yeah, there’s certain things from the old days that I missed, but mostly that’s nostalgia. It’s sort of this niche thing on Comedy Central. Deadline jumped in and said the Comedy Central Rose certainly had a different feeling. Ross said, yeah, I got that, but it was also pretty body and a times controversial. I think it’s a spectacle now because we don’t have the White House Correspondence Dinner anymore, where comedians are roasting the presidents speaking truth to power, free speech.
The late night shows are getting dinged. I think the Roast it’s like the Purge once every year or two. Anything goes that. If you don’t like a joke, there’s another one coming in twenty seconds. The jokes permitted at the roast is like no other ship.
Oh and the fact that it’s up there now. Last year we got nominated at the Emmys, with the Oscars, the Tony’s, the Grammys, and the Super Bowl halftime show. So the Roast now, you can’t argue about the cultural relevance. Tens of millions people watched it, so it’s providing a service. Deadline said that the roasts are becoming an engine for minting comedy stores.
They mentioned specifically Nicky Glazer. Has that been cool to see? Jeff Ros said, it’s the best. It just delights me to no end. To note that the roast is like this launching pad.
Everybody who did this Kevin Hart roast is selling out now wherever they go. Everyone’s doing each other’s podcasts, and seeing how Nicky is soaring. It just fills me with joy. It really does. And this is an interesting note.
Deadline is a fan of bumping mics with David tell could we get more episodes? Jeff Ross said, it’s funny you said that. I have to be careful because Dave is so grumpy. But last night we stopped by the comedy seller and went up together for twenty minutes and he had me laughing so hard I was falling on the floor. So I want to do it.
It’s up to Dave. Robbie Hoffman tells people that Robbie Hoffman has not always been known as Robbie Hoffman. Someone in show biziness changed their name, says Johnny Mac, whose real name is John McDermott, but it’s easier to say Johnny Meck. No way. Apparently, Robbie was on the god Works podcast and explained, I’m born the name Rifka Sarah, so obviously when I got into comedy, Rifk is a very difficult name for comedians and people to bring me up, is it?
I mean, it’s not my name, but I don’t know. But uh, all right, we’re having a great show here. Let’s keep things moving. Give it up for Rifka Sarah. I mean, no, you can’t just do that.
I mean, I don’t care. Robbie Hoffman said, I’m just trying to do open mic. So when I look for a stage name, I wanted something familial. I just didn’t want to change my r initial and I went with Robbie. It just felt like a family name.
But my mother was horrified. My mother called me and she goes, it’s a beautiful Jewish name, Rifka. I’m not calling you, Robbie. Rifke is such a beautiful name. What are you ashamed?
I said, Ma, you think with three seconds of me being on stage, they’re gonna be like, I wonder if she’s Catholic. That is hilarious. Janelle James is developing a new comedy series at Hulu. It’s titled Rock City. In Rock City, we would follow a woman, presumably Janelle James, who returns to her hometown in the Virgin Islands after she inherits a local tourist trap from her estranged father.
According to the log line, she quickly realizes that she’s been left much more than a simple beachfront bar and grill. Isn’t that kind of the first act of the Margueritaville Musical? Alrighty? Remember in the finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by the way, do you miss the show? Do you do?
You? No? Really do you? You don’t? You moved on?
But anyway, I remember when he played the Linus and Lucy composition and made a joke that CBS was going to have to pay for it. Well, apparently CBS is going to pay for it, but the Lee Mendelssohn Film Productions Company said they will donate the proceeds to Chef jose Andre’s World Central Kitchen, which is a nonprofit organization that provides meals throughout the globe during various crisses. In the case of the Late Show incident, Lee Mendelssohn Film’s production chairman, Jason Mendelssohn noted LMFP found the music’s use on the Late Show funny and entertaining, and is proud to support World Central Kitchen’s mission. A principal goal of our enforcement actions is to educate individuals, businesses, and government entities about the needs to obtain written license agreements to use music in a commercial setting. And from The Toronto Guardian, they caught up with comedian Beta Judaki Bita.
How would you describe your comedy style? She said, people have told me my style is playful, silly, surprising, dark and maybe too honest. Favorite shows growing up Seinfeld, The Simpson and Friends. Did I say friends? I did?
Didn’t I now I could edit that out, but I said friends? What’s friends? Friends? Is? That’s not even a queen’s accent?
Friends? I don’t know. Her favorite shows were Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Friends. Beta says, I think I based a lot of my personality slash early comedic choices on Lisa Kudro. Favorite comedian now she listed Tignisaro, Devergi, Giovanni, Robin Tran and Kate Burlant.
Pre show ritual nervously drink too much water at pea a lot. I’ll try to watch the comics before me, so I understand the inside jokes that have already been made with the audience. That’s smart. That is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.
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