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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late night writers on strike. The Late Bod says, Taylor Swift fans say they’re suffering from post concert amnesia. Yeah, you get this after getting too excited during a Taylor Swift concert. But the Late Bot says, I suffer from post Taylor Swift concert amnesia.

I can’t remember the lyrics to any other song now. My friends say it’s like I’ve been shaken off my musical knowledge. Scientists are still trying to figure out if post Taylor Swift concert amnesia is a real condition for just a way for people to forget they pay two hundred dollars for a T shirt. Ricky Gervaiz says he cannot wait to see how Australia interprets The Office. The Office Australia will be set in post COVID present day Star’s Felicity Ward.

She’ll play Hannah Howard, who is the managing director of a packaging company. They go in a survival mode after being told her branches shutting down and going remote. She attempts to keep her work family together. Hannah begins making promises she can’t keep. Eight episodes filming in Sydney starting this month.

This is for a prime video. Maybe we’ll get to see it here in the States, which would be great. It’s the thirteenth version of the Office. But why I would be excited about this one is it would be an English language version and a little easier to watch. Ricky Gervais says off as politics have changed a bit in twenty years, so can’t wait to see how they navigate a modern day.

David Brent will Ferrell is in talks to play John Madden. It won’t be about the football coaching, It’ll be about the video game. No detales yet other than it would be a theatrical feature, not a straight to video. Interesting. The ut Daily Beacon caught up with Sam Morrell.

He says he doesn’t necessarily look for audience interaction. I honestly feel like I’d do it less than people think like if it doesn’t present itself, I won’t do it. I think it just sort of breaks up the rhythm and makes things more fun for them. You look at Rodney Dangerfield and how he broke rhythm with his stuff, and I think that’s where I get the inspiration from trying to emulate that As for his writing, he says, sometimes in the moment, I’ll make a note of something, but usually it takes some reflection on it to come up with a joke. It’s definitely a process.

I wish it was easier, but I guess we’re easier. Everyone would do it. He says he was always a pretty funny kid. I was never going to be a pro athlete, and I wasn’t especially good looking. I wanted friends and girls, so from there I had to be like, all right, well, what’s my thing?

So I think that kind of pushed me to being funny. Being in a blended family definitely did two. I think it was an awkward transition for everyone but me, but I was like six. I didn’t how uncomfortable it was for everyone. I was just happy to have more people around trying to make me laugh.

Sam says, I’ve always been sarcastic. I like short swings. Short swings and sarcasm are always your quickest root in comedy. Sarcasm is always the fastest of the punch line. I’ll just say that.

Sam is not worried about cancel culture. He says, I’m not on TV or a risk of a network pulling a show. The only way I’d be starving is if venues wouldn’t have me. But then again, there’s a lot of comics saying way more outlandish stuff and they can still book shows, so I’m not really worried. The only true opponent is social media.

He said. TikTok algorithms don’t account for nuance and jokes, so I could say Nazi in a set, even if it’s totally berating them or whatever, and the algorithm is still going to push it to the bottom because it flagged a word, I said, not taking the context into account. Weird Alice Books of Variety. Apparently one scene in the weird Biography is getting a lot of attention. Al says it brought me so much joy to see that the number one Google search was did Weird al and Madonna have a fling?

I don’t know if Madonna is even aware of this movie. I’m very curious what she thinks, and I hope she’s okay with it. Don’t expect a new album from Weird al anytime soon. That makes me sad. Al said, I signed a record deal in nineteen eighty two for ten albums, then I renegotiated it twice, and it became a fourteen album contract, which I finally fulfilled in twenty fourteen.

I just don’t want to sign under the contract. I like being a free agent doing whatever I need to do or want to do. I’m more in the one off stuff now, because when you do an album, if you’re doing my kind of material, it’s hard to have twelve songs ready to go it all at once and having them to be topical and timely. I like having the freedom and being able to just put out material whenever I feel like. Granted, I haven’t done a lot of that since twenty fourteen.

Al is aware there are petitions to get him to perform the Super Bowl halftime show. That would be amazing. He doesn’t think he’ll ever be on the short list, he said, I’m just being real here. I don’t see it ever happening. Maybe the Food Fighters will do it and have me on as a special guest.

That kind of stage scares me for a number of reasons, one of which is, no matter who you are, when you’re put in front of that many eyeballs, you’re gonna have a lot of haters. And I know I don’t like being hated. His inspiration for the weird biopic was Bohemian Rhapsody. I’ll said, biopics, historically, I’ve always been pretty inaccurate, and I kind of bug me. I’m a big Queen fan.

I liked the movie and it won awards and it was very popular, but it bothered me. There was so many artistic liberties taken, just flat out changing the facts, changing the chronology, just making it more quote unquote cinematic. And I thought, all right, well, maybe if I do a biopic like that, just throw the facts out the window and go completely off the rails. Sam j will tape early to Stand Up Special this month. It is titled Salute Me or Shoot Me.

That’s an aggressive title. She will film it at Brooklyn Steel on June seventeenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty. This will eventually air on HBO. Hannah Gatsby is working on her Pablo Picasso curated thing at the Museum. She critiques Picasso’s relationship with teenage Marie Terice Walter, who was seventeen when Picasso was forty five.

Anna says, I hate him, but you’re not allowed to because of Cubism. She says Picasso sold to us as this passionate torment to genius rather than, by her definition, a misogynist. Hannah sums up the history of Western art Picasso included as men painting women like their flesh faces for their thing. She jokes, I think everyone any chance of getting a job at a gallery now, Well, not true, because she’s part of the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit, which addresses Picasso’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary and feminist lens. It’s Pablo matic Picasso, according to Hannah Gatsby Brooklyn Museum in New York, June second through September twenty fourth, and scientists are all excited about finding a fifteenth century huge manuscript.

James Wade is an associate professor at Cambridge University. Wade says most medieval poetry, song and storytelling has been lost, but the fifteenth century Huge manuscript was recently rediscovered. And it’s not a perfected, respectful final draft, or a play or a parable. It’s account of a raucous live comedy show, complete with irony, slapstick, satsire and a killer rabbit joke. Were they of its own monty python sketch wow, Wade said manuscripts often preserve relics of high art.

It’s mad defense. Manuscripts often preserve relics of high art. This is something else. It’s mad defensive, but just as valuable. Stand up comedy has always involved taking risks, and these texts are risky.

They poke fun at everyone high and low. Part of the Hunting of the Hair poem in the Huge Manuscript features the killer Rabbit. The first alliance read Jack Wade was never so sad as when the hair trot on his head, in case she would have ripped out his throat. That’s like Adam Sandler level funny, isn’t it. Wade says he can find echoes of this minstrel’s humor and shows like Mock the Week, situational comedies and slapstick the self, irony and making audiences the butt of the Joker is still very characteristic of British stand up comedy.

People back then partied a lot more than we do today, so minstrel’s had plenty of opportunities to perform. They were very important figures in people’s lives right across the social hierarchy. These texts give us a snapshot of medieval life being lived. Well, that’s your comedy news for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify YouTube.

I didn’t mention mister b A or mister s M today, did you notice. Yeah, taking a break from that, but I’m grateful for their movies because otherwise slow newsweek. See tomorrow

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The Shark Deck. Yikes. Rough weekend for the comedy movies. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Sebastian Meniscalco, I got nothing but bad news for you. His film About My Father co starring Robert de Niro, By the way, four point two million dollars over the weekend, they estimated would make five point two million through Monday, the second lowest opening Memorial Day release in over two thousand theaters, ever lower than even nineteen ninety five’s Johnny Nemonic.

On the Tomato meter thirty one percent with critics. About My Father had a budget of twenty nine million dollars. If you need a comparison, Easter Sunday with Joe Koy, remember that happened last year. Even that made five point four million and finished with thirteen million. Yikes.

The news not much better for Bert Craisher The Machine four point nine million dollars over the weekend, estimated five point eight million dollars for the long weekend. Rotten Tomatoes points out it’s the fifth straight film that’s Sony has withheld nationwide from press in the States. In case you’re curious, the Little Mermaid won the weekend fast X sitting at number two, Guardians of the Galaxy sitting at number three, Super Mario Brothers still at number four, than The Machine in fifth That about my father. In sixth sebashion Maniskago did use a stunt butt in his movie. He told people, I’m very physical and in my comedy, the intention was for me to do the jet mooning.

My wife wants people to know that’s not his butt. Apparently that guy’s but doesn’t look like mine. Set Sebastian and my wife wanted to let the world know.

Meanwhile, finally saw a review of The Machine.

I haven’t had an opportunity to see the movie myself yet. Yeah, who says Byrd is certainly believable as quote unquote himself, but never feels quite like a lead. The movie excels when it leans into insane levels of action violence. It’s less effective when it relies on Chrysher’s comedy. Well that’s not good, They say.

He needs a movie that does for him what forty eight Hours did for Eddie Murphy. As his reactions to Danger his best moments. Mark Hamill is the MVP, continuing to deliver some of his best work as an older man when Hamel leaves the action for a spelled the energy leaves the movie. So I was thinking about these two films, and I will editorialize here. Sebastian Meniscalco, I think will be okay.

I can see Sebastian with a CBS sitcom, can’t you? If he dialed down the affectation he does in some of his stand up. He is a very stylized version of speaking. If he dropped that back down towards his normal voice, I could see him in a CBS sitcom for sure. Bert Kreisher, I’m not sure where we go from here.

I know Bert has legions of fans and I’ll probably all attack my podcast. But that last stand up special As I saw the reviews and I saw the chatter on the internet, I saw the churning of the Tide, and people didn’t really like that one as much. And I’m wondering if the Bert Kreisher No pun machine is starting to run out of steam. If you think about it, this was the big story, this was the big dream. Okay, we made a major motion picture around you.

It co stars Born Camel. The premise seems pretty good on paper, and nobody went to see it, so I’m wondering for Burt are we now on the downside of peak? Bert Kreisher time will tell that said he’s a machine when it comes to touring. Fast Company did a profile of Burton, talked about this summer’s Fully Loaded Comedy Festival, which the Krasher’s Burton wife Leanne, manage this summer. It features Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hattish, David Tell, Lewis, Black and Moore and No Slouches, any of those playing sixteen ballparks and arenas around the US.

Bert says, Hollywood is changing, but I think we’re at the front of it, even with the Fully Loaded Festival. That used to be something you’d put in the hands of a promoter or management company, but we took control of that. We wanted to move faster than the pace it was traditionally moving. Lean said he’s always been at the forefront, even ahead of his agents and managers. When COVID hit, he was in New Orleans and wanted to find a way to keep touring.

It’s not just about him personally, but all the people connected to these shows and weren’t working. If he keeps working, that keeps others working he had the drive in movie theater. Idea called his agent and his agent wasn’t sure, but he made some calls and figures it out. So we did this thing that no one had done before. And he’s done that with his podcasting being so early into it, he knew podcast fan was a button the seat.

Bert says, I remember going on a meeting one time and bringing a list of my top fifty markets for the podcast, and they were like Bismark. Bismark is the capital of North Dakota with a population of seventy five thousand. Bert said, and I was like, yeah, I’m big there. It’s fascinating because there are places where I’m big today where a lot of comics just don’t go. Now, if you look at my tour, I’m littered in the Midwest where some comics don’t do shows.

I’m in Mississippi twice a year. It’s all based on metrics and going where the fans are. Ten thousand people that might not sound like a lot for a podcast, but that’s an arena. Burt admires Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat productions and says, what I love about what Kevin’s done is how we brought everything in house and said, I wanted to do business with you, but I want to be in charge of all the ancillary projects. I’d love to work with studios when we’re marketing movies, because we’ve taken steps in that direction.

It’s worked well. So the things were good at. I want to keep being good at and then create relationships with networks and studios through that. Tom Segura was at one of the previews of the Machine and he was asked what he’s up to. Tom said, I have a special coming out July fourth.

We knew that, and he added, and then Burt and I actually have a project together two. It hasn’t been announced yet. All right, we’ll keep an eye on that one. Today the ted Lasso finale. By the time you’re hearing this, it’s already out.

Apple. Please stop releasing things in the middle of the night. I’m going to have woken up this morning on Wednesday two spoilers, and that’s annoying. I’m not getting up at three am to watch ted Lasso, and I can’t watch it before breakfast. I watched TV at night like normal people do.

I don’t know if you noticed. Over the weekend, HBO released Succession at nine pm. It did quite well. It captured the cultural zeitgeist. People talked about it, and it wasn’t spoiled.

Had HBO released Succession at three am, we would have woken up to find out who quote unquote one in the end. I’m not even gonna spoil it for you four days later anyway, Ted Lasso. I’ll get to it tonight. Maybe I play volleyball on Wednesday. I’m don’t even get to it tonight because it’s gonna be ruined.

I hate the three am stuff and Casey, you can’t tell oh by the way, i’d see. I’m thinking now back to Friday with the cranky Johnny Mac jokes that the late Bot wrote Taylor Swift’s concert amazing three hours, forty minutes. I had such a good time and played Taylor on the car radio all week and long. It was so good. I’m not sure any concert’s worth twelve hundred dollars, but one hundred and twenty five that I paid face value to get in.

Oh my goodness, she’s fantastic anyway, Ted Lasso. The character Ted Lasso tweeted on Tuesday. A few years ago, I hopped on a plane with Coach Beard head into a little town in London. Tonight we play our final match. It’s like what I say about the films of David Lynch.

I can’t tell you what’s happening, but I sure as heck don’t want it to end. Co star and writer Brendan Hunts coach Beard told Entertainment Weekly back in twenty twenty one, to three season arc was Jason Sidekis’s idea. But even back in twenty one, Brendan said, even as committed to that idea as Jason may have been, none of us were prepared to the greet which people love the show. I think that could make hard hearted old Sadekas soften up a little bit. The solution seems to be spinoffs.

Sadekas himself has all but confirmed them, saying I think we’ve set the table for all sorts of folks to get to watch the further telling of these stories now. One of the problems with season three have been all the side stories. One person on Reddit wrote, I’m still waiting for season three of ted At to begin. In the meantime, I’m watching this odd spinoff show about a pr startup mixed with heavy handed moral public service announcements. Not the worst description in my opinion, and my wife shares the opinion.

When Ted Lasso’s about soccer, it’s so much more enjoyable. All they have to do is show some soccer, Let the coaches hang out a little bit. Repeat. I don’t need the other stuff. The Daily Beast asked some of the cast for their ideas for spinoffs.

Jeremy Swift, he plays Rebecca’s assistant Leslie, his idea Higgins and Coach Beard become detectives, but Beard is secretly corrupt and committing all the crimes himself. Higgins doesn’t know anything about it. I’d watch that. James Lands, who plays Trent Krim, said I’d be pretty interested to see what Will the Kitman is up to in his private life. Actor Charlie his Cock is a little superstar.

He’s funny as hell. I’d like to see him or Meanwhile, his Cock said he’d like to see Trent Krim on his next journey. Where does he go now now that he’s writing the book about the team, what happens next? But of course the best idea is to do The Roy Kent Show with Brett Goldstein, who’s been the breakout star of the series. What about a show about Roy and his niece Phoebe.

And the idea that’s not going to happen comes from Christo Fernandez, who plays Danny Rojas. He said, people have talked about a spinoff for Danny and that would be cool. Nobody’s talked about that. That’s not happening. If you enjoy what I do here, you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

I wanted to thank the members. I was a little slacking during May and thanking the members in my personal life, May has been a bear. I don’t even want to bory with the details, but it’s been a crazy, crazy month. So Tommy and Andrea, and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny, thank you so much for being members and supporting the show every single month. Again buying me at coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

I was annoyed at the National Donuts chain this morning. I went there. Every now and then they try and pass off hot coffee poured over ice as an ice coffee. I can tell the second I touched the cup, Folks, never mind the flavor. Come on anyway, members, thank you so much.

It means a lot to me. It’s not even the money or the coffee. It’s knowing that somebody actually gives a hoot about the podcast, and that is the most important thing. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Comedian Bobby Lee is suing WONDERYE for breach of contract.

This from the Hollywood Reporter. They are poor that Wondery allegedly canceled a multi year ad sales a distribution deal for Bobby Lee’s podcast, Tiger Belly. The complaint, filed in LA last Thursday on behalf of Lee’s Tiger Belly company, alleges that Wondery was under pressure to cut expenses and roll back its financial commitments and anticipation of a podcast market slowdown in twenty three. In the termination notice sent to Tiger Belly, Wondery also alleged Lee cited a moral’s clause and pointed to a twenty thirteen story that leads Old and Lee later said was made up for shock value about paying a young looking sex worker who had tears in her eyes and Tijuana. Remember that, Yeah, I told you that story.

So you know, I don’t know the specifically the deal here, but I have some expertise both in comedy and podcasting. I can tell you the ad market has indeed been soft in twenty twenty three. That’s no surprise. You’ll see that in every industry newsletter. As a podcast company giving a multimillion dollar deal for several years, there’s elite talent that you give that too, and there’s a talent that you don’t give multimillion dollar deals too.

You got to be mighty confident that you’re gonna get that money back. We’re seeing fewer and fewer of that type of deal, so who knows. That’s between wondery and tiger belly. And as for the morals clause advertisers, if you start playing on the shady side of the street, the advertisers don’t hang out there. So you can tell a joke story about a young looking sex worker who had tears in her eyes.

You can make up that story and get some laughs out of it. But I got news for you, A Coca Cola ain’t gonna be anywhere near that. Oh, we’ll keep an eye on that one. Did I say too much? Hi?

Graham Norton is going to fronts LLOL last one laughing Ireland told you about this one before. But I’ve got more details now. The competitors include Ashling b Who’s Fantastic, Amy Huberman, Katherine Bohart, David mc savage, Great Name, Deirdre O’Kane, Emman, Doran Jason Byrne, Martin Angelo, Paul’s Hylack, and Tony Cantwell last one. Laughing has done well in several countries, including Italy, France, and Germany. Trevor Noah’s going to host the South African version of it.

There is no American version of its. Rebel Wilson hosted the Australian edition. Jay Barrichell hosted the English Canadian version. Anyway, here is how it works, per the Wikipedia, ten comedians stay in a living room style studio with hidden cameras for a few hours usually six hours, okay. During that time, they have to make their opponents laugh in any way and by any means.

While not reacting to their competitors attempts to make them laugh. At the first laugh, the competitor is giving a yellow card. A second card eliminates the player from the game, a red card, you know, like football, Like soccer. However, large infractions may be given an automatic red card. Eliminated players join the host in the observation room, but may return as an external challenger to the remaining contestants.

The comedians can also be eliminated if they aren’t active enough. The only way to communicate with the outside is the telephone controlled by the host and Freevie is going to milk Jury Duty and then milk. It’s some more. Okay, Jury Duty is a fun show, did better than everybody thought. Well, they’re rereleasing it with commentary from the director and the guy that was tricked, Ronald will also get some commentary from the characters Noah, Vanessa and Nez and James Morriston as James Morriston.

They are also releasing merch, So if you’ve always wanted to wear a Dwarf T shirt, I think you’re going to be able to do so very soon. The merch will be out tomorrow. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. The Sea tomorrow

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. John Mulaney’s first stand up special in five years doing really well on Netflix, So streaming ratings are delayed a little bit. This is for the week of April twenty four through the thirtieth. No, I didn’t record this a month ago. That’s just how long it takes them to put these out.

John Mulaney’s Baby Jay gathered three hundred and seventy nine million minutes of viewing that first week. It ranked tenth among original series. It’s the second stand up special to make the Nielsen streaming rankings this year, after Chris Rock’s Special. Chris Rock Special had four hundred eighteen minutes his first week, although that was in thirty six hours because that came out on a Saturday, so Saturday and Sunday, Mullaney had a couple more days that week. That following week, Rock had seven hundred ninety eight million minutes.

So we can compare those two in case you’re curious what else does well. The Diplomat was the number one overall title that week, and over on Apple TV, Ted Lasso had a series high growing seven hundred and ninety five million minutes of viewing John. You never talk about Bert Craish, I know, right. He spoke to the La Times about Mark Hamill playing his dad and they were curious about their chemistry. Bert said, our first week of working together was on Zoom during the pandemic.

We started talking about the movie. The first thing he said was, why do you perform with your shirt off? Couldn’t you wear a nice collared shirt or a blazer? And my dad says that to this day. Mark was my dad through the whole movie, even off camera.

Remember one time asking Mark for parenting advice and he gave me advice, And that night I was on the phone with my dad and he gave the exact same advice Mark Amil did. He talked a little more about doing his own stunts. He said anytime they were like, we’re gonna need you to do like a flying double kick, or are we gonna have a stunt man do it? And Burt was like, no, I can do it. I was really good at that.

I think it’s because I grew up in Florida and we all practiced professional wrestling growing up. I did way more of putting my body into harm stuff than I thought I would do.

And then the stuff I thought it’d be good at, like the fight scenes.

That took a lot of work, and memorizing it right because it’s a fight sequence. Just memorizing the choreography, it’s hard. If you don’t do it correctly. You can punch people’s faces, which I did a lot, and all the fight scenes I punched someone. I paid the piper.

When I got home, I went to get an MRI and they’re like, you’re ruptured your tenants. He needs surgery. So I did the surgery and then I sold out a show at Red Rocks in Colorado. What are you gonna do? Mark Hamill told the Music dot Com there’s no off switch with Bertie’s so genuine and so authentic.

It’s not like he created a character. And he’s very much different on stage. What you see is what you get, and I think that’s what’s so appealing about it. He just has an exuberance that’s infectious. So Bert tells the story is Colade in the film.

I’ve a Babbic. She’s from the Eastern Bloc and she has never seen Star Wars. She says to me, I’ve never seen Star Wars. Don’t bring it up. Bert goes really, and she goes, yeah, I don’t want to be embarrassed.

So we sit down for dinner and I go, hey, you’re a big Star Wars fan, right, and she goes, I love it. It’s such a wonderful film. And Mark Hamill goes, what did you like about it? She goes, ah, you know, typical good guy baguy thing. Bert goes, what’s your favorite character in Star Wars?

She says Chewbacca and then he says to her, can you do an impression of Chewbacca? And she goes, of course, and in a weird gravelly voice, goes, Hi, I’m Chewbacca. Mark Camill goes, you’ve never seen the movie, have you? The smart List guys have a documentary streaming on Max. Hey Max, people put the HBO back.

Max just looks like dime store streaming service. It just looks so cheap. You’ve ordered it down with crap but not crap. Is SmartLess on the Road a limited series currently streaming. It was directed by Sam Jones, and he follows the SmartLess guys as they travel across the country to Boston, Brooklyn, DC, Chicago, Wisconsin, and La.

How to come about? Sam Jones says, Jason asked me if he thought there was a documentary. I kind of pitched them with the trust me enough and give me a key to your hotel rooms. I asked if they’d stay in the same hotel and travel together and not of a big crowd of people with them, if they could let me have access at all times, that could be really cool because it’d be like we’re on the road together. And they agreed to it.

I think they’re all such brilliant comedians. They’re all very open to being themselves. That was the thing, whether camera’s on them or not, those are the guys. They did have some questions before showing to them, wonder if they’d want me to cut things they felt were too personal when they’re not in the public, but they wanted to be transparent as possible. They have minds are quick enough to find the humor without prepping anything.

Ricky Gervais has directed his first BBC project in a decade. Ricky has directed Seven Minutes, a show about two people awkwardly contemplating suicide. The description a desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end at all until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward The head of BBC Comedy, John Petrie, he’s spending in the year identifying quote a package of measures that industry, government and regulators can come together on a safeguard comedy’s future. He says, comedy producers remain concerned about the rising costs of making comedy for TV.

As the chief corporate clown in TV comedy, I feel a huge sense of responsibility to help try and protect our incredible genre from TMZ. Congressman Adam Shift tries his end at live stand up comedy once a year. I had no idea. He was working on a set at the la Improv that one hosting a fundraiser introducing professional comics, and he likes to mix in a few jokes of his own. He says he’s performed full stand up acts at his annual fundraiser in the past, usually writing his own jokes during a cross country flight.

Keep an eye on that one. Roy Wood Junior remembers his first set. He said, I had a joke. I was about nineteen, and I was mad because my roommate would eat some of my food but not all of it. That joke, eat all of it if you’re going to eat it.

I had a seven up. He drank six of them. I had a one up, he said, in nineteen ninety eight. That’s what I had. It was the best I could do.

This is interesting. He got a journalism degree from Florida A and M, but he said it fiscally made more sense to continue comedy after college than pursue a straight up career in journalism. My love was print, but print didn’t pay. I had two print officers for fourteen grand. But my projections for stand up I was going to make seventeen that year, twenty two the next year, and the second year I wound up making twenty seven.

He says, I’m a stand up but also within my jokes, I’m trying to inform you, I’m trying to give you new information. I’m trying to give you a different way of looking at something and at its core. To me, that’s what journalism is. New Jersey stand up Emily Page recently found out that her ex boyfriend has been stealing her tweets and kind of tweaking him a little bit and then passing them off as his own jokes months after she originally posted them. Emily tweeted side by side screenshots at the original jokes and their knockoffs.

In an attempt to reclaim custody of her comedy Wow and from The New York Post, a comedian has ignited a debate over the best karaoke songs to perform. Ben Brainerd has three million TikTok followers. Huh. He says, if you don’t know what makes a good karaoke song, that’s fine. I’m here, and I’m objectively correct when I say these things.

He didn’t name the songs in any particular order, but he did name some songs. He said. One of those songs Kelly clarkson Since You’ve Been Gone, obviously, also Aretha Franklin’s Respects. He calls it a great song, even better karaoke. The next one up one of my favorites.

But I don’t know how people do this one, because what the heck are the lyrics? I know you think you know the lyrics, but think about it, do you? Dexi’s Midnight Runners. Come on, Eileen, now, I know you think you know the song. Here, I’ll do it for you, all right.

Poor old Johnny Ray, you’ve got that line sounded sat upon the radio, moved a million hearts in Mono. You don’t know that line. Next one, our mothers cried sang along. Who’d blame them? But I’m sure the end of that song is very good.

Okay. Next one up, Weezer’s Island in the Sun. It’s kind of a I love Weezer. That’s kind of a flat song. Is that a good karaoke song?

See? He’s got me doing it now. And the most controversial song he listed rims it’s the end of the world as we know it. He said. Listen to me.

If you get on a stage with a mic in your hand and you don’t know every word, the audience is going to find it the worst thing they’ve ever heard in their lives. No saving it, all right. Social media users him, Dan, I know you’re thinking about the list. One said, how about the I Would Walk five hundred miles song? That’s a good one, Sweet Caroline, kind of hackey, mister brightside piano man living on a prayer, and one commenter said, any song by weird Owl’s a good karaokee song, even better if you choose the song it’s a parod of, but still sing weird Al’s lyrics.

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The Shark Deck Johnny McK with your Daily Comedy News. As I put today’s show together on Friday, Eddie Murphy was trending, and I was like, why is Eddie Murphy trending? Somebody named Damian Scott on Twitter posted a top ten comedians of all time list and it didn’t go over. Well. You’re ready for the top ten comedians of all time according to Damian Scott, let me go from one to ten?

All right? Number one George Carlin to Richard Pryor. That’s most people’s list. You know, you could flip those back and forth, but Carlin Pryor generally accepted as the one and two. He’s got Dave Chappelle at number three, okay, Robin Williams at four, Louis C.K.

At number five. I guess not canceled. Jerry Seinfeld six, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer at number eight. Kevin Hart, who’s a wonderfully talented, charismatic, funny person with awesome movies and cool TV shows and side businesses. It’s Kevin Hart, the ninth best stand up comedian of all time?

No, just stop a number ten. Jim Gaffigan, the one that really annoyed people seemed to be Amy Schumer and people we’re asking why Eddie Murphy’s not on the list. Now, I’m really as I age thinking about Eddie Murphy, and as a teenager in the eighties, I loved Eddie Murphy. But the more I listen to Eddie Murphy, all I hear is a Richard Pryor cover band. He was a shooting star.

Obviously, he’s had a great movie career, and he’s funny, and everybody my age loves him. But he’s a Richard Pryor cover band. Just listen to the type of material, the voices he does in the material, even wearing the red leather suit is straight out of Richard’s thing. So I’m okay leaving Eddie off the list. I wanted to start looking at the Just for Laughs Montree All Comedy Festival schedule.

Maybe not a deep dive today, but just wanted to check it out. So the festival runs July fourteenth through the twenty ninth. If you’re planning on heading up, go to the second week. The second week starts to be stronger. I’ve opened up their calendar here.

The first shows they’re promoting July eighteenth, Just for the Culture and The Nasty Show, and it’s mostly those the first week. Once you get to July twenty fifth, Tom Pop is up there, Daniel Sloss, Ali Wong, Brad Williams, Who’s fantastic, Jessica Curson, Ronnie Chan please don’t destroy on the twenty eighth Brits Ish. That’s always a great show, Anthony jessinek May, Martin, Leslie Jones, Gala, Remy Yusef. Such good shows, Kyle Canine, Neil Brennan, Eddie Zard. They don’t have new faces up on the calendar yet.

My guest, based on the past, his new faces will be Wednesday, July twenty six. If I am able to make it this year, that is when I would go. I hope to make it. Got to convince somebody to go with me too. It’s no fun.

I’ve done the festival solo and while you’re at a show, it’s cool, and then it ends you’re like, oh, I’m by myself. So I’ll see if somebody wants to tag along. Montreal Comedy Festival. If you’ve never been highly highly recommended, Ricky Gervais made history. He did a stand up show in Los Angeles and made one point four one million pounds.

Let me throw that into Google and see what that is. An American A million, seven million, seven four to be exact. Ricky Gervais, congratulations boy, I guess he’s not canceled. The show has been dubbed the highest grossing one off by a British comedian. Ricky was on Twitter and said a career highlight, I should resire now thanks to everybody bought a ticket to find out about the record.

As the icing on the cake. I was happy enough when it didn’t rain. I can’t even imagine what my mom would think about me playing the Hollywood Bowl. I hope she’d be horrified by the language. Tell me I look fat, and I’d be secretly proud.

He added. I wish I’d filmed it now, if only to remind myself it actually happened. Hey, this is exciting. From MMA fighting dot Org. You’re home for comedy news.

The UFC is working on a comedy in development with Adam Sandler. Dana White, head of the UFC, says, we’re working on a show right now with Adam Sandler. That’s a comedy about working in the offices of the UFC. You know, maybe it’d be good? Can I be honest?

I was putting together the weekly comedy thing. That’s the show I host on Live One, and on this week’s show, I featured an Adam Sandler bit called gay Robot. It’s very, very funny, Adam, can you do more of that? Sebastian Maniscalco to the Crew Call podcast how important it was for the creative team of his new movie All About My Father, including the co writer and the director, to understand the nuances of family life on a personal level. He said director Laura Trusso won the job in part because she’s Italian American.

He said of his connection, We’re like dolphins. We have a secret language, Italian speak. I knew it. I’d have a shorthand with her. Sabashman was asked if his time working with de Niro on The Irishman helped him land at Robert Nio to be in the movie, and he said, yeah, I did The Irishman with him, but it’s not like we bonded over Canoli’s on set.

Hey, John, you never talk about Bert Kreisher. I know right well. He spoke to Yahoo and said, I did probably ninety five percent of my own stunts. The only sense I wasn’t allowed to do was go down the full flight of stairs. He got hurt during filming.

He said, I hurt myself midway through the movie. I tore tendons in my left elbow and my triceps. Prepare for all this action, he was on a strict fitness plan. He said, I worked out really hard every morning. I ran four miles and lift weights.

Had I not done that, I would have been a mess, regardless of being buff. He wasn’t allowed to do interviews shirtless. That’s his signature thing. He took Larry the Cable Guy’s sleeveless thing and next leveled that going shirtless. While Bert Kreisher had to put on a shirt for his press tour, and boy he’s been everywhere.

Bert told Collider, I hate wearing shirts and I’m gaining weights and on on. My shirts fit me right now. He was asked a publicist, say, you’re wearing a shirt today, and Bert said, yo, yeah. They have shirts for everything I’m supposed to do, and I’m so fat i can’t fit in them, and I end up taking them off in the middle of the interview anyway, because my buttons are just bulging. He loved every second of the movie.

He said, I felt like every day was the first date, and so everything we did was just a blast. The one thing that was tedious for me, I have tactile issues. Like in America were a little more sensitive to people’s mental health, and I didn’t like it when they put blood on me, and I had to have blood on me for half the movie. He was sticky. It was uncomfortable.

I’d be all over my hands and that was the most tedious. They’d just be like, put it on. I’d be like, well, can we wait until I eat?

And then once it was on, it was uncomfortable all day because I was sticky.

That was the only part of the movie that I was like, I’d never be able to do one of those movies like Eddie Murphy would do with the clumps, would all that makeup. I could never do that. I’d be losing my mind. New York’s famous comedy seller has opened a replica at the Real All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. That’s kind of neat This week Thursday through Sunday, a showcase with Rocky Dale, Davis, Joe Perino, Alex Koman, partist Parker and Mark Cohen two shows a night seven and nine thirty.

The LA Times asked some comedians about Elon Musk, thinking that Elon Musk is funny. In March, Congressman Jeffrey’s tweeted how stems are fighting hard for the American people, right wing extremists are fighting each other. In response to Jeffrey’s tweet, Elon Musk said, that’s what she said. Harry Knobol, who said the problem is fighting hard, doesn’t have a double meaning.

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Also, a second sentence preceded the jokes, so it’s not really clear what he …

Spencer Critten didn’t said what if he had just said chick please? It’s just as stupid, just as not sensible, but it fits a little better, right. Laurie Kilmartin said, the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. It’s the kind of comedy that Ai writes, and this is what you can expect if they don’t settle the writer strike. I like what you did there.

Musk also made a joke about the pay attention here Texas Institute of Technology and Science. Right, so it’s the t I t S paying attention, trying to keep a clean Yes, the Texas Institute of Technology is science. Spencer kritten And said, saying that word out loud isn’t funny. Fun Bags is funny. Boobs is funnier.

There’s a lot of them, rocket dogs, chesticles. If you want to find the comedy in breasts, it’s there. And I’d sell to you yesterday about James A. Castor’s new musical album. I just thought this was cute.

A Castor remembers the moment he fell in love with music. He was six years old. He was at a party and somebody put on a compilation album and the songs on it men, it Works, down Under and Centerfold by the Jay Giles Band. Great tunes there, James A Castor And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows to see tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night on Strike. The Late Bought says, tonight marks the end of Succession, the show that made us all feel grateful for our own dysfunctional families. It’s like therapy, but with more money and cousin Gregg. The ending of Succession as everybody talking, just like that infamous sent Brano’s finale, Cousin Gregg better hope they don’t invite him out for ice cream.

Barry also ends Tonight, Bill Hayter until the La Times. You’re always trying to write what’s honest for these characters as opposed to fan service. I’ve done fan service and the show immediately spits it out. We did something I can’t say what it is in the finale. I wrote it and Sarah said, why are we shooting this?

But that’s good. Hopefully you create an environment where people can come up to you and go this stinks. I put together today’s show very early on Friday morning. There was still almost no reviews available for Bert Kreisher’s The Machine. I find that very suspicious.

But at eight am on Friday, Rotten Tomatoes audience score was ninety nine percent not out if critics had reviewed it yet some of the audience reviews, and I would expect that Berts fans would like this movie a lot. One said, I was expecting a small movie better suited for streaming, but to my surprise, the movie was very cinematic and it actually had some great emotional beats as well as a wealth of comedy and committed fund from Mark Amil, maybe four stars. Another review, if you’re looking for something to laugh out loud out in public space, The Machine is a great deal of crude, obnoxious and provocative content delivered by the Machine himself, Bert Kreisher and Mark Amil is a treasure troph of talent he deserves well as Bert’s father. One professional review from the AU they wrote, The machines central story isn’t all that amusing. It’s played out by Jimmy Tasho as a strapping twenty something Bert.

The film’s flashback sequences surrounding his wild youth and how he utilized the pop culture of late nineties to make himself seem more humorous than he was aren’t all that funny. It’s extended exhibition that we just don’t need. But there’s an energy to Kreisher’s eventual story, and it helps that, in spite of his relative crudeness, that he’s watchable. The eventual story spoilers, ends up bringing Burt and his father played by Mark Hamill, to Russia, where the sleek villain and heel’s arena is described as camping it up just enough, demands Burt. He traces two decades plus steps and locate a watch that belongs to her mobster father.

There isn’t much here that demands to be seen on the big screen. If there was ever a movie that screamed streaming, it’s this. But you have to hand it to Sony Pictures for releasing This in theaters, playing into the welcome mind frame of a decade gone by, where smaller films such as This still got the most minute of lookins, even if it barely lasted as a theatrical engagement. Crazier fans are surely the machines target audience, and I suspect they’ll Gell enthusiastically with his brand of comedy. They gave it three stars out of five.

Movie Phone asked Bert Kreisher, what was it like playing an exaggerated version of yourself on screen? Where it said. Even in the shortcomings, I don’t fight people. I’m not a big fighter. So even in the fight scenes when I sucked, it was okay because Burt would suck.

That make a stress for me because I was really embarrassed because I didn’t know I had a kissing scene. I don’t read the action in scripts. I just read the dialogue. If I read the action, it’s going to take me a day and a half. So my wife comes to Serbian.

She says, you know you have a kissing scene tomorrow and I was like what. She goes, yeah, you have to kiss your wife. I’m like, hold on, are you being serious? She’s like yeah. I was so uncomfortable.

I hadn’t kissing another woman in twenty years. I’m not good at kissing people. I’m not the best kisser, and I don’t like it. I didn’t like first kiss as ever, So now I have to have a first kiss with someone in front of all these people. That made me uncomfortable.

He said he didn’t even pitch this movie. Did I do the story already? I can’t remember. Because I did a lot of shorts for YouTube, and I did the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is my weekly show on the Live one app. New episode out today, So forgive me if I did this one already, but I’ll do it quick.

He didn’t pitch the movie, pitch two others. This suit at the movie studio goes, so, i’ll make a movie with you. What do you want to make? Bert says, if you’re telling me, I get to make a movie, I want to make the Machine. The guy’s like, well, why didn’t you pitch that?

And Bert says, I don’t know. Pardon me? Is like, what if it’s a big hit and then I get kidnapped by the Russian mafia. The suit guy goes, sold, that’s your movie. It’s Godfather Part two meets the Hangover.

I love it. That’s some high praise for the movie. Movie phone lists other movies silvery to the Machine. Movie phone algorithm. I think you’ve lost your mind.

Here you’re ready, here’s the list. The Godfather and The Godfather Part two. You know, the two movies sometimes consider it be the two greatest movies of all time. Yeah, the Machine is just like that. They also compared it to The Godfather Part three, which you can’t even compare to The Godfather Part two.

So I’m not sure how this works also on the list they hang over the hangover port two, they hangover port three, which side unseen. I’m gonna guess it compares to the equalizer John Wick and clearly Sebastian Meniscalco is about my father. I’m not sure about your list. Their movie Phone. Sarah Silverman’s special debut on HBO last night.

She was on The Last Laugh podcast. In the special, Sarah jokes about how some of her humor might be selling out her culture for laughs. At one point during the special, Spoilers, Sarah asked the audience to the name of the book that Adolf Hitler once wrote. She said, some of the non Jews, I feel like the answered that as well. The answer mine comp She translates it to My Struggle and jokes My Struggle is there a more Jewish sounding book than actual Hitler’s book?

She says, I’m selling out my culture for laughs. I mean, if you think about it, what could be more authentically Jewish? I’m sorry, I can’t help it just makes me so much money. Ticknasarow canceled performance. This is making me go, Hm, what’s going on here?

It’s just odd to me. She has canceled her performance at the Walton Arts Center that was going to take place during the Northwest Arkansas Pride events. The reason given was a scheduling conflict. Now, in my experience in the entertainment industry, scheduling conflict is usually code for how do I get out of this gracefully? Maybe she booked a movie who Knows was scheduled for June twenty third.

That’s also when the Transmorchant Transfest we’re scheduled in Fayetteville. We’ll see what lands on Tig’s schedule on June twenty third. The New York Times wrote about naked stand up comedy. Billy Presida is the thirty three year old producer and host of the Naked Comedy Show. It’s exactly what you think you do comedy, but you don’t wear clothes.

The second time he performed nude, the woman he lost his virginity two showed up. At last she knew what to look like. He bombed, he said. Bombing is embarrassing, but bombing naked is the worst thing that can happen. He says.

For a good night of clothed comedy in Brooklyn, it can be tough to draw crowd, but starting last September, The Naked Comedy Show sold out ten days in advance. He now stages two nights every month and most have sold out. He books veteran comics, the kind of that have done sets on late night talk shows. Their material tends not to be that different from their regular gigs. He looks for for diversity not just in race, gender and sexual orientation, but also body type, and says it’s nice not to have five rip comics on one bill.

Main criteria are you funny? One comedian Twin Colin was the middle of a set. He stopped. He was pretending to forget a joke. He bends over and he grabs a small square of paper to remind him where the joke is.

Oh, where was the paper hidden under his foreskin? All right, it’s the last day of the New Zealand Comedy Festival. I’m going to miss you. I’ve played this guy before, Takashi Wakasugi. I played him when we were looking at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

I like him a lot. His show was called Welcome to Japan, and I found a few other unnecessary promby in No Sharyat, you are in trouble, fast Fast baping, Babe. You know so many people bape in Nosharyat, they’ve everywhere. I think that’s unnecessary, PRAMB. You know, smoking a cigarrette or stop smoking dolls?

Enough dollas enough, we don’t need to be treated. That’s necessary, RAMB. Some of my OSI friends they drink beer too much and they’re worried and they changed. They changed to the vodka. I’m soda.

Do you know Vodca I’m sada. That’s also unnecessary, RMB. But they drink much more, you know, drinking beer or stop drinking. That was enough, that was enough. We don’t need to between.

And you want to be to my country Japan, Japan is fantastic. You should go. You can go now. But in the pandemic Japan border clause for a long time, and so many of my OSI friends they wanted to go to Japan, but they could not because the border claused right then they went to South Korea instead, And I think that’s unnecessary, PRAMB. James a Castor has a new album.

He’s not sure if it’s serious, are funny. It’s a music album. It’s called Party Gator Purgat story. James understands if you’re writing it off because it’s music not comedy, says I do that when people do similar projects, I don’t listen to them straight away unless people tell me. By the way, William Shatner’s album with Ben Folds is actually amazing and should check it out.

Amen on that the William Shatner version of Common People is an epic, epic, epic, epic record that will just bring you joy. William Shatner, Common People pauses podcast. Your phone’s in your hand, go grab that song right now. William Shatner, Common People all right to you back eight. Caster hopes you’ll eventually feel the same way about Purgatory.

The album has its roots in comedy. Was part of a pilot from mockumentary in which a Caster, a former drummer, was making about recording an album as a costume alligator. The series wasn’t picked up, but it left him with a bunch of tracks. Not to say Party Gator, Purgatory is fully serious. It’s still inspired by the death, Afterlife and rebirth of the party Gator, but The Time says it’s also surprisingly polished, dynamic in times poignant.

A Castor says, just Lizard dies by its own merit and how good it actually is. And that’s it and I’m comfortable with that. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see tomorrow. Who does like vacations?

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny McK with your daily company news. Late Night is off to the Writers Strike The Late Bought said. Netflix is cracking down on passwords sharing. It’s like they want us to break up with our exes and our best friend and that cousin we only see Thanksgiving.

Netflix is getting serious about passwords sharing. They’re implementing a new feature called the Awkward Family. Zoom. Call Bert Crazier. He’s got a new movie.

It’s called The Machine and the Light. Times asked him when did storytelling and drawing from real life experiences developing your stand up? Bert said, I was so obsessed with comics who had their own voice and their own story, and that’d say something you could tell wasn’t a scripted thing or something from the collective unconscious of stand up. It was something so authentic, and I remember being jealous of it and then realizing I have those stories too. I just have to be brave enough to say them.

It’s really tough to follow your own voice, in your own instinct. That’s the struggle, really. Bert said, I wasn’t someone who told my own stories. People told stories about me. I was the life of the party, the life of the party is never the one telling you he’s the party.

He’s just the life of the party.

And then someone’s like, dude, you hear what Bert did at the party last night.

And then I’d be in the room going, oh yeah, it was crazy, and I could tell you the story and Bell should a little bit and make it even funnier. But I was the guy that people tell the story about. I wasn’t the one telling the story about me. When I got in a stand up, it didn’t feel natural to tell your own story about yourself. So probably the first ten years of my career, I just wanted to learn how to tell a joke with a set up in a punchline.

I thought that was the craft, but it said the first time I’d told the machine, it was on Doctor Drew’s Love Line. An old college classmate of mine called up and said, hey, why did you tell the story about the time you robbed your friends on a train in Russian? And I was like, oh yeah, And that was like the most organic version of the story ever, because it was like I was in college again. I told it to Drew. He was blown away.

He literally said, that’s your story, that’s your movie. I trimmed it and I tightened it. I told it on a couple of morning radio shows and it was getting better every time, and I was like, oh, it’s a good radio story.

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And then when I did Rogan, that was the game changer.

I went on the show the first time and I was like, next time I come back, remind me to tell you the story about the time I got involved with the Russian MAFI and robbed a train. Rogan was like what. I came back the next week and he was like, you gotta tell that story. So I’d sold it and Rogan said, this is your story. This is your movie.

Okay, Bert really did two different people say, quote, this is your story, that’s your movie. I suspect that’s a little rehearsed. That one story changed my DNA as a stand up, like, I’m not even remotely recognizable to who I was ten years ago. With that one story, I learned that the most valuable lesson about storytelling is once the story has an end, you’re good. At first, I didn’t have an end to the machine.

I thought if I made the story funny in the middle, that’s all I needed to do. And I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. I thought the end was the tagline tonight you party with us. I was trying to punch it up, make it funny and edgy. One of the things people said a lot in Russia was they would remind you, this is Russia.

You’re in Russia. They would say that all the time. This is in America, you’re in Russia. I came up with the tagline after I asked the officer if I’ll get in trouble with my teacher. He says to me, f that bitch, this is Russia.

The light bulb went off, like I finally had an end to that story. Bert Kreischer said in twenty nineteen, I went to Legendary Studios and I pitched three things that weren’t the Machine. The producer there goes, all right, I’ll make it, and Bert says which one. The producer says, I don’t care. I just want to make a movie with you.

I think it would be fun. Which one do you want to make? Bert said, if you’re telling me I can make whatever a movie I want, it’s not going to be the three I just pitched you. And he said, what are you gonna make? And I said the machine, and he goes, I was wondering why you didn’t pitch me that.

I told him because I was so bored of pitching it. Best case scenario, it’s a hit movie and I got kidnapped by the Russian mafia. The producer looks at me and goes, sold, that’s our movie. It’ll be like Godfather meets the Hangover. SOSM Sigoura’s new special Sledgehammer July fourth, The Holly Reporter said, your whole family features prominently in the hour.

To what extents do they have in putting? Tom said, I mean, I don’t check with them at all. Actually, I had a much harsher bit about my mom that I didn’t do in the special. I was like, oh, I should do this when she’s dead, Like this is too mean. I remember when I was doing it for a while on tour and then she came to a show and I skipped it at that show and my sister was there, and I told my sister the bit and she was like, oh my god, Mom would have died in the room.

But my mom is seeing me do the closing bit spoiler it’s about his mom getting high off edibles and she came up to me after and goes, you’re a piece of crap. That’s what she said to me, but you know what, she still hung out. Sigoura says, yesterday I picked up my youngest he’s four. We were driving and somebody cut me off and I go idiot, and my son started laughing. He goes, you really are a comedian.

I go, and he’s four years old and he says, that was funny. You said that guy is an idiot. He loved it. And my seven year old saw me talk about him on Stephen Colbert and he was fascinated, and then he corrected something. He was like, I didn’t say that.

I said this, And I told him I just said it to be funny and he’s like, yeah, but it didn’t go like that, and I’m like, okay, okay. Sigoura was asked to describe his fan base, and he said it’s usually like, oh, this guy kind of looks like me. Like if I’m at the airport and he has a beard and needs to lose twenty pounds, I’m like, oh, this guy’s about to say something to me. He’s gonna be a fan. And they’re usually dragging their women over to me, I wouldn’t say.

The women are coming up to me left and right on their own, like, oh, I’m a huge fan. I mean I have a few and very lucky, but I don’t know. It’s always so much easier to talk about somebody else’s act and somebody else’s fan base because you just see it much more clearly. They asked Tom Sigoura, Hey, do you look at your pal berd Crazher and thank God? Like to do that?

Meaning a movie? And Tom said, actually, I have something I can’t tell you about just yet. Hmm. I’ll give you the scoop when the strike ends. The reporter asked him, do you feel like Hollywood executives know what to do with you and your talent?

Tom said, no, I don’t think they do. That’s the reason this thing is happening because I did it myself. I feel like I’ve been telling the past, Oh you know, this is the and like really, BS is how I’d describe it. But a big part of it, too, honestly, is that I’ve toured so aggressively that I just haven’t been available. There were offers for cool things that came in and I had to be like am in Toronto doing shows and they’re like, well, that’s when this show shoots.

But this store ending was kind of nice because I knew there was a break on the rise and to make this other stuff happen, and here was an interesting teaser. They said, does Brad Pitt have any idea prominently features in the special? And Tom said no, he does not. Varidy got a little political with Wanda Sykes and asked, Wanda, do you think Trump will be nominated again? Wanna said, I don’t see how.

I mean, they’re definitely pockets that he’s going to dominate, but I don’t see across the country how we’ll get the nomination, right? Are we that bad? Is the country that horrible? Really? Varidy pointed out he’s pulling higher than any other GOP candidate.

Wanda said, well, I mean they’re awful. Biden will beat him again. Yep, I said it, old man, Biden will beat him again. They asked Wanda why she didn’t talk about the slap again. Wanda was one of the presenters that night.

Why she didn’t talk about the slap in her special? And she said, I didn’t really have any jokes for it. I think people were tired of it, and I figured it was Chris’s face, so that’s his material. She wishes will Smith the best and says, I really hope you can come back, or really do Did he reach out at all? Yes?

He did when he called, I had the worst throat cold. It wasn’t COVID, but I was really sick, and I was like, hey, I appreciate you reaching out. When I feel better, I’ll getting such. But by then I was like he called, I don’t know what the call was for. I’m good.

Would want to Sykes ever host the Oscars again? She says, no, I don’t think so. I mean it was fun, but solo. No, thank you. Larry Wilmore addressed the Harvard College class of twenty twenty three and encouraged students to view success as a journey rather than a destination.

He offered three pieces of pseudo wisdom to the graduating seniors. These are phrases they can use in their lives. They are it is what it is, do what you gotta do, and play better. Larry says. It’s for when you’re just trying to take it to the next level, or you see some kind of improvement in your life, or you’re just unsatisfied with where You’re headed, play better.

John Cleese says the press has misrepresented him. He has denied reports that the Loretta scene is going to be cut from the stage version of Monty Python’s Life of Brian for fear that it’s transphobic. Last week, it was reported that the scene which a male member of the People’s Front of Judaea said he wanted to become a woman, the rumor was that scene would be dropped. The report was based on Klees receiving feedback from the actors that had run through that the scene would be problematic, but John said he was merely repeating the concerns but wouldn’t act on them. He said on Twitter a few days ago, I spoke to an audience outside London.

I’d told them I was adapting the Life of Brian so we could do it as a stage show, not a musical. I said. We’d had a table reading of the latest draft in New York City a year ago, and all the actors, several of them Tony Winners, had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene. I have, of course, no intention of doing so. So someone in the audience had called a journalist and misreported me.

Amazingly, none of the British media called a check. The reboard also said he was cutting the crucifixion scene but not the song Always Look on the Right Side of Life. Klees did not address the crucifixion report, but said the song would remain for very good reason. We don’t want to upset Eric Idol, and it’s his only contribution to the life of Brian’s script. Seems like those two aren’t getting along because Idol had suggested the song had been cut and tweeted, I have nothing at all to do with this production or adaptation.

As for the Loretta scene, a clease tell the Daily Mail, so here you have something that’s never had a complaint in forty years that I’ve heard of, and now all of a sudden, we can’t do it because it’ll offend people. What are you supposed to make of that? But I think there were a lot of things that were actually, in some strange way predictive of what was actually going to happen. Later in the original scene, Eric Idle plays Stan. He tells his fellow revolutionaries, I want to become a woman from now on.

I want you to call me Loretta. John Cleese’s character says what Idol says, it’s my right as a man. I want to have babies. It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them. Clease’s character, you can’t have babies, Idol.

Don’t you oppress me. Please, I’m not oppressing you. Stan you haven’t got a womb. Where’s the feet is going to jest date? You’ve got to keep it in a box.

From the Guardian, they took a look at Comedy Unleashed, a quote rebellion against the safe tramline orthodoxy of the contemporary comedy circuit. Wow, it’s a haven for freethinking comedians who leave their self censorship button at the door. Comedy Unleashed features some quote unquote canceled at figures, such as Andrew Lawrence and Grand Lenin. They’re both playing to night. The Guardian says that the man is there five years in.

The three hundred seat theater regularly sells out. It’s a monthly event. Co founder Andy Shaw said, if somebody’s canceled, we’ll put them on on prisable let the audience decide if they’re funny or not. Our red line is is it funny? If people are constantly worried about the possibility offending a single person in an audience that they’ll never follow their art nor be funny that your comedy needs for today.

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late night writers still on strike now, the late Bot, one of you Wisenheimer’s must be feeding it material about my actual off air personality because these are way too close. So in real life, I’ve got Taylor Swift tickets tonight. That’s right, I know you’re jealous. I sat online for four hours and got them.

Late Bot says, tonight, Taylor Swift’s concert, it’s about to get a dose of cranky cool as Johnny Mack races the audience with his presence. Brace yourselves for some serious eye rolls and disapproving nods. Late Bot says, I could already see Johnny Mack in the crowd, awkwardly attempting to dance like no one’s watching. Spoilert we’re all watching. Taylor Swift’s concert is known for its energetic atmosphere, but I have a feeling Johnny Mack will be the one guy in the crowd muttering can we just get to the encore ready?

I just want to go to bed, pretty much true. Bert Craisher’s movie The Machine opens today. I’ve been excited about this one, but as I’m recording one thirty pm on Thursday. There are no reviews available yet. Now Sebastian Maniscalco’s movie, which also opens today, plenty of reviews and those reviews are pretty good, so I’m wondering why the movie company is hiding The Machine usually not a good sign.

The trailer look pretty good, the cast is pretty good. We’ll see rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug use, and some sexual references. The Machine is one hour and fifty two minutes long. If you are not familiar with the Machine, It’s based on Bert Kreisher’s comedy Routine from twenty sixteen, where he recounted his real life college experience in Russia with some Russian gangsters. The movie features a plot spoilers light spoilers where Bert and his father, who’s played by Mark Hamill, are kidnapped by the mob.

They want revenge on Burt for how we wrong them all those years ago, Bert Krescher’s old movie web Working on the movie was refreshing. It’s really fun to watch someone as talented as our writers do their work. The coolest thing and the thing I took the most away from the movie is letting people do their job and not trying to micromanage as a stand up you micromanage everything. You’re the writer, producer, actor to you do everything. I get my own beer from the fridge, like I do everything.

And so getting on that movie set and watching Assassin’s Kill it was awesome and inspiring. He told Paul Star. The big inspiration for the movie was Romancing the Stone. That was such a great movie that it didn’t need to be funny because it was a great movie. Bert says, I think going into this, we thought, let’s make a great movie that also happens to be funny, and I think we accomplished it.

In case you’re worried if Bert Kreischer is going to go big time Hollywood now he’s a film star, he says, nah, he likes performing in front of thousands of fans. You don’t get it in acting. You don’t even get it. In podcasting and podcasting you’re kind of doing it on an island, not even realizing anybody hears it. Reforming live is very immediate.

I’m a junkie for immediacy. I want things delivered yesterday. I don’t think I have success. I think I just worked really hard and it looks like I’m successful. But I bust my ass on the road.

A lot of comedians like to take time off. I just don’t understand that, what are you gonna do with your time? Why wouldn’t you want to work? So we will see what the reviews are. Sebastian Maniscalco’s About My Father also opens today.

RATEA PG thirteen one hour, twenty nine minutes, perfect, Sebastian, perfect, enough with the two hour forty minute movies Everybody an hour twenty nine Yes, reviews for this one pretty good. Sebastian was a preview in Chicago the other day and look back on growing up in Chicago and said, growing up here and getting ripped to shreds. Chicago likes to bust chops, and that gives you a thick skin. I know a couple of friends in Chicago were funnier than I am. They should have been comedians, and I just grew up with a fun group of people, a fun family.

When people come to my house, my parents would always make them laugh. Sebastian discussed the acting process and said, I’ve noticed it’s very hard to act say lines and do something else at the same time. For example, driving a car and pulling the car over while talking to someone else is something that I have a hard time doing in real life, let alone when we’re doing it in a film. They actually gave me an activity to do in the script, and I found myself becoming more concentrated on the activity than I was on the film, so it was definitely a learning experience. I also have a problem with memorizing my lines.

I have to continually say them. I know some people can read their lines once and boom, they’re off to the races. I actually found rehearsal it’ll be really helpful. We would burn through the lines few times. It was all a lesson in filmmaking for me.

Sebastian said, if somebody’s saying lines that are funnier, better than what’s in the script you wrote, let’s have at it. The reason you hire actors in the first places for them to bring their own spin of the characters, and if they want to improvise, we’re totally game for it, just as long as it’s done script the storyline. It’s a sort of collaborative process where we’ve got a director, a cinematographer and other actors involved. You just have to be open and letting people play in the sandbox and build their own castle. I definitely had a great time just playing in this movie.

There’s no stand up. In Sebastian Maniscalco’s about my father, he said, I never really even thought about it. Stand up didn’t really have a story here. The story was a relationship between my wife and I and me being a hotel general managers. What I would have done if I wasn’t a stand up, So that’s where that came from.

But I didn’t see stand up being an integral part of the movie. But I did for a living. Really didn’t matter. It was more about the relationship with dad and go to meet my wife’s family. As for the movie itself, Variety says Sebastian plays quote himself, the successful Chicago based manager of a batique hotel who falls for a painter and artist, Ellie Collins.

Sebastian, the character is the son of widowed Italian immigrant hairdresser Salvo played by Robert de Niro. Sebastian is slightly uneasy with the affluence of his love interest family, which owns an international chain of resorts and hotels. Light spoilers here. When Ellie invites him demeanor parents over fourth of July. He decides it’s a perfect opportunity to propose.

The only hiccup is the family ring Sebastian and hope to use for his proposal is held tightly by Salvo played by Robert de Niro, who insists on vetting the Collins is himself before agreeing to hand it off. Right, you can kind of see where this is going, right to meet the parents. Yes, there’s an inevitable culture clash between Ellie’s family and blue collar Salvo. Sebastian navigates each social opportunity with clenched unease. The Hollywood reporter not as positive.

They say the film feels like the pilot for a network sitcom, pointing out it’s not dirty enough for streaming that you wonder why the cast isn’t smiling In a montage scorts where perky theme song during the opening credits, little spoiler here coming up to quickly bring the audience up to speed about his persona, Mattascalco narrates a short lecture about his family history and Sicilian roots, complete with images of Italian men wearing tight speedos. At last piece of information should immediately clue you into which comedic route the film is going to pursue two words for you, lure clash. You can pretty much figure out the rest. Holly Reporter summary is about my father. Isn’t nearly as funny as it aspires to be, but it’s saving grace as its lack of mean spirits.

Most of the characters are characteratures to some degree, but they’re never viciously mocked. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting a comedy show tonight to support ALS research as his godson Joey’s currently battling the disease. Perella was diagnosed with the disease about a year ago. He spoke to Katsie Envy and said, my life is perfect in every way. I feel tremendously fortunate.

He says his biggest obstacle in living with ALS is losing my voice, my inability to interact with other people and to be able to express my personality. Jimmy Kimmel said, you can’t imagine that something like this would happen to anybody but somebody who’s so alive, and we need to do something about it. The benefit tonight six thirty at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club on the Las Vegas Strip with the holiday weekend coming up. Just want to point out I will have normal episodes at the normal times all weekend long. Drew Carey has announced on Twitter he’ll pick up the tab for all striking writers at two restaurants in LA that includes the tip.

Drew said, show your WGA card at Bob’s Big Boy and burd Bank were Swingers Diner on Beverly near Fairfax, and your meal is free for the duration of the strike. Dine in only tip included. The Paley Center for Media announced on Thursday that the screening of the season three finale and possible series finale of Ted Lasso and a panel with the cast that would have included Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt, who place Coach Beard that’s been scrapped due to quotes unforeseen circumstances. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the quotes unforeseen circumstances are the strike, as Jason Sadekas co created the series and along with Brendan Hunt, serves as a writer. The Writer’s Guild as asked members not to participate in press events that were organized by studios, So yeah, unforeseen circumstances.

Ivan Decker was planning on filming two specials last night. I will assume they actually happened, heats all the times colonist. We live in a content crazy society now. That time in which you have to release something is getting shorter and shorter. Comedians are now having to release a new hour of material every year.

Let’s just enough time. There were three years between Chris Rocks Bring the Pain and Bigger and Blacker, and those were two of the best specials of all time. He says of his special his goal is not to make a lot of money. His main goal is exposure, getting my name out there and finding people who like the kind of comedy I do. I just want to perform live and getting do that in larger and larger venues for more and more people.

That’s the main idea. He’s been working on the set for three months, tinkered with the routine over twenty performances, and said, I wanted to make sure the material is something that will work across all different environments, and very thankful for all the prep and rehearsals I’ve had. It’s like a baseball player working on their swing. You want to make sure you get a hit as often as possible. The new Zealand Comedy Festival winds down this weekend.

If you can make it there by Saturday, go see Sreen Nairs, Sree shows called upside Down Uber and Uber Eats sometimes have the same drivers. How do I know this because last week I got delivered to a white couple and the curry day ordered Venture Town and had a blast. It was great. Could you imagine one curry in the middle of the dance floor. Everyone’s like that looks hot.

Little hecky, little hack. Maybe not worth the flight to New Zealand. Why don’t you go to Idaho instead? This weekend Idaho’s Best, Worst, and Weirdest Comedians. Local comedian Beth Norton told The Idaho Statesman that last year’s competition, which featured a one thousand dollars award for the best comedian, wasn’t the best for the comedian’s mental health.

So this time each night will award the best, worst, and weirdest comedians. Norton said, there’s a competition element, but it’s a spoof. It’s kind of like making fun of competitions. She wasn’t quite sure what the categories would be, but some of the possibilities Idaho’s Best Lesbian, Idaho’s Worst Christian and Idaho’s weirdest take on Pearl Harbor. And The Guardian went to see Phil Lang, one of my favorite comics.

He was at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Guardian gave him four stars out of five and they said, in a quietly confident show with gangs from the sophisticated to the stupid, Phil is consistently enjoyable. Yeah. Finally his special, I think it’s on Netflix. There’s one of those out there.

You get a little bit of everything he’s good at is. Phil kicks off with cross cultural British Chinese material of the type that made his name. He’s got riff on the British fear of reheating rice and one about requiring nipples to be covered even when the quote unquote boob blob is exposed. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Late Night Writers on Strike, The Late Bought said you see. Ronda Santis announced he’s running for president on Twitter. Finally a candidate who’s messed with the order of making big decisions in two hundred and eighty characters are less. Ronda Santas running for president. His entire campaign will be conducted through DMS.

I bet his campaign slogan will be something like retweet if you agree, ignore if you don’t. Just for laps Montreal just two months away, sneaking up on me. They’ve announced some more names. There’s a pre sale today at ten am. If you want to go on there, use the code at jfl MTL Leslie Jones, Eddie Hazard, Made Martin, Mike Ward, Running Chang, Neil Brennan, Rommy Yusef Darcy and Jeer Brad Williams.

Please don’t destroy Jessica Curson, Felipia Sparza, Gina You Sheer, Kyle Kinane, He’s awesome, and a bunch of names I did not read. Leslie Jones will do a gala on July twenty ninth, so well, May Martin One night only for Ronny Chieng At Neil Brennan and Rommy Yusef Russell Well MC four shows, JFL previously announced Donelle Rolling, Stephtola and adrian I Polucci. She’s fantastic. The Just for the Culture Show at Club Soda will have Alonzo Bowden, John Marcos Serresi who killed last year, Nicole Johnson, and Malik Elasal. I’m planning on deep diving on Montreal tomorrow Today.

Candidly, I have to get the podcast down. I actually have to go to a meeting for once. Can you believe it? I know, even Johnny Mack has to work sometimes. Variety caught up with Wanda Sykes.

In her new special, she does a run of jokes related to the trans community, and Wanda said, I knew it’s such a delicate issue to talk about. I’m not trans, but they have my support one hundred percent. I wanted to find something where it can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how stupid and hateful it really is. I was in a woman’s bathroom one time and I was like, who would want to come in here? Anyway?

It was like I kind of want to go check out the men’s room sometimes it’s even cleaner. That’s how that whole bit started. I’ve always been grossed out by bathrooms. Variety asked, do you feel that because you’re a SPECIALS and Netflix special that you have to do the topic because Chappelle et cetera, et cetera, And she said, I don’t know about balancing it out because I think what he said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community. So yeah, the scale is still tipped.

But I know I wanted to say something because so much have been said on that platform. Meeting Netflix, I definitely wanted to say something on the other side of it. They asked if she knows Dave, and she said, m we started doing stand up together in DC. Yeah, go way back. As she’s spoken to Dave Chapelle about this no long pause.

I mean it’s not intentional, you know. I still love the guy, but I haven’t a chance to talk to him. If our pats did cross, I totally would say something. Variety said, there’s been a real backlash among some comedians about so called comedy want to Syke said, it’s pretty funny. If you want to give me the label of a woke comic, that’s fine.

That’s great. What makes me laugh is that they say it’s like an insult. Oh they’re woke, thank you. Yeah, I read some stuff from time time. Yeah, I know a few thinks it’s not an insult at all.

I mean George Carlin he was woke, which prior woke, Bill Hicks woke. It’s almost like they’re anger that we’re evolving. It’s sad, really. Whitney Cummings told Okay magazine it’s always been hard to be a comedian. In some ways, it’s easier than ever because you can build up and engage in an audience on social media and don’t have to wait for Johnny Carson Er Jay Leno with David Letter going to make you famous.

Comedians have always been physically attacked, including Ronny Dangerfield and Jim Jeffreys, but after the Chris Rock nightmare and this nonsense narrative the comedians are bullies, it seems to have escalated. She said, the great part of being a comedian today is you don’t have to wait for Hollywood to pick you and then censor you. Most comics of podcasts, I can do what they want without all the gatekeepers. I think of anything, it’s hard to be a human in this day and age and any job, and it seems we have a low chance of being replaced by robots. And this is coming from a comedian who made a twin robot of herself.

Some rumors that Lebron James Mayor sired, Ron Funches said, well, that’s just because of how great he is. We judge him basically on his passing when he’s done before. But to see a player this old still playing his whole entire draft class has retired, moved on selling cars that use car lots, Twayne Wade’s hosting a TV show, and Lebron’s still out there bawling, putting up twenty points, getting rebounds, affecting the game. At that age, it’s crazy. He should be like Robert Parrish, just sitting on the bench, hanging out, knitting a sweater.

But he’s not. He’s crushing it. He and Son Brady are anomalies. We’ve never seen things like that before. Now, if you were watching Blue Bloods and watch these season thirteen finale and you’re like, I know that house Jackie the joke man lives there, you were correct.

Apparently Jackie rents out his house all the time. And says I was till the neighbors relaxed. The circus is coming to town and they give money to everybody in gift cards. There everybody wins. Anything they do to the house or rerange is put back precisely.

His house has also been used in the Affair and Instinct. Jackie the joke Man lists his house with the Nassau County Film Commission. Anyone can, and Jackie said, everybody mentioned it to my favorite show, my uncle’s favorite show, that’s my mother’s favorite show. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited gonna have my popcorn. Jackie wouldn’t say exactly how much he was paid, but indicated it’s tens of thousands of dollars.

Only a few days left of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and it’s been an amazing run of Southern Hemisphere comedy. Right we had Melbourne and then Sydney and Sydney overlap with New Zealand. But after this weekend, Johnny Mexicanna have to focus on North American comedy once again. But New Zealand’s not over yet. If you can make it down there tomorrow, go see Paul Douglass.

His shows called The Thirst for the Worst figured out the hard way. The worst place you can go to with a hangover is a retirement village. Yeah, worst place. They’re way too sprightly, you know. At least the fall was visiting a rest home.

They’re kind of confined to their rooms, and you can just do that thing we all do when you go to the hospital and you just be lying down the hallway but you can’t help but like get a little looking at the other rooms. You’re like, oh my god, you know. But retirement villagers they wait, they moved too much. They’re too mobile old people to retire villages. They’re all like free range geriatrics.

And that’s what I was worried about. As soon as we pulled into the parking lot, I thought that they would see these and be like, oh, fresh airs. I’m gonna tell him a yahn, you know. Sure enough, I reckon. I got two steps out of the car.

One of them is like, my grandson’s got a hat like that, and I was like, there he does. He was fun, very charismatic. If you’re looking at the video, The Rue Island Comedy Festival returns to Nate. Festival organizer Doug Key said, or kickoff tonight in Portsmouth at the Regged Island Brewery. Saturday and Sunday we’re at Jean Pickens and Monday at the Top of Pelham.

Who were the acts? We have comics from Canada, from La a bunch of New York City and some from random towns. They put in their submission and we watch hundreds of tapes. We select thirty comics out of around three hundred. Wow.

As far as the headliners, I look for who’s getting the most heat in the industry right now that I can afford. I see who’s gonna pop soon. I try to get them in the festival before they become unattainable. This year, the headliner Krista Stephano. He sold out over a month ago.

He also sold out Radio City Right organizer Doug Key, who are you looking forward to seeing? And he said, Napoleon Emal. He’s been on the scene for a while and he’s starting to get a little more notoriety. He just added, don’t tell comedy special that came out. These are like secret shows and all of them are going viral.

He’s playing tonight and then Mike Cannon. I’m super excited to see on Saturday at Jean Pickens. He’s a festival favorite and he’s our very first festival in twenty fifteen. Nice Eric Idol says the spamm Alot movie not gonna happen. It had been announced a few years back.

But here’s the catch within the pith everybody needs to agree on a project. Eric Idle wants to make the film, but apparently it’s been vetoed by John Clees, Michael Palin and oratory. Gilliam Idol simply said on Twitter, in regards of the film net the pythons killed it. He later added the deal from a few years ago has expired. He did not elaborate and why it was killed.

It seems like there might be a little strife amongst the pythons. John Clees is supposedly working on a stage adaptation of Life of Brian. Maybe Eric Idle should beto that you guys can trade. Wouldn’t that work out nicely? Yeah?

Do that? Eric? Courting to Eric Idle, he has nothing to do with Life of Brian, he said, I have nothing at all to do with this production or adaptation. Apparently Clees has cut the song. Of course, the song meeting always look on the bright side of life.

There will also not be a crucifixion on stage, so that all suggests different ending than the movie. We’ll see what happens Bad news for Azaz and Sorry Vultuates, Bad Fortune befell the set of Good Fortune as the production is shut down and definitely, as of May eighteenth, picketers showed up at the location, shutting down a night shoot. It’s not clear wind production will resume. And from the Wall Street Journal, You’re home for comedy news. Chinese dissidents new weapon against Beijing selling out New York comedy shows.

One of the hottest tickets in New York is a monthly open mic show conducted entirely in Mandarin by performers whose identities are sometimes hidden. This was organized by a group of exiled women’s rights activists from China. It’s we’re running for about a year, usually sells out. Recently, the website crashed because every seat was snatched up inside sixty seconds. The performers are amateurs, a mix of students, young professionals, and activists.

On a recent show, a blackclad young Chinese women riffed on the idea of one of her friends telling her to go back to China to return home as a citizen of a powerful country rather than remain a second class citizen in the US. The comedian joked, Yeah, I’m a minority here, but if I go back to China, I’m still female. Right. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify on YouTube.

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The Shark Deck. Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, The Late Night Writers still on strike. The Late Bought was talking about President Biden trying to get this budget deal done and pointed out the President Biden’s early bedtime is a double edged sword. On the one hand, it’s starting to negotiate when he’s in bed by seven. On the other hand, at least he won’t accidentally tweet his real thoughts at two AM and going to bed.

That’s a good thing because it prevents him from sending late night text to Republicans that start with hey you up. Tom Segura, he’ll have a new special on Netflix. Tom Sagora Sledgehammer coming out July fourth. Interesting choice of date there. Sagora filmed this before he sold out crowd at Phoenix’s celebrity theater, I Matchine.

He filmed it in front of like a half empty theater. Wouldn’t it be weird? This one we’ll talk about Tom Sagora’s comedian wife. They’re two young sons, his now widowed mom whoever’s been sharing his gummies and Brad Pitts. Tom just wrapped up his tour and he misses his two young kids.

He said, I got home two nights ago. By the time you’re hearing this, it’s probably more like four nights ago. I did my last show in Iceland, flew back, and yet at that age the kids, you miss a month and you’re like, whoa, you’re a different person. Tom looked back on the pandemic and said, you know, it’s hard to put yourself in that headspace again because now, honestly, anybody talks about pandemic stuff, you’re like, are they still talking about that? But you’d talk to your agent at the beginning there and they’d be like, yeah, I don’t know, I don’t know what’s coming back.

And when you go to a club in Oklahoma City, they’ll let you do a show and you’d agree to it. It was just a whole different world. An important part of this set for Tom Segura was talking about his father’s death. He said, obviously he didn’t play like, hey, this is a real serious thing I’m going to talk about, but it was definitely something that sat with me. I’ll say I’m really pleased with the special.

I made some really grown up decisions. I wanted this to be a tighter special. When I look back at my old specials. I always regret not cutting out more so I’ve made this grown up decision to cut big chunks that had really killed. There was one about being abroad that killed live, but it didn’t need to be in the special.

There was one that felt dated, and there was one we really contemplate because actually one of the Netflix executives was like, I love that bit, but it was four minutes, and we’ve now got it at sixty one minutes. So we’ll probably end up releasing the bits that were cut out online so people will still get to see them. But you realize it when you’re touring. If you do sixty minutes tight and it’s back with laughs, it’s more powerful than eighty minutes. It’s kind of loose.

The Oliood reporter said, your comedy isn’t overly political, but you do a bit in this special about Ted Cruise being particularly disgusting, and Sigore said, oh, that means you saw an older cut because that’s out of the special. Wait, why’d you cut it? Of course, I said, we were at sixty five minutes and it was four minutes. That was the one that the Netflix executive loved. Maybe I should put it back in, but Also, I look back on specials and feel like we got somebody’s name in your offense a song or TV show, It quickly feels aged.

So I tried to put myself in the mentality of somebody putting on the special in a few years and you know, he’s very well known now, but eventually people will be like, who’s Ted Cruise. Hollywood reporter very fascinated with the Ted Cruise bit. They said you were touring with it, Did you give any thoughts to it or have any concern about how a joke like that lance in certain parts of the country. Saigore said, what I figured out from doing it is the man is universally loathed. I mean I did that bit like you said, and red markets and blue markets.

It did in Canada, Australia, and sometimes when you travel you’re like, ah, how’s that gonna go tonight? But it crushed basically everywhere, or even in Canada. I know he was born there, but I remember the first time I visited Canada, I was like, as it is going to go here? At mid I got an even crazy response there. Bert Kreischer talked too Rich Eisen about working out with Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Kreisher said he as Schwartzenegger about the exercise that Arnold missus but can’t do because of his age. Apparently the answer Arnold Missus doing deadlifts. Creisher said, I just thinking out with Arnold Schwartzenegger. I got a movie coming out, and then I see Ed Norton. He said he could barely contain his excitement after seeing Ed Norton.

Norton walked by with nothing but a knot of acknowledgment, and that gave Bert Kreisher clarity. He said, Ed Norton’s amazing, But I don’t want to be that guy. I want to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently Schwarzenegger likes Bert Kreischer’s calves and said, holy cow, this guy has good calves. Some bodybuilders would be jealous of this guy’s calves.

This weekend, Donnel Rawlings hosting the donnell Land Weekend Festival May twenty sixth through the twenty ninth in southwest Ohio. The donnell Land Weekend Festival features a live stand up comedy performance by Donnel Rawlings and Friends. But wait, there’s also a canoeing trip on the mad River on Monday Donal rollings dot Com for the info. Donal says, I don’t bank on TV or film. I bank on what I’ve been doing for thirty years, stand up comedy.

That’s the one thing I can control. He joked about moving to Yellow Springs after visiting in twenty twenty to take part in Dave Chappelle’s summer camp shows in the village. He said, I went from the streets to the creeks, from the hoods to the woods on the river. N Engeneu, we haven’t visited gossip Corner in a while. Poor Adam Sandler.

He was at a basketball game and ESPN threw up a picture of a clean cut Sadler back in two thousand and eight, followed by a bearded Saidler with a neutral facial expression. Apparently the latter picture was not very flattering social media fans. One of them said, for no discernible reason, ABC just went, Hey, look how old Adam Sandler’s got in the last fifteen years. Another said ESPN made it look like Adam Sandler’s been held in captivity for fifteen years, and one more said the price you pay for dragging the corpse of Rob Schneider’s career well passed its expiration date.

Also on Gossip Corner, Chris Rock went to see Bruce Springsteen in Rome.

Ruce was playing the Circus Maximus to a sold out crowd on Saturday. Chris Rock must add a good time. He posted a couple of things on Insta, one with Springsteen and Stephen van z Ant mugging it up during Glory Days. Another was a band shot during Dancing in the Dark. Rock met some of the band after the show.

Jake Clemens play sacks these Daisies Clarence Clements’s nephew. By the way. He posted a selfie with himself and Chris Rock and said, by the end of the set we left no one alive except for Chris Rock. This mofo don’t get knocked down by nobody. Someday we’ll look back on this and it’ll all seem funny.

Colin Mockery was asked who would play him in a movie about his life, and he said George Clooney would probably be my first choice, but then he added Bill Murray the observation there. Bill Murray, like Colin Mockray, has devoted his career to deadpan comedy with a side order of droll I could see Bill Murray as Colin Mockery not ridiculous. Colin’s out on the Scared Script List tour and said, we’d like to have sort of a live version of Who’s Line without the dead weight, and I’m talking about Wayne Brady and Ryan Styles. So it’s games for us that’ll be familiar to fans of Whose Line. Then there’s games we’ve added with Dad.

Because it’s just two of us and we don’t have a host, it’s even more interactive than TV show. We have audience members on stage with us doing things. Just a couple hours of goofy fun. Let’s see what’s happening in New Zealand at the New Zealand Comedy Festival. Jamine Rossis show is called Vaguely Familiar.

He’s wearing a judger hat here, but he seems to be from New Zealand. As you’re about to hear, I just recently got back from Australia. I was visiting my little brother there in Sydney, and my little brother’s quite funny because he’s only been there for about a year, so he’s still got his Keywi accent, except he’ll say the odd random word and an Australian accent, so he’ll be like, oh, heybrew, do you want to go get a feed? There’s our men as Fish and Chip shop done by the Booch, which is awesome. I’ve never heard that the other way around though, like I’ve never heard an Australian and New Zealand mostly Ozzie accent, but the odd random word any Keywi accent I’ve never heard.

Hey, mate, listen, I want to tell me, ah, if you want to make an online you gotta break a few expert all right, a little local and humor. Hopefully you found it amusing. I did, maybe not as much as if I had grown up in christ Church. But okay. The rest of the podcast today will be spoilers once again for Fast X.

If you listen to the end yesterday, you know why. If you don’t want to be split on fast X, see tomorrow, I’ll give you a couple of seconds here to get stop on the podcast. Are you’re gone? Okay? I guess you’re gone.

So interesting twist about Pete Davidson appearing in Fast X. Did you watch Bupkiss? There’s a scene in Bupkiss where’s Pete’s agents played by Chris O’Donnell says, Hey, Pete, they’re pulling the offer on Fast and they’re furious. The reason in the show was because Pete Davidson’s character Pete Davidson was photographed doing whippets at the White House Correspondence dinner. Pete said, but it was with the Avengers, like two of them cool ones from the first movie.

The only way to fix the problem on the show is to perform at Vin Diesel’s daughter’s birthday party in Miami. Apparently it worked out for the character Pete Davidson because it worked out for real Pete davids And I hope Pete’s in Fast eleven, and I hope they keep making these for thirty years. I’ll watch Pete Davidson driving a car. Why isn’t he driving a car?

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily come news. Really a different set of news stories today, like very atypical for the kind of things I usually do. I didn’t stack it that way, but it’s not the usual. A somebody’s got a special kind of thing.

We’ll see that. I only got three hour sleep. I had to do an airport pickup that went from twelve thirty to two am, so I was out till almost three am, and it’s been a minute since I’ve done that. Late Night’s still on strike with a late Bot like my lack of sleep as an idea for a bit and said, I’m sure Johnny Max’s three hour sleep routine is a fool proof recipe for success, if by success you mean snappy comebacks in a general disdain for human interaction. They say grumpy is the new forty three hours of sleep, and Johnny Mack is ready to conquer the world with his signature blend of sleep deprived charm.

It’s like he’s running on fumes and a smidge of bitterness. Jeez, late Bot, layoff. Greg Gutfeld. He’s still doing his show, and he referenced the writers strike recently and said, I have the number one late night show, so I have the only late night show going on right now, So you don’t have a choice. The Late Bot said, yeah, congratulations, You’re the only thing on TV.

It’s like being the last person at a party. You can dance like no one’s watching, because wow, no one is. From the Hollywood Reporter, Russia is cracking down on American late night TV host Listen to this. Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Myers permanently banned from Russia, according to a new list of names released by the Russian government. The Russian Foreign Ministry released a list of five hundred Americans that are now banned from entering Russia.

Boy, I wish there wasn’t a strike. Those guys would probably have some good jokes. Did you try the late Bot, John, Yes, The lag Bot did not nail this as a topic. Some of the other is Barack Obama not allowed. Aaron Burnett from CNN not allowed, Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough not allowed, Brian Williams not allowed, Jimmy Fallon allowed, Congrats Jimmy Fallon.

Last year Russia band Ben Stiller and Morgan Freeman and Sean Penn. That sounds like a carnac joke from Deadline. Colin Jost was at the Pen America gala. It was held in the Museum of National History. If you’ve been there, you know the blue whale.

And Colin called himself a writer and a friend of writers, and extremely fortunate to be there that night, surrounded by two things that might not be around much longer, writers at Ocean Life. This is the first time that a whale is not the most endangered thing in a room. DV writers, as you know, are on strike right now. I have to say it’s very disorienting to spend the afternoon on the picket line and then show up for a museum cocktail hour in a suxedo. I don’t think that happens at a lot of other labor movements.

He was there for a dinner to honor Lauren Michaels and some other folks. John Mulaney was there also. Mulaney was a writer on SNL for five years. He introduced Lauren Michaels and thank Lauren for protecting generations of writers and presenting all viewpoints from the far left to the moderate left. He gave so many writers the chance to have a national network TV audience to speak to the entire country.

But every writer to come through SNL is totally ungrateful, so resentful. I contacted multiple writers for their favorite stories, and the conversations would descend into bitching about a sketch that Lauren cut forty three years a go.

And then Lauren Michaels talked about the infinite monkey theorem.

You know, if you locked a bunch of monkeys in a room with typewriters, sooner or later they would write hamlet. Lauren said, Americans have a soft spot for monkeys. They’re funny and you don’t really know what they’re gonna do, and sometimes they throw feces, and added even Shakespeare knew you needed laughs to keep them room.

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Meanwhile, from Deadline, some of these striking late night comedy writers ha…

I checked one of these out, and you know, as good as me telling jokes written by the AI, you know, and I’m not saying that that’s that good. They’re putting together a weekly YouTube channel show. Sometimes it’s called picket Tonights and sometimes it’s called The Jokes you Love from the Picket Signs. But we’re saying them out loud. GREGA.

Winsky is a former writer for Colbert and John Oliver. He co hosted the first episode alongside Sasha Stewart. She’s a former writer for The Nightly Show on Larry Wilmore. Neither of them struck me as natural performers, and Greg said, whatever it’s called. This is where two striking WGA writers sit at a desk and tell you jokes.

He said, As you may know, writers are on strike. What you might not know is that, according to nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologue jokes for too many consecutive days, they die. All right, I’m going to do a test here on the fly. I am opening up chat GPT, which is what I use for the late Bot, and I’m going to ask it to spit out variants on that joke. Okay, let’s see what happens here.

All right. I think the AI did better, which is a reason the writer should be concerned. Late Bot said. What you might not know is that, according to nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologue jokes for two many consecutive days, they develop a condition known as punchline withdrawal syndromes. Symptoms include excessive pun usage, spontaneous outbursts of laughter at awkward moments, and a strong erst to roast random strangers on the street.

That’s a better joke if told by a proper comedian, which I am not. That’s a better joke. Another one from the late bot. Here’s a fun fact. According nine out of ten doctors, if a late night writer doesn’t do monologu jokes for too many consecutive days, their funny bone starts to disintegrate.

See I could see Kimmel nailing that joke. Anyway. Back to the YouTube thing, which is called Pickett Tonight, Greg Winsky said, we’ll bring you jokes and sketches whenever we can, and you’ll get to hear from writers inside the strike what we’re fighting for and why the studios need to talk to us. Stewart said, we’re two of the many writers who’ll be reading these strike propaganda jokes. If you’re like I want to watch someone more attractive, just wait a week.

That’s funny. Some more jokes from the writers. It’s ten foot gator is found in a Florida couple’s backyard, not found the couple very good, very very good joke. More late night stuff. Charlomagne the Gods show on Comedy Central called Hell of a Week.

Comedy Central not continuing production. They say, we thank Charlomagne and the amazing team behind the show for its impactful conversations and the incredible collaboration as we look ahead to our future partnership with Charlemagne. Switching topics here, I told you on Sunday about the comedian who got in trouble for making a joke about the Chinese army. There are a lot of articles right now about comedians being censored in China. Here’s another one.

Nigel Aang. He uses the stage name Uncle Roger. I think I’ve mentioned him in the past. He posted a video clip last Thursday for an upcoming comedy special in which he pokes fun at Chinese surveillance. He’s interacting with someone in the audience.

The audience member says they’re from a city in the south of China, and Uncle Roger says, good country, good country. We have to say that now, correct, all the phones are listening. His Chinese social media account has now been suspended. Interesting. I remember the comedian last week Chrissy Mayor.

She made some jokes about Dylan Mulvaaney. I feel like Chrissy isn’t a bit of hey, look at me mode. I saw another story about her something something an airline giving her trouble, and I saw that story and I’m like, hm, I feel like you’re on an attention campaign. I also notice her hanging around a lot of the bigger YouTubers that talk about like science fiction shows. I’m a fan of several of those, and she’s been making the rounds there.

So not quite sure what Chrissy’s up to right now, but The Daily Mail checked out an interview that Chrissy did with Fox News. Chrissy said, you should be laughing at things comedy club that might get you in trouble at work. You should be making snide comments to your buddies at a comedy club that could get you in trouble at work. It’s one of the last few places of freedom where you can be yourself and let loose, she said, trans or like the protected class azure. If people feel very entitled, you can just say your non binary and whoop.

You have just as much entitlement as a full blown trans person. She says. One of the reasons her clip went viral is because it lampoon’s the idea that anyone can join this victim group. Chrissy says, then you can’t criticize anything they ever said. Not only can you not criticize them, you can’t even joke about them.

At a comedy club, she was asked what her next course of action will be, and she said, there’s nothing to update here. All human beings should be constantly learning, growing, and trying to see somebody else’s opinion. Hey, one way you can support the show is go to buy me acoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News and Boy, thank you listeners. I’m on my second large ice coffee with caramel and milk of the day. Nope, sorry, I just did at Brian Williams thing there and I conflated things.

I’m on my second large ice coffee. The first one was butter, per can and milk. This one is camel and milk. See the brain can tricky sometimes. Anyway, Kara, would you know Kara, She’s got the book The Power of the Streak, and she’s got the sub stack.

Not get off. Let’s see what she’s up to today. The new one is called why I chose to pressure wash on Mother’s Day? You know what? I also recently pressure wash not on Mother’s Day, but near Mother’s Day.

Why So I’m trying to stay in good greases. Anyway, I had aggress. Kara bought me several coffees, thank you so much. So did Becky. Becky bought me four and recommended a breakfast place in Chicago because she knew I snuck out there over the weekend.

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Maybe we’ll get there one of these months, laugh Button says. Gas Digital is going to record and release six new half hour comedy specials. These will go up on YouTube. The comedians Rich Voss, Kurt Metzker, Louie Gomez, Day Smith, Colum Tyrell, and Jordan Jansen. You want to go to a taping?

Okay, you can do that. Actually you can’t. I just went to the website to confirm the name of the theater, which is the cutting room. But I see here they’re all sold out. Oh well, I tried.

I mean, I recorded the story as soon as I saw it. A taping is July tenth through the twelfth. But you’re not going. They’re doing to a night. Kurt Metzker and Jordan Jensen on the tenth, Dave and Louis on the eleventh column, and Rich Voss on the twelfth.

Cameron Esposito, She’s Fantastic, has a new podcast on this one, Survive or Die Trying. Cameron will provide real advice on how to survive anything and everything life can throw at you, from giant Barrett tacks at the zombie Apocalypse to being stranded on a deserted island or meeting your in laws. She says, Survive or Die Trying as podcast for anyone who has mentally walked through life’s scariest situations like the zombie apocalypse, or actually survived the more mundane but equally bananas, like that one break up in high school where you almost got her name tattooed on your forehead. After the fact, my guests and I are not survival experts, but we’ll learn together how to pare for the absolute worst case scenarios. I miss her old podcast, which she used to record at a comedy club.

It was a great way for me selfishly to keep an eye on some quote unquote up and comers, especially they were usually LA based comedians. I’m trying to google it for you now because I can’t remember what was called. Is it gone? I know it’s been over for several years, but I can’t find. Let me try on the Apple podcast app ah.

Here it is Put your Hands Together. It was called Very very Funny show. Last episode was back in twenty nineteen. But when the show used to be fresh, you’d get sets and backstage interviews from comedians in front of a live UCB audience. It’s definitely worth going back through the archives.

A lot of great comedians on there. Put your Hands Together. That one is called and I’m going to leave you with a spoiler for Fast X Fast in the Furious ten. If you don’t want that movie to be spoiled, I want it to check out here. I’ll babble for a second so you can pull your phone out of your pocket and hit stop.

This will be the final story for the day. Okay, are they gone? The people that didn’t see Fast X yet, Hey, did you see the cameo and Fast X Pete Davidson played Bowie. I didn’t know that was going to happen. I was pleasantly surprised by that and all the other cameos.

I had done a pretty good job of avoiding spoilers for Fast As. I loved Fast As. By the way, I am the biggest fan of the Fast and Furious franchise, all the way back to number one, back when we used to have Blockbuster Video. I rented that one night and I was just like, oh my goodness, this movie is so much fun, and it looks cool and the soundtrack is great. So I’ve been a fan all along.

You know when a lot of people jumped on when the rock jumped on, But me, o Gee, Fast and the Furious fan Fast ten fantastic fun. Turn your brain off. Don’t worry about physics. There’s a lot of questionable physics in there. I’m not sure you can just jump from a car to car without falling behind getting run over, or don Seretto will jump a car into a crane and smash two hundred feet and his airbags don’t even deploy.

But don’t worry about the physics. It’s just a fun, fun movie. Jason Momoa killed it anyway. Pete Davidson is a comedian, which is why I’m talking about Fast X. He played a character referred to as Bowie, and the Internet points out Pete Davidson’s character not killed off, which means we could have Pete and Fast eleven.

Why not? And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast Spotify. If you’re on YouTube, smash that subscribe button, as the kids say, like a subscribe or whatever you’re supposed to do. Smash you’re supposed to hit the bell.

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