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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, JD Vance, Tim Dillon, Donald Trump

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliffe performs at Trump MSG rally with controversial material
• Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico joke controversy
• Joe Rogan discusses Trump appearance on JRE
• JD Vance appears on Tim Dillon Show
• Political comedy news coverage

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Callarogashock media. Okay, this is a bonus episode. It’s all political, and it’s all political on the Trump side. So if the political stuff’s going to tick you off, just you know, to us both a favor and skip it. The reason I’m doing the episode, Tony Hinchcliff appeared at Trump’s rally on Sunday, and this is going to make news, you know, the news Trump was on Rogan jd Vance went on Tim Dillon.

I will talk about that, but the lead story here, Tony Hinchcliff showed up at the Trump rally and did some material that is absolutely go to get some pickup. The thing in particular is this joke. I will let the words of Tony Hinchcliff speak for themselves. A lot going on, like I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah.

I think it’s called Puerto Rico. Okay, all right, okay,

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Featured: Taylor Tomlinson, Conan O’Brien, Gayle King, John Stewart, D.L. Hughley, Tim Meadows, Donnell Rawlings, Stav Halkias, Neil Brennan, Jimmy Carr, Matteo Lane

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Tomlinson pitches Conan O’Brien as dream guest for After Midnight
• Taylor Tomlinson explains the meaningless point system on After Midnight to Gayle King
• John Stewart discusses staying on The Daily Show through election season
• D.L. Hughley criticizes Elon Musk’s control of media narrative
• Tim Meadows sells Tesla to fund comedy caucus event due to Elon Musk’s Trump donations
• Donnell Rawlings discusses his Black and Mild Tour name and career journey
• Stav Halkias discusses Netflix special pursuit and industry validation on Neil Brennan’s podcast
• Jimmy Carr to host Last One Laughing UK on Amazon Prime Video
• Matteo Lane releases cookbook Your Pasta Sucks mixing recipes and autobiography

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Taylor Tomlinson has a dream guest for her show After Midnight. The dream guest is Conan O’Brien. Taylor told CBS Mornings.

I think he’s one of the funniest people on and off stage and screen. I’d love to get him on the show. Taylor says she has a lot of freedom working that show. You’re able to try new things and be weird, and our shows very weird. She explains.

They have a team of writers who prepare jokes for the guests, but the format also allows for plenty of improvised moments. Taylor says, I think people go in feeling so prepared that they feel ready to riff and do stuff off the cuff as well. Taylor was trying to explain the point system on the show. Gail King was confused until Taylor. I don’t understand the scoring system, Taylor said, and you shouldn’t.

It’s absolute nonsense. I’m giving away the points. If the points meant to anything, they wouldn’t trust me with them. It’s just me with a button. Her current tour is called Say and explains I grew up at a church, and so I have a lot to say about that, both positive and the challenges of growing up that way.

I had a lot to work through and deconstruct over the years, and I wanted people coming to other live shows to know that it was a lot about that election day Around the corner what happens with John Stewart on the other side of the election Late Night Er thinks John will stick around, pointing out that de Look is very happy behind the desk and totally in command. As they call it. The once a week arrangement seems to be working for everybody. John’s taken all this well. My feeling is this election will never end, So why would I leave?

How could I leave? I won’t be allowed to leave until we’re all ground to some sort of calcified nubs. The one thing I will say is I walked away nine years ago because I was burnt out, and I don’t feel that right now. I feel reinvigorated. Deal.

Hughlee finds that political jokes are low hanging fruit, but he had something to say about Elon musk Dl says, when you’re really, really rich, what do you buy media? And why do you buy it? Because you want to control the narrative. You want to be so rich that you tell people what to think. As for Toyter, he says, instead of X should be three ks.

Hughglee talked about reports that ex is struggling to make money. Even that tells you how much money you have and how important it is. I’ll lose money to shape a narrative. I’ll lose money to shape minds, to tell people what to think. Like he’s literally the chief of dispensing misinformation, the chief of it.

He’s ai all these kinds of things, he said, all that kind of stuff. But that’s how valuable having information is, the access to information. Tim Meadows has gotten a little more political and said it started when he sold his Tesla. Tim explains, I love that car. It was not an easy decision to go, Okay, I’m gonna get rid of the best car I’ve ever driven?

Why do he sell it? Tesla? Ceo Elon Musk and his donations to Trump’s campaign, Tim says, I just thought it’s wild that this guy can donate that much money. But when it comes down to it, he only has one vote, just like me. We’re equal in that way, so I can’t give forty million dollars or whatever it is.

But I can give something, I’m gonna try to do more than just give my limited donor amount. So he sold the car. He used that money to fund a comedy Caucus event. These days, Tim is driving my old beat up Mercedes, which both my kids drove through high school. It’s a two thousand and seven two thirty Tim As the political rhetorica’s so ugly now, I was just thinking it’d be fun to have a political night where it’s just comedy.

Donald Rawling spoke to The Chicago Defender. Donnelle explained why his tour is called the Black and Mild Tour and says it was inspired by a bit of conflict with the Chicago comedian who said my comedy wasn’t hot, calling it mild. It got me thinking, I don’t even like hot sauce as much as I used to, thanks to some digestive issues. But really it’s more about making comedy digestible. My style is sharp, but it’s something everyone can enjoy.

I’m not here to be disgusting or insulting, so I took what was meant as an insult and turned it into something that works for me. You’ll get a loud, fun performance with a diverse crowd at my shows. Gang members, regular folks, everybody. It’s become a brand that reflects my style and people love it. Donell talked about growing up in DC and said I wasn’t the biggest or most athletic kid.

Growing up, I had to find my way in other areas, and being funny became a defense mechanism. You’re out in the schoolyard. If you don’t know how to roast people, they had roast you. It was survival in a way. But honestly, I never thought about pursuing comedy as a career.

Wasn’t something I set out to do. I was a military police officer in the Air Force, and when I got out, I was waiting to become a DC police officer. I was a security guard at a grocery store when this guy who worked for a promotions company gave us free comedy show tickets. Would go just for fun. But one day people started saying I should get on stage.

The club owner challenged me to perform. Next thing, you know, I’m up there. Thirty three years later, I haven’t looked back. I never gave myself a plan b or C. I just stuck with it, stand up of all for me.

Over time, I realized it was more than just telling jokes. It was about bringing characters to life and showing different size of myself that eventually led me to acting. So no, I wasn’t one of those comedians who always dreamed of doing this. Opportunities came my way. I recognized them and went after them.

If you want a good listen, check out Stavros Hawgaiz on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast. I thought Stavros was really honest about what his career and money and what motivated him. A really thoughtful. He’d clearly done some soul searching. He told Neil.

I kind of was always working towards the Netflix special because I was an Internet guy. From first. It was just like was podcast guy, then became a clips guy, and then it was like I need one. My first TV credit is an hour long Netflix special. I never had anything else, so I was like, I need that, And once I got that, I was like, all right, you did it.

It’s funny how these things that don’t help you that much get you, like industry attention, like some list that I was well past getting my agents were like, let’s just get you on this. I was like, I’m so beyond that, but you get that, and then some executives are like, oh, I saw him on Vulture and it’s like, I’m on a list. I’ve been selling out theaters and I’m on a list like people who just started doing comedy. Jimmy Carr will host Last One Laughing at UK. It’ll be on Amazon in twenty twenty five six episodes.

Jimmy Carr says, I’m thrilled to be making Last One Laughing UK with Prime Video Shorty deliver and if it doesn’t, it will leave the fun with your neighbors. Usually when I make a TV show with ten brilliant comics, I’m expecting everyone have a bloody good laugh. But not in this series. The Last One Laughing wins. It’s a great format and it’s been a huge hit around the world.

I can’t wait to see who cracks up first. When Matteo Lane isn’t doing comedy, he’s eating pasta. He self describes as an Italian, Irish Mexican homosexual, and he brings all that experience to his new cookbook, Your Pasta Sucks. Matteo says, I started making things I knew how to make and just chatting while I would cook on camera. Then people started making my recipes.

They were sending me pictures and really letting me know that they were into it. Your Pasta Sucks is part cookbook, part autobiography. Mateo explains, I’m trying to let somebody know that if they don’t know how to do pasta, and then they’re in the cookbook section, it probably implies that their pasta sucks. And two, I’m trying to make a joke that this is a quote unquote cookbook because I’m a comedian and the book is a mix of stories and genuine recipes. It’s not Martha Stewart with eight hundred and seventy recipes, including three hundred and sixty recipes for Christini.

It’s fewer recipes, but the ones I’ve chosen are authentic to my family, both in Italy and the United States. Mateo explains the main component for eating a perfect bowl of pasta is to be eating that pasta in Rome. But if that’s not an option, it’s really about taking pasta more seriously. Pasta’s been sort of watered down as it’s traveled around the world, it’s seen as more of a fun sponge and everybody’s obsessed with the sauce. But when you go to Italy, the pasta itself is the star.

The shape of the pasta matters. You have to care about flavoring it. You want to treat cooking pasta almost like you would cooking a steak. There are a lot of little things sitting under your nose when it comes to cooking pasta that most people overlook.

Meanwhile, The Vernon Morning Star cut up with Brent but he has become a cele…

He was at a celebrity burger tasting event at the Vernon Lodge and said, I was pretty keen. I’m a big burger guy. He tried five of the twelve burgers in this year’s challenge, cutting each burger placed in front of him in half to share with a local businessman. He tried the rest of the burgers the next day before a stand up comedy show. This was all for the Golden Burger Challenge, where Vernon restaurants create a special burger with five dollars from every burger sould donated to a local charity.

Between bites, But said they’re all really good burgers, no overlap between them. Sometimes, when they’re given a lot of freedom to be creative, they can almost step outside the bounds of what a burger’s supposed to be. But these are all burgers, but they’re all very different from each other, and very And that is your comedy news for today. Are you hungry now? I am.

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, Andy Samberg, Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Stavros Halkias, Neil Brennan, Cristela Alonso, Theo Von, J.D. Vance

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Meyers Dad Man Walking HBO special and SNL memories
• Seth Meyers’ Weekend Update joke about animal cruelty makeup sex
• Lorne Michaels’ advice to Seth Meyers on late night hosting
• Seth Meyers’ top five favorite SNL characters ranking
• Stavros Halkias on overcoming anxiety about career loss on Neil Brennan’s podcast
• Cristela Alonso’s venue conflict at theater in McAllen, Texas
• Theo Von and J.D. Vance discussing cocaine on This Past Weekend podcast

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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s the meal. If you like Seth Myers, you’re gonna like today’s podcast. If you don’t like Seth Myers, hit thirty second skip, I don’t know ten twelve times. I got a lot of Seth today.

Hi, I’m Jinny Mack with your daily coming. He was Seth Meyers dad Man Walking out tonight ten pm on HBO. Yeah, they’re still doing that thing where they think I’m gonna sit around till ten o’clock and then watch the thing live. That’s over HBO. What planet are you on?

Just put it up. Seth Meyers dad Man Walking dives in a Myer’s personal life with stories about raising three children, living in New York City, and reflections on his family dynamics. Seth did like a group press conference rather than individual interviews. Walt had a recap of that. He told a story about laughing hard at SNL Table Reads.

He said, Andy Samberg wants that to meet the press sketch where Beetlejuice was filling it for David Gregory as the host. It was such a ball attempt by Andy to do his Beetlejuice impression on SNL. I laughed, very hard, and I think Lorn laughed. Not at all toughest hosting gig to kill at, he said, Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest. I thought the SPIE’s would be really tough.

But the fun thing about the SPI’s I realized that no one there actually cares if they win ANESP or not. So if you have good jokes about sports, you can crush. Where is it the Emmys? I felt a Titanus there. Dumbest weekend update joke, Seth, I will tell you the dumbest joke that definitely didn’t work.

A man in Washington State was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was makeup sex. Seth says, What I love about that’s a good joke. What I love about that joke is every time I tell it, no one groans until the punchline. So even after sex with the family dog, the audience is still like, okay, we’ll hear the man out.

The delayed groan is why I will never tire of telling that very dumb punchline. Best Lorne Michael’s advice, Seth. When I started late night, he said, it’ll take you eighteen months to figure it out. I thought that was too much time, but he was one hundred percent right. I think it was almost eighteen months to the day that I realized I shouldn’t be standing for the monologue.

He maybe has a reputation for being an impatient person, but I think he does appreciate the process and that you sometimes need to learn by doing worst. Lauren Michael’s advice seth my first summer on SNL. He told me that I should take tap dancing lessons because he thought that would give me more confidence as a performer. In fact, it was so important he told someone else to tell me. I never took those tap lessons, but maybe I should now do something special for him.

At the fiftieth Ultimate Andy Samberg writing Hack, have him say a very dumb thing with total confidence. Ultimate Amy Pohla writing Hack. She’s very funny when she’s frustrated and trying to convince people. She’s right. Most effective trick to make a boring talk show guests seem interesting.

If you can project to an audience that you’re listening, they’ll also want to listen. You can’t get caught looking like you’re thinking about your next question. Most important lesson he learned about running a writer’s room. If you’re rewriting anything, don’t pitch lateral moves. If a writer’s put all his time into writing a piece and they have a joke, you can pitch a joke if it’s twice as good, but if it’s as good, they’ll probably want to use their own joke.

Seth was asked if he will aboard his bait in the fiftieth aniverse of SNL. Let me answer for him. Yeah, like he’s not gonna go. What kind of question was that? Seth said, I just officially received my first reach out from Lorne saying would you be available in February should we need a hand.

Seth was on Andy Cohen Show and was asked to rank his top five favorite SNL characters, a list with which I really disagree. He sets list number five Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer for Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat that is a good choice. Three Kate McKinnon’s Colleen Rafferty, two Will Fortes mcgruber, and number one Bill Hayter’s Stefan, a character I never got. Did you listen to Stavro’s hockeyist. On Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, Savro said, I don’t know if you have this, but I definitely had the it’s going to end tomorrow disease of like for the first time I started doing well and started making money, I was like, we’re gonna lose all our subscribers tomorrow.

And then I got a little internet heat, but no one’s gonna watch my special to like, all right, the YouTube special did well, but no one’s gonna watch the Netflix special. I could sell out comedy clubs, but I don’t think my agents are wrong. I’m not going to sell theaters. And it’s like I just finally allowed myself to be like, you’re fine, pretend it’s a different guy’s career that you’re analyzing. It’s not going to fall apart tomorrow.

And so once I kind of did that, I was like, Okay, I don’t have to say yes to everything. I’ll only do stuff that I think is cool from now on, Like, I’ll do my own stuff and I’ll do anything that’s cool. But I’ve turned down a couple, like some acting stuff. I’ve turned down some other opportunities because I’m like, I just don’t want to do it. I just want to hang out.

I recognize that I kind of won a generational lottery of like a guy with my skill set born five years earlier, host born five years later. I’m trying to make man on the street. Tiktoks, you know what I mean. But I was in the sweet spot where we might have been the first comedy podcast on Patreon. Calm down when we started, and it was like I just got in on podcasting.

I thought podcasts were dead. I had the wrong business. I was like, well, marin this American life comedy bang bang, those are the only ones.

And then like god, we were wrong.

Joe Rogan on his podcast set, I remember the first check I got a real check. I got a development deal from Disney, of all people, I guess I was like twenty six, and it was the first time I ever had a good chunk of money, like six figures in the bank. And I felt like the weightlift that off me, like a physical feeling because my whole life I was like, how am I gonna eat? How am I gonna pay my rent? Then all of a sudden, I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Cristelle Alonso was upset with a comedy venue in her hometown of McCallen, Texas. She shared a story on Facebook. As Cristella tells it, she was backstage at the local theater and then the staff kicked her out at midnight. She was in the middle of a meet and greet. Her family was there.

She said that there was no warning that she needed to leave by midnight. She had to pack up everything and ask her fans to meet her outside the building. That’s awkward, Alonso posted. The disrespect is something I’ll never forget. Then once we were outside taking pictures, they came to apologize and said we could go back inside.

No, thank you. I will not go back inside when you forced us to leave, I will not go back inside that building again. I don’t know when I’ll come back to McCallan, but I’m gonna have to figure out another solution. The fans were great. The venue sucked.

Sounds to me like a junior staffer was enforcing the midnight rule and not knowing how to deal with talent. Didn’t look the other way. That would be my guess. I did see a recap JD. Vans with THEO Vaughn.

They talked about cocaine THEO said, I don’t know if it’d be sober if this stuff weren’t killing people. To be honest with you, I know that’s sad to say, but it keeps me out of the risk of it. JD said, makes it a little scarier. THEO. Yeah, but it’s also sad that somebody.

I mean, this is ridiculous to say, but you know, you can’t even do cocaine in this country anymore. You know that seems like a crazy thing to say, And don’t say that, but I said it. JD left and told THEO he was gonna steal that line. But after the election, I’ve got to win first. As I keep mentioning, it’s going to be hard not to do politics these next ten days or so.

Are you in Texarcana here, it’s a good place to drive a truck in a trans am. Bring some cores back east? Jay Leno’s there tonight. Jay said, it’s just a comedy show. There’s no lecturing, there’s no Here’s what I think, you know.

Rodney Dangerfield and I were friends for forty years. I have no idea if Rodney was a Republican or Democrat. I had no idea. We just used to talk about jokes, and that’s what I’ll be doing, no obscenities or anything like that. While in town, he’s serving as the Grand Marshal for the Four Estates Auto Museum’s annual Fall Auto Show.

Jay said, so I’m one above normal marshals. I’m the Grand Marshal, which, of course I have the right to arrest or detain anyone for any reason at any time. He says he enjoys hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. You know what, when you’re in California, I meet like one or two guys and each have like one hundred cars. And when you go to Texas, Oklahoma, you meet one guy who’s at a car he’s been working on since he got married, and he put it away when the kids went through school.

And the kids are in college now, so now he’s back working on fifty seven Chevy. So it’s kind of fun. I really enjoy it. If you’re in Texarcana the auto show today from eight to four, Carlos Mencia told Denver’s six thirty khow if you’re easily offended, please leave. It’s because I care.

I care about your time, I care about you. I care enough to know that I’m not for you, that’s who I am. Once you buy into it, it’s such a beautiful, cathartic thing to watch everybody just give into the laughter and see the difference between comedy and anger, between racial and racist. All this stuff becomes comedic fodder. And I think that’s where I’m living right now, and I think people need that.

People need to be told out a bad person because you laugh. It’s a mechanism that we use. The host brought up Dave Chappelle’s War against the Woke, and Sea said, think about the phrase itself, punching down. It assumes presumes that you either place me above those people or I do. And I don’t understand punching down.

I don’t get it when I do my jokes about me or my family. It’s okay. Self deprecating humor can be just as hurtful sometimes as anything else. I can go up there and talk about how I’m overweight, but the midnight I talk about how you’re overweight. That’s where the line gets crossed, and that’s the hypocrisy.

We the truth tellers, are needed. We’re also the valve for people who are angry, who are taking life a little too seriously. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Stavros Halkias, Tim Heidecker, Joe Piscopo, Paul F. Tompson, David Steinberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Costa, Jordan Klepper, Michelle Buteau, Lavell Crawford

What’s in This Episode

• Stavros Halkias movie ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ release and confidence origin story
• Tim Heidecker’s serious music album ‘Slipping Away’
• Robin Williams stories from New York Improv
• Michael Costa memoir ‘Lucky Loser’ announcement for 2025
• Jordan Klepper Daily Show special ‘Fingers the Pulse Rally Together’
• Michelle Buteau Netflix Year’s Eve special recorded at Radio City
• Lavell Crawford album ‘I Could Eat Part One’ release

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Chudny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Stavros how he has has a movie out today. It’s called Let’s Start a Cult, say throwback comedy. The press release describes the film as centering on an obnoxious loser who is missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide.

He finds his bogus ex Messiah, and they set out to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through Middle America, the constantly bickering duo inductive military want to be a mentally unstable mom and a mysterious foreign hitchhigerno their cult. But will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny or decide this life might be worth living after all. Stavros plays Chip, the misfit member of the cult. He told The La Times.

Getting the opportunity to make a movie like this is almost like living out a childhood dream. The La Times was curious how Stavros has become so confident. He said, I really don’t know. I think not having confidence. As a kid, I was the shirt and the pool kid, and I was just like, there’s no reason to be like this.

Maybe I’m not the sexiest guy out there, but there’s such a small percentage of sexy people. So I got over that lack of confidence very early on. Being the class clown as a kid came naturally to me, and I got a lot of attention from that. When I started getting positive attention just from doing on as good ad, it kind of fed into the confidence of it all. It’s like a classic clown origin story where being the funny kid got you noticed.

Once I got a taste of that, I didn’t need much to get me going. And luckily I had a very supportive immigrant mother who thought I was gonna be one of those kids that goes to Harvard at age twelve. She was way too supportive of me. I was a show off from birth. I think the first time I got a buzz was from a school play or doing something funny.

Up until sixth grade, I went to an acting program. Then after that I decided I was going to be a jock, and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made. I was like, no more acting for me. I’m gonna go in a pro football or basketball. I couldn’t even start from a Greek church league, but I thought I might make it to the NBA.

That was a big mistake. But then I got into comedy through classic movies like Animal House or anything with Adams Seandler, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride or Appato. Movies would stand up. I was a very set up, punchline comic, and I think a lot of people know me from crowd work, which develops over time. But it’s not like I’m giving a huge performance.

It’s more just being quick and stuff like that. I think acting has really helped because it makes me so much more aware of my face, my movements, and just the way I appear to someone else. Acting is the visual medium, and you’re so aware that somebody else is going to watch it. Stand Up is visual two. But when I’m doing stand up, I’m just trying to be as funny as possible.

Tim Heidecker has a new album out. This is a serious album, not a comedy album. The album is called Slipping Away. Tim explains my job the past eight years or whatever has been to push my audiences to have a more open mind about what to expect from me. I felt like it would be more rewarding as a fan if I happen to like a comedian and their music.

I think that would be cool. Rolling Stone was curious. Is it different from how people have connected with your comedy? Tim says, there’s not a lot to relate to necessarily with comedy. You can love it and be a fan of it, but this is much more personal, and I think people are connecting to it on that level.

I’ve been doing this long enough that I’m letting people know it’s okay not to be drenching in irony all the time. We can still have fun. I still want to laugh, but it’s okay to cry or to be moved, to talk about real stuff. And I think it’s important, especially for men, to have that allowance, give them the permission to be like we could be upset about something or moved by something, or feel the need to reach out and talk about stuff. Crack dot com does that.

Awesome stories about Robin Williams that I found interesting and it wasn’t about joke theft For once, Joe Piscoball told a story about the New York Improv There was a door next to the stage. Joe said, the running joke was there’d sometimes be a knock at the door. In the middle of the show. Whenever it happened, I’d open it and it would usually be Robin, and I’d hand on the microphone. Paul A Poundstone said, whenever Robin walked in the room, whoever’s on stage at the time knew they might as well get off.

I don’t think his attitude was ever get off because I’m here, But even so most of us had the good sense to say, Robin’s here, have a good time. Robin’s manager David Steinberg, said Robin liked to go on last because he didn’t like to bump other comics. He said, there was never any fifteen minute rule for Robin. It just go on and on and on without notes. Robin wrote while he was talking, it was always a stream of consciousness.

Gilbert Godfreed one time said, once I was about to go on the Improv in New York, literally down on the second they were getting ready to announce me, he was still doing more Coan Minian like any other club. Their attitude was get robed on stage. But then he did the most incredible thing. He said, I’ve got people coming to see me, but I want them to go see Gilbert. First Daily Show Senior correspondent Michael Costa has written a new book.

It’ll be out in twenty twenty five. He put out a YouTube video announcing the book, saying, how did I end up in comedy? If all I ever wanted to do was win Wimbledon, which I didn’t even come close to, It’s in the book. Costa is a former tennis pro. He once ranked eight hundred and sixty fourth in the world.

He spent two years as a pro on the ITF and ATP tour from two thousand and two to two thousand and four. In two thousand and five, he started pursuing comedy Lucky Loser Adventures in Tennis and Comedy March eleventh, twenty twenty five.

Meanwhile, Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show has announced a new special, The …

In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper her Fingers the Pol’s Rallied Together. Hey guys, can we shorten that title a little bit? What are we doing? In afore mentioned special, Klepper says he will travel to Trump events in swing states over the election’s crucial closing days. This time, He’ll bring along some curious friends and experts in their fields to help unpack and understand why so many Americans are supporting Donald Trump.

The special premieres on Comedy Central October twenty eighth. That’s Monday, at eleven thirty pm Eastern Time. I will be in bed. You got plans for New Year’s Eve? Michelle Buttell will have a special on Netflix.

Last year they gave us Dave Chappelle. Michelle recorded the special back of June, when she became the first female comic to record a special at Radio City Music Hall. In the special, she reflects on subjects including motherhood and marriage, all while slipping rose through a straw. I don’t know how well that’s gonna do. Lavelle Crawford has an album out today.

The video component came out earlier in the week. It is called I Could Eat Part One. Lavell jokes about how my six hundred pound life could go for fifteen seasons and he’s still underweight. What kind of racist you have to be not to take a free holiday specifically Juneteenth? And explosive consequences in a Taco Bell bathroom.

I pulled the trailer a couple things Lavelle’s voice has gotten a little thinner, So the audio wasn’t great. I don’t think it was gonna work for the podcast.

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Also, wouldn’t surprise me, trying not to hang myself wouldn’t surprise me.

If possibly, perhaps maybe someone accidentally had added some laughs to the trailer and it just made the whole thing sound cheesy. And again, let me read that last rule of three thing explosive consequences in a Taco bell bathroom. Comedians who listened to the show Hack Hack, I like Lavell, but not a good trailer. John, you’re making friends today. I know sometimes it comes out also out today another comedy album.

Maybe one of these will win the Grammy for Comedy Album. You know my whole stance that best comedy album should actually be an album. Alan Strickland Williams Allen’s album is called ran Through. The album is filled with absurd, dark one liners, as well as structured pieces about the celestial bodies that hang in the sky above his Florida roots, relationships, dating and being single, parenting or lack thereof, vasectomies and guns. We’re told asw absolutely excels at crash jokes about sex drugs and residual trauma, the kind of jokes that you can’t help but laugh at while also relating to it just a bit much.

Born in Texas and raised in Florida because my parents really wanted to do a number on me, asw new, lives a totally normal life in the small humble town of Los Angeles, California. And let’s check in with friend of the pod Gianmarco Soresi Serasi. He was on Vulture’s list of the Comedians You Should and Will Know. Vulture Astro and Marco to tell a story from his childhood that might explain how he became a comedian. He says, I had a stepfather.

He scared the crap out of me, and he might hit me way more like he might make me go with him to home depot for six hours on a Saturday and not let me bring a game boy kind of way. As such, I timidly followed all his rules, whether so what reasonable. I wasn’t allowed to listen to Eminem We’re absurd, I wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons or odd shoes were to remain on while inside the house. But then, on the night of my fourteenth birthday, after a wine infused post pictionary fight with my mom. My stepdad told me I would now be going out with him and him alone to get some salvatory ice cream.

The way to the car with my mom out of ear shot, my phone rang and it was my dad calling for the first time that day. I went to pick it up. My stepfather said, leave it. I did not get you that phone to talk to that man. So I got in the car and my dad called again.

Don’t answer it. My phone ping from a voicemail. Fine, he’d call him back, but I did not get you that phone to talk to that man. I called my dad back before a minute had passed. My stepfather gestured for me to wrap it up, so I promptly ended the call, turn on my stepdad and said, you’re just mad because my dad banged your wife before you did.

There’s war here, but I’m getting out on that. And that’s your daily comedy needs for today. Jevarco’s awesome. See you

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Killer Mike, A Tribe Called Quest, Hasan Minhaj, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy O Yang, Adam Ray

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle announces new tour with Killer Mike
• Dave Chappelle inducts A Tribe Called Quest at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Dave Chappelle performs at Rock Hall of Fame afterparty in Cleveland
• Hasan Minhaj addresses New Yorker article controversy in new Netflix special
• Jimmy O Yang stars in Hulu’s Interior Chinatown
• Adam Ray gets Netflix special for November 19th release
• Late night political comedy coverage

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Caloroga Shark Media. He and Aaron Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. As I’ve been mentioning, it’s going to be really hard not to do anything political these next two weeks. I will attempt to go down the middle. Not here to make any enemies, not here to take anyone off, not here to tell you who to vote for.

I’m just here to tell you should vote vote for somebody, please. So I’ll pick my spots and try and stay on the silly side of things. And i will remind you we have a daily political podcast called Ballot, so that is nothing but snark if you want to check that out. I haven’t done a late night recap in a bit, so let’s see what they’re up to. Jimmy Fallon noted that Trump canceled a Tuesday event that would have been titled Make America Healthy Again.

Fallon said’s tough to make America healthy again when you were just making them French fries a day ago. To make up for the cancelation, Trump had his doctor write a note and said that America is in perfect shape and weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds. Seth Meyers. Trump told reporters, I love McDonald’s, I love jobs. I like to see good jobs.

As said, wow, I realize if you replace I with me, Trump has the same vocabulary as Cookie Monster, ME love McDonald’s, ME love jobs. Colbert points out there’s only one Taco Tuesday left before election day, and you should savor it because if Trump wins, he’s pretty sure A Project twenty twenty five outlaws Tacos. Elon Musk said on Saturday that he would give one million dollars per day to a randomly chosen registered Pennsylvania voter who signs an online petition. Michael Cost hosting The Daily Show, said Elon is so rich he bought Twitter just to drive it into the ground for his own personal pleasure, and now he’s thinking, well what if I did the same with America? Cost again, I know what you’re thinking right now.

How could Republicans sink so low?

And also can I sink low enough to register for this?

Reports are that Trump will do Joe Rogan’s podcast. They will record it on Friday. Supposedly that will be a big deal. Whatever you feel about either Trump or Rogan, that will be a big deal. Theolvonne had JD.

Vance on Tuesday’s episode. I just noticed this myself, haven’t listened to it yet, and I haven’t. I’d seen a recap from a non political website. There’s some poll quotes with JD talking, you know, issues and stuff. I don’t want to go there.

I’m sure THEO probably had a silly conversation with him at some point, so when I find a recap of that, I will share it. Dave Chappelle has announced a tour. Killer Mike will be on tour with Dave Chappelle. The show’s go on sale Friday ten am, get online. One of the shows Madison Square Garden, November twenty first, I’m not going because I like my cell phone more than I like Dave’s comedy.

Switching from Killer Mike to Deacon Mike. Dave Chappelle was in Cleveland on Saturday. Cleveland is the home of Deacon Mike and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They inductated a tribe called Quest. No, not Deacon Mike.

Deacon Mike had nothing to do with inducting a tribe called Quest Chappelle and the Rock Hall of Fame. Did. Pelle gave a lengthy speech. Part of it he said, it’s an honor to induct this next band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Years ago and a tough time in my life, I read a Chinese proverb that changed my life.

And the proverb said that the best meal you can cook is made with ingredients they already have. I like that, And this roverb reminds me of hip hop. And this proverb reminds me in particular of tribe, because tribe was born out of friendship. Being in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s not something that a black kad in New York in nineteen eighty five, whatever imagine a dream of And I don’t believe that was ever the point of a tribe called Quest. And they met on a train.

They met at school, They played basketball together, they played around and run with each other, and the first thing they had was each other as friends. Switching over to Gossip Corner, there was an after party. Dave Chappelle was there. Party was at Cleveland’s House of Blues on the second floor. Chappelle’s prize guest by jumping on stage and did a concert, a music concert.

Chappelle was backed by a jazz band, Dave saying R and B and hip hop classics interspersed with jokes. Chappelle asked the crowd to shut off their phones. The crowd dispersed at four am with bags filled with warm doughnuts. Have you seen Hasan Minhaj’s new special. I haven’t gotten to it yet.

I’ve seen two interviews, one with the in house Netflix and one with the La Times. I wonder why he’s either laying low or Netflix didn’t blow this one out. Very interesting to me as a watcher of such things. The Eight Times was curious did the fallout from the New Yorker article cause Hassan to change the way he approached writing and performing the special. Min As said, no, I already put out a twenty one minute video about what had happened.

I show the receipts in the material of things that I provided that didn’t get included in the article. So it was kind of interested into the public record, and that allowed me to say, Hey, if you want to go discuss talk about a litigate, there’s a whole deep dive on a tape. Emails, receipts all there, beat by beat by beat. Now we can just focus on this piece of work. I gets approached this hour as its own unique individual piece of work.

Maybe other comedians would have tried to integrate into the show. So I talk about this, I don’t have to make that calculation. It’s a dorky controversy. It’s not even a good one. I didn’t bang a porn star.

I didn’t diddle a boy. I caught embellishing for dramatic effect. Same crime. Your aunt is guilty over thanksgiving new topic. Good line from Hassan.

For the longest time, culture in the framing of the American cultural narrative has existed in a black, white’s economy. But there’s this third thing in America called Bejistan, which is like Indians, Latinos, Filipinos, Arabs and wherever Bruno Mors is from La Times after the article came out, where you’re concerned that other comics might pull back on artistic license in their work to avoid the same kind of scrutiny Minas, I’m gonna be honest. The fact checking thing happened to me. I don’t think it’s gonna happen to other comedians at large. I think it was a conversation point for that period of time.

Sometimes you’ll get a good review. Sometimes you’ll get a bad review. Sometimes a gig breaks your way, sometimes it doesn’t. Kind of shakes out all right. If you need something to watch.

Angela Johnson Race Is Technically Not Stalking, debuts on the eight hundred Pound Gorillas YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. Jimmy O Yang, a favorite of mine, the stars in Hulu’s Interior Chinatown. The trailer’s out and the show follows Willis, who’s a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black and White. Willis goes through the motions of his on screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown, and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown while discovering his own family’s very history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

Ten episodes out on Hulu November nineteenth. Adam Ray is getting a Netflix special, also out November nineteenth, So we’ll be busy that day. Netflix calls untitled special a one of a con comedy show featuring celebrity guests, crowd work, and outrageous hijinks and a Gagsby told The New York Post, I’m not saying anything cruel off on a criticism of Taylor Swift or Barbie’s misogynistic, and that’s not how I’m coming. It’s more of a playful I don’t fit in. There’s a few little textures, but I don’t think anything that makes so much money off us should be uninterrogated.

Yeah, like that time Taylor Swift almost murdered Joe Cooy’s career over this innocent joke. Let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

Listen. Scott Beckett shows a little short today. I had a pad ten seconds there. Okay, it’s funny. It’s a good bit.

People like it. Anna says, my purpose is to tear anything down. It’s just to shift people’s perspectives slightly and then they go home and have something to chew on. I don’t think I have that much power to do anything so that. It always amuses me when people take me so seriously to the point that they feel anger.

As for their relationship with Netflix, Anna says, I don’t know what the relationship with Netflix can possibly be. It’s a data form. They made it quite clear that they stand on the side of absolute freedom of speech and any jokes of fair game. There are no real world consequences. I just like stirring the pot and shifting a perspective or two.

Patton Oswalt with a terrible opinion on Twitter. I hope he was being sarcastic here. He tweeted, what makes season two of The Rings of Power? You know that’s the terribly boring Lords of the Ring thing on Amazon that Lords of the Rings fans hate. What makes season two of The Rings of Power deeper than season one is seeing the Orcs more than they’re dead, struggle to find a home in the world, and worry about their families.

Makes the battle sequences more exciting and heartbreaking. They’re not just a faceless Horde. Uh yeah, okay, sorry Lords of the Rings fans. Now, I’m a Star Trek fan, so I feel you. I won’t go off on that dangent.

Lily Gladstone and Sharon Stone have joined Mark Marin in the Indie co In Memoriam, it’s the story of a veteran Hollywood actor played by Mark Merrin, who becomes obsessed with securing a spot in the Oscars. In Memoriam Montage after receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. That’s a good role for Mare and that’s really good casting. His campaigning leads to a heartfelt journey of self exploration. Mittel Lane tapes his next special, that one for Hilari is.

He’s taping it tonight in Santa Monica. And my favorite story of the day. Comedian Fern Brady’s tour poster under investigation by an advertising watchdog. You see on the poster she’s standing by a stained glass window. Deacon Mike, you’re listening.

Stained glass window. That’s your thing, she says, I give you milk to drink, which happens to be the name of her new comedy tour. The advertising watchdog is investigating following a point that it mocks the Christian faith. On social media, fern Brady wrote, whoever complained about the poster, thanks a lot. I’m that’s true comedy news for today.

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Featured: Anthony Jeselnik, Tom Papa, Jerry Seinfeld, Mittel Lane, Jim Gaffigan, Virdas, Demetrius Fields, Trevor Noah, Eddie Griffin, Gary Owen, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, Keegan Michael Key, Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Natasha Leggero

What’s in This Episode

• Anthony Jeselnik’s new Netflix special ‘Bones in All’ releasing November 26
• Tom Papa’s third Netflix special ‘Home Free’ releasing October 29
• Mittel Lane joins Hulu’s Harlarious comedy special platform
• Jim Gaffigan’s Harlarious special titled ‘The Skinny’ launching November 22
• Virdas announces untitled Netflix special focused on global connection and happiness
• SNL plagiarism accusation: Demetrius Fields claims sketch ripped off his bit
• Trevor Noah discusses ADHD diagnosis on Diary of a CEO podcast
• Eddie Griffin criticizes Kamala Harris during podcast appearance
• Gary Owen shuts down Trump-supporting heckler at recent comedy show
• Documentary ‘Playing a POTUS’ announced featuring SNL presidential parody alumni
• Comedy Fantasy Camp returns January 23-26 with Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, and Natasha Leggero

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’d leo Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Anthony Jesslinek will have a new special on Netflix. It is called Bones in All November twenty sixth. That’s that factor.

And with Thanksgiving that’s two days before Thanksgiving, all right, something to do Thanksgiving night. This one, like so many, was filmed during the Netflix as a Joke Festival back on May tenth. The official log line Anthony Jesslineck celebrates twenty years of delivering witty, boundary bushing comedy in his new Razor Sharp stand up special. Oh boy, there’s some specifics. Thanks Netflix.

Tom Papa has his special coming out. As I pointed out yesterday, I think Jerry Seinfeldt did Papa a favor and made some news on Papa’s podcast. Now we’re all talking about Tom Papa anyway. Tom Papa Special Home Free, his third for Netflix, will be out next Tuesday. They have shared a trailer.

Now let me jump in here in the past. Not the last special, the one before that. That’s when I first started using the term clapter. Tom Papa was doing some material and I noticed that the audience was not laughing. They were clapping and as you listen to this trailer here, especially this first joke, note the audience reaction.

Hmm. I’ve been going through some changes at my house. We dropped off my last daughter, my last child, my youngest off of college, and they’re all gone now. And nobody tells you how hard it’s going to be pretending to be sad. Not one tier, not one tier.

I really thought I was gonna cry. I feel so bad, but I think I might be happier than. I’ve ever been. Papa taped the hour this summer at the Warner Theater in Washington, d C. Great Theater, Tom, Papa, I’m not Free.

October twenty ninth, on your Netflix, Mittel Lane has joined Hularious. I’m warming up to the term. Guys. Hularius not messing around Bill Burr, Lana Glazer, Roywood, Junior Osco at Coska, Jessica Curs and christ Stefano and now Mittel Lane. This one will be taped tomorrow at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

Mittel Lane said, I am thrilled to be part of the Disney Hulu family. This is the closest I’ll get to becoming the fifth Golden Girl. We now have a title for Jim Gaffigan special, which will kick off Hularius that is called The Skinny and that launches November twenty second. More specials Virdas will get one for Netflix in Untitled Special. Viardas is inspired by the ancient philosophy of sharing happiness.

Untitled Special offers a unique narrative of self discovery and global connection. Viewer embarks on a thrilling adventure performing in multiple cities worldwide, from iconic venues to hidden gems. Vier says comedy as the power to bring people together in no matter where they are. With this special, we are trying to bring something fresh to comedy by sharing stories and experiences that celebrate love and kindness, while showing that laughter really is the universal language. He’s really good.

I like him a lot. Got a little SNL controversy. Comedian Demetrius Fields wrote, somebody it’s Saturday Night Live ripped off my bit last night. So here’s a recording of me doing it last May. I’ve been doing it for five months and a lot of the same rooms people who work on that show are in.

Maybe it was parallel thinking. The sketch in question from the Michael Keaton hosted episode Imagine’s an interracial Couple in nineteen fifty five for Professor their love to their two respective families. AGO’s father and brother are accepting in the romance, Andrew dus Muche’s mother and father are not. The crux of the perhaps parallel thinking or the lyrics of Hay Soul’s sister. Back in nineteen ninety five, SNL settled a lawsuit with Rick Shapiro after j Moore was accused of stealing one of Rick Shapiro’s bits word for word in a sketch called O’Callahan and Son pob.

Over the years, others including Tick NATARO Tim Heidah, and The Groundlings have pointed out similar thinking. NBC has not commented at the time of this recording. Trevor Noah was on the Diary of a CEO podcast and talked about his diagnosis of ADHD. Trevor said, I would have the inability to choose where to place my focus right on one of the things, so it would either be hyper focused by something that I shouldn’t or I’d have no focus for the thing that I should So I could be having a conversation with you, and let’s say there’s a car outside reving its engine. At some point I’d be all I’d think about, even though you’re speaking to me.

That’s all i’d be able to think about, Like who’s reving this engine, who’s driving this car, what’s going on out there? What kind of car is this? It sounds like a V six? Is that a truck? But you’d be talking and at the end of the sentence, I just hear the last three words you said, and then I’d try to put it all together and act like I was paying attention.

Two years ago, my friend got diagnosed. He told me about it changed his whole life. Then when he was describing some of the symptoms, I was like, well, that’s weird. That sounds a lot like me, and we’re very different people personality wise. Than I asked him, I don’t understand.

I’ve never noticed these things in you. And he was like, yeah, he’s very good at hiding them. He’s very good at masking them. Me. He ate home so much that it made me think I need to get diagnosed.

It is going to be very hard to not get littical on this program. Between now an election day, we are two weeks out. Eddie Griffin shredded Kamala Harris as a liar. During a podcast appearance, Griffin said, I don’t know what the f you thinking voting for Kamala. She’s a puppet, y’all.

She has zero experience, Nobody respects her on the world stage. Everybody I talked to don’t like you. Ain’t nobody gonna vote for you. He referred to the Vice president Askalion Harris and asked his listeners, how are you gonna vote for a lion stinking b word? Here’s your choice?

Is America the liar or the crook? I think I might be going with the crook. God darnit. Fox News points out quote. Griffin then offered a humorous argument that Trump has certain credentials with the black community and that he’s got three Baby Mama’s forty three felony cases in counting selling high top tennis shoes just like Michael Jordan got shot, just like Tupac.

That mfer gonna drop an album next. Comedian Gary Owen shut down a heckler at a recent show who was a Trump supporter. Gary shared a ninety second clip on social media in which an unseen audience member interrupts Gary the audience member, yeals out, give me five minutes mfor. Gary said, no, you know what, you’re not going to get five minutes mfor. That was the whitest mfer I’ve ever heard.

Build your own career B word? What do you want my five minutes for? No refunds? Oh, I still got your money B word? So technically you work for me tonight.

Ho o. When cursed out the heckler, the crowd laughed. The man yaled out FU. The crowd cheers and booze. When venue employees escorted the mega hat wearing instigator out of the building, Gary Owen said, he looks exactly like I thought he was gonna look too.

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of child porn on his laptop. I guarantee that stuff here at Daily Comedy News, we want to be clear we have no knowledge of that laptop accusation. They are making a documentary called Playing a Potus. It stars Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, Keegan Michael Key. They will discuss the arts of the presidential parody.

No date yet on that one elections two weeks. Guys, keep moving. Oh what else can I tell? You about I Have so much Comedy Fantasy Camp is back for its third installment with Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, and Natasha Lazeiro January twenty third through the twenty six that will also feature Brad Williams and Patrick Warburton. You Know Putty, Why Putty?

I Don’t Know? The official description. Set for January twenty third through the twenty six the unique event offers comedy hopefuls of all skill levels the chance to learn the ins and outs of the industry from those who know it well. Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Natasha Lazio, Brad Williams and Patrick Warburton are set as headliners, with digital special guests expected to be announced in the coming months. The comedy pros will mentor coach and guide participants in different aspects of the art form, from writing and stand up to timing and performance and more.

With all due respect to Corolla, Lazio, Williams and Warburton, just stand next to Jay Leno the entire time. He’s in a different class from those other four. Lazio is set in a head counselor role that will see her correlling campers and sharing expertise with them across four days. Participants will be divided into small groups while they zero in on developing comedic styles. Under guidance from their professional mentors.

They will create, refine and polished material throughout the camp, all leading up to a grand finale. In a statement, Jay Leno said, I like to talk to comics, and comics like to help other comics. I have more in common with comedians than some people have known my whole life. Writing jokes is the hardest thing in the world. Words of power.

You need to learn how to use them. Adam Carolla worked hard. In his statement, he said, so happy to be back in biz for our next comedy Fantasy Camp and with my pal Jay Leno. Must have spent hours on that one, whereas publicists spent five seconds. You should see the grin on my face right now.

I make myself laugh sometimes. What else we got here today? Kate McKinnon will host the seventy fifth National Book Awards Ceremony and benefit dinner Wednesday, November twentieth. John Fatiste will perform live at the in person awards ceremony, to behold at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. I saw a Batiste open for the Rolling Stones this summer.

He was quite good, Ken Jung’s publicist Getting it done Today Ken Jung’s story Number one. Ken Jung set for award named for comedy icon Rodney Dangerfield. Today is the Los Angeles City College Foundation’s gala. Actor, writer and producer Ken Jung will be faded with the Rodney Respect Award. Lacc’s Rodney Daingerfield Institute was founded in his honor and cooperation with widow Joan Dangerfield.

The institute offers four classes, including a stand up work shop, joke writing, and an American Film Comedy Genre Class. Oh but mister Jung is having a big day because today at eleven thirty a m. Pacific time, Ken gets the two thousand, seven hundred and ninety fourth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Guest speakers include Randall Park, Joel McHale, and special surprise. Anna Martinez is producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, who says the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to honor Ken Jung with a well deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ken’s incredible journey from medicine to entertainment is a testament to its remarkable talent and dedication. In short, the doctor is in. I believe you could fetch, but I believe if they do offer you a star, you have to pay for the star yourself. Roywood Junior. I guess people are enjoying the American version of Have I Got News for You.

It’s always trending when I open up the HBO Max app. He’s going to guest host the British version on November eighth. He gave a good quote here. He said, thank you to the Hignified team for giving me gainful employment as a TV presenter in England, a country that I hear has no issues whatsoever with immigration. To seek asylum in England, one must have left their country of origin due to a well founded fear of persecution.

Depending on which way the presidential election goes in America, I might be hanging around England for a while. Have I Got News for You originated on the BBC in nineteen ninety. For the show’s first twelve years, it was hosted by British actor Agnes Deaton. Since two thousand and two, different guest presenters have hosted the show every week. The daily show will go live November fifth, That is election night.

John Stewart and team will be prepared for a no resolution outcome. That should be a fun watch.

Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert not going live that night.

I guess CBS is prepared for a no election outcome, you know, when you’re going like, yeah, you know, we’re waiting for this last dight to come in. It’s really close, so we don’t know who’s gonna win. Anyway, here’s Stephen Colbert interrupting our news coverage. I was not impressed by the CBS host on that last debate. So you know there was a time well you know this, right, Edward R.

Murrow, Walter Cronkite, even Dan Rather, CBS was the Tiffany brand, Like there was a time when CBS News was it after what’s her name going? You’re out of time, sir, I’m kind of done with CBS News. Sorry, guys, you might as well air Colbert. I’ll be watching. Jon Stewart.

Jimmy Fallon will air a special Sunday Night episode on November seventeenth, following Sunday Night Football. His guests will be Jon Ham, Lindsay Lohan, and Farrell. Jimmy Fallon will tape the episode earlier in the day on Sunday, before heading out to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey to watch the Jets. Oh Terrible Sunday night football. You think a Jets game is going to prop up that tonight show ratings?

Have you seen the Jets? Eh, let’s get out there. Bashing the Jets is always a great way to end. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: George Lopez, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tom Papa, Jim Gaffigan, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump

What’s in This Episode

• George Lopez announces retirement from stand-up comedy
• Jerry Seinfeld backtracks on PC culture criticism
• Jim Gaffigan roasts Kamala Harris at Al Smith dinner
• Seinfeld defends comedy as adaptable to cultural change
• Harris skips Catholic charity event in New York

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I got some nice compliments about that Hepburg episode on Saturday, thank you very much. So that was to accommodate my schedule and had a pre tape a couple here, which means today I want to catch up on a few major items I didn’t get to comment on yet. George Lopez says he’s retiring from stand up comedy after his next comedy special.

Lopez says, I’ve subjected the American people to enough of my crap. This is making me feel ancient. When I started at serious comedy, the very first comedian I met in that role was George Lopez, and I have seen people come and go. I was recently thinking of my friend Lisa Lampinelli, who had a hot career for a while. She’s retired.

Ron White retired, Lewis Black retiring. It’s just crazy, Lopez says, it seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has just never like me my whole life, and it’s a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point. Lopez got his start and stand up comedy in the eighties. Appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Johnny Carson Tonight Show.

In nineteen ninety two, he’d tell the La Times that he’d like to start on his own TV show like Seinfelder Rozanne, where he would have full creative control because the parts they write are horrible for Latinos. He did get his own show, The George Lopez Show, which ran for six seasons on ABC. Lopez is only sixty three. He had a kidney transplant at one point, right, so you know, maybe that factor’s in. He says.

This upcoming special on Amazon is the last one. It was filmed in Los Angeles September twenty seventh and twenty eighth as part of his All Right Comedy Tour. He’s not entirely retiring, though, He’s going to continue to work on his NBC series, Lopez Versus Lopez. He says, I wanted to spend more time with my daughter, and I love the show. Lopez Versus Lopez just headed into its third season on NBC.

You’ve probably seen some Jerry Seinfeld headlines. Jerry Seinfeld backtracked on the comments he made earlier this year. Or you may recall, Jerry had blamed the extreme left and PC crap for ruining comedy. Jerry told The New Yorker back in April that he believed TV comedy was suffering because people are worrying so much about offending other people. Is quote, then nothing really affects comedy.

People always need it, they need it so badly, and they don’t get it. Used to be, you’d go home at the end of the day and most people go, Okay, Cheers is on, Okay, mashes on and oh, Mary Tyler More is on. All the family’s on. You just expected to be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well guess what where is it?

This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands committee’s groups, here’s our thought about this joke. Well, that’s the end of your comedy. I agree with him about the comedy by committee thing, absolutely, you may recall Julia Louis Driff has pushed back, saying I want to hear people starting to complain about political correctness, and I understand why people might push back on it. To me, that’s red flag because it sometimes means something else.

Well, Jerry has now backpedaled. He was on Tom Poppa’s podcast.

All right, here’s where I’ll jump in.

I think Jerry did Tom a favor. Why do you say that, Johnny Mac. Tom Papa has a special on Netflix next week. Papa used to open for Jerry. They are friends, they are good friends.

And I think this was an interesting place for Jerry Seinfeld to make headlines because now we’re talking about Tom Papa a week before his special. See how all this works, Folks pay attention to timing on things on Tom Papa’s podcast, which, by the way, the special on Netflix next week. We’ll talk about that one tomorrow. Jerry said his original comments were wrong and he regretted saying it. Jerry told Papa, I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy.

I did say that. It’s not true. If you’re champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re gonna make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate.

You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, where’s the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to. Does culture change? Are the things I used to say that I can’t because people are always moving the gate.

Yes, but that’s the biggest easiest target. You can’t say certain words whatever they are about groups, So what the accuracy of your observation has to be one hundred times finer than that to just be a comedian. So I don’t think, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I’m taking that back now. Officially they have not.

It’s not my business to like or not like where the culture’s at. It’s my business to make the gate to stay with my skiing analogy. Seinfeld denied suggesting he would never perform at colleges because young people were to PC. He told Tom Papa, I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids performing for them.

I do colleges all the time. Which is interesting because in twenty fifteen, Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN show The Herd quote, I don’t play colleges, which is a chair, but I mean maybe nine years ago he didn’t know he does. I’ll be fair, I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me don’t go near colleges they’re so pc. I’ll give you an example. My daughter’s fourteen wife says to her, well, you know, the next couple years, I think maybe you’re gonna want to be hanging around the c anymore on the week out and so you can see the boys.

No, my daughter says, She says, that’s sexist. They just want to use these words. That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice. They don’t even know they’re talking about as Then, if he believed such her attitude’s hurt comedy, he replied, yes, it does. Jerry Seinfeld says, you’re welcome.

All right, more stuff. Johnny Mac asked to catch up on last week. Jim Gaffigan crushed the Al Smith dinner. This was a last Thursday. Kamala Harris became the first presidential candidate in forty years to skip the Catholic charity bash.

Jim did not pull his punches and said, you know, this event has been referred to as the Catholic met Gala. Twenty two percent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I’m sorry, why is Vice President Harris not here? Gaff again got some laughs as he ridiculed Kamala from making times like that naughty podcast call her daddy.

Jim said, I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. In her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on the View Howard Stern Colbert in the longtime staple of campaigning to call her daddy podcast. You know what I think this is?

I think she doesn’t like me, Chuck, Do I have bad breath? Gaffigan talked about the change on the ticket, saying the Democrats have been telling us Trump’s reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned to this threat they staged a coup. Else did They’re democratically elected and come and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true.

Really makes me consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes prayers take three and a half years out at George Clooney op ed this is killer stuff by Gaffigan. So great. One person on Twitter wrote, hello nine one one. I’d like to report the murder of an entire political party. Malania Trump did not enjoy one of Jim’s jokes.

Jim referenced the whole thing with Trump’s comments about their eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs, Jim said. During the first and only debate, President Trump talked about migrants taking cats and eating them. You know, if you’re keeping track at home, this is the second time grabbing a kitty has been part of a campaign issue. Think about it.

It’s a little naughty. I’ll leave it there. Trump laughed at the joke. Milania remained, quote stoneface. We are going to be very political today.

That is just the news. Donald Trump said he leaned on Fox News to help him come up with a tight ten minutes of joke for the dinner. Rumors on social media were that the jokes had been written by the network’s news and opinion hosts. Trump said, nope, Nick Topolo, quoting Trump, I had a lot of people helping a lot of people, a couple people from Fox. Actually I shouldn’t say that, but they wrote some of the jokes.

The most part, I didn’t like any of them. In a statement, Fox News confirmed that no employee or freelancers wrote the jokes. According to one person familiar with Trump set, Nick Topolo contributed one joke that Trump used that is not uncommon. When Obama was president, he used some writers from The Daily Show for his White House Correspondent’s dinner routine. Andrew Schultz has accused the Brooklyn Academy of Music of canceling his scheduled stand up special just hours after he had Trump on his podcast.

Schultz, on his podcast Flagrant, said three and a half hours after the Trump interview, they canceled the shows, f them and f them forever. He shared an email from the Brooklyn Academy of Music telling him that his November shows had been canceled, with only a vague explanation quote, after some internal discussions with leadership, it was decided that BIM is not the right fit for the show at this time. Schultz says he doesn’t know for sure if it was because of the Trump interview, but the day before it came out, we were ready to go. We were gonna go on sale this week. We’ve had this venue locked in for a month now.

It’s not like we might do it here. It’s booked, it’s ready to go. We’re going on sale. This week, Jimmy Kimmel called out Donald Trump for sharing what Kimmell says is a made up story about the few times he has been on Kimmel. Trump was on the Full End podcast.

Kimmel shared some clips from that. On Full Send, Trump called Kimmel a loser, and Trump said, quote, I do Jimmy Kimmel. I did him a lot, to which Kimmel said, you might be confusing me with Stormy Daniels. Kimmell then pushed back and said, We’ve been on almost twenty two years. You’ve been on three times, Mike.

The situation from Jersey Shore has been on more times than you. But go on, Trump said, Kimmell used to greet me on the sidewalk outside his studio. This was before politics, of course, But I’d come in and be standing on the sidewalk saying, oh, oh, sir, can I bring you in? And he’d bring me in every time, Kimill said, and by every time he means no times. He loves telling this made up story.

Never did I ever stand on the sidewalk to greet Donald Trump or any guests. The only time I’ve ever walked out in the sidewalk for Donald Trump was to urinate on his star in the Walk of Fame. He has invited Trump back onto the show on one condition, he has to take a cognitive test. Kimmell said, if he wants to come back and accept the invitation that I made last night, that he’d take a cognitive test against Kamala Harris, I will for sure roll out the burnt orange carpet and go meet him on Hollywood Drive. Sticking with Late Night, seth Meyer has won the bet with the guy on his staff when the Steelers beat the New York Jets.

Because everyone beats the New York Jets, I mean, that’s not hard. Meyers had a bet with Kenny Coyle, a Late Night Utility Grip and Fierce Jets Dave Ot. The original bet was if the Jets won, Meyers had to play a mug featuring the final score on his desk for the rest of the football season. If the Steelers won, Coyle would get a tattoo of the score and seth Meyer’s signature on his arm. Steelers thirty seven, Jets fifteen.

Speaking of sports, where you’re watching ESPN’s College Game Day over the weekend, Tony Hinchcliff was on This caused a stir on social media. I’m just going to quote Tony Hinchcliff here. Send your letters to Tony, not to Johnny Mac. Tony Hinchcliff said, quote, I didn’t realize we had pre best in lesbians kicking today. Quote it’s an incredible look.

He’s like broke back Bob the Builder unquote. He also referred to another player as quote Matthew m kinda gay. Hassan Minaj’s special is out today. It is called Off with His Head. You may recall Hassan was probably going to host The Daily Show and got in some trouble with his previous special, The King’s Gesture, in which he elaborated on some real life events as comedians tend to do.

But I kind of understand on the other side, why that might not be a good look for The Daily Show. Who knows? Hassan specialist taped to July at the San Jose Civic Center. Des Bishop has a new comedy special called Of All People that’s out on eight undound Gerrilla Today. Of All People’s an hour of original stand up and a culmination of years of experience on stage all over including Queen’s, Ireland and China.

Bishop’s material often focuses on cultural differences he noticed being a transplant into Irish society from Queens at a young age. He always incorporates a lot of material about in language. I’m supposed to speak to him later in the week, so that might be Saturday’s episode. I haven’t quite planned it out yet, nor have I actually recorded the interview, which I need to prep for. But I used to hang out in the Irish bars in Queens with Irish Irish people.

I’m Irish American and cash cantell from my American brogue here, and I remember when they in the nineties, the Irish would be like, hey, you want to get some crack? And the Irish word crack cr a c means good fun. I was in New York City in the nineties crackman something entirely else, so people were like, you want to get some crack, and I’d be like, what what are you talking about? No. From cardplayer dot Com, you’re home for comedy news.

South Korean comedian Legion Oh in hot Water, he revealed he broke the country’s laws by illegally gambling. He confessed to be borrowing money from friends and family, including reportedly one hundred million one that’s seventy four thousand US dollars from Jim and from K pop band BTS. In the social media post, Lee jin Ho said, I will fully cooperate with the police investigation and accept the consequences of my actions. It was the harsh advice from those close to me and the fear of losing the work I loved that finally made me stop gambling. However, by then I had already received financial help from many people.

I am steadily repaying the debt each month and intend to fully pay it off on my own, even if it takes the rest of my life. Lee was the host of the variety show Knowing Bros. South Korea Network GTBC, in a statement said Lee jin Ho will leave the program starting with this week’s recording. We will edit out as much of his previously filmed content as possible. Yikes.

Lee was also part of a Netflix show called Comedy Revenge. He missed a press conference to promote the debut. Netflix said we’re deeply disappointed to learn about this just a day before the show’s premiere. However, Netflix said he will remain in the show. Because the program is structured around team competitions, fully editing out specific teams presents significant challenges to the narrative.

We ask for your understanding. Billy Crystal was honored for his devotion to the Clippers. For some reason, the Basketball Hall of Fame put in Billy Crystal. He’s part of the Nasmith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein Superfan Gallery.

Billy Crystal said, how strange should be getting a ring before any of the Clippers. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link of the show notes. Tell you how that works. A short version five bucks a month.

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Featured: Jim Jefferies, Hari Condabolou, Jim Brewer, David Cross, Lea Samson, Kyle Kazanjian

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Jefferies’ diverse entertainment career and move from Australia to England
• Pop culture references in stand-up comedy and connecting with audiences
• Jim Brewer’s ‘Survival with Laughter’ tour and political material approach
• David Cross’s Central Park Summer Stage show with superpals
• Don’t Tell Comedy’s impact on emerging comedians like Lea Samson

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jeffries told Rolling Stone, New Zealand. I’m very interested in doing as many different things in entertainment as possible. I like a challenge, I like doing something new.

I don’t know if there’s a stand up comic from Australia who’s had a more diverse career, you know what I mean. I think of myself like I’m an entertainer more than a comedian. Jim studied musical theater and opera at the West Australian Academy Performing Arts. Who knew He did a couple open Mike’s spots in Western Australia and Sydney, and then decided Australia simply wasn’t equipped to give him the career he envisioned. He wanted more, Jim said, you had, and I’m not kidding, maybe twelve rooms, two purpose built comedy clubs and ten rooms that did comedy occasionally in a country that at that stage was twenty million people.

That’s not enough to make a living. Even to this day. If you’re a big comic on Australia, you’re doing morning radio. I don’t want to wake up in the morning. So in two thousand and one he went to England started getting work and said, I was doing over three hundred IT shows a year for the first few years, and that sounds like a lot more than it is, because I was doing three or four on a Friday, three or four on a Saturday.

But if there was a corner of a room for me to stand up, I was taking the opportunity smile politely. He spoke to Hari Condobolu. They were curious about his pop culture references in his shows, and Harry said, I’ve been waiting for somebody to ask that question my whole career. I’m a full human being, and I felt like at a certain point, looking at my stand up, probably when I was in my mid dely twenties, I realized that I’m doing this job, but I’m not in it, you know what I mean. It’s almost like I’m playing a role and I’m not into it.

To make this material, mind have to be in it. People have to see me as a full human being. So why don’t I talk about the other things I care about to find interesting? A five minute Weezer joke which doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere else, but it’s me. As long as there’s enough for everybody.

I feel like those moments are really special. They’re both something I find funny and also wink to the other people who love those things. It makes me feel part of a community in a weird way, a community of fans. The goal is not to be pandery. The goal is to be like, I’m this too.

When I drop a Pixie’s reference is because I want people to know that I love the Pixies. I think, from a practical perspective, the more you personalize a show, both in terms of a shared moment in this town, in the space of the audience, as well as this is my family, this is my world. These are things I like. When you talk about the heavier stuff, you’re hearing it from somebody you relate to, as opposed to some stranger that shows up and starts yelling at you. The more you can become friends with the audience, connect to the audience, the more they’re willing to listen to things that might be uncomfortable.

This is really smart. The audience is a reflection of me. In a weird way. You look out of the crowd, and you see all these people you could protest with, go to a concert with, talk baseball with, it’s the same people. It makes the audience feel like we’re all friends you just haven’t met yet.

Jim Brewer is out on the Survival with Laughter tour. Al dot Com was curious why that name, and Jim said, it’s pretty simple. It’s gonna be the craziest few weeks probably I’ve seen a long time. Can’t get much crazier than four years ago. So no matter who he feels right, or who you believe in, or what team you’ve joined, ain’t nobody surviving this one unless we unite, and we got to start by funding the laughter and all of it.

As for doing political material, Bruce says, the only way I know is to bring it down to as common street sense as possible, so that no matter what you think, you believe that you’ve learned from the news and all your favorite slow and all the favorite things you like to talk about your opponent, he didn’t create any of that. You’ve been told that. So to find the common sense, I mean, it’s not even political. But if you want to start with Joe Biden, would you allow the CEO of your company to talk the way he does and ramble and not know what he’s doing. You’re gonna let that guy run the biggest company in the world.

Why don’d you allow it in your presidency? So right there, the whole things are ready to choke. What do you get into in your shows these days? Brewer? Usually the first ten to fifteen minutes is please everyone wake up, and then after that we talk about other things, like the way I’ve been hitting other cultures and going to other countries, and then I go into family stuff and where I’m met in life, we all do fast things.

We’re like, oh, let’s have a fast on sugar, Let’s have a fast on food. How about you have a fast on everything you’ve been watching and see how it does. And That’s what I’ve been doing. When I’ve been traveling. I like to go to remote places.

I’ve been in Africa three times this year. Yes, for the SA Far East, but it’s also one of the most peaceful places I’ve ever been to because I don’t have to stare at the screen the whole time, and then when I come back, I realize how nutty everything is. David Cross said, I don’t live in Los Angeles. I lived there for as little time as I possibly could, and then get out of there. I’ve been in New York for twenty four years.

I see things every day. I talk about things extensively that have happened to me in New York. Things I see in New York are things I experience in New York. And I’m a firm believer in that LA makes you a different person. Whether that’s better or worse is relative, but it’s certainly not better for me.

As an artist, Cross played Central Park. It was called David Cross in his Superpals. Cross said the summer stage thing. They approached me about this big show and said here’s the budget, and I don’t want it with that chunk of money. And I don’t think I’m at the place where I can do an hour and a half by myself, at least when I accepted the offer.

So I said, let’s get some friends together and we’ll divvy up a check. Unfortunately, I got rained out on the original date. We lost literally half the lineup, but we replaced those guys. Outdoor shows bring a challenge, he says. I’ve done a bunch of outside shows, and I think every comic will say the same thing.

You can kind of figure out why there’s not a lot of time for silence, like in the theater and the focus on you it’s dark. You can tell a story you want up telling jokes differently when you’re doing an outdoor show, at least I do. CNN wrote about Don’t Tell Comedy. I’m only seeing great things about Don’t Tell Comedy. Lea Samson was about to give up comedy and then got booked to do a shit Don’t Tell in La.

Then Don’t Tell Comedy posted her full set on YouTube along with a clip on TikTok. Overnight, her Instagram follower count doubled. The TikTok had four million views. Eight hundred thousand people have seen the full ten minutes set on YouTube. Samson said, I’ve always felt like I’ve been a really good comic, a hard worker, and I just needed people to see me, and Don’t Tell did that for me.

At a recent show in Atlanta, one hundred and forty nine people packed into a basement boxing gym to see seven local comedians perform. Rather than hoping a clip post on TikTok blows up, Don’t Tell gives comedians access to a built in audience on social media. Don’t Tell founder Kyle Kazanjian Amri says, the tough thing in comedy is you’re either living in a multimillion dollar house, so you’re scraping by to pay rent. The pathway to make money as flipped, comedians have to develop and nurture their fan bases through other avenues like a podcast or newsletter, so fans want to buy tickets to see them perform. But the idea of comedians having fans as a relatively new phenomenon, the article points out in the past, sure there was Jerry Seinfeld, but for the most part, comedians were just some name on a Friday night at the comedy club.

Comedian Grace Johnson says Don’t Tell right now stands out as one of the premier places to go for comedy and the way that Comedy Central has been especially as someone who’s been doing it for a shorter time than others, it’s been a really legitimizing thing. Don’t Tell. It doesn’t care how many Instagram followers you have. They just care that you’re funny. Johnson said.

The secret sauce of Don’t Tell is just like is it good? Okay? Sabrina Bryer is one of Vulture’s comedians you should know and will know. Worst show first. Then one that comes to mind is a small show I did in Brooklyn with friends.

I’m pretty sure there were more performers there than audience members. One by one, my friends and I got up on stage four sets and just reacted to the super awkward energy in the room. Do you have any comedy opinion hills that you will die on? She said, I really believe that the innovative creativity of TikTok and other more unconventional platforms and ways of entertaining should be just as valued as the conventional modes. Great comedy can be found anywhere.

Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice, best. In the beginning of my TikTok journey, there were some people who suggest that I step out of my character for video, and I’m so glad I stuck to my gut and didn’t. I’m so grateful for the platform. It’s a totally fictional world for me to play in. Best advice I got from my mom, who told me to keep pursuing comedy because, according to her, you have to be in comedy because you can’t help but be funny.

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Featured: Greg Fitzsimmons, Howard Stern, Jackie Martling, Sam Kinison, Doug Stanhope, Ari Shaffir, Jeff Ross, Jim Jeffries, Lucas Zelnik, Shane Moss, Ben Schwartz, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Greg Fitzsimmons on competing for Jackie Martling’s Chair on Howard Stern Show
• Jim Jeffries recounts being assaulted by audience member in Manchester
• Lucas Zelnik’s viral TikTok crowd work clips and career trajectory
• Shane Moss taping special at Fillmore Auditorium in Denver
• Ben Schwartz discusses improvisational comedy and balancing performer types on tour

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Interesting story from Greg Fitzsimmons about the classic era of Howard Stern. He said, a lot of comedians used to cycle through the Howard Stern Show. They called it Jackie’s Chair because when Jackie Martinley left the show, it opened up a spot for people to sit in, usually during the news.

It was a very jokey segment. Me and Howard had great chemistry. Kennison would come in and he would have stayed out all night and it’d still be drunk, and they’d have a couple of hookers with him. He’d take over the show and it was magic. It was amazing.

But that wasn’t what I was doing at all. I was just there to be a team player. They wanted to replace Jackie’s Chair permanently, and they brought in Doug Stanhope. I was one of the guys that brought in a lot already Lang. Jeff Ross an article in The New York Post that it came down to me and already Lang obviously already got it, which was well deserved.

He just had a lot more to offer in terms of what he had done last weekend than the guy was married with two kids.

Also, he’s one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

When they didn’t get it, Howard told me the door was open. Anytime you want to come on the show, just let me know, and he was true to that. Anytime I’ve ever asked to come on the show for a thirteen year period, I just came on and it was great. Jim Jeffries told Rolling Stone News Zealand about the time in Manchester a remember from the audience assaulted Jim. Jim says, I distinctly remember what happened.

I got punched in the face and I sort of fall to the ground and then he hit me in the back of the head, and the audience came up and rushed him. To this day, if I go out drinking, which I don’t do anymore, he’s been sober for three years. If I go out in Manchester, someone will come up to me and say they were one of the guys that jumped on the stag. Should defend me. I think I’ve bought about thirty drinks, but I only saw four people get up on stage.

Jeffries rallied and rather than be afraid. He decided to go bigger, and he said, because I was the person who put it up on the internet. What it did do is it sold out that tour. GQ spoke to Lucas Zelnik about his viral TikTok crowd work. In one clip, which has been viewed six point seven million times, he takes on a growing number of hecklers, one at a time and his shows, and another he banters with a person integrating back into society after a state a psychiatric facility.

In another, he stumbles into a conversation with a drug dealer who winds up delivering a sales pitch. Lucas tells GQ, I grew up in Manhattan, rich kid. Everyone was going into business and being a CEO and consulting in fancy schools. Zelnik founded at Sesh Comedy, a Lower East Side club that eventually sold so he could tour. He said, year one was about figuring out what the show that I’m giving is.

Year two is about making the show better, and now year three I’m looking at his coming into my own as who I want to be as a comedian. He does not identify as a crowd work comedian, but he’s not offended if other people use the term. A lot of people come to the shows, can even be surprised by how little crowd work I do. The length that I set on tour sort of accordions, because I’ll try and build a new chunk of material, which will make it longer, but then if I don’t like it, it’ll get pulled out, or once I do like it, I’ll pull out something old that I don’t like. Longer than shorter, longer than shorter, so hopefully it improves towards the end of the tour.

Last year I was writing new material for this upcoming tour. Sometimes the set was like an hour, ten hour, fifteen, and of that probably fifteen minutes would be crowd work and an hour would be jokes. GQ was curious, I feel like I don’t see much of your traditional stand up on tiktoku work clips just work better, Lucas said, I think the biggest thing is to stay in front of people’s faces. You just have to put out so much content. Jokes take so long to ride out.

Put out chunks of material, but very selectively, and frankly, I probably won’t put out any more material until I’m ready to release an hour long special, which I think I want to give that a few more years. Stand up has changed so much, and by most definitions, I’m very new. I’m about to hear my five year anniversary. But I put out ten minutes of material with Don’t Tell In another ten with Comedy Central, so I’ve put out twenty minutes and then the rest has been pretty much CrowdWork. GQ said TikTok, CrowdWork comics are kind of a genre now, or are you resentful of the label?

Lucas said, What I feel is overwhelmingly grateful for the fact that I can perform for crowds of people who come to see me. In The notion of sitting in my house resenting who my fan base is or who I’m referred to is pretty insane, given that it’s enabled me to do my passion, get overpaid for it, and be here at twelve thirteen pm on a Thursday talking to you. So I hope when people watch my comedy, whether it’s crowd work and material, I’m able to convey what I’m trying to convey, which is who I am, and I hope that comes off as someone who’s intelligent thawful, not too freequ leading into hackey things, or try ways of making people laugh, subverting the expectations of where people typically make jokes, whether that’s in their written material or crowd work. Lucas says, I think in a perfect world, my career could look something like John Mulaney’s career, which is to say, involvement as an actor in TV while still always doing stand up and touring. Mulaney is very much primarily still a stand up but touring’s just personally very challenging.

Traveling as much as I do, so, I think in the full course of time, i’d like to have different outlets. My view is everything you should say should be really funny, and you shouldn’t be making points to make points. But I have points I want to make. I think I’d just rather make them in TV or film rather than be on stage and be like, now, let’s get real for a second. I don’t want to be that guy.

Ever. I’m not looking to be staffed in a writer’s room right now. But if the SNL cast decides they want another a mediocre white guy who’s decent looking, I’ll give you my phone number and you can have them reach out to be. Shane Moss, known for his uncanny description of psychedelic experiences, tapes his next special today at the Perplexiplex in Denver, A great name. The Washington Post spoke to Ben Schwartz about improv He says, audience members asked came the same question and time and time again.

Is it scripted? Schwartz says, literally, not a word of this is written. That’s almost the fun part when someone is like, I can’t believe you just made that up, or they think it’s magic. He explains, it’s about balance. If one improviser specializes in broad characters and physical comedy, Schwartz might combine them with more cerebral comics.

As The Evening’s MC takes it upon himself to facilitate the scenes, play to his guest strengths, and keep the show moving with savvy edits. So those are moments when a scene is interrupted or ended, He says. It’s like picking a basketball team and finding your point guard, your center, your small forward. On the Ben Schwartz and Friend’s Tour, the go to prompt has been tell us about the most exciting day or night of your life. There’s three thousand people in these audiences, it’s a lot of pressure.

Some of the things I do at the beginning of the show are very much to make the audience feel comfortable, to tell them we got this. I know it’s nerve wracking because we don’t know what’s gonna happen, but it’s gonna be good and it’s gonna be a good time. As for the audience, Schwartz notes and over excited, a patreon is often not the best choice. As soon as someone starts telling their answer, Schwartz can tell almost immediately if it’s a story worth falling or if you should gently move on to someone else. Specific characters are great, and intricate narrative is better, but he keeps an eye out for detours, perhaps a detail that the audience member gloss is over, but Schwartz recognizes is curious enough to pursue whatever they say.

I’m listening to every syllable. As the show finds a rhythm, Schwartz monitors the audience’s enthusiasm while deciding which gags to double down on. Around the halfway point, they start looking for references from earlier in the show to call back on. As they head towards the hour mark, they work overtimed weaves together of the show’s disparate threads, and no matter how wildly delightfully far they may have strayed from the original premise, Schwartz tell’s The Washington Post, I look at the clock, and we’re around fifty five minutes. That’s around the time where I’ll be like, let’s start calling everything back.

Let’s see if we can connect. Sometimes the stuff you’ve been building connects perfectly, and you can call back everything and every character and it almost looks like it was perfectly written. The biggest thing for me is to try and make everybody look funny, everybody look good on stage, and to give the audience something great. Francesca Duva is one of vulturous comedians you should and will know. Worst show ever.

Very long time ago, I was in college. I was in a sketch group that I thought was amazing, invited to perform at some kind of parent weekend event with other campus groups. The venue was a cafeteria, which is tough to begin with, and then very few parents actually came. The ones who did were mostly parents of children who were in one of the mostly amazing dance groups that were also performing. Due to a couple of sketches we thought our best, and not a single parent laughed.

It was silence for ten minutes. It was so hard for me, seriously, because I love parents my whole life. I love winning the approval of people’s parents and making them laugh. And that day they all stared at me with disgust, like I was some weird, random girl. It was just sad, and I learned a tough lesson at that show, which is should have been a dancer.

That’s your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link of the show notes that to tell you how that works five bucks a month. It’s the short version there. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Mitch Hedberg, Lynn Shawcroft, Jim Brewer, Mike Birbiglia, Stephen Wright

What’s in This Episode

• Mitch Hedberg retrospective and legacy
• Mitch Hedberg’s death on March 30, 2005
• Posthumous album ‘Do You Believe in Gosh?’ and notebook discovery
• Mitch Hedberg’s comedy style and one-liner technique
• Mitch Hedberg’s sponsorships with Jimmy Johns and Uniball

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. There’s been talk of the Hebburg Gassans had burchase Sons. Anyway, Mitch Hedberg’s name has been around a lot more lately than it had been in the past few years, so I thought I would do today is just off if you listen to all fifteen sixteen hundred episodes of this podcast, this is for you as a rerun. But you know, new listeners come and old listeners go.

So what I’ve done here is over the years, I’ve sold a few lengthy Mitch Hedberg related anecdotes and I’ve put them together to make it today’s episode, which is all about Mitch Hebburg. So one thing I can tell you is I know exactly where I was on March thirty first, two thousand and five. Here’s why. I was at the New York City Javit Center doing an episode of Jim Brewers radio show for Sirius XAM. We were broadcasting from the car Show and Jim was in a bad mood because the night before Jim was doing a concert with Mitch Hedburg and Mitch did not show up, and Jim was kind of annoyed because he had to stretch and fill because the other comedian didn’t show up, and Jim wound up doing an extra forty minutes or an hour or whatever was the story there.

Jim was quite upset about it. As we were doing the broadcast from the car show, we got word there was a reason Mitch Hedberg didn’t show up for that show. He had passed away the night before. Mitch Hedberg passed away March thirty, two thousand and five in Livingston, New Jersey, not far from where I live, So we were like, oh, that kind of changed the mood several ways. One, we felt like we were being a bunch of jerks for being mad at the guy not showing.

Two, we all love Mitch Hedburg, and holy cow, he had passed away. From personal experience. I knew at the radio station that I wanted to do a tribute to Mitch Hedburg, but I don’t like being a vulture, so I didn’t want to, like the next day be like, oh, wait, I do a Mitch Hedberg tribute, because then we make it about us. So we waited, and I eventually reached out to Mitch’s wife, Lynn Shawcroft, and I’m like, hey, would love to do a tribute to Mitch. Would you be into that?

She was into it. She came by. I got to know Lynn reasonably well, and when she came up, she had Mitch’s notebooks with some jokes and a bunch of I think they were cassettes. They might have been CDs, but they were live shows recorded late in Mitch’s career. And I was sitting there with Lynn and she hadn’t heard them in a while, and they sounded great, and I said to her, you know, you’ve got another album here.

That album became the posthumous Mitch Hedberg album that do you Believe? In Gosh? I had nothing to do with making the album, other than possibly perhaps putting the thought in Lynn’s brain. I’m glad that that album was released. From a twenty thirteen article in GQ, GQ wrote, Mitch Hedberg was Twitter before Twitter.

His jokes were short, inane, and timeless. It was on the road doing stand up three hundred nights a year, living off vending machines, writing constantly about the world he saw around him. Mike Birbigley said Mitch wrote some of the best jokes at the last three decades. He’s one comedian who all comedians agree is great. Mitch was never without a pen and never threw away a notebook.

Lynn Shawcroft kept most of the notebook’s private, but back in twenty thirteen, she opened them up to g QGQ wrote the results a masterclass in comedy. There was only one time Mitch ever lost a notebook. He and Lynn were in Chicago that had gotten back to their hotel. When Mitch noticed it was missing, he tore through the hotel room looking for it. Lynn said it was one of the only times I saw him really visibly upset about something.

Finally, after a while, he started telling himself, it’s fine, everything’ll be fine. That’s when the phone rang. It was a kid at a frat party. Apparently Mitch had left the notebook on stage. Somehow it ended up in the hands of a college age fan who wanted to give it back.

Mitch and Lynn headed to the party to meet the kid. When they got there, or relieve, Mitch pulled out a lot of cash tried hand to the kid. The kid didn’t want any money, He just wanted Mitch to call him to hang out next time he was in town. But by then it was already five or six in the morning, and Mitch hated to feel indebted to people. He finally looked at the kid and said, just take the f and money man.

Lynn says, Mitch’s jokes were about our life. He wrote about what he liked, so his jokes were about sandwiches and carrots and staying in hotels and the weird ways language works. Now this next thing. I remember Lynn telling this to me when we were listening to the tapes I referred to earlier. We were in one of the smaller studios at Sirius, and she pointed out during Mitch’s stand up, people would call out the endings before he could finish them.

He was having a tough time touring because of that, so Lynn says later in his career he had to write jokes that were even shorter and faster. Examples, when someone tries to hand me out of flyer, it’s just like saying here, you throw this away, or a turtlenecks, like being strangled by a really weak guy. All day, Mitch knew what else connected with his audience. Drug jokes. There were dozens.

I like the FedEx driver because he’s a drug dealer. He doesn’t even know it. He’s always on time. People associate long hair with drug use. I wish long hair was associated with something other than drug use, like an extreme longing for cake.

That strangers would see a long haired guy and say that guy eats cake. He’s on putt cake. To say another daughters, don’t bring the cake eater over here anymore. He smells like flower. See how excited he got when he found out your birthday was fast approaching.

At one point, Mitch started writing companies he liked looking for sponsorships. In addition to gold Bond, he wrote a uniball to say the jokes he wrote with their pens were funnier. Eventually, Jimmy Johns the Sandwich Makers signed on to sponsor Mitch Hedburg from the Guardian in twenty fifteen. Mitch Hedburg a sly alchemist who turned sentences into comedy. Gold from behind sunglasses and bound head, Mitch Hedberg delivered concise gags that open up the mundane world and showed anyone could be a comedian.

If you’re flappable and have legs, you’re never blocking a fire exit. That’s the line that got the writer hooked on. Mitch Hedburg. A man standing still on a stage with his eyes shut, Mike in the stand reciting a list of staccato jokes with a percussive rhythm seemed odd. I’d never heard one liners before which had no hint of pun slinging or wordplay, just funny sentences.

I guess the writer hadn’t heard Stephen Wright. Believe me, I’m a huge Mitch Hedberg fan, but there’s surely some Steven Wright influence in there. Mitch was a drug user or something, which caused his death in two thousand and five, but listening to him didn’t sound like the ramlies of a typical stoner, but instead the thoughts of someone unencumbered by the conventional logic that gradually takes us over so we succumb to adulthood. Watching Mitch allow you to feel like a child again. And although kats and Hamburgers aren’t important, finding humor in the mundane is Jokes such as if you live with a muster, you’d never get the hiccups require a sense of thought, But having been in his presence for two minutes allowed you to think with the Hedbergian that logic or is it Hedbergian?

How would you pronounce that word I’m going with Hedbergian sounds cooler Hedbergie in that logic that guide you seamlessly to the funny. The joke is just ten words long, but ten words was enough for Hedberg to paint a hilarious and detailed picture that most people couldn’t paint with one hundred. However, the audience aren’t just laughing at the painting, but the man with the brush, and their own incredulity that a single person is able to have all these thoughts which don’t make you just say, I’ve never thought of that in a way before, but instead, I’ve never thought about anything like that ever. His long hair often of skirt, his bowed sunglass face, he never showed dominance over the stage by pacing His hands would often be held still behind his back. He seemed shy, but this made him far more relatable than any confident comedian who chats to audiences with the unfettered glances of an old mate.

Most audience members know they don’t possess the requisite skills to talk on a stage as confidently, such as greats like Steve Martin or Sarah Silverman. So Mitch Hedberg’s demeanor made him far more human to many people. He made me realize you don’t need great performance skills and ability to write seamless segues to be a comedian. If the sentence you’re saying are funny, people will laugh. As untimely passing means we’ll never know what one of the most inventive and prolific writers in comedy could have eventually achieved.

But watching a handful of his YouTube clips makes it clear he created more laughs and jokes in his one short life than many other comedians could hope to create in two. In twenty eleven, dead Spin wrote, by all accounts, Mitch Hepburgh was a pretty regular guy. He grew up in Saint Pame, Minnesota, before he ditched the suburbs, literally leaving his parents home without telling them after high school graduation because he didn’t know how to tell them he was going. I met Mitch’s parents at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Oh, it’s got to be fifteen years ago now.

They were so nice. Mitch eventually surfaced in Fort Lauderdale, eventually taking up kitchen work and trying his hand unsuccessfully at opened My Comedy Nights in the area. He begged his way onto MTV’s short lived comic Kazi. I didn’t know that, And even though the show didn’t last, Hepburg was on his way. In ninety six, he appeared on Letterman Wow That Long Ago Wow.

Ninety seven, he won the grand prize at the Seattle Comedy Competition. In ninety eight, he stole the show at the Just for Last Festival in Montreal. Heedburg developed a style of awkward, scattershot observational jokes that weren’t exactly one liners. He was a minimalist, sure, but he was working on another level, and say Henny Youngman, his jokes weren’t just riffs on existing tropes. The only norm hebburger here, too, was that there weren’t any norms.

His humor never met you halfway. He pulled listeners into his own head. His delivery was as off putting as his material. His was the sort of art that elicits a huh wow as opposed to a wow huh. That was his brilliance.

The obvious point of comparison is with Stephen Wright, and again, on paper, the two comics seem to share a lot in common, but where Wright was a comic Gollum, an android programmed to tell off putting jokes. Hebburg was in an odd way, emotionally accessible as offbeat. As much as his jokes were, they presented in the manner of an odd ball childhood friend you hadn’t seen in years. Though dressed in the garb of turn of the century hipster, Hedberg’s jokes were decisively unironic. He wasn’t engaging in social commentary or rye negativity as much as he was bearing his weirdo soul.

The stoner labels inaccurate, but even the occasional drug user could identify Hepburg was you high, thinking you’re funny, but actually being funny. That’s how he won us over. The way he stood on stage, eyes closed, sunglasses on, bangs over his face, halfway trembling. He told joel Stein in nineteen ninety eight, I don’t like to connect with the crowd. I find if you look at people’s faces, you see a disappointed face.

He said. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think of something that’s funny, I go get a pen write it down, or if the pen’s too far away, I had to vinced myself that what I thought of ain’t funny. He broke the fourth wall repeatedly in an attempt to reposition himself from alone on stage to seated among the audience. That’s like a carbon copy of the previous joke, but with different ingredients. I don’t know what I was trying to pull off there, that joke, maybe laugh where I could finish it, which is good because it’s no ending, all right.

Oh, he was so good once when being handed a drink mid joke, a joke that was foundering anyway, he just cut the joke off and said that up a joke, a joke about FFing up, an fed up joke. After he broke out it just for laughs. Edburgh got a five hundred thousand dollars development deal with Fox. He appeared on Letterman a few more times. He financed his own movie, a subtle tribute to his restaurant days, called Los Enchiladas.

His next paragraph has a couple jokes that I don’t remember hearing dead smend rights with disarming subtlety. He deconstructed the stand up form by ticking on hackneyed subjects and turning them on their head, or by bombing deliberately halfway sports. No. I don’t want the f Remember that show My Three Sons. It’d be funny if it was called My One Dad.

Wait what, I just bought a two bedroom house, But I think I get to decide how many bedrooms there are. I hohtsh you. In the context of tripping non sequitors about koala infestations potato chips, this came off as subversive. He was blowing himself up along with everyone in the room. The self destruction extended to his personal life.

At first, it seemed div Hedberg’s riffing on his drug use was more of a dig atous stage persona. My manager saw me backstage and said, Mitch, don’t use liquor as a crutch. I can’t use liquor as a crutch because a crutch helps me walk. A liquor severely f’s up the way I walk. Some people think I’m high on stage.

I would never get high before show because when I’m high, I don’t want to stand in front of a bunch of people I don’t know for stretches. He lived off the grid, living out of hotels or out of the RV he bought with Lynn Shawcroft in May two thousand and three, after showing Austin Mitch was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. He spent two and a half days in jail, followed by six months in a hospital, supposedly for the treatment of a leg badly mangled by heroin injections. Through the end of his life, he’d walked on stage with two plastic cups that were widely known to contain alcohol, and at least one specifically identified as screwdrivers. Hebburg had kill her sets and less successful sets.

Some lack verves, some lack directions. Sometimes he couldn’t remember the jokes at all. Sometimes his fans would holler out the jokes who was trying to tell to help him out. It was interactive stand up. Even on the good nights, people sung along to the choruses that often step on his punchlines.

Hebburg had so fully seduced his fans the division between stage and seats fell away. Didn’t you ever hear of dramatic pause? Hid, sometimes grouch, But that was the point. His fans weren’t attuned to the artifice of performance so much as they were there for communion. Lynn Shawcroft is Missus Mitch Hedburg, and she had some really interesting tweets.

Lynn tweeted, what Mitch Hedburg achieved in stand up comedy is nothing short of astonishing. The way he did it, almost one fan at a time, is crazy yet admirable. He had several appearances on late night television and one low rent Comedy Central special. That’s it. The Comedy Central was fun by low Rent.

I’m referring to the audience that was papered. They weren’t fans per se, never heard of the comedians. I think Mark Maron taped a special the same day slash same audience. I could be wrong. Norm MacDonald was there a tell two.

Mitch didn’t have an online presence or platform. He wasn’t on a TV show with a built in audience. I remember club after club packed. He worked too much. He had a hard time saying no.

So after Lynn wrote all that, I love this tweet reply from Toby Welch. So Lynn writes all that about Mitch, and Toby Welch tweets, Yeah, that’s nice, but what happened to the defriines. This next section is from two episodes. The first story is about the missing ten of minutes and then you oh, I’ll hear my voice change. I was on my Twitter account and a friend of mine, Brian Rich, he tweeted like a normal this is just a normal guy tweeting, and he tweeted Tuesday night, I bought it pie and thus I’m ready to watch the debate.

And when I read it, my brain did it in Hebburg going, I bought a pie and that’s I’m ready to watch the debate. That’s ridiculous, which right, like, despite my half ass impression, that’s like a Mitch Hedberg joke. So this article I found, it’s really really great. Bradlaidman dot com. Brad wrote the night I first saw Mitch, my only whole show was not a great night for him.

Most of the people there had no idea who they were going to see. I did. That’s exactly why I was there. They looked at him, like Bill Hicks said, through the eyes of a dog that’s just been shown a card trick. They didn’t try to get him, and they decided it was just funnier to keep buying him drinks.

Sadly, whether Mitch considered himself an alcoholic, he probably did. Doug Stanhope once told me, that’s Brad, that Mitch was so nice that Mitch would never turn anyone away and would never refuse a drink from anyone out of courtesy, fan or not. Lynn Shawcroft, to her credit, did eventually go up on stage and stop Mitch from accepting free drinks. After about fifteen minutes more of only a few people laughing at really good material delivered well, Lynn started I him to tell people about his great CD that was available for purchase. Mitch ignored her for a long time and then said something approximating this.

I got to waste my time for what like three people? Why would anyone actually buy this crap? About three of us raised our hand and I did purchase it that night. So when it was released by Comedy Central in two thousand and three, it had twenty one tracks and was fifty three minutes and forty seven seconds long. My version, which is what I burned on on my computer, is one hour, three minutes and four seconds.

That’s exactly how I want it to be. I may have to reach out to this guy and do an interview with him. I want to know all about this alternate version of the CD that he has. He writes it has no tracks, just one huge, probably unedited chunk of the real show, which is why I had to go to the internet first to find my quote quickly. I should have just listened to the whole thing again, even though I was only making a quick Facebook comment about Little League Baseball that I could have spent two seconds on had I wanted to be lazy and posted the meme from the Internet.

I’m not sure why or who edited out those ten minutes from my original, but it was probably for idiotic reasons that didn’t get who Mitch was or the brilliance of Mitch of guessing. For all I know, Mitch could have said, take exactly these ten minutes out, but I would bet my net worth that never happened. My suspicion is that the business people thought those ten minutes didn’t go over well and were complete jokes. But if he saw him that night or any night, you would know that he would always throw out a joke and then would immediately say wasn’t a complete thought or even a joke, and his delivery of it and the reaction to it would likely be the highlight of the entire show. Near the end of the uncut version of especially says I’m a heroin addict I need to have sex with women who saved someone’s life, which would have been perfect had it ended there, but it didn’t, and because it didn’t, it became somehow more perfect.

After some giggling and a small amount of applause, he starts again wondering about how it be shown on television. When does it air? He looks at some of the crowd says, you’re a good reaction guy. Keep the camera on that guy. I want to tell the people in the truck wherever you’re cutting reaction shot cut to him, because you’re really could you very?

You laugh a lot man, very pleasurable to see. My special is going to be all cut up. It’s gonna be very weird. It’s not going to be seamless. I gotta get out of here.

They’re going to get mad at me, and know it gonna get yelled at all right. I love you guys, thanks for coming to my special. The aired version ends with a different great joke and then cuts right to I love you guys and to thank you. The al right is gone, which may not seem to matter much, but do some research about Jim Morrison hearing Elvis throw the word all right, and how much it mattered to him, and how much he did it too. Isn’t that amazing?

The article also mentions when Mitch was on Howard Stern late in Mitch’s life, Stern asked Mitch what Mitch would do if he knew that perhaps he only had a few months to live. Creepy right. Mitch thought about it a while and answered, I won’t do the impression here. Wow, that’s a really hard question. I do know that Bill Hicks knew that he was dying and did work really hard until the day he died, like he went to Waco and stuff like that.

Me I sort of don’t think I’m that important because most of my jokes are about bananas and things like that. And let’s wrap with an album review from two thousand and eight from the Washington Posts. This the review of the posthumus Do You Believe In Gosh, a stand up performance recorded two months before Hedberg’s death. The album is funny moments, but listeners familiar with the comedian’s personal history may find that Hebberg’s troubled specter looms over the proceedings. Do You Believe In Gosh does include bits on anchovies and carrot juice, but Hebburg also delves into darker subject matter.

He seems particularly fixated on missing body parts, with references to amputation, a woman born without arms, and extended bit on the Headless Horsemen. Granted the materials more silly than morbid. I’d hate to be the headless Horseman’s dentist. He wouldn’t make very much money. He also delves into his professional life, saying I got a door deal here.

Tonight, I’m working for fIF percent of the door. Then tomorrow I’m working for fifth percent of the door, and then on Sunday, I’m going to have a door. Since the album comprises a seemingly unedited live show, the forty minute runtime includes at least as much laughter and applause as it does Mitch Hedburg. His reactions to the audience are sometimes as funny as jokes. At one point, he trails off, then assures the audience trust me.

It’s hilarious to get into my head and come back out and tell me I’m wrong. Towards the end of the performance, self consciousness seems to win out over the professed confidence, as Hedberg refers to his jokes as half there needing work. In some cases, he’s correct, but we’ll never hear the fully realized versions. The Washington Post wrote, the album strange poignancy may be best captured by one of Hegberg’s typically observed setups. I want to ride and a cold air balloon.

I’m afraid of heights. I don’t want to leave here well and take a ride in my cold air balloon because we ain’t eving going anywhere. And that is your comedy news for today, Mitch Hedburg boy, I miss him. He was fantastic, all right, See tomorrow.

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