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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News to Valentine’s Day jokes. I know it’s the sixteenth, but these from late night they were pretty good. Seth Meyers said, today was Valentine’s Day, so no, and I’m getting tonight eight hours of sleep. Love it.
Jimmy Fallon said, that’s right, it’s Valentine’s Day and if you forgot, don’t worry. This is a good chance President Biden did too. Ouch. Let’s start on gossip corner. Matt Rife recently played Radio City.
Remember the show and Lisa Ann, the actress, got thrown out? I told you about that story. Yeah. Apparently, Pete Davidson was scheduled to be the surprise warm up act on the first night. Pete had agreed to do the gig, but according to Radio City insiders, Pete backed out two hours before showtime.
Rife’s team had to scramble to find a backup. They wound up going with John Campanelli, who has toured with Rife. Sounds stressful, but it’s New York City. I mean that hard to find a comedian who knows. Shane Gillis host Saturday Night Live tomorrow.
Johnny Mac is curious there’s been no press. I thought there’d be a bunch of articles. There were early in a week with people complaining about Shane, but usually NBC or release a teaser or something, and I thought people would react to that. So far, nothing very interesting. I’m sure we’ll have some reactions after the fact.
I got this fancy email from the Netflix is a Joke Festival. I was looking for some proper copy, but there is none, so I’ll just have to skim this email here. Netflix is a Joke Fest just added at one o plus artists and one hundred and eighty plus shows at LA’s most iconic comedy clubs. Let’s open up the email and see what we got. So this is gonna be all over the place schedule wise, right, Howie Mandel in our Senio Hall at the Comedy Store in May fourth, that’s not bad, Master Brownie at the Improv on the second, Eric Griffin and Friends at the Laugh Factory May ninth, Brian Simpson at the Comedy Store on the seventh, Namesh Patel May fourth at the Improv.
Also shows by Dulce, Sloan, Steph Tolev, Pink Fox, Janato Unaka, who’s really fantastic, Eliza Trigger, Jannis Poppus. So the people I mentioned got pictures. Now I’m in a section that says and so many more, which is interesting because I think some of these names are bigger. Some of these names include Jay Farrows at the Improv on May eighth, Big Jay Okerson at the Comedy Store on the tenth, and then some lesser known people.
And then the email ends, send some copy?
Will you Netflix? If you’re in Tilleride tonight? The Tillride Comedy Festival continues Tonight is in evening of stand up and improv, hosted by Nick Krohle.
Also appearing on the show are Jason Menzukis and Paul Sheer, along with a bu…
If you are in Duluth, the Duluth Comedy Festival is back today after a five year hiatus. Drew Lynch opens tonight. Maria Bamford Tomorrow Night with Jackie Kash. Bamford discussed writing and said, within the myth of Sisypus, I am the rock. If you’re in charge of pushing me up that hill, there’s no momentum.
I’m gonna roll right back down again. Asked what’s making her laugh these days, she said her husband YouTube and open mics. I saw an older man doing a rhyming act five minutes. Not only was it misogynist, really anti woman, but also body positive. So if you ever border lonely, treat yourself.
Drew Lynch tonight at eight Maria and Jackie on Saturday. And Marie’s also doing a book signing at two to four pm on Sunday at the Zenith Bookstore on Central Avenue. You know the one funny stuff from Maria Bamford who said, I’m not a drinking person’s comic. I’m not always a good time. Please YouTube me before buying a ticket.
It’s really harm reduction. Some people into Luth have suggested that they name a street after Maria Bamford. There are some streets there named after Bob Dylan. Dylan spent time in Duluth and his youth, but never wrote about the town, so they want to rename those with Maria Bamford’s name. She was asked what would be on Maria Bamford Street, and she said, it’s got to be a dead end, right, a sinkhole.
Maybe it’s just a sidewalk outside of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Al dot Com is in Alabama. Dot Com asked Dusty Slay about his perspective as a Southern comedian. Dusty, who I Love, said, yeah, I mean I’m Southern, right. It’s like I live in the South.
I’ve always lived in the South, and I really like it. I don’t know that you can necessarily be proud of just being born in a geographical area, but if you can, yeah, I’m proud of it. I feel like the South is a special place. We’ve got a lot of food traditions and things. I don’t know.
I just love being in the South. But it’s not my whole being, you know. My accent. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. It definitely faded a lot over the years.
I wish i’d talked like Matthew McConaughey, but I don’t, and I’m not gonna fake it. I’ve traveled all over the country now. There are a lot of great places in this country, and even places growing up that I thought i’d never like. I go there and I’m like, wow, this is a wonderful place. California these days can be the butt of a lot of jokes, but you go to California and it’s like, oh, it’s awesome out here.
Why did he pick Knoxville as the location for his recent special, He said, if I’m given an opportunity to film, I usually end up having to go to New York in LA I love going all the cities, but I never get to do anything in the South film wise. This time was my choice. I want to do something in the South, and I really like Knoxville, but they don’t have a comedy club, so I thought, I never get to go there and do comedy. That’s perfect. My jokes will be fresh to them.
Then the Biju Theater in Knoxville came up as an option. It’s a really nice theater and friends of mine comics have done the Bshu and they spoke highly of it. We sold out two shows, so I got to do two shows back to back and they were great. Like we didn’t have to go out and do things where we say, all right, we need you to get a laugh here so we can capture some laughter. We didn’t have to do any of that.
You never know. I could do a joke one hundred times, get a huge laugh, and then the day I’m recording, Suddenly he doesn’t get a laugh. But this audience was on board all the way. The shows were amazing. Hannibal Burr spoke to The Sun Times about his music career.
He said music happened before comedy, but not in a way when I was doing it much. I was around it though. When I got into comedy early on, I was having positive experiences and was easy to keep doing it. I think a lot of it was partially identity too. You know, I’m a comedian, but I appreciate now that with music, I’m able to go into it at a high level.
I know that if nobody else books me, I’m gonna book me. As for comedy, he says, the business is in a huge place right now. There’s a lot more people doing arenas, a lot more people doing big theaters and multiple nights. Really because of podcasting and YouTube. It still a huge deal if someone plays Madison Square Gardener United Center, but there’s more people doing it than there used to be.
What is it like about Chicago? He says, I hit a pot belly a lot. You ever have pot belly? It’s pretty good. He says, for real, this is not me trying to get sponsored.
I’m trying to tell you the pot Belly Perks app. Every two purchases, they’re giving me something free. He opened up his app as proof says, I got three hundred and fifty five points. All right, tomorrow on this very program. It is the episode where I say nice things about Adam Sandler movies.
It’s recorded, it’s in the can. So unless sometime today, you know, Dave Chappelle and I don’t know, John Mulaney get into a fistfight and Kat Williams makes fun of it, unless something like that breaks out, that will be tomorrow’s episode. And I played it straight, no sarcasm, no loaded comments, didn’t put a lilt in my voice. It’s a straight up episode me saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. That’s tomorrow.
Sunday will be normal. Are you watching louder Milk on Netflix. My buddy Mike in Cleveland mentioned that he was watching it, and I was looking for something to watch the other night. I was like, all right, I’ll check this out, and boy, it’s really good. Who knew?
I guess everybody but me knew, But then again maybe not. You see, louder Milk had been around. Previously, it used to run on the AT and T Audience Network. What yeah, that’s why you’ve never seen it. But Netflix picked it up and they put it in front of Mike, and Mike’s telling everybody about it.
And now Loudermilk Season one was in the Netflix Top ten most view shows in the US for four weeks the week’s ending January fourteenth, twenty one, twenty eight, and February four with a peak rank of number four during the week of January fifteenth. Deadlines Ratings Guru said this is just another example of the power of Netflix when it comes to boosting the profile of shows. I’ll jump in yeah, like the Suits is back right, yeah, it says. This one’s a bit of a different ballgame than some of the HBO series we’ve seen light up on Netflix since the AT and T Audience Network had a much smaller footprint. Much smaller is an understatement.
I think this podcast has a bigger audience than the AT and T Audience Network had. However, it’s becoming really clear that Netflix can do for a series what basically no other streamer can. Loudermilk first aired in twenty seventeen on the afore mentioned Audience Network for ten episodes, then the next year another ten. Then the show received the season three order in twenty eighteen, which was filmed, and then the AT and T Audience Network shut down before it aired. In April of twenty twenty one, Season three of Loudermilk aired on Amazon Prime, which none of us watched.
Well, now there’s talk of making a season four. Isn’t that amazing? There is a proposed plot here for season four, but I’m going to resist the temptation to read it to you because it might ruin your enjoyment of the show. But check out Loudermilk. It is a lot of fun.
Earlier in the week, I told you that Gavin and Stacey was coming back for a Christmas thing. E Well, Ruth Jones, who stars in the show and co writes it with James Corden, said that’s just a rumor. She told Ireland’s Arte Radio one. I don’t know what to say. All I could say is if there was something to say on that front, James and I would happily announce it.
With some random journalists who decided to write this, I’m lost for words. It’s hilarious. I just have to smile. She made fun of the next notion. Apparently there’s a bidding war going on between the BBC and Netflix, and I love it because it says a source says, Who’s this source?
Amy Schumer’s Life and Beth is back today. I was driving in New York City the other day by the Lincoln Tunnel entrance on the Manhattan side. There was a big billboard promoting this Amy’s been making the rounds. I skimmed the articles and I didn’t find anything interesting enough to share with you, so I’ll just tell you that the show is back today. She was on Jimmy Fallon and some people thought she looked different.
I’m not here to be Caddy, but you might want to google that. And that is your comedy news for today again. Adam Sandler Tomorrow can’t wait, can’t you? Yeah? If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
They might like it too, and I’ll see you here tomorrow