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Caalorokashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. We have a new trailer from Nikki Glaser. Nikki Special will be out on Hulu on April twenty fourth. In her special, Nikki Glaser delivers a brutally honest take on aging, beauty, and fame, confronting what it means to stay relevant, desirable, and real in a culture that never looks away.
Here’s the trailer. I think the material is actually better than the trailer. I think they edited the trailer too tightly. Let’s listen. Thank you for being here, every single person in here.
You mean so much money to me. I am cleaning up tonight. I’m forty one. My career is going great now, but I know eventually Hollywood is going to kick me out because I’m gonna do something horrible like age Naturally, that’s me too. For women, every single woman loves good Girl, and guys don’t want to say it because they’re like, it sounds like I’m her dad, and it’s like, exactly, okay, just be my dad.
Down on your nies. It’s not a good sign when you tell your therapist something and they go to madge. I have sympathy for ugly people. I see you, and I don’t want to perfect go well. I do wonder sometimes because of my thoughts.
I’m like, am I a sociopath?
And then Chatchipt is like, no, queen, you’re perfect, and I’m like, you’re m…
Nikki was on Armchair Expert. She says having the means to change your appearance can make it harder to opt out. She says, I’m kind of obsessed with this thing of like looking a certain way gets you stuff in life, and how it’s unfair if you’re not just born gorgeous. But then now there’s this whole thing that you can become gorgeous with enough money. Now I was going to editorialize, and I guess I am right now that boy, that sounds horrible, But Nikki Glaser continued, said, this sounds so horrible, and I would hate listening to this if I were not financially doing so well.
But there’s a burden that comes with the money that you could do whatever you want to look the way that you’re like, I’m feeling because I’m not doing the BBL and the facelift and the lasers. This does not read well. Let me pull the clip. I’ll be right back. We got to hear Nicky say this, because this does not read well.
Hold on, okay, I’m back. I’m sorry. I tried. So. Apple Podcasts has transcripts, but you can’t search the transcript.
And this episode is one hour fifty four minutes. I just skinned it, and I can’t find the quotes to let you hear Nikki say it herself, but I can tell you as I scrolled through the transcript, it looks like it’s a pretty interesting conversation, so I’m looking forward to actually listening to it. Jumping back in, and Nicki said it’s hard not to wonder what more she could achieve if she met those beauty standards more fully. Nikki Glaser said, if you were prettier, think of what you could get. Because I don’t think my career and my success is based solely on my talent.
It’s based on looking good on TV too. Nicki said it’s unrealistic to ignore how much looks matter in the industry, because it works the hotter you are, the more you don’t have to work. That is true. I keep talking about this in the podcasting industry as we all debate the video podcast and all. And you’re listening to me right now, and I appreciate that you like it.
But at the end of the day, even if I like trick out a set here, I’m still a fifty six year old man somewhere between Troll and George Clooney reading comedy headlines. It’s not that visually interesting. And right now I’m wearing a gray hoodie, and what kind of baseball cap am I wearing today? I gotta take the headphones off to tell you I’m wearing my Tigers hat that my daughter got me when she visited Detroit one time. You know, so, NICKI glazers a little easier on the eyes than I am, especially this morning.
I digress. Dan Soder will have his first Netflix comedy special. He will tape it June thirteenth the throck Morton Theater in San Francisco. It is SODA’s first full Netflix special. He did have a thirty minute set on The Stand Ups in twenty seventeen.
He has a few other specials released on other platforms, not special on Comedy Central. Son of a Gary on HBO, Dan Soda on the Road on YouTube, so this is his first one on Netflix. The Chronicle caught up with the Gator Pete Corielly. I knew Pete pretty well. He was the co host of Jim Brewer’s radio show back in the series XMDS.
Pete hates the nickname the Gator, but I’m sticking with it. Jim Brewer gave it to him because Pete’s got big teeth and you never know when he’s gonna bite you, which is just the best description of the Gator. Pete said, I’m clean in the sense that I don’t talk about any kind of filth sexually, nothing offensive like that. But I’m gonna adulto drop an F bomb here and there just because I’m an adult. So I’m clean in the way most people are clean.
But you know, I curse. What am I gonna stop? It’s like these comics that don’t curse on stage, well, they stay at home and they’re stubbing their toe. They just go ouch, get the bleep out of here. I love Pete.
Pete’s fun guy, but he is the Gator. He will buy you. Oh, I’ll tell you a story I heard from listener, Chris. Chris likes when I tell the story. So we’re out in Aspen and we were staying at the comedy condo, so staying together.
It’s Me Brewer and Corey Ellie. Now we all know Jim’s public persona back in the day as a Storner, which is accurate. It’s Pete also enjoys some stuff and Johnny Mack lives clean. And Pete asked me to hold for him for a little while and I was like, all right, you know, I’m a cool guy. I could do that for you.
And then He’s like, nah, I was just testing to see how cool you were. So that’s Pete. Love Pete. He talked about Sebastian Manascalgo. Pete opens for Sebastian often, especially last year on the arena tour.
Coreyell He said, Sebastian’s fame is so beyond the podcast. It’s like sometimes when we’re playing arenas and he posts about the podcast, most of his fans don’t even know he has one. It’s the exact opposite, whereas all of my fans are podcast fans. When we started, he wasn’t famous, but he was getting popular. So doing all with him obviously put eyes and ears on me, which helped me in a lot of ways, because I’m not so great at self promoting.
It’s like not my thing. But through the years and the fact that we kept doing it, which is like fantastic, the podcast has become so much more. It’s a way that we come up with bits from talking to each other, and it’s almost therapy. Affecting so many people in so many different ways. It’s kind of mind blowing.
Pete will soon, if he hasn’t already, released a new stand up special on his Patreon. He said, I’m gonna put it out there first for free for all the loyal listeners, and then I’m gonna work from there. But truth be told, I didn’t even shop. It’s all these streamers anymore. Everyone in the industry has been telling me very few people watch a full special anymore.
They watched the clips. So the specials coming out, but more importantly, the clips will start dropping like hot flies soon, the guy recently said to me, and I thought this really summed it up. Bottom line, you go see Pete Coreley do a stand up comedy show. You’re gonna laugh all night long, have a good time, and no one’s gonna be offended, Pete said. I was like, oh perfect, I’ll tell you people are really wigged about this.
Byron Allen deal at CBS sold the eleven thirty and twelve thirty time slots to Byron Allen for his uh what is it even called? I don’t even care. No one’s gonna watch it and no one can. CBS doesn’t care. Instead of losing money at eleven thirty, they’ll make some money.
They don’t have to worry about it. Byron Allen fills two hours a night. Byron Allen is a smart dude. He’s made a lot of money in TV. He owns the Weather Channel.
He figured out how to make money whatever that comedy thing is called. It doesn’t matter who watches it. He’ll turn a profit on it. CBS makes some money. It’s all good.
You don’t have to watch you can hate. Has TV gone to hell? Yes? Has CBS gone to hell? Yes?
A CBS News gone to hell? Yes? Is the country crazy? Yes? So don’t worry about it.
Star trek Ruiner, Stephen Colbert Show is ending. Watch Folin or Kimmel, or watch Letterman clips on YouTube. Just don’t worry about it. People, continue to be upset that Louis C.K. Is headlining the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix.
Eliza Skinner wrote a piece I will use her headline, which was famous dix or just a tip of the problem. Eliza writes, I don’t know what to tell you. Should I tell you about the headliner who told me my breasts were too hot to be funny before even set a word, Or about the host of a comedy club who told the audience he’d love to smell my area after I got off stage. Should I tell you about the accompaniess you followed me home twice? Or the comedy theater that refused to stop booking us together.
Because these things always seem to happen to you, Eliza, Should I mention I was the only woman there? Should I tell you about the friend who got shoved in a wall by her boyfriend backstage in front of a crowd of silent onlookers, Or the friend who was told she was too unbangable. I’m cleaning us up to get past industry speak for being promoted through the tears of the clubs. Should I start with the friend who went public with her domestic abuse story while her male peers muttered about it helping her career. Or the friend who has been the victim of years of targeted harassment for simply talking about being a lesbian too much in her act, Isa Skinner continues, I fear none of the stories matter because none of them have famous penises in them.
But they are all part of the same, and I definitely want you not to lend me your interest to the famous penises. Look past the famous penises, They’re just the tip of the iceberg. Pun Fully intended. Skipping ahead, she writes, I’m angry for the women we’ve lost and whose work will never see. I’m angry with myself for every time I listen when someone called another woman crazy or difficulty, even though I knew it was code first she didn’t do what someone wanted.
I’m angry about all the times I’ve been called difficult or crazy by men who later privately apologized while doing nothing to help repair my damage reputation. I’m angry about all the things I didn’t know happened. I’m angry I have to think about this and to fight about it, and all I want to do is make jokes. Louis C.K. Headlining the Hollywood Bowl is part of the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival.
May fifth, dn n’t dn’t dn’t dn dn’t dn’t dnt dn’t Comedy stock Market. Wait, John, what happened to the comedy stock market theme? Well, dear listener, that is a great question at this particular minute. Now, hopefully I have a backup on the computer somewhere, but in this session that I use all the time to record Daily Comedy News, the track labeled stock is blank. Now I could go find it and put it in, but that’s not fun.
This is much more fun, all right, every week on the Comedy stock Market. Here is how this works, and I really need to do the disclaimer up front so you understand how this works. Much like on the real stock market, we try to find value. We buy low and we sell high. Because I’m gonna have a controversial stock pick in a second.
Here, we buy low, we sell high, we buy low. The idea is to find the value. We are not saying that these people are good or bad, and we are definitely not saying these are the most honorable people that we’ve ever met. Have you figured out where we’re going here yet, but we’re just trying to find value. So I’ve got to sell and three buys for you.
My sell is Nikki Glaser. I think we’re at peak Nikki Glaser, and I just feel there’s a track record of the Hulu specials not being so awesome. Maybe there’s a little value to be found as Nikki starts doing a lot of press for these next two weeks. But I feel like we should sell our Niki Glazer. If you want to scoop some up and sell it in a couple of days.
I don’t think you’re crazy, but I think I’m gonna cash out on Nikki Glaser’s stock. And here are my buys. Do you want the awful one first? Or third? Should I just get it out of the way.
All right, let’s get it out out of the way. We are going to buy louisk now, stop throwing tomatoes at me. It’s the comedy stock market. We find value. We’re at the bottom of ck and Netflix has decided it’s okay to bring him back in the fold, and he’s going to play the theater and we’re going to get a lot of press about him, and there’s gonna be think pieces saying how awesome he is.
There’s gonna be some think pieces seeing how horrible he is, and this is when you scoop up the value. So we’ll buy some Louis c. K. Let’s also buy some Dan Soder now that he’s got a Netflix special. If you know Dan, you know he’s fantastic.
He’s been around for a while. But there’s just something about that Netflix brand of the they’re just bigger than the others. And they put somebody in front of everyone and then everyone’s like, hey, do you know this Dan Soder guy, and the rest of us are like, yeah, for twenty years, but welcome to the party. Bell. So let’s buy some Dan Soder, and let’s buy some Gator.
Let’s buy some Pete Corioli. I like what we’re hearing from Pete’s and hopefully his new special and his clips do well. And he’s got a Sebastian Maniscalco halo around him, all right, So we’re gonna sell Nikki Glaser, We’re gonna buy Dan Soder, We’re gonna buy Pete Corey Elly, and you can get mad, but we’re gonna buy some Louis C.K. Jenny Zigrino is going to be recording a live taping of after Birth, her solo show described as an unflinching, darkly funny exploration of what it means to be an old self and painfully messily bring a new one into the world after Loss. She’s recording at the Brooklyn Improv May thirteenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty PM.
Have you been watching Jury Duty? Two company retreats. I love Dury Duty. The second one just feels like bad episodes of the Office. I tried two three times.
I just can’t get into it. So one bonus episode is The Reunion, hosted by James Marsden. The other is called The Meeting, which features season one’s Ronald the Guy that didn’t Know It was a show, and season two’s Anthony, the Other Guy that didn’t know it was a show, meeting up in an LA coffee shop for candid conversation about their unique shared experience, which is what you have at a coffee shop in LA where there are just happen to be cameras and lighting. It’s totally natural as the only two people have lived through this social experiment. They exchange personal stories and perspectives on how the experience has impacted their lives.
This reminds me to mentioned l uk I did finish it. Didn’t love the ending, to be honest, you had a week. But I do really love that show. And I keep playing around in my mind with what l ol USA would be like, and I just you know, it’s gonna be like Bert Krascher, And you know if they had a film with today, it’d be all the cool kids. It’d be like Mark normand Nicky Glazer now she’s too cool to do it now, Robbie Hoffman.
Robbie Hoffman will be in there. Then you need to like Wayne Brady just to like randomly mix it up and sing some songs and get people to laugh on that. Someday they will make lol USA. There’s a new comedy club in New York City, the green Point Comedy Club. It’s opening weekend kicks off at eight pm with a live comedy show followed by an opening party.
Were promised some of the coolest comics in NYC. And that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.