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Callarogashawk Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Oh man, some high risk poker here. Nikki Glaser dared invoke the name of Taylor Swift while performing comedy. You gotta be careful doing that.
I mean, one time Joe Coy did that, who did not go well. Nikki Glaser was at the SBS. Let’s listen. But I’ve actually been a huge fan of sports ever since I first watched Taylor Swift watch a football game. It really changed my life because now I know who Patrick Mahomes is.
I mean before I only knew him as that guy in the State Farm ads and based on his acting, I just assumed he was the CEO’s son. But truly, it is such an honor to present the award for Best Male Athlete. The nominees include peak athletes who push their bodies to the limit, and also a golfer. I’m sorry, Scotty, I do know that golfing is hard. I mean there’s putting, chipping, and driving over a CoP’s leg.
I mean, what I’m trying to say is that nothing will stand in the way of these incredible athletes in their pursuit of greatness. I mean except the Florida Panthers. But boy Connor, that must have hurt to lose a game of ice hockey to a place that doesn’t even have ice. For now, the only Stanley Cup Connor will get to hold is the one his wife asks him to grab out of the cabinet. But let’s get to it, because no one is more excited to find out the winner than me.
Well except for show Hayes interpreter, because he’s got a lot of money riding on this so good clip there by Nikki as she is riding high. Normally, I lead off with the late night jokes. There was one from Jimmy Fallon that I think illustrates the point I was getting into with Alex Bennett a days ago, nine days ago on this podcast, if you missed it, I interviewed Alex Bennett, who’s eighty four years old, and Alex doesn’t appreciate old jokes, and I said, I like a good old joke that’s not really about anything. Here’s one from Jimmy Fallon. This is what I’m talking about.
Joe Biden hasn’t seen this many people jump ship since he took that vacation on the Titanic. It’s funny. Is the Titanic a tragedy? Yes? From one hundred and ten years ago.
Was Joe Biden on the Titanic? I don’t think so. I’d have to check see the same thing there. It’s just a joke. It’s silly.
Obviously Joe Biden wasn’t on the Titanic. He’s not that old. It’s okay. You can make jokes about things sometimes. That Louis c.
K documentary came out to The Washington Post didn’t love it. They gave it two and a half stars out of five. I believe the New York Times had a similar mi review. Apparently the gist is people aren’t sure why we’re dusting this off again. The Washington Post did right.
Perhaps the most dismaying sentiment in this gloomy film is delivered by an anonymous comedy fan who apparently bought a ticket to watch Ck perform at Madison Square Garden last year. On camera, the young man explains away his guilty pleasure, saying with a shrug, everyone lives with a certain amount of hypocrisy, and this is the amount I’ve allocated for myself. Wow, this thing’s ninety minutes I wish it were just streaming somewhere. I would definitely watch it. I don’t know if I’m going to purchase it, but it’s on the video on demand.
Sam Morrill, did you watch it? A special from last week? That was pretty good? Unfortunately for me. One of Sam’s a big comedy influences where the movies of Adam Sandler Slam’s brother, showed me Billy Madison and I couldn’t believe it existed.
I was like, oh my god, this was made for me. Adam Sandler is so immature and outrageous. Then you grew up and you watch it as an adult and you love it for different reasons, or you watch it as an adult and you go, I can’t believe anyone likes this movie. Sam says one of the first albums that I really got into was Chris Rocks. I couldn’t believe it.
I thought it was so thoughtful and intelligent, even at a young age. I didn’t get all the jokes, but the ones I did get, I was like, Wow, Rodney Dangerfield reminded me of my grandpa, So I love Rodney Daingerfield. Back to School remains my comfort movie. Dam’s first set I drank four beers during my first stand up set. I was only on stage for like five minutes, so not good.
It was an open mic. I had a friend come with me, and he laughed at all my jokes. He was the only one laughing. It was pretty brutal, but I did feel good that I did it. I got over it.
I’d go into Barnes and Noble and just read joke books and I’d be like, Okay, that’s how you write a joke. I would study the structure. I can make my friends laugh, but it takes a while to figure that out on stage. One of my first jokes was my teacher told me I reminded her of a young Hemingway. I was like, why because I’m a good writer, and she goes, no, you’re an alcoholic who’s going to kill himself.
That is a pretty good joke. Sam says some of my jokes stunk, but I had a couple that were like, all right, not bad. If you don’t have any stories as a kid, you haven’t lived life. There’s nothing interesting that you’re gonna say. Friend of the show Scott Beckett, who’s probably very thankful that I didn’t play the Joe coy clip.
But there’s plenty of time left in today’s podcast, Scott, and it is a summer Monday, so it’s possible the show’s a little short. We’ll see what happens here. Scott sent over this clip of Jerry Seinfeld talking about manliness. I’ve always wanted to be a real man. I never may, but I really thought when I was that in that era.
Again, it was JFK, it was Muhammad Ali, it was Sean Connery. Howard goes hell, you can go all the way down there. That’s a real man going to I want to be like that someday. Well, no, I never really grew up. It’s that’s a I mean, you don’t want to as a comedian because it’s a childish pursuit.
But I miss a dominant masculinity. Yeah, I get the toxics, but still I like a real man. Jason Alexander, you know him from Seinfeld, pretty popular sitcom back in the nineteen nineties. He was talking about the George Costanza babblehead. Recently, the Yankees gave out eighteen thousand of these bobbleheads.
People bugged at Jason Alexander on social media about it and Jason tweeted, I’m so glad Bobblehead George was a fan fit. Nope, I don’t get anything for it except joy that thirty five years after putting on those glasses, people are still enjoying our work. The show was a gift from you to us. Thank you for keeping it alive. By the way, if you watch the early episodes of Seinfeld, Jason Alexander as George Costanza is how old?
He’s twenty nine? Yeah, twenty nine. I also learned if you watched the first season of Gilligan’s Island the Skipper, he’s forty three. Mister Howell, he’s fifty one. I could lose some weight, but compare to all that, I look pretty good.
Mackpacker and Mackpacker. Andy Samberg was on Kevin Hart’s A Peacock Show, which is called Heart to Heart. I’m gonna put Heart to Heart in the bobs Burgers category. Have you ever seen Hart to Heart? And have you ever met anyone who’s seen Hart to Heart?
I’m sure Peacock thinks it exists, and Kevin probably tells him that they film episodes, but has anyone ever seen this thing? Samberg said he left Saturday Night Live in twenty twelve to prioritize his physical and mental health, telling Kevin Hart, for me, it was like I can’t actually endure it any more, or physically and emotionally, I was falling apart in my life. He explained that the schedule for S ANDL involved working long hours to write for the live show while making new digital shorts weekly, and it became difficult physically. It was taking a heavy toll on me, and I got to a place where I hadn’t slept in seven years. It’s basically like four days a week, you’re not sleeping for seven years.
I just kind of fell apart physically. Brad Williams spoke to Trip Live and said a lot of people ask about a comedy career, and it’s kind of like when someone loses a lot of weight. Someone says, hey, had you lose the weight? They know the answer, but they’re hoping at the time you say, oh, I took this magical pill, woke up every day, kept eating junk food, kept not exercising, and all the weight just fell off and now I have a six pack. It’s kind of like that with comedy, when people are like, had you make it in comedy.
They’re waiting for you to tell them. Oh. I decided to be a comedian one day. So I went down and met with the vice president of show business and I said that I’d like to be a comedian, and they said, great, here are your jokes, here your tourity. It’s go be funny.
That’s not how it happens. It’s a long grind. I haven’t done the international stuff. In a minute. Over on Shortal, Tim harding under the headline you’ll struggle to find a better overview of what’s good in the stand up right now, Okay, let’s see what’s going on.
Tim headed over to the Actually Rather Good Comedy Festival ARG stands for Actually Rather Good Comedy Festival Torotal Rights. As usual, ARG gave us a roadmap for the fringe, highlighting some great new acts and building some buzz around promising shows. Here’s some of Tim’s favorites. Clown King John Luke Roberts is putting on a retrospective this year of all his previous shows. It wasn’t my favorite of his shows, but I love when comedians mount old work, and I’d love to see it happen more.
I’m guessing that’s more of a British Australian thing of where you’re doing more themed hours rather than I don’t know, do we want to see Chris Rock get up and do his greatest hits? Maybe we do want to see Chris Rock get up and do his greatest hits. Who knows. Lou Wall really bowled me over when I saw him for the first time last year. Lou Wall Versus the Internet was an incredibly full on multi media experience.
Their new show, The bisexuals Lament is even better, slowing things down to a rate where it can now be perceived by the human head and turning a genuinely horrific sounding year into a tragic comic musical epic. This is the most excited I have been about a new comedian in a while. All Right, Abby Wamba made a promising the impression with their work in progress. The first three minutes of seventeen shows. What a great eye concept for a debut hour.
It’s such a fun way to keep the show dynamic and entertaining when you’re regularly switching between my musical props and other styles of stand up. Milo Edwards new show Howard Volting Sorry to Offend once again using his family history as a jumping off point while launching into a rangy explanation of the British class system and hmm, a word I don’t want to say on the show. It’s like say you really enjoy something and then things get sticky that trying to keep the clean Now. Yesterday I was telling you about the Edinburgh Fritten shows that The Guardian was excited about, and I realized I shouldn’t read twenty in a row. Some of the shows are excited about Dan Tiernan’s stump.
I’ve seen Dan’s name a few times recently. I guess the Gorilla guys mentioned Dan on Saturday, didn’t They quite the debut last year from Dan, whose show going under raged at Tunan’s lot in life, gay but straight, seeming at odds with his sickingly nice stepdad. A Best Newcomer nomination followed, and so expectations are raised for his follow up. John tot Hill lies on a sofa, wearing zebra striped boots and holding a rose in one hand, a wineglass in the other, and looking rice surrounded by balloons. Teacher turned stand up made an impression at last year’s Fringe with an Unlike anything else.
Faux sermon on hedonism and transcendentdence through history. Camp Flirty and Delighted with Everything. John tot Hill returns with something to do with Biblical plagues.
Also from short Ole, Comedy club owners hit back after venues branded their c…
That’s right. The folks at Nottingham’s Just the ton Of Comedy Club are not happy at being named the second filthiest entertainment venue in the UK. Some reviews on trip Advisor found that more than one in ten visitors mentioned dirtiness in the comments. The only club dirtier is the Heaven Nightclub in London. In case you’re curious, some comments the floor is so dirty that my shoes stuck to it.
That’s half the bores that I spent my twenties in. However, that comment was left more than a decade ago, when the club was in another location. Club founder Daryl Martin told Chortle, all this report shows is how stupid trip Advisor is and how you can’t do anything with it, even years after change has been made. Analyzing reviews from twelve years ago and assuming they’re relevant today is similar to looking at photos of Britain in the seventies and saying that all British people today seem to have really long hair. Another visoner mentioned, despite the toilets being filthy and the hand dryer being broken, we had a good night.
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