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The shark deck. President Biden brought the funny at the White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The President said, I believe in the First Amendment, not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it. Look, I get that age is a completely reasonable issue.

It’s in everybody’s mind. And by everybody, I mean in the New York Times headline, Biden’s advanced age is a big issue. Trumps, however, is nuts. They say I’m ancient, I say I’m wise. They say I’m over the hill.

Don Lemon would say that’s a man at his prime. That one’s really good. I want everybody to have fun tonight, but please be safe. If you find yourself disoriented or confused, it’s you’re either drunk or mortary. Taylor Green Wow, President said, it’s great.

They’re the cable networks are here tonight. MSNBC owned by NBC Universal, Fox News owned by Dominion Voting Systems. Last year, your favorite Fox News reporters were able to attend because they were fully vaccinated and boosted this year with that seven and eighty seven million dollars settlement. They’re here because they couldn’t say no to a free I your host, Roy Wood Junior. These are hit and miss, but I’m sure he told them better than I will.

Real quick, mister President, I think you left some of your classified documents up here. I’ll put him in a safe place. Roy said, I’m well aware that not everybody in this room knows who I am, So let’s address the elephant in the room. Half of the room thinks I’m Keenan Thompson, and the other half thanks, I’m Louis Armstrong. President Biden thinks I’m the daddy on family matters.

He joked about Don Lemon. How funny is it that you work in the news, then watch on the news that you get fired from the news. Sucker Carlson’s out of a job. Some people celebrating, But to Sucker staff, I want you to know that I know what you’re feeling. I work at the Daily Show, so I too have been blindsided by the sudden departure of a host on a fake news program.

Fox claimed that Dominion conspired with the Democrats to rigg the election. The Democrats should be flattered that they thought y’all were smart enough to rigg an election. He dressed Ron de Santis and said, Ron, everybody knows how to do politics. This is America. We don’t pass laws.

You make a promise to voters and then you don’t do it. That’s what the great leaders in this room understand. This one’s pretty good. When the retirement age went up two years ago to sixty four in France, they rioted because they didn’t want to work till sixty four.

Meanwhile, in America, we have an eighty year old man begging us for four mor…

Good stuff, all right, awkward transition. I have sad news to begin the program today. John Mulaney mourning the loss of his beloved dog Petunia. John Mulaney shared a photo on Instagram on Friday, saying, Petunia, I loved you from the first moment I saw you. Rest in peace.

Thank you for being my little shadow. I did watch John Mulaney’s special on Sunday, and I didn’t come here to be negative. I will just share my experience. I was watching it, I’m like, this is fine, and around the twenty nine minute mark, my desire to go watch the night agent outweigh my desire to see what Mullaney had to say for the rest of the show. So I bailed.

It’s not bad at all. I’m sure you’ll watch it and be like, wow, there’s really funny. Johnny mac must be in a bad mood. Totally get it. It’s not going to make my end of the Year list, but it’s not bad.

I just there’s nothing remarkable about it. And I reflected on this last night, and I think I came away feeling like John Mulaney was doing a performance. I understand all stand up comedy is a performance. It just didn’t feel I didn’t feel connected to it. Even though the guy is bearing a soul and telling a stylized version of what happened to him, it just didn’t connect with me.

So I just wasn’t feeling that one. Hope you enjoyed it. I know a lot of people did. The reviews were very good. Radar Online took a look at Bill Cosby’s upcoming tour.

They wrote, disgraced sex past Bill Cosby eighty five, We’ll still get redemption with a new comedy career. As Radar Online is told, promoters are begging the actor to tour, despite reports that say otherwise. There were some rumors going around that comedy clubs were not willing to book mister Cosby. His representative Andrew Wyatt told Rader Online, Unfortunately, when we announced the summer tour on the Scott Spears radio show last year, alleged accusers and I think radar I Online pointed out that there were six alleged accusers. Alleged accusers came out of hiding in order to create a distraction without having any proof facts or truth, I can emphatically state that mister Cosby is not having a hard time locking down venues.

We’ve been contacted by at least ten promoters is wanting the tour him, as well as many nonprofit organizations requesting for mister Cosby to perform slash host private events. Pete Davidson will host Saturday Night Live this upcoming Saturday. He was on Fallon Show and he choked that shows hard. I had a weird little gig there because I would do my thing once in a while and they’ll let me do whatever. But I was like, you guys work really hard.

I was like, I’m going to be in more than one sketch. That’s crazy. Keenan Thompson said it’s like a week off for us. Because Pete knows how to do the show, we don’t have to handwalk him through every single part of it. Usually the host come with ideas too, so a quarter of the show is almost already done.

Just a fun, easy week for us. He’s a good kid. He’s done a lot of work in a short amount of time at a very high level. So we’re all just proud of him and want to support him. I did see he was hanging out with Chase Sweet Wonders.

No, not Keenan Thompson, Pete Davidson, clarify who you mean by he Johnny get in trouble at the Pronouns was hanging out with Chase Sweet Wonders. So they didn’t take pictures together at the Little Oppressor last week, but they were hanging out this weekend. Hary Condebolo has clear the air with Representative Alexandria Okazio Cortez. You know her as AOC. If you have watched this recent special Vacation Baby on YouTube, you know the setup here.

If not, you should watch it. I’ll try and condense it. Back when before she was famous, he got a text from her saying they should collaborate, and he kind of blew her off, and he tells a funny version of that. AOC had texted him, if you ever liked to collaborate, let me know my door is open, and Horry said, and I replied, I’m pretty busy right now. When I get back to me next year, and then tagged it, thanks for doing what you do.

Alexis Hory then says I’m reading a scroll at the bottom of the screen. It says Alexandriocazio. Oh shoot, was that the lady shamelessly the Nights Sheet. Wan I finally wrote back, Oh my god, you did it. I knew you’d win.

So last week Harry issued a public apology to her. AOC wrote back, I gota belitely and totally understand. This is hilarious. Harry wrote, Oh, thank god. You know we should totally collaborate sometime.

If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Common News. Now you hear this. Now I’m emotionally torn about this. I woke up on Monday and I opened up the app for the National Donus Shane.

The National Donus chain was like, Hey, if you buy anything on Monday, we’ll give you a free medium, and I’m like, well, that’s awesome, but I kind of want a large. Can I take the free medium and give you an extra two bucks and you give me a large? Nope, it’s a free medium or pay for one yourself. And I’m like, it’s like, I feel bad that they gave me this free coffee, but it’s not big enough fortunately for me. Kara, would you know herr?

She’s got the book The Power of the Street, and she’s got the newsletter called Knock It Off. Told you about that yesterday. Well, apparently she appreciated my live read yesterday. I did some wordplay in there. I didn’t actually say anything read the transcript.

I didn’t say a thing, but I did put some spin on a couple of the words and got a good chuckle out of a bunch of people, including Kara Wood. So she bought me three coffees that buy meat Coffee dot com slash Daily Commune is. Apparently I made her giggle while she was driving to work. Karen, thank you for the coffees. I’m gonna take your five bucks out on the National Donus chain and I’ll get a large ice coffee like I want, not this little small one.

But it’s free. It’s like, hey, Jenny Mack, they gave you a free coffee. Why don’t you shut up but appreciate it? I know, right. Scott Ackerman has hit episode eight hundred of the comedy Bang Bang Podcast.

Bridey asked will he wrap it up, and he said, I don’t feel creatively stifled by it, And in my mind sort of things approaching, like the one thousandth episode or the twentieth anniversary, you always kind of go be interesting to end on a nice round number. Then you check in with yourself, do you even want to end it? You don’t have to end on a nice round number. I’m semi worried about passing away before I decide to end the show and having the last episode ever be a clunker. So I’m really interested in recording a final episode that we keep on the vault in case I pass away.

But at this point now I’m still in it, still enjoying. It feels weird to be doing anything at my age, but it’s something that I still love doing. Kind Of like that idea, maybe I’ll record like an episode about Adam Sandler or saying nice things, and I’ll schedule it for I don’t know, twenty ninety and then those of you who are still around will magically get an episode one day, although who’s paying for the hosting? Never mind? Hey remember that article in Vulture with the guy who booked the Late Late Show Comedians.

His name is Ryan Williams. Very good article in the Facebook group Daily Comedy to News podcast group. Last week, Welt asked Ryan Williams the book or Hey, any young comedians you feel particularly proud of? Championed early on, Ryan said, I feel like I got on the ground floor of the Otsco at COSTCA train. She’s incredible.

It was another one of those moments where I watched the clip and I got so excited about the possibility of putting that person on television. She’s got a unique vibe, kind of a childlike innocence with a really intelligent, cynical take wrapped up in it. Yeah, I’d love her all right. Ryan, was there a set where you were like, this is unique, I gotta put this on TV? He said, I’m really proud of the Maria Bamford set that we had about a year ago.

I got an email with the original which was focused on her mother passic away and dealing with that grief of that in a charming way. That’s exactly the type of thing I would normally try to steer a stand up comedian away from. I’d say, this is incredible and thoughtful and brilliant, but maybe not the best hit for our audience. But she was kind of gracious enough to send over another set that wasn’t sort of focused on death and morbidity, and comparing the two of them, it took the wind out of my sales. I was like, we have the choice to put this really emotionally riveting set on air.

I think we have to go for it. The response to Maria’s set was really strong and positive, and I think that kind of gave us the green light for the past year or so to be a little more daring. He also talked about the censors. This is interesting, he said, you’re usually able to find a compromise with the comedian that preserves the integrity of the joke. But there are moments of silliness.

You can say erection, you can’t say hard. It’s that kind of stuff where, for some reason, the very clinical, almost more repulsive names where things are fine, whereas the more colloquial slang terms gets shut down my standards and practices. Try and get to more of that article tomorrow. Really good and again I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Community was Podcast group. Another really good read was from the Huffington Post.

Lawrence Ross wrote it take summarizing how a generation of comedians are kind of reaching their end. I’m sharing the lead there because I don’t want you to think that he was just beating up on Monique. But he did beat up on Monique. Lawrence Ross f Huffington Post writes, Monique’s much anticipated Netflix special My Name Is Monique is bad as it not good, double plus, ungod, terrible, A profane therapy session without the funny introspection that comes from projective vomiting your pain, an aimless screed that masquerades is human, a comedy special foreshadowed by the legitimate social issues of pay equity, colorism, fatphobia, and Jim Crow Hollywood, and it fell short of any sense of being a validation of her protests. But you know what, Monique ain’t alone, Lawrence Ross writes.

Marlon wayains God Loves Me was awful, Chris Rock selective outrage was pitiful, and Dave Chappelle now does sort of an unfunny black libertarian stick that hughes embarrassingly close to the homophobia of right wing nutcases. Why why are these iconic black gen x comedians not funny in twenty twenty three? Easy? They don’t have anything relevant to say anymore, and that scares them more than anything else in the world. The Black gen X comedy scene hit right during the Bill Clinton era the nineties, just as hip hop move from niche music to a global phenomenon.

Black gen X comedians perfectly represented hip hop and the attitude of Black gen xers, the children of the movements in the sixties and seventies, Black gen xers with the beneficiaries of a new open world that created complications and problems integrated schools, bussing, segregated schools, reagonomics, the AIDS crisis, the crack epidemic, firmative action, the suburbs. Pop culture, black music, and white music are all represented by the average de la soul joints that was Black gen x in a nutshell, and when it came to comedy, they were the children of parents who played red Fox, loppy White Franklin Jay and Richard Pryor Abbs and corny stuff like Bob Newhart that just happened to be on the shelf, so you played it too. When HBO was black Twitter before black Twitter, def comedy cham was our communal comedic church. The observational comedy of Rock Chapel, Mac Harvey, Monique and Wayins was so abiquitous in our lives the way we say Rock Chapel, Mac Harvey, Monique and Wayans by one name. They were tapped into the black zeitgeist.

They understood us. Flash four to thirty years later, What has changed well a lot is a really good article. Ross writes, many of the black gen X comedians struggle to recapture that piece of the blackness of today that made them seem relevantly the past. Does money and fame remove you from the humanity that’s struggling up and coming comedians see is you’re protected by your tinted windows and the security crew. Or maybe ego makes you think you’re being deep but you’re not.

Or maybe old people get old and you know. Added such very very good article at Sure Comedy News for Today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, ut wherever you get your shows in a sea Tomorrow once in the generation, a new you British Royal dynasty takes shape. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Meghan in California to Kayton William in the UK. Along with King Charles Quincamiller, Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters.

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The Shark Deck. I am shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Did you catch the end of Sunday’s episode? Got a little awkward and I could have taken it out, but like I said yesterday, that’s no fun. All right?

It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is back for season sixteen June seventh. It’ll be out and we are told this year alone. Mac battles with allergies and long distance dating, Charlie takes on his long forgotten sisters, d fights for rent control and women’s athletics, Frank wrestles for his gun, and Dennis struggles to improve his mental health. Up Rocks had recently spoke to Glenn Howarton, who plays Dennis. Glenn says the show doesn’t push the envelope just for the sake of it.

The way the show’s talking about it’s is if that’s our goal, or that our goals to push the boundaries of what’s decent or whatever, and that’s never the goal. That being said, what the goal is is to make people laugh and oft in order to do so, you kind of have to shake them up a little bit. The best jokes to me are slightly a cerviic and make you, Oh, can you say that that’s just what I like because I like to be provoked. I like to be poked at by art. For me, it’s more about raising questions, forcing people on any side of particular issue to sort of face wood is often absurd about their point of view or the reasons behind their point of view, poking fun at the extremes on any side of any given issue or argument.

I mean, that’s just what the show has always been about. Rob mcillennie, who’s like Hollywood’s Darling now, especially since the soccer team got promoted it, admitted the show may have gone a little too far by putting his character Mac in blackface in the tradition of tropic thunder. He did that as part of a lethal weapon hearty. Netflix removed that episode back in twenty twenty one, that was over ten years after the original air date. At the time, mcillenny addressed the controversy, saying, I find that my broometer is off for what’s appropriate sometimes in situations, because like we’ve spent fifteen years making a show about the worst people on the planet, because it’s satire.

We leaned so heavily into the idea and then we were always like right on the razor’s edge. That’s the only way sat Hire works.

And then I go and do something else, and I’m pitching something and I realize…

Mac addressed it on the show in the episode The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon seven. In that episode, Mac apologizes for wearing black face in Lethal Weapon five, and the other is remind him that he wore black face and Lethal Weapon six as well, a detail that’s slipped by the Netflix sensors. This article says Howardson said, back at twenty fifteen, by the time we got to season three, I remember having a specific conversation with the guys where our attitude was like, any minute, the show is going to get canceled. So Evitt, let’s see how far we can go with these characters. Let’s see how far we can push them.

Pete Davidson doing more taco bell ads. We’re going to see a lot of Pete Davidson articles this week. In the new campaign called Breakfast with Peter. Pete Davidson is being referred to Peter rather than Pete. Peter is a morning talk show host.

The character says, good morning, I’m Peter Davidson. None Pete, because before eleven am. I like to keep it toned down and simple, just like Taco Bell breakfast.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson and girlfriend Chase Sweet wonders…

Page six says Pete was wearing an oversized hoodie and chocolate brown ugs. He completed his look with a denim duster. The Chicago Sometimes had a great review of bobcat Goldthwaite’s show in Chicago last Wednesday that I mentioned this on Friday’s episode, Becky, the listener was there, Hello, Becky, thank you for your note. Sometimes right, it’s on a chilly Wednesday night in late April. Yeah, I was in town on Tuesday.

My original plan was to hit the Cubs game, and then I saw the forecast was in the forties and I’m like, no Cubs game, and I changed my flight and I came home Tuesday night less than one hundred comedy fans politely moved from the bar at the Lincoln Lodge in Bucktown into the theater. They talked about how Bobcat no longer really does love that thing and said a more measured into Muror Glthwaite step to the mic at the Lincoln Lodge celebrating release of his comedy album Soldier for Christ. By the way, I played that on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. You can get the app and listen to The Weekly Comedy Thing for free on the Live one amp.

Golth Weight was sporting dark rimmed glasses, a Havana style for Dora, cozy flannel shirt and a T shirt and blazon with a penguin. His opening line, you don’t look the same either. Love that joke that was his previous album’s title two. The evening’s lineup was stacked Eugene Merman, whose credits include something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, let me ask you two questions.

One, have you ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers. I know you’ve heard of it, I get it. I know you’ve seen the merch. I know you’ve seen the promos. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck talk about it for years during Fox football games.

But have you ever actually seen Bobsburgers? No? More importantly, second question, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? That answers also no, and that’s very curious, I digress.

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Also on the bill, Victoria Vincent credits Just for laughs, Adam Burke credit…

Amy Schumer also encourage you to watch Jay McBride’s special on YouTube, which is fantastic. Surprises included Tim Kazarinsky credits, Police Academy two through four and Saturday Night Live forty years Ago Somehow and voice actor Tom Kenney, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rick and Morty Goldthwaite’s performance, which was made of jokes that didn’t make the album, skewed towards the ravages of aging. His doctor chastised him for smoking cigars, and when he points out that Gratcho, Marks and George Burns lived very long lives, as doctor returned with, well they were famous comedians. As a great joke, the Mr Right technician knew Goldthwaite and did an impression as the procedure started. While receiving shoulder replacement surgery, Goldthwaite was asked if he preferred a cadaver’s shoulder or an artificial one.

He chose an artificial one, of course, because he didn’t want to have to ask where was my shoulder? On January sixth, says like the sporting acts were good too. Victoria Vincent laughed at her younger days spent writing fan fiction about the band A good Charlotte. Adam Burke joked about kidney stones as like a healing crystal, but the opposite. Oh I get those?

Yeah, man, you don’t want that, You really don’t want that. Tim Kazariski embraced his dad humor vibes by reading a bad Russian translation off a box of instant rice and telling two jokes. One might find an dirty Joke book. How old is Tim Kazarinski now? Seventy three?

Wow? Jay McBride, a trans woman in case you’re not familiar with Jay, but it’s relevant to the joke, joked about her breast being as the best ten thousand pacos I’ve ever spent the suntime said. The pinnacle of the show occurred when Kenny joined Golthwaite on stage for the final act. They’ve been friends since elementary school and started out in comedy together. Kenny is the one who originated the Bobcat nickname.

They did two songs together, and Golthwaite admitted to being more nervous singing about a duck than he was descending naked at a Nirvana show. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you by the power of the Streak. I’ve told you about this on and off. This is Kara Wood’s book about how you should stay consistent with exercise and keep motivated over time. I need to read this thing again.

Oh my goodness, I don’t think I’ve worked out now in ten days now. I had some travel and when I travel, then when I’m not traveling, I have to do extra work to make up for the travel time. I had some soccer, it was cold, my knee hurt, I did play volleyball, ones and other excuses. But boy, Carowood is going to be sending me an email and be like, come on, man, what are you doing all right? Well, if you struggle with working out regularly, if you started exercising, or if you started exercising, I’ll want to get back to where you start doing nothing again.

You know those people sitting in a basement drinking ice coffees make up excuses why they don’t go from runs. Yeah, Caro ad zero motivation for years, but she eventually flipped the switch and has not looked back. She’s got a twelve year running streak. I go three days and I’m like, ooh, awesome, twelve years. Her story is funny, relatable and inspiring.

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Because she’s gonna yell at it because I’ve been so lazy, Right, why don’t you jump on her free blog slash newsletter on stack. Okay, it’s called knock it Off. Do you have Google? Just do this type into Google knock it Off substack and the link will come up. I just did it.

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Go to knock it off dot substack dot com. Carowood, thank you for supporting today’s Daily Comedy News. I am planning on going for a run today now tomorrow. I gotta take my mom to the doctor Saturday of an excuse from morrow, so I should run today. The Daily Cardinal caught up with Drew Lynch.

You know him from America’s Got Talent, and The Daily Cardinal said, those who know you from America’s Got Talent likely know of your stutter. What’s happened with the stutter since twenty fifteen? How do you feel about the fact that it’s improved. How would you say it affects your comedy? Now, that’s a very good question, Drew.

As some may know from AMGT, I had a softball injury. It was a ground or to the throat and then I fell and hit my head on the ground. I had concussion. The concussion was something that I went to sleep on the next day, I woke up and I had to be rushed to the hospital because my motor skills and speech were off. I was twelve years ago.

It’s been a long journey of not only trying to remedy it, but also living my life with it. There’s some days where there’s certain triggers or things you get stuck on. I’ve been a speech therapy, seeing a neurologist, chiropractors and physical therapists and rehabilitation. I think ultimately it’s been something that I’ve learned to not make such a big deal about, and ironically it’s become less less a thing because of my own lightning up. I always used to think everything was an attack or people thought less of me because of the stutter.

Fortunately, my career makes me able to be very self deprecating by being aware of it. But for the most part. I’m glad I don’t use it as a crutch. I don’t want it to be something I need to have to do comedy I always wanted to be about the things I’m saying, not the way I’m saying them. Tuesday is another quiet day at the Sydney Comedy Festival, basically the same lineup as yesterday.

We can go to the Sydney Comedy Festivals Happy Hour or the Still Showcase or let’s just hanging out a Bandai beach again. From The Guardian Diane Forrest. She’s eighty eight and says she’s the world’s oldest female stand up comedian. Diane was sixty eight when she first stepped on stage as a stand up in two thousand and three. She says, I’ve never set foot in a comedy club before.

I’ve always put a performer or a singer after a musician. But then all came to an end. After nine to eleven, I live in New York and we watched the twin towers fall from my apartment building. For a year afterwards, nobody wanted to go out or be entertained. It was then that I started to think about comedy.

I realized people need to laugh, and I thought, with a little training, I could do it. I took a few classes, try to work out a routine, got the courage. Went up on stage the first time was terrifying. No idea what the audience would make of me? All right, fast forward to today.

My first line is hello everybody, I’m eighty eight, three quarters years old. I’m telling you that in case I don’t make it all the way through the show.

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And then people laugh.

Diane says she’d makes some jokes people would consider risque. She jokes about not having the energy for sixty nine so my and it adds. People are surprised to hear an older person talk about sex. Yes, she says, I’m more of a period in real life, but I have an onstage persona. After a show, people young and old come up to me saying, what an inspiration I am.

One thing that surprised me is the number of young men who hit on me after a show. I might make a joke about being a cougar and they’ll hang out outside afterwards waited to talk to me. Guys who are such horndogs. They often ask me out and it’s not my brain there After all right, you go tie in met your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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The Shark Deck. Vince Vaughn has a terrible idea. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Vince Vaughn will return and star in a sequel to Dodgeball. Dodgeball came out in two thousand and four.

Who’s in it? Who knows what’s the plot? All we know is it will continue the story of Vince Vaughn’s prize winning Jim owner Ross and Marshall Thurber wrote and directed the original film You Know back in two thousand and four. In twenty twenty one, Thurber told Deadline you know what, never say never. I never thought about Dodgeball as a series, but that might actually be fun.

I’m really proud of Dodgeball. Terrible idea, I don’t do it. Great article on Vulture which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group about the comedy book or on The Late Late Show with James Cordon. Vulture gives credit to The Late Late Show as being in an early showcase for people like Jackie Novak and exposing Americans to popular British acts like James A. Castor and Remesh Rag and Nathan.

Ryan Williams was the book on the show, and Vulture asked him, Hey, before coming to that show, you worked as a booker for both Letterman and Fallon. How is your approach different here? Ryan Williams said, the one thing that every late night show has in common is that a lot of what you’re doing is tailor till the host’s taste. James came from a place where he wasn’t a stand up comedian. He definitely a taste and people he loved.

But to begin it was pretty much about showing off American stand ups to James and trying to find people who tickled his fancy. As time went on, I was able to branch out a little bit, all right, What was the booking process? Like? Ryan says, most of the submissions came via email from people’s agents and managers, a lot of times to get referrals from stand ups who’d been on the show. Those are the ones that get the most excited about when a stand up was here, did really well and clearly got what was all about and let them know.

Hey, as you’re going about the world, keep me in mind. I’d love to hear about folks that you see are ready and have solid sets, especially pre COVID. I was at the club’s lot more often than I am now, trying to go to different industry showcases and dropping in at hot Tub when that was a thing, hot Tub being the weekly variety show hosted by Kurt Ronoller and Kristin Shawl. Some of the people who performed at hot Tub you may have heard of them, as hecent sorry, Eugene Merman, Jeanine Garoffalo, Reggie Watts, t J. Miller, Dmitri, Martin, Patton, Oswalt, Kevin Meaney.

I digress, Ryan, what were you looking for as you went through the submissions? He told Vulture. It’s very much about balancing out an interesting point of view that’s also very palatable to a mainstream audience. I ways trying to keep in mind of the folks showing up to watch a late night talk show taping aren’t necessarily the same folks who would show up to a comedy club. I’d avoid more challenging material for the most part, with a few exceptions.

Vulture asked when Ryan looks back in his favorite sets, what comes to mind? Ryan said, the first one that comes to mind is Jacqueline Novak, who’s super funny. I think we were her late night debut here. She was one of the first more creative bookings. We had someone who was going after exciting, interesting points of view and maybe people don’t necessarily fit the standard traditional late night moult.

She had a really funny set and has gone on to do great things. More from that article tomorrow. On Corton’s last show, he had a great pre recorded segment that featured Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman. In it, they wake up Cordon in the middle of the night and they want to make sure that Cordon does not give away their secrets, including the fact that they don’t always watch the projects that the guests are promoting, and they try to convince them stick around. Colbert says, James, have you thought this through?

What other job will allow you to break in a song and dance every night. The segment then jumps ahead six months as James, Cordon and Trevor Noah are competing on the Masked Singer. That’s pretty funny. There was also a joke about how James will have to grow a long beard, and that sparked the Letterman cameo, which made me Smile. Baride magazine caught up with Ray Romano.

Hey, Ray, you’ve been married since nineteen eighty seven. Do you have any pearls of relationship wisdom? Hey, who doesn’t want marital advice from Ray Romano? I’ll take some, Ray said, oh boy, well this came from one of many many therapists have had in my life. That’s a great start.

And his quote was, pretend you’re not a narcissist. What he means is pay attention, get out of yourself once in a while, and make sure you show them that they matter. Not that I don’t do that, but when you’re in the business, you’re sometimes so wrapped up in yourself that you’ve got to remember it. All Right, Ray, let’s go over your favorites all time favorite movie, he says, Rocky the first one. Favorite pizza place in Queens Lillian Pizzeria in Forest Hills.

Oh, listen to me. I’ve lived in New Jersey for a while, I said Forest Hills, didn’t I I’m from Queens, Forest Hills, Forest Hills. Hey, let’s head over to Forest Hills. Wow, I can’t believe I did that. Forest Hills.

I’m sure, Ray said Forrest first comedy album. He doesn’t remember, but he says it was Cheech and Chong go to hobby playing poker. You’ve got to be willing to go all in or they’ll push you around. Secret talent Ray Romano has. He says, I can aim any capital of any country in the world.

I’m not kidding, but it doesn’t mean I’m smart. Favorite early celebrity encounter he said, I delivered a futon to Larry David in the eighties. That was before Seinfeld, but I knew him from that TV show Fridays. Remember Fridays. Yeah, I asked him what I’m with Fridays and he goes, eh, enjoy what I do here?

Head on over to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. As usual, when I get around and recording the show, there’s not much coffee left. Let’s say, you know how the National Donut chain has the cups. They’re skinny around the bottom so they fit in your cupholder and then they get thick. I only have these skinny part left, so you can buy me a coffee.

And buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are five bucks of the tip jar. You know what I’ll do with it? Yahoo asked Hurry Knobolu Hey, as a comedian, do you feel like cancel culture is a true threat. Everybody has to ask every comedian that question.

Why not? Hurry said, not really. I feel like who really gets canceled? Luis c K won a Grammy last year. There’s comics who fill out huge stadiums or at least a thousand seat theaters.

Saying you can’t say anything anymore would help them. Excuse me, kind of clear my throat there, like you can’t say anything, you can’t say anything more, and when you’re in front of a thousand people, when you’re on TV and specials. So I don’t think cancelation is a real thing. I think criticism is real, and I think people, particularly comics, aren’t used to accountability. Look, I’ve had people call me out.

I don’t like it. Either nobody wants to be told that was ridiculous or that’s offensive. But that’s how it works when you throw your ideas into a public sphere. Stand ups always complained that nobody cares about us, we’re never heard. Where the workhorse is the entertainment industry, and then somebody actually values the words that out of your mouth and you get upset.

Well, it doesn’t work that way. People love you because of what you say. That also runs the risk of you stumbling and saying something you might later regret. The Guardian caught up with Susie Eddie Izzard and they were asking Susie Eddiezzard, all right, what do we even call you these days? The artists are formerly known as Eddie Iszard recently announced she was adding Susie to her name.

Iszard told The Guardian, I think stay with Eddie because that’s my public name and I’m gender fluid. I don’t want to lose Eddie. What I don’t want is Susie. Eddie Izard said that she’s using Susie on food delivery apps. They don’t say anything when they give you your order except there you go, but you can see it on your phone.

Susie, your food is on its way. The Sydney Morning Harold caught up with Dylan Morne, who said, the jig is up with our own b s. We see that we’ve been living because we’ve had the net for twenty years. I’m in my fifties and I have that retrospect to flow. But now we’re thinking.

We definitely had a better time. We cared less about everything, We were less neurotic, we were less frazzled. At the time. You wonder what could we have done. We didn’t know.

They told us things were good, and we rocked along with it and we were dumb about it. Seems suspicious to me because it went on for so long. You’re thinking, Jesus, where’s the war. There’s usually a war. Well, now there is, and everybody hates everybody, and the Cold War is not golden anymore.

It’s definitely above room temperature by now. He talked about posting his ramblings on Instagram and said, I don’t spend too much time on it. They’re practical aspects, but there’s zero relational nutrition in it. It’s not going to make you feel anything real. When TV first came out, people said it was an invention for lonely people, and it’s obviously true with this too.

We’re in an epidemic of people feeling isolated, being alone together. It’s a machine dialogue that you’re in. It’s weird. Do you want to be in a machine dialogue? Or do you want to live your effing life as an organic human?

Being It’s like a sex dollar. It’s so far away from reality. People complain about being alone, but what they really mean is they’re frightened of finding out what it is to be a person, to walk around the grounds of their own mind. They want instead to be given guided hoards of bs to distract them before they get a chance to do that. We’re giving away the best of ourselves to tech companies.

We need to reclaim ourselves. There’s an opportunity now to be honest. What is it you want? We’re carry on moaning for the rest of your effing lives. Dylan morn shows called We Got This.

He’s at the State Theater in Sydney until May eleventh. Let’s see who else is at Sydney on what’s today Sunday? You’re recording this on Friday? Joan, Yeah, Monday. Let’s see, it’s Sydney on Monday, May first.

How did that happen already? All right? Apparently the Sydneyans take Mondays off. All we really have is the Sydney Comedy Festival, Showcase at the Bondai Pavilion and the Happy Hour. So I’ll tell you what.

I would head over to Bondai because that’s where Bondai Beach obviously is. And I’ve been there and I had a great day. It’s my number two raked beach in the world. San Sebastian Spain at number one, but Bondai Beach fantastic. We should just hang out of the beach and blow off comedy today and by today I mean tomorrow.

This time zone stuff gets so confusing. Are you in Toronto? Well tonight Joker’s Wild, a triple X roast battle strip show. It’s in the comedy bar Ossington. Here’s the details.

Comedians bear at all for your laughs at Joker’s while to show the combines explosive roast battles with poker. Okay, seven o’clock. How does it work? Toronto’s best comedians exchange vicious barbs and whoever doesn’t land has to take off a piece of clothing. So think about it.

Say you were there and Jeff Ross, the roastmaster, was there and he was having an off night, you might be able to see Jeff Ross naked? Is that not attractive to you? Come on? So I’m trying to think of who are some of the best roasters looking for lists? Here here’s one from twenty eighteen, where Vulture had the best Rossetts of all time, Right, Jeff Ross We’ve already visioned him naked Drew Carry for roasting Hugh Heffner in two thousand and one.

Imagine Drew Carry was there and lost a trip poker. You got to see him naked. Sarah Silverman, I don’t want to get creepeal move on, Todd Barry Patton Oswal Yeah, Whitney Cummings, this could easily get creepyat John Why don’t you bail on this segment and just shut up? Okay, good advice. Why didn’t you edit that out?

Because that’s not fun? Where were we? Oh? Yeah, the comedians were roasting each other and if you don’t land a joke, you take off a piece of clothing and you can imagine the people I just discussed. The show was created by Toronto’s Sebastian Fazzio, known professionally as Roastmaster, Bash Jokers, Wild Comedy, bar Ossington seven o’clock.

You should go comedy Naked People? Why not that your companies for today? Why didn’t you edit that out? Follow a show for free on Apple podcast Spotify, you too, where we get your shows? See you tomorrow.

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News to nice is the White House Correspondence Dinner your host? Roy Wood Junior. Roywood Junior told The Birmingham Times the Correspondence Dinner is different from hosting the Daily Show because ain’t nothing could prepare you for it. Previous host of the Dinner and Seth Meyers, Cecily Strong, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brian, Ray Romano, Paula Poundstone would say, as I take it as an honor to basically be a voice for the voters, you have to come in and swing the big stick. The difference between the Correspondents Dinner and the Daily Show is the studio audience is not interested in laughing.

In DC, I can’t toss it to a break. If a joke bombs, I have to live with it now. Earlier in the week, Sucker Carlson got fired and Hasan Minhaj tweeted, pretty sure Roywood Junior is updating his remark slash roast for the White House Correspondents Dinner now, would reply and wrote, updating, Man, I gotta throw out the whole damn script. Roy was also on Sam Sanders podcast, as recapped here by Vulture, Roy said, people are like, well, what are you gonna say who you’re gonna go after? And I’m like, go after them?

And then what are they going to resign the next day? You’ve got a bunch of Clarence Thomas jokes, but I don’t imagine I have one that’ll make them resign. I could joke about Clarence Thomas getting flown around the country like an Instagram model. The whole thing could be Clarence Thomas jokes. But there’s a little bit of c ort we need to get into.

There’s some Desanta’s versus Trump we need to get into. There’s some Democrats filipbustering the Republicans police reform bill. We need to get into that. That’s the thing. There’s questions to explore.

But then you have to wonder, Okay, am I here to make a point or am I here to be funny? I’m here to be funny. Nobody in the room is my ally. I’m for the people. Comedians are for the people.

Make no bones about it. I’m a black American raising the American South, and there’s certain truths about that experience that we need to change, and I’m not here to camouflage that. I wasn’t hired to give a speech, but I was hired to give a little bit of truth. I’m not to Gregory. I don’t have the ability to oscillate between humor and anger, effortlessly and indignation.

I don’t think I possessed that. But I think there’s a way to talk about the black experience. I do know we’ll have a conversation about reparations somewhere up in there. You think I’m going to be, as a Black American on the biggest stage in front of the most powerful people and not tell I’m to consider reparations. Who else will have the opportunity to have the undivided attention of lawmakers?

Is he nervous? And he said, yeah, it’s a challenge. I remember earlier in my career walking through Time Square profusely sweating because I had to go on David Letterman. I could do that with my eyes closed now, but this yeah, I’ll be walking through the National Mall sweating. Salon talked to Jay Farrow and he said, you gotta put the work in.

You have to have a team. You can’t do without a team. Everybody is a team. Even people you think, like Michael Jackson had a team. Prince, Well, Prince is the only one who could do by himself.

Okay, he’s the only one. Everybody else they need a team. Prince was just like, I don’t care. I play every instrument. I don’t need anybody.

And he didn’t. He played twenty two instruments. Jay said, can we talk about the time I was on Family Feud and they were asking the biggest pop stars of all time? And I said Prince and it wasn’t even on the board. Even Steve Harvey said that don’t make no sense.

Everybody leave, Everybody leave, We’re walking out of here. Everybody just got up and walked out. Yahoo asked, Hurry Kanaboloo, Hey, Harry Kannabulu. Do you have a pre show routine? Harry said, yes.

I paced a lot. I talked to myself, especially if it’s the first show of a run, like if I’m doing a bunch of shows, the first couple of were I’m the first nervous. I’m always pacing. I’m always thinking about getting the joke order right. Remember the new jokes I added to an old joke.

I don’t like it when other people in the room talking about when I’m pacing, I want it to be quiet. I just want it to be in my head. I hate when the bathroom isn’t in the green rooms. If I have to pee, have to be with the general public. It ruins the illusion because all of a sudden, it’s like, ah, yeah, that guy I just saw pee, he’s on stage.

Parade asked Ray Romano, Hey, Ray, do you think everybody loves Raymond has received the respect it deserves? And Ray said, well, Raymond’s not hipster and young and sexy. It’s not friends or Seinfeld. It’s a little more of a family values thing. But actually think people appreciate it now in a way they didn’t even five years ago.

And I’m a glass half empty guy always finds the negative, but it holds up. Parade followed up and said, well, how can he tell IFU said, come holds up? And Ray said, look at the Honeymooners. That holds up. And it’s just two couples.

There’s something about the acting and the writing, and it holds up through time, and even as cultures change, the basic core the family stays the same. I’m not comparing our shot of the Honeymooners, but that’s basically what a show is about, and maybe that helped it stand the test of time. Will Ray do another sitcom? He said, I knew I didn’t want to do another traditional fourcamera sitcom. Raymond was my legacy in that genre.

I was drawn to something with a little more dramatic substance to it. Maybe not in tenth street drama, but I wanted to try and test myself but having someone cast me and that proved to be difficult because when you see somebody for nine years in a rold, it’s hard to see them in anything else. I ended up co creating men of a certain age. I’ll jump in. Ray was really good in that I’ve seen Ray and a few things that I’ve been like, Oh, I really like him in things.

Ray said. I was on parenthood for three years. People saw me again in a different role. The Sydney Comedy Festival continues on Sundays. Some of the names we might know Daniel kits In, we talked about him in Melbourne.

Ed Gamble is also playing Moses. Storm is there and a show called two Hearts New Zealand. We’re Pregnant and the Baby is Music reminds me of my daughter was telling me her boyfriend was like, ah, he made me watch some show. It was like twenty years old. It’s like two guys or like Australian or New Zealand or something, and they play music.

So I jump in, I go fly to the Concorde. She goes, yeah, I hated it. I’m watching it. I’m like, that’s a dad show. Dad probably likes that.

And I’m like I do. She’s like, yeah, I could stand out. I’m like, you don’t like the hip Hopopotamus. She had no idea what I was talking about. The pitch, KC got up with Brian Reagan.

Hey, Brian Reagan, do you feel like there are different types of audiences that you encounter when you’re performing. Brian said, well, what I think it’s interesting about an audience is that everybody thinks they’re reacting like from their own individual selves. What they don’t realize is they’re being influenced by everyone around them. From my perspective, I try to make the audience one thing, and then I try to get this one thing laughing. I’m not naive.

I know that it’s a bunch of individuals, but the individuals out there think I think this guy’s funny. They don’t realize that. It’s more like, we think this guy’s funny. Audiences are like those big giant flocks of birds with like a million birds, and they’re all moving around. Is one It’s bizarre to look at it and go, well, is that one thing?

Or are they all different? Angela Johnson Reius will debut her sixth comedy special, this one called Say I Want. It’ll be on YouTube May fourteenth. She produced the special herself and owns it fully, which shot at the Rheman in Nashville. Now what I like about this article from Pollstar is it gives us some hard numbers.

So in case you’re wondering how much dick comedians make, here’s some actual numbers. Paul Star reports the special performances that the Riemann sold thirty eight hundred tickets and grossed one hundred fifty six thousand, one hundred ninety four dollars according to Pollstar’s box Office. Other highlights from that shore the show in Charlotte two thousand, three hundred twenty four tickets for one hundred thirty four thousand, two hundred and ninety three dollars. The show in Atlanta twenty four fifty nine tickets, one hundred and twenty seven thousand, three forty six San Jose forty nine eighty tickets gross to two hundred and fifty one thousand dollars in change. Now that’s gross.

So who knows what happens after everybody takes their cut and expenses and accounting and I don’t know making you pay for the potato chips and the green room out and how it all works. But those are some numbers. Pretty interesting, right. Oh. As an aside, Happy ninetieth birthday to Willie Nilson.

Yeah, my mom loves Willie Nilson. Willie Neilson ninety years old. One way you could celebrate his birthday. Check out the podcast The Best Song Ever. This week it’s called the Best Song Ever This week, host Scott Frampton does a quick dive and a song and what makes it special?

And there are two Willie Nelson themed episodes you’ll find near the top of the fee. There’s one new episode, but the two below what are both about? Willie Nelson. Happy birthday, Willie. I’ve seen Willie live Foo three four times.

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The Shark Deck. President Biden announced he’s running for reelection. Hig I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel said Biden’s face could be on money while he’s still in office. Falon Biden’s campaign slogan is finished the job, Finished the job.

Americans said they’d be happy if he could just finish a story fallon again. According to polls, most Democrats don’t want Biden to run again. Then Biden said, hey, none of you wanted Avatar too either, But look how that turned out. Seth Myers. Can you imagine if it’s Biden versus Trump again?

That’s like going into a diner and the only things on the menu were two day old egg salad and Donald Trump. I guess I’ll take my chances with the egg salad. James Cordon wrapped up last night as I recorded on Thursday, almost no Articles. Strangest thing I’ve ever seen. John Mulaney was on with Jimmy Kimmel, who was getting more pressed than James Gordon.

Mullaney told the story about spending time at Jimmy Kimmel’s house in twenty twenty one, which lasted quote a few weeks, and then another few weeks. Kimmel said it was like his family had adopted a son. Wellaney said, I was treated so well. I never saw you. I never did, but I’d wake up and there’d be a basket with bagels.

There’s a nice restaurant, quality espresso machine. Not bad if you’re thinking of having no phone. It’s real good over there at Jimmy Kimmel’s from al dot com. That’s ALA’s in Alabama, not my friend Al’s website. Fortune Feemster went to a BUCkies.

This came up a few months ago on the podcast BUCkies came up with a story and I’d know what it was, and a bunch of listeners educated me, and I’m now fascinated by it. It was Fortune Feamster’s first time there. She shared a clip on Instagram and said, oh my god, beaver nuggets. I don’t know what this is, but sign me up. She checked out all the highlights of the BUCkies, cheap gas, nice restrooms, kitschi merchandise, hot food, and hot sauce.

She walked by a wall of dried meat and said, anybody wants some jerky? I mean, good, Lord, that’s a lot of Jerky, also catching her eye a swimsuit featuring a pattern of Bucky’s beavers over leper spots. She said, all right, I found my new one piece bathing suit right here. Come on, should I get it? Vulture did a lank piece with roy Wood Junior.

The overarching topic is why is it Roywood Junior? The exos of the Daily Show, and a sub topic of Roy Wood is hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner tomorrow night. I’ll talk about that on Saturday’s episode. Bulchar quotes Mike Berbiglia, who said, a bunch of my comic friends, when they found out Trevor Noah was leaving the Daily Show, said and they’re going to give it to roy right Wood said, they’re dating around. The perception is always that the talent is auditioning for the show, but I feel like the show is also auditioning for the talent.

I’m focusing on the stuff I can trust in control because we’re in a weird flux place. It’s giving me a little bit of time to Delvina the things that excite me. I’m getting the vibe from reading a few Roywood Junior articles that he’s kind of frustrated with the Daily Show people. He can’t say it out loud, obviously, because then they might say, all right, then we won’t give you the show. But it’s kind of weird that they didn’t give him the show, to the point where if they actually give him the show now it’s going to feel second choicy or like we couldn’t find anyone else.

The guest host thing is weird to me. I forget who’s hosting this week. I had to look her up. I’m like, I don’t even know who that is, but I’m old Roy. What Junior says, if the job does go to someone else, it might be time to move on.

He says, if they’re not choosing me as host, I have to assume that I’m not going to be part of the show in any other capacity. Yeah, if you don’t get the show, you gotta move on. He is focused on a stand up and he said, I know the next three hours that I want to build. The invisions one called The Man of Many Fathers. That would be about the people that filled their father role in his life after his father’s death at age eighty would was just sixteen.

Another hour would be about him and his father, and the third about Roy and his son Fulter tells a nice anecdote Roy’s hanging out with the comedy seller and a writer from Guttfeld asked Roy what they could do better over at Gutfeld. Roy would suggestion the Fox News personalities who guessed on the show won’t let Greg carry the comedy. I haven’t seen enough Gutfeld to weigh in on that opinion. I forget Guttfeld exists now. I write this podcast at least a minimum four days a week, usually five.

I usually do the seven episod it’s in five days, and I never see any stories about Gutfield. I get that it’s doing okay in the ratings. Fox News publicist, you don’t need to email me, but I never see any stories about it. This like zero buzz. Roy spoke about his days as a touring comedian.

He said, I remember being on the road and worrying about money and food. You can’t focus on the jokes. I need my audience to be ready for me. So what can I do to make sure that when you work with me, you’re only thinking about the jokes? If money in a plane ticket do that cool?

I’d rather pay more for my opener than I have the club book, somebody who’s going to slow my show down. I’m more concerned with somebody thinking I’m an a hole professionally speaking, at least than I am with bombing, because if you’re funny and nice enough, you’ll get opportunities. Tomorrow’s White House Correspondence dinner is quote the quickest and clearest way for people to understand exactly who I am and what I believe. It’s White People show time at the Apollo, and he says he expects half the room to not know who he is, and the other half will probably think I’m Keenan Thomson. A fair amount of Pete Davidson press going around.

Bupkiss is out next week, I believe, and then Pete’s hosting Saturday Night Live, so I’ll probably have Pete Davidson stories almost every day for next ten days. I guess here’s today’s Pete Davidson told Good Housekeeping. When I was younger, I bought the uncensored M and M Show CD, which of course I wasn’t allowed to have, so I kept it in a Rod Stewart jewel case. My mom noticed and for years should play Rod Stewarts of something we could bond Over. Congratulations to Stewart Field, winner of twenty twenty three’s Mastermind over in the UK heat shows the BBC sitcom Extras as his specialist subject Ricky Gervais joked, it’s not the winning, it’s the taking part.

Although if you don’t win technically you’re a loser. Field said Mastermind was the only thing he’d ever wanted to win. I have the questions, he answered, correctly, remember extras, Ricky Gervais, No, not the office, the other one. Yeah, all right, ready, I went over five here. Question number one, scenes from one episode the first series had to be filmed a month before production was due to begin in order to accommodate the availability of which guest star.

The answer Samuel L. Jackson. Question number two, what’s the name of the club which Andy visits on the recommendation of Barryoff Eastanders, who says it’s where the cast of the soap used to go to avoid the public. The answer Castro’s I could have sat here for ten years and I got that. Three.

A newspaper photograph shows Andy and his new friend Jonathan Ross having fun at Ross’s house, which, according to Andy, is in which English seaside town swanage number four. When a new neighbor named Kathy moves into Andy’s apartment block, he tells her he lives on the second floor at what number twenty one? And your final question if you want to be the mastermind. When Andy is befriended by a fellow extra played by Steve Spears, he’s decidedly underwhelmed to me invited round on a Sunday afternoon and watch a DVD of what film? That film?

Vera drake? Oh for five? Here? How do you do? On gossip Corner?

Eugene Levy was spotted in syrac Use at Postabilities. Saw that name. Oh, some of the listeners give me a hard time when I start looking at menus. But I wasn’t going to do it, but now I’m like, hm, Postibilities. Let’s see with possibility cells, we can order take out.

Let’s order take out super the day today Southwest Potato for your starters. You can get various salads or oh, here’s a thie beef side, rice noodles, shaved steak, onion, sweetbelt pepper, cilantro. I would totally get that if I were at Postibilities nine bucks. Get some subs at traditional meatball sub at Chicken Farm. Obviously, Postibilities has pasta you think and for dessert a Mexican chocolate pistachio caramel maroni four fifty.

But enough about the menu, tell us about Eugene Levy. Okay. Night manager Jez Zimmer was seating a party of three at Postibilities and Syracuse. The group was masked and Zimmer heard one woman addressed the man as Eugene. Took Zimmer a minute and then he realized, with the hair in the eyebrows, how could you not?

They just walked in here. The party told Zimmer they were passing through Syracuse for the night. Why I’m gonna get letters from Sereuse. But like, Syracuse isn’t a place you like passed through it like nine pm. Maybe in the middle of the day if you’re from bigger city to bigger city and you stop there, or maybe you’re visiting Syracuse, But like, I don’t think it’s a place you pass through at night.

You can yell at me if you’re from Syracuse. All right, what do they ordered? Johnny mac Levy ordered a steak, and Zimmer said the group finished with a cookie and coffee. They said it was fantastic. No complaints man between the Bucky’s people and the Syracuse people.

I am gonna hear it. If you want to complain, why don’t you complain on the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’ll find that on Facebook. Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There was some activity on the page.

Becky wrote, Dear Johnny Mack, I just got home from Bobcat Goldweight’s record release party at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago was tremendous. Thanks for the heads up. He was joined by a bunch of other comics, most notably Jay McBride, who’s fantastic. Tim Kazarinski remember him from SNL thirty forty forty years ago. At this point, Tom Kenny, and a surprize hit of the night, Eugene Mermid.

Becky adds Bob’s Burgers Traversey aside, Eugene Merman was silly and absurd, just wonderful. She shared a pick. You’ll find that Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. It’s a very nice picture and I’m waiting to hear back from Becky if she asked Eugene Merman about the Bob’s Burgers conspiracy. If you are a new listener, I’ll ask you two questions.

First question, have you ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers? The answers no, And more importantly, have you ever met anyone, anyone at all who has seen bombs Burgers? No. I understand they promoted on Fox. I understand this, Merch, I get it.

I get all that. But have you ever actually seen the show on Fox? You haven’t remember. I asked you guys to rank Chris Rock, Luis Ka, and Dave Chappelle. David wrote, Chris Rock funny, Dave Chappelle yup, yup, yeap, Luis c K awkward, Bubba said, all hilarious, although c K lax impulse control, Chappelle needs a better filter.

And Rock blundered his way back in the nineties with his bid about the N word versus black people, but realized it was mistake, acknowledged it, and moved on. I’ve been talking about the show Jury Duty, which reminds me I have to watch the end of it. Maybe I’ll do that. No, I’m not home tonight. I’ve got family stuff right Maybe Sunday after Melani I’ll finish up Jury Duty.

Richard wrote, Andrew Weinberger is on episode four ninety of probably science and shares a lot of insight into the show Jury Duty. If anyone’s interested, I’m going to download that right now before I forget done. Thank you Richard. When I do that during the show, I really am downloading the show now. There’s probably about a four minute hole which I have edited away, but yeah, I grabbed my phone.

I did it and answered a text from my son as well. The trailer for Hannah Gadsby’s upcoming special has come out. I tried to pull the audio, but there were too many swears and a lot of music. And if you had the music and on the YouTube version of the podcast, then they’re like, heys cam Randy music at retained das. I’m like, I’m not going to bother with this.

I really liked her special. Douglas, the one Nanette is the one. Everybody was claiming that Hannah Gasby reinvented comedy. People lost their mind over Nenette. I thought Douglas was better.

The trailer for this one called something Special. Not doing it for me yet, but I will watch it. I’m curious, but I wasn’t feeling the trailer. The press release says, in the smart and feel Good set, the comedian talks about a wedding. There’s more than one traumatic encounter with a bunny and much more.

You’ll find Hannah Gaspy May ninth on Netflix. I have three words for you, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Being a fan of said show, they’re actually developing this sequel. Warner Brothers made the announcement during CinemaCon.

They showed a variety of logos featuring upcoming projects. One of those was that word too. I’m not saying a third time. You know what happens if you say it a third time. I’m not doing it.

You say it three times. Michael Keaton and Tim Burton are reportedly in talks to return. Jenna Ortega also in talks to star in the film. I saw the live musical version as opposed to the pre recording musical version. I saw the Broadway musical version.

I was so good, really enjoyed it. They’ve been trying to get a sequel going since the nineties. There was one pitched called title character goes Hawaiian. I’m not saying it. The idea of the original child character goes Hawaiian came around as early as nineteen ninety.

The Deets family had moved to Hawaii to develop a vccasion resort. As one does, they’re almost like the howls in the Gilligan’s Island sequels. As construction begins, it’s quickly found that the resort is being planned atop an ancient burial ground, much like in the Brady Bunch enter the title character who would accidentally awake native spirits and cause Bayham. Why didn’t it get made because Warner Brothers wanted a sequel to Batman, and they pulled Tim Burton and Michael Keaton to go make that. By nineteen ninety seven, they were saying Whenona Ryder was too old for the role, the only way they could make it would be to totally recast it.

In twenty thirteen, Winona Ryder told The Daily Beast, I’m kind of sworn a secrecy, but it sounds like I might be happening. It’s twenty seven years later, and I have to say I love Lydia did so much. She was such a huge part of me. I’d be really interested in seeing what she’s doing. Twenty seven years later, in twenty sixteen, supposedly a script was finished.

The next year, they hired somebody to rewrite the script. In twenty nineteen, Warner Brothers said the sequel had been shelved. I love unplanned tangents. I had no intention of talking about that particular movie. I’m not saying it.

You’re not tricking me, all right, don’t bump this story to tomorrow. Now we’re now, We’re getting long here from the Sydney Comedy Festival. This via Shortal. Comedian Ruben Kay has been forced to pull out of the Sydney Comedy Festival because of threatened protests from offended Christians. Kay appeared last month on a primetime TV show called The Project and made a joke about Jesus.

He was speaking about the comments he receives from people and said, I think it’s hilarious when someone messages me and says you have to accept Jesus’s love. You’re burning hell Because I love Jesus. I love any man who can get nailed for three days straight and come back for more. That joke caused outrage in some quarters. A member of a group called Christian Lives Matters said, we have all had enough in this show last night crossed the line with the mocking of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Everyone needs to stand united and we need to put a stop to all of this. So Ruben Kay has pulled out of the festival. Let’s see who’s playing there on Saturday. I like the name of this show, Five Mistakes That Changed History. It’s a picture of Napoleon sitting on a horse.

The horse has sunglasses on. Napoleon’s holding a mixed dring Ken is wearing heart shaped sunglasses. We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history. Fresh from sold out runs at Adelaide and Sydney Fringe. In this historical storytelling comedy show, historian and comedian Paul Coulter tells the funny and tragic stories of five people and how their mistakes changed the world.

Love It. Bert Kreisher wasn’t expecting to see Bert Kreisher. Imagine we go all the way to Sydney and we just see Bert Kreisher. Here’s a show called Nick and Tom real estate Agents. I’m not reading all of them, and some of the names.

There are some names you’ve seen the other nights joined Sydney Premier character actors Nick Harriet and Tom Waddle on a hilarious and thought provoking journey through the cutthroat world of real estate. This one act tragic comedy as a sale’s oldest time struggling estate agent meets pizza Boy. Pizza boy accidentally sells a house with three million dollars. Real estate agents secretly recruits pizza Boy to boost sales at his father’s firm. Sounds like a good time.

That’s the end of the news, proper. I’ve got a couple of things I want to talk about. I was laughing, so I post the podcast, obviously to all the audio players, but I also put a version of it up on YouTube, and the YouTube quote unquote views. There’s no video, it’s just the audio and a wave for him. They’re all over the place.

I posted a YouTube short about Scott Ackerman that got a few thousand views. If I post Dave Chappelle anything thousands of views, and the episode about Carol Burnett’s ninetieth birthday on YouTube that got eight views eight eight eight eight, I feel bad. Come on. Luckily, the audio version got more than that, but the YouTube version got eight. Scott Ackerman got thousands.

Jerry Springer passed away on Thursday. This has nothing to do with comedy and obviously not funny. But I met Jerry I probably thirty years ago now when I was producing the morning show at w o R in New York, and I always remember Jerry was like super cool in person. I don’t know that he had any other sort of reputation on there being super cool, but when I met him, I love the guy.

And then at Christmas time, a package showed up, a big, heavy pat package and…

It was a styrofoam cooler pack with dry ice and he had sent a deep dish pizza. And I had never been in the Midwest at that point, so I had this thing and I brought home my mom baked it for me. Oh it’s delicious. We still talk about that pizza. So rest in peace, Jerry Springer.

Earlier in the week, I was in Chicago and I recorded an episode of my travel podcast, which is called Travel Is Back. That one came out really well. I was at the Field Museum and the Field Museum has trivia, and I had my daughter with me and we started playing some of the trivia and it just came out and I hear the Letterman influence on me. Jenny Mack, do you just compare yourself to Letterman. No, but I hear the Letterman influence in what I’m doing.

So a very fun episode of Travel Is Back. Even if you don’t want to go to Chicago, or you don’t care about travel, and you don’t care about the museum, just the trivia parts were a lot of fun. So Travel is Back. Wherever you get your shows back with more Daily Comedy News tomorrow, follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or perhaps be the ninth person to download the Carol Burnette episode on YouTube see tomorrow Beetle Juice, who does like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip?

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The Shark Deck. Hello there, I’m Jenny Mack. Did you see Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox? Seth Meyers joke to be funny if the network replaced him with the new Green M and M. Fox really knows how to disappear someone.

I’m shocked they didn’t just go with this is their statement. Tucker Carlson is not now and has never been employed by this network. We don’t know who that is, and we’ve never even heard the name. Tune in tonight at APM for our nightly newscast, hosted as always by Fox News’s white blonde lady blue dress James Cordon, who, by the way, tonight is the last late late show with James Cordon. There’s no buzz on this.

He got a little press for a carpool karaoke, but like, there’s not like a zillion articles about the great James Cordon er. It’s very strange. This is not like your usual late night wrap up. I guess the most recent one was Trevor Noah leaving The Daily Show, and there were tons of articles about Trevor, but there’s almost nothing about Cordon anyway. Cordon had a Tucker Carlson joke, which was Tucker Carlson has now worked at and left MSNBC, CNN and Fox News.

He’s running out of options now, Lex sou and he’s just going to be on the Weather Channel saying that hurricanes are caused by drag queens. Good joke, James. I was traveling the past few days, so I have not yet had an opportunity to watch John Malini special. However, I’m going to cover it extensively. I’ll do it in the second half of the show because there will be many spoilers.

Okay, so after the break, I’ll do a lot of Malini, and I will warn you in advance, a lot of Pete Davidson news. Pete will host Saturday Night Live in about ten days. Page six says that Pete has decided not to take any jabs at Kim Kardashian. A source tells page six that Pete will be a good sport about his love life and he’s being a gentleman when it comes to Kim. However, a different insider tells page six that they won’t be surprised if a Kardashian bid does make it into the show, saying nothing’s been written yet, but no with Pete, nothing is off the table.

Meanwhile, Pete was out at Madison Square Garden enjoying the Knicks game, and TMZ has a video of Pete getting in a little mix up with a fan. As TMZ writes, you see, Pete appears to pose for a pick with one dude and a pink shirt and a blue cap, and he keeps moving through the crowd, but it clearly wasn’t enough for the fan who continue to follow Pete, putting his arm around Pete Davidson and resting his head on pete shoulder. Pete tries to stay cool, taking more picks, and then the overzealous fan continue to do stuff, and then Pete shoves the guy away and tells him to back off. But there’s even more Pete Davidson news. Remember he had that late night car crash a while back.

It seems that the Beverly Hills Police Department has recently wrapped up its investigation. You may recall Pete was driving through Beverly Hills last month. He lost control of his Mercedes, drove through someone’s yard and crashed into the side of their house. No one was injured. TMZ points out the case is headed to the District Attorney, which usually handles felony cases, but in Beverly Hills, the DA also can handle mister meaner charges.

We’ll keep an eye on that. Congratulations Nate Brigatzy. He now holds the record as Amazon’s most streamed original comedy special in its first twenty eight days of viewership. You got that good. According to Nielsen, two point nine million total viewers have watched ni Bergatzy’s Hello World nags.

Hello World is currently ranked number two on the Johnny Mac Best of twenty twenty three. Number one is Kyle Kanaane. In case you’re wondering, you’ll find Kyle’s on YouTube. The two point nine million viewers is nearly half a million viewers above Jim Gaffigan’s twenty nineteen special Quality Time, which now sits in second place, when an audience of two point five million in his first twenty eight days. Nielsen points out Hello World was also the top comedy special across all streaming platforms for the month of February, with about two point six million viewers.

Bob Newharrett’s wife Jinny has passed away. They were married sixty years. The family put out a statement saying she was our rock and we will miss her terribly. Bob Newhart is ninety three, Jinny was eighty two. They were introduced by their mutual friend Buddy Hackett back in twenty nineteen.

Bob Newharts told people, Buddy said, I’ve got a girl for you. She was going with another guy, but I don’t think he’s right for her. So I’m going to fix you up on a blind date. You’ll meet her, and you’ll date, and you’ll get married. Then you’ll have kids, and you’ll call one of the kids Buddy, which we did.

Great story there. I saw several headlines along the lines of this headline, which comes from egypt News. The headline Egyptian comedian besim Yusef slams Kevin Hart’s Comma afrocentric movement for cultural appropriation and Cleopatra backlash, and I was like, okay, so you can immediately react to be like Basimus when after Kevin Hart, and then you can have your various take on the issues. I thought would be best here is let’s take a lessen and see what bessim Usef actually said. It’s not about black and white, It’s about the continuous culture appropriation and falsification of history that has been done by what the so called Afrocentrist movement.

The afrocentric movement started the last century as a way, in a good intention, to teach African American about their rich history of West Africa, the Great Empire of Benin, of Ghana, a Sungali, the Great Empire of Mali. But the thing is, that’s why you find people like Kevin Hart, who subscribes to these theories, who claimed that his ancestors play built the pyramids. I’m sorry, your ancestors had their own wonderful civilization in West Africa. They are culture appropriating my culture, calling the people in Egypt of today, despite their skin tone, that we they call us as invaders. Well, they call us intruders and they are being erased by from our own history.

And the clip fades out there. The other man you heard interjecting is Piers Morgan, which is where the interview took place. I’m not sure what Pierre said or what happened after, but that’s what Basimusev said. Big Mouth has been renewed for an eighth and final season. Series star Nick Carole said, if you had told adolescent Nick Carole and Andrew Goldberg that middle school would take eight years to finish.

They would have been like, yeah, that sounds about right. This seems like it will never end. Deadline says big Mouth and it’s spinoff have wrecked up more than one billion viewing hours and, according to Netflix, has included six hundred and eighty nine masturbation jokes. Do you like Jaws, maybe you will like to go see The Shark Is Broken. The Shark Is Broken will arrive on Broadway this summer.

Co writer Ian Shaw plays his father Robert Shaw, in the movie Jaws. Robert Shaw played Quint. The Shark Is Broken begins a sixteen week limited engagement Tuesday, July twenty fifth of the John Golden Theater. Official opening Thursday, August tenth. And by the way, The Shark Is Broken is unrelated to a different stage musical based on Jaws, which is called Bruce.

Bruce received its world premiere at the Seattle Rep last year. Richard Pryor’s first two albums are to be rereleased as newly remastered vinyl LPs. I remember when I first started at serious satellite radio. My boss one day asked me why we didn’t play a lot of Richard Pryor. The answer back then twenty years ago was because the album sounded like garbage, and when you played them on a satellite radio you couldn’t even hear them.

Over time, the Richard Pryor albums were remastered. There’s a really good box set with a red cover. Those sounded really good.

And then we played plenty of Richard Pryor.

The self titled Richard Pryor album and another album called Craps After Hours will be released on vinyl So We’ll live at the Comedy Store nineteen seventy three. Pryor released his first self titled album. Back in nineteen sixty eight, he was starting to change his style from Bill cosbyish kind of comedians to the Richard Pryor you think of in your mind. Scott Saul is the author of Becoming Richard Pryor. He wrote in the liner notes, what you hold in your hands is something precious, both the landmark debut that was and the piece of cultural dynamite that might have been in its original form, Richard Pryor.

The album alerted the world that Richard Pryor had stepped out of Bill Cosby’s long shadow and developed a style surreal nervy, improvisational, It was all his own. Sides one and two are the original, but the newly remastered album has sides three and four offering bonus material recorded at the same time. That’s Neat. The other album, Craps After Hours, also released as a double disc. All This will be available Tuesday, May twenty third.

Speaking of Richard Pryor, Tommy Davidson and Mike Tyson were on a podcast and they were asked who is the most influential comedian. Tommy Davidson said Richard Pryor was the one because he had versatility. He can do characters and he can talk about them without you knowing that he was talking about them. He can talk about racism, he can talk about sexism, and he could talk about all those things, but he puts it in such a comedy context. Mike Tyson said, yeah, no, but listen, I think is the greatest.

I presume he means Eddie Murphy there not. I don’t know Eddie Peppotone. I think Eddie is the greatest. He was the greatest. I know all that insecurity is all these great acts now and if you go on stage, the greatest comedians in the world will be right there staring at him.

I am of a certain age, and if you are my age, you loved Eddie Murphy. But over time, as it became more educated about this Eddie Murphy wearing the red suit, the voice acting he does in his bits clearly clearly influenced by Richard Pryor. So there’s just no scenario where I can say Eddie Murphy is better than Richard Pryor. That would be saying like the Black Crows are better than the Rolling Stones. You just can’t do it.

Long time listeners of the podcast know that Idaho is a bashion of comedy. Idaho, of course, the home of Ryan Hamilton. Will Idaho has announced some of the acts for the Eastern Idaho State Fair. No, Ryan Hamilton’s not playing it, but Jim Gaffigan will be there, so we’ll Incubus and Walker Hayes. Unfortunately, Incubus and Jim Gaffigan is not one bill that would be amazing.

Incubus plays September one, Jim gab again September seventh, so like, you can’t even like to see the two of them back to back. Other entertainment at the fair includes the Gym State Classic Pro Rodeo bull Riding Championships, National Indian Relay Championship, tractor polls, and the Demolition Derby. One of the organizers says, the Demolition Derby celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with the Eastern Idaho State Fair. You can’t beat the action and you can’t beat the smell. Last year, you might remember we had a streaker.

The remainder of the podcast will discuss John Molany’s new special, Baby j I will share some of the actual jokes from the special. So massive spoilers coming up after Millennia. I’ll talk about the Sydney Comedy Festival. So if you don’t want to be spoiled, it’s a good time to check out. And I will see you tomorrow.

Milani spoilers coming up in three two one The New York Times Rights and a glamorous swirling shot orchestrated by the theater director Alex Timbers. The camera gives the comic what he needs, It retreats to reveal John Molaney, forty in a maroon suit before circling you give us a picture of the commanding power of stardom. Shot from behind, we see his perspective, a hazy mass of people underneath chandeliers in between an ominous series of statues inside the Symphony Hall in Boston. How about that? Huh?

They write, It’s a striking image, setting up a series of bristling comic vignettes that dig in a Milaney’s drug addiction interventioned by friends and stint in rehab. One is tempted to say it’s his most personal work, but that isn’t quite right. The first shot tips us off to a theme, you can be invisible in front of a crowd. Let me jump in here. So I mentioned earlier, I was traveling earlier in the week, and this week at night, I have events with the family every night, so I don’t know if I’m going to get to milani until Sunday.

I want to watch it. The headline here is the reviews are very strong. Even though this material has been around for two years now, it seems like the finished version that Milaniy put out on Netflix just really nailed at Every review I read was really strong at times, writes, Milany’s comedy has become spikier, pricklier, sometimes slower, while remaining as funny as ever. Like he’s a pitcher who learned how to mix up speeds. He’s performed versions of this material throughout the last two years, and this special arrives on Netflix so meticulously honed that the polish doesn’t even show.

Mulaney’s were at a tat delivery demanded you keep up with his thought process. It still does, but his cadence has become more intricate, and the biggest laughs in this new special come from making the audience think they’re ahead of him, placing an idea in their head and slowing down on a pause or stammer to let it percolate. Rolling Stone, said Mulaney, now forty years old, sober and healthier looking. Spoilers about the actual material, Baby Jay opens with John Mulaney telling an anecdote about how his siblings persuaded him that he had been adopted as a child and his real mother was murdered by Miss America. Then he addresses the elephant in the room, saying, you know what I mean.

We were all quarantined, We all went to rehab, and we got divorced, and now our reputation is different. John talks about his intervention. He said, I was two hours late, so when I get there, everybody was madder at me. They were like, and you’re late, And I was like, Hey, if you wanted me here on time, you could have texted me John, we have cocaine. I would have been a half hour early to help set up chairs.

That’s great. Mulaney tells a story about deciding to get a haircut at Saturday Night Live using his old ID at seven pm, Down on my Mind. I went up to the eighth floor thirty Rock Feller Center, walked into the Emmy Award winning hair department. I said, Hey, can I have a haircut? And they said, oh, John, you’re not hosting this week.

And I said, ah, hey can I have a haircut? You know that thing when a junkie walks in your office and ask for a haircut, and you’re like, it’d be faster to cut the hair. That’s what happened. Mulaney then says that same day he purchased a twelve thousand dollars Rolex watch with a credit card and ponded for six thousand dollars to buy drugs because he’d somehow overdrafted on Venmo. Then, armed with a new haircut in a backpack full of drugs, he found himself at the intervention, which he calls a we Are the World of Alternative Comics over the Age of forty, with about a dozen people in the room and six zooming in from La Mulaney said, I stroll in there, I’m cocaine skinny with a new haircut.

They’ve all been in heavy quarantine for nine months. They all look like crap. I was the best looking person at my intervention by a mile. Everyone there looked like Jerry Garcia Eats Online picked up on that thread in the room, Fred Armison, Nick Crole, Seth Meyers, Bill Hayter, and it’s Asha Leone. Laney says, let me just call this out now.

I don’t mean to be weird. It was a star studdied intervention. It was like a good group. It was a good group, as mad as I was. When I walked in there, I was like, Oh, this is a good lineup.

This is really flattering in its own way. It was like a weird the World of Alternative Comedians over the Age of forty, all comedians. It No one said a funny thing the entire night. I was going psychotic. I’m sitting there in this awful chair, crashing from cocaine.

No one will let me go to the bathroom to freshen up, and the funniest people are staring at me refusing to do jokes. It was maddening. Fret Ormiston was serious. Do you know how off putting that is? Malini says, it’s weird to be a recovering drug addict.

It was weird to be a drug addict, but at least I was on drugs. I’m looking forward to watching that. I gotta find some time. The Eerie Comedy Festival begins tonights. Co founder Anthony Morelli said this is the inaugural festival.

Obviously we hope to make it yearly. They planned a four day event with twenty five to thirty performers, including three national headliners. Among your headliners learn more in Janazi, Zimbabwean stand up comedian and actor Brett Terhune and Kristen Becker. If you want to go tonight at the Edinburgh Volunteer Fire Department on Meadville Street, there’ll be an appetiser buffet before the show with Casey Kouf Dick. That all starts at eight o’clock twenty bucks at seven thirty at the Room thirty three Speakeasy, a showcase of comedians.

I don’t have the names for you. Tomorrow night at Calamari’s squid Row over on State Street, you know the place, another showcase of comics. Free, but reservations are requested. Learn more. Janazi is your headliner on Friday night, brett Terhun is the headliner Saturday, and on Sunday, Kristen Becker is your headliner at the six thirty show at the Sheridan Erie Bayfront Hotels.

Twenty three dollars for preferred seating. Let’s see what’s going on at Sydney. I gotta be honest with you. I gotta figure out what day it is. I’m recording this on Wednesday.

It’s Thursday’s episode. And for Australian comedy festivals, I always talk about the day before because of the way time zones work. So let’s take a look at Friday. I got in very late last night. Some of the shows Danny Boy, I know Danny Boy his shows called Now is a Good Time and they’ve added a show ed Gamble from the UK is playing.

Melbutle and Moses Storm are playing. We recently talked about them at the Melbourn Fest. Stephen k Amos He’s fantastic. That’s who I would go see. And here is something called the bear Pack, which has two men in suits sitting next to a giant stuffed panda I’m curious.

After a sold out run at the Sydney Festival in twenty twenty two, the bear Pack is back for one night. Join improv duo Steen Rascopolis and Carlo Ritchie accompanied by ange Lavo Pierre on the cello for sixty minutes of improvised storytelling inspired by the audience’s suggestions. The Sydney Morning Herald call them Master Improvisers, five stars Hey for in Sydney. They’re at the n Moore on Friday night at seven fifteen Reserve seating thirty five bucks Australian. And that is your comedy news for today.

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The Shark Deck. Happy birthday Carol Burnett, who is ninety years old. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I had the pleasure of meeting Carol Burnett once. We did a serious XM town hall with the cast of The Carol Burnett Show.

Amy Schumer was the moderator of that. I will throw a link to that clip in the show notes about turning ninety, Carol tilled people and can’t wrap my head around it. I still feel like I’m about eleven. But I’m amazed. Sure went fast, but I’m glad because I’ve got all my parts, got my hips, got my knees, and I’ve got my brains.

I’m happy about that. NBC has a two hour special featuring Amy Poehler, share Ellen DeGeneres, Julie Andrews, and Steve Carell. Actually Steve is an improp performer. Really good choice there, Carol said. As a kid growing up in LA I used to pretend to be on a radio show.

I did that too. I would yell out the window. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a young girl who’s going to sing here without any musical accompaniment. One time, a man next door said we had turned that gust durn thing off, and I thought, I’m a hit. They think it’s a real.

Carol added, I was pretty much a quiet student all through grammar school, Junior High, and Hollywood High. I’d get around with my friends and abored kids stuff like that, but I never really thought about it. So I got a UCLA and I was in an acting class. A lot of the kids in the class were doing heavy dramatic stuff, and I thought, I can’t do that, so I picked something light and they laughed. That’s when the bug bit.

Carol headlined The Carol Burnett Show for eleven seasons, then Carol and Company for another two. Started as Miss Hannigan in nineteen eighty two’s version of Annie She Wants her Legacy to b Then I made people laugh, made them feel good when they might have been down. My fan mail, many say it was the only time the family we’d get together to watch and laugh, and that sometimes they were lonesome and we’re cheered up by our show. That’s a good feeling. Yeah.

I remember watching that show live on CBS as a young child. As for tonight show eight o’clock Eastern NBC, Carol said, it’s a two hour show, and we were done in about two and a half. It was filmed in front of a live audience. She said, I want people to feel like they’re seeing a Broadway show, not sitting around waiting for scenery or costume changes. It’s a little bit tar eyed.

At one point we pay homage to late co stars Harvey Corman and Tim Conway and Lyle Wagner. It was just unbelievable how many people turned out and spoke, but they were mostly just very, very funny. Julie Andrews flew out and sat with me the whole evening. It was the best kind of birthday party I could ever have. Carol says, I don’t mind talking about the past.

That’s why we’re here, and I remember it all very well. Somebody details if he asked me something I don’t remember. It’s probably because it didn’t stick with me very long on the first place. In nineteen sixty two, she signed a ten year deal with CBS. Carol said, I had a very good agent.

It was ten years where I would be required to do an hour long variety special each year and two guest spots on some CBS shows. The big thing in the contract is that if I wanted to push the button, CBS would have to give me thirty one hour variety shows a year that have to put them on the air, whether they wanted to or not. At the end of the fifth year, during the holidays, Carol said, I made a phone call to one of the vice presidents at CBS New York and I said, I’m calling to push that button. I’m sure he got a lot of lawyers out of Christmas parties that night. The next day he called back and said, Carol, Comedy Variety is a man’s game.

It’s Sid Caesar, it’s Milton Burled, Jackie Glees, and it’s Dean Martin. It’s not really for you gals. They didn’t want to do it, but they had to put us on the air. I never felt any pressure. We had a well oiled machine from the very beginning.

We know what we’re doing, and I just told everybody not to think about the future. If we had fun, the audience would have fun. The network didn’t expect us to pass that first season, but I got in two hundred and seventy episodes in eleven years. They didn’t do it live, but Carol said, I never wanted to reset and retape anything. We taped a show in an hour and fifteen minutes.

The Q and as all would cut and trim. I never wanted to keep the audience waiting. I used to have a bet with the stage hands that I could do a skin out change faster than they could move a couch across the stage. I’ve been a guest on some sitcoms where it’s a twenty two minute episode and they take five hours to tape that sent out for pizza for the audience, and there’s this more comic cup. They’re trying to keep everybody happy.

I don’t know why they take so much time. It’s not necessary at all. It’s ridiculous. Happy birthday, Carol, all right. Yesterday I was sharing with you this thing from lidhub, where Jenner Friedman asked male comedians the type of questions that female comedians get.

Asked one of them, do you write your own material? Pat and Aiswald said, I really do. I guess it’s a compment when people tell me you could totally hang out with the lady comics. Jim Gaffigan, still not really getting the joke here, said well, yes, occasionally I write with my wife, have some fun, Jim. Next question, is all your material about being a dad?

Jim Gaffigan, No, have some fun, Jim. John Stewart. That’s a tough one because you could see that not being viewed through the lens of pure sexism, but somebody who actually knew the act and could be like, you’re just having children. To get another fifteen minutes, Eugene Merman said, if I hope to take my comedy to the next level, I’ll stop doing stand up about weird things that have happened to me and I’ll switch mostly to fatherhood. My comedy is a mix of what happens to me, which now incorporates fatherhood.

Good exchange with Fred Armis and Fred said, none of my materials about being a dad. I’m not a dad. Jenna Friedman said, I’m sorry. Just assume since you’re a man that you’re a dad. An Armis and said no.

Bobcat Goldway has an album out today. It’s called A Soldier for Christ, a mix of personal stories from childhood, family, old friendships, and touring with Nirvana. Ton Barry caught up with the Santa Fe reporter who said, hey, Ben City playing some Moraller markets. Do you prefer more intimate base. Todd Barry said, well, most of the venues that play are intimate, even a big cities.

I do like playing the smaller market, especially if they’re cool cities like Santa Fe. Well, Todd, do you think of yourself as deadpan? Todd Barry said, no, I don’t think of myself as deadpan, but maybe I am. But I’ve never consciously worked on my delivery or stage persona just kind of evolved or organically. His advice for younger comics right, and get on stage as much as possible.

Don’t bug people, don’t post a clip that doesn’t make you look great, don’t obsess with getting a manager or agent. Just get good at what you do and have fun. Parade spoke to Ray Romano out doing the rounds for his new movie Hey Ray. Describe the stand up comedy scene in the nineties. Ray Romano said, my class was like Chris Rock, Louis C.K.

Dennis Leary, John Stewart, and Dave Chappelle. Wow, all right, let’s rank that. Okay, here’s the list. Ray Romano, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dennis Leary, John Stewart, Dave Chappelle, let’s just rank them as stand ups.

Wow, okay, we’ll put the list into This is me talking, this isn’t Ray Romano. All right? So I think in group A we have Chris Rock, we Seek, and Dave Chappelle. In group B we have Dennis Leary, John Stewart, and Ray Romano. Ray is the best out of group B.

I’ll put Dennis Leary ahead of John Stewart. No dispect to John Stewart, but you’re in one heck of a class here with this list. All right. In the top group we have Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dave Chappelle.

That is tough. Rock is one of the greats. C K was compared to Carlin before he admitted to doing some naughty things and no one likes him anymore. And Dave Chappelle is at the top of the game right now. Wow, you know what, Why don’t you tell me?

Go to the Facebook group and answer the question at f d S three Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Dave Chappelle. How do you rank them? So it’s Facebook Daily Comedy News Podcast group. That’s a really tough question.

Wow, Ray Romano said I’d see them night in Night out, of the clubs in New York City. I don’t know if I’m being naive, but I didn’t find it to be competitive. When Dave Chappelle got a movie, We’re excited about it. The only time I felt threatened was when I had to follow somebody in the club, like I’m following Chris Rock. It’s like, oh my god, this is gonna be our Ray, did you enjoy that life for you eyeing a bigger prize like Seinfeld?

And Ray said yeah. I could see Jerry Seinfeld and Tim Allen Rosanne Barr were getting development deals. Was I thinking of that? I can’t say it wasn’t. I was happy doing stand up, but it’s not a great living.

The gigs came in spurts, and I was on the road when my wife was at home and queens with three little kids. There were times when I remember having to borrow money from my dad to pay bills because I was having a slow month. He was almost on news radio. He said, I’m thirty six, I’m wondering if it’s ever going to happen. And this audition came up for an NBC sitcom starring Phil Hartman.

I knew it’d get on the air and I got it. But at the table read I could feel that the magic I had at the audition wasn’t quite the same.

And then at day one at the rehearsal, I felt it even less.

By the second day, I was in over my head. Now I’m in La my wife’s New York at the kids. My phone rings at six thirty in the morning, so my manager telling me they’re going in another direction. I got fired and Joe Rogan took my place. The timing worked out.

About three months later, I happened to do my first spot for a letterman. I did five minutes. His producer called me at my house and Queens on a Saturday afternoon. He said, Dave loved my act and wanted to sign me to a development deal. And he goes, don’t sign with anybody else, and I said there is no one else.

That production company eventually put out Everybody Loves Raymond Create a Stirred Dot. CA caught up with Ali Hassan and Ali was thirteen years old when he developed a love of cooking. He said, I insulted my mother’s sandwiches as a young man. Mom said, then make your own. She get all the grudge she meant it, so off to the kitchen Ali went.

I started with sandwiches, then moved on a pasta and chili and that kind of stuff. So I’ve been cooking for a long time, and I made it my profession. For about twelve years, I was a caterer and a cooking instructor, and a chef, and a couple different restaurants, and a management a restaurant. So I have this life and food that I never explored. But then his career in stand up comedy started to take off.

He said, it’s my favorite thing to do because I’m so geared towards instant gratification. When I go a few weeks without stand up, I start to get very, very incomfortable. I love the pressure of figuring things out in real time. I’m a guy who can’t even figure out one side of a Rubics cue, but I loved this particular puzzle. I still like it, even w the joke bombs.

I even love failing. I love the challenge of figuring out why do I think it’s funny, why don’t they think it’s funny? And don’t I change it to make it funny. The connective tissue of food is always there. It’s this beautiful way of unifying people.

His current show is called Does This Taste Funny, which takes its name from an old joke about two cannibals on a clown think about It. One part of the show talks about his journey in and out of the Schwarma world. W Bure profiled Alex Edelman’s show, which is called Just for Us, Just for Us as coming to Broadway in late June. So what’s that show about. It’s about Alex Edelman’s decision to respond to an invitation to attend a public meeting of white nationalists.

He explains, as a comic, his job is to make audiences like him. The fact that this particularly intimate audience, you know, the white nationalists, has clearly identified Edelman’s ethnic community as responsible for the assault on their superiority may give him pause, but it makes him want to work harder to win them over. Some of the characters an older woman working on an impossibly large jigsaw puzzle, a young woman named Chelsea who figures in Edelman’s romcom fantasy Hey You Never Know, and Quartet as an attendee who remains suspicious of Edelman while Edelman watches the group non agreement about such shocking events as the marriage of Meghan and Harry and the erasure of white men. He searches for a way in offering his expertise on the meaningful contents a social media algorithm. While it signed the group’s ready to take a teminate break, Gentleman feels a sense of triumph and says, am I the hero we need these difficult and challenging times.

Sounds like a very fascinating show. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. See tomorrow. Once in the Generation I Knew You, British Royal Dynasty takes shape and I am Ent Francis host of A Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Meghan in California to Kayton William in the UK, along with King Charles Quincamilla, Prince Andrew and the whole cost of characters.

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The Shark Deck. John Mlaney’s new special Baby Jay is out on Netflix today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mulaney told people that he had COVID at one point, he said, I got to say I didn’t experience the pandemic the same way other people did. Mullaney was on with THEO Van’s podcast.

He said, I didn’t know the nasal swab hurt until after I got sober. I gotta remember to download that episode. I will do that right now. Done.

Speaking of podcast, Sam Morrell was asked who his favorite guest on that We …

He was really calm, which is rare for Bill. He’s always been nice to me, but there are clips of people setting him off, and you don’t want to be one of those. He doesn’t drink, but he loves milkshakes and cigars. So we did that and I think it put him in a good mood. Who are your at comedy heroes?

Sam Mourell? And he said Roddy Dangerfield really made me love comedy. He was a machine gun, relentless, hilarious and also self deprecating. Back to School was to me the funniest movie ever. Joke for joke, every character just serves to set up as jokes, and that to me, He’s a ready hilarious.

Chris Rock’s roll with the new album was a game changer for me because of these provocative setups. I remember my mom grabbing my disc player and wondering what I was listening to and just saw this look of horror on her face. Then thirty seconds later she’s laughing hysterically, And that’s beautiful that the joke can push you away and then bring you right back. Sam Murell, have you ever gotten a drink or share a meal with one of your idols? Sam said, I got to open for Adam Sandler and that was pretty insane.

We’re just hanging out after the show, is eating steak. He’s as cool as you would hope he would be. I’m like, Wow, you made me so happy as a kid, and you still make me happy. That’s kind of a beautiful thing. I was on the road recently in Saint Louis and Chris Rock was in my hotel.

He hung out for a wild It’s kind of cool. To be like, oh, just me and Chris Rock passing through Missouri, would you guys talk about a lot of comedy, philosophy and stuff. When he says something, you listen because it’s Chris Rock. Everything he says is absolute. That’s how his mind works.

That’s how it is. Even when you don’t agree with it, you’re like, well, that was really well worded. A lot of ray Romano press lately because of the new movie, one of the questions being asked is could we get a reunion of Everybody Loves Raymond? To show creator Phil Rosenthal says, here’s what I really can’t believe. I’ve pitched now to a couple different places.

We can do a reunion special. We can tell stories of the things that happen to us all at home, and then show a clip of the Raymond episode. And I think it’d be entertaining and funny, and you get a chance to catch up with the cast as they are now. And it seemed to work for friends and no takers. Not yet.

Maybe someone will say, hey, this seems like a no brainer. I think people like the show. I think they’d like to see the cast together again. I think they’d like to revisit some of the highlights and outtakes from the show. There’s no rhyme or reason anything.

If they see money, they go for the money. If they see demographics they want, they go for that. I’m not singling out any network. There are plenty of entities who’ve been involved with that show that could do reunion show or a special, which certainly doesn’t cost as much of producing a real episode of a show. It’s people sitting in chairs and then you have clips.

But one about a proper reunion, Patricia Heaton told Us Weekly in twenty eighteen, and she nails it here. I don’t think it’s possible now with Peter Boyle and Doris Robert’s gone, it just would be the same show. Yeah, I don’t know what everybody loves Raymond would be without the parents dynamic. And you don’t want to do like Raymond the next generation and cast Ray and Debra in the like parent roles. That’d just be stupid.

Don’t do that. Leave it alone, good show. We could watch the reruns. When Patricia Eaton was first cast on the show, she joked about having to kiss Ray Ramato and said, that’s how desperate I was for a job. I don’t know who that guy’s in the corner, but if I have to kiss him, I’ll do it.

Just tell the story. I was on an airplane once and they had Raymond on there and I was watching and my headphones on. I was laughing out loud. You’re kind of not aware that you’re laughing out loud when you have headphones.

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So when I do the podcast, I have a script, and the script is just for me. Said, don’t really clean it up. And this has been making me laugh. A typo that I left in I wrote, brag Darrett. That’s supposed to say Brad Garrett, but it says brag Darrett.

He also talked about a possible reunion and he said, nah, that’s really far from Ray’s emo. Once Peter passed, Ray said that never be reunion. I totally agree with that. Ray was smart to go out on top. Very few people do that.

Ray and I are good buds. Were poker people. We have a game every three months, and we golf every couple of months. I know it sounds cliche and trite. But we’re really so close, and that’s why a lot of fun stuff did happen on screen, because we really did have that closeness.

We do keep in such I won’t say we hang out every week, but we’re definitely close. Master Brownie got philosophical about turning fifty. This from Men’s Health, and he said, once I hit fifty, I thought, oh my god, I’ll be passing away. I’ve lost my sister to breast cancer and my brother to addictions. So those moments will come when I realize that, and help me reiterate this idea in my head that you have to live your life.

You have to live your life for experiences, you have to live your life for memories, and you have to live your life for loved ones. Great advice there, Mas, cool guy. I met him once, I think in Montreal, maybe twice. I might have met him at Serious Proper in New York City as well, but I always enjoyed my time with Mas. And he said, a lot of the Iranian men that I know, or even some other immigrant men, they come from very mancho background.

These immigrant cultures, I think put a lot of pressure on men to answer and solve every problem. But the truth is we can’t. Because we’re mortal beings. We can’t do miracles. Unfortunately, in our culture, it’s not encouraged to seek help and talk to others.

I’m always trying to understand the way I am. One thing I discovered about myself recently is that I’m a pleaser. I like to please people. I like to say yes, and that puts me in situations that I don’t want to be in. So I’m trying to work on that a bit, and I’m trying to work on prioritizing myself, my family and my responsibilities that I feel are essential to me first before I say yes to other things.

Part of being a comedian that helps me is I get to go on stage a lot of times and actually rant about something that was on my mind to a whole audience. If I’m on stage talking about something that happened in my life, chances are there’s somebody in the audience who can relate and we laugh together. And I think that’s to form its own therapy. All right. This next thing is from Liththub, but Jenna Friedman at the center of it, and I love what she did here.

She said, if I had a dollar for every time a journalist asked me, is it hard being a woman in comedy? I probably make as much as a man in comedy. So what she did is she gathered some male comedians and asked them the types of questions she usually gets. Asked, this is a lot of fun and it’s long, so I’m going to split it and do part of it somewherew Jenni Friedman asked what’s it like to be a man in comedy? John Stewart laughs and said it’s golden because men in comedy are carried into the clubs.

It’s incredibly pampering. You’re paid in doeg Did I even say that? Right? Doche Coin and Cocaine futures. Eugene Merman said, you know, it feels fine.

It feels like I have opportunities I could presume. Sorry, you get that question. It’s so outside of what I do. It really makes it clear that interviews for you were probably unpleasant. Patton Oswalt said, sometimes the road could be a little rough.

I don’t want to make it sound like some horror movie, but sometimes club owners are more concerned with drink sales and not focused on, say, crowd control.

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There’s still a long way to go, but it’s fun. Jim Gaffigan said, I can’t really speak from my entire gender. Next question, when did you decide to become a male comedian? Eugene Merman said, I guess I was eighteen when I decided to be a male comedian, or at seventeen, I think I realized comedy was the kind of job and I was male, So that’s what happened. Jim Gaffigan said, I didn’t decide to become male.

I was born male. You can have some fun with this, Jim. You know. Bob Odenkirk said, I didn’t think I had a choice to become a female comedian. It was a different time.

I didn’t have that option. John Stewart said, you know, for years I was a boy comedian. I think at some point after my bar mitzvah that I decided. Actually, I don’t think I decided. I think it was just pronounced and annointed.

I was at a ceremony. Was it hard to be a male comedian back when you’re starting out? John Stewart said, yeah, because the competition was all men. The competition was fierce. There was only every slot, so you had to fight for all of them.

Next question, do you think men can be attractive and funny? Jim Gaffigan said, I think there are two separate things which really have nothing to do with one another. Funny is the only important thing in stand up well it should be in my opinion, Jim, you can have fun with this. Pat Oswald, I’m not gonna lie and say that a nice shoulder to hips ratio it doesn’t open some doors, but after that, you’d better be able to deliver the material. You’d better be funny.

I know a lot of male comedians who were very handsome and figured they could coast on that, but then Eddie peppettone is suddenly getting all the TV gigs. It’s a wake up call once you hit that stage. Jennif Friedman asked, do you think it’s more difficult for male comics were not attractive. John Stewart said, yeah, it’s very difficult. That’s why we’re out at night.

I’m pretty sure that’s why there’s a two drig minimum. It’s not to loosen people up to the funny. It’s to make us more palatable to the eye. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and you can buy me a coffee. You can throw a couple of bucks on the tip jar five dollars the suggested amount, and I’ll take you five dollars.

I’ll go get one of these at the National Donuts Chain. Still a lot of ice left. Usually the ice is gone by the time I record Buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. After that monthlong run of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, that’s over. Now the Sydney Comedy Festival is on.

They don’t have clips posted the way Milbourne did. And I’m not going to read you a whole list because you’re probably not on your way to Sydney. Although if you are, thank you for listening to the podcast. But some of the shows on Tuesday, David O’dharty Hesmo, he’s a lot of fun, Reese Nicholson, Sam Campbell, those are all good. Looking ahead to Wednesday, a lot more shows.

Let’s see what we recognize here. Sam Campbell again, he’s really good. No names that I know here some repeats from Milbourne, but I’ll tell you Sidney Comedy Festival. Your website loads nice and fast. Melbourne folks higher the number three person away from the Sydney Comedy Festival and have them do your website.

Laugh Button asked Big Jay Okerson, Who to you are the ultimate comics comics great question, Big Jay said, There’s two that always come to mind, Patrise O’Neil and Dave at Tell. He also added Great Giraldo because he was always bordering mainstream success but he never quite got there, but he was revered among comics and audiences. Comics were like, damn man, this guy’s good looking and fantastic at comedy Patrese. Unfortunately he got his legacy cut short. It’s crazy to think that I’m years older than he was when he died.

He’d be fifty two. We have the same birthday. I’m forty five. He would have probably been one of the most elite comics comics. He probably wouldn’t have broken through with mainstream success, but he would have been very successful in his universe for sure, and wealthy, I’m sure, I hope.

And David Tell is a machine of comedy perfection. The way he does it is amazing. What I always love about Patres and Dave is the difference between watching the staff drone through comics who they know, who were there every night. You’d watched them roll their eyes and go, oh, this guy again, but then they all stopped working and sit down. Young come in the room, some huge comics come in and watch him form.

And I was like, that’s what I want aspire to do. I want people who are bored with comedy go, I’ll take a peek at this. It’s awesome being a comics comic. The respect from others is so huge, But financially, I want to be a people’s comic. I started comedy with Kevin Hart.

I definitely want Kevin Hart’s belongings is bottomless doe, But the limited time that I’ve spent with him in the last decade, it looks like it’s a lot. I don’t want everything in my life to be private, because if I want to go to a movie, I have to go to a private movie theater or something or screening. He couldn’t take his kids to a fair down the street and go on the tilted World cause a major problem. If I go to Carnival i’d get noticed. Well, the carnies would probably recognize me.

I might get recognized a handful of times. But I could walk through the airport by myself, and if I took three pictures in one airport trip, I’d be like, Wow, that’s a lot of pictures for an airport trip.

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The fair runs June seventh through July fourth. The theme get out There and from Yahoo. Jack Whitehall recalled the time he bombed so hard at a private comedy gig for King Cheryl was the third He told James Gordon that he was not invited to the coronation. By the way, full coverage of the Coronation on Palace Intrigue. That’s a podcast in which I’m the writer.

We talk about the British Royal family palace intrigue where you get your shows. Jack Whitehall not invited to the coronation of King Charles coming up on May sixth. He said, I went out there and they were set King Charles and Camilla in the front row and thrones literally in thrones. I had no microphones, so I was literally the court jester for half an hour. I did a lot of jokes about Kate Middleton because you’d been at my school, and I was referring to her as the one that got away, and he didn’t like that at all.

I literally bombed so hard, and afterward I had to meet with him and I had a bow and he said, yes, well, I think next year we might try a magician. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Once in the Generation, I Knew You British One Old Dynasty, Taste Shape and I Am On Francis host a Palace Intrigue at Daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get over news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace from Harry and Meghan in California to Cayton William in the UK, along with King Charles, Quinkermiller, Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters.

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The Shark Deck. Hey guys, a quick bonus episode. Richard Lewis has announced that he has retired from stand up He has also revealed he has Parkinson’s disease. He put out a statement via Twitter, let’s listen, Hey, listen. I just wrapped a couple of weeks ago of season twelve of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and it was just an amazing season and I’m so grateful to be part of that show.

But you know, in the last three and a half years, I had sort of a rocky time and people who said I haven’t heard from you, and are you still touring? Well, here’s really what happened. Three and a half years ago. I was in the middle of a tour and then I finally ended it with a show. I said, you know, I’m at the top of my game after fifty years almost I’m going to just call it quits.

And I felt great about that, and then out of the blue, I had four surgeries back to back to back to back. It was incredible. I mean, I couldn’t believe, you know, it was bad luck, but it’s life, you know. I had a back surgery, then I had to shoulder surgery. Then I had to shoulder replacement surgery, and then I had what was another thing I had?

Oh, I had a hip replacement. So you know, there was months where I was just focusing on PT like I am now. And on top of all of that, two years ago, I started walking a little stiffly. I was shuffling my feet, and I went to a neurologist and they gave me a brain scan and I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. And I was about two years ago, but luckily I got it late in life.

And they say, you progressed very slowly, if at all. And I’m on the right mad so I’m cool. So I guess I just wanted you to know that that’s where it’s been at. I’m finished with stand up. I’m just focusing on writing and acting.

I have Parkinson’s disease, but I’m under a doctor’s care and everything is cool. And I love my wife, I love my little puppy dog, and I love all my friends and my fans.

And now you know where it’s been at the last three and a half years.

God bless you, Best of lucky. Richard Lewis back in the Morning with a regular episode

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The Shark Deck. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see the space X rocket blew up? Jordan Klepper was hosting the Daily Show and said, and to the haters who said Elon Musk couldn’t possibly destroy something faster than Twitter, the jokes on you, Jimmy Fallon, Yeah, took off fast, was flying high, and then all of a sudden it exploded, kind of like Rhonda Santi’s presidential campaign. Kimmel, that disassembly caused space X three billion dollars, which you could defame four different voting machine companies for that much money.

Hey, Jerry Seinfeld, why was the sitcom called Seinfeld? Jerry told g Q back in twenty seventeen. I thought that would be fun for me and fun for the audience, and I thought the show might only last a couple of episodes, so it might as well help me sell some tickets at the comedy clubs I was working at. We couldn’t think of another title, and we figured that’s what people are gonna call in anyway. The show’s always the name of the guy.

It’s not the Tonight Show. It’s Falon. You know. I did a Conan, I did a Falon. Hey, Jerry Seinfeld, Why is Seinfeld setting a diner?

Jerry said, the thing that is most similar to comedy is food, and that everybody’s taste is totally personal. You go into any restaurant, you say to yourself, I think that was great. Somebody else so I thought it was a mediocre. I thought it was too salty. And it’s the same thing with comedies.

So you can’t really recommend comedy in the way you can’t recommend food. From TMZ. Tom Brady apparently did not enjoy AI generated Tom Brady comedy special. TMZ reports TB twelve threatened legal action, and so it’s been wiped away from the internet. Oh that sounds like a dare I bet we can find it if we try Tom Brady.

The guys who made it, explained on their Doodzi podcast that they received a season assist letter from tom Brady’s attorneys. They said the letter claimed that the AI version of Tom Brady blatantly violates the former Quarterbacks quote unquote rights, and if they didn’t meet a list of demands, which included taking down the video, a lawsuit would be forthcoming. They added, though, that this situation will not prevent them from making further attempts at Ai comedy, perhaps even making one Down the Road that features Joe Biden John Mulaney. His special is out on Netflix tomorrow. He was THEO Vaughan’s podcast.

He was talking about his intervention again. He said, I’ve just been in my drug dealer’s apartment. I finally got the right balance, one pocket, all out of all and coke, one parkt All Xanex, and I was like, I’ve done it. I’ve reached equilibrium. Laney said he was pretty strung out at the time, but was insisting to his loved ones that he hadn’t used drugs in days.

So you were deep in. How’d you get so deep in? Because I don’t think anyone would look at you and think this is the coke got good? That was the whole thing. I mean.

I certainly tried to talk about it on stage as having had like a drug and alcohol problem, but it’s just something about me seems like he has it all together, has the problem. I don’t put that on you to be like, how come you didn’t see it then? Because I was I really thought that I was doing life. I was able to achieve it life with the drugs as opposed to in spite of them. It took me a long time over the past couple of years to realize that I did well at what I do in spite of drugs, not because of them, Laney continue.

I remember times when I felt like, all right, I’ve done too much. Maybe I should just go down to the lobby and sit there and tell the doorman to grab a paramedic or something. Melaney spent five or six days in detox, and he says he felt as though his skeleton wanted to rip out of his body. I remember laying on my bed writhing. Mark Marin has joined the cast of untitled New York Christmas Movie.

In Untitled New York Christmas Movie, Mark Marin will start alongside Melissa McCarthy. Untitled New York Christmas Movie is a comedy about a workaholic man who unlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas. My friend Jim Brewer was on The Joe Rogan Experience last week. I’ve been picking away at that episode and joying them getting deep into conspiracies together. The topic switched to the recent Budweiser commercial.

No, not the one that started all the controversy. The one that came after that. This is the one that’s like horses and mountains and American flag. It’s like Budweiser overacted to the transgender can controversy and went up, go right down the middle, flags, horses, mountains, let’s do it. Rogan said, it’s like the dumbest pro America and Rara like, we don’t know who you really are now, so you can’t just make this commercial like where’s this coming from?

What was this AI generated? That’s probably a chat GPT four point zero version of the perfect American commercial. That’s really that didn’t have nothing to do with drigged bud light either, by the way. That was like that made me want to move to Montana. Rogan added, I would respect this if they had this, and then Dylan Mulvaaney just starts car wheeling into the frame.

Brewer added, but that’s what I’m saying. You don’t know if I wanted two guys on the board going, I don’t know if this is a good idea. I don’t know if this is a good decision. Bro Very Daz was at Illinois States and he said, I generinalely believe this new generation of kids in college will save the world. But I do feel bad because they live their lives in two layers.

There’s the performative life that they put out in the real life that they live. And the more they have to perform their lives for the dopamine and tablets, the less they embrace their own imperfections. So your flaws, your anxieties, your fears start to seem larger and more powerful, and you have to fight more because you’re putting on this performative life that you want people to buy into, and at the same time, you hold people to a level of perfection that nobody’s ever winning. So find yourself by embracing your own imperfections, being kind to the world by allowing people theirs. Bill Bellamy talked to Click Orlando about his summers in Florida.

Growing up, he used to spend time between Miami, Tallahassee and Marianna, Florida. He said, I used to have to feed the hogs on my grandparents’ form and one morning, very early, I was out there and I was like, that’s not a regular cat. And I look and I ran on the house and I tell my grandmother and I said, Graham, I think that’s a big cat, and she said, aw, that ain’t nothing but a panther. There’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing available. That is the show I host once a week on the Live one app.

The Live one app is free. So what is the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this plus bits. So the stories are shorter, but there’s more comedy bits. So if you’re like, hey, I wish Johnny Mack would shut up, well, first of all, I don’t know why you’re an eight minutes into this podcast if you can’t stand me, but we’re friends.

But if you want to hear some comedians along the way, for example, if I teld a story about Jim Brewer, I might play a clip by Jim Brewer. It’s The Weekly Comedy Thing. It is free on the Live one app. The app is free. Check that out.

New episode every Monday. Remember Galaxy Quest, the really really really really really good Star Trek parody. They’ve been trying to make a TV version of this for years. They’re trying yet again. They tried back in twenty fifteen to do a direct follow up to the movie that was sold to Amazon, and it never happened.

Then two years later Paul Sheer yes that Paul Sheer took over writing the script. They were ready to go, and then Alan Rickman passed away. Sam Rockwell, who started in the original film, said we were ready to sign up, and then Alan Rickman passed away, and Tim Allen wasn’t available because he was in last man standing and everybody’s schedule was all weird and was going to shoot like right now. And how do you feel the void of Alan Rickman. It’s a hard void to fill.

In twenty sixteen, Tim Allen told The Hollywood Reporter Galaxy Quest is really close to being resurrected in a very creative way. It’s closer than I could tell you, but I can’t say more than that. The real kicker is that Alan now has to be left out. It’s been a big shock on many levels that never went anywhere, But now Paramount TV Studios is trying again. I think enough time has passed that you’d have to reboot it.

But that’s okay. Great really enjoyed it. If you’ve never seen the Galaxy Quest movie, it is one of the better Star Trek movies. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Chelsea Handler will headline Series Fest.

Series Fest is a TV summit coming to Denver May fifth through the tenth. Series Fest described as a film festival for independent episodic TV. Some of the others going there Jay Farrow, Adam Ray, and Joel McHale. Pretty interesting bunch there. Paul Giamatti, not a comedian, will also be there May fifth through the tenth.

The Sydney Comedy Festival is kicking you Off. The Sydney Morning Herald has some recommendations. Let’s take a look. Lou Wall is the creator of lou Wall Versus the Internet, and lou Wall describes their latest opus as two shows in one based around cyberstalking a frenemy. It’s a high octane, hypercreative riot that plunges into some of the Internet’s most bizarre rabbit holes.

One extended exchange with a foot fetishist is fashioned into a rap. It’s a musical comedy, lou Wall says. For me, the ideal show is a mashup of a pop concert and stand up. Andrew Portelli is an ex lawyer. He says, when I started out, I wanted to be Louis C.K.

But for a variety of reasons I’ve got away from that. That’s pretty funny. Nudge, nudge, say no more. He says his legal background has given him perspective and helped him get comfortable in the spotlight. I was never a natural public speaker.

I was always more of a writer. But once you go to court and speak in front of a judge, there’s a real risk of humiliation and lasting repercussions, not just for you, but for someone else. Bron One Cuss The Sydney Morning Harold describes Bronwyn Cuss’s delivery as dry as the Simpson Desert. I’m guessing local Australian reference. But it was not a stylistic choice, she says.

When I first started, I was way more nervous, so that style was out of necessity. I couldn’t move that much. Her show’s called Sounds Good. It includes an underwhelming response to her coming out and her time working in prisons and from Al Jazeera. You’re Home for Comedy News in Berlin, comedians from Ukraine and Russia are sharing the same stage as an outlet for their grief, anger and desperation about the war.

It’s a Wednesday night and a bunch of comedians and fans or a black walled theater in central Berlin. They come to perform or to watch. They speak Russian or Ukrainian. They are professionals and newcomers. They share an interest in stand up comedy and more than a contempt for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Nikita is a thirty two year old comic, and she says, obviously, don’t joke about the dead bodies in Bucha, but you can joke about the washing machines that the Russian soldiers stole there. Joannah George is forty one and teaches German to foreigners at the local university. She says, my husband is Russian, I’m German. It’s nice that we now have options over who gets to be the fascist in the relationship. Funny joke which she’s told in fluent Russian.

Eric Orlovski is a thirty three year old who fled from Kieva last April, and he said, what I really like about the Germans is their love for silence. I can’t imagine that hell would be for them to live under the air raid sirens in Ukraine. They’d probably think if only the rocket hit me already and Margharita Steimerling. She has also found herself in Berlin and says, this is not my home. I have to date anyway.

I can get the miserable, the jobless, even the Russians. That your comedy news for day. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat?

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