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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser spoke to you WGDH about her current level of fame. It’s cooled off a little bit, she said. She’ll explain.
It seemed to be like a super Bowl kind of event where everybody was watching meeting the Tom Brady Roast, and I was very famous for like four days. I couldn’t go anywhere. People were stopping me anytime I walked up and down the street. Then the attention dissipated and it went back to normal. It was really lovely.
I really love the level of fame I’m at where it’s like people recognize me and they’re really tickled by it. Funny line here, my spray tanner girl will be spray tanning me and I’m fully naked in front of her, you know, bent over and she’s like spring my butt cheeks and she’s like my boyfriend and I are such huge fans. Like that’s a cool thing that I get to give you. What a nice little gift. Interesting here too, she talked about the order of the roast.
I don’t even know who I am at roast. I don’t really relate to that person. I’ve become like possessed and lose all sense of decency. I think I disassociate I really did I have a job to do. I feel a little bit like an assassin, like I can’t have empathy.
Kelsey Cook tells Fox News. I think people are starting to get more of their political information from podcasts because I think people want to feel like they can trust the interviewer more, and oftentimes podcasters are people who present it’s just like I’m one of you. Especially if it’s a comedian, it feels very like this is a person who’s just like us. I mean, yeah, yes and no. I guess they’re presenting that they’re just like us.
Do a little research. A lot of these comedian, especially the ones with the bigger podcasts, are living quite large anyway, Kelsey says. This podcaster isn’t another politician or maybe a news anchor that we don’t necessarily relate to as much, and so I think that’s kind of why people have turned more to podcasts for not just feeling like they trust the host more, but also it’s like a very different interview environment. I think the things that are being talked about are’s just a little more laid back, feels like potentially a more authentic interview than on a major news source. I do think the comedies become more free medium.
I think more than ever, people have been able to find their own fan base and it doesn’t necessarily have to be like you don’t have to be everyone’s cup of tea. I think it’s becoming very free where people can kind of do what they want, want, say what they want, and their fans will find them. John Appatow was working on a documentary about Norm McDonald. He’s looking for unique photos or videos of Norm. If you’ve got anything, they want you to send it to them.
I’ll give you the email address in a second. I know normally you don’t listen to the podcast with a pen and paper. You could hit pause, you know, that is the thing you could do, Or you could hit rewind. John, why don’t you just tell them the email address? Now, now that you’re talking out loud and you realize they could just hit pause, you don’t have to give them time.
This isn’t radio. You’re right, listener, Okay. That email address is one word, Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com. Don’t forget it’s Norm MacDonald. You know people like me say Nor McDonald, but it’s Norm MacDonald N O R M M A C D O N A L D d oc at gmail dot com.
Appatow on Instagram said, we need your photos and videos of Norm McDonald for a documentary we’re creating for Netflix. So if you happen to have anything you think might be helpful, please email us at Norm McDonald doc at gmail dot com, or just tell us your favorite Nor moments. That’s a lot of fun. John Lovett’s told Fox Business he likes what Douge is up to, not the coin the government thing Elon’s doing. Lovett said, I think it’s a good thing.
Here’s the money coming in, and here’s the money going out, and if the money going out is astronomical and way above what’s coming in, like crazy. And if everybody would look at this, if you haven’t seen it, you’d be shocked. There’s tremendous waste and they’re finding it, and I think that’s a good thing. Eli Times asked Russell Peters if he still enjoys touring and playing arenas. He says, it’s what I do.
I also still love it, and I’m really lucky let’s be honest. The industry doesn’t pay attention to me. They’ve never been there for me. But every show I’m doing sells out, whether it was the Beacon Theater in New York or where I am in Texas or coming back to Los Angeles. I wonder why I even cared about the industry, But that’s your ego.
That is true. He has quietly been a huge worldwide act for twenty years now. But you don’t really hear about Russell Peters. I always sat with him in a show in was it Montreal? China?
Is one of the jfls. It was a Frank Calando show, and he was cool. I met him other times when I know that night he was totally chill. Anyway, the La Times ass Russell has his work evolved over the years, and he would redo any jokes he wants told. He said, I’d probably articulate them better and choose different angles.
When you start off you take the obvious road, then you need to start finding alternate roots. You become your own ways, determining don’t want to go this way or that way to get here? You figure out what wordying makes this joke concise? How to economize with words instead of over talking like I’m doing right now. And I don’t focus as much now on my parents and their immigrant culture clash, because as you get older and life happens, you start getting other things to deal with.
When I was younger, I had no other life experience other than dealing with racism and different cultures and all that stuff. Then you get married a couple times and you have a couple of kids, and your views on everything start to change. You also develop an ability to get more honest about who you were. It’d be more vulnerable on stage and take more chances. Years ago, I said I’d never touch on religion or politics, But I have some religion and politics in my act now because it needs to be spoken about now.
Everybody wants to be vocal about their beliefs, and everybody wants to be right. But nobody’s right with religion. They’re all wrong. All your imaginary friends are wrong. This imaginary doesn’t like this imaginary friend, and the book told them that this is theirs, and that book told these other people that it’s there.
So they’re killing each other over something they have no proof of. None of it is real. Somebody needs to tell you your face. You’re out of your effing minds. There’s not an ounce of proof involved in any of this stuff.
But when I do international shows, this is interesting. I can’t always talk about being atheist. In some places it’s illegal and you get killed for that, so I’ve got to be cognizant of that. We have a date for Matteo Lane’s special on Hulu. It is called the Aldente Special.
It’ll be on Hulu Friday, May sixteenth. That is the seventh original special in Hulu’s Hilarious Comedy slate. One of the great mysteries of the world is how you get in touch with a Hulu publicist and get them to come back to you. You can go to the Hulu website and make a perfectly nice request. They won’t get back to you.
You can hit them up on LinkedIn and go like, hey, I’m a nice guy, have a comedy podcast, and they won’t get back to you. So occasionally you see something of the news and you report on it and help Hulu promote Hilarious anyway we’re told, but tal Lane’s comedy is like catching up with your old friend at brunch. In his latest special, he shares a glimpse into his travels, unique family background and friendships. He also has a comedy cookbook coming out on April first. That one, titled Your Pasta Sucks.
Your Pasta Sucks, features recipes rooted in serious pasta knowledge but presented with his signature snirky and sassy wit. Indy Wire caught up with Seth Green Robot Chicken turning twenty. Seth said, we didn’t set out to make a show, and especially weren’t intending to make a show that was going to last a long time. My partner Matt and I were trying to figure out how to just make animated sketch comedy shorts using toys. Though that was really fun.
We’ve been lucky enough to do the show for over such a length of time that we’ve been able to figure out a lot of things. Technology has improved in terms of the camera we can use, the computers we can use. We figured out how to make our puppets easier, and how to build sets that we could reuse over time. We’re able to just build new systems or take advantage of new technology to be able to make something at the rate and pace for the price that they were giving us that we needed to. As for modern times, Seth says, we’re definitely aware of the fact that a lot of people could beat us to air with a joke.
Our show takes about a year to really get it from script to screen, and somebody can just shoot something on their iPhone, So we really have to make sure that our jokes are not the joke that everybody else is. Thinking. Of the last new episodes of Robot Chicken we’re in twenty twenty two, Seth says, I could say with a bit of certainty that I don’t think we’ll ever do a whole season of Robot Chicken. I don’t think we’ll ever do another twenty quarter hour episodes. What I do expect we’ll do is continue to make half hour specials that are dedicated to a specific property.
And a big reason of that, Seth says, Adult Swim has become less and less important to the business Daddy, and in medical news, doctors are experimenting with prescribing comedy over antidepressants. Okay, there’s a tech company. They’re titled crack Health. I got a comment on that. Hey, crack Health, you’re gonna need another name if you’re gonna do business in the States.
So cr C is Irish slang for we had good fun. So you know that makes sense. But when you come over here to New York City and you’d be like, hey, crack health, you are implying a whole other thing, my friend. Anyway, crack health, which is just fun to say. They’ve secured funding from the National Health Service to work with doctors to begin prescribing comedy and stand up shows instead of antidepressants.
Doctor Simon Offer is also a member of Parliament. Doctor Opher says, I’ve particularly specialized. I’m laughing at the Opher because now I’m thinking of Captain Over in the Airplane movie and my mind is going over under Roger Roger Roger. By the way, do you like movies about gladi eaters? Doctor Opher says, I don’t make myself laugh.
That wasn’t even funny. YouTube comments are gonna kill me it for that one, all right. Anyway. I’ve particularly specialized in using the arts to make people better, so that could be poetry, visual arts, where sometimes even drama, and I’ve also used things like gardening. I’ve prescribed allotments to people and that sort of thing.
But this is the first time that we’ve tried comedy. That’s what’s exciting about this. The founder of Crack Health is Lou Jackson, and Lou said that comedy is a cortisol decreaser, dopamine producer, potent releaser of serotonin, dorphins and good neuropeptides. You know that front part there almost reads like a musical lyric, right, get a little beat behind and go Cortisol decreaser, mean producer, saratonin releaser. You know, maybe somebody with some rhythm could execute that.
Doctor Lou Jackson says, going to one comedy workshop, or going to one stand up comedy event, or having a comedian come in and teach kids how to improvise and giggle themselves. It’s got an effect for twenty four hours. And surely that’s better than prescribing antidepressants. And that, my friends, is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow