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Featured: Hannibal Buress, Kathleen Madigan, Donald Glover, Louis C.K., Ray Romano, Kevin James, Steve Bennett

What’s in This Episode

• Hannibal Buress touring as rapper Sue Tune at South by Southwest
• Kathleen Madigan discusses turning down TV and movie roles to focus on stand-up comedy
• 150 comedy specials released in 2023 so far
• Perth, Australia comedy scene review featuring local comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

The Shark Deck. Hi, I’m Tryni Mac with your daily comedies. Let me tell you what’s going on here. So my plan for today’s podcast was, during the week, I saw a list of all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three, and I’m like, oh, that’ll be fun to share with everyone. And I have just finished recording that, and it’s twelve minutes of me reading a list.

Now I do want to share with you, but I’m like, I can’t roadblock the first twelve minutes of the podcast with me reading a list. So what I’m going to do today is normally the podcasts two parts. Today we’ll have three parts and if you want to hear me read the entire list of all the comedy specials that have come out so far this year, you could stay for the last twelve minutes. Otherwise you were dismissed early. Totally understand if you bail on that, I will tell you when it’s coming.

Hannibal Burris, he’s out touring as rapper Sue Tune. Statesman dot Com saw his set and they wrote during south By Southwest twenty eleven, Childish Gambino, you know, Donald Glover packed to capacity growed into a club. His rap alter ego was intense, moody, agropunk, and much of the annoyance of the crowd and tendance, including the writer not at all funny. People were mad. Hannibal Burris took a completely different tack when he at the stage.

He said, this is a new feeling for me, not the rapping thing. It’s just usually when I play shows in Austin, I get paid a lot of money. He then did a set that punched way above the non existent cover charge, backed by a full band. He made it clear he was into building the show to prove his rap skills, but still he peppered the set with jokes and many of the songs themselves were infused with humor. High points included Veneers, a baller anthem about fixing your teeth.

I’ve heard that one, it is rather catchy, and a random cover of Christian pop icon Michael W. Smith’s Awesome God. How does he balanced comedy and rap? He says, well, I’m interested in this Gambino thing. Y’all were really mad, he said with a laugh.

Backstage before set, local rapper Eric Morgan said, I thought Glover was going to do stand up and was disgusted when he started rapping. Annibal said, I actually recorded music before I did stand up. My career was always parallel of music. Early on, he who to open mic nights that featured both music and comedy. He did skits on rappers albums he battle wrapped in college.

Then his comedy took off during the pandemic. Stand up clubs were weird, and he didn’t love acting enough to take a COVID test every time he stepped on set, so he went into the studio. He was inspired to make the song for New Years after seeing an ad for hairplugs. He had never had fake hair, but he had fixed a chip tooth. An early version of the song included a dentist drill.

His friends convinced him to remove that. I like making a goofy fun songs, and I also have this real stuff too. He’s decided to just do what I enjoy. That’s awesome. Kathleen Madigan was on the Good One podcast this week and they said, Hey, Kathleen, you’re arguably one of, if not the most successful road comedians ever.

You’ve built your audience on the road exclusively. Is I make you proud? Kathleen said, I am proud of that, but a sort of luck. One time, Louis Black was on The Big Bang Theory. He played some nutty professor and was like, well, you go with me?

And I said, lou I mean, I said come once. It was so boring. I don’t want to go watch. I love you, but I don’t want to go, and he was like please, and I was like fine. We left my house at four, We got home at eleven.

Me and as old assistant drank a bottle of chardonnay throughout the day. We pullowed through a bottle. I had memorized the whole script, his parts, the other parts. It’s so slow and tedious. I just want to tell jokes.

There’s not many of us where. That’s all we want to do. When I started comedy, as far as I knew, that’s all we wanted to do.

And then it started to be like, look, Ray Romano’s got a sitcom and Kevin Jam…

Do you really want to be that board for hours upon hours for what You’re not even an actor? Like they offered me some important, some NBC thing, not that long ago, within the last five years, and I was like, I’m not an actor. I don’t want to I kept saying no, and they kept offering me more and more money. I said no, I’m not seeing that as a bargaining trip. I truly want nothing to do with this.

I don’t think the agency was saying it like that. I was like, you need to tell them I have no interest in TV or movies unless it’s a friend and I get to play myself as a bartender. There are people that are qualified act. It’s insulting to call a stand up comedian. It was no experience an actor.

I’m like, all I want to do is tell jokes in front of people for an hour. This shows two hours and I’m done. That’s my work day. I do some other stuff, but I’m in charge of it all. I’m my own boss.

Initially, when they told me to go edition for stuff, I’d get ticked off at the gate. I could never get on the lot. I’d be out there for twenty minutes going my name’s on a list. Try not to get mad at the person. You have to want what’s at the other end of that gate.

I auditioned for some commercials They did it like three times and I was like, the money’d be great. Why not It’ll take three days out of your life. But the odds of you getting that commercial is it worth the day of your life? I lived in her most at Beach. I could be rollerblading right now.

If you tell me, do you want to go fishing? Yes? Do you want to go blake golf? Yes? But so I want to be on a sitcom all this week, No short Old took a look at forty eight hours in Perth’s comedy scene.

Steve Bennett visited Western Australia. Perth fascinates me. Perth is like as far as you can go from where I live. If you go any further, you’re on your way back, you know what I mean. Perth on the West coast of Australia.

The comedy scene there apparently is centered on the comedy lounge above a downtown restaurant with a design based on the best clubs. It’s British owner John McAllister visited in London. Friday’s show This a couple of weeks ago, is packed to the rafters. Compare Simone Springer’s smiley demeanor is welcoming. It conceals a wearier can’t be bothered attitude, not least to her own.

Add child, her jokes can feel a little mechanical, but she shrubber off script during the best from a risk Gates who would frow with a couple in the front row, You can see why she’s an MC. First up was a relative newcomer, Martin Darcy. His lack of experience showed in a staccato delivery and affected laugh at his own jokes in the sense that he feels a little tooper out of piling, pull back and reveal punch lines on top of each other. Yet he’s a robust gag writer playing up his beta male status and Asian heritage. Strongest of course, when he subverts stereotypes rather than leaning into them, which demonstrates strong potential.

See that’s a really good review, right He didn’t be like, oh there, it was great. I like that. Darcy spoke about losing his virginity latent life to a cougar, starting what came to be recurring theme of the night about age gap relationships. Locally based Scottish comedian Gil Cordner approached the topic from the other direction, giving out strong, filthy aunt vibes a she dished the dirt on having a much younger husband. Next up, looking like wild haired trolls in Team Australian track suits, the Nelson Twins are as.

The name pretty much gives away identical twins who’s entire set is based on doing what brothers do, viciously slinging mud at each other. It’s essentially a well rehearsed roast battle. Next up, Andrew Wolfe has an appropriate surname given his unhinged ailing at the Moon delivery, a manic hodgepodge of depression, anxiety and fury that proves highly effective. There are some good gags about anti vaxers and people say they’ve been abducted by aliens, but it’s the unhinged energy you’ll remember. At one point he worries about going full creamer.

Finally, Sons of Fred a drum tight three man outfit who burst on the stage with a series of tightly choreographed alternative intros. However, they don’t have the invention of the similarly high energy anti Donna to back up their well honed physicality. But the musical theater take on heavy metal is definitely a highlight. Saturday saw the Western Australia final of the Raw Comedy Competition, featuring twenty Newish acts from around the state. Winner Nicole She mocked Chinese stereotypes and some ozzy ones without being afraid to show a little edge.

English act David Hughes was another front runner, and if his attitude mannerisms borrowed heavily from Ricky Gervaise, his bad Dad stick was full of pointed punch lines that hit home.

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Meanwhile, Blake Richardson was a charismitic performer with some solid mater…

Oldish hand Xavier mcaldies did a broad set that range from admirably convoluted puns to her miner of just how sinister the phrase lock up your daughters really is. Some of the material is root one how many middle aged male comedians are. Indeed, people talk about hair growing out of everywhere but the head. But he’s a skillful, likable performer who also strays down more creative roots. If never quite foreign enough.

Sounds like a nice vibrant scene out there in Perth. I like doing this international stuff.

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Speaking of which Let’s see who’s at the Milburn Comedy Festival on Monday.

Laura Hughes presents Laura Hughes, Laura Hughes and some other Laura Hughes’s is Laura Hughes returns to the festival after a decade in la honing her unique brand of comedy, and she’s bringing wigs. Let’s listen to a clip. There are a few things that you can do that make you instantly cool. Number One, sunglasses at night, because you’re probably going to be parting to the break of dawn and who knows when you might need to weld something. Number Two laziness, especially when it comes to the English language.

Oh, I’m j did you just lullop me? That is tots in approach and I’m Jen’s deva right now, Tyl. The less that people can actually understand what you’re trying to say, the cooler it is, all right. That was fun. Next up, let’s see Michael Schaffar well Worth the Chemo.

He is a testicular cancer survivor, lawyer turned comedian. He has the solutions to all of the world’s problems. Let’s listens. Going to see people having some drinks. I’m not a big drinker.

I find that when I don’t drink, people just try to make me drink. And the worst attempt was on Tuesday, went out for lunch. The way he gives me the drinks, man, you, I’m like, oh, it’s fine, I’m not drinking, and he goes, come on, nice buddy, it’s Friday somewhere, and I go, it’s Tuesday everywhere. Well you know what I mean. It’s five pm somewhere and I go, yeah, but it’s one pm here.

This is the context we’re in. You can’t just change the context to suit yourself. You can’t walk into work naked and be like, it’s all right, guys, there’s a shower somewhere. It’s all right now. I’m looking at the clip.

He’s got a lot of charisma there, so that probably played funnier in the room than it did on the podcast. Let’s do one more Sharam nam Darian horny and depressed. After all his years of being a life coach and dating coach, helping people resolve anxiety issues with their love and life, he realized he was still two things. Desperately horny, desperately depressed. Let’s listen, hi, I’m Sharam Namdarian spelled sh r A m N A M d A R I A M hi.

I’m cold bowl of spaghetti, just joking. I’m the man your mother warned you about, and I’m the man they named Friday after. But who am I? I hear you asked, Well, I’m sure as a bad and I was a dating coach for the last seven years, and a bloody good one at that. Do you like comedy?

Of course you do. Come see my show at the twenty twenty three Melbourne Comedy Festival. Ha ha, all right, he was pretty like, well that was fun. That’s the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on Monday. By the way, you can get into his show for seven Australian dollars.

Now people listen every day. Now we divide that by two thirds, which means you can get in for what four fifty Who’s doing the math? I’m not. I have so blown out my voice because, like I said, I already did the stuff about the one hundred and fifty comedy specials. So let’s take one more break.

If you don’t want to hear me read a list for twelve minutes, you are dismissed. You know the deal. I’ll be back tomorrow. If you want to go through all one hundred and fifty comedy specials that’ve been released this year, hang around. They saw this one during the week.

This is from the Comics Comic Sean McCarthy is the writer there. He has a substack called Piphany, and he listed all the new comedy specials of twenty twenty three so far. You know how many there have been, over at one hundred and fifty. Now, I want to stop using the words special, and Sean, I’ll talk about this a second. His thing not everything special.

For example, I saw Monster Brune released an hour on YouTube and I was watching it Tuesday night and I enjoyed it, But was it a special? Like it is it up there with like Carlynton at Carnegie Hall. No, it’s a guy in a club doing a perfectly fine, entertaining, funny hour. But we gotta stop using the words special. I think hour is the word we should use.

And I’m trying to retrain my brain because I think we all call everything a comedy special, and we got to get away from Sean McCarthy writes. So two clarifications or declarations before you look at the list of twenty twenty three comedy specials. First, especially with regard to YouTube citations, I must remind you how painfully easy it is for anyone anywhere in the world’s record themselves and uploaded for sharing on YouTube as a quote full comedy special unquote. Amen Sean writes, My including on on this list should not be construed as me legitimizing some of these people as professional stand up comedians. Second, I must also stress there’s no surefire way to account for all the new comedy specials available to stream on Earth.

I may have missed one or more. So if you know of some, let them know. I share the list in the Facebook group Daily Companies Podcast Group if you’re curious. But let’s take a look at this January Steve Hoffs that is the recipe. I don’t remember that coming out, and I’m not going to repeat that about one hundred times here, And that surprises me because Steve loves to publicize himself like big time.

So how that came out without it hitting my radar? And again, I write this podcast every day, even if I don’t record every day, I do write every day. I don’t know how I have missed that.

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Moving on, Nick whitmer is Always Hungry YouTube.

Mike Brydenstein’s Lie from the Glendale Room at YouTube. Tony Laws Go Mister Tony Go via Comedy Dynamic an Amazon. Now that’s a major label. I don’t remember that. Andrew Santino Cheeseburger yep.

Adam Rose Imperious on YouTube, Alexandros Suvales Bad barrot Ice on YouTube and then bears it be in Greek that special. Ron Irvin’s Prodigal Son YouTube. Andrew Myrie ducking a Pond YouTube, Andy Andres last shot eight hundred pound Gorilla media YouTube. I think that one hit my radar. Nathan Cassidy’s Observational Amazon really, Brian Possein yep.

Tim McLaughlin goes Banani’s YouTube. Nick Nannie’s nessen Dorma YouTube. Nathan Macintosh Money Never Wakes YouTube. We’re a tenth of the way through the list in case you just want to bail out an ex episode. Matt Ruby’s Substance YouTube.

Joe Hill, Somebody’s got to hear this YouTube. Wait, Sean has crossed one out. Number eighteen was Matt Rife only fans and it’s now crossed out, all right. Nineteen Kabir Sing Ballerwood YouTube one four Nos The Snow Mexican YouTube. Brandon Sean Everybody’s at Targate?

Amazon Yeah, Stand Up for Pitt’s Comedy Special with Rebecca Cory Amazon Yeah. Dan Nightingale smash Or YouTube, philp Pointer Sweat It Out YouTube, Drew Lynch can Cuss YouTube, The Red Richardson Special YouTube, Michelle train A Divorced Diaries Amazon Asian American Eyes and Immigrant Comedy Special Amazon. Nate Brigassi, Hello World, Yes, Seaton Smith Live at MSG opening for John Milleny on YouTube, Bruno Romano Too Honest to Have a Job YouTube, Troy DeShane Got Next YouTube? That was just January onto February, which only has twenty eight days most years, except every fourth year is a leap year unless it’s a century year not divisible by four hundred. So two thousand was a leap year if you’re still around.

Twenty one hundred not a leap year, all right, So if you’re expecting twenty one hundred to be a leap year, it’s not twenty eight days in February most years. Sean Hameron Small Face YouTube, Ferris Ia Send Help YouTube. Isn’t this insane. Brandon Bricks Live at the Comedy Store YouTube, Daniel fernanez Alive in Vaccinated YouTube tube, Mofti Good Cop, Bad Cop Nigeria YouTube, Catch each your Boozy kindergarten teacher Energy YouTube, Rodney Norman stand Up for twenty two YouTube bt Just Try YouTube, t t Ladette YouTube Silas of Bollocks. They said there would be jobs YouTube Ben Rosenfield, Don’t Shake Your Miracle Amazon anubab is seeing Bossy Amazon Doctor Jason Long Ride with Casha Netflix.

I actually watch that Marcella Arguello bitch grow Up. HBO mix that happened Mark Marin HBO, Sarahti on a forty four moment aj Grill, I’ll quit one of thirty YouTube. Tony Lyle Live in Auckland YouTube, Chase O’donald YouTube, Ava Carol Late Bloomer YouTube, tiz Ilias Viked YouTube, Ben Zanio Mister Ben Indonesia YouTube, Henry Welsham Book from eight to A Amazon, Jim Jefferies High and Try. That’s on my top ten list. Netflix, Roseanne Barr canceled this Fox Nation, Josh Johnson up here killing myself, peac Matt Rife Matthew Stephen Wright moment, Alan Sidney Dedde Issues YouTube, Natalie Cuomo’s shut Up You Loved It YouTube.

I didn’t know that one came out. I want to check that one out. Kate Quigley Magic YouTube, Annie Malick General Blessings YouTube, Chris Shilting The Son of Tom and Jerry g Rii YouTube. Ronnie Myers You Funny Yeah YouTube, but Rodney Norman Stand Up for twenty two YouTube, Treeol’s Alien Invasioned YouTube. Wayne Beas Record of Underachievement YouTube, Lucas Waterfield Public Inconvenience, Amazon, Joe Lycett More More More, Amazon, Some More, Queen Chandelier and Netflix, Wenderson Neunez Preaching of the Choir in Brazil, Netflix, Kathleen Madigan’s Hunting Bigfoot, Amazon, Lavelle Crawford Showtime, Stuart Goldsmith I Need You Alive moment Marcus D.

Wiley Grown Gray Forgiven on YouTube. John Agasild Welcome Back Scotland YouTube, Brad Wenzel Joke Joke Joke YouTube. Joff at the Stupid Experienced Rwanda YouTube. Charlie Burn’s Midwest Goodbye YouTube. John Franklin The Specialist YouTube, Drew Lyncher These Jokes YouTube, Nate Jackson Live CrowdWork Special YouTube, Aksha sree Vastava Mental Health YouTube, Adam Row Juicy YouTube, abishek up Mayu Health Anxiety YouTube, Paul Zertin Hands Free YouTube, but Train Knolls Infinite American Tales YouTube, Vinnie Brand Rip Fat Bobby YouTube, Sarah Milliken self released, Nick Usef Take Care YouTube through February one more month seeks, Marlon Wayam’s God Loves Me HBO max A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Dimitriu Netflix, Chris Rock Did you hear about that?

One? Netflix? AKSh Metha No Smoking India YouTube, Mussud Akbarzada Fame German Iranian YouTube and John McCombs Make a Way to Estonia YouTube, Graham Elwood manifest A YouTube, Russell Kzz The Big Cheese YouTube, Jacob Hatton Relax England YouTube, and Nate’s Armbuster Sorry to Bother You YouTube, Guarav Kapoor. I’m probably butchering this title. Mumbai Say Ia, Mara Dost India YouTube, Stevie Brown My Friends Call Me Beatle YouTube, Paul mon Elected in Northern Ireland YouTube, Dave Lester, How did that make you feel?

Amazon? Joe Mantilla, No one asked for this YouTube, Josh Means Business YouTube, or Zilla Carlson Token African YouTube, Kelsey Cook The Hustler YouTube, Nittish Suka Who Up Person YouTube? Andrew BALISTERI Live from the Greatest City on Earth YouTube. Brian Sclero Never Not Crapping, Clean that Up YouTube. Terrible title, Brian, don’t do that.

That is not going to help you with a title like that. That’s Brian bad title, not a good idea. Jenny Zagreeno gen Z YouTube, Joslyn Sharp five ten two eighty Amazon, Bert Kraisher’s Razzle Dazzle Netflix, Foil Arms and Hogswines from Ireland to Moment. Justin Martindale Gaybash moment, Mona Up Substantiated YouTube, Jamar Malika Neighbors Rotten Luther King Junior YouTube, sore In Para Lab with a Romanian title out of YouTube. Osha Dwyer Knockout YouTube.

J McBride Daddy’s Girl, That’s on My List YouTube, Very good special watch that Kai Kai Apocalypse Now YouTube. Andre Ferrell’s Rude Awakening. Amazon stand Up for California, Amazon Russell Brand Brandemic Locals only, Lee Kyle’s Disco Twicks England to YouTube. Jeremiah Watkins Dandy YouTube link, Mike a Greek Title on YouTube, John Grimes Going for Broke YouTube, Michael Shaffar al Right Next Joke YouTube, Mike Vecky Owns the Attractives YouTube, Angelo Gingirelli Stuck in the Middle of YouTube. Doogie Horner’s Dad Max on YouTube.

Dave Hugh’s Ridiculous on Amazon, Brent Terhun’s One on Flat Earth on Amazon, Well Red Comedy on Amazon, May Martin on Netflix, mort Brooke Spiritually Filthy on YouTube, Dustin Nickerson Runs on the Family YouTube, Gareth wat Doozy on YouTube, Anthony Rodgers Sun Burton Hawaii YouTube, Zach Hammond’s Welfare and Disguise YouTube, Kyle Canaan Shocks and Struts the current number one special of the Year on YouTube. Nathan Katone Let’s Talk about Vexi YouTube, Brian Churchill Alpaco Churchy YouTube, Monster Brownie The It’s in the Bees YouTube. Andy Parsons Live and Unleashed but naturally cautious Amazon, Jeff Lees and Grandma used to heck on Me Amazon, Ben Rosenfield Geopolitical Dick Jokes Amazon, and just this week, Big Jokerson’s whatever It’s called that also came out. So again, thank you Piphany dot substack dot com for this list. Great job Sean McCarthy, who says thirty one for January fifty nine for February fifty nine from March a first quarter total of one hundred and forty nine plus the Big Jay makes one fifty.

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Featured: Ego Nootum, Kevin Hart, John Cena, James Corden, T.K. Kirkland, Chris Gethard, Jordan Strauss, Dave Woodhead

What’s in This Episode

• Ego Nootum interview on pre-med background and SNL cast favorites
• Kevin Hart promoting Die Hard 2 and working with John Cena
• James Corden’s Late Late Show ending April 27 with no replacement host
• T.K. Kirkland filming first-ever comedy special in Bermuda
• Chris Gethard discusses comedy writing process and Edinburgh Fringe Festival
• Jordan Strauss releases comedy album about wife’s cancer diagnosis

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Variety caught up with Ego Nootum and asked her, if you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing. Ego said, I was pre med because I’m Nigerian American and pretty much all parents want us to be doctors. I was a business miner as well in college.

I love my business classes. I love my accounting class. Doing a ledger was very fun to me. I don’t think i’d be an accountant. I’d be a headhunter recruiter because I love helping people find what they’re looking for.

If you said I’m looking for a pair of pants, I’d be like, what kind? What style? She took that question quite seriously. Most comedians would have clowned around there. All right, what made you laugh the most watching SNL before you were on it?

And she said Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, and Tracy Morgan. I loved, loved, loved watching them. Tracy was always so funny, and then getting to see him on thirty Rock just solidified that for me. Now that I’m there, Heidi Gardner makes me laugh a lot. She just embodies a character.

So well. Andy Dismukes makes me laugh a ton. James Austin Johnson’s really freaking funny. Everyone I work with is so funny. That’s not a fair question.

Kevin Hart has been out and about promoting diet Heart two. Movie Web asked him about the action and die Heart Too, said, there’s so many great scenes to go through, especially when you look at your sporing partner, people like John Cena. What’s it like working with him? Kevin said, John Cena was great. We were very lucky to have him.

He’s an amazing talent, a world star of today’s time. His success is warranted. He’s a tremendous athlete, a tremendous personality in the space of wrestlings at a mirror that to match that was a no brainer. How much did you prep in this one? My size is no match of course for John cenas I just try to come in with a significant amount of personality.

But there are moments in the movie where the alignment are jesting from me he to I are ones where the audience is going to run away remembering afterward our fight scene, especially so I would say buckle up. James Gordon was at the palifest. The Late Late Show is just about to die, the last one April twenty seventh, and they’re not bringing it back. There will be no next host of The Late Late Show. Gordon said they have twelve episodes left to do.

They probably a few were now, and they’ll likely be the biggest show that’s ever done. These will include three carpool karaoke sessions and one of his famous crosswalk to musical segments where he ties up traffic in LA and really ticks people off, as well as the teased Lion King musical performance with James Cordon and Tom Cruise. Cordon will also participate in They Take a Break segment with the Kardashian Family. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of James cordon Lately Show seeing clips, I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched the show. Cordon revealed one of the craziest ideas that they never got to, which would have been Jennifer Lopez living with him in a glass box to spend it over Sunset Boulevard for an entire day to promote her twenty twenty two Netflix documentary halftime.

He says it feels strange to be ending the show. It’s not right because you’re having such a great time it gets to go to work with all my best friends. But at the same time, I’m so certain it’s the right thing to do. I’m so absolutely certain that we did everything we wanted to do, and I think it’s really important to have things end. T K.

Kirkland is going to film a comedy show in Bermuda April fifteen. TK Kirkland billed as the Underground King of Comedy. Yeah, will be the star of the stage. April fifteenth. A local said there’s never ever been a comedy special shot in Bermuda.

Others have done it in Cuba, whatever, but not Bermuda. So it’s a big deal. He’s gonna film it Bermuda and then it’ll be picked up by a major network, either Hulu, TV One, Netflix, Whoever’s going to pay him the most money. But for us as a country, as an island, we will be showcased. If you want to go April fifteenth, eight thirty pm in Bermuda, be prepared for quote strong language is the warning on the ticket.

Chris Gether didn’t talked to Broadway World. They asked, hey, what’s your process like when it comes to sitting down and writing out a show, Getherd said, my writing process tends to be a lot of bullet points in a notebook and notes on my phone. Then on any given night, I’ll start organizing those bullet points to see, all right, if this follows this, does it build momentum or their callbacks to start the show up? If I place things in different places, A lot of it is just random scrawls in a notebook that if he sat down and looked at it, there’s no one else on earth who could possibly decipher what I was going for. I’ve often said if I ever dropped my notebook on the ground and someone found it, I think that might call the police because it’s almost unibomber level strange chicken scratch.

At the end of the day, no matter how much you put in the notebook, you have to get up on stage. You have to try it, you have to bomb, you have to eat it. I have done that many times with this materially as well, particularly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where I kept bombing and rebuilding it, bombing and rebuilding it. That’s a painful but necessary process. He said.

I’m really jealous of musician friends of mine. They don’t have to get up and play a half finished song in front of an audience to see how it goes. And if they have a song people like, they get to play it forever. Comedians throw it out once we’ve released it somewhere, and we pray we have a few more jokes in us. On the other side, if you like what I do here, you go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

I told you yesterday that my ice coffee was almost empty. You can hear it. It’s really almost empty now. And apparently it’s been sitting here for twenty four hours and it’s gotten quite warm and the ice has melted and stuff you didn’t record for audience Saturday Back to back John Ditch, No, No, I’ve just been sitting here hoping someone would buy me a fresh ice coffee that has actual ice in it. But I guess not.

If you feel bad, gotta buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, good way to support the show. Jordan Strauss’s album is called The Funny Thing About Cancer. He says you have to be able to laugh at it. That’s one lesson that he learned after his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Jordan and Chelsea Strouss were planning their wedding in March of twenty two when Chelsea’s knee, which had been bothering her for almost a year, began to be unbearably painful.

Turned out she had bone cancer. Yek Strauss said the treatment was very aggressive, six rounds of chemo and a major surgery on her leg. They wanted to go through the wedding even though she had to start aggressive chemo just two and a half weeks before their wedding day. Two days before the wedding, Chelsea was hospitalized with a fever. It was told she wouldn’t be able to leave until her fever came down for a full forty eight hours.

She begged and pleaded they let her out for a quick ceremony, then she had to go back to the hospital. Jordan says it does seem a little odd a comedy album about my wife’s cancer diagnosis, but I wrote it with a thought in mind that I want this to be enjoyed by people that are going through the same thing. It’s got a website you can pay whatever you want. It’s a digital download twenty percent of all proceeds will be donated to bone cancer research foundations. Chelsea’s cancers in remission.

She’s finished her chemotherapy. They’re about to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary. The Age taking a look at some of these shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One of them is Dave Woodhead. He’s the host of Triple j’s Lunch on the radio, and he said, we get hundreds of thousands of people listening at any point, and I feel nothing when I go on stage, even if it’s just send people in the crowd.

I get very nervous and I start shaking. It’s not just being nervous, it’s the adrenaline kicking in. It’s such a rush the whole time. So I’m a radio guy and I can tell you anytime we do a big live show, I still would get nervous. I think it’s just normal.

If I didn’t feel nervous, I would feel weird. You just you get that adrenaline rush. I feel you, Dave Woodhead. When I was growing up, he joined the festival’s Class Clown competition for teens. He said, I kind of cracked the code that if you chucked a couple of jokes into the presentation got the teachers laughing that start bumping up your greeds.

He saw an ad for class clowns. He decided to give it a shot, and a week leading into it, I remember it being so irritable and really on edge. Just before he took the stage, he suffered a classic high school situation, an American pie moment where I completely ripped my jeans in the worst place, right next to the crotch. I had to do the first show holding my shirt down. But as soon as I got my first big laugh was the first time I relaxed in a week.

I suddenly felt common at ease. The rush is why you keep doing it after a while, to chase that feeling. He’s learned that the comedy festival is a mental game too, and he said, when you’re doing a show every night, you want to impress the audience, but you’re also hanging around with comics, so there’s almost a competitive thing in that. There’s just all this unnecessarily bs that can cloud what you’re actually trying to do with the biggest challenge when doing the festival is to remember to have fun, but remember the comedy’s a fun thing and the people have come out that night. Just want to see you have a good time.

Dave Woodhead show lunch for dinners at Trades Hall if you’re in Melbourne all the way through April twenty third, but not on Wednesdays. He’s off on Wednesdays. Maybe plays volleyball. Who knows. Let’s head on over to the website and see who is playing on Sunday and no Sunday is Easter?

Does the festival have a lot of shows on Easter? Do people go to comedy shows in Australia and Easter? James Rooks show is called Badong. Ever since he was a little kid, James has always been called by his family by his Filipino nicknamed Badong. Now, after turning thirty, he’s asking the question is it time to retire their name?

Metro mag said, my favorite show of the festival. Okay, so before we hear the clip, I have to cherry picket. He dropped a lot of f bombs of the setup. Here is about a song and the lyrics of the song and the punchline is that the couple in the song I’ve had sex four straight days. Then he did some crowd work.

Let’s jump in. It’s fine if you don’t. What’s your name, bro, Joe, You’re like, oh Joe, look, it’s fine, Joe. It’s fine if you don’t. No one does.

I don’t. I’m gonna be up fun with you. No one does, right Joe, I’m getting a vibe with you. They’re like, if we if I made like an R and B group with you and like hopped into booth and made our own remot today, so we’ll go something like this, We’ll go Mata run a Monday, took a for it. Drake gone Tuesday, center a text on Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.

Still haven’t heard from her. Like, let’s do one more here, boy, This website is getting slower every day. I hope you guys like this international stuff. I just find it interesting to hear some different voices rather than say, talk about Bert Kreisher every single day. You know, Oh, here’s Brian Lewis.

We talked about Brian yesterday. Hi guys, I’m Brian. I live in Brisbane. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it. It’s Australia’s biggest suburb.

Took his ages to get COVID up in Queensland. But if I’m honest, it takes the ages to get anything, so it’s really nice for me to be here. I’ve left at home in Brizzie. Always get this wrong. An eight year old, six year old and a one year old.

Yeah, none of them are mine. Just a very bad babysitter. Yea, Now they mind three kids? What a slot? All right, little slow start there, but oh kay, you know who else is playing in Melbourne on Sunday.

Kyle Canaane. Imagine I went all the way to Melbourne. I just saw Kyle Canaane. That would not be a good choice. I mean, I love Kyle Kanade, but I don’t need to fly nineteen hours to do that.

And that is your comedy news for today. On Tomorrow’s show, a look at all one hundred and fifty comedy specials released this year. Now by a look at, I mean, Johnny Mac reads you one hundred and fifty things. I don’t have time to analyze one hundred and fifty comedy specials or watch them or whatever. But if you want the fullest of everything that’s come out this year, check out the back end of Tomorrow’s podcast Normal Stuff.

At the top. I did that at the end. It’s seriously twelve minutes of me reading a list. I’m not sure it was the best idea, so I moved it to the end. But the front of the show is normal, and I meet you back here tomorrow.

See then, Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat? No? All right, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where I share some upbeat stories like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue. Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles, or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Bobby Lee, Leslie Jones, Donald Glover, Kathleen Madigan, Ron White, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle to MC Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa July 28-30
• Bobby Lee addresses backlash over Tijuana prostitute story
• Leslie Jones expresses interest in hosting The Daily Show
• Donald Glover reveals Amy Poehler said his SNL rejection was due to lack of point of view
• Donald Glover claims Tina Fey confirmed he was hired for 30 Rock due to diversity initiative
• Kathleen Madigan discusses her 35-year never-ending tour philosophy
• Jay Leno performs despite broken collarbone and ribs from motorcycle crash

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The Shark Deck. Hey, you remember last year when Dave Chappelle got curfewed at NAPPA and said it never returned. Hig, I’m trying to make with your daily comany news. Well, I guess money tucks because Dave is on the slate to MC. The festival’s triumphant return to nappis Silverado Resort July twenty eight through the thirtieth.

It’s the Blue Note Jazz Festival, Dave Chappelle. Your MC headliners include Mary J. Blige, Nas, and Chance the Rapper. Three day passes for the Blue Note Jazz Festival start at five hundred and fifty dollars from USA Today. Bobby Lee has responded to backlash over resurface videos of the comedian reportedly telling a story.

It’s talking about this yesterday. It’s a little icky and you. Most recently teld the story on a twenty twenty podcast episode about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. The story that Leads told I’ll condense it here has him going to Tijuana scutting for prostitute and hooker alley. He found a girl that seemed scared.

Bobby Lee has addressed the criticism on his Tiger Belly podcast. He said, the last couple of weeks have been so bad. I just need to say something. It’s easily explainable, he said. In twenty thirteen, he was forced to do press after not selling tickets to a second show at Caroline’s on Broadway.

When Lee saw Opie and Anthony on his schedule, he recalled telling his team, I don’t want to do that show. It’s just not my brand. It’s edgy shock Radio. The following year, he was scheduled to go on Opie and Anthony again, and he said he decided to do self deprecation and crazy jokes to avoid being skewered by o Na. He said he combined two unsuccessful jokes from his tour to form the Tijuana story.

The first bit was about going on a date with a young girl who looked like twelve year old Natalie Portman from Leon the Professional, and the second joke was about speeding up the process of sex with his girlfriend, who started crying about her recently deceased Grahama during the act. Li said, I was encouraged to say crazy stuff without thinking about it. When I listened back to it now, it puts a chill down my spine. I changed with society and I look at that story and feel guilt over it. It’s terrible.

It was stupid to say it as many times as I said it, including a currently as late as twenty twenty on theo Van’s podcasts. So we’re throwing Ona under the twenty thirteen bus. That’s all fair, but it’s sold it. In twenty twenty, Bobby Lee said, I understand the uproar and why people are upset about it. I’m upset about it, and I punish myself over at every second of every day.

At the end of the day, it’s not real and I didn’t do anything well that is good. Leslie Jones tells people she would like to be the host of The Daily Show. She said it was one of those in the pocket fits, you know, how you get fitted for suit and you’re like, yeah, this suit looks nice on me. I don’t mind wearing this style on me. The Daily Show was that, I would say.

My writer Lenny Marcus said to me that we’ve been trying to find a place that’s actually going to be fun and in fishing place to work at. Everybody calls themselves world renown, and they’ve done this and done that. But we haven’t ever had totally good experiences on productions. A lot of times people are crep that’s floating, or just not as good as what they think. They are messy.

But on The Daily Show, everybody there was good at their job, and everybody there was staying in their lane and did their job. Even when we were editing jokes and bits and stuff. They were so respectful and then they were very good at what they did. There were lines that I was like, Okay, how am I trying to say this? And I’m telling you the writers would say, and I’d be like, gush, darn are you in my head?

They were good. I remember asking Chris Rock. I was like, is there any advice? And he was like, first of all, I’m never worried about you, and second, don’t try to be John Stewart, don’t try to be Trevor. Be you be who you are.

I already kind of knew that, but you know how you just need maybe a little permission to do that. So that’s really what it was. Donald Glover is profiled and GQ and he said Amy Poehler told him that he didn’t get on SNL because his stand up lacked a point of view. Glover said, me being on SNL would have killed me. I got friends who made it on SNL, and at the time I was like, damn, But if I got on SNL, my career wouldn’t have happened.

Glover has claimed that Tina Fey confirmed to him that he was only hired as a writer on thirty Rock because of NBC’s diversity initiative Wow at twenty three years old. Donald Glover got a job on thirty Rock in two thousand and six. He told g Q it was a diversity thing. There’s no animosity between us or anything like that, but Tina Fey said it herself. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris.

I didn’t know was between me and him until later. Glover said. Kenya hit me one day and he was like, I hated you for years. Glover said, it definitely didn’t feel like I was supposed to be there. I used to have stress dreams every night where he’s doing cartwheels on the top of a New York skyscraper with the other writers watching me.

The Good One podcast had on Kathleen Man again and they said, you know you’re Sometimes he’ll announce a new tour, but it seems like you’re actually on the same never ending tour. Kathleen said, it is never ending. People are like, oh, how long has this tour been, And I’m like, thirty five years. I’m not Black Sabbath. I don’t get to take two years off and think of an album.

It starts when you’re in theaters. Let’s say I do the Chicago Theater once every eighteen months. They don’t want to put the same poster up. They don’t want the same ad. That’s what’s driving all that, And that makes sense, but usually it’s new jokes by the time I get back there.

But tour names for comics, I’m just grasping anything. Call it boxwine and a Tanny Banjo. I don’t want it to be a title where a press could be mean, what’s it like on the never Ending Tour? The first few times I went around, I did all the touristy things, and then you start making friends in those towns. It’s a chance to see my friends again.

If I’m going to Columbus, Ohio, I’m not going to the zoo. I’ve been there a bunch. I’m going to see my friends. She said about working, She and Ron White have the same theory. You’re either working or you’re not.

It’s like going to the gym. Oh really, you haven’t been in three months. I don’t know all these stand up comedians, so I haven’t heard their name in two years. All of a sudden they have a special Really, where did you do that? It’s incomprehensible to me.

I’m not saying it’s wrong. I’m not saying they’re not necessarily funny. I just don’t understand. I have to be in a rhythm. Even if I’d take a week off that first show, I’m going to forget a few things.

It’s just rust. And Ron White is such a pot monster that his memory shot. He’s like, I can’t remember anything about ten minutes in my whole life. And I was like, well that’s enough. You could be my opener.

Why not just go out there and do ten minutes. It doesn’t even matter how good it is. McCall caught up with a Jay Leno. He’s at the State Theater tonight. Are you doing, Jay?

Well, let’s see, I’ve got a broken collar bone, two broken ribs, and two crack kneecaps ore than that, I’m okay. It’s actually not too bad. When I’m on stage, it’s fine. It would be far worse if I had slipped in my pet boone walking bathtub. But when you’re seventy two and crash your eighty three year old motorcycle, it’s kind of cool.

As for the show, I guess it’s what you’d call classic stand up comedy. I decided to take the politics out of the act because it’s so divisive. I’ve found that when you’re on stage and you mentioned either candidate, people always wait till they hear the joke before they react. If the joke was for their candidate, they laugh. It was against their candidate, they boo.

It’s funny how you can have a wonderful cross section of America a regular audience. You’re doing fine, and then twenty five minutes and you start talking politics and they start booing and yelling. I understand, Jay, I get podcast comments. I just read late night jokes. I don’t write them.

Jay said, when you’re a comedian, you’ll always lose half your audience if you give your opinion. That’s why I make fun of both sides equally. One of my favorite guys was Roddey Dangerfield. I knew him for forty years, and all that time I had no idea if he was a Democrat Republican because we never discussed politics. Was the hardest part about being a comedian, Jay Leno.

He said, there’s nothing harder than writing a joke. You always need to come up with material, and that’s why I like being a road comic and having that interaction and one on one with the live audience. I don’t want to do a Netflix or HBO special. With those you make a ton of money, but it’s only that one show. I’d rather do one hundred shows and learn something.

I honestly thought I’d do this until I had to get a real job. I grew up in a little town in New England. Had an English teacher who pulled to the side once and said, I saw you in the hall making jokes. How about instead of writing a paper for my class, you get up and give a talk. For the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed doing a homework because I had to think about what I was going to say.

It wasn’t hilarious, but I got a few laughs. My teacher gave me an a My mom was stunned. She said, have you ever getten thought to being a comedy writer comedian? I said, no, not really. He told this wonderful story.

I remember when I was in fifth grade and mister Simon’s class, I had to write a paper about John Glenn circling in the earth. So I wrote the paper and I got a C minus on it. Forty eight years later, I had John Glenn on the Tonight show. So I called mister Simon, who was still lived in the area, and I said, do you remember the paper I wrote where he gave me C minus? Well, I have the second part of my report we’ll be talking about on the tonight shows.

To be sure to watch. I had told John Glenn about it beforehand. He thought it was funny. The next day, mister Simon called me up and told me he’d upgraded from a C two an A. Oh man, listen to this.

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The headliners for Norfolks fourteenth annual Great American Comedy Festival have been announced. Vicky Lawrence will headline the closing night gala. She would perform as both herself and her famous character Mama. That’s Saturday, June seventeenth. Michael ian Black headlines the night before, and the festival kicks off on Thursday, June fifteenth with the traditional family comedy magic show.

This is in Nebraska. Check out Great American Comedy Festival dot com. The Sydney Morning Herald shared a season to performers Guide to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Ally McGregor suggests, by early evening tickets to a big name you’re familiar with, then take a flyer on one of the fresh faces doing this set at town Hall. She says, the show’s only an hour long, so if you’re going to go into the city and make a full night of it, see someone you know, then get a bite to eat or drink, then go to town Hall to grab tickets as someone you never heard of. I agree that is a great plan.

You’ve heard me say several times now. Melbourne is a fantastic city. McGregor says. The festival takes over the whole city and it feels like everyone’s totally vibing. I would suggest going to bars that look over the city so you can have a drink and look down and see people walking around.

She likes Madame Brussels. It’s a bit of an institution for me. You catch a lift to a roof garden that’s decked out like an English tea garden to play croquet in, and all these bartenders are wearing tennis whites. It’s hilarious. The age took a look at a bunch of shows at the festival, one of them Sashi Pereira.

She started in twenty eighteen at the Raw Comedy competition and said, raw comedy, it’s such a great weight experience stand up for the first time. If you get up in an open mic, there might only be one or two three people in an audience, whereas this was packed with people’s friends and family and everyone’s on your side. She made it to the state finals that year. Eventually he got approached by producers to peer in group shows at the festival. She says, when I started, I didn’t want to talk about being a woman.

I didn’t want to talk about being brown. I was just like, I’ll talk about doors and automated voices, things everyone can relate to. But I found the more of myself i’d put in, the more personalized I made it, the more I was connecting with the audiences. Her show endings is at the Chinese Museum through April ninth. Dan Rosario found out when he first tried stand up he didn’t suck.

He said, some of my best mates did comedy every day for two years before they got a laugh. But I was the only boy of eight cousins and I used to wake up in the morning at age six and think, how will I make the girls laugh? He didn’t want to rush into his first full length solo show. He said, I got a lot of advice from comedians who’ve been in the game longer. They were like, when you want to do an hour show, wait a year.

His fans a lot otherwise, people kept saying, when can we see you? We’re sick of seeing give you five or ten minutes. Well, now you could see him do an hour. White people needs her relax, as the name of the show said, trades Hall Through April twenty third, The Age also took a look at Braun Lewis. Her previous career was as a high school English teacher.

She decided to try stand up and said, there’s a bit of a midlife crisis stench about someone in their thirties starting comedy. My friends were like, we think you’re funny, but that sounds terrifying. So she moved to Brisbane. In Brisbane, I didn’t know anyone. It’s nice to perform for people who aren’t worried about you.

There she figured out how to get good at comedy. Her take on hour long shows you don’t have time to do a story in a five minute spot. You don’t have the time to work with Cadence. It’s bang bang bang. But now she’s got an hour.

Broun Lewis, it’s called Probably. It’s at the Weston four through April twenty third. And let’s open up the schedule. How long do you think it’ll take to load today? It took about a minute.

All right, Let’s see what I can tell you about today. A lot of children’s shows in the morning, tomorrow being Saturday. I guess that makes sense. Let’s listen to Ivan Arista Gietta. He was the winner of the Best Comedy award from the twenty twenty three Adelaide Fringe, also the winner of the Best Comedy in the twenty twenty two Adelaide Fringe.

He must be pretty good, say Olah. So Australia’s newest Aussie is happy immigrant has just come one of us, craigy amigo.

All right, let’s listen.

I’m from Venezuela. I’ve been living here for four years. Four years. I already feel I’m becoming Australian because I’m relating to food in a more Australian way. Last month, I went to Bunnings on a Saturday morning.

As soon as I smellow sausage Szel I was like, oh my god, Sausagezel was like, oh my goal, what’s happening to me? That wasn’t me four years ago. The first time I smellow sausage thisele, I was like, oh my god, there’s someone burning inside a car and it’s a hairy man. It’s a fat hairyman and his dog. They’re burning inside of cars.

Not anymore. I love a sausage thisl. I love them. You pay coins for it, just coins? How good is to pay with coins?

I love pairing with coins. When I pay with coins, I don’t feel I’m giving away money. I’m just getting rid of coins, all right. I found that really funny. I had the Mico, but I was holding back laughter to not step by the jokes.

That was pretty good. Now I want to play another clip, but the website froze, so let me just get out on tops. That was actually funny. That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

We’ll try again tomorrow. Maybe the website of work. Can I interest you in some meatballs made out of mammoth meat. No, all right, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of Five Good News Stories. It’s a twice a week podcast where you share some upbeat stories, like the dog who only will respond to commands if you use an Irish brogue, Or what about the guy who’s filling potholes with noodles or the woman who congratulations, she passed her driver’s license.

Oh by the way, it was her nine hundred and sixtieth. Try you heard me correctly. It’s Five Good News Stories, a nice easy way to start your morning. Five Good News Stories the number five Good News Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Roy Wood Jr., Bobcat Goldthwaite, Graham Norton, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• Late night hosts joke about Trump’s indictment in Manhattan
• Roy Wood Jr. guest hosts The Daily Show with John Stewart cameo
• Bobcat Goldthwaite announces first album in decades called Soldier for Christ
• Adam Sandler’s Murder Mystery 2 becomes second biggest comedy film opening on Netflix
• Graham Norton to host Irish version of Amazon’s Last Laughing
• Bobby Lee controversy over story told on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon said, Trump made history. The only good news for Trump in Florida. All their history books been thrown out, so it’s all right.

Seth Meyer said, that’s right. Former President Trump wasn’t rained in Manhattan, and like everybody else, Trump has presumed innocent until the outright confesses on truth. Social Colbert at that point, of course, he was ready as Miranda rights. Then he claimed Miranda wasn’t even his typeaster to sign an nda and got indicted again. The late night host thought Trump looks sad.

Roy Wood Junior, finally getting a chance to host The Daily Show, said, look at how sad Trump looks. My man looks like somebody told him his dog died, or that Mike Pence is still alive. Fallon, he looks like he’s watching another table at Applebee’s get their food first. Looks like he had to sit through unskippable ads on YouTube. He looks like Ben Affleck at the Grammys.

Hey, great news. Bobcat Goldthwaite is coming out with his first album in decades, says the press release. Now that confuses me because in twenty twelve, Bobcat golthweight released a compilation of jokes called you Don’t Look the Same Either, and it came out on album because I know I’ve been playing it on Slacker turned Live one for a long time twenty twelve. Hey, I was still at Serious Sexam playing it there. So I’m wondering, is this an actual album album?

You know, like, if Taylor Swift puts out Folklore, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, that’s an album, not a Netflix special. The stuff Dave Chappelle does, the stuff that Jim Gaffigan does, those are Netflix specials. You can put them on vinyl if you want. But I know a comedy album when I see one.

So I’m guessing Bobcat Golthwaite’s new thing it’s just an album, which means I’ve got your back to be the Grammy of the Year for Comedy Album because I’m a snob and I think it should be an album, not a Netflix special anyway. It is called Soldier for Christ. The album is a mix of personal stories never told along with observations and reflections, revealing the warm hearted, punk rock human behind the wild nineteen eighties persona, a self described VHS comic, and a TikTok world Bobcat share stories about everything from childhood, family and old friendships, to touring with Nirvana and aging. The album will be out on April twenty six. You can pre order it now.

He’s also going to celebrate the release at Lincoln Lodge at Chicago, that’s where Soldier for Christ was recorded. Tickets are on sale. Tickets will benefit the Trevor Project.

Also appearing at that show Eugene Merman.

That’s pretty neat. I like these guys. They even sent over a track listing. Are you curious? Of course you are.

Track one is called Hello, When do you think Hello is about? What kind of jokes do you think? Hello? Track two old Bob Behavior. The next it says, my name is Robert Goldthwaite, balloon on a grave, Cigars, nuns and Viagra, cowboy colin oscopy.

Now we’re up to track seven. F these guys, then UFOs opening for Nirvana. Don’t repeat this story, fu AARP check your oil. Nickelback’s manager is a Penis. I met Grover, my big brother Robert, and I do the voice in all caps swimming Towards the Shark track nineteen bonus, Intro track twenty bonus, I’m in Love with a Duck track twenty one bonus, The Vigilante Nun They even sent over a bio or You’re curious, I’m excited about this album in case you can’t tell.

Since Bobcat Goldthwaite’s first appearance on The David Letterman Show at the age of twenty, now it says The David Letterman Show. Does that mean Bobcat was on the daytime one? That’s pretty awesome. Bobcat has gone on and maintain a thriving career as a writer, director, actor, voice actor, and stand up comedian. As a comedian, Bobcat has starred numerous hbos slash Showtime specials, performed in venues all over the world, and even went on tours and I’m gonna read this next sentence verbatim, and even went on tour as an opening act for the Nirvana, Yes, it says the Nirvana all Right.

Well known for his roles and scrooged with Bill Murray and Z and the Police Academy franchise, Goldthwaite has gone on to become a well respected award winning director, then a bunch of stuff about his directorial credits. After fleeing Los Angeles, he now lives somewhere in the woods in Illinois with his girlfriend Nora and their five cats. Anderson Coop Her Love It, Alice Cooper Love It, Tina Sparkle, Bruce Wayne, and Robert Smith. John Stewart was on The Daily Show. Is he coming back to host?

No? No No? He was dressed in full Obi wan Kenobi outfit, and he appeared to help guest host Roy would Junior go viral? Vulture observes feels sort of Kingmakery. No.

John explained that he used to host The Daily Show. Roy Wood said, wait, the Daily Show had a white host. Look, Johnny Mac. You can hate on Adam sandler comedies as much as you want. You could sit there in your stoop basement recording your dumb podcast saying Adam Sandler’s movies are terrible, but Netflix says Murder Mysteries Too.

Debut was the second biggest opening weekend for a comedy film on Netflix. It was watched by forty two million households in the first three days post release. That’s slightly more people than listen to this podcast. I will give you that, Adam. According to Netflix, Murder Mystery two accumulated sixty four point four million hours streamed over it’s debut weekend, a figure that catapulted it into the top ten of the streamers movie section in ninety one countries.

So there you are. You’re in Luxembourg and you’re locking in Netflix and you watch Murder Misty two. It was also the most watched English language Netflix movie on the service for the week running March twenty seven to April second.

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So something in another language beat Murder Mystery two. There still is hope internationally for us. All good job people who speak different language. Remember last week I told you Trevor Noah is going to host one of those Amazon l L last one laughing things. Well, Graham Norton is going to host one.

He’s doing the Irish one. Ten comedians locked in a flat together and I have to try to make each other laugh. Anyone who laughs, you’re expelled. The Irish version will shoot and Dublin this spring and it will air next year in all two hundred and forty countries where Prime Video is available. So say you’re in Luxembourg and you’re like, I didn’t really like Murder Mystery two?

What else is on? You’ll be able to watch this, Graham Norton said. And don’t think I didn’t almost say, Jim Norton, I almost did. Graham Norton said, I’m thrilled to be working on home ground for the first time in many, many years. I’m so proud of our comedy culture and it’s wonderful to have a platform to showcase Irish talent to a global audience.

I can’t wait to see what our comedy masterminds do to get the laughter going. This press release did not mention any sort of prize. I don’t know if the Graham Norton Show is giving fifty five thousand dollars to Irish comedians or what they’re doing. Who knows. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me acoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

He could there was some money in the tip jar. You know who did that, Kara? Would you know? Kara with the whole power of the street woman, that’s gilding me into running. Hey, Kara, I just got back from a three point three mile run.

That’s five days in a row in case you’re counting, but you’re not counting, because that’s what we do on Mondays. We’re not doing that today. Today we’re talking about how Kara would bought me three large ized coffees, but she added to be misappropriated on beer only. That’s because she listened to yesterday’s podcast and knew my plan for Wednesday night was, of course, to go to trivia night at the brewery and three largeised coffe phase. That’s fifteen bucks.

That’s two beers at the brewery. Perfect because as anyone who knows me, I am on my soapbox about two beers, not eight. Two beers during a three and a half hour trivia game. Perfect eight beers. What are you doing?

Karrowood? Thank you for going to buy me a coffee? Dot com slash a daily comingy news Kevin Hart said, I’m forty three, so I hope I got a little bit at SIME left. I definitely want to go out while I’m on top. But I’m finding new fun, like in the space of interviewing and podcasts, that’s something that’s evergreen.

Like I’ve actually interviewed a lot of people I’m also artist friendly. I don’t believe in the space of sabotaging talent. I amplify talent. So coming on any platform of mine is about celebrating you and what you’ve done in your world of success. And I don’t do any prep, no prep, no pre interviews.

Now here’s what we’re talking about. Here’s the marketing premo. I don’t do any of that stuff. Come on my show and we’re just gonna talk. One talent that he says he amplified is Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

That’s right. He said, Well, his career was over, he needed help, So what did he do? Called the old Khart came on board and changed that man’s life. By the way, you’re welcome. You’re welcome because we know the truth before me.

Yet that stupid movie tooth Fairy. We all know what was happening after then then boom, Central Intelligence shoots to the moon. There’s a comedy festival in Montreal. But no, it is not the just for laughs, I mean that still exists, of course, hoping to go, got to check my calendar, hoping to get up there. Are you’re going to join me?

We can hang out. We could have a beverage. Starting tonight through the ninth, Montreal’s inaugural giggle Fest will host over thirty shows and feature more than eighty local and international performers at the Montreal Art Center and Museum. Now, why are they doing this? Gigle Fest says it seeks to spotlight and elevate local English comedy producers and artists with a business model that allows producers and comedians to see real profits for their art.

Local comedian Michelle Forrester said, what’s crazy is that we’re a city known for the behemoth that is JFL, and yet when people come up here they have a hard time accessing English stand up comedy. There are so many amazing independent shows that uplift overlooked talent. Giggle Fest gives people centralized access to all those shows and artists in four day. Is pretty cool. Giggle FESTMTL dot com if you want to check that out.

Steph Curry, Yes that’s Curry. He is coming to television. He’s going to costar with actor Adam Paley. It’s called Mister Throwback, a mockumentary comedy on NBC. Mister Throwback will focus on a down on his luck memorabilia dealer.

Looking for redemption, he reunites with Steph Curry, who is his sixth grade teammate. Here’s Today’s Horrible story from USA Today. Bobby Lee under fire for resurface videos of the comedian telling a story three years ago. In that story, he talks about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana. It’s a clip from THEO Vaughan’s This Past Weekend from January twenty twenty.

Bobby Lee tells the O Van that he frequented a brothel and Tijuana with go workers while working in the food service industry. For this report, Bobby Lee said, this is going to be a hard story to tell. I don’t know if I can get around it. Honestly, if you think this is going to ruin me, we had cut it out. I was walking down Hooker Alley and there was a girl.

It was a girl that seemed scared. That was the one I wanted. Bobby Lee then clarifies the woman’s age, having early referred to her as a girl and said, this is not a kid. This is an adult, fully grown woman. He then the story and says, while having sex with the woman that she’s this is horrible, crying snot bubbles the whole thing.

He goes on to describes speeding up the process to get over with it. Another clip from the podcast Tiger Billy Clips has also surfaced. He tells the same story of desiring a quote girl facing the wall, the one that doesn’t want to be there. USA Today writes it’s unclear if the story is factual or a comedic bit. USA Today reached out to Lee’s reps for comment.

At the time of this recording eleven twenty five am Wednesday, April fifth, I’m not aware of any comments from Bobby Lee. Let’s take a look at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. A review of Lara recotes GRL slash latnx slash d EF that shows playing until April twenty third. So Girl, a teen x deaf dage said, once you started getting noticed in Britain’s comedy scene, interviewers would ask for certain things, then ask if I could talk about my hearing aids, and I realized that being a minority is very in This is horrible, but I’m a good combination of the things. I’m disabled, but I’m not too disabled.

I’m Latin American, but I speak English. So I’m in this terrible but perfect place between all these minorities where people say, I went and listen to this deaf girl, but I can understand her. In Girl Latine’s Death, she uses storytelling to explore intersectional identity and what it’s like to pass as a hearing person and as white. It’s also about how cynical we are in terms of what’s allowed, what isn’t, what’s in, and how it feels to be brought in, but also in some incidences, taken out when people find out. With both her disability and heritage not immediately obvious to others, she says, she often feels like she’s being sneaky.

I feel like an undercover person of color. She used deaf in the title of the show because Heart of Hearing is not a snappy but I’m hyper aware that I shouldn’t be saying deaf. I don’t belong to the deaf community. I will eventually, but not yet. Let’s open up the schedule for today and see who’s playing.

Let’s see how long the website takes to load today. Boy, I did do an edit there that took over a minute. All right, I’m kind of into talking about the things where I can play a clip that’s a little more fun. So I’m taking a look at Friday’s line up at the International Comedy Festival, because again, if you’re in Melbourne, by the time you’re hearing this, it’s already Friday, even though in New York City it’s Thursday. Yeah, a lot of time zones in between there, all right, how about Carmen Ghetta in Carmenacha a Corona infused disco barbecue, but it’s Carman Ghetta.

The Cougar has left the Hubby and Brighton Bay mansion on a mission to achieve social media celebrity, serving up so much more than fish and chips in Corona better. Corman fuses high energy clown routines, impeccable opera serenades, and a diva menu you had no idea you needed. Is it cabarets and a catwalk? Is it a cooking show? Is a game show?

Is it everything anyone could ever want it? Soylet block one oh seven? Yes, it is, my friends, that sounds really fun. This cougar escate starling. I’ve got the jewelry.

I don’t worry about the house. You’ll take care of itself. I’m out of here, Rada, I’m gone it, I’m gone. I’m not your property. I’m not your property.

This is not your ring, these are not your bottles, this is not your house. Already that was a little different. About the racist immigrants, Oh my, what’s this? An hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you knew about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes.

A review from a Chinese proverb says he will come out feeling a lot less racist than when you went in at five stars. Let’s do a clip, right, Yes, picking up women for men of my kind is really hard, right, like it? It’s really hard because apparently women only like this accent when I’m offering them cheap deals from waterforn. That sounds fun. A lot of the audio was a little subpar so that’s why the short clip there.

One more. Let’s see Claire Hooper Sweet Charity Australia. Sweetheart takes a break from emotionally scoring her children with graphic descriptions of the Heinlich maneuver to tell you all about the kind and worthy things she’s done lately and hope they’ll outweigh all the times that she’s wished people dead. Let’s listen. Are we hugging no?

We’re not? No? Ye know, that’s one of those questions where if you’re not sure the answer, just don’t ask, you know, those questions like are you going to ate that? What will you marry me? And are we hugging?

No? In the last couple of years, it’s been possible to be friends with someone for months and still not have seen the inside of their house, friends with someone for months and not know who’s better. All right, I mean a bit of a slow start there. For the clip that you chose to spotlight no from Onward States internet sensation Trevor Wallace sing a Little buzz On. Trevor Wallace this week performed a self deprecating and largely improvised comedy set as part of a free comedy show hosted by Penn State’s Student Programming Association.

Wallace began his set by waltzing on stage wearing a miniature foam finger on his hand, which he quickly removed and revealed his outstretched middle finger. He said, always gre to come back to schools. He didn’t get into I had a two point six GETPA, so their loss after a Jerry Sandusky joke didn’t land, he wondered if he was still going to get paid. Wallace then talked about his impressions of Penn State’s campus, saying there are cars all over the place and students just don’t seem to care. They’re walking around like I’ve priority here.

I played lacrosse for one season, so f off. He joked about a childhood and said, one time my dad actually pulled the door of my bedroom off. That son of a bee turned my room into a jeep wrangler. And from the department of Please, don’t you know what’s on today? On Paramount Plus Greece, Rise of the Pink Ladies.

Yeah, boy, have you seen the trailers for this thing? Sat in nineteen fifty four, four years before the nineteen seventy eight film You Know Greece with John Travolta and Olivia Newton John Hope you’ve heard of that one. Pink Ladies explores out a group of four ridel outcast forged a friendship then became the title Girl Gang fourbears to Rizzo, Frenchie and the other beloved pink Ladies from the movie I can’t wait to see the reactions to this thing. I think it’s going to be velma level. That is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Roy Wood Jr., Nick Carraway, Jackie Novak, Big Jay Oakerson, Whitney Cummings, Bert Kreischer, Dan Levy, Tony Rock, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Trump arrested in New York, late night comedy coverage
• John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Mike Birbiglia benefit concert at Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Roast of Bert Kreischer now streaming free on OnlyFans TV
• Whitney Cummings discusses comedy industry pressure and OnlyFans controversy
• Tony Rock clarifies Will Smith never called Chris Rock after Oscars incident
• Netflix and Just for Laughs sign three-year comedy special deal
• Mae Martin receives limited series order for ‘Tall Pines’ mystery thriller
• Murder Mystery 2 receives harsh review from The Daily Beast

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny back with your Daily Comedy News. The topic Trump, Stephen Colbert said, what if he goes to jail, he could end up the head of a violent white supremacist gang, but in prison. This time, Colbert tagged it with the head of the arrangement. Foreign President Trump flew from Florida to New York and landed at LaGuardia Airport.

Yeah, he was smart. Nothing helps easy into prison like spending time at LaGuardia. Jimmy fallon same topic, Trump flew from Florida to New York, then he was arrested. He’s basically doing a reverse spring Break roy Wood Junior. I finally got a chance to host the daily show Ticket Guys long enough the upside with Trump’s DNA Now the NYPD can probably solve a bunch of cold cases from the eighties.

It’s a robust day again here at Daily Comedy News. So much news. I’ve kicked a bunch of stories to tomorrow. Tomorrow’s podcast is already really good, including information about a new Bombcat Goldthwaite album. But how can I not lead with Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney and Mike Berbiglia doing a concert together.

Yeah, it’s not bad when Mike berbig is the third biggest act on a show. Gaffigan, Malany, and ber Biggs will team up for a benefit show at the Georgetown Scholars Program. This will happen May first at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nick Carole will appear virtually. Jackie Novak will also perform, not virtually.

Jim Gaffigan says, really looking forward to the show. Insanely talented lineup for the great cause of the first generation college students. Yeah, that’s fantastic. On YouTube today the Big Jay Okerson Special. By the way, there have been over one hundred and fifty comedy specials already this year.

I’m going to get into that on the weekend. Whitney Cummings tweeted tweeted, what is twisted? Why don’t you edit that out, John, because I want you to hear that I said the word twisted. Whitney Cummings tweeted the roast of Burt Kreisher now streaming for free. It only fans TV slash Burt dot roast.

That’s not actually the url, it’s o f dot TV slash b e rt dash roast, don’t act like you didn’t have a bookmarked. Whitney says it’s bad crazy if I say so myself. Fave joke a question mark so streaming for free now, I haven’t seen it yet. I think it was ten dollars over the weekend. If it’s already free, it promptly didn’t do that well and she wants to get people to watch the next one would be my guest.

I’m not sure it wasn’t always free. Really not sure. I had ten dollars in my head for some reason. Who knows. Anyway, I’ve yet to see any reviews of it, so I don’t think that was widely watched other than the Reddit stuff I told you about yesterday.

Winning Cummings spoke to Yahoo and said, remember the last couple of years, it turned in like comedians had to be on moral high ground all of a sudden. It’s like we went from idolizing Richard Pryor, who on stage went into hitting his wife and doing crack, and now we’re like, this comedian didn’t post a black square at the right time. It should be canceled. It’s like, wait a second, hold on, So I think comedians right now We’re having so much pressure put on us to be perfect, and I think we just kind of want our mind. Everyone like we’re kind of scumbags.

Don’t put us on pedestals. We’re just here for entertainment. Why only fans? Whitney said, I went on there and it’s like teachers making money for school supplies and women wearing a bikini to pay for their mom’s surgery. And I’m like, that is so sad, and I’m like, that is awesome.

You know. I see girls on Instagram doing way more degrading things for free, and I’m hearing about these success stories and I’m like, oh hey, I’m totally in. Whitney added, there’s really no network at the moment where comedians feel like they can go for it and take risks, even on Netflix. That’s sort of the place we were all going.

And then with what happened with Chappelle, even though they didn’t necessari…

Seems like she didn’t like the Comedy Central roasts, so she put in some rules. She said, So I was like, what if we did the roast where no one ever got hurt? It never felt mean, I’m going to make all these changes that when I was writing the Roast, things that I wish would have happened, Like when someone is being insulted or roasted, I made a split screen so you could see them when the joke is hitting, so you could see that they didn’t get their feelings hurt. There’ll be no jokes about comedians being pedophiles or rapists if they’re not, because that’s not funny. I just made sure everyone was protected and nothing was going to feel cringey and sadistic.

I think it was Bob the drag Queen who went Whitney’s drag name would be Botox horse Face. Dan Levy gets up and says, here we are taking unprovoked shots at a talented woman. I feel like Alec Baldwin. That’s a great joke, coming said, we’re just long over to to go. Oh my god, the painful thing that happened.

All we can do is laugh and the things you’re not allowed to say.

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It’s a form of healing. Tony Rock, brother of Chris Rock, said that Will Smith did not call Chris Rock A few days after the famous incidents. Will Smith had said that he did. Tony Rock says that wasn’t true. That wasn’t true.

I think like two nights later I reached out to Chris and he didn’t want to talk. That wasn’t true. Will Smith cast Tony Rock in the two thousand and five or Man at Comedy Hitch. Tony said he’s surprised that Will Smith never reached out to him either. He doesn’t owe me anything.

I just thought we were better than that. My phone number has never changed. I just thought i’d get a phone call one day, like, hey, let’s just you and I talk. It hasn’t happened. It’s I guess it’s not gonna happen just for laughs.

And Netflix have signed a three year comedy deal for three French stand up comedy specials. That’s neat. Netflix also did a deal with May Martin. I guess May’s special did pretty well for them. May has received a limited series order for it.

Tall Pines, a mystery thriller in which May Martin will star and show run. Tall Pines is set in a bucolic yet sinister town that sounds original that explores the inciduous underbelly of the troubled teen industry and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next. I feel like what I do here? Once’t you buy me a coffee? Oh?

No, it’s Wednesday? Why don’t you buy me a beer? Yeah, it’s brewery night trivia. Actually it’s the last trivia night because in the summer we’ve become a volleyball team, so this is our last appearance at trivia. So that’s a good night.

To buy me a beer. Go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, click to buy me a coffee button, and then I will miss appropriate your funds and I will put it towards a beer at the brewery tonight. Thank you in advanced buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. My kind of headline from The Daily Beast? Are you ready?

The headline murder Mystery Too? Is Adam sandler crap comedy at its worst? Subheadline in all caps? Where are the laughs? Are people finally coming around at Johnny Max way of thinking?

The Daily Beast writes Sandler’s Netflix comedy output had a bad reputation even before this dreadful, jokeless sequel hit the streamer. Still, who would have thought the movie could really be this bad? Me Anyway? Murder Mystery too. They follow up that, as with so many Saidler efforts, feels like a ritzy vacation for its stars masquerading as a legitimate movie.

Written once again by James Vanderbilt, it dispenses about as many good jokes as its predecessor, which is to say none. I love this review. Sailor was wise in twenty fourteen to hitch his wagon and Netflix, considering that his increasingly slapdash happy medicine productions are far more appealing as living room distractions than as night out entertainments. Nonetheless, the fact that he’s soon reteeming with the Safty brothers that’s welcome news because of their prior collaboration Uncut Gems, which, as you know, no sarcasm, is the greatest the Adam Sandler films, legitimately great movie. Adam, please do more of that, please.

But the Beast writes it’s great that he’s working with the Safties because it means the star will temporary be prevented from making more drek like this. I can’t get enough of it. Drew Carey annoyed some people at the big famous satellite radio company. Well not the bosses, the listeners. Drew apparently hosts something called Friday Night freak Out, except last Friday, he used an artificially generated version of his voice to handle most of his DJ work, reading a script written by chat Gept.

At first, I was thinking, did Drew get really lazy and get caught? But apparently it was a bit. I heard the clip, and the clip clearly admits that it’s an AI reading an AI script, so he didn’t try to pull one over on everybody. Drew Carey said, I violated a rule from Radio one oh one. The reason FM stations and treasured radio stations still make moneys because people like the personality of the DJs.

You don’t have to be like a big boss radio guy and be phony. You can just talk. That’s what the listeners like Carry said. He got the message don’t do it again from sports Kedia. American comedian Randy Rainbow one over the internet after he released a parody song aimed at Donald Trump’s indictment.

Rainbow has uploaded a four minute video which begins with a fake interview between Trump and Randy Rainbow for a fake news channel. The video then cuts to a song put to the melody of Boogie Woogie Beautiful Boy of Company B some of the lyrics and I won’t even attempt he was a sleazy showbiz phony born in NYC who somehow won the White House over Hillary. I’m sure Randy Rainbow did it much better. I’m not even to attempt. The song also jokes about Trump looking like a butternut squash.

Let’s take a look at the Emailburne International Comedy Festival.

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And now today’s problem with the website.

I started to load it on Chrome because that worked better yesterday, and I clicked on Thursday and it loaded the Wednesday schedule. So I went back to Safari and I clicked on Thursday and it loaded the Wednesday schedule. So I clicked on Friday, and it is now telling me that this is Thursday’s schedule. And I’m looking at the long version of the UURL and I’ve manually tweaked it so in the URL it is saying six April, So I think this is Thursday night’s lineup. But you’re either in Melbourne or you weren’t going anyway, and it’s just fun to talk about these comedy shows.

Let’s see what’s going on tonight. It’s Alice Fraser’s twist. The Edinburgh Guide calls it breathtakingly funny, relatable, meaningful and hilarious. Let’s take a listen. Hello.

I want to take a brief moment to pay homage to all of the real victims of the pandemic, which were the people who had just had their lips done and botox, had to hide their beautiful mouths behind a mask while struggling to express anything. Any parents in the audience, Yes, anyone given birth. It’s an incredible thing. You made a person inside yourself, out of yourself. Who’s going to be sad when you die or at the very least ambivalent.

Come on, that’s an amazing thing. If you if you’ve got the boobs and you’re doing the boob thing, then you get to be food again. Incredible. You’re not giving this enough credit, like when Jesus does it’s a big deal. And Christy Weebeck’s show is called a bit of fun, not much of a description.

It says, take a break from the doom scrolling, drag yourself away from Netflix and join your investie for a bit of fun. The Age called it a perfect choice. Let’s listen. Hello. I was in a supermarket recently and a small child yelled out at me, Hey, you look like a man, and I said, can you please such to my boss?

So it’s reflected in my pay Just boom, just just got him. I don’t even have a boss, you know, like in your face. In all four you’ll find the tea, coffee and some sas about the gender pay gap. I was in an uber recently in the driver said to me, I thought your name was Kirsty and I said it is and I thought this is going to be good and he said, ah, yeah, you’re right. I was just I thought Kirsty was a girl’s name, and there was not enough time to explained that gender is a social construct.

So I said it is a girl’s name and he said that sucks. Bro. And that is your comedy news for today. Father show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Bautista, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatze, Jay McBride, Jim Jefferies, Chris Rock, Mae Martin, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K., Big Jay Oakerson, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Jim Norton, Tony Hinchcliffe, Colin Jost, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Bautista announces Netflix comedy special (April Fool’s joke)
• Kyle Kinane’s YouTube special ranked #1 of the year
• Updated comedy special rankings for 2023
• Mae Martin addresses Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais on trans issues
• Big Jay Oakerson special release on YouTube
• Roast of Bert Kreischer receives negative Reddit reviews
• Louis C.K. releases ‘At the Dolby’ special with 14 new minutes
• SNL Colin Jost April Fool’s prank with Michael Che and audience

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

The Shark Deck. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy. He was very, very robust episode today and the last thing I’m gonna going to do and I’m trying to figure out how to do it. It’s a massive spoiler for a television show. But as soon as I tell you what show it is, you’re gonna be like, oh, I know what they did there.

I’ll warn you. But if you don’t want to be spoiled for any TV shows at all, how about I’ll do that. I’ll tell you all right, jump out now, we’ll do that. On Saturday, Dave Bautista, you know him as a UFC fighter, you know him from Guardians of the Galaxy. He announced a new Netflix comedy special.

It’s called I’ve never done this before. Let’s listen. Never done stand up comedy before, but Netflix paid me ten million dollars shown no interrupting cal move so at the end, but Stick gets heckled and he drags the heckler on stage and beats the guy up. What kind of comedy special is this? It was an April Fool’s joke, well done, especially with the production values on the Instagram joke.

Love it. Dave batistat Now let me ask you, could you actually make it?

Meanwhile, for reels, we have a new number one special.

I have watched Kyle Canaane’s new special on YouTube. Yes, I complained about the fifteen commercial breaks, and they did get annoying after a while, but I kept the remote in my hand. Kyle Canaane’s new special top special of the year. Let’s do a quick listen because a lot of it’s naughty and I can’t play too much of it. Said thank you for your service to a lift driver, more than I’ve ever said to anybody an actual military unifle.

As you could tell, I enjoyed the entire hour and a very strong closer. Kyle Canaine, well done. Currently number one. Do you want the updated rankings? Sure?

Why not? I haven’t even updated my document here. You can hear me type okay l E space ki n A n E. That moves Nate Bergatsi’s Hello World down to number two. Jay McBride now number three, Jim Jeffries number four.

Embargoed special that I’ve already seen is number five. What’s that? Johnny Mac Oh? Yeah, I got a screener, but it ain’t out yet, and I’ve seen it. It’s number five.

It’s not quite as good as Jim Jeffrees and it’s a little better than Chris Rocket. Number six, who is it? You’ll find out as soon as I can tell you. And number seven the roast of mister Peanut. I know you think I’m insane when I say that.

Why don’t you go on YouTube and look at the roast of mister Peanut and you will see it is quite funny. I also watched May Martin special. It wasn’t feeling it. I tried. I got into it and I’m like, this is going nowhere for me.

If you like it awesome wasn’t for me, and then I skipped ahead because they knew they had addressed Dave’s Chappelle by name, and I’m like, all right, let me see what that part is. And it didn’t land for me. I was like, all right, you mentioned Dave and Ricky Gervais my name and not feeling it. The Last Laugh podcast caught up with May Martin and asked May about name checking Chappelle and Jervaise. May said, and I think this is better done than what’s in the special.

May said, I find it really mind boggling that these people that I grew up being such a fan of and who seem like these cool left wing warriors and counterculture people. I can’t really wrap my head around why they’re so fixated on, particularly trans women. But also I mean, when Chapelle got attacked on stage and the first thing he said was that was a trans man, I was like, what is happening? I find it really confusing, and it’s so personal to me and so much of my fan base as young queer people. So I’m always quite starkly confronted with these statistics.

At how at risk that community is. I don’t understand it. It’s such an at risk minority group. I don’t really know why there isn’t more uproar about publicly targeting them when the consequences are so obvious.

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Didn’t Louis C.K. Win a Grammy a couple of years ago. It’s crazy, but maybe it’ll swing back the other day. I don’t think Louis C.K. Did trans jokes.

He got in trouble for something else. But I digress. It’s crazy, but maybe to swing back the other way. And I would love it if those people were just a little more informed or open to learning, because some of the things they’re saying are demonstrably untrue. They’re scientifically not true.

Of course, freedom of speech is so crucial, but I don’t think you’ll be able to say things that are not true that are drumming up hate and violence. Big Jay Okerson Special Now. I thought it was coming out April fifth. The trailer says April fifth. The left button says out today.

Maybe they mean midnight tonight. I don’t know, but either today or tomorrow you’ll have a Big Jay Okerson on YouTube. I have not been able to find any reviews of the Roast of Bert Kreisher, and despite my jokes about sitting in the basement, I did not watch the Roast of Bert Kreisher. The trailer looks honestly to me, unwashable, like just trashy. The only discussion I’m finding of it is on Reddit, so from the subreddit your Mom’s House Podcast.

Some of the comments one the ending was so odd. It ends with everyone dancing on stage. But Keshin I Carly are also there. Somebody said, yeah, I got oddly awkward and uncomfortable. I’m surprised Whitney kept that in.

Another person wrote Whitney shoehorning in her gen Z friends, to which someone retorted, neither of those two I mentioned or gen Z. Yeah, Kesh’s close it to forty and Miranda’s in or her early thirties. All right, whatever. Next thread, the editing is so choppy. Yeah, it was terrible.

By watching Burt’s glass, you could tell they definitely edited out a lot. Next thread. I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would. Everyone had something I chuckled out, but that last fifteen minutes was effing rough and the editing was awful. A different thread was found in the stand up sub credits.

Some of the comments I tried watching. I like hearing good comics trash talk, but after the first five minutes I couldn’t stand Burt with his screeching fully miked totally ruined Jim Norton set, which was good. I just couldn’t stand listening to that squeal. Another comments about the editing. The editing was effing awful, to the point that it was distracting.

Norton and Tony did well. The rest were nothing special. When more, this was a disappointing fifty minutes of comedic content. All right, Burt Kreisher, backlash has absolutely started seeing a lot of it. Luis c K emailed his fan base over the weekend and Louis C.K.

At the Dolby, which you could purchase now for streaming and download at Louis C.K. Dot com for ten dollars. Although I said streaming, it actually says steaming. Perhaps a joke, perhaps a typo. Louis C.K.

Writes, Luis c K at the Dolbey includes a lot of material that I performed for the live stream from MSG back to the Garden, But it also includes fourteen minutes of new jokes that I didn’t do on that show, including a totally different closing piece of stuff. At the end, he pull like some other things, and then he writes, go here to buy Louis C.K. At the Dolbey now for ten bucks. Go to the Salt Lick in Austin, Texas. If you want good barbecue, go to France.

If you like French things from France, go to church. I feel like Jesus. Go to the basement if you need to feed Geralds, go to something else. If you want a thing. Thank you.

You’re a comedian, Louis c. K And did you watch Saturday Night Live reasonably funny episode? I laughed a couple of times, But did you see the news? So I was watching the news and I’m like, oh my god, Colin is bombing.

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And then Jay got a couple of laughs.

They went back to Colin, and I’m thinking to myself, this audience is awful, not laughing at anything. Then somebody from the audience yelled out, you stink. At that point, Michael Jay revealed it was an April fool’s joke. Michael Jay had sold the audience not to laugh at any of College Jost jokes. The audience they played along, they did not laugh.

Jost was wondering if his mic wasn’t working. After the reveal, Shade sawd Jost, don’t worry, they’ll probably laugh at the next joke. Jost was visibly not shaken, but like he had the giggles and had trouble getting through the jokes, and then turned to Jay and said, that’s the meanest thing you’ve ever done. I’m covered in sweat. The laugh button found on another subrett it’s subreate a day here in Daily Comedy News.

This subrett it live from New York. User l sat Prepper two was at the taping and said, can confirm it was all legit. So we’re waiting in a room that his beers and soft drinks and water, and there’s a DJ playing sick music. Before we’re called for seating, Jay comes up to us sing he wants to play an April Fool’s joke, something that’s he had to be done on SNL.

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And then he says, when Jost is on, we can’t laugh.

There was one small section at laugh and the rest of us were dead silent. The crowd erupted and laughter Jay and Jose was like, huh, it was really funny. When he cut on the U stink sounded like it came from the audience as far as I’m aware. When we cheered for him, he told us to not even dare, and that made people crack up hard. Everyone couldn’t stop laughing for a while.

I feel quite fortunate to have been part of this audience at ten out of ten amazing experience. I feel like what I do here, go to buy meacoffee dot com. Slash Daily Comedy News. And what are you gonna do there? You’re gonna buy me a coffee?

How do you do that? You can do a one time donation five bucks. You can join the two dollar club. That’s a two dollar monthly recurring thing. There are other priced heres.

I’ll shout you out. I’ll get a coffee from myself. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Hey and Adam Sailor controversy.

Yes, CNN and Kennedy Centers show stripped of Trump jokes. Comics miffed from The New York Post, they say, we hear there was chatter backstage on March nineteenth that the Kennedy Center that CNN plans to be quote all over everyone’s unquote political gags. They heard that Chris Rock joked that it was romantic that Donald Trump allegedly paid porn star Stormy Daniels hush money so that his wife Mali Annia wouldn’t find out about their fling. That joke apparently taken out of the special. Chris Rock not pleased with the omission.

Deana Carvey impersonated Donald Trump and made jokes about Nancy Pelosi. Those jokes two disappeared. CNN says the jokes were cut out for time. You know, so the live show could be slashed by an hour to fit into its broadcast lot. Uh huh, yump m right.

Meanwhile, some reviews of Adam Sandler’s new movie, Murder Mystery two. Longtime listeners of the podcast know how much I enjoy a good Adam Sandler movie. Well, The Guardian gave Murder Mystery two one star. It’s not one star out of one. I don’t know how many it’s out of.

I think it’s out of five. But even if it’s out of two, that wouldn’t be a good review. I’ll spare you the details, but they say this crime caper has a certain frenzied energy, but it’s sloppily plotted, crass and so dumb you wouldn’t trust it to use cutlery unsupervised. Wow. The Hollywood Reporters headline was Murder Mystery two review Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston in Netflix sequel that lea there’s no room for laughs.

This film brings back the goofy dufus Adam Sandler that audiences can’t seem to get enough of. In the sort of harmlessly mindless comic vehicle that goes very well with takeout Chinese or pizza on a Saturday night. It’s also user friendly enough to clock in at a breezy hour and a half. Adam Sandler’s net worth estimated at four and twenty million dollars. I’m in the basement recording a podcast.

Artist Hub caught the Best of Comedy Zone Asia at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and they wrote, using the superlative best to describe any art form as problematic and this includes the inexact science of trying to make people laugh. Best of Comedy z Own Asia offers up five comedians. The quality of the delivery and the content of this mixed platter is mixed, with some jokes landing solidly while others not so definly. My mind froze on mixed platter? Is that some sort of food related Asian joke?

It’s not thought out or is that just a phrase they use in Australia Move On. Because of the pandemic causing disruption and postpone of touring, many performers were denied an audience and this makes blain why some of the material in the show feels a bit untested. That’s not good. Nonetheless, there are some good chuckles to be had from each comic because they range widely in topics, from the responsibilities of and detours from being a good Muslim and being raised in conservative Indonesia to the generation gaps between mother and daughter, the joys of new fatherhood, greati of centsorship in India, and the rivalry between Singapore and Malaysia. If you don’t want to commit to one unknown comedian for an hour, it’s prudent to see a collective show such as this one.

I agree. I’m pulling up the schedule on the world’s slowest loading website. That is, of course, the website for the Milburn International Comedy Festival. It’s still loading as I killed time here. Why don’t you edit this out, Johnny Mac, because that’s not fun?

Still loading, still loading Eventually, I will tell you who’s playing on Wednesday.

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Now here’s an interesting fun fact.

Remember last week I couldn’t get one of the days to load. That happened again on the Safari browser, so I switched to Chrome and the Milburn International Comedy Festival website loads more quickly on Chrome. Do they not have Apple devices in Australia. I digress. Let’s see who’s playing on Wednesday night the class Clowns at National Grand Final.

Big Haughty title there. The search is on for Australia’s Funniest Teens, Australia’s National Secondary School Comedy competition and Kurch’s Talented Teenagers to unleash their comic voice through stand up, sketch, musical or physical comedy ninety minutes show at one in the afternoon. I wonder what the audience is like for these daytime shows. I mean, this thing starts so early. Ri l Jarn’s Return of the icelandic Oh, and it says play clip.

Maybe I should just do the play clip ones. You want to hear a clip? I want to hear a clip. We all have names that means something in my country. My brother’s name is Ulvus, it means wolf.

My girlfriend’s name is Linda, it means internet. We all have names that means something. For those of you who don’t know much about Iceland, I’ll tell you some facts. There’s three hundred and forty thousand people who live in Iceland. That’s it.

That’s the population. You know a country is small when you ask about the population and you get a number that include it’s tens of thousands of people, like you can’t even do like a rough estimate, well, three hundred thousand. No, no, don’t forget those forty thousand. That’s that’s one eleventh of the population. The society would collapse without those forty thousand people in.

Our main exports are fish and disappointment. We are pretty small economy, but we don’t have strength in numbers, but we do have it in statistics. We say we’re the best in the world per capita. Iceland’s biggest comedy star and first ever Netflix star returns to the festival. Expect Nordic observations on drumbeats, sleep, Parented, and much more.

Here’s another play clip one. Dean Simpson always was, always will be funny. Dean comes from a long line of funny buggers, a wise cracking deat, a cleverly cutting mum, hilarious grandparents, and generations of jokers, pranksters and yarn spinners. I’m Aboriginal, by the way. I know that I’d say that I’m not Indian, stop like I say it all the time.

But yet there’s still people in this crowd looking at me like I think he’d drive us heat. I didn’t come. I LARROI that’s my mom, that’s mom, that’s my people. I remember as a kid, my dad would take me out and would just do black fellow stuff. Right.

We would go ahead into the bush. We’d eat fruit, we’d eat berries, we’d eat nuts, we’d eat spam. Dad wasn’t a good hunter. The Adelaide Advertiser gave it four stars and said, Simpson is hilarious. You can elaborate a little.

All right, I’m going to spoil the hell out of a TV show. I can’t even say what show it is first because once I say the show, you’re gonna be like, oh, I know what it is. Okay. So anybody who doesn’t want to be spoiled for any TV show at all, get out. Now see you tomorrow.

Three two one all right, you’re still here. Now, I’m gonna tell you the name of the show. You have been warned. Are you ready? I’m about to spoil Party Down?

Three two one? Right, you’re still here. I’m gonna tell you what happened. Now. Once I said Party Down, you’re like, ah, I got that figured out.

Yeah, no surprise, Lizzie Kaplan did appear in the season finale. Yes, there wasn’t no way they were bringing Party Down Back without Lizziekaplan showing up. That just wasn’t gonna happen. I get she was busy, but of course she was going to show up. So her character Casey is doing a Pruss jucket for her show, The Stabilizer.

She goes in the back to grab a beverage. She sees Henry, that’s her love interest from the series from ten years ago. We see they’re still attracted to each other. The pr guy comes to get Casey to go do stuff on stage or whatever. As Casey starts to leave, she gives Henry a warm hug with a secret on the side.

She’s planning on quitting her show. Yes, is she going to leave a hit TV show to become a caterer In the upcoming season, we’ll see if they bring Party Down Back. It seemed like it a good buzz. Although being on the Starters is a channel, I don’t know if anybody actually watched it other than people who review things. I haven’t seen it yet.

One day I was going to sign in for free try and then cancel and I’m like, why don’t you wait until all eight episodes are up and then do it? So maybe I’ll do that this week. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow, Travel is Back.

Let’s put the pandemic behind us. Let’s get back out there. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac and on my podcast, which is called Travel Is Back, I tell you about some places I’ve been and what I’d like to do when I get there. This show, Travel Is Back is travel for regular people.

We’re not flying first class. We’re not going from Michelin Stars thirty bags in the back of the car, and maybe we’ll fly coach. We’ll grab some food on the fly. We’ll check out places like Chicago, Montreal, La Seattle, Vancouver, and occasionally somewhere more exotic like Iceland, which is awesome, Barcelona, Paris, Australia also all awesome. Travel is Back is the name of the show.

Followed for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your shows. Travel is Back.

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Featured: Kyle Kinane, Big Jay Oakerson, Rob Schneider, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Donell Rawlings

What’s in This Episode

• Kyle Kinane releases ‘Shocks and Struts’ special on YouTube with 15 commercial breaks
• Big Jay Oakerson drops ‘Dog Belly’ special April 5th on YouTube, executive produced by Ari Shaffir
• Rob Schneider announces comedy special coming to Fox Nation
• Trump indictment for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels sparks comedy reactions
• Ricky Gervais announces North America tour dates
• Jimmy Carr announces US tour dates starting October 11th
• Donell Rawlings interview discusses path to comedy and Helium Comedy Club performances

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel said, for the first time in the history of this country, an American president has been indicted for his role in paying hush money to a porn star. Although in fairness, that’s a pretty narrow window. Like when Grover Cleveland was president, porn stars were very hard to come by.

Still, it’s historic, and it’s funny. It’s very very funny. Jimmy Fallon cracked me up with this. When she heard Stormy Daniels was like, Oh, so this is what it feels like to be satisfied. Mark Norman tweeted, wife, are you watching porn?

Me? Ah? No, I’m doing research on the woman who brought down Trump. Kyle Kneen has released his special Shocks and Struts on YouTube. I’ll tell you about it in a second.

But I looked at the MBD and Kyle, I get that you gotta make money. I get it. I want to make money off my podcast. I’m with you, bro, But guess how many commercial breaks there are in a fifty nine minute and fifty six second special. Guess how many breaks?

Fifteen come on? That’s every four minutes. Bro, I just brow twice. What’s with the broad today? Suddenly I’m Pete Koreeli Bro Bro.

Fifteen commercials come on the laugh Button, writes, Shocks and Struts is a manifestation of the comedian returning to stand up comedian after the pandemic, where he bought a van and hit the road. To quote Jehovah’s witness his bits around the country. He stopped on a stage in Salt Lake City to report about his recent travels around the nation. He takes to the sky reporting about pilots not being intimidated by these switches in the cockpit, hits the hotel buffet’s, lands on a cruise ship, compares Joshua Treat to the Kardashians, and addresses the burnout he’s feeling as a fan of science. Shocks and Struts with fifteen commercial breaks, directed by fellow comedian Jonah Ray, available on YouTube now.

Big Jay Okerson has a special about to drop. This one will be out on his YouTube page April fifth, his executive produced by Ari Shaffer. Nicely comedians helping other comedians out. He released a trailer and I’m going to share some of it with you right now. And I have to be very careful.

This true earlier was really really naughty. I wanted to share more of it, but you know a lot of like naughty words and swear words and stuff. So here’s the part I can play. I’ve been called racist a lot. I’ve been called a Nazi a lot too, probably not the most, but maybe the most of any other Jewish person in history.

You think that means you can’t be a Nazi. I’m like, yeah, it’s like the whole thing. Man. It’s Big Jay Ookerson’s dog Belly on YouTube. April fifth, Jay spent the weekend and spoke Ken and The Spokesman did an interview with him, writing it’s not surprising that blue is Big Jay Okerson’s favorite color.

The veteran comic is a blue collar as fellow humorous Jeff Foxworthy and Ron White, Big Jay said, That’s just how it was for me ever since I can remember. It was all blue collar. Spoken is a blue collar city, and I grew up blue collar. He’s from Rochester, New York. They understand what I’m talking about.

I get them, the guys in flannel and the truckers who show up from my shows. They get where I’m coming from, which is a gritty environment which you work hard. I’d take pride being a blue collar comic. He’s not only blue collar, he’s blue like Jeff Foxworthy. Big Jay says it all starts with Andrew Dice Clay.

My stepfather showed me Dice is special. The Dice Man cometh when I was twelve years old, and then opened my eyes and mind. I bet it, Sure did. Jay was planning to talk about outrageous things, but added, I have to watch what I talk about. Is he worried about being canceled.

No, he said he wanted everyone who came out to the show to be able to watch his special, so he was going with new material over the weekend. Apparently the special talks about the trouble Big Jay got into what’s that Well? Back in twenty twenty one at a show in suburban Philadelphia, a disorderly fan was verbally crushed by Big Jay. However, the heckler’s brother crept up on stage and pulled out the stool which Big Jay was sitting on, and chaos ensued. Big Jay said, a drunk lunatic started all this trouble after I destroyed his sister.

It was unreal. I got on top of him, but my fans pulled me away and said, don’t get in trouble for this. We got this. The guy was arrested that night. Made for a crazy story.

That’s good for the special. Big Jay, known for his crowd work, said, what’s so much sting is the most seemingly boring couple is more interesting than you would think. If the most straight laced couple allows me to ask a few questions, I promise you I’ll get to the weird that no one knows about. I get people in the audience to reveal strange things since I’m open about what’s not about me my self. Deprecation leads to some interesting revelations from fans.

A quick note from Fox News, Rob Schneider is teasing an upcoming comedy special with Fox Nation that’ll follow up the Rosanne Bar special. It seems like Fox Nation is into the stand up comedy. There no other details about that available at the time of this recording. Ricky Gervai is touring North America. That’s pretty cool.

He added a show in New York City May first. That’s intriguing. I haven’t seen Ricky in person. I might want to do that La on May sixth, New York on June thirtieth, New York on July first, but that one was already sold out, so you’ll have to scalp or whatever you do. Toronto and Laval, Quebec.

Jimmy Carr also announced some US dates. Was pretty busy for Friday. All this news I’m telling you about, I hadn’t parked or saved. This all was fresh news on Friday. Jimmy is one of my favorites.

I haven’t seen him in a while. The closest he’s getting to me is Philadelphia, which isn’t too bad of a drive. But let’s say US dates looks like it starts October eleventh, Cleveland, Ohio. If you’re in Cleveland, go see Jimmy Carr. He’s at the Mimi Ohio Theater.

Cleveland. Listeners would be at the Philmore in Detroit on the twelfth, Chicago on the thirteenth, Minneapolis on the fourteenth. Wow, back to back to back to back. A lot of time on the bus there. Jimmy November eighth, Boston November eleventh, Philadelphia November twelfth, DC, Then Atlanta, Hollywood, Florida, San Diego, La Mesa, Arizona, Denver, Portland, one in Oregon, Seattle and finishing up December sixteenth, and San Francisco.

I highly recommend you see Jimmy car if he comes to your town, or perhaps a nearby city like Philadelphia.

Speaking of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Weekly spoke to don El Rawlings.

Boy, that was a great segue there, John, Did you plan that? Not at all? Donell said, I was never very good in math and the kind of subjects it takes to make a good architect, so I figured I had to try something else, meaning comedy. Said I was able to make my mom laugh all the time. In fact, she once told me not to make her laugh anymore unless I was getting paid for it.

Rawlings is at the Helium Comedy Club April fourth through the sixth. He said, I was never the class clown. Instead, I would consider myself the class entertainer. Hey, you know this woman, Kara would She sponsors the show from time to time, perhaps even right now. She’s got that book The Power of the Streak.

She was gilting me out. So I was emailing with her on the side about some commercial copy, and I’m like, you know, I’m on a negative streak. She’s like why, and I’m like, well, I had the colin oscopy. So like, colin oscopy prep is not good for working out. You definitely don’t want to take that stuff and go on a long run.

Believe me, you want to stay close to home, move on John. Then day of colin oscopy you’ve got the anesthesia. You’re not getting work out. Then then the next day you actually have to do some work and record some podcasts. I mean, you can only record so many of these in advance.

So I got on this negative streak and she’s like, you better run on Friday.

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And then I woke up on Friday.

I was like Karen would and the power of the streaks is gonna annoy me and be like, you’re not running. So I didn’t run, Carrowood. I did do forty minutes spin class while catching up on podcast because my phone is always blowing up. Anyway, Now I’m on a streak of one day or maybe where you are on Monday. Maybe I’m up to four days.

Now. The key here is you want to get on a street because once you get on a streak, you don’t want to break the streak. So Carrollwood wrote this book The Power of the Streak. It answers the question how to stay consistent with exercise and keep you motivated over time. If you want, I can shame you on the podcast.

I could do that. If you struggle the working out rarely Power of the Streak. Grab the book, will you? Let’s available on all formats. You get an Amazon, Barnes and Noble Online.

There’s an audio book. If you don’t feel like using your eyeballs, you get the audiobook on iTunes audible. If you’re even lazier than that, well, if you’re even lazier than that, I’m sure the Power of the Streaks gonna work for you. But hey, give it a shot. Instagram at the Power of the Streak.

Twitter Power of the Streak. Oh but wait, carros up to other things too. She’s got a substack. You’re like, what’s a substack. It’s like a website new letter thing.

So hers is called knock it Off. It’s a free blog slash newsletter on substack. It’s about life, motherhood and all things in between. Why don’t you go to site? Sign up for free?

You like free, don’t you? Yeah? Knock it off dot substack dot com and knock it off one word substack dot com. Thank you Karawood for guilding me in a doing forty minutes of spin. User one dollar hit me up on Twitter.

One dollar came in peace and I’m like, you’re right, I will clean this up. Thank you for listening, one dollar, one dollar wrote, Mark Meron didn’t say he doesn’t like Tool. He said it’s not the soundtrack of his life because you have to find it as a teed. Excellent point, Mark, if you want to come on and rate me for an hour, feel free. I’m also willing to fight Mark Meron in the octagon.

So far, Joe Rogan has not taken me up on this, but Mark Marin also has a very popular podcast. I’ll fight you too. Let me know. Maybe you’re mad that I said you didn’t like Tool, and you want to toss me around, I’ll do it here. Remember that like TV channel decades, the one I don’t know.

Maybe your parents watch one of those channels that shows old shows. Well, they’ve rebranded. It’s now called catchy Comedy. It’s probably like Channel ninety seven in on your UHF till they still have UHF. There was never Channel ninety seven anyway, you know what I’m saying, anyway, I wanted to look at the lineup.

You’re ready, Here’s what’s on catchy comedy. Six am, Full House, six thirty Full House, seven Full House, seven thirty Full House. So if you like full House, get up early. Eight o’clock Brady Bunch, eight thirty Brady Bunch, nine o’clock, Family Affair, nine thirty, The Donna Reed Show, ten o’clock Carol Burnett, then two episodes of The Lucy Show, then two episodes of I Love Lucy one o’clock. You only get one Mary Tyler Moore Show, but you get Rhoda right after.

Then two Livernard Shirley’s, Two Mama’s Families, won the Love Boat, two odd Couples, Good Times at six, Sanford and Son at seven, on the Family at eight, Night Court at nine, Dick Vandyke at ten o’clock coming out at night Court. Yeah, And then at eleven o’clock cheers should you put a night Court? And cheers back to back Wood. Oh, I know I’m in the basement. Midnight Taxi, twelve thirty am, The Bob Newhart Show one o’clock New Heart.

The Age has been recommending shows you go see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival one of them, Jordan Gray. Jordan says one advantage in being a transgender comedian is there are loads of tired old subjects he can give a new twist, like leaving the toilet seat up to most wives would be annoying, but to a transgender woman almost a thoughtful gesture. That’s a great joke. Jordan says being a trans woman isn’t her big topic, but she thinks audiences are more comfortable if she addresses it. Jordan says, I always say if I had a nose in the middle of my forehead and didn’t mention it, people would be sitting there the whole time going just mention the nose.

At a recent show, she picked on a heterosexual couple in the audience and asked them if they had considered a threesome with a trans person, because I’ve got something for everyone. Jordan Gray’s show is called Is It a Bird? At Melbourne Town Hall through April twenty third. Let’s take a quick look at a couple shows at the Melbourne Festival. On Tuesday, Alas Phillips pretends to be on tropical holiday for fifty minut It’s a nice picture of a lease holding a drink being served in a coconut I haven’t had a coconut drink, and it’s probably maybe the eighties nineties, and spent a minute last Phillips is going on tropical holiday and you’re invited because oh boy, we could all use a nice tropical holiday right now.

It’s her treat and it’s also so fine. Really, it’s a humid clump of sketch, comedy, clowning and general chaos. They’re snorkeling, speed dating and even a fabulous investment opportunity. That’s one, not a scam. That sounds like a good time.

I love the titles of these shows. Freddy McManus’ show is called Freddy McManus is Stoppable. Freddy McManus was a standout performer from a young age, singing country music as the frontman and a boymand. He’s since scaled similar heights in comedy, from touring the country to receiving a ha ha ha from someone who usually only messages ha ha. That’s a great copy.

Following a personal setback, he’s been stopped in his tracks. So in this show, a man with no equestrian experience, we’ll try to get back on the horse. Theater Travels called the show a punchy set packed full of laughter. I love the discri All right, let’s do one more. Daniel’connell’s show is called I’m Always Sore.

Not much description here other than it’s a brand new show, although the Adelaide Advertiser said this is definitely the show you’ll need after a long day, a place where you can sit back, relax and giggle away into the night. The Age said fifty five minutes of exquisitively judged middlebrow Australian humor. Not sure this show is being marketed the best. I want to thank you guys. A couple of things.

One on the Facebook group, I’ve been doing some very very light research. I was listening to another podcast and they did this thing with five questions you should ask your audience, and I’m like, that makes sense to me. So I’ve just been pulling the listeners and seeing what you’re saying questions about was the show too long and too sure or whatever. It seems like most of you are happy with it. I mean, I imagine if you’re in the Facebook group you don’t hate the show.

That would be crazy.

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And also the numbers for March were very strong.

It’s hard to compare of different months, so year to year, March to March was way up. But along the way things will happen like the slap which actually spiked last marches and numbers, or you know, Dave Chappelle something something, but March up over February and March over March of last year. So thank you very much for listening every day. Tell a friend, and I do want to acknowledge that political satirist Mark Russell passed away Thursday last week. He was ninety years old.

You know this guy. He had like a Stephen Colbert kind of look and would play the piano and sing political songs. If you’re kind of my age, you remember him. He was best known for his PBS specials. He was a member of the National Comedy Center Advisory Board.

Fellow member John Stewart said Mark Russell was a DC institution who did the hardest thing a comic can do, relentlessly and righteously mock his neighbors. In nineteen ninety four, Russell supported Two Live Crew. You didn’t think I was going to say that. When the hip hop group was sued for copyright infringement for their parody of Roy Orberson’s song Oh Pretty Woman. Russell and two Live Crews frontman Luther Campbell successfully argued before the US Supreme Court that song parodies were protected under fair use.

As Recently, his last October, Mark Russell took on issues including the January sixth insurrection Byron Allen, who worked with Russell on Real People, which ran on NBC from seventy eighty four. Remember that show If you’re my age, that’s where you know Mark Russell from Bryan and Allen called him a brilliant man and an American treasure. Mark Russell passed away age ninety. That’s your comedy news for today. Hello, I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, the podcast that delves into the daily drama of the British royal family.

These short daily episodes cover the latest news and scandals involving the likes of Prince Harry, Megan, Mark, Kate, Middleton, King Charles and the rest. From back room sources to public controversies, We’ve got you covered. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just curious about the Royals, Palace Intrigue is the perfect podcast for you. So join us as we explore the lives, legacies and dramas of the British monarchy. Subscribe now and never this an episode of Palace Intrigue.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Paul Smith, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Gnomes Warman, Chris Gethard

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s Comedy Mothership club focusing on comedian earnings over profit
• Comedian Paul Smith training for MMA fight to benefit Liverpool charity Weapons Down Gloves Up
• Jim Gaffigan on working clean comedy for CBS Sunday morning commentaries
• Sarah Silverman guest hosting The Daily Show on Comedy Central
• Former dangerous McDonald’s at Sixth and Third in NYC becoming new Comedy Cellar location
• Chris Gethard developing off-Broadway show about fatherhood at Minetta Lane Theater

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac, Is it true that you do a lot of Joe Rogan stories because putting Joe Rogan in the episode titles helps the numbers. Yes, it is true. Joe Rogan said about his new club, the whole idea is to make it the best possible place for stand ups to perform. He was talking about the club with his guest Andrew Schultz. Schultz said, what Joe’s trying to say is the whole idea is for him to make no money.

It’s for comedians to make all the money. Rogan said, Look, my only goal is at the club break even. I don’t care if him makes money. I make a lot of month. I don’t worry about money.

Comedian Paul Smith is into the mental health benefits of MMA training Ahead of his Octagon fight with a reality TV star Jeeke Quickenden. Paul Smith says it’s been really good for my head. Smith and Quickenden will square off in Manchester in a fight promoted by Octagon. Smith was motivated to swap telling jokes for taking punches when he realized it could benefit Liverpool based charity Weapons Down loves Up. Smith told Talk Sport, I’m a big fan of MMA and I’ve kind of dabbled in a little bit and more of a spectator.

I’ve loved it for years. I get asked to do fights all the time. I don’t know why. The charity I’m doing it for is Weapons Down, Gloves Up. The promotion offered me good money and I said no to it.

Then a few events happened in Liverpool where some kids were killed senselessly. I was reading about the charity and I thought, if I can do it for a good cause, sure, why not? He said. I’m about two months into the journey now and it’s done wonders for my mental health, which was just a lovely side effect to it all. It’s been really good for my head, especially getting deep into the tour.

I’m on the road all the time, and I’ve been able to maintain training and stay disciplined with the diet and stuff. I’d recommend to anyone if you’re struggling with mental health, get into an MMA gym. Do you think they’re gonna be these scary places full of dead, aggressive people, but they’re full of lovely people. It’s really support if you get in here and you end up chatting to them like therapists. It’s just mad.

This is a one off. I’m never doing it again. I love my job. I don’t need to do this. I’ve got massive respect for people to do this for a living.

It’s something you’ve got to be fully in. It’s taken that much of my life. I’ll do it once, but I wouldn’t make it my whole life because I’m having to sacrifice a lot to do this. I really want to change my Instagram profile to undefeated professional MMA fighter. That reminds me.

I recently challenged Joe Rogan to fight in the ring anytime, anywhere. Joe, My challenge stays out there. Are you afraid? Jim Gaffigan talked about his Sunday commentaries on CBS, and Jim said, my son, who’s seventeen, when I do these CBS Sunday commentaries, he’s like, you’ve got to come at it more hard, and I’m like, it’s a Sunday morning show, and he goes, yeah, coming it harder. You got to shock people.

And I’m like, no, it’s not necessary. People are drinking coffee and I’m talking about an observation about receipts. I don’t need to shock them. Jim talked about working clean, said, the great irony is that, of course I curse in everyday life when I’m dealing with my children, but I don’t on stage. Anyone who’s a parent knows that when you’re at work, you’re not sitting there cursing.

But if you’re trying to deal with the twelve year old Will refuses to wear her winter coat, you get frustrated. My journey to being or I think understanding that I’m a clean comedian, it was a journey. I tried a lot of different types of comedy. Some of my favorite comedy is filthy or reverend or shock based, but it has to be authentic. I’m from a small town in Indiana where I’m from.

If you stubbed your toe, you could curse people. It would understand that. But you’re talking about Burger king, Why are you cursing? Nashville see And asked Sarah Silverman about her time hosting The Daily Show. She said, I had experienced things like that before.

I’ve hosted shows and stuff, but the immediacy of it being daily was an incredible experience. Just how jokes can’t be precious. She can’t spend too much time. The producer Jen Flanz is there when you’re working on the content for the show, and if we spend too much time on a joke, she’s like, keep it, leave it, move on. And it was so cool.

I love the feeling of immediacy. You know, it’s a completely different approach to than material because you want it to be as good as it can be, but you also have to just move on, keep going. All right, Sarah, who would you like to see guest hoe? She said, Oh, my gosh, I don’t know so many people. I think Tignet Sara would be hilarious.

Yeah, I could see that working. I’d like to see what Zach Galafanakis does with it. I mean, there’s so many people, so many comics that’d be fun. Chelsea Handler did a phenomenal job the week before me. She can do that in her sleep.

It’s just so fun to watch the headline in the New York Post. New York City loses one of its greatest three am fight venues. Yeah, the McDonald’s on the corner of sixth Avenue and West Third closed last year, but it’s got a new owner. Gnoms Warman. He’s the owner of the Comedy Seller.

He purchased the building for seven point three million dollars. Apparently the Comedy Seller’s doing okay, he tell The New York Post he plans to open a third comedy club. He owns the Comedy Seller and the Village Underground around the corner. He says the new place will have a similar vibe to the Comedy Seller, although it’ll be a little more theatrical because we’re gonna have a mezzanine there. He’s at the comedy industry is alive more than ever, and he needed to find a way to solve the overflow problem.

He likes the location. It’s right across the street from the subway. It’s freestanding. There’s not an issue with tenants who are inconvenienced by the club or by the lines, things like that. So I bought it with an eye and a half towards my children’s future, not just mine.

As an aside, that particular McDonald’s was quote once known as the injury at your own risk emporium, a fast food with a history of fast moving fists and not a sober person in sight. Former McDonald’s was considered one of the most violent in the city, suggesting that there were even more violent in McDonald’s in New York City. Z you in port to its location surrounded by bars and their belligerent patrons. First of all, when you’re in the village, you hit the grace. Papaya is the grace Papaya long gone.

I haven’t hung out in the villa since the nineteen nineties. It’s possible that it closed. I think it did close. And like most things on this podcast, it all comes back to Adam Sandler. Why in the movie Big Daddy, one of the Adam Saidler great films, Adam Sandler yells out his iconic line, will somebody get this kid?

A happy meal? Took place in that McDonald’s. How about that? Huh. Chris Gethard is doing an off Broadway show at the Minetta Lane Theater this weekend.

It’s called A Father and the Son Sun till Broadway World is inspiration was well, like any comedian, it was a kid. There’s gonna be jokes that show up in the joke notebook about it, and I had a few of those along the way. I was doing them on stage and workshopping stuff. I was driving to a show with another great New York comedian, Martin Nobrono. He was with me in the car.

We were driving to a show together. We were having conversation, not about jokes, not about our aco, talking about getting bullied as a kid, and I was telling him, how am I going to wrap my head around that? If it shows up my kid’s life, am I gonna flip out? And he started asking me about it, and I told him a story about this thing my dad did one night and he was like, dude, you have to tell that on stage. And I was like, no way, that story’s really dark, and he was like, you gotta try it, man, it’s pretty incredible.

So he tried it out in an outdoor show in Massachusetts at a place called Ralph’s Rock Diner. Chris said, if there’s any place where I can see if I can get away with it, let me try and hear in this parking lot in Massachusetts, The Hollered Reporter caught up with Bill Lawrence. He’s the brains behind ted Lasso and Scrubs and a bunch of other things you probably like, and they asked him about ted Lasso spinoffs. His answer, if you hear anybody hedging it’s just because everybody’s super comfortable with the fact that Jason gave up a lot to move his family in his life to London. It’s really rough.

The truth is he’ll come out of the smoke of cutting this show and doing all this stuff, and if he feels like doing more, he’ll do more, and if he doesn’t, he won’t. I’ll tell you I’ve never met a dude less motivated by dollar signs. I mean, I’m a producer. I’d be doing ted Lasso cartoons already. If you’d like to support the show, there are two things could do.

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This is a medium Jenny Mack. You always get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. What’s going on? I clicked the wrong box. I was so sad.

When I went to the national Donus chain. They were like, here’s your medium, and I was like, what buy meacoffee? Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. The Milburn Comedy Festival is dark on Monday, so we won’t do that. Segment today from Yahoo.

Comedian Al Murray has revealed he gets targeted on social media by companies selling hair loss cures. You see, Al Murray has this comedy persona, the pub Landlord, and the pub landlord is bald. However, Al Murray not bald. He said, I have a full out of here. They always say have you lost weight?

I get sent things on Instagram baldest peers and stuff, but I don’t need it. He was asked of his alter ego. Do you ever feel like you’ve created a monster you can’t escape? Murray said, I do want to look in the mirror and I’ve cut my hair off. Yeah.

The host was incredulous, you actually cut your hair off. You don’t wear a bald thing. Apparently not. How did the pub landlord come to be? It happened one night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Murray said, I did a show with Harry Hill and it came on put all the bits together and it didn’t work. So the night we got to the Edinburgh Fringe, we were in a bar and I said, why don’t we just say that the MC didn’t turn up and the barman has offered a fill in and he went whatever, And I went on and did the Pub Landlord and it worked, so the next day I cut my hair off. The Pub Landlord went on to become soap popular that he hosted three series of Saturday night entertainment shows Al Murray’s Happy Hour on ITV. Murray said fans are always surprised when they see him with the air. That is your comedy news for today.

Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow. Did you know you can name a cockroach after your ex lover and have it fed to the animals at the zoo? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with five Good News Stories. It’s a podcast twice a week where I tell you five good news stories, five fluffy stories.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Trevor Wallace, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donald Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliffe, Jim Norton, Carrot Top, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Cameron Haynes, He Huang, Nick Mason, Joshua Jack, Ray O’Leary

What’s in This Episode

• The Roast of Bert Kreischer with Whitney Cummings as producer
• Carrot Top supports Florida Atlantic in NCAA tournament
• Joe Rogan teaches Andrew Schulz bowhunting and archery
• Baltimore Banner profiles local stand-up comedians (Vante, Stavros Hawkias, Smurf)
• He Huang performs at Milburn International Comedy Festival with new show ‘Bad Bitch’
• Dice Paper Roll D&D comedy podcast live shows at Milburn festival
• Joshua Jack’s murder mystery comedy panel game show at Comedy Republic

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Meg hanging out in the basement with the door closed, watching only fans. What are you doing today? Is the rose of Bert Gracier. Your producer is Whitney Cummings.

Your panelists include Trevor Wallace, Rachel Finstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donald Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliffe, At Jim Norton, Som Sagora, Miranda Cosgrove and Kesh I’m looking at a trailer for it. Here you can find the trailer on the laugh button. And my it looks trashy. Maybe you should just watch the final four instead. You know who is cheering for Florida Atlantic carrots Op, Yes, carrots Hop Scott Thompson, a nineteen eighty nine graduate of the College of Business.

He majored in marketing. Wait, so carrots Hop and I have the same degrees, carrots Op said. All these young kids, all these even younger kids that might want to aspire to play basketball or baseball or football or any sport or anything they dream of getting involved in, they can see what happens right in front of their eyes. So you have no idea. What an inspiration not only for the city of Boca Rats own and the coledge of FAU.

But for the country, because the country he watches this tournament, the world watches this tournament. He also had nice things to say about coach Dusty May, which don’t worry my brain translated into Dusty slay, which would be a good bit. But of Dusty May, the coach, he’s the motivator. He’s the one who keeps all the kids together, keeps them focused, keeps them believing and what they do believe. Johnny Mac, You’re not gonna keyword stuff Joe Rogan into the title again, are you man?

Cut it out from sports Kitia. Joe Rogan’s friendship with world famous bow hunter Cameron Haynes was the inspiration behind Joe Rogan starting archery himself. Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and decided he would try archery. Schultz initially struggled to keep the bow stable before miraculously firing off a perfect shot at the first time of asking. He attributed his success to Joe Rogan’s instructions.

He said, get yourself a good mentor if you want to learn how to shoot elk. Rogan said, you got it right in the fingals that’s an amazing thing. You should probably quit now. The Baltimore Banner wrote for this week’s column, I’m highlighting a few Baltimore area comics that have mostly gained followings from giving people consistent at belly aching glass through social media, and I was like, all right, I’d like to learn about Baltimore comedians. First up, Von t v o Ntee West Baltimore native Vante has been a constant source of locally informed laughter for close to a decade.

Most of Vanti’s funniest moments come from jokes about the workplace, such as trying to stay focused while in the middle of a breakup or being rewarded pizza parties for backbreaking work relationships, including men being overwhelmed by spending significant time with their children while mom’s at with friends, and the dynamics of the Baltimore DC relationship. Stavros hawkias seeing a lot of buzz on him. He grew up in Baltimore’s Greek Town. His superpower is his ability to make fun of people in the audience, taking simple prompts and turning them into many routines. He lures people in with simple questions like what do you do for a living, and if the answer seems to be a little too high brow to be real, he hilariously interrogates them until the truth comes out.

Smurf SMI RF Smurf’s Instagram comedies for the hyperlocal, more specifically black millennial slash older gen Z Baltimore natives. He makes fun of the Harvest Fair market in Hamilton, the local Amazon warehouse, and many more local references. In one video, he lamb based the Wendy’s on Harford Road, saying, what is the pointing I having a drive through? When I can’t get my food? When I drive through it, I gotta come in.

The author adds the renting hits home for anyone that has gone there, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have to pull over and wait for your food. They really do take forever. I hope you enjoy the deep dive stuff that I mix in, especially on the weekends. I don’t want everything to just be Joe Rogan, Jim Gaffkin every day. I like diving in on stuff.

The Age has been recommending people you go see at the Milburn International Comedy Festival. One of them is Chinese born comedian He Huang. I’ve talked about her before, remember her routine about being an unmarried, dead Chinese woman of a certain age. That one it went viral, she became the target of nasty online comments. Wang is thirty two now based in Sydney, and said those jokes have been tested again and again in different crowds of different countries, so I know the joke was working, but I know it’s going to be such a blow up.

It’s insane how heavily censored and sensative people are in China. Anything about China just makes them so triggered. People left some pretty extreme comments, but I think some of them were hired by the government. There’s a job for that, at attacking people of a different view from the mainstream propaganda. Her new show Bad Bitch is about my life as an international student, a little bit about language differences, cultural differences in family.

I’ll talk about how I figure out sexual liberation. I’m not sure people talk about that, but for Asians it’s a typical topic we talk about, she says. In China, they don’t talk about sex. There’s no sex ad in Chinese schools. We just have biology class.

The only penis I’ve ever seen before I went outside of China was a cross section penis and a biology textbook. Thanks for that information, he Huang, Bad bitch at the Victoria Hotel, a Casia room through April twenty third.

All right, let’s see what’s at the festival on Sunday.

As discuss yesterday, a lot of these shows will repeat, so I will scroll down and see what catches my eye. Dice Paper Roll, D and D live Dice paper roll and friends at the Chinese Museum’s Silk Room. There’s some FAQs. What is it? Thank you?

Dungeons and Dragons is a role playing game where players are going we know that what is a dice paper roll? Dice paper role has grown into a snarling, spitting, swearing behemoth of the D and D podcast scene, one hundred fifty plus episodes, thousands of downloads, and selld out live shows. Each show will be joined by a special guest comedian. Oh wait I see on Saturday, April eighthy guest comedian is Nick Mason. That’s probably the guy from a podcast called The Weekly Planet, which is one of my favorites.

If you like pop culture and like Marvel movies and Star Wars and that stuff. Weekly Planet is a high recommend one of my go to podcasts, So maybe we won’t go see that on Sunday. We’ll see it on Saturday, April eighth, when Nick Mason is there. Joshua Jack show is called the Big Spooky Murder Mystery. That’s at Comedy Republic.

Josh Jack has been murdered. Terrible news. He was so good at comedy and getting murdered sounds awful. But on the upside, four of his funniest friends are gathering to try and solve the murderer live on stage. It’s a brand new type of panel game show.

Three comedians are innocent, one is not. Strap on your detective hats and join them as they investigate and terrogate and todight each other and their efforts to catch the killer. That sounds like a good time. Tickets are twenty five bucks. Divide that by two thirds for American dollars, some being lazy math eighteen bucks or so.

Ray O’Leary’s show is called Everything Funny, all the Time, Always. That’s at the Chinese Museum. There’s even a little banner here with a picture of a flame and the words selling fast, and it says here I can play clip would you like to hear the clip? Let’s play the clip. My friend asked me if I wanted to wake up early and go see the sunrise of that was something that would interest me, And I see that sounds like something that would interest a moth because it’s just so early in the morning.

You know, there’s a reason that the only people awake to see the sunrise. A Instagram influences and myth edicts and as I’ve been mentioning, there’s like one hundred shows a night the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And I share this on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group the other day. It’s an article from Esquire magazine back in two thousand and two. It is titled Johnny Carson, the man who retired.

The author Bill Zimmy passed away recently, and I learned about the article from the press Box podcast who was talking about Bill’s passing, and I’m a big Carson fan. Back in two thousand and two, Bill wrote, there are nights Johnny will tell you that he finds himself back where he was, back where we had him before we could not have him anymore. Johnny will say I still believe it or not have dreams in which I am late for the tonight show. It’s a performer’s nightmare. Apparently I’ve checked in with other people and occurs to them frequently, and it’s fright because I’m not prepared.

It showed time and I’m going on. I’ve got nothing to say. Jesus. I wake up in a sweat. It’s now been ten years since I’ve been done with the job, but I’ll be back there.

It was two thirds of my adult life, remember, and people at the show will be as real and fresh and current as ever in the dream, And all of a sudden, I’m having to go on. I’m not prepared. You revisit the whole thing. You think you’re on the air, and you’re not ready. You hit the wall.

I’ll jump. In my recurring dream is the show that I used to produce at w R Radio in the nineteen nineties. I will have the recurring dream that I’m screening the phone calls for the show, and I’m back at Studio three and adamir Hile sitting on my right and doctor Joey Brown’s across the glass, and no matter how hard I try, I cannot come up with a caller that’s good enough to put on the air, and I will have this dream every three months or so. I haven’t worked on that show in twenty five plus years. It still pops out, so I feel you, Johnny Carson.

The article then talks about all the Leno Letterman drama, and Johnny said, can you believe all that awful stuff? It’s just ridiculous. He laughed and was amused by the shambles left in his wake. The author kitted him about the movie The Late Shift, in which Rich Little played Johnny Carson. Johnny rolled his eyes as only he can, thus implying volumes as only he could.

Carson said, I think I left at the right time. You’ve got to know when they get the hell off the stage, and the timing was right for me. The reason I really don’t go back or do interviews is because I just let the work speak for itself. On his four thousand, five hundred and thirtieth night, his last one, he left the air and he climbed into the clouds for his instruction. Hey helicopter picked him up just minutes after he had tendered his on camera resignation.

This allowed him to avoid the media. Ed McMahon said when Johnny finished off, he went, he grabbed his wife, Alex walked right by me without a look. He was so intent. I’m getting the hell out of there now. One of the things about Johnny is you have no memory of old feeble Johnny Carson.

He walked off and you never saw him again. He did two quick appearances on Letterman Show, where I don’t think he even spoke, and he did a thing to honor Bob Hope, which was his last monologue. But other than that, you didn’t see Johnny. So you don’t remember old feeble Johnny. The man went out on top.

And that’s your comedy news fort to day. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Tom Brady, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Jim Gaffigan, Bert Kreischer, Leah Thomas, Mark Strong, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Schaeffer

What’s in This Episode

• AI-generated Tom Brady stand-up special by DUDECI
• Joe Rogan comments on transgender athlete Leah Thomas
• Roast of Bert Kreischer on Only Fans
• Murder Mystery 2 Netflix release with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston
• Jim Gaffigan touring Asia and the Philippines
• Baroness Claire Fox university talk canceled over Ricky Gervais trans joke
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival coverage

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The Shark Deck. Hello, I’m Jenny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. An AI podcast called DUDECI got a lot of attention. They created an hour long Tom Brady stand up special using whatever technology they used, and it’s not good. It’s really terrible.

It’s unlistenable. Again, I get what the technology is. It’s not like actual Tom Brady did stand up and you’re sourcing it. And I use AI voices sometimes here on this podcast. If I make a mistake, and I’ll tell you you can replace a word, you’ll never notice.

A phrase you probably won’t notice, but if I go any longer than that, you will definitely notice. For example, I can illustrate here in the next sentence, I never said the word purple. Ready, this color is purple. Now Here is the AI voicing that entire sentence his color is purple, so you can hear the difference there. So let’s listen to a brief snippet of this Tom Brady because I’m telling you I was gonna play more of it, but it’s so terrible you’re all going to tune out.

Dudze and thank you everyone for coming out tonight. Wow, it feels great to be back in front of a crowd. But I gotta say, even though this is a much much, much, much much much smaller crowd than I’m used to, this is far more nerve racking. On the football field, I got to wear shoulder pads, a helmet. Hell, I had five three hundred and fifty pound men that were paid millions of dollars to protect me.

But up here on this stage, I only got one thing. You know what, it is a midlife crisis. Actual Tom Brady has no intention of doing stand up at the Roast of Tom Brady. Oh well, that reminds me the roast of Bert Kreisher tomorrow on Only Fans April first. Yes, the Roast of Burt Kreisher features Trevor Wallace, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donal Rollingstony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Segura, Miranda Cosgrove, and Kesha Johnny mckew.

You forcing Joe Rogan into the podcast again so you can use him in the headlines to goose your download numbers. Maybe. Joe Rogan on his podcast this week said this trans athlete thing effing blows my mind. How many people go along with this? The topic at a hand was Leat Thomas the swimmer, Rogan said, swimming.

I’m I mean that Leah Thomas is still the number one swimmer in the world. And it’s a biological male quoting rogue in their period. End of discussion. It’s madness. And not only that hasn’t even gotten penis removed and has sex with women.

Apparently the whole thing is so crazy that you can call yourself a woman and then you’re a woman and like this has nothing to do with trans rights. It just has to do with humans. It’s just what they’ve done all those other girls that are competing against her is just an effing crime. It’s horrible. Imagine if you’re a biological woman, You’re working your ass off, You’re fully dedicated to being the best of the best.

You’re dotting all your eyes, crossing all your teas, you’re watching your diet, you’re watching your recovery, you are effing trying. And this person who just decides they’re a woman with testosterone flowing through their body their entire life just dominates you. It’s effing maddening.

Meanwhile, the debating society at Royal Holloway University of London have c…

Why the Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley retweeted a trans joke by Ricky Gervais. The Gervas joke reference the old fashioned woman, you know, the one with wombs, the new ones we’ve been seeing lately with beards and mail parts claiming up a little bit. Well, let’s turn to brighter things. It’s a great day to be alive. Why, Johnny Mac, there’s a new Adam Saidler movie on Netflix.

Murder Mystery two on Netflix today? Clear your calendars. I mean, what else you’re gonna do? So? What’s Murder Mystery too?

On Netflix? Starring Adam Sadler about well. The film is set four years after the first film and follows Nick played by Adam Sandler, and Audrey played by Jennifer Aniston, who are now full time detectives struggling to get their private eye agency off the ground when they’re invited to celebrate the wedding of their friend, the Maharajah on his private island. I mean, how could that not be great? Just listen to that plot.

That sounds amazing. Jennifer Anniston sold Jimmy fallon when you meet back up with us, We’re not doing that great. So we get invited to a wonderful wedding of someone wonderful. We say we need a break, we need a vacation, and that’s where our mistakes happen. Jennifer Anniston described a quote nice dinner with Adam Sandler and Missus Sandler, Jackie Sadler.

This happened in Italy when shooting the first Murder Mystery film. Jennifer said. He shows up in basketball shorts, sat in basketball shorts with white piping and Nike hid hops and a turquoise valore. Izod. Sandler says, Vogue says, I look amazing like this.

Anniston says, thanks Vogue, But what are you wearing? Johnny Mac Well, I am wearing my blue Mets sweatshirt. I’m recording this on Thursday, opening day for Baseball. Gotta represent and some jeans and my Brooks running sneakers. I’m not George Clooney, but I’m also not Adam Sandler.

You know what I’m saying, Yeah, Jennifer Aniston said. Adam Saidler sometimes chimes in on her love life. If I get anything from him, it’s what are you doing? Usually based on someone I’m dating. You see, Adam is so concerned with taking care of everybody else, which she really does, and he doesn’t take care of himself.

Jen said she made Adam smoothies and provided Chinese herbs on the set to direct Adam Sandler to a healthier path. Jackie Saidler said the effort lasted about a minute. Spoiler from Mirroder Mystery Too. I know this could ruin the film for you. You’ve been warned, all right, ready?

Three two one? Well, Adam Sandler, what’s it like getting punched in the face by Mark Strong? Apparently during the film, there’s a moment where Jennifer Aniston and Mark Strong are at top the Eiffel Tower’s roombly because Adam Sandler wanted to film this in Paris, Anniston said, Adam does a lot of his own stunts, and he gets pretty beat up. I mean he actually got hit. Did he ever tell you this?

Mark Strong actually hit him in the face. You know who else is living the good life? Jim Gaffigan. Listen to this from the South China Morning Post to your home for Comedy News. They spoke to Jim Gaffigan via zoom.

Jim was on Borak. Maybe it’s Barakey anyway you know it. The resort island and the Philippines known for white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, and pretty good hotel breakfast buffets. Yes, Gavigan told the South China Morning Post, I truly love experiencing different cultures. He likes to research the culture in the history of the place I’m performing in.

It might translate to just a minute of jokes, but the audience appreciates the effort. It’s also interesting to understand the expat communities in these countries because they’re just weirdos. One way to support the show is go to Apple Podcasts. They’ll offer you the option to become a premium subscriber, so for five bucks a month. Then you can test drive this for a month for free.

You get the episodes ad free and early by early usually on the weekdays. You’ll get it the afternoon before the official release, and I tend to put the weekend episodes up on Friday morning because I almost always do those in advance. So go to Apple podcast Premium subscribe for five bucks a month. Thank you. The Age had a nice article suggesting some artists you might want to see at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

One of those comedians Sarah Schaeffer. She’s from la but when she visited Melbourne in twenty seventeen, she said, I was introduced the entire world of the solo show and the festival system. American comedy does not have that. She compared it to a domestic festival. You’ve got two days to get in a network and party and get drunk off your ass and oh my god, the stakes are high, but with the longer ones, it’s more about living somewhere for a while and being part of that city.

She first experienced Melbourne when she was invited to appear as part of the annual Headliners showcase, in which experienced international stand ups do twenty minute sets. She was incidantly enamored with Melbourne, describing it as a clean New York. Melbourne is fantastic, she said, all the different types of cuisine and art, being very walkable, amen, and the public transportation. Yeah, in downtown Melbourne, in like the Central Business district, they have hop on, hop off trolleys if you stay within the central districts. So I compare that if it were New York City, and you might not be that familiar with New York City.

Would be like if between Third Avenue and eighth Avenue and say thirty fourth Street and fifty ninth Street, Like if everything in that rectangle was free public transportation. That’s how downtown Melbourne is. You just hop on the trolley and you hop off. Great way to get around. In her new show going Up, it’s Sarah Schaeffer conducting a fake seminar and how to make it in comedy, Dah says, if Hannah Gatsby’s in the Net deconstructed comedy’s in art form, this show does something similar to comedy as a business.

Sarah Schaeffer, going up at Melbourne Town Hall, April first through the twenty third. I’m taking a look at the Saturday schedule at Melbourne. Let me just scroll down and see what titles catch from my eye. Again, most of these shows run most days, so we’re going to start to see repeats here as I do this feature every day. Michael Chamberlain’s completely Incomplete History of Australia here right.

So let’s roll back to eighteen fifty eight. Tom Wills decided to get a bunch of people to kick a ball around in what is now the car park of the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. It was intended to be a game that kept cricketers fit during the winter. What Tom didn’t realize was that his name would have been lost to history if instead of inventing Australian football he’d invented indoor cricket. The Adelaide Advertiser says, entertaining and intelligent.

This guy is funny. All right, This next one has caught my attention. Nick White’s grow up. It’s at the Theory bar. And what’s catching my attention Theory bar parentheses previously known as loop project space.

All right, let’s see what Nick White’s up to. A self described late bloomer, Nick White moved to New York City in his mid twenties to figure out who he was and where he fit in the world. Unfortunately he still doesn’t know, but his eager report his findings thus far. Nick White is a Brisbane born comedian who was met the past few years in New York City. All right, that could be interesting to me seeing Ozzie’s opinion of my home city.

Who I like this one? Brendan Wan yummy yummy chan chaw. That’s at the I see Swanston in the Nicholas building. That’s some pictures of Brendan eating some food. Here, let’s see performed by Australia’s only Chinese Australian comedian.

There’s an asterisk next to that. Yummy Yummy Cha Cha is an hour of solo sketch comedy designed to be very fun but very dumb. If you’re looking for political satsire cathartic comedy about the Chinese Australian experience or observations on modern life, this is not the show. Milk Bar magazine says, the comedic timing is undeniable. I love these little quotes they have.

All right, let’s do one more. Grace Jarvis’s show is called This is the Last Goldfish that I’m going to eat. Oh no, that’s a trades hall in the meeting room. Let’s see what Grace is up to. It’s a picture of Grace holding a poor goldfish in a bag.

Hopefully that was just you know, for the photo, and she gave the goldfish and nice home. The goldfish lived a decade or so, she said. I have collected for you my audience and anthology of all the weird things I’ve done in my life to try and make friends. Do not attempt these methods for yourself. The Age says it’s rare to see a comic making a festival debut land as many punch lines as effortlessly as Grace Jarvis.

All right, Joe Lysat has a new show on Channel four in the UK today or if you know how to use VPN technology, you know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge, say no more, ten pm Friday, UK Time, Joe hosts Late Night Lysat. He’s giving away his Lexus Hybrid as a prize. He’s also giving away other real life possessions, including all of his cutlery, his socks, and even one of his comedy awards. He said Channel four wouldn’t give us any money for prizes, and the production team have overreached and are trying to ruin me by giving away my possessions.

Genuinely, one of the things they tried to get me to give away it was my house, my actual house. I said no, but I appease them with the Alexis Hybrid. The production team are out of control. I’m essentially a hostage to this program and I want nothing to do with it. Please do not watch it, it will encourage them.

Lysat knows what it’s like to get a free car. Early in his career, Sarah Milliken gave Joe her old Nissan. She had this car and was like, do you want to have this car? And I was like yeah. But not only did she give me the car, she got its serviced and cleaned.

It was pristine. It was a real lifesaver. But then she went on the show I Lie to You and confessed she had Pete in the passenger seat. She hadn’t told Joe about that. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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