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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser has seen Taylor Swift nine times and spoke to the Spokesman dot com about it. Nicki said, seeing Taylor Swift it’s part of my self care. Her show’s an antidepressant for me.
I feel amazing during and after her concert, so it’s worth it to me. I’ve been judged by people close to me for going to so many shows, nine’s and not a lot. You know how many times I’ve seen Springsteen, But some people spend this amount of money on sporting events. I go to see Taylor Swift since she brings me the most joy in the world. Aside from my nieces and nephews.
Ah, they’re all hooked like I am. If you see Taylor alive, once you get it, I’ve seen Taylor once I get it. Nicki spent fourteen thousand dollars on a front road ticket, not me sixty bucks upper deck. Glazer says it sounds crazy to spend that much money on tickets. Yes, it does, but I don’t own a home, I don’t own a car.
I don’t spend money on my It was worth it. I was in the front row. I cried. I didn’t want to distract her. She’s okay, don’t worry about it.
Also, since you saw the show, you know, if you’re in the front row, she was behind you for ninety percent of the show. If you didn’t see Taylor last summer, there’s a big thing down the middle of the stadium, and Taylor most of the time is on the fifty yard line. So I’m glad you spent fourteen thousand dollars to have to turn around and watch her from forty nine yards away. Stop hating, Johnny mack. Nicki said, I was in the front row.
I cried, but I didn’t want to distract her. I have the same phone case as her, and I didn’t want her to see it. You know, there’s Taylor, She’s singing Karma. She sees Nicki galaza they are crying, and goes, we have the same phone. And Taylor gets all distracted and messes up the concert and goes viral.
Nicki said, I fall an account to know what she owes, since it makes me feel closer to her. I studied how she plays guitar. I see how she places her pinky finger over her ring finger. When she’s doing a g cord. I’m so close to her that I could see her arm hair, which is beautiful.
Nicki isn’t sure if she wants to meet Taylor Swift. Oh, I’m pretty sure you want to meet Taylor Swift. Come on, Nicki said, I don’t want her to calm me down and say it’s okay while I’m shaking and I’m saying, you mean so much to me. What I love about Taylor is that she’s always present at her shows. During a concert in Philadelphia, Taylor noticed a fan being man handled by a security guard while singing Bad Blood.
Nicki said, of that day, I have that scene memorized from watching the video from Philadelphia. When Taylor said stop it. She didn’t do anything, let her go. She’s so cute. She’s looking out for us.
But I get it she cares about her fans. I care so much about my fans too. My fans who come out to see me and listen to my podcasts know me like my family doesn’t. Since my family doesn’t listen to my podcasts, I always appreciate my fans. I’m always present.
Sometimes you’re tired when you’re performing and you think about what you lead after the show or what you travel days next day, where somebody in this front row has the same phone case as you. But I clear my mind from these thoughts and focus on the people who support what I do. I’m like Taylor in that I want my fans who come out to my shows that of the best time possible. The article points out, if you haven’t seen Nicki in a few years, she doesn’t talk about sex like she used to. Nicki said, I’m in my latest thirty As I put it, sex just is interesting to me anymore.
I don’t know if it’s my hormones or whatever. I’m just not that titillated by it, and I’ve explored it enough. It used to be ninety percent of my act, but it’s not that way anymore. You get older, you grow, you change, and change is good. Bit News asked John Marco Ciresi, do you think AI will come for comedy.
I’ve actually interviewed John Marco Ciresi on this very podcast. I wouldn’t have gotten too that question if I had nine hours, but John Marco feeled it. Boy, I’m feisty today. John Marco feeled it and said writing jokes absolutely but live entertainment. I think part of the energy of comedy is the same reason AI won’t take over sports.
There’d be no fun in watching robots compete against each other. Oh, I don’t know about that at all. Imagine some live version of rock’em soccer robots, that’d be great. It’s about the imperfection of it all. So yeah, do I think AI will write jokes?
Do I think some comedians on stage will use material written by AIS? Sure? But ultimately, the thing that makes live entertainment exciting is thee A living, breeding human being is flawed trying to do something on stage. That’s the excitement of it. I think people were scared when all those holograms of Michael Jackson going on to where We’re going to end the entertainment industry.
Obviously not because they didn’t because you want to see a real human being up there. You want to know they were alive before the show, they’re alive after the show. You could touch them. In theory, I feel really optimistic about it. Frankly, if AI starts pumping out every TV show under the sun and creates a bunch of shlock, live entertainment will just thrive because it’ll feel that much more unique in the landscape.
LeAnn Morgan wax poetically with Forbes about being a storytellerly and said, Honey, I don’t know else to do it. My parents are both good storytellers, and my grandparents were. That’s just how I do it. You know. I grew up outside of Nashville, and I’d see a lot of country music stars Minnie Pearl, roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Porton, probably more than comedy.
I always love Joan Rivers, David Letterman, j Leno, Kevin Meaney. I love them all the whole art of it. I always wondered what if I was like Jerry Seinfeld and I could write a joke about a cotton ball? Does Jerry have a joke about a cotton ball? Now?
I want to see if the AI can write one. Let’s see, let’s combine the last two stories. I’m jumping on chat gpt here write a joke in the style of Jerry Seinfeld about a cotton ball? All right? Chatchipt said, why the cotton balls looks so calm because they’ve already been through the spin cycle.
That’s terrible. I asked chat gpt for five more and it actually came up with one. I could see a comedian doing. Cotton Balls are amazing, aren’t they. They’re like the only thing in your bathroom that doesn’t have a purpose.
Toothbrush, her teeth, soap for washing, but cotton balls just sitting there, sitting pretty waiting for a chance to be slightly useful. A proper comedian could nail that. Seejren Marco SORESI where worry Leon Morgan wanted to be like Jerry Seinfeld telling cotton ball jokes. She said, my set is more things that have happened to me. Leanne’s got a book coming out in twenty twenty four called What in the World, And she said, let me tell you.
I wanted to talk about all my sins in the eighties, and my literary agent says, you know what, You’re not Joan Crawford yet. So these are funny essays to introduce me to the world, funny essays about my life. It’s about me getting started selling jewelry and women’s houses and being married to Chuck Morgan and the mobile home business in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, being raised in a town of five hundred people in a farming community and telling everybody, and I’m going to be a movie star. They probably thought I was crazy. At times, I thought I was crazy.
I was so cute in the eighties. I thought this was going to happen for me when I was younger and thinner. But it’s okay. I think that’s part of God’s plan that I was supposed to go through menopause before this happened. Got to raise my children and raise them in Tennessee and there who they’re supposed to be.
And I think it might not have been that way otherwise. And Chuck Morgan is tickled that I’m adding to her retirement. The Sioux City Journal wrote about the openers for Shane Gillis. They went to a Shane Gillis show and wrote about the openers and they liked them. They said, like his openers Lemaire Lee and Mary Ridzinsky.
Shane Gillis wasn’t afraid to talk about going to mcdonald’slaying high school football and getting back on Snapchat. Radzinsky went over the crowd immediately with the joke, I don’t like girl comedians either. That’s good. She detailed a ten year relationship with her boyfriend her joke, he says, I love you, She says I love you more, and he says probably lamiir Lee leaned into the night’s demographic, addressing characters and video games cartoons in the Bible, joking it’s very boring, but if you read it in an African accent, it sounds like the Lion King Jesse. David Fox is out doing pressed about his new book.
He caught up with The Guardian, who said Fox is hopeful about the future. He’s excited about the rise of stand ups like Mitra Jahari, Brittany Carneie, Zach Zimmerman, and Jay Jorden, who discussed their complex identities and serve as a pushback against the dominant form of stand up, which minimizes a comic story in favor of a wall of jokes. Fox feels the existence of this alternative group is essential to the health of the medium, and Hell’s work like Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net, which is painfully human in earnest in contrast to what we’ve been tought mixed comedy successful. Fox says, I think comedy benefits from a continual pushback against how it’s done. I always want there to be an alternative group because the truth is, mainstream comedy tends to be a manifestation of what was happening previously.
Verdas told money control dot Com. When I started as a stand up comedian YouTube, it just started, so access to audience was limited. Right now, a new comic can put five minutes and material on Instagram and get millions of views. Earlier, he had to do a movie, so the people knew your name and come watch your show. Now there’s no middleman, no godfather, no marketing agency.
I get to directly reach my audience, and that’s the best time to be a comic. Jess Tom spoke to Autostraddel, who asked, does your family have a Google alert for you? Jess said, I don’t think my family knows what Google alert is weird because they come to see my show sometimes and my mom learns a lot about me from my comedy. When I did an earlier version of Less Lonely in San Francisco, afterwards, my mom immediately said TMI. The Boston Globe asked Alex Edelman if you could travel anywhere where.
The answer London. It’s my second home. It’s foreign in exoticall at the same time. I know other people there. I love it.
I can’t get enough. The food and the museums get the worst wrap. The museums are awesome. Don’t lecture me. I also listen to stuff the British stole, I get it, but the museums are good.
First place he went after Covid Alexid, I drove to Zion on Utah. I’m a desert guy. I love slot canyons. My girlfriend at the time and I hiked the narrows together. Was just absolutely wonderful.
Best snack for a flight or a road trip. Alex says, butterfingers can’t get enough. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
If you want to support the show, you can go to buy me at coffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News, or some money in the tip yard. Today’s Wednesday, so I’ll go to the brewery and I’ll buy a beverage with it. While I played trivia, I have finished not me my team on the team, we have finished second last two weeks in a row. It’s the worst run we’ve had. Maybe tonight we’ll turn it around.
All right, See tomorrow