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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the Golden Globes or tonight your host Nikki Glaser. No, she’s a Tailor Swift fan. Do you think she’ll make a joke about Taylor Swift? Because last year Joe Coy did that it didn’t go so well.
Nicky said, I’m absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television. Now I get a front row seat. Actually, I think I have to host from the stage. The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy.
It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked. Except for Taylor Swift. Of course, it’s an excitingly challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars who might also be getting wasted wh’ll seated next to their recent exes. Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues where Tina Amy or Rickey have said exactly what we all didn’t know. We desperately needed to hear.
I just hope to continue in that time on her tradition that might also get me canceled. Vulture writes, we hope, for Glazer’s sake, the Taylor Swift makes happier faces at this year’s set than she did at Joe Coy’s. Now, I feel like Johnny Mack, Why do you keep mentioning Joe Coy? What did he say about Taylor Swift? Here?
Let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it’s just where to go to.
That could possibly be the last time I play that clip, you know, but it probably won’t be. Ted Danson will receive the Carol Burnett Award. The Globe has said dance and has entertained audiences for decades with his iconic performances that will forever be ingrained in television history. My wife was recently talking about Ted Danson and how he’s really good. You remember him as Sam Malone and then you see him in other roles where he’s not Sam Malone at all.
Great job there, I guess in terms of this program, the most interesting category for us will be Best Stand Up Comedian on Television. The nominees and these are all comedy specials. My former co worker Jamie Fox, what had happened? Was Nikki Glaser for Someday You’ll Die, Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Adam Sandler, Love You, Ali Wang Single, Lady romy USF’s More Feelings, Johnny mack is going with Adam Sandler. I know times have changed, right, or comedy’s gotten really terrible, probably the latter.
I mean, if you’re giving me a list and a picking Adam Sandler, what has happened? Josh Blue told CPR dot Org. No, that’s not you know, a website dedicated to resuscitating people. It’s public radio. And he told those guys what’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely.
Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or my brain puts a new connection together. He says, I’ve never written anything down physically. It’s just kind of all off the top of my head. So it’s basically whatever happens in my life in that timeframe. CPR was like, wait, does that mean you’ve lost jokes?
Josh said, oh, I probably have three specials worth of lost jokes. They were curious. So they’re sacrifices for comedian who lives in Colorado, say New York, Chicago, LA, and I’ll throw in Austin there, Josh says. For me winning last Comic Standing in six I was living here and it just skyrocketed me onto the national scenes. I never had to go to LA or New York to get discovered, and then I just became a touring comic and I’ve been doing two hundred shows a year since I don’t drive, so LA is not good for a non driver.
What I did miss was getting to Rubebbels with a bunch of other headlining comics. I missed going out to the comedy store on a Monday, when all the comics come back from tour, just this comic jamboree of Who’s Who? So I missed out. I’m maybe getting on people’s podcast just because they don’t know me from that scene. But my kids are in school, I don’t really have the opportunity to go do that right now.
Maybe later in my career, once they’re off to college, I can go do more of that. But it’s not like they don’t know who I am. They just don’t think of me right away. When a TV sitcom comes up and they’re like, oh, we need a character, I’m just not on their radar. Nick Swartzen got a little serious.
He said, I hate that I can’t eat a lot of food. I wish I could have ten meals a day. When I was younger, I’d eat everything, chicken, wings and ice cream Sundays. Sounds like me watching football on Sunday. So one day when my friends Adam Saydlor asked me how old are you now?
And I said twenty seven. He goes, how you eat is all about to change, you told me when he was twenty seven, his metabolism shifted. He’s like, joy what you’re doing right now, because it’s not gonna last. And all of a sudden I looked up and I was like, do I have a gut? Now?
I can’t eat anything. I ended up getting diabetes, so I can’t have sure he drinks either. The Guardian took a look at people who impersonate famous people. Tim Oliver dresses up as David Brent from the UK Office Brent Surrell as Gareth Keenan, also from the UK Office. The Guardian writes, I’m waiting for David Brent outside a mall.
Suddenly there’s the star of the office, stretting through the exhibition center, suited, booted, goatet and ready to rock. Shoot, he says, while making a gun with his fingers before doing an awkward shuffle of his tie. Look closer, though, and it’s clear that this isn’t Brent as performed by Ricky Gervaiz, but by someone else entirely. Tim Oliver has been performing as David Brent for twenty years now. Before that, he ran an events business in Sussex, but his face was calling out for a new career.
Tim says, it took me a good eighteen months to come to terms with the fact that I looked like him, like this weird, awkward boss who just wanted to be loved. People started coming up to me all the time, so I just thought it’d be criminal not to do something with it. He took some photos, sent them to a lookalike agency and booked a gig. He said, I was there for about three hours. It’s just mucking him out.
I thought to myself, that was a lot of fun and the easiest money I’ve ever made. He’s hugely in demand for birthdays, bachelor parties, corporate events. He not only looks like David Brant, he has his mannerisms and lines, and his voice is pitched perfect. He explains, I ripped audio off the DVDs and played it in my car everywhere I went. I drummed it in to myself.
People that have never met me before are always ask is that your real voice? Sometimes it’s kind of like I’ve lost my own identity. Maybe I’m not Tim anymore. I’ve become David Brent. It’s kept me going for twenty years, and I’ve got four kids, a nice car, and nice house.
Fortunately, he is able to turn his other persona off. He says, when the ties on, I’m in Brint mode and ready to work. But a minute the tie comes off, I’m back to being Tim. When Brent, it’s like I’m wearing armor. It’s almost like a superhero suit.
If I make a mistake, it’s fine because that’s what Brent would do. He often gets booked and teamed up with Brett, who plays Gareth. If we get booked for a gig in a pub, it could take half an hour just to get through the room. Oh, this gets even more fun. Oliver says, I was asked to do a porno.
Someone wanted to make an office the porno film. He passed. That’s got to exist, right. I would look it up for you and tell you, But then my wife’s gonna be like, wait, what are you doing in the basement, And I’ll be like, I’m recording my comedy podcast, what do you think of doing?
And then I’ll have to explain why I googled office porn.
You can do your own research. Fake David Brent said, I did a wake once, which was my first and last. These young lads convinced me to do it for their maid who had died. My job was to go up to the DJ, grab the mic and sing free Love Freeway. So I go up in the family are just staring at me.
I took the mic off the DJ and went straight into pretty Girl in the Hood of a Cadillac Yeah, and started singing. Then I did a mic drop. It was horrible. I will never do another one. You’re at a wake, that’s not meant to be.
Wow, that’s amazing. Enjoy the Golden Globes and I’ll see you tomorrow.