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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidley Ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Malaney Salk Show is live tonight, but I’m gonna talk about that in a second. I think there’s an even bigger story.
Netflix has announced a relationship with Tony Hinchcliff. They’ve ordered three Killed Tony comedy specials, as well as a new stand up comedy special from Tony. First Kill Tony. Netflix will tape at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas and stream on Netflix April seventh. In a statement, Tony Hinchcliffe said, myself and our entire crew of Austin comedians, peers and upcomers are excited for the opportunity to share our chaotic, insane show with a whole new chunk of the globe.
It all started in a room in the Comedy Store with twelve audience members and barely anyone watching. In twenty thirteen, After world tours and seven hundred plus Monday releases on YouTube, it seems the persistence is paid off.
And now to think that I can pull a name out of a bucket and that person will …
Is both exciting and frightening. It’s the most spontaneous, improvised show that’s out there. The great freedom given to us by Netflix so you keep the show in its pure form is a comedian’s dream and we can’t wait to Netflix and kill I see what you did there, Tony Hinchcliff. That’s really exciting, both as a comedy fan and a podcaster, just to see something go from like an idea and now this is that. It’s a loaded word, but I use it on purpose.
Establishment to kill Tony. This is it, Tony. You’re no longer an outsider. This is no longer some little show where we’re just doing our thing. You are now establishment.
Kill Tony, and I’m not saying that’s bad. I will do establishment Daily Comedy News. Netflix, write me a check. I’ll be there. I’ll even wear a tie.
But I’m very happy for it. Tony and the Gang. What a great show. Kill Tony if you’ve never checked it out. Okay, John m’laney, Netflix crushing it.
John m’laney, tonight. Sorry that awkward pause there was Are we having an earthquake? I can’t tell if it was that or if my boiler were super loud. Anyway, by the time you hear this, you’ll know if there was an earthquake yesterday. I’m leaving that in.
Where was I? Boy? That was distracting John Mulaney. He’s live on Netflix tonight, ten East seven West. John is making the press.
He was on CBS Good Morning. It seems like once you make the establishment, I’ll keep using that word today. You go on CBS this morning. Is there a big overlap with stand up comedy and CBS This Morning or is somebody over there who books the show just into it. It just seems like, hey, John Mulaney wants to get the word out, I’ll go on CBS this morning.
Just seemed like a disconnect to me. Maybe Gaff can put a bug in his ear. Who knows. I pulled a few clips. No, now, slowly and thoughtful.
Mulaney is speaking in these clips, and this first clip he talks about his early career. Yeah, there were some early times where it wasn’t so much that the audience wasn’t with me. I didn’t know what I was putting out there. You know, you grow up watching a ton of comedy and I’m sick but I’m not contagious. By the way, for all your viewers, you grew up watching comedy, and there were so many styles I liked, and so many comedians I liked, from like early radio to Chris Rock, the Simpsons, Cone and everything.
So I just had no sense of what I even wanted to do myself, except that I wanted to be on stage doing stand up. But I didn’t know if that meant George Carlin or Stephen Wright or George Wallace or what. So I remember kind of trying out ways of being and many of those falling flat. I’d say, not to be corny, but I’m obviously I’m still figuring that out, and it’s a very kind of obvious lesson. You just kind of a presenting some heightened version of your most authentic self is what works, and your most authentic self might be like strange, cryptic one liners, like, it’s not like you have to be confessional or anecdotal about your life in order to be authentic.
Next up, some of John’s influences. It is interesting choices here, and a little bit about his look. We’ll talk about more about his look in a second. I really like people like Spaulding Gray. I really like Geene Shephard.
I really like storytellers, and George Carlin had a lot of that too, like his Irish Catholic boyhood and stuff like storytellers who get into the get into interesting personal details that are singular to them. They’re not saying to the audience, this is your life. They’re saying like, this is my life, And when presented in a certain candid way, it’s so disarming. People really see their own lives in it. I liked that a lot.
But I also liked Bernie Mack and Deaf Jam and big personality comedians and really forceful performers like Paul F. Tompkins, who were like wears like three piece suits and is still telling personal stories that way. So I wanted the presentation of a deaf Jam comic with sort of the nuanced person stuff of a Spalding Gray. And one more time, here’s John Mliny talking about where the suits came from. I did a show at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta, really fun club there, and I was wearing a checkered button down shirt and jeans, and there were five opening comics because there’s a great local scene there, so five people were on the show before me.
They all wore the same thing as me, a checkered shirt and button down jeans. Everyone in the audience was dressed like that, and I remember thinking, I’m twenty seven. There’s no reason I should have the microphone except that in this you know, con job of entertainment, I’m declaring that I’m the headliner, and I thought i’d like to look like the headliner, and I’d like to look like the entertainer for the night. So no matter where you’re going, you’ve gotten a sitter, you’ve paid the cover charge, you’ve gotten your dog created and medicated, whatever you need to do to go out for the night. And as silly as it may be, and as sort of maybe corny as it may seem in you Know twenty eleven, like I’m gonna wear a suit because I’m the entertainer for the night.
And also it’s a bit like I have to take charge of the room. Nothing I’m saying is important, so I have to act like it is. Malane eats Old CBS. He likes doing the show live because I feel like there’s more at stake. I love it.
It’s the best. The host asked, is it a feeling like coming against a cliff and dangling over it, and Melanie said, no, it’s dangling over it all the time. It’s a fun feeling to know that hopefully a lot of people are watching and it’s live globally with no delays, and you could really damage your career. That’s funny. John and the CBS crew went shopping to Amba Music in Hollywood and was asked, you know when you come to a place like this to people leave you alone.
Ma’lanie said a little bit. My joke is thought, I’m like Lewis Firechon, I mean a lot to a small group of people. The topic of John sobriety came up and does he think about it every day? M’laney said, well, that’s a good question. I don’t think about cocaine opioids in some big word Benzo ds Speren every day.
I’ll acknowledge that I understand the vigilance I need. I don’t think about it every day. I just don’t. I do think about the ways I can lead my life to perhaps never feel the kind of strain that got me there. So yeah, sobriety maybe being like a bigger term than just abstaining from the chemicals.
I definitely think about that every day. John joked about the division of labor in the house. He said, my wife and I just welcomed a baby girl into our family. My wife takes care of the five week old and I take the two year old. That’s not an equal distribution of labor at all.
Saying you have a five week old, I’ll take a two year old. That’s like saying I’ll transport this convict across state lines. You hold a potato Cool move by Josh Johnson this Romanja dot com. Josh noticed a trend during ticket sales for his comedy tour. Resellers were buying up tickets and inflating the cost, forcing fans have to pay big time prices to go to a show.
He didn’t like that, so he decided to do something about it. He said, today I refunded over nine hundred tickets to one show. A venue contacted me and told me the day they went on sale that they believe a lot of blocks of tickets were sold to resellers. One of the things that really bothers me on this tour is all of you trying to buy tickets and finding out they’re sold out and the resale price is astronomical. Please don’t pay more than the intended price of these shows.
I would rather have empty seats than any of you pay a lot more for tickets. I’m trying to add in as many shows as I can and we’ll come back to your city soon enough. Thank you for being patient with me as I figure this whole thing out. He included a screenshot from stub hub showing a one hundred and forty nine dollars ticket that was brought back down to fifty nine to fifty after being relisted for the original price on ticket Master. Josh said, all these tickets in Newark that were sold to resellers and now vailblel again so friends can purchase them at the intended price.
The intended prices range from thirty nine to fifty to fifty nine to fifty. Josh advised fans to join waitless at Josh Johnsoncomedy dot com to be notified when he adds more shows, and said thank you for all being patient with me as I figured this all out. That is awesome, great job out of him. A lot of buzz on him. He’s putting out a lot of material, keeping an eye on Josh Johnson.
Bosston dot Com reported the tailor, Solon said noted how young her crowd was. Taylor is thirty one. Now. She noticed some of the audience members were kids, and shared a video of the exchange on Facebook and wrote in the caption, apparently my matinee show in Boston was a middle school field trip. Tomlinson said to an audience member, you don’t know about Noah’s Ark?
Oh my god, are you serious? You’re twelve? Oh f you’re twelve? What are you doing here? You should not see my stuff before Noah’s Ark?
Are you here with a parent? This is your mom? Oh my god, you have the coolest mom alive. I’ve only had like a few twelve year olds ever seen me live, And every time I gotta go back to church, gotta clean it up. This isn’t good.
A voice from the crowd yells, I’m eleven, Taylor, you’re eleven. F If there’s a ten year old here, I’m walking off eleven. You shouldn’t be here. You should be at home waiting for your Hogwarts letter. What the f?
Another person yelled out, I’m thirteen, Taylor said, Thirteen’s fine. You shouldn’t have how the world works. I’m not doing any more afternoon shows. I didn’t know y’all were gonna treat it like daycare. I thought this was a fun, sexy brunch crowd.
I didn’t know we were coming here instead of the park. Hilarious Chelsea Handler in Austin. Let us know that she isn’t going to have sex with Elon Musk. She asked the crowd. He means, did anyone vote for Elon Musk to be the president?
I mean, can’t we come together, Republicans, Democrats and say we don’t want that. Can’t we agree on that at least, you know the first Trump presidency for instance, I let it take me down, I let it steal my joy, and I’m not going to do that again. It’s the power of being optimistic in the dark and not going down a wormhole. Then the host asked Chelsea would she date Elon Musk and try to persuade him away from the dark side? You know, Chelsea Handler once stated Joe Coy, who hosted the Golden Globes and till just a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.
But I’m not going there today. Scott Beckert relax I got to beat in over the weekend. I don’t need to do it again. Chelsea said, there’s a lot I would do for the country, but having sex with Elon Musk is not one of them. I can’t.
I like a variety of men. I like men in my life. I’m not a settled down kind of girl. Apparently, Leslie Jones had an awesome time at ae W Wrestling. She was at Revolution twenty twenty five, which was live streamed on Amazon.
Fans noticed how enthusiastic Leslie was. One wrestling fan observed on social media hate to be the one that paid five hundred to be sitting behind her. Another wrote too, that was on the other side of the arena and up the stairs and could still hear her screaming. That woman was thirsty. A Leslie Jones fan said she’s perfect for us late.
I hope she’s enjoying herself. Folks in Houston who went to see Matt Rife over the weekend got a surprise opener. Mo a Mare showed up said it, Paul Wall Mo did a short set. Paul Wall did a short rendition of the hit song Grills. Did you watch Deli Boys on Hulu?
Yat I powered through that that is a massively entertaining I recommend from me. They did some fun marketing for it ahead of the release. They drove around with a Deli Boy’s food truck. Well, not the people in the show, the marketing people. Joe Ortiz this SVP of Marketing at Onyx Collective, and he said in a statement, Deli Boys is truly anything but expected, and our campaign had to follow suit.
We created a bold, in your face campaign that was disruptive and above all fun. They did a block party with a branded storefront in New York with free chai and appearances from the cast.
Meanwhile, La Bagel Shop Yeastie Boys Love That had a Deli Boy’s food truck w…
If you’re on Sunset Boulevard, you’ll see a forty foot billboard, and if you’re in New York City over by Penn Station, you’ll see a three D billboard. It is a good show. I hope people check it out. The Traveling Deli was in New York at Union Square on February twenty sixth. It stopped off at south By over the weekend.
It’ll be in Chicago on the sixteenth for the Saint Patrick’s Day River Dying Festival. Wheretiez said the campaign was designed to mix crime, comedy and culture and away never seen before. What a great quote. It allowed for bold, creative, grounded and cultural relevance that endeared audiences broadly and represents community authentically. Melaney Tonight, ten East, seven West.
See you tomorrow,