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Featured: Tom Segura, Bill Burr, Tim Dillon, Theo Von, Ali Siddiqui, Vir Das, Mike Kaplan, Rosie Jones, George Carlin, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura on podcast hosting skills and comedy philosophy
• Ali Siddiqui’s independent special strategy and rejection of major deals
• Vir Das announces Mind Fool world tour with Carnegie Hall and iconic venues
• Mike Kaplan performs at Edinburgh Fringe, discusses English language differences
• Rosie Jones defends documentary title addressing ableism and disability slurs
• Omaha Comedy Festival and Fort Collins Loveland comedy events
• Johnny Mac’s Five Good News Stories podcast promotion

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. I’m johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigurd Tell’s Rolling Stone. There are some people who are really good at podcasts. There are skill sets involved in this.

I think it’s amazing when someone can do an entertaining podcast alone. I tip my ad off to them. Thanks. Tom. Bill Burke could do that.

Tim Dillon could do that. Theo Van could do that. You could tell who wants to be a comedy philosopher and doesn’t have the intellectual substance to do it well, But everybody else can tell too. Ali Sadik spoke to Salon and said, you know, you don’t make money off the special. They pay you to do a special and they shoot at X, Y and Z.

Your special is to push ticket sales for people who come see you and then seal your legacy in the game that you were solidified as a comic. If you got the bread, why not just do it yourself and send it straight to the people and then still the goals for people to come see you. So he’s doing his own specials and says with Domino Effect, we got nine million with this new one. We’re on the verge of it going towards ten million with that one. Hopefully, I think I’ve reached a level now that I’m cementing what I want to be in this game.

I’ve always wanted to be judged on comedy content, not any thing outside of the craft. I don’t want people to say that I’m a good comic or a great comic or this type of comic because I was in a movie, because I was on a sitcom, or was on some other show. There’s nothing to do with stand up. I want to be known for comedy, not anything outside of that. For somebody to say that I’m a great comic because of comedy.

So it was asked, all right, what if an Exact shows up and goes would you do a special with us for thirty million dollars? His answer interesting, Netflix, HBO their viewership versus what I can produce on my own. I beat everybody. Somebody comes to me with thirty million, it’s still going to be a conversation about ownership because you’re giving me thirty million with the hope that you make two hundred million. I don’t think you’d be giving me that thirty million with the whole thing we got to make twenty eight million, or were we gonna make thirty five million.

You’re not splitting your power with me like that. What’s your end goal? Where’s the material? Lie? Who does it rest with at the end of the day.

I think that’s why I’m so big on the legacy of my particular family and the ownership of having my children be able to license my work over somebody else owning it. He says, I think being rich, I’m straight now, I’m not thirty million straight, but I’m telling you it’ll be hard. You’d have to kidnap my children and hold them for ransom. A man come to a set in Cincinnati. We got your son.

We’re gonna release your son after your set. I’m on stage will and Attitude. Twice a year they kicked out my son for me to come to a show. This is a bs. How much longer do I have?

Mike Kaplan is at the Fringe and was asked what he thinks of the English accent, and he ponderous and says, I’m indeed always happy to hear people speak my language in ways that make me wonder are they speaking my language? I love that y’all say maths like it’s plural compared to the way we call it math. In the States, you’re more advanced than we are. We only have one math, whereas you have at least two and possibly up to infinity. Virdas caught up with Forbes who asked about his new tour, and vir said, yeah.

The tour is called Mind Fool and it’s about not having control over your mind. How there’s a complete disconnect between what I’m supposed to do and what my mind forces me to do, and also about to struggle to find out what’s real. Those are the broad themes. I do material about the world in the first forty minutes and then get more personal in the final forty. There’s everything from visits to police stations to first sex.

We’re going to do thirty two countries. We consciously decided to level up. So I’m going to play Carnegie Hall for the first time. I think I might be the first Indian comedian I ever play there. I’m going to do the Chicago Theater, Kennedy Center, to Buy Opera House, the Sydney Opera House, the Hammersmith at Bollow in London.

It’s the dream list of the most iconic venues that I made ten years ago. That’s an impressive list. Which one are you looking forward to in particular? He said, straight up Carnegie all I saw George Carlin special there. Robin Williams is as well.

I know it’s not a room that does a lot of stand up, but it represents a lot of global appeal and it’s just beautiful to look at. So you’re at McDonald’s and you get your bag and you open your bag, you want to grab a couple of fries or something, and there’s five thousand dollars in it. Yeah, this happened at one guy. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. He gave the money back.

Don’t worry if you want to start your day with a smile twice a week, I’ve got five good news stories for you. For example, there’s an airline for dogs. Or what about the woman in her eighties who just released her debut album. How about the dude who found one hundred and fifty corn on the cobs under his floorboards? Is corn on the cobs?

Even the way you say that? Who cares? And yes, that was a pony at the supermarket? Five Good News Stories, the number five Good news Stories. Five Good News Stories, the number five Good news stories wherever you get your podcasts.

Today at the Omaha Comedy Festival, ten Am Sunday Yoga, six o’clock Sunday improv at the back line with Biscuits and two buses. Seven o’clock Sunday improv at the back line, Mockumentary Now and Brandy Alexander eight o’clock Sunday stand up at the back line, and nine o’clock Sunday sketch improv at the back line. So I say let’s do some yoga at ten drink all afternoon, going to the back line, flash our press passes, tip the waitress well and sit there for five hours. Enjoy the funnal night of the Omaha Comedy Festival.

Meanwhile, at Ello Loveland, one o’clock Hillarity and Hatchets, an ax except…

At Acts to Grind, it’s an afternoon of comedy and as throwing. You’ll need a VIP pass for that one. I know a guy, and the guy I know is Dan Bublitz Junior, who’s featuring at the Best of laugh Out Loveland Stand Up Comedy Showcase at the Tom Davis Saloon at seven pm. Go see Dan and Jeff All bred Jason and some of their favorites from throughout the weekend. Dan, thanks for sending over that information.

Comedian Rosie Jones is tearing up as she defends her new show title, which is am I a our word, A word that has fallen out of fashion? I won’t say it here. Jones has several palsy and is releasing her personal documentary in which viewers can follow the thirty three year old as she sets out to understand how prevalent disability trolling is in the UK. One unimpressed Twitter user wrote, regarding Rosie Jones’s documentary, no, f no, you do not reclaim such a word. You are not doing us a favor.

Shame on you. Jones told BBC Radio four, I’ve had several palsy for thirty three years, and that means going through school, walking down the road, and now having a public platform on social media. I get to experience that word used at me as a weapon. Nearly every day somewhere I will hear it. And you saw me coming today with headphones because I don’t walk down the street without wearing headphones to protect myself from hearing that word or able as slurs.

So I know it’s controversial, but I needed to use that specific word in the title of the documentary to start the conversation around slurs and ableism. It’s my opinion that it’s not taken as seriously as other slurs. She says that it hasn’t been the easiest few weeks because having criticism that comes from within your own community hits harder. I can only tell the story of what it’s like to be a woman with several palsy, and unfortunately that means the art word is used against me a lot of the time, and I don’t think the abusers care if it’s a word associated with me or people with intellectual disabilities. It isn’t my word, no, but also it isn’t their word, and it’s no one’s word.

But the truth of matter is it’s a word that’s still heard use casually in schools and pubs and in the street. I think by using it the title, I’m in no way encouraging people to use it, and in the same breath, I’m in no way trying to reclaim it. I’m highlighting it. It’s a word that still used casually and it needs to stop. That’s your commedy news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See to borrow. Hi. I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new orde of Argentine Soccket phenomenon Lionel Messi and he’s new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Neal Brennan, Jack Whitehall, Ryan Hamilton, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, David Spade

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan explains his clean comedy approach wasn’t intentional
• Neal Brennan discusses humiliation of booking podcast guests
• Jack Whitehall records Netflix special at O2 Arena in London
• Jack Whitehall’s pub project cancelled before filming
• Ryan Hamilton’s journey from small-town Idaho to opening for Seinfeld
• Ryan Hamilton struck by bus in 2022, breaks 10 ribs and punctures lung
• Omaha Comedy Festival schedule and events
• Loveland Comedy Festival showcases

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The Shark Deck, Hello Jennymack with your Daily Comedy News Variety talked to Jim Gaffigan. He was explaining the whole clean comedian thing and said it wasn’t some grand scheme. I’m not reinforcing values. I come from a small town in the Midwest, where you only curse if you’re in a car accident. You’re just stubbed your toe.

You’re not cursing when you’re talking about donuts. He reflected on working in advertising and watching people with better vocabularies than him cursing NonStop and said I wasn’t offended, but I didn’t understand why it wasn’t organic to me. And when he started doing late night shows, he had remove cursing anyway, So, as I wrote, it became easier to think up an option rather than worry about changing it. Later. The La Times talked to Neil Brennan, who says, I love doing podcasts, but booking them with such utter humiliation.

The plan was to release the block special and then people would be banging down the door to get on my podcast. But no one’s ever going to bang down the door for a podcast ever. David Spade once called podcast jury duty, and I guess that’s the right way to think of it. Having said that, Letterman was the first guest, so that helped legitimize it. The British Comedy Guide it sells us.

Jack Whitehall has recorded his Settled Down Tour for a Netflix special. He filmed it over three nights at the O two Arena in London July fourteenth through the sixteenth, featuring Whitehall’s reflections on imminently becoming a father being a famous alumnus of his private school as its reputation was direct through the Meyern hanging out in la The show is the first stand up special to be produced by Whitehall’s Jackpot Productions, and it’s his third for Netflix. Netflix has not picked up a show called Jack’s Pub. The show would have followed Whitehall’s investment in a Brewer Friends drinking establishment notting Hill in London. However, the quiet Night in open before cameras could start rolling.

It’s not known whether Whitehall will still put money into the venue. From the Desert News, Ryan Hamilton’s definitely not from Canada. Everyone knows he grew up in Ashton, Idaho, a town with one stoplight and sixty three students. In Hamilton’s graduating class. Ryan said, when you’re from a small town, there are advantages.

You could do whatever you want because nobody else is going to so this room for you. He started writing two humor columns a week, one for each newspaper ten dollars apiece. Soon, the NBC affiliate and Idaho Falls heard about the columns and asked him if he wanted to help cover sports. So when he was fifteen, having had an Idaho driver’s license for a full year, what is the ancient Idaho really fourteen? Yeah, he drove around the state filming games, editing the reels, writing copy and slipping in some jokes for the sportscaster right on the air.

And the spring of two thousand, on the day he took his final he called Johnny b his comedy club in Provo and asked if he could get on stage. They told him sure, come Friday. He didn’t tell any friends or family. I just wanted it to be my own thing. He made up an excuse to go to la He showed up to one meeting in a suit and sign was horrified to find everybody else dressed casually.

He said, I was very, very green. I didn’t know how to handle the business at all. He went for a TV pilot, didn’t happen. He decided to give comedy one more year. Than one year turn into several years.

Hamilton said it put a lot of pressure on me starting to get corporate gigs which paid better than one night. ER’s his broad, observational comedy’s a good fit for corporate work. He says, I’m very approachable and I’m not going to offend anybody. He then entered and won Sierra misss America’s Next Green Comic in two thousand and five. He made it to the Semis of Last Comic Standing in two thousand and seven.

Then he did live at Gotham. He met Amy Schumer, who said to him, I’m Amy, and you’re going to move here. So he hit New York City and said I couldn’t get on stage. Even though he had TV appearances and multiple competition titles, he hadn’t proved himself as a New York comedian. So he spent five years traveling from New York to other cities to perform Wow, What a Road.

Twenty twenty was going to be the big year. He had lunch with Jerry Seinfeld in March eighteenth. By the end of that week, the world had shut down and all of Hamilton’s bookings were postponed. On January first, twenty twenty two, he walked to lax at one thirty in the morning to get a rental car. He said, I hit a button, I watched the light turn, I started walking.

I didn’t see here anything. I just felt the impact. A bus had struck Ryan Hamilton, breaking ten out of his ribs, puncturing a lung and pushing an armbone through his skin. He says it was pretty gruesome. I was so scared.

I didn’t think my body would work again. These days, he opens for Jerry Seinfeld at the Beacon Theater. He’s booked through the spring of twenty four and he said, I wanted my accident to be a tragedy, you know, but it’s pretty funny. Really, it’s a comedy. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis, an host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami. Will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami in Major League Soccer, experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get you a podcast.

Let’s take a look at the Omaha Comedy Festival schedule on this Saturday. Some fun classes. I won’t read them all, but it twelfth thirty Improvising in Character with Carl Zart, one thirty Sketchwriting with Kevin McDonald, Two o’clock The Fundamentals of Joke Writing with Zach Peterson.

Also at two o’clock.

Heighten and justify how emotional truth and specisivity help you play any long form improv scene The Comedy Show Show seven o’clock Saturday, Improv at the back Line, Cards of Destiny and I Am the Show Your performer is Also at seven Saturday. Stand up at Site one Brewing. Jay Jordan has a show and a fourth show at seven o’clock Saturday. Mission Improvable at Benson Theater. Mission Improv a Bowl Your Performers eight thirty Saturday, stand Up at the back line nine o’clock, Saturday Improv It’s Site one Brewing, nine thirty Holy Stuff Improv.

Naughty name there, guys, the glow show at the Benson Theater and Improv at the back line at ten o’clock. Let’s see what should we do tonight. Let’s see Jay Jordan at seven o’clock and then for our nine o’clock let’s see what the glow show is. Joey z Ethan Abronson and Candis, August Broheeny, David Roth, Mike Atterson, Email Kettle and Sophia Javette. You know what, I’m gonna take that back because at my hypothetical fantasy, we saw a lot of those performers yesterday.

So let’s go see. Let’s go see Saturday Improv. It’s Site one Brewing, because I guess I have decided I liked their beer action movie Slumberjacks, Jeff and Brenda are your performers.

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Also rolling along today the Ello Lovelanda Comedy Festival five o’clock, the…

Also on that lineup Mitch Jones, bri Calhorn, Quinn Thierfelder, David Lewis, Andrew Scalia, and Deborah Lastowka. Seven o’clock Mead Kreeger Old Norse Ale Presents Stand Up Comedy Showcase featuring Jocelyn Sharp. I have never had a Mead Kreager Old Norse Ale, but that’ll get me to that show. Joslyn Sharp is a stand up comedian, podcaster, and digital content creator. Her stand up is characterized by honest and unedited look at sex, relationships, life, and her own body.

Also on that show, Lee Robinson, Denver based stand up comedian, writer and former middle school chess champion. Parentheses Bragg Ben Frank, New York based comedian who began his comedy career in Shanghai. This show sounds awesome. Ben regularly performs in both English and Mandarin. GP Morton and Miss Key show.

We talked about them yesterday at nine o’clock Stand Up show Case featuring John Nova Sad from The Late Late Show.

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Also on that show, Anthony Bartolo, Catholic Asian New Jersey.

These are the backgrounds that have influenced Anthony Bartolo. David Allen Freed as his bio and clues that he’s a trivia host. Well, that’s fun because I like trivia and volleyball season has ended. Long story. I’ll get to it during the week.

But I don’t know why we’re not playing volleyball in the summer. Guys, I don’t know what the league’s doing. Don’t go there today. Johnny mc martin Phillips won the Funniest College Student in DC and hasn’t stopped yet. He’s on the show.

Jeremy Plum talked about him yesterday. He’s done snow Jam and the World Series of Comedy. Mandy Kay is an absolute delight. Just asker never Lastoca has awkwardly emerged into Denver’s comedy scene, performing for Resident Kat’s other comics, waiting to go up and people who didn’t even know a comedy show was happening Quick look at Fringe Toda. Maloone’s show is called Inhibition Exhibition What is it?

Yeah? Who says? Malonge has such a likable demeanor that sometimes disguises the fierceness of his material. He plays with themes as heavy as identity classes him and racism with a lightness of touch so deft you don’t realize you’re being secured by your own unconscious biases. You will find that show at the Pleasants Courtyard Bunker two.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime.

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Featured: Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, Jon Stewart, Andy Kindler, Dave Chappelle, Chris D’Elia, Andrew Dice Clay, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Ralph Barboza

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, and Jon Stewart announce joint tour ‘John John and Pete’
• Andy Kindler feuds with Andrew Dice Clay on Twitter over character and misogyny
• Dave Chappelle breaks curfew again at Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa Valley
• Hasan Minhaj emerging as leading candidate to host The Daily Show
• Ralph Barboza recording Netflix special in Dallas

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac who with your Daily Comedy News. How’s this for a tour? Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, and John Stewart. Yeah, only three cities so far anyway, John John and Pete is the name of the tour.

They’ll play Springfield on Friday September eight, Bethlehem September ninth, and on September tenth, which is definitely not Land in Kerman’s birthday. There’ll be an Atlantic City John John and Pete, Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, John Stewart. That’s fun. I had mentioned recently that Andy Killer did not do this year’s State of the Industry address up at Just for Laughs Montreal. Two comments on that one.

I’ve been looking to see what Jessica Curson did. I’ve seen zero media coverage with that, which is just interesting. Kindlers usually got picked up, at least in the comedy blogs. Nobody has mentioned Kurson State of the Industry. Google it if you find something.

Said it to me. I can’t find a thing. But I had also said, you know, Kindler hadn’t been playing nice in the sandbox, and I wondered if that was why Pure speculation on my part. But the other day Kiler was in a Twitter fight. There was a picture of Chris d’lia and Andrew dice Clay side by side, and Kindler tweeted, excellent side by side marketing.

Hard to decide who is more repugnant. Some people defended Dice. Kindler responded, you couldn’t be more wrong. Dice is a well known ahole, an unpleasant, insecure bully. He found a character and ran with it.

The character was a misogynist, racist hact. He’s a reaging, homophobic hate merchant.

And then he wrote, you forced me to say this.

Hitler also found a character and ran with it. Eva Broun said he was a decent dude. I’ll leave that there. I think I’ve met Andy Kiler. I don’t recall meeting dice Clay.

I’ve definitely not met Chris d’lia. Some Dave Chappelle news after a Dave related gossip corner, The Daily Mail tells us Tiffany Hatich looks effortently stylish in gray with gold heels as she arrives at Dave Chappelle’s comedy show.

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Also on Gossip Corner, Kendall Jenner, Donza Racy meschtop as she enjoys a da…

They were also at Dave Chappelle’s comedy show.

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Speaking of Dave, the San Francisco Chronicle says, Dave broke curfew at NAPP…

Remember he did that last year. While it had happened again, the Chronicle writes. Even though Chappelle appeared to be on his best behavior during the second installation of the Blue Note Jazz Festival and Nappa, by the third night, the provocative comedian was up to his old tricks. On Sunday, as the strict TENBM curfew for outdoor events loomed, Chappelle strolled on stage and tease the idea of an encore for a chance. The rapper set Chance, considered it, but he passed the mike to fellow yapper.

Yasine Bay, also known as Most Deaf Bay, took the stage and performed to the approximately seven thousand. As the song concluded, Chappelle reappeared on the fog filled stage for his customary end of the night monologue. He was clutching a red solo cup. Chapelle set my God, how do you close a show this great? My gut, what did we all see here today?

Shout out, it’s a blue note. Thank you for getting me with some of my closest friends and greatest artists of all time. He then thanked the festival’s co host. He then led yet another sing along, this time to Bobby Caldwell’s nineteen seventy eight soul hit what You Won’t Do for Love, and he joked, sing it with me if you know it. If not, keep your mouth shut, keep your white lips ut.

He then re christ and Nappa Valley, quoting the chronicle, this is Nword Valley. Now we taking over. We moving in. Come on, y’all, let’s move in. Welcome to Nword Valley.

The houseman joined in, providing backing to Chappelle’s gruff voice, with a smatter of people in the audience singing along, but mostly just hooting and hollering. With a literal mic drop. Chappelle abruptly brought the festival to a close sometime around ten oh five, and then he said, what I’m trying to say is I’ll see you next year. Bitches. You may recall last year.

Chappelle threatened to never return to Nappa after getting ticked off by the regions noise ordinances. Chappelle insisted for two nights in a row last year that the headliners continue performing past ten pm and through an onstage tantrum. After the musicians were unplugged on the final night of the festival. At that time, Chapelle said, I’ll never drink a couple of wine from this dusty ass field this year. Other than the curfew breaking night, Chappelle was quite up.

One night. He rapped with don’t forget to pick up your trash when he leaves so we could be invited back. I want everybody to behave everybody would be quiet when you leave, for the white people sipping wine out there. Hassan Minag is being i’d as the leading candidate to take over the daily show once we have late night shows. Again this from Variety.

I think he is the right choice. I feel bad for roy Wood Junior, but Hassan is younger and just feels like, yep, the right person to be in that chair. Variety cautions us Minhaj is not guaranteed to win the position and a deal is not believed to have been finalized recently. Hassan said I’m definitely open to the conversation. It’s also a family conversation.

Now it’s a very different conversation than when I first got hired at the show when I was twenty nine. My life is in a very different place, and so that’s a bigger life family convo. It changes a lot of things. It’s an all encompassing, all consuming thing, and other people have to live with the consequences of what I say, and I just want to make sure everybody if that were ever to come to fruition, Hey, are we all on board with this? A spokesperson for The Daily Show declined to comment.

Ralph Barboza is recording a special tonight. He’s actually been taping two shows since Wednesday at six and nine. This is at the Kessler Theater in Dallas. I said Valas four times and had to edit it out. What is valis?

Dallas? Kessler Theater is where off where Boss is recording his special, he said on his Instagram page. Netflix came through. It’s right across the street from the old barbershop where he used to work and get my haircuts. Did you know you can name a cockroach after your ex lover and have it fed to the animals at the zoo.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with Five Good News Stories. It’s a podcast twice a week where I tell you five good news stories, five fluffy stories. I just want to make you smile to start your day. I can tell you about a cat and a rabbit that fell in love, or I can tell you how Porto potties are about to be a lot less horrible. What kind of show is this?

It’s called five Good News Stories. The number five Good News Stories follow it Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Five number five, five Good News Stories. It’s a pretty big festival going on in Omaha. It is called Omaha Comedy Fest.

Let’s take a look at today’s lineup. At ten thirty am Central Time. It’s improv for healthcare professionals twelve thirty Having fun with ethics Relax. These are the daytime ones two thirty Improv and Business Communication four fifteen. How to get the most out of every moment you play all Right At seven o’clock Friday, Stand up at the back line.

Ethan Abramson, Brent Bradley, Zach Peterson, kat Limb, Richard Angulo, David Roth No not the one from Van Allen. I don’t think so anyway. Maybe it is Sophia Javed Seven o’clock Friday Improv with the Strangers and the Wisenheimer’s. I like that seven o’clock Friday Improv. It’s Site one Different Improv with Roll, the Dice Labmates, Rated P and the Walrus, The Dave and Kevin Show, which I almost skipped here reading to you because it’s like, oh, that’s a podcast.

Oh no, it’s Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. Pay attention, Johnny Mac alright. Eight thirty more Improv, Friday Improv at the back line with Beave and Interrogated. Nine o’clock The Friday Queer Comedy Showcase.

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Also at nine Friday, stand up at Site one brewing some comedians here whose n…

Ten o’clock Friday Improv and sketch at the back line and then after party. All right, if we were at the festival, let’s see what should we do. Seven o’clock. Let’s go see Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. Do you know that from Kids in the Hall?

In case you didn’t recognize the names, we were like, oh that sounds from me? Or who are those shot guys? Shanny mc Let’s see and then for our late show at nine o’clock, let’s go see Fridays stand up at Site one Brewing because I’m assuming they have beer there, and it’s David Couzguard Read Campbell, Brittany Massio, Mel Mackie, Joe made Off, Emil Kettle, Emma Perkins, Andrew Ledbetter and Candice August.

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Meanwhile, kicking off last night, the Laugh Out Loud Loveland to Comedy Fest…

This will go on all weekend. The events there tonight six o’clock the stand Up Comedy Showcase featuring Aj Finney. AJ is described to me as stylistically manic and artistically brilliant, crown best in the Midwest at Guilda’s laugh Fest Nice Jeff Stonick is on that show. He’s a Denver based comic by way of Whiz Kids. It’s written here and did I do that right?

Because comedy reflects that path. Jokes from a Midwesterner grappling with the Woo Woo Wild West. JP Martin on that show as well. Semi finalists in the twenty twenty one Minneapolist Funniest Person Contest. Third place winner of the second annual River Cadet Comedy Competition in Sioux City, Iowa.

Jeremy Plum is on the show. He’s been at this for about eight years. Out of Omaha. Jeremy recently appeared at Snow Jam and in the World Series of Comedy. Nice Miss Keisha on the show as well.

There’s a lot of people on this show. She began her comedy in Chicago in the early two thousands, had to take a little break there for some personal stuff, and is back on tour now. That’s great. Carl Pekin has been performing in the Colorado area for ten years and the description says he’s pretty good at it. Jeff Nelson is a comedian from Denver by way of Kansas City.

In twenty seventeen, he won the Kansas City Comedy Festival. Eight o’clock is a stand up comedy showcase featuring Ben Roy. Often compared to Lewis Black or Bill Hicks due to his passionate ranting approach. If you can’t make it to either of those. Are you in Vegas?

The comedy seller in Las Vegas has Dean Edward. It’s Aristotle AUTHORI he was on SNL for one season. I think Monique Morvez, Jay’s Even and Mark Cohen. That’s a good lineup. Two shows tonight, seven and nine thirty.

Michael Yo is on tour. His tour kicks off tonight in La Joya. They’ll be heading to Nashville, Atlanta, Ontario, Canada. Not sure why I had to say the word Canada. There could edit it out.

I won’t. Boston, Massachusetts, Parker, Colorado. You might have needed the qualifier there, Parker, Colorado, Irvine, Washington, DC, Philly, Bridgeport, Tampa, Saint Louis the one in Missouri. Fringe is kicking off. Yahoo spotlighted a couple of shows.

One is Tom Lawrenson’s Hubba Hubba What is it? They write? If you haven’t seen Lawrenson’s weird and wonderful sketches online, you’re missing out. He’s at the Underbelly. Michelle Brazier tells Shortol she’s going back to the fringe because I want to play with my friends and connecting with audiences from the other side of the world is so awesome.

She also says there are not enough dogs in the shows and ask is it legal to bring dogs to shows in Edinburgh and Australia. I have a guide dog ambassador dog called Eva. She comes everywhere with me, so always feel the biggest pang of lack of dog over in the UK. If the venue says it’s cool, please bring your dog to my show, She said the Gilded Balloon and points out she didn’t check with the Gilded Balloon about the dogs. That is your company news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience, the journey of a lifetime get the messy effect wherever you get your podcasts,

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Featured: Neal Brennan, Ryan Hamilton, Margaret Cho, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, Jared Fell

What’s in This Episode

• Neal Brennan discusses psychopathy jokes and Rick James cocaine meme
• Ryan Hamilton interviewed by Desert News about name-dropping and new material
• Speculation about Tina Fey potentially replacing Lorne Michaels at SNL
• Donald Trump’s unsuccessful attempts to get on Joe Rogan’s podcast
• Margaret Cho performs at Friendly House fundraiser, discusses Roe v. Wade and gender identity
• Mo’Nique Houston native gets ‘Mo Day’ celebration on September 16th
• Jared Fell performs as comedian-magician on cruise ships

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Neil Brennan spoke to the La Times and telling them I was writing a joke the other day about the upside of psychopathy and drugs, and I started to think about how Rick James said cocaine is an ell of a drug. To me, it’s a meme now you see it every day, even if you don’t know anything about it. But I was actually there.

That was the first thing he said to me during that conversation we filmed. It was so funny and so weird. At that point, the TMZ tour bus pulled up. That distracted Neil, who said I was eating here at one of these tables once and the TMZ bus stopped and asked if I would talk to the bus. I was like, none of these people know who I am.

I always say I have the NBA referee level of fame, where people have seen you, but they have no idea who you are. Ironically, I ended up with an elevator with somebody who worked in the NBA once and I was like, do you work for the Clippers? Are they going to stay in LA? And he was like, yeah, but what’s your name. You’ve come up on my algorithm.

The Desert News caught up with Ryan Hamilton. Everybody knows Ryan Hamilton is from Idaho. You’d have to be an idiot to think he’s Canadian, right, right, Yes, so anyway, The Desert News talked to Ryan said that Ryan Amilton apologizes for talking too much and for name dropping when he mentions his friends Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld. They headed over to the Village Underground. Hamilton leisurely makes his way on stage, and then in an instant, the Ryan Hamilton I was talking to just seconds before expands into Ryan Hamilton the performer.

His smile, bigger eyes, wider voice, louder. He dances intentionally poorly as the house band plays, and he spends the first minute or two joking about his overwhelming whiteness. I dance like your cousin at a wedding.

And then he tests out some new material about generational differences.

He shares that he was hit by a bus one year ago. A number of people in the audience gas Ryan joke. If someone says I got hit by a car, people go oof. I’m so sorry. But if someone says I was hit by a bus, people go ooof and then imitated someone snorting to keep from laughing.

It’s a strange accident because it feels common, but it’s not common. We talk about it as if it happens a lot. We reference it all the time. Once you get hit by a bus, you’ll see it’s just the most easily accessible hypothetical death. I don’t know why, but I’m here to tell you to live your life because you might get hit by a bus.

Eight hundred pound Gorilla News, the former laugh Button, was the site they put an item about could Tina Fey takeover for Lorne Michaels on SNL. I’m not sure it’s actually news or just recycled old news, but they quoted a source who said I’d be surprised if it wasn’t her. Seth Meyers has his own show. Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg won’t come here. Judd Apatow passed on the job years ago.

Amy Poehler has her own stuff. Bill Hayter’s directing a movie. Kate McKinnon is two hots from podcast News Daily. They took a look at Donald Trump’s inability to get on the Joe Rogan experience. Rogan recently said I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form.

I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him. The Daily b says Team Trump is hoping to pressure Joe Rogan to have him on, even threatening to go negative on Rogan if he doesn’t.

Advisor Roger Stone has suggested a UFC styled cage match between himself meeting Stone, not Trump and Rogan. Apparently Trump listens to Rogan, he doesn’t taken in as personally, and Advisor said the drama bills an audience for when it eventually happens, okay. Margaret Chow was the headliner at the second annual comedy fund Stable Friends Stable fundraiser for LA based women’s treatment and recovery organization Friendly House. Righty says during Chow’s twenty minutes set, she discussed the Supreme Court’s reversal of rov Wade. I haven’t menstruated in a while, but when I heard that Rovie Wade was overturned, my uterus rose up from its casket, looking for an iron maiden concert.

My Filippian tube started popping and locking. I dropped an egg, a dinosaur egg. Anybody my age or older, We’ve lived with women’s rights, fighting for women rights for fifty years. The loss of that right really brought out the Atlantis anger. I think we all got our period out of her age.

Margaret also recalled her time on Dancing with the Stars and said it made her parents very proud because they love ballroom dancing. They acted like I was in the Olympics. They made me food in these little boxes to make sure my nutrition was dialed in. They would sit on the side and watch me rehearse. They were so nervous the whole time watching that, that they were moting this low pitch moan only I could hear.

Fellow contestants included Bristol Palin, daughter of former Republican governor Sarah Palin, and Choe said I miss those old Republicans. They really weren’t that bad. I feel so bad I’d talk so much stuff about them. I apologize to George W. Bush wholeheartedly.

The old Republicans weren’t as offensive as the new ones. Now. They’re like, all pronouns are patriot. It’s a noun they should be reading books instead of burning them. I challenge any insurrectionists to spell insurrectionist.

Choe addressed her own gender identity, saying I’ve never quite felt like a woman or man, and I always felt there was something in between. So having the option to be different as a statement to the world, saying I don’t have to be where you want me to be and I am more than what meets my thighs. She tagged it with I don’t change my pronouns. I’m too old, I’ll forget. The rest of the lineup included Daryl Hammond, Otsko at Kaska, Stephen Randolph, Sarah Rose Highland, and Drew Lynch.

Are you getting ready for MO Day? Well? On September sixteenth, Houstonians can celebrate Houston native comedian Mo a Mayor for Moday. He’ll be performing at Dubaio Music Center. Mayor Selvester Turner made the announcement, Moe represents the kind of talent we want to see more of in Houston because we support our artists, our writers, our comics, and people in the entertainment industry.

Moe announced he’ll give a portion of his proceeds to his alma mater, Hastings High Schools Theater, Arts and band department. He says, it’s a blessing, come back, come and enjoy the day, which is going to be about community, about laughter, about music, and truly is a celebration of Houston outside of myself, because I couldn’t made it without Houston. Hunter Hill is on tour. He’s been opening for Eliza Lessener and Taylor Thomlinson will He’s got his own tour now in October, he’ll be hitting to Houston and Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Denver, San Diego, Portland, Boston, Phoenix, Seattle, and Portland. Hunter Hill Comedy dot com for information and from New Zealand stuff.

Thirty three year old comedian magician Jared Fell tells us about performing on a cruise ship. He leaves his family once or twice a month to board a cruise, which usually lasts between four and seven days. During the week, he’ll perform two forty five minute shows back to back on one night, often to quite a few drunk bogans. There’s my favorite word again, bogans. The rest of the time, he’s basically a passenger, he says.

The one downside is when you’re stuck on a ship, there’s no escape in the crowd, who always recognize you for the rest of the trip. It’s even worse after a bad show. You’re stuck on board with everybody and they see you eating and they come up to you in the elevator. It’s a week of heckling and if the show goes well, they think they’re your mate. That’s why I always hope you’re on the last night.

After the pandemic shut down touring the club that he worked at stop booking and fell lost his gigs. So he approached the ships directly and he offered to come on board, and they were like, can you be PG? And I was like, I’ll give it a go. He says he’s still edgy, he just doesn’t swear.

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And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show see tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon. Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started event.

It’s along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major league soccer experience, the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Theo Von, Hulk Hogan, Rainn Wilson, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Allen, Jim Gaffigan, Romy Yuseff, David Spade, Dan Tiernan, Johnny Pelham, Jim Jeffries

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von and Hulk Hogan nearly come to blows on podcast over girlfriend Sky Daily
• Rainn Wilson clarifies controversial Office comments made on Bill Maher’s podcast
• Pete Davidson exits rehab and announces stand-up tour dates in Fort Lauderdale
• Country singer Jimmy Allen announces invite-only comedy tour amid sexual assault lawsuits
• Jim Jeffries pays tribute to nephew killed in Australian Army helicopter crash
• David Spade announces Catch Me Inside tour starting September 23
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival begins with shows from Dan Tiernan and Johnny Pelham

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Man would You Daily Comedy News? THEO Van had Hulk Hogan on his podcast and they started talking about Hogan’s wrestling career and the topic shifted to Hulk’s girlfriend, Sky Daily. Hulk said she’s been around me a little bit now. THEO said she’s beautiful. THEO continued to praise her beauty, but then THEO suggested she’s better than Hulk is and looks, and that caused Hogan appears slightly offended.

Would there be some fisticuffs or is Hogan a professional wrestler who knows? But Hulk quickly clarified that THEO Van is not his type and playfully advised him to hold his horses back. Rain Wilson was up at Just for Laughs last week and said, I literally made dozens and dozens of headlines when I revealed on Bill Maher’s Drunken Smoky Rambling podcast that I had been deeply unsatisfied at times while working on the office. Dozens of dozens of outrage inducing clickbait articles for digital surfing pleasure, Yeah, including podcasts talking about it. Wait what the weird guy from the office was making millions and getting nominated for the Emmys, and he was unhappy.

The point I was making a bill, said Rain Wilson, was in context filled with nuance and vulnerability. Was just like all human beings. I was never really satisfied. Whatever success I had as an anchor, it was never enough. When I was on the office, I went through periods of time when all I could focus on was the things that were not happening in terms of my career, money, fame, envy, prestige.

Here’s the catch in comedy circles in Hollywood. The cool kids all pretend they’re nerds and losers and alienated outcasts. But really that’s just an act, and there’s no greater way to estrange yourself even further from the apex of the comedy industry is when you discuss God, the soul of spirituality everyone in the comedy where old especially are quite literally flushy manifestations of anxious discontent. Actors look for last from sitcom audiences, stand up comedians look for the approval of live audiences and clubs, and comedy artists take to youtubeer TikTok to portray bizarre characters or storylines for likes and fan bases. However, it must be said.

You’re also familiar with this idea if you work in insurance, solar panel sales, uber driving, agriculture, the manicure and pedicure industry, because duca is everywhere these days. I was unfamiliar with the word duca dukha. The Internet tells me it’s commonly translated as suffering or pain rain continued comedy is an active service. The thing that surprised me over the years around the success of the Office was how much it meant to people. The roll the show played in soothing folks during difficult times, providing healing laughter, bringing families together, and healing anxiety.

Humor is the best of all possible medicines. TMZ says Pete Davison is hitting back on the road. Good to hear that Pete is out of rehab. According to TMZ, Pete will do some stand up gigs in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this week. From Rolling Stone, country star Jimmy Allen, who I’m unfamiliar with, apparently two weeks ago, countersued two women who filed lawsuits alleging that the country singer sexually assaulted them.

Well, Jimmy Allen is going to tell jokes on a comedy tour. Now, he announced a brief runt of shows which he’s calling the I Said What I said comedy Tour. He announced this on Instagram. He was smiling and shrugging. According to his insta, the three shows will be in October and our invitation own.

He didn’t announce the cities and where the venues in which he’ll appear. Allen wrote, I said what I said, and I’m gonna say it again during my three night comedy tour coming this October. All shows are invite only, so be sure to sign up with your email via link and bio would receive the latest news and had to win tickets. Apparently, mister Allen will also perform at the first Annual Salute to American Heroes, a fundraising concert in Clear Order, Florida, on November fourth. Jim Gaffigan announced some dates Cairo November sixteenth, Riyadh November eighteenth, Dubai.

In November twenty five, Rommy Yuseff was also up at Just for Laughs. He told the audience about his Egyptian born father discouraging him from becoming an entertainer. He was always like, this is a beautiful hobby. For you to have grow the hobby. But I remember him clearly saying one day, real life is going to start.

Rommy also discussed mixing his religion with his performance, saying, I had this big thing when we were shooting the first season of the show and we shot the scene where I was praying, and I was like, should I be doing this? This is weird? This is what I do in my personal time. Did I just sell this to the Disney Corporation some quick cows cleaning? Thanks to Cheryl who bought me two coffees at buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

That’s a good way to support the show. You got to buy me at coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and there’s some money in the tip jar. When I got the notification that Cheryl had bought two copies, I happened to be at breakfast. I was at Cafe Zara and ann Arbor, Michigan, eating breakfast, and I immediately put the coffee money to use. Thank you, Cheryl.

Also thanks to everybody who weighed in on last week’s interviews. For the most part, they were well received and I’ve been encouraged to do it more. I think I’ll do more around the Toronto Festival.

Also want to shout out Tom who shot me a note about the show about another to…

And to unnamed person, I think you instant messaged me, so since you didn’t do it publicly, I will hold your name back. But you know who you are. Who sent me a note about how to get rid of the pet odor in my basement studio. It seems to be gone today. I wasn’t thinking about it.

David Spade announced the Catch Me Inside tour. It’ll start September twenty three at the Town Hall in New York City, then onto Wilkesbury, Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, Sacramento, Houston, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Philly. Information at Davidspade dot com. The Fringe Festival starts on Friday. Some of the shows include Dan Tiernan’s Going Under.

It is said that Dan embodies both a giddiness and ferocity on stage, from high energy mania to perfectly crafted gags. He’s especially great at following each winning punch line with an even better topper. He’ll be at the Monkey Barrel. Johnny Pellham’s show is called Optimism Over to Spare. He makes a mockery of the lazy refrain you can’t joke about anything these days.

He is the exceptionability to mind the biggest of last from the darkest of places. He’ll be at the pleasants courtyard upstairs. And a sad note from Jim Jeffreys. Jim has shared a touching tribute to his nephew after confirming that Jim’s nephew is among those presumed dead in a Queensland Army helicopter crash. The Australian Army chopper was conducting a joint military exercise as part of Operation Talesman Saber.

It crashed in the waters off the wit Sunday Islands on Friday. Captain Daniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, or an officer class to Joseph Laycock, and Corporal Alexander Naggs were named by the Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Simon Stewart as the four involved in the crash. Lieutenant Nugent is the son of Daniel Nugent, who is the brother of Jeff Nugent, better known by his stage name Jim Jeffries. Jim is flying back to Australia from the US to be a family on Tuesday. He posted on social media.

On Friday, July twenty eighth, my nephew, Lieutenant Max Nugent, died in a tragic helicopter accident that included three other soldiers, Captain Daniel Lyon, Warrant Officer Class two, Joseph Laycock, and Corporal Alexander Nax. That’s your comedy news for today. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Coming on for the ride as Messy Miami in Major League Soccer, experience the journey of a lifetime.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Matt Rife, Osco, Chelsea Handler, Margaret Cho, Wayne Brady, Richard Roanovich, Chris Fleming, Fred Armisen

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan on his path to Late Night success via David Letterman
• Matt Rife’s Brooklyn 99 guest appearance in 2019
• Osco’s comedy career and diverse representation in stand-up
• Wayne Brady untitled Hulu family reality series
• Comedy Cellar live streaming in 48 theaters nationwide
• Chris Fleming special coming to Peacock August 18
• Fred Armisen drum-focused comedy tour

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The Shark Deck. I’m Chunny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It’s August first, so I am in a complete panic. I love the summer. I love going to the beach.

I’ve only been to the beach once all summer, and it’s August first, So however you split it. Time is running out on the summer and you’re talking to somebody who Once July third happens, I start going, oh my god, summer’s almost over, because I’m a crazy person. Jim Gaffigan spoke to Variety and said, I must have auditioned for Letterman for about six years, and I was the last of might be your group to get on a late night show. And one of the reasons I got it is because he was doing a week of new comics. They couldn’t use anyone that had been on Conan and Earthly Tonight Show.

It felt like the perception of me really changed because of Letterman saying, oh this guy’s funny. Suddenly I was getting weekend spots at the best clubs, and all the people I try to meet with wanted to meet with me. You know, Jim, you know I feel bad for you. You know you’re starting out your career, and then you’re so thankful that somebody helps you, and then you know you probably would remember those people and call them back when you little more success, and they were like, hey, you know, once you come up and visit the satellite radio station that you used to hang out at, and you know, we could have you on a show or do an hour special with you, like we did when you had your first special. You could come up and you could I heard the Jim Blue people off.

That’s what I heard. People told me that I digress. Jim said. It led to Comedy Central giving me a half hour, which led to me being able to sell out comedy clubs, which led to my first special, Beyond the Pale, which just propelled me to everything I’m doing today.

Also also possibly maybe you’d have to ask Jim lots of airplay on satellite r…

Jim went through a period of testing out different personas in those early years. He tried being the angry guy or the political guy, for realizing it lacked authenticity. Jim said, sometimes I’ll read someone and think I wish I could write like that, But the truth is that’s not my personality. That’s not my point of view, and your point of view is important. He started leaning into his strengths, a likable Midwestern fellow who makes jokes at his own expense about being lazy and mediocre.

Jim said, it might be a little exaggerated version of myself. I probably pretend to be more grumpy than I am in real life. NBC dot com understands SEO with this headline. Hey, remember when TikTok comedian Matt Rife showed up in Brooklyn ninety nine. I clicked on it.

It worked. Apparently. Matt Riefe was in a twenty nineteen episode of Brooklyn ninety nine. He played Brandon Bliss quote, the most popular kid in school at Jake Peralta’s high school, Jake played by macpacker Andy Sandberg. Bussell caught up with Osco at Kassa and he said, it’s five fifty on a Wednesday, and the tables are already packed at a comedy show.

It’s rare to find that partygoers shop on time, let alone ten minutes early. Osco was doing a six o’clock show on a Wednesday. What’s that about? Bussell should have asked about that? Oh, this was the one for the deodorant company.

That’s why I was at six o’clock. What a weird show? Well, she telled Bustle at the deodorant show, I want people to feel seen. Sure, I talk about things that annoy me or I’ve been traumatizing or whatever, but I like to build a community and make people feel not alone and apparently not smell. She began performing in twenty twelve.

She helped found disorient Ed Comedy with the orient between two Slashes, the US first mostly Asian American female stand up tour. It was only within the last five years that she realized comedy could be an actual career. These days, she hangs out with Chelsea Handler. Lasko said, it’s still hard for me to understand when I go to a city that had never been to when the shows are sold out, and I’m like how as an immigrant and someone who didn’t dare to dream big because I was so scared that things wouldn’t happen. It still hard as sometimes process go WHOA, people are here to see me.

Her mother and grandmother never saw comedy as a career. They were like, all right, this is comedy, all right, we have no idea now I’m the only comedian my family knows her comedy heroes. Margaret Show was the first comedian I ever saw a perform on DVD. I was fifteen, and honestly, I was so shy and not very social. To watch something go that could be me, that’s a level of confidence I didn’t have back then.

It took a while, but it took trailblazers like Margaret Show to help keep that dream alive. Her approach to humor, you should played your strengths. I had a joke about feminism that was very subtle, but it was still very meek because I was silly at first. I joke about how I didn’t know my husband had been doing the laundry for the past five years. It’s a true story.

When my husband was like, althought you were doing it sometimes, and I was like, I really thought I was doing it sometimes, but I don’t know how to turn the washing machine on, so I guess I’ve never actually touched it, and then she tags it with that’s feminism. Hulu, for some reason, has an ounce a new eight episode series for an unscripted series about Wayne Brady and his family. Untitled series will pull the curtain back on the life of actor, comedian, host and singer Wayne Brady. What’s he doing when he’s not hosting Let’s make a deal? While he’s co parenting his twenty year old daughter alongside his ex wife, saw mate and business partner.

Wayne and his ex have a production company together, and part of that production company is his ex wife’s life partner of twelve years, Jason The Ex and Jason Just Had a Son. Untitled show will give viewers a raw, unfiltered look into the personal lives of Brady’s blended family. While their family dynamic is unconventional, the reality series will reveal the unexpected points of view and values that most people, including his own family, have a hard time understanding. The Comedy Sellers doing some streaming. After more than forty years of selling out performances inside the renowned club in Greenwich Village, the world famous Comedy Seller is giving fans the opportunity to step inside without having to go to New York.

In partnership with Regal Cinemas, the Comedy Seller will stream two performances live, uncensored in forty eight movie theaters across Eastern and Central time zones. Hosted by Richard Roanovich and featuring six national headliners including Yamanika Saunders, Jared Freed, Pat Burster, John Bishop, Ethan Simmons, Patterson and Zarnagarg Good lineup Live from the Comedy Seller Saturday, August fifth, eight o’clock and ten o’clock Eastern. Gnomed Warman, who owns the Comedy Seller set it’s been proven we laugh thirty times more when watching comedy is part of a live audience compared to watching alone at home on our devices. With Live from the Comedy Seller, we’re giving comedy fans the opportunity to watch over sold out shows live and uncensored without having to go to New York City. I’m always in favor of not having to go to New York City, and I’m from New York City is a nightmare to get to.

I think in sixteen ten or whenever, they didn’t think, Hey, this little island here is surrounded by water. In four hundred years, it’s going to be really annoying to have to cross the bridge. They didn’t think that far ahead. Well, I can’t blame them, but it’s annoying. Chris Fleming has a new comedy special coming to Peacock August eighteenth.

That’s called Chris Fleming Hell. It explores performance anxiety through surreal comedy, sketches and more. Fred Armison is back on tour. It kicks off today at the Beverly O’Neal Theater in Long Beach. It’s the Drum Chords Tour, and he’ll show you that you can play drums and be funny at the same time.

Beverly O’Neal Theater, Long Beach, tonight, Mahoyat tomorrow, then on the sixth, Arkansas, then the eighth, Massachusetts, then on the twelfth Alaska. Fred who put this itinery together? California, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Alaska, and then Texas. Get a map, dude, Unless you think TikTok is stupid, we got this covered. It tells us about a comedian documenting his journey from the Bear Newby to being a real life Kurmi.

You see, there’s a TikTok trend where people say, yes, chef, if you’ve seen the bear, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t seen the bear, you’re like, what is he talking about? Trust me, yes, Chef, It’s the thing people say. The TikTok trend features people aggressively cooking in their kitchens like they have orders to fill and people to impressed. People are obsessed with throwing around phrase yes Chef.

Viewers and fans of the show are getting a big laugh out of people recreating the intensity that is Kermey’s kitchen. The Bear is nominated for Emmy’s for like Best Comedy, which I don’t understand. I liked the show a lot, like seriously a lot, but I don’t find it be a comedy anyway. Someone named Emma Jacobson on TikTok visited at Kassama in Chicago to try out some of their breakfast sandwiches as seen on The Bear and mfun. The line was way out the door due to hype from the show, and Emma waited an hour and a half for the pickup order, which is just crazy, but apparently it was worth the wait.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube. March to one thousand subscribers, go to YouTube find Daily Comedy News. Push subscribe, don’t care if you listen? Could you just listen?

Just want to get to a subscribers and can get some coins. Cmorrow Hi I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football. With news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride.

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Featured: Paul Reubens, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, Kathy Griffin, Danny DeVito, Sandra Bernhard, Scott Ackerman

What’s in This Episode

• Paul Reubens/Pee-wee Herman death at 70 from cancer
• Pee-wee Herman character origin and career timeline
• Pee-wee’s Playhouse CBS children’s show 1986-1991
• 1991 indecent exposure arrest and career impact
• Unreleased Pee-wee Herman SiriusXM radio special
• Tributes from comedy community after Reubens’ death

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The Shark. Deck Rubens, the actor who made pee Wee Herman famous, has passed away at age seventy. Him Johnny Macken. That is Today’s Daily Comedy News. Paul passed away after a private battle with cancer.

A statement on his Instagram on Monday said that Ruben’s privately fought cancer for six years. He put out a posthumous statement which read, please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing these last six years. I’ve always felt a huge amount of love and respect from friends, fans, and supporters. I loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you. His character Peewee was created in the nineteen seventies as a ten minute bit when he was with the Los Angeles comedy troupe of the Groundlings.

Paul auditioned unsuccessfully for Saturday Night Live in nineteen eighty. He then went about creating The Peewee Herman Show, which was billed as a live on stage TV pilot and had its premiere in early nineteen eighty one at the Groundlings. A national tour followed, and in nineteen eighty one HBO broadcast a version of it as a comedy special. I remember watching that back in the day. Nineteen eighty Rubens had a small part as a waiter in the Blues Brothers movie.

In that same year, he played a put upon hotel clerk who deals with Cheech and Chong in Cheech and Chong’s next movie. Peewee started turning up on late night talk shows, including Late Night with David Letterman, where Peewee doing his thing and Letterman doing his too cool for school thing was comedy gold writes The New York Times. Then in nineteen eighty six, Peewee’s Playhouse, a children friendly version of Peewee’s World that aired on CBS for five years. May recall some of the characters, including Cherry, a talking arm chair that gave hugs. There was a word of the day, there were bizarre toys, and one episode, Pewee married a fruit salad.

In nineteen eighty nine, Rubens told Newsday, I never set out to do a big educational show. We’re trying expose children to as much creativity as we can muster in half an hour, to be entertaining, and to transmit some subliminal messages like nonconformity isn’t bad. His career came to pretty much a halt. In nineteen ninety one, Rubens was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure at an adult movie theater in Florida. That led to a small fine, headlines, tons of jokes, and was pretty much over from there.

CBS had a ready canceled the Saturday Show, but upon this scandal ended all reruns of the program. Rubens pleaded no contest. He was sentenced to community service, and as part of that service, he produced two anti drug public service announcements. He had some acting credits Murphy Brown, The Blacklist, Buffy the Vampire Slayer in nineteen ninety two, Batman Returns, and The Movie Below in two thousand and one. On social media, Jimmy Kimmel wrote, Paul Rubens was like no one else, a brilliant and original comedian who made kids and their parents laugh at the same time.

He never forgot a birthday and shared his delight for silliness with everyone. He meant my family and I will miss him. Conan O’Brien on social no tweet can capture the magic, generosity, ortistry, and devout silliness of Paul Rubens. Everyone I know received countless nonsensical memes from Paul on their birthday, and I mean everyone in all caps. His surreal comedy and unrelenting kindness were a gift to assault.

Damn this hurts. Kathy Griffin wrote, the great Paul Rubens would send me hilarious gifts every year on my birthday. I didn’t know he was ill. The last time we spoke. I invited him to one of my dinner salons, and he expressed that he didn’t want to come because he was worried about COVID.

Came to my house after my Trump photo scandal and spent time with me. Danny DeVito said, really loved working with him. Sander Bernhard said, a true genius. Glad I got to work with him. So sad.

Scott Ackerman wrote, incredibly sad in to hear of Paul Reuben’s passing. Watching him on Letterman and then seeing Pee’s big adventure in nineteen eighty five was like a lightning bolt into my brain, waking me up to what was possible in doing comedy. It was the greatest throw of my life to first interview him, then work with him on the TV show, then befriend him socially. I’m sure he did this for all his friends, but he would send me text and funny gifts on my birthday every year. Wow, everybody’s saying the same thing.

And then last year, out of the blue, he sent an incredibly touching personal birthday video message. He also went out of the way to send several variations of blurbs for the book, which were all hilarious and different. You would always tell me on the phone or an email, we had to get together in person, after all, we’re neighbors, he’d say, But then he’d politely declined any invite I would send him, and I had no idea what he was going through the whole time. Treat yourself to some of his work today, this week, and your whole life rip to a true artist and rebel. I almost worked with Paul if you’re a drive by listening saying you haven’t heard the podcast before.

I ran Serious XM comedy for ten years two thousand four to early twenty fourteen, and we used to do these pop up radio stations where we would just create a radidio station and salute one artist for three four days. And we had a plan to do a weekend celebrating Peewee I think in conjunction with a DVD release maybe, And two members of my staff, specifically Mark and Jason, were very very big Peewee fans. So we were going to do this thing. We’ll celebrate Peewee for the weekend, all right, what are we going to do? And the guys came up with the idea of we would play a sound effect which would randomly generate what category of clip we were going to play, you know, something from the show or something from a movie.

How where it was going to work. The sound effect that the guys picked was for a slot machine, so you’d hear a quarter go in, you’d hear I don’t know, and you’d hear some wheel spin you go ding ding ding, and then a voice would have said something like Peewee’s playhouse. All right, so ding ding ding movie clip. Something like that was idea. So we sent it off to Paul’s camp for approval, and they thought we were being a holes and that something something pulling the lever of a slot machine.

They thought we were being coy and eluding and making fun of something you might do in an adult movie theater. Involving pulling, you know, never occurred to us in a million years. The station never happened. We tried to explain, Paul, I’m sorry, that’s not what we were doing. It was just a slot machine to get into which clipper are we going to play?

So it never happened somewhere maybe unless somebody threw it out. I haven’t worked there in ten years. There’s an interview sitting there. There’s all these clips, there’s a production, serious guys. Somewhere in the computer.

There’s a Paul Rubin’s special waiting for you to air if you can get somebody to clear it. But it never aired. Paul Rubens seventy years old. See you tomorrow. Hi.

I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new road of Argentine soccer phenomenon. Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the messy effect Wherever you get your podcasts,

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Jon Stewart, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Jim Gaffigan, Mark Marin, Taylor Tomlinson, Whitney Cummings, Jerry Seinfeld

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais advocates for stricter dog theft laws in the UK
• Jon Stewart reminds veterans about PACT Act benefits deadline August 9
• Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer developing ‘Fat Astronauts’ comedy film with Ethan Cohen
• Sorry/Not Sorry documentary about Louis C.K. accusations heads to Toronto Film Festival
• Jim Gaffigan and Mark Marin discuss Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy evolution and substance vs. style debate
• Taylor Tomlinson equates digital content creation to radio work for ticket sales
• Whitney Cummings discusses social media concerns versus cancellation fears

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The Shark Deck. I’m Journey mag with your Daily Comedy News. Let me tell you what’s going on. As I’m recording this, it’s like ninety seven degrees and I’m in my office where I record these things. And my dog who’s almost sixteen, Okay, so she’s a million years old, and then some and I have a lot of patients.

Accidents happen, but she peeted on the floor of my office, and the combination of that, which I did clean up, and the odor, it’s not fun in here today. Guys.

Speaking of pets, nice segue.

Ricky Gervais recorded an announcement he’s interested in some pet legislation in the UK. Let’s listen, dogs really need your help. Dog theft is up thousands of dogs every year and now being stolen from gardens and parks, and the crime is treated the same as if that person stole a possession like a bag or a phone, which is ridiculous because there’s no deterrent. The sentence isn’t right because a dog isn’t an an animal object that can just be replaced. A dog is a member of the family.

So you need to change this law to make it a real determinent, please help. And while we’re starting on serious topics today, John Stewart had a message for veterans or the families veterans about something called the Packed Act, and I’ll let John explain. Hey sounds Stewart, I got a little message here for anybody who served and was exposed to any kind of toxic materials AG and orange burn pits and all these other things. They’ve passed the Packed Act, which expands medical benefits to survivors and veterans and medical care. Please file for those benefits, and if you do so before August nine, then you’re eligible to get those benefits back dated one year to when the Pack Act passed August tenth, twenty twenty two.

You can file for benefits under the Packdact any time, but if you do it by August nine, or even just go to va dot gov slash Pact Act and say intent to file, that’ll hold your spot. But if you do that, you can get it done. That’s for anybody explosive, you know, any theater of war that has terrible toxic things or military basis, or even just if you’ve been through Jersey, just driven through. I don’t know that that would qualify it. But bit Shud, a documentary about women who accused Louis C.K.

Of sexual harassment and the consequences those accusations had on their careers, will be one of twenty two documentaries heading to the twenty twenty three Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary is titled Sorry Slash Not Sorry. Remember I told you that?

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And then showtime was like yeah.

Rolling Stone asked Tom Sigour to tell them a little bit about the project Fat Astronauts, and I was right. It’s a project with Bert Kreisher. Sagore said. It came up on the podcast Bert floats this idea, and we end up talking about it off Mike Moore extent. We talk about it more about some producers.

We talk about it more with Ethan Cohen, who wrote Tropic thunder name Drumper. Cohen sends in a draft of a screenplay, I read it, it’s hilarious. The feature world is peculiar. It’s not a straightforward business. There’s so many variables.

I’ve heard nothing but excitement from the whole camp about doing this, and I’ve been told everybody’s gung ho about doing it. But I’ll reserve my real excitement for the day. On Onset doing It, Rolling Stone ask Tom Sagora about his transition into acting. Tom said, truly, dude, It’s always been what I wanted to do. I moved to La to become a comedy actor and stand up, which is working for me, and obviously I enjoy it, so I kept doing that, but I never stopped wanting to be an actor.

And I like writing and creating, so that was the project. When I took it out on the studios, they were like, you can act, and I was like, yeah, no kidding. I’ve been trying to do this for f and twenty years, but I’ve been on the road. Taylor Tomlinson tells Variety she equates digital work to quote doing radio back in the day. You just have to do it to sell tickets.

A lot of people, myself included, get overwhelmed with the amount of content you after produce now, but it’s necessary unless you’re super famous, and even then you need Instagram. On the plus side, says the Internet has made it so much easier to find your specific audience. Nobody is truly for everyone, and now you don’t have to be Whitney Cumming spoke about social media, and told Variety she’s way more concerned about disappointing somebody who came to see her because she’s working on new stuff and it’s not super polished than she ever worries about being canceled by some fake Twitter mob that weren’t comedy fans in the first place. She remember as comedian actor Bobby Lee telling her when she started out, don’t worry about jokes over the first two years, just worry about getting comfortable on stage. Johnny Mac, you never talk about that.

Interview Mark marinh had with Jim Gaffigan a week ago. I know, right, this part I found very interesting. They’re talking about Jerry Seinfeld here as I’ve been doing. I’ll read the Marin lines a little harshress. I don’t have to keep going Jim’s head.

Mark said, I’ll start with Mark here. Everybody wasn’t doing specials. They were they were still special Jim, there was Cosbi and you know, you know Carlin. But like my point is, what’s the next step. Like Seinfeld has done a couple of specials, but he doesn’t feel the need.

There’s no growth there. He’s very anti growth. Well, no, I actually think it’s very much evolved into what into this guy. It’s his comedy’s just for laughs and doesn’t have any deeper meeting. And I’ve just never learned anything from a comic and it’s just a read and it’s ridiculous and that’s our job, Jim.

But I think that’s his kind of absolutist approach to comedy. But I’m diametrically opposed to that. Now. What I’m saying is if you look at the Jerry Seinfeld of the late seventies or ladies and you look at them now, they’re very different. Jerry Seinfeld today is much more autobiographical.

In the eighties, you didn’t learn anything about Jerry. I’m sure he’s aware of that evolution. I think the greatest comment of comics being able to transcend a decade, So being able to go from the eighties to the twenty twenties, that’s pretty significant. That’s why they’re like these comedians that are like the flavor of the year and then it goes away. But I think that speaks to a work ethic more than evolving.

Jim. Well, it’s a work ethic, but it’s also like not listening to the audience. But it’s listening to the culture and also like all his fans. You know, it’s rare if you come to be a certain way and your fans are kids and you’re in college. You know, how do you hold on them because they’re forty now and they don’t go to comedy Jim.

Yeah, they all moved out of Brooklyn or whatever because they had a couple of kids and they moved to Westchester. I think what’s also interesting about Jerry’s where he’s similar to a nineties comic, which you and I are, is that he’s a substance over style guy. Jim continued, You’ll see even just on social media, there’s a lot more crowd work. It’s all CrowdWork, banter stuff. And the whole thing is that style that’s not substance, and I’m not criticizing it.

And by the way, you know, Ian Meg is the best CrowdWork comedian I’ve ever seen. Remember Mike Sweeney. Mike Sweeney was amazing. Maren Yeah, he got out a long time ago. You know the guys who realized early on that trying to be a comedy star it makes money as a stand up.

That’s a long shot. I’m gonna write, but I understand what you’re saying, but I see this whole new generation of social media driven comedy. It’s just this weird attempt at a cash grab, and it’s succeeding that there’s no organized show business anymore. Mark Marin’s WTF guest Jim Gaffigan highly highly recommend you check that out. One way to support the show, that’s pretty easy.

Go to YouTube, find Daily Comedy News, hit subscribe on the page. I’m trying to get to a thousand subscribers so that I can monetize it, and then I can buy my own coffee, and then I don’t have to nag you to go to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, although honestly, I’ll probably do both when I you will, Johnny Mac, You’ll be on here going, hey, why don’t you go to buy meat coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throw five bucks in the tip jar, and I’ll go to the Nashville Don’t shame blah blah blah. I can see me doing that rap. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Mike Kaplan is apparently giving Harry Kunnabullu a run for most serious comedian.

Harry’s interviews as have later been a little looser. Mike Kaplan’s heading in the other direction. He spoke to the Henley Standard, and he says his brand of comedy makes you think. Quoting Mike, Philosophy is something that I’ve enjoyed thinking about for quite a while, both in school and out, because there are so many beautiful, important questions it offers, like how can we live a meaningful life? And why are we here?

And what’s going on? He’s excited to see what happens at Fringe this year. When we came to the Fringe last time, I experienced so many things clowns and dancers and magicians and storytellers and immersive theater experiences and circuses and more. I’m looking forward to experiencing more of those, and also things I have no idea about. I guess what I’m saying is I hope to experience things that I have loved that are familiar, and things that I will love that are unfamiliar.

He adds, there’s a quote by a poet named Robert Hass that I love. Repetition makes us feel secure, Variation makes us feel free. So it is true that I like to use my brain or my mind to think about things like wait, am I using my brain in my mind to think about things? And some of those are things I enjoy sharing in my comedy wherever I go. Believe it or not, he’s really funny, but boy, the interviews are serious.

Forbes asked of beer daz Hey, who were the comedians you looked up to growing up, and he said, my top three, we’re prior at Carlin and Eddie Azard Carlin for not giving a huge prior for putting vulnerability in a comedy and turning pain into comedy. And Eddie because he makes you feel like he made it up a second ago, even though it’s exquisitely written. What’s your favorite drink? Interesting? He said, I’m a beer guy.

There’s nothing like a Guinness in black, which I can’t seem to find in America. And I’m like, oh, what’s a Guinness in black? I used to drink Woodpecker cider with guinness on top, which I guess is the opposite of what he’s talking about. So what’s a ginis? And Blackie said, it’s a black current syrup, which is ridiculously sweet, and then a guinness poured on top.

The beer becomes purple and it becomes like a weird Voldemort drink. Then I have a beer I launched called Fact one, two three four, a’s between the F and the K. I wanted something that met me halfway between beer and cider. So that’s my favorite. Yeah, good call.

I think we could drink together. Maria Bamford spoke to The Pleasantine Weekly and said stand up was great for me, as I had difficulty connecting with people on a social level due to oct Intrusive thoughts in the controlled environment of this stage is very common to me and it remains to this day. She warns you if you’re going to see you through, my act isn’t for everyone, so please YouTube Maria Bamford because I’ve gotten feedback that I’m odd and wordy, so let that be your guide. She says her approach to comedy has changed as she’s grown and become more experienced in the industry. Maria said, my time is done in terms of feeling like I need to be heard.

I’ve already made it a thousand times over, and I hope to support the next generation. I love performing and creating, but there’s less drive. In a lovely way, I just taped a special for Comedy Dynamics and so my current tours the result of three years of writing and performing. I hope to gradually start replacing material, but it’s safe to say the topics of family, relationships and mental health done with several character act outs, those will be covered. That is your comedy news for today.

Fall the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube. You’re going to smash the subscribe button, aren’t you? Yes you are SI tomorrow. Hi, I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week.

Come along for the ride as Messy Miami and Major League Soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Craig Ferguson, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Tom Segura, Conan O’Brien, Gabriel Iglesias, Tony Hawk, Lewis Black, Tom Papa, Steve Hofstetter, Eric Rushton

What’s in This Episode

• Craig Ferguson launching new podcast ‘Joy Coma’
• Jim Gaffigan and Marc Maron discuss narcissism and Trump
• A worm species named after Conan O’Brien
• Tom Segura on fitness and sustainable lifestyle changes
• Nate Valvo on renting vs homeownership in Melbourne
• Steve Hofstetter on Minnesota marijuana legalization
• Eric Rushton wins Channel 4 Shawn Locke Comedy Award

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The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Craig Ferguson is starting a new podcast. I’m not sure the title’s gonna work for SEO Craig. It’s called Joy Coma, a podcast as launch as this week.

On the first the show, we’ll see him interview a broad range of guests from the worlds of entertainment, science and government as he asks, how’s our joy doing? Is it bridled on life support? Where do we find joy in the world? It seems, by any rational measure, to be collapsing around us. A good set of initial guests include Gabriel Iglesias, Tony Hawk, Angela Kinsey, Kathie Lee Gifford, Diedrich Bader we know him from The Drew Carey Show, Lewis Black, Wendy Malick, Shirley Manson, and Tom Papa.

Ferguson said, I feel like I’d let everyone down by not doing a podcast. I feel like I’m the last person I have a podcast. I couldn’t really see a way to do it for a while. I had to have an idea for it. I didn’t want to just be me talking on zoom to people that I met once Eventually I came up with the idea for this one.

This makes me feel good might be a good timing for him since there’s no late night shows right now. Ferguson compares the idea to the BBC series Desert Island Discs in a sense that it’s not really about the format, it’s about the guests. The drive of Desert Island Discs is obviously music, but the drive of this is about how you cope. How do you see your way out of the darkness, how do you shake off the demons, how do you form your own personal Saint Anthony Craig said, it’s my hope that as time goes on, I can talk to people who are not in show business and who may have a challenging or different approach to Joy. For example, if you talk to a homicide detective or a pediatric oncologist, these are very different, catastrophic at times things to deal with.

Sady survived because Joy is a coping mechanism. I’ll do a quick plug for my podcast. While you’re listening to my podcast. My other podcast is called five Good News Stories, comes out Monday and Thursday. It’s a quick hit like this, and I tell you five good news stories only good news, so it’s the number five good news stories.

Tom Sagora was on theo Van’s podcast talking about working out, no not working out material, working out your muscles, and Tom said I would get to a certain point and now not have them at tality of like, oh I got there. It’s almost like the race is over. I’m done. Now I’m good.

And then what happens is you get back to old habits and you get out of shape,…

Then you go all right, I’m gonna work out and eat clean, and then you lose weight and you start to go, oh, I did it. I got to the number again, and then you just pull back, and I got really frustrated by that. I was on tour. We were working out on tour, but not really dialed in on food, and the tour is like aggressive, like NonStop. But I remember that I got back to La to shoot this thing.

I was shooting this pilot I had written. I was covering the whole production, and I remember I was in the wardrobe fitting for it, and I was like, oh, this sucks.

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And then I left there after that week, and I was like, I have to take this mo…

But the difference is that I no longer go if I see a number that I like on a scale that means I’m good. I realized, you have to do it like that. There’s no end, It’s just continuous, right, So I just made it part of what I do. I know that I want to eat certain types of food that are good for me, and I’m not saying I’m the most strict dude ever, but there’s so much more clean eating. And I like the workouts.

I like being active, and I feel like I’m very fortunate that I have a full time trainer, so not everybody has that. I totally understand that it’s a huge advantage. All week, I’ve in picking away at Mark Marin’s Great Interview with Jim Gaffigan, as I’ve done all week. I’ll do some lights of voice acting, reading the Marin lines a little more aggressively. Gaffigan said, Obviously, in my twenties, I wanted to be as big as Letterman or Seinfeld or you know, Jimmy Fallon or John Stewart.

But I think now I’m like, oh, once you touch that sun level of fame there is, in a way no going back. I’m not saying we don’t like attention. We go on stage and make serious laughs. We’re not normal. But like when you’re on the cover of Rolling Stone, when you’re like heralded as a modern day philosopher, I think that seeps in.

And even when you say thanks everybody, I’m done, they all seem to come back after a couple of years ago. Hey, remember when I said I’m done anyway, I’m still done, but I’m doing this thing now. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s weird to see. And I think it’s a comment on that they touched the sun and they got that flavor for it.

It’s like Trump running for president so he doesn’t go to jail. Or is he running for president because he likes the attention. It’s not because he wants to be president, right, I think it’s because he wants the attention. Marin. He tasted being the most powerful person in the world.

I used to do a bit. It never really worked about. Like, you know, he’s the only narcissist that ever fully six seated. He did it. Narcissists around the world are like, he nailed it.

A worm has been named after Conan O’Brien. Yes, a species of Nemorarurian worm. I could redo that, but I’m not going to. Discovered by a Clemson University marine biologists five years ago, affects the reproductive performance of Caribbean spiny lobsters, which, as you know, are a critical species in the Caribbean. And Sonio Bieza And with a name like that, you know this dude is handsome, right?

Should I look him up? He’s an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. I’m looking him up. One hundred percent. Nailed it and Sonio discovered the new worm while researching public behaviors of the spiny lobster Penurilius argus in the Florida Keys.

Again, don’t come to me for scientific pronunciation. He named the worm after Conan because of his physical characteristics, being long bodied and pale with a slight tint of orange. Did you enjoy my time with nath VLVO on Friday’s podcast? I did. Early in the interview, he made a joke that I kind of ignored about how he was in his rental.

Well, if you go to real estates dot com, you’ll find the article Nate Valvo why Melbourne comedian will rent forever. He says, I do get jealous when I go to people’s houses and they’ve got things nailed to the wall and they’ve painted something, and I wish more Melbourne rentals had longer rental agreements. It’s been annoying every year having to see if you extend. I’d happily sign a five year lease. He has some tips if you’re looking for a house, stay off Instagram on Sundays.

That’s the day people post when they buy a house. That’s the day you see the photo of the person you didn’t like in high school standing in front of a sould sign and it ruined day. And if you do see it, reports the image as offensive. Steve Hofsteader spoke to WIZM. He was discussing legislation in Minnesota about legalizing recreational marijuana.

Steve had an interesting take. You said, the problem is once you legalize marijuana, you have to have free school lunches because the kids are gonna be hungry because their parents are eating all the food. Missouri just legalized it and they have no idea what they’re doing in Illinois, right over the border where it’s been legal for a while. You go into a dispensary and it looks like an apple store, and as it looks like some guys tight eye basement. They haven’t caught up yet.

It’s wild to see. So I wonder how long it’ll take Minnesota to go from basement to business, because it takes a bit. Congratulations to stand up comedian Eric Rushton, who’s been named as the first winner of the Channel four Shawn Locke Comedy Award. The new prize was created to showcase talent to do writers and performers who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Shawn and Channel four in the UK. Shawn Loock died in August twenty twenty one after veloping cancer.

The award was presented by his friend, a fellow comic, Bill Bailey. Eric the winner will now be given an opportunity to kickstart his own career in TV comedy. He’ll get five thousand pounds to support his live work, as well as a script commission from Channel four’s comedy team and a one thousand pound comission to write a script for the broadcasters digital strand. Channel four said since his comedy debut In twenty fourteen, Eric has been impressing audiences with his intelligent, playful material and likable, self deprecating stage persona, and twenty twenty he won the prestigious Lester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award. Eric says watching Shawn Locke was a huge part of my childhood.

I’m such a huge fan and I can’t think of a better person and to be associated with that. It’s your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube. Trying to get to a thousand subscribers on youtubes. I can monetize this thing.

To do me a favor, go on YouTube, push subscribe. You don’t have to listen because you just did. But it’ll help me out. It’ll get me closer to a thousand. Maybe it can make a couple of bucks and buying my own ice coffee.

You know what I’m saying. See tomorrow. Hi. I’m Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new world of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and his new life at Into Miami.

Will bring you into the glitz the glamor, the star studded events, along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major League soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get the Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Ted Cruz, Gianmarco Soresi, Matteo Lane

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron and Jim Gaffigan discuss comedians not responding to texts
• Tom Segura explains why he cut the Ted Cruz neighbor interaction from his special
• Tom Segura’s encounter with Ted Cruz and incest joke discussion
• Marc Maron’s new special on born-again Christianity and family dynamics
• Gianmarco Soresi selected for Montreal Just for Laughs New Faces
• Gianmarco Soresi on incorporating crowd work into comedy
• Matteo Lane Al Dente World Tour and Hair Plugs and Heartache special

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The Shark Deck. I’m trying to make with your Daily Comedy News, as they’ve done most of the week. I’m going to pick away at this wonderful interview Mark Marin had Jim Gaffigan on his podcast, really fantastic if you haven’t listened to it. I transcribed it, and I’m going to read to you and I’ll do some lights of voice acting here. Neither of these is meant to be an impression, but I just want to stop doing.

Mark said. Jim said, Mark said, Jim said, so, I’ll start with Jim Gaffigan, who said, you know, it’s weird because like for comedians, we never see each other and so like if you see some texts and they don’t see it and it goes down their thing, we interpret it. Like I remember one time I texted Bill Burr and I was like, and I waited a week and I called him and I’m like, I can’t believe it didn’t call me back, and he goes, uh, I did text you back? So I went back to the text he did. Maren said, yeah, because we’re babies.

Jim so, yeah, So like Naper Gatsy, he probably met his dad. These are solid people. You know Maren his new special. You know, he’s doing something. I’ve talked about it with a couple of people that I’ve never heard somebody sort of isolate a specific type of Christianity as phenomenon and talk about it like, you know, I’ve heard Jews talk about it for black people talk about being black or whatever.

But his sort of a take on his parents being the sort of new version of born again. Then he’s like they’re generation as of his siblings as they grow less discipline. It was very nuanced. It was actually, you know, kind of a brilliant piece of comedy. Jim.

Yeah. And it was also a commentary and birth order. I’m the youngest of six kids, and my take was that my parents were completely mentally ill by the time I was a teenager because they’d been tortured by five teenagers and they’re like, what are you smoking? And I’m like, I’m twelve. I’m just sitting here.

But thanks for the idea. Rolling Stone talk to Tom Sagora about his recent special and said, one joke that you cut is the Ted Cruz neighbor interaction one. I’m curious why you cut that. Did you not want to deal with the bull crap that’ll come from it, Segora said, I’ll say exactly why I cut it. I look back on older specials.

In my opinion, they’re all too long. I look back on stuff and I go, I should have cut that. When I was editing this thing, I wanted it to be as close to sixty minutes as I could make it, and wanted to trim anything that feels filler ish, feels dated, or doesn’t feel evergreen. So I ended up cutting three bits and trimming twelve minutes from the special. The cruise one really popped online, but it didn’t feel evergreen.

As much fun as it was to tell, and the pop was so great. Oh that reminds me. Thanks to Cody, who had posted this on the Daily Comedy News podcast group, Cody, I apologize I didn’t mention this earlier in the week. It’s actually Monday as I’m recording this episode, so I didn’t forget you all week. I just didn’t publish my thank you to you all week.

But Cody shared this clip. Cody, I’m typing to you right now, I wrote, Hey, thanks, I’m pre taping Saturday and mentioning you right now. You could find this exciting interaction on the Daily Comedy News podcast group Cody, thanks for putting that under my radar? Where was I? Sagora said?

The cruise one really popped online and didn’t feel evergreen as much fun as it was to tell, and the pop was so great, Rolling Stone said, can you walk me through that day? It’s one thing to find out that Ted Cruz lives in your neighborhood. It’s quite another to have this exchange with him, So of course said, to be fair, I do end the bids saying it may or may not be Ted Cruz. I try to leave it up in the air. It was a surreal interaction.

Somebody’s literally going to start the conversation with are you the comedian? And I go yeah, And he goes, where do you think the term mmer comes from? And I was like what? And he was like, that’s your joke, right? And I was like what and he goes, that’s your joke.

I was watching your thing. Isn’t that your joke? And I was like, what part of my joke? And he goes, effing your mom? I mean, I had no idea where this was going.

And he goes, do you think people do that? How many people do you think do that? And I really did go more than you wanted to be and he goes, yeah, but how many do you think? And I was like, how many people bang their moms? And he was like yeah, and I go, I don’t know, man, And then he went right into its otter bangers.

I cleaned it up a little. Rolling Stone followed up and says, does this interaction take on a new dimension given the porn video that his Twitter account liked? It was incesty step mom porn. Segoria laughed and said, yeah, guys, a creep. Bad Feeling Magazine caught up with Gianmarco Soresi SERRESI.

I’m a big fan of Gianmarco Soresi. He was selected one of jess for Laughs New Faces last year. He traffics in observational comedy with an edge. Trained as a dancer, he has transitioned to comedy. You heard my interview with him last week.

Gianmarco Soresi teld Bad Feeling. You know, I was always a theater kid. I went to college for musical theater and I do a lot of clubs in New York. That’s where I kind of grew up as a comic. And you’re at these stages that are just a couple of bricks thrown together, you elevated half an inch off the stage.

And being at JFL and being one one of these massive theaters, suddenly all those dance classes that I took in, all those thousands of dollars that amounted to nothing in my acting career, suddenly I said, Oh, I finally have room to move. When I got on that stage at JFL, I thought, oh, this is where I can shine. This is where I can’t be too much. And his plan was to test that theory this year. They asked him about incorporating crowd work, and he said, I think originally I leaned into it because, you know, it’s a weird time to be a comedian.

You have to put out constant output, but you don’t necessarily want to put out all of your material. And I think I saw one or two shows where I saw an audience member whisper a punchline to their friend. I said, Oh, that’s it. No more posting my current material online. I’m just leaving the crowd work.

At first, it was hard because the reason I became a stand up comic was because in conversations I like to be the only one talking. But I found it just keeps me in the moment. You know, I can get bored doing the same joke every time. When you’re talking to someone you feel alive. It could go south, you know.

I might say to someone, oh, so your parents are divorced. They’ll go dad killed my mom. Then I have to think, how do I make this funny? How do I stay on the edge that keeps you feeling alive, that keeps you feeling scared in a good way. So I do enjoy mixing it in when I feel like I’m ready to take the risk.

I had one recently I felt good about. I was talking about horses because my dad’s a horse guy. Have a lot of theories about people who like horses a little too much. But this person ended up being They’re kind of a civilian horse detective, so whenever there’s a missing person, they volunteered to do search and rescue with their horse. And ultimately through talk to them, we found out they’ve solved zero cases and I’m pretty sure they just hamper any investigation.

It was fun, the excited amount of finding out they’re a horse detective and then finding out that maybe they’re the worst horse detective in the world, and maybe horse detectives aren’t really needed that much. Mattail Lane is on tour the Al Dente World Tour. He’ll be at the Win in Las Vegas at two nights. The new tour kicks off on the heels of his latest comedy special hair Plugs and Heartache. You’ll find that on YouTube.

Let’s take a look at jfl for tonight, the last night of the festival. I’m going to miss this twelve thirty in conversation with Please Don’t Destroy one o’clock faith in comedy. In conversation with Rammy Yusef, Boy, we even have to make a tough early day decision. Seven o’clock to May Martin Gallas, seven o’clock. Ramy Yusef, all right, that’ll make my early decision a little easier.

Joe Dombrowski at seven, Anthony Jessenick at seven, and it just got a lot harder. Robbie Hoffman at seven, British at seven, Alock at seven, Melanie Bracewell’s Show Forget Me Not at seven, New Faces International Encore at seven thirty, Tom Ballard It is I seven thirty, Nimshi Buttel seven thirty, Ally Mkowski eight thirty. The Montreal Show at eight thirty with some locals. That’s always a good thing to do. Nine o’clock Josie Long’s re Ennatchment nine o’clock Double Threat, Shane Toorius and Ariel Elias nine thirty Trade, Kennedy’s Grew Up nine thirty, romy Yusef nine thirty, Varieties, ten Comics to Watch, Showcase nine thirty, Jessel Nick nine thirty, Jonathan van Ness nine forty five, New Faces of Comedy Canada, Encore nine forty five to Leslie Jones, Gala Hip Hop Karaoke, Montreal, jfl Edition at ten, Sydney, Washington at ten Late Night down Under.

I didn’t know that one was there. That’s cool. I like AUSSI comics a lot ten thirty. Mark Ford presents Safari Time Boys, So many shows Tonight to see James Davis Live, ten thirty, Martin Nurbano at midnight, Midnight, Surprise at midnight. Zach Zucker presents Stamptown at midnight.

Okay, if we were up there today, hmm, all right, so we’ve got that early decision. Let’s go see Please Don’t Destroy at twelve thirty. Then we’ll drink all afternoon. Seven o’clock. Maybe Ramy Jesselynick.

We’ve seen British already, Nimish Patel at seven thirty.

All right, let’s see.

Let’s do Rammy you sef. I would like to see him do stand up. I like him a lot. Jesselynick, you know, love him, but we can see him on Netflix. So that’s why I’m making that choice.

That’ll take us to about nine o’clock. I think you got to do varieties ten comics to watch Showcase. If you’re falling my lead here, you know, you go there to see the next wave. So we’ll do that at nine thirty, and then that’ll walk us up to the late shows. But boy, I’m gonna miss Late Night Down Understand again.

So many tough decisions at just for laughs and for something different, let’s do Martin or Bono for the midnight show. As that sound not, I’ll put a rap on this festival. The next one out of Just for Laughs is Toronto. That’s September twenty feet through the thirtieth. I’ve done that festival.

That’s a good one. Maybe this year I’ll do that one since I wasn’t able to do Montreal. Andrew Scheltz, Ronny Chieng Leslie Jones, The Office Ladies, Jonathan van Ness, Marlon Wayns, Nicole Buyer and Sam Morrell. I’ve already been announced for that festival. There’s a lot of like local, smaller shows and I spend a lot of time in the bars when I do that.

One also announced for Toronto O’Neil Brennan, Michelle wolf Roun, Funches, Tom Popa, Drew Lynch, Jay Jordan. Yeah, plenty of going on. All right, we’ll dive Ino Toronto at a later date and then is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Bonify YouTube. If you want to support the show, go on YouTube find Daily Comedy News, hit subscribe.

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